Mexico City, Mexico - [Pick: The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind] It certainly isn't light summer reading. But I tend to agree with Ian McEwan, who, after what happened in New York and Washington, decided that pure fiction was no longer entirely appropriate. This world of ours begs to be understood rather that dramatized.

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Mexico City, Mexico - We have reached new, ominous depths when the world's cleverest political strategy is crafted in Tehran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken the two main geopolitical forces of our times - the high price of oil and the growing instability in the Middle East - and used them both to strengthen his regime. Sanctions, though hard to pass, are needed.

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