February 13, 2012 | Vol. 179 No. 6

COVER
The Street Fighter (United States)
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has already taken down some of the financial world's most prominent figures. He's just getting started

WORLD
Children of the New India
In 1991, India liberalized its planned economy. Now a generation wrestles with the perils and promise of a more freewheeling, market-driven world
The Great Scrawl of China
The nation that invented paper is now in the midst of an online-publishing boom that is making fortunes, changing lives and creating a truly populist literature for the first time

ESSAY
The War for the Soul of Syria
What can ordinary citizens do when regime and opposition claim a monopoly on truth?

THE CULTURE
Pilgrim's Progress (Exhibitions)
The hajj revealed in a splendid new exhibition

Badly Drawn Boy (Art)
Funny as in peculiar and as in ha-ha 窶� meet David Shrigley

The East Is Fed (Books)
How the Cultural Revolution created a unique cuisine

10 Questions for Loretta Napoleoni
Banker and economic provocateur Loretta Napoleoni on the euro and what China would do if it ran the E.U.

TRAVEL
Indigo Girls (Great Outdoors)
The trekking business is a boon for Vietnam's female Hmong

Try Logging Out (Check In)
The Grenadines' unwired resort

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