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October 20, 2008

Cover Story

Home Design: Urban Pastoral

An assortment of country idylls right here in the city. By Wendy Goodman

On the Cover: Chris and Lisa Goode’s penthouse lawn. Photograph by Gregory Goode for New York Magazine.

Features

Sarah Palin’s Heaven

There’s no shortage of love for Sarah Palin in the tight-knit town to which she brought strip malls and fiscal discipline.
The Spreadsheet Psychic

Nate Silver was making a happy living as a baseball-stat wizard.

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

Barack’s Cool Pop

His steady, understated, optimistic populism arrived just in time.

Agenda

Strategist

Departments

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