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9:00AM
MAR 6 2008
Global marketing execs agree
From Der Spiegel, a special report on how Europe lost Africa. A review of Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. A liberal goes undercover to Brave America's premiere right-wing gathering. Raising Gender: An article on children developing millisecond by millisecond. Global marketing execs agree — America's image is in the toilet; the cure? One presidential candidate has what it takes, they say, to save Brand USA. A review of War in Late Antiquity: A Social History by A.D. Lee. Digging Kunta Kinte: Does it matter if Alex Haley's character really existed? Dot-Commitment: Young entrepreneur learns ups and downs of building a Web start-up. A review of Universal Human Rights: Origins and Development by Stephen James. From New Left Review, Michael Hardt reviews Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine. A look at how Hillary think tank the Center for American Progress went for Obama. Putin’s Pariah: Is the mercurial novelist Edward Limonov the last best hope of the Russian opposition. From Slate, how do you build a public library in the age of Google? Darwin's dangerous idea: Why so much fuss over a 150-year-old theory that seems to gather more scientific support by the decade? James Wolcott on how newly published stories remind us that Donald Barthelme’s antic fiction influenced a generation of post-postmodernists.
