Excerpts from the Atlantic Water Summit
The Atlantic's literary editor, Benjamin Schwarz discusses his picks with
senior editor Jennie Rothenberg Gritz
A poem by Robert Morgan, read by the poet
James Parker narrates his favorite scenes from When Harry Met Sally and What Women Want.
"Fairytale Hollywood glitters distantly over the movies of both Meyers and Ephron, for whom the secrets of men versus women were engraved upon the heart of Ernst Lubitsch, and the fabulous maidens were not Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty but Ingrid Bergman and Deborah Kerr. Harry and Sally bicker over Casablanca; for the women of Sleepless in Seattle, the emotional touchstone is An Affair to Remember ('Men never get this movie!'). In Meyers’s The Holiday, Kate Winslet gets tips from an authentic Golden Age geezer, a creaky Oscar-toting screenwriter who instructs her in the technicalities of the Lubitschean 'meet-cute.' Hanging Up (directed by Keaton, from a script by Ephron and her sister Delia) features Walter Matthau as the dying father, the crumbling Hollywood lion, his mind dimming behind hospital screens as he rambles about the smallness of John Wayne’s penis."
The photographer Julián Cardona shares images from Juárez, where violent drug cartels rule the streets and citizens live in fear.
"The question is, can the army be trusted, and if so, can it win this latest—and biggest—battle in the seemingly endless “war on drugs”? President Calderón has deployed more than 45,000 troops (out of a total force of 230,000) throughout the country. Of that number, about 7,000, reinforced by 2,300 federal policemen, occupy Juárez as part of Operación Conjunta Chihuahua—the Joint Chihuahuan Operation. The army has taken over all the policing functions. The city is under undeclared martial law. Although many ordinary Mexicans welcome the army’s intervention, certain that things would be far worse without it, approval has been far from universal."
Researcher Stephen Suomi explains why monkeys with risky genes often turn out just fine
Atlantic editors discuss the November issue and four honorees describe their bold visions
For more than 150 years, the Atlantic has told the stories of people who commit acts of moral and intellectual bravery by espousing unpopular or controversial positions. In a special issue of the magazine, the editors have chosen 27 leaders--from business and politics to science and media--who embody this great tradition today. These are people who are risking careers, reputations, and fortunes to advance ideas that upend an established order.
