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POSTSCRIPT

Cy Twombly, 1928-2011by Peter Schjeldahl

Twombly made clear that he did what he felt like doing. Who did he think he was?
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ANNALS OF COMMUNICATIONS

A Woman’s Placeby Ken Auletta

Before joining Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg held senior positions at the Treasury Department and Google. Why don’t more female executives rise to the top?
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ILLUSTRATION: LAURIE ROSENWALD
REFLECTIONS

Easy, Tigerby David Sedaris

On a recent flight from Tokyo to Beijing, at around the time that my lunch tray was taken away, I remembered that I needed to learn Mandarin…
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NEWS DESK

British Tabloids Go Darkerby Lauren Collins

The Dowler case has struck a deep chord, in part because the deletion of Milly’s messages gave her parents false hope that she might still be alive…
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LETTER FROM RWANDA

Climbersby Philip Gourevitch

Gasore Hategeka began carting potatoes on wooden bikes, and worked for nearly half his life before he could afford a Chinese-made single-speed. Now he races for Team Rwanda…

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ILLUSTRATION: RICHARD MCGUIRE
A CRITIC AT LARGE

The Commandmentsby Jill Lepore

The Constitution and its worshippers.
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LETTER FROM BUDAPEST

George Lang at Workby Adam Gopnik

Reviving the grandeur of Gundel.
ILLUSTRATION: ADRIAN TOMINE
TRUE ROMANCE DEPT.

Looking for Someoneby Nick Paumgarten

Sex, love, and loneliness online.
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Annals of Innovation

Kuwait on the Prairieby Eric Konigsberg

Can North Dakota solve the energy problem?
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A Reporter at Large

Fidel’s HeirJon Lee Anderson

The influence of Hugo Chávez.

COMMENT

ILLUSTRATION: TOM BACHTELL

It Gets Betterby David Remnick

The future of marriage.

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Margaret Talbot, Jeffrey Toobin, and Ryan Lizza discuss gay marriage and the culture wars.

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