Opinion: Obama, Blackwater, Benazir, and beauty

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Here’s what you read last week between feasts and football. Our columnists lead the pack, followed closely by a famous niece and the op-ed that never quits, Craig Childs’ piece on Stonehenge.

1. Ron Paul isn’t that scary, by Jonah Goldberg
2. Obama as the red-blue uniter, by Ronald Brownstein
3. In Musharraf, Bush made the wrong friend, by Rosa Brooks
4. Blackwater’s loopholes, by Jeremy Scahill
5. Aunt Benazir’s false promises, by Fatima Bhutto
6. Stay or go in Iraq?, dust-up between David Rivkin and Brian Katulis
7. Stonehenges all around us, by Craig Childs
8. What’s ugly?, by Umberto Eco
9. Don’t bow to the ‘Muslim street’, by James Kirchick
10. A powder keg in Lebanon, by Milton Viorst