From TAP, over the past year, the Bush administration has moved left on foreign policy; and while it's great that young people are so excited about the Democratic candidate this year, progressives need to focus on encouraging young activists to do non-Obama-centric work. Meet Obama's Fixer: Valerie Jarrett handled outreach to the black community and to Hillary Clinton supporters; what constituency will she court next? Francis Fukuyama has an epiphany or two (and more and more). From Sirens, an article on the truth about orgasms; and are sugar daddies our modern-day Prince Charmings? Book blurbs are a tangled mass of friendships, rivalries, favors traded and debts repaid, not always in good faith. More on How Fiction Works by James Wood. Heinrich Heine was a great poet — yes, but a marvelous prose

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