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Quality Care
As I read David Cutler's important new book on how to deal with the nation's most challenging social problem, I kept wanting more. Cutler...
The Uncertain Art
Sometimes wrong; never in doubt." Atul Gawande quotes this saying about surgeons in the opening pages of Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an...
Off the Shelf
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, by Chris Hedges, M. Div. '83, Nf '99 (Public Affairs, $23). "Compared to war all other forms of human...
Calling Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck
In the passage that follows from "First Fruits," one of the seven short stories that, with five personal histories, constitute Roofwalker...
An End to Evasion
Among the unsung heroes of the twentieth century is Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, a linguist, and an international lawyer, who reached the...
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Racism: A Short History, by George M. Fredrickson '56, Ph.D. '64 (Princeton University Press, $22.95). Clear, crisp, and engaging, this overview...
Recovered Memory
Campus turmoil tumbled into Robinson Hall during the 1969 strike, when students turned the building into a factory for the production of...
Chapter & Verse
Lewis Robinson asks who wrote of never seeing a man with a large house and barn without imagining him carrying the house and barn on his back....
Paths of Learning
It is a testament to his energy, vitality, and ambition that, in the ninth decade of his life, the business school's Alfred Chandler '40, Ph.D...
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Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, by Catherine Orenstein '90 (Basic Books, $25). Much we need...
Chapter & Verse
Robert Boardman seeks a source for the assertion that, if political and military leaders are from different backgrounds, "the armies will be...