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A feat of grit and daring

From Salon, grave offenses at Arlington National Cemetery: A criminal investigation and allegations of misplaced bodies and shoddy care have roiled the famous burial ground (and part 2 and part 3). An article on U.S. role in coups: Sinister no more? John Gray reviews Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name by Timothy Garton Ash. The Independent goes inside the mind of prized intellectual Amartya Sen (and more from NS). Modern miracle: When saints intervene nowadays, it tends to be in healthcare. Healthcare for dunces: Don't know your "single-payer" from the "trigger plan"? Here are the basics. What the President ordered: Regina Benjamin is just the surgeon general Barack Obama needs. Man and machine: The real legacy of the moon race. Finding Ourselves: Apollo 11 was the voyage for its era, but where do we go now? (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more). The future belongs to Andrew Sullivan: His coverage of the unrest in Iran was the blogosphere's moonshot, a feat of grit and daring heralding a new era in cyberspace — it was also a preview of journalism's future. More on American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone by D. D. Guttenplan (and a review by Michael Kazin at Bookforum).