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George Packer

George Packer, staff writer for The New Yorker, is author of The Village of Waiting and The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq. His most recent book is Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade.

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Out of the shadow of a wall 15 feet away a pair of men emerged and blocked the sidewalk. 

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