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List of Excerpt articles
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Getty Images Novel Ideas
Statesmen once looked to great works of literature to help them understand the world. No longer.
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OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images The Fatwa
Ayatollah Khomeini and the legacy of the Salman Rushdie affair.
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BARBARA SAX/AFP/Getty Images Big Brotherhood Is Watching
America's clumsy, misguided attempts to reach out to European Muslims.
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569260_100506_pope_pius2.jpg Why Did the Pope Keep Quiet About Hitler?
Newly opened archives reveal what Pius XII knew and when he knew it.
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Pen Portraits from a Forgotten Middle East
From a Zelig-like chronicler, encounters with the people who made history.
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DPA/Getty Images The Elite Med Squad That Saved You from Anthrax
A look inside the hunt for a white, powdery killer.
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NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images The Dirty Underside of Lula’s Clean Energy Revolution
Brazil's biofueled paradise is looking more and more like a carbon-spewing wasteland.
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Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images Reading Saddam’s Fortune
A long-time Middle East correspondent recalls his bizarre experience of the Iraq invasion in the house of a Yezidi prince -- and meeting a fortune-teller who only revealed to him that his future was not in journalism.
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JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/Getty Images Ghosts of Beirut
How the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri transformed the Middle East.
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Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc Peddling Peril
An exclusive excerpt from David Albright's new book, Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies.
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AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images Dancing for Their Lives
Making an undercover visit to an Iraqi expat nightclub in Syria, where the refugee crisis's illicit economy is on full display.
