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He positions himself as the man who would deliverus from evil.But the former Catholicschoolboyknows there's a fineline between saint and sinner. Page 22
Business
52 The newBeltway bandits?
by Roya Wolverson The Arts
58 Disneywants to marryyou byRamin Setoodeh
60 Thenext blockbuster fantasy film byDevin Gordon
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THE ISSUE V.S. Affairs
22 To understand Rudy's rough Bide, you gotta go to Brooklyn by Evan Thomas 31 Obama finally bits back
by Richard WoljJè 33 SecondAmendmentin
court's sights by Ma,rtha Brant and Stuart Taylor Jr.
World Affairs
34 lndia turns on Singh at bis peak byRonMoreau and Sudip M azumdar 39 Palestine's Ross Perot
by KevinPeraino 46 Europe's mushy middle
by Stryker McGuire 50 The Vatican takes on Asia
byDavid Gibson
DEPARTMENTS 4 Periscope 5 Perspectives' 21 WorldView 69 The GoodLife 72 The Last Ward
ONE ROOF: Walter Veltroni could bring ltaly together
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