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Romney’s Rough Winby Alex Koppelman

After New Hampshire, the intraparty warfare can only hurt Mitt’s campaign…

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War and Prosewith Cressida Leyshon

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Zone of Discomfortby Joan Acocella

Wim Wenders’s “Pina” is a visual knockout, but it’s not especially representative of its subject’s unsettling dance-theatre…

Anthony Lane’s Review

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David Remnick on the Obamas.
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John Seabrook on YouTube.
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