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| | Profile: Paul Krugman | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited |
 | | Even more confusing for those who like their politics to consist of nicely pigeonholed leftwingers criticising rightwingers, and vice versa, will be the incendiary essay that introduces Krugman's new collection of columns, The Great Unravelling, published in the UK next week. |
 | | In it, Krugman describes how, just as he was about to send his manuscript to the publishers, he chanced upon a passage in an old history book from the 1950s, about 19th-century diplomacy, that seemed to pinpoint, with eerie accuracy, what is happening in the US now. |
 | | Eerie, but also perhaps a little embarrassing, really, given the identity of the author. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,1045302,00.html (1221 words) |
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