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Monitor articles for August 15, 2006

• On vacation? Let the games begin!
• Amid uncertainty about leadership, no Cuban exodus
• Letters
• Lost in paradise – and so very ill at ease
• The party at the heart of Mexico City's protest
• Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story – Part 2: A spy with a homing device
• Film confronts Japan on wartime past
• From the page to the schoolroom: Monitor readers send six Malawian girls to school
• Democrats don't need a new plan or more big ideas
• Unresolved: disarming Hizbullah
• Not consumed by violence
• Why decency matters in troubled times
• The city of dreams
• In Vermont, farmers buck registration efforts
• Backstory: Where the fastest commuters are ... 'slugs'
• Readers' picks
• A Westerner's firsthand look at Chinese history
• Many Israelis on border see a lull - not peace
• World
• USA
• Reporters on the Job
• Welcome to Byrd country
• Big 3 pump up while drivers pay out
• Lebanese return home during fragile cease-fire
• Senator Coburn: tough critic of pork
• Origins of a reluctant genius
• Etc...