From Vanity Fair, at a lavish conference in Monaco, the game was guessing which big private-equity firm will be first to go bust, but the smoke and mirrors that wrecked the global economy might actually save the likes of K.K.R. and Blackstone. A review of Globalization: The Irrational Fear That Someone in China Will Take Your Job by Bruce C. Greenwald and Judd Kahn. An article on Somalia as symbol of the decaying world order. An interview with Daniel Levy, director of the Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation, on Israel and Gaza. When groups don’t think: Collaboration, done right, produces dazzling results — so why is it often disastrous? A review of Gorbachev: Man of the Twentieth Century? by Mark Sandle. A review of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment

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