Saskia Sassen (Columbia): The Limits of Power and the Complexity of Powerlessness: The Case of Immigration. From The Atlantic Monthly, why Japan’s young consumers are turning away from luxury goods; and Michael Pettis is a finance pundit by day, a Beijing rock impresario by (very late) night. From Touchstone, Maclin Horton on Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner, together at last; Eleanor Bourg Donlon on Hollywood’s disgrace and Jane Austen’s wisdom; Frederica Mathewes-Green on Bible lessons for the Disney Generation; John Granger on what he learned about the Great Books and Harry Potter; thirty-one years after its original publication, The Light and the Glory maintains a prominent place on the bookshelves of Evangelical Christians — but it must be read with caution; and an article on the remarkable

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