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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...
On Cattle's "Palpable Self-Esteem"
All cattle will build a social order within the herd. While the rank of a dairy cow is based almost entirely on its mass, Aberdeen-Angus beef...
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Bury the Chains: Prophets, Slaves, and Rebels in the First Human Rights Crusade, by Adam Hochschild '63 (Houghton Mifflin, $26.95). A printer, a...
Completing the Century
From photographer Berenice Abbott to labor activist Elaine Black Yoneda, from Wyoming governor Nellie Tayloe Ross (born in 1876) to Tejana...
Chapter & Verse
Dorothy Richardson reports that in William Dunlap's 1828 farce A Trip to Niagara, the character Job Jerryson (a black waiter who claims to...
Alone with His Idols
Mark Feeney's Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief is so well-intentioned, so weirdly ingenious, so full of lively and perceptive tidbits...
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Franz Betz as top god Wotan. Costumes for Rheingold were based on "the latest discoveries of prehistoric times."From the bookFirst...
Chapter & Verse
Christopher Monson seeks the author of the truism, "The rectangle is the beginning of aesthetics." Dale Fink would welcome a verifiable...
A Bouquet for Nature-Lovers
The Rarest of the Rare: Stories behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HarperResource, $22.95) is a delightful armchair...
Chapter & Verse
James MacKillop writes, "The quotation, 'The map appears to us more real than the land' (sometimes misquoted as 'The map appears to be...')...
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...