Newsweek’s new issue is out, featuring more in the magazine’s ongoing love affair with the Obamas—this time a cover about Michelle Obama’s campaign against obesity.
But what’s that in the reflection in the apple?
A reader suggests its either Karl Marx or one of the cough-drop Smith brothers. Could be Old Adam, though. It is an apple, after all.
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