 already seems to in the White House.  
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Schell's piece, "Invitation to a Degraded World," is as well a preview for a new magazine, <i>Final Edition</i>, just being launched and closed down at one and the same moment.  Its editor is Wallace Shawn and he's been kind enough to let me post the piece.  In a world where nothing happens just once, the idea of a magazine that appears and disappears in the flicker of a single issue appeals to me.  Of his magazine, Shawn writes in a brief introduction:  
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