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    Iran, Israel and the Arab Contradiction

    By Ronen Bergman
    The WikiLeaks cables reveal that Egypt and Saudi Arabia can't decide if they fear a Shiite bomb more than they hate the Jewish state.

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    Obama and the Global Hail Mary

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    By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
    The president has been a case study of a man refusing to synchronize his agenda with his moment.

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    How to Control State Spending

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    By Matthew Mitchell
    Balanced-budget rules work better than tax-and-expenditure limitations.

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    Notable & Quotable

    An excerpt from Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's final statement.

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    Winning Novels About Failure

    Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson recommends novels about failure, including Mario Vargas Llosa's "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter."

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    When Marianne Met Fritz

    Alan Riding's "And the Show Went On," is the story of the complex compromises made by French artists and writers in Nazi-occupied Paris. Modris Eksteins reviews.

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    Worlds That Never Were

    Paul Di Filippo reviews alternate history novels, including Connie Willis's "Blackout," a book about time travel and war.

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    Seductively Dangerous

    Robert Morrison's "The English Opium-Eater" is the biography of one of the first and best and most seductively dangerous of literary journalists, Thomas De Quincey, an opium addict who translated German ghost stories and covered the latest theology and political science. Lee Sandlin reviews.

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    'Fighter' Stings Like a Bee

    Golden Gloves for Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg and director David O. Russell for "The Fighter," writes Joe Morgenstern. Meanwhile, "The Tourist" traps Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.

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    The Man Who Said No to Hitler

    His life was not in danger under the Nazis, but his soul was. Violinist Adolf Busch chose exile over a devil's bargain.

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    The Girl in the Kitchen Sink

    When it comes to theater, "irresistible" is rarely true—but it's difficult to imagine anyone failing to fall for Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's "I Capture the Castle."

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    True Crime Network

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