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February 4, 2008

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Featured Pick

letter from italy

Beppe’s Inferno

Tom Mueller

A comedian’s war on crooked politics.

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fiction

Friendly Fire

Tessa Hadley

annals of law

Death In Georgia

Jeffrey Toobin