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Publication: November 16, 2009

General Note: Scope
International List
Conventional Wisdom - An Leeged Terrorist Strikes it Rich
My Turn - James A. Baker II Remembers the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Business Matters - The Mysteries of High-Frequency Trading
Perspectives

The Take
Fareed Zakaria - The Rise of the Center
Daniel Gross - Attack of the Deficit Hawks
Raina Kelley - Why We Murder
Lisa Miller - Abstinence at Harvard
Dahlia Lithwick - Should Teens be Locked up For Life?
Julia Baird - Dorothea Lange and the Politics of Poverty
George F. Will - Inconvenient Truths about Global Warming

The Surprising Lessons of Vietnam - The Perils of Miscontruing the Past by Evan Thomas and John Barry

Beware the Revisionists - Victory in Vietnam was an Oxymoron from the Start by Sen. John Kerry

The Year the World Really Changed - The Fall of the Wall has Nothing on the Events of 1979 by Niall Ferguson

What Coattails? - The GOP's Night to Remember by Yuval Levin

Fashion Diasaster - Versace's Riches-to-Rags Story by Dana Thomas

The Critics
Design - The Other Saarinen

Movies - The Meaning of Precious

Movies - Fantastic Mr. Fox

Music - The Last Hillbilly

Art - Subliminal Pakistan

Back Story - What's Your Vote Worth?

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Citation: Newsweek, 1299Serial452072. No Date, Joseph V. Potter Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=1299Serial452072, Accessed 25 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 1299Serial452072, Joseph V. Potter Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive