November 2008

Hiding in Plain Sight

Quoting Baudelaire, an American passes in Granada.
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Features

Anti-Drudge
by Mark Binelli
October 2008 - Until his conscience overcame him, David Brock was conservatives' go-to hitman. The inside story of the media watchdog who has Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage--even Stephen Colbert--fuming mad.
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Interview

I’m a Liberal, But...
An interview with Bernard-Henri Lévy
November 2008 - The celebrity polemicist on the resurgence of anti-Semitism, an Arab brand of fascism, and how the election of Obama could reconstitute the grand alliance of Jews and African Americans.
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Growing Controversy
by Ruxandra Guidi; photos by Roberto Guerra
September 2008 - Once the target of the U.S. war on drugs, Bolivian coca is being repackaged by activist farmers in hopes of giving the crop a legal life in this destitute nation.
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Baghdad Nights
An Interview with UCLA’s John Agnew
November 2008 - What can a California geographer possibly teach us about the American troop surge and ethnic cleansing in Iraq?
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Poetry

Ode to Nitrous Oxide
by Sharon Dolin
November 2008 - Isn’t it funny how good numb can feel? Is that / the experience? Or is it waking up after—lucid but no longer asking (or caring) /where it throbs—or when—or why—or because of whom.
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Fiction

Food
by Glen Pourciau
November 2008 - I’m a better person than a particular author of a particular story says I am and I won’t keep quiet about it any longer. One reason I can’t hold my peace is that the author is my husband.
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The Body or its Not
by Keetje Kuipers
November 2008 - I have plans to kill a creature. The best / I can explain it is: I’m afraid. Of what / will be left—a hoof, the jaw, one sun-dried- / soft-as-oats ear.
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Clever Kidz
by Mark Edmund Doten
November 2008 - She grabbed my hair at the nape, plunged me in, jammed mud past my teeth. She’s a Blackwater mercenary, so no messing around. She wasn’t here for Christmas but at last I found her on the bank of the river, I was back with my sister at last!
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