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September 23, 2003
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+ In THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY | October 2003 | Digital EditionPlease note that only selected articles from the current issue of the magazine will be made available free on the Web.
FORCE MULTIPLIER
By Joshua Green
"In many presidential campaigns a moment arrives when disappointment with the declared candidates sets in, and adream candidate emerges--one who seems to personify all that is missing from the field." Wesley Clark is not Haig and not Eisenhower. And some Democrats are hoping he won't be Cuomo.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/10/green.htm
WILL FRANKENFOOD SAVE THE PLANET?
By Jonathan Rauch
Over the next half century genetic engineering could feed humanity and solve a raft of environmental ills--if only environmentalists would let it. Jonathan Rauch looks at what may be the farming of the future.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/10/rauch.htm
NOTES FROM A NATIVE DAUGHTER
By Benjamin Schwarz
"For the past forty years Joan Didion has taken upon herself the task of explaining, or at least exposing, California to the New York literary world. But, it's clear that California is no longer hers, and she can't go home again." *Where I Was From* is a slim volume about California that confirms Joan Didion's "apparently irreversible decline."
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/10/schwarz.htm
Plus:
David Brooks gives a warning to the Democratic presidential candidates from Congress
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/10/brooks.htm
Tom Mueller on the search for St. Peter's tomb
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/10/mueller.htm
A poem by Philip Levine
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/levine/lesson.htm
Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/10/wallraff.htm
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+ In ATLANTIC UNBOUND, The Atlantic's online journal
Sage, Ink
RAIN MAN
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/sage/ss2003-09-19.htm
A cartoon by Sage Stossel.
Politics & Prose
"A MISERABLE FAILURE"
"The Founders feared that the extension of democracy to
those who could not rise to the responsibilities of republican
freedom would corrupt the republic--hasten its decay into
oligarchy or mob rule. A republic can be corrupted at the top
and bottom, by leaders and led. The re-election of George W. Bush
would signal that a kind of corruption had set in among the
led." Will Bush be re-elected? Only if voters wittingly ignore
his long list of failures while in office. By Jack Beatty.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2003-09-24.htm
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+ In FLASHBACKS, Highlights from The Atlantic's history ...
15 Years Ago in The Atlantic
September 1988 | DRIVEN TOWARD GOD
"For the moment, pro-American feelings are widespread in
Afghanistan. If such an attitude is to last, American officials
would do well to steer clear of Afghan politics." In 1988,
soon before the Soviets' withdrawal from Afghanistan, Robert
Kaplan analyzed the political future of the war-torn country.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/88sep/kaplangoddriven.htm
AS AMERICAN AS WOMEN'S SOCCER?
"The women of WUSA understand that they are pioneers." This week
America's women's soccer league folded. In 2001 Scott Stossel
reported on the then-new league, and speculated on its chances
for success.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/06/stossel-p1.htm
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+ In D.C. DISPATCH | from National Journal
On the Media
BUBBLE, BUBBLE
The Saudi tale--and lots of other emerging stories--could
give the Bushies real trouble. By William Powers.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/powers2003-09-16.htm
Political Pulse
THE INDIE DUDES
Tough-guy candidates share a libertarian distrust of government.
By William Schneider.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/schneider2003-09-16.htm
Legal Affairs
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM: WHAT THE COURT SHOULD DO
There's no legitimate reason for restricting the election-related
speech of ideological groups. By Stuart Taylor Jr.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/taylor2003-09-16.htm
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+ In U.N. NOTEBOOK | from U.N. Wire
GERMAN TEACHER PROVIDES MUCH-NEEDED GUIDE TO THE U.N.
"[For] years, scholars, journalists and interested citizens
of all kinds have had to scrounge for an easy-to-understand,
jargon-free compendium of information on an organization that
seems to revel in making itself hard to penetrate."
By Barbara Crossette.
http://www.theatlantic.com/foreign/unwire/crossette2003-09-15.htm
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+ In POST & RIPOSTE | Forum Highlights
The Dark Art of Interrogation
Is torture always unequivocally wrong? Is it sometimes wrong
*not* to use torture if it might mean that many innocent people
end up being killed by terrorists? Share your thoughts on Mark
Bowden's cover story in the October issue.
http://forum.theatlantic.com/WebX?.2cb4fd9b
Will Frankenfood Save the Planet?
Are genetically engineered crops something we should welcome
or fear? Weigh in on Jonathan Rauch's article in the October issue.
http://forum.theatlantic.com/WebX?.2cb4fd9e
Notes From a Native Daughter
Has the quality of Joan Didion's writing declined? Join a discussion of
Benjamin Schwarz's article in the October issue.
http://forum.theatlantic.com/WebX?.2cb4fd9c
..... and much more.
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