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Finn De Siècle

THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS trying to coax the Prime Minister of Finland into a three-quarter pose, with knees turned slightly to the side, hands demurely joined in her lap. But Sanna Marin isn’t having it. Just 11 days after taking office, she faces the camera squarely, legs slightly apart, and rests her hands firmly on her thighs. “This is how you would do it if I were a man,” she says.

Finland’s new leader has good reason to think about how she is portrayed. After her predecessor resigned on Dec. 3, the 34-year-old became the youngest Prime Minister in Finnish history and

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