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Reporting from the Middle East, Nir Rosen investigates the growth of al Qaeda in Lebanon; ending urban poverty, with Dalton Conley, Patrick Sharkey, and Stefanie DeLuca.
Pranab Bardhan on myths of Chinese and Indian growth; Vivian Gornick on Hannah Arendt; Dimiter Kenarov on Bulgarian literature; two poems by Tomaž Šalamun.
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