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Letter from Kayenta
I live among the red rocks of the Southwest and the "red men" who are native to them. The Navajo Reservation is a desolate place with...
Testing Trap
Supporters of the reauthorization, last January, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act hail it for tightening school accountability...
Charles Follen
Student revolutionary, political refugee, gymnastics instructor, radical abolitionist clergyman: German-born Karl Follen was an unusual Harvard...
The Cult of the Charismatic CEO
In 1997, one of the blue-chip icons of corporate America, AT&T, was in trouble and seeking a new leader. The company was operating in a...
Dorm Decor
"To me [my room] will always be haunted by my companions who have been there, by the books that I have read there, by the pleasure and the...
Reverence for the Object
"...in every prosperous municipality in the land, in the next ten years the call is likely to come for thoroughly equipped...
Owen Wister
One hundred years ago, the Macmillan Company published The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, a novel about an unnamed Wyoming cattleman. The...
Medicine by Model
It's a troubling area, the economics of saving lives. Take cervical cancer, for example. In the United States we have spent enormous sums for...
Tough Love
Editor's Note: Nicholas Dawidoff '85 has just published The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World, a richly detailed...
Globalization for Whom?
Globalization has brought little but good news to those with the products, skills, and resources to market worldwide. But does it also work for...