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4 LETTERS

NEWSBEAST

6 AMERICAN NOTEBOOK

What Sally Ride could have done for gay liberation, By Linda Hirshman

7 INTERNATIONAL NOTE BOOK ln China, crooked governance takes its toll, By Melinda Liu

8 PERSON OF INTEREST Elisabeth Badinter, a French feminist iconoclast. By Tracy McNicoll 9 WORLD ON A PAGE

The return of Eva Peron, By Tunku Varadarajan 10 WORK By Joanc. Williams

BUSINESS ByRobCox HEALTH ByKentSepkowitz 12 MIDDLE EAST

The U.S, started the bloodshed in Iraq, Time to own it. By Peter Beinart

14 BUSINESS

Shattering South Korea's ceUing, By BJ, Lee 16 POWER SHIFT

Latin American democracy is in worse shape than you think. By Mac Margolis

18 SPIRITS

As the Olympics descend on London, the national gloom continues. By Peter Popham 22 REPORTER AT LARGE

Two Saudi women are competing for the first time in London. Thousands are daring to challenge the status quo at home, By Karen House

FEATURES

26 A Mouse in the White House?

Mitt has bowed to reporters and cowered from the right. He's a candidate with a serious wimp problem. By Michael Tomasky

32 Syria's Fake First Family

My notorious Vogue interview with Mrs, Assad. By Joan Juliet Buck

, 40 What a Killer Thinks

Is the Colorado shooter depressed, insane, or psychotic? Anatomy of a downward spiral.

By Dave Cullen

44 Foreigners at the Gates

As China grapples with rising nationalism and an influx offoreign residents, the country's long and contradictory relationship with outsiders is coming to the fore-and it's turning ugly. By Duncan Hewitt

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