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6 AMERICAN NOTEBOOK

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By Michelle Cottle

8 INTERNATIONAL NOTEBOOK Brazil's favorite son is cancer-free.

But will he fUn for office?

By Mac Margolis

10PERSON OF INTEREST

Michael McFaul is a diplomat witt a big mollit-and a big mission.

By Anna Nemtsova 11 WORLD ON A PAGE

The dingo did it. By Tunku Varadarajan 12 TECHNOLOGY By Trevor Butterworth

ECONOMY By Fiona Bravo WORKPLACE By Rebecca Dana 16 PO LITICS

So dies the American dream.

By Paul Begala 17 COMPASS

Why Syria isn't America's problem.

By Niall Ferguson 18 ECONOMY

lt's the euro, stupid. By Gilles Bransbourg 20 NEWS GALLERY

Muslims fiee Burma; Djokovic falls fiai.

24 REPORTER AT LARGE

The European economic crisis tas spawned the ultimate despair. Coping with a suicide spiral. By Barbie Latza Nadeau

27 LATIN AMERICA

ln the drug war, Mexico's Army may stand down. By Malcolm Beith

FEATURES

30 Woody Allen's Black Magic The legendary filmmaker returns to his old obsessions-seXlJaI avarice and megalomaniacal contraI.

'By Sam Tanenhaus

36 Libya's Teaching Moment

Gaddafi tried to erase his country's pasto Will its historians erase him instead?

By Jamie Dettmer 40 Brides From Belarus

A marriage agency aims to jaïn single women with foreign men in mutually consensual relationships. Photographs and text by Justyna Mielnikiewicz

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46 TELEVISION ShuttingdownEimo.

48 COMEDY Soweto's stand-ur son.

50 ART The woman who inspired Paris's legendary artists.

52 BOOKS Money-mad London.

53 FOOD ln vermouth veritas.

56 THE CITY Scott Turow refiects on Chicago.

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