The Memorizer
Playing cards with the world’s memory champion
Read MoreNovember/December 2003
Paul Webster warns that aid from the G-8 may serve to rearm Russia; Bill Cameron considers the political fallout of the war in Iraq for Tony Blair; Joan Bryden speaks to Jean Chrétien; Deborah Kirshner attends a festival celebrating the gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt; fiction by David Bezmozgis…
The Last Great City Dump
Throwing it all away in Yellowknife
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Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark
The show goes on in the Iraqi capital
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Why the Poles Are in Iraq
Deploying the troops and stirring the pot
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Up in the Mustafa Hotel
kabul — My Afghan driver, friend, and confidant, Aktar Gul, tells me that his nation today is like two pictures superimposed in the same frame: old and new, good and …
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Sex and the Holy See
Talking dirty in Vatican City
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Small Worlds
Pakistani artist Saira Wasim tackles the big picture in her tiny paintings
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Reader Rage
Driven to madness by the newspaper routine
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Homecoming King
The boy from Shawinigan can finally go home
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