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Andrew Feinstein answers questions about the international market in weapons and gives some tips for further reading ...  read more »

Sam Leith considers the divisions between British and American rhetoric ...  read more »

Nothing quite like a good scandal to make American politics feel a little less paralysed and remote, argues Lee Siegel ...  read more »

Something is happening to David Cameron’s hairline. Simon Carr has kept an eye on it, and on what voters expect from politicians’ hair. Lastly, a few policy options ...  read more »

DEEP IN THE CHEESE | September 15th 2008
"Sarah Palin is in town. Oh, and John McCain too", writes an American politics correspondent for The Economist. He follows the unlikely pair around Wisconsin ...

From ECONOMIST.COM

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LONG DIVISION | September 11th 2008

A journalist for The Economist travels the scarred streets of Beirut and talks politics with rattled locals. "My father passed me one of the guns he's used in the civil war and we
defended ourselves. I shot. I do not know if I killed. I just fired ..."

From ECONOMIST.COM

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DANIEL ARIZONA | CANON FODDER | September 10th 2008

English students sweating over Shakespeare or festering over Faulkner often complain: "how is this relevant to our lives at all?" Daniel Arizona has come to the rescue with "Canon Fodder", a new column that uses the classics to help us to understand these post-modern times
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Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE

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PINING FOR THE MANDATE | February 2nd 2008

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Adam LeBor travels to Israel for a festival of films from the Mandate era. After witnessing grainy footage of barking British officers and squabbling Palestinians and Jews, he is surprised to learn of nostalgia for the days of empire ...

Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE

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