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August 22, 2005

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Featured Pick

a reporter at large

The Big Tent

Peter J. Boyer

Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, and the transformation of American evangelicalism.

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Mired

Hendrik Hertzberg

the political scene

Lone Star

Dan Halpern