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WhatBush Leaves Behind 38 The new dollar order is here ^Davos ^Preview by Rana Foroohar and John Sparks

40 The dollar power shift in numbers by John Sparks 42 The deficit myths by Susan

Lund and Diana Farrell Society & The Arts 48 Oscar roundtable: Clooney,

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Forecasting the 43 rd president's impact on world history-and coming to grips with the havoc he's wreaked on his own Republican Party. Page16

THE ISSUE U.S. Affairs 16 The Bush legacy

by Evan Thomas 22 The GOP and its

discontents byMichaelGerson 24 Exclusive: 'The Bush

Tragedy' byJacob Weisberg 29 The Democrats

and race byE'lis Cose

COVER: PHOTOGRAPH BY DOUG MILLS-AP

World Affairs

30 China's baby boom byMelinda Liu 32 The third coming of

Gordon Brown by Stryker McGuire

35 The taming of the Latin left byJoseph Contreras 36 Radical Shiite, US. ally?

byBabak Dehghanpisheh

DEPARTMENTS 4 Periscope 5 Perspectives

15 World View 59 The Good Life 62 The Last Ward

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Brown gets a makeover-again

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