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Something to be envious of

Robert D. Plotnick (Washington): The Alleviation of Poverty: How Far Have We Come? From Studies in Literature and Language, Zahra Khozaei Ravari (USM): Cloud Nine, As Butler Likes it. Holy Terrors: Should Christians embrace the horror film? From Plus, Eileen Magnello on Florence Nightingale, the compassionate statistician; and an article on visual curiosities and mathematical paradoxes. Meet Theo Lubke, the regulator that Goldman Sachs just hired to fight off other regulators. A review of When Doctors Kill: Who, Why and How by Joshua A. Perer and Steven J. Cina. A review of On Thinking Institutionally by Hugh Heclo. From New Geography, are developers greedy, or just misunderstood? Having a disability and surviving on a disability support pension isn’t something to be envious of — if disabled people could trade their money to have your health, they would probably do it. In this digital age, every stupid decision ends up haunting you — except, of course, in the realm of retail. Ugly animals need love too: Zoos can help save species, but are they only saving the ones we like? Lewis Lapham on Domesticated Deities: Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It (and Don’t Forget Marilyn and Elvis and Jackie O and Diana and Oprah and Brangelina and David Hasselhoff). David Barash on Hobbes vs. Rousseau: The Chilean mine showdown. A review of Ireland: A History by Thomas Bartlett.