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CAIRO LOSES ITS VOICE

PUTIN AGAINSTTHE PROTESTERS PAGE 19

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January 23,2012

NEWSBEAST

6 PERISCOPE ByTina Brown Obama braces for the gunflght.

7 NOTEBOOK By DavidFrum The secret of South Carolina.

8 INTERNATIONAL By Tunku VaradarajanGay spies, bankers' wives, and an independent Scotland.

9 PERSON OF INTEREST By LloydGroveA Murdoch turncoat: Colin Myler.

10 REFlECTIONS BVMichaelDalv When ail is taken away.

11LlFE & lEISURE By RebeccaDana The minigarch next door.

12 MEDIA BVSimonSchama No downers in Downton.

13SCIENCE BV CaseySchwartz TECH By DanLvons DATABEAST By BenCrair C-SUITE By JoanneLipman 16 WORlD BVWoleSovinka The butchers of Nigeria.

- 18 POLITICS ByPaul Begala Mitt Romney lunges rightward.

19.REPORTER AT LARGE

By OwenMatthews and Anna Nemtsova The law of Putin's jungle.

FiEATURES

28 The Long Game

How President Obama will outsmart the left, the right, and everyone else. . BVAndrew Sullivan

3.4 Rich America, Poor America .A conservative historian offers a solu-

tion to the country's economic divide.

,BVNiall Ferguson

40 Geert Wilders and His Dangerous Anti-Muslim Diatribes Can somebody shut him up?

By Christopher Dickey

OMNIVORE

46 CULTURE Can Egypt make great art?

51 BOOKS What makes the queen tick.

PLUS

4 The Mail 22 News Gallery 52 The City

ON THE COVER:

Photograph by Olivier Douliery-Abaca.