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6 AMERICAN NOTE BOOK
Money honeys: female fundraisers are cras~ing
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9 INTERNATIONAL NOTEBOOIS Will Libya be an Arab Spring success story?
By Christopher Dickey 10 PERSON OF INTEREST
A belated comeback for Yayoi Kusama, the polka-dot queen. By Robin Givhan 11 WORLD ON A PAGE An Etonian scorned, an Iraqi freed.
By Tunku Varadarajan
12 HEALTH By Kent Sepkowitz BUSINESS By Clive Irving MEDIA By Lizzie Crocker 14 RELIGION
Is destroying Timbuktu's heritage un-Islamic?
By Blake Gopnik 15 COMPASS
America' s mood disorder. By Niall Ferguson 17 REPORTER AT LARGE
What you should know before boarding a cruise ship. By Eve Conant and Barbie Latza Nadeau
FEATURES 20 Boit Upright
Have the years of fast living finally caught up with the speediest man alive? A close look at the Jamaican record breaker. By Annie Paul 26 10 Olympians to Watch
Don't blink. The fastest, greatest superhumans corne to the Games beginning in London on July 27. By Michael Solomon
32 "It Takes a Lot to Rattle Me"
She lost her dad, got benched, and had surgery.
How Hope Solo survived and put U.S. women's soccer in position for gold. By Andrew Romano 40 Generation Screwed
. The boomers have never had it so good. As a result, today' s youth have never had it so bad.
By Joel Kotkin
46 The Day the Music Died
Ghazala Javed soared in a world that loves its songs but holds singers in contempt. It ended with her being shot dead. By Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai, and Nazar Ul Islam 50 Koolhaas Builds the Next Wonder An angular and unstable edifice takes over Beijing's skyline. By Christopher Dickey
OMNIVORE
56 ART A Caravaggio controversy
58 TRA V E L Safarious, a new social network.
59 CULTURE Our toy story.
60 BOOKS An affair to remember.
62 PHOTOGRAPHY Documenting India.
68 THE CITY Tracy K. Smith reflects on Brooklyn.
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