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Monitor articles for August 19, 2012

• For a moment, at least, presidential campaigns get back to issues
• Faux populism, and a renewed appeal to the 'hardworking taxpayer'
• It's all in the neighborhood
• What do Yemenis want from the West? Whitening strips, for one thing.
• Dip diplomacy: Japanese activists swim to disputed islands, raise flag
• Bloggers riff on similariites between the music, investment 'biz'
• Japan-China island clash: Peace in a common history
• 62-year-old woman swimming strong in her attempt to cross the Florida Straits
• Yemeni militants hit back, leaving more than 20 dead
• Another NATO soldier killed by Afghan comrade-in-arms
• US government and politics no longer run by WASPs. Does it matter?
• Sudan's struggling government loses top officials in plane crash
• Vacationers ordered to evacuate Idaho resort as wildfire presses closer
• GM reorganization aimed at eliminating 'fiefdoms'
• Before tough week of campaigning, Mitt Romney attends church
• Assange: US may be holding one of 'world's foremost political prisoners'
• Syria's Assad emerges in public to mark Eid al-Fitr
• 10 suspected militants killed by US drones in Pakistan
• Layoffs, pay cuts. Troubled firm? No. 'The Tonight Show.'
• Cooking as entrepreneurship