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Issue date: 07.09.08


Cover Story
The Last Hero of Tiananmen by Philip P. Pan
How an aging doctor became the conscience of China.

Editorial
The China Syndrome by The Editors
Drilling Deeper by The Editors

The Mall
No Country for Young Men by Mara Hvistendahl
China's testosterone problem.
Senior Moments by James Mann
The secret China history of George H. W. Bush.
Cultural Devolution by Bradford Plumer
Solving China's environmental catastrophe.
External Flame by Michelle Cottle
Why Caroline Kennedy needs Barack Obama.
Narrow Minded by Jeffrey Rosen
John Roberts does Obama a favor.

Feature
Deconstructing Barry by Andrew Delbanco
A literary critic reads Obama.
The Pivot by Jason Zengerle
The man who commercialized college basketball reconsiders.
Mao Crazy by Jed Perl
Jed Perl on art.

Stanley Kauffmann On Films
Matters of Fact by Stanley Kauffmann

Books
Medals And Rights by Andrew J. Nathan
What the Olympics reveal, and conceal, about China.
Snow-Globe of Vesuvius by Chase Twichell
Hedonic Man by Alan Wolfe
The new economics and the pursuit of happiness.
Bibliotaph by Michael McFee

Trb From Washington
Terror Firma by Jonathan Chait
John McCain returns to Ground Zero.

Cambridge Diarist
Peace Offensive by Martin Peretz
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