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LETTER FROM YEMEN
After the Uprisingby Dexter Filkins
Yemenis used to call Ali Abdullah Saleh “Little Saddam.” Saleh is also a U.S. ally in the war on terror. What will happen if he goes?
A Critic at Large
What ails Italy?by Tim Parks
Unemployment, slow growth, Berlusconi… As Italy turns a hundred and fifty, what’s to celebrate?
THE THEATRE
Tooth and Clawby John Lahr
The Tiger in “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” is scared, aggressive, and deracinated, like his captors. But he is also funny—and who is funnier than Robin Williams?…
News Desk
K.S.M. to be Tried at GuantÁnamoby Jane Mayer
Eric Holder and some of the smartest prosecutors in the country had spent years preparing for a criminal trial in the civilian justice system…
CALIFORNIA POSTCARD
Moving Dayby Dana Goodyear
Ed Ruscha leaves his studio, a former Coors warehouse on Electric Avenue, where the railroad used to run…
Editors’ Choice
Political Scene
Ryan Lizza and the activist Marwa Sharafeldin on the Libya intervention and Egypt’s stalled revolution.
