Unrippable
Ordinarily, Willow could no more ignore a ringing telephone than she could step on a crack and break her mother's back, but she was 20 feet in the air, painting a house, when her
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The common good: the case for a standardized curriculum for all American children
THE MAKING OF AMERICANS Democracy and Our Schools By E. D. Hirsch Jr. Yale University Press 273 pp.
Brush Up Your Berlin: And Beware of Kiss-Me-I'm-Poetical Junk
The practice of poetry ruled my life from the time I entered college. Unlike some of my classmates, who waited until our junior year to declare a major, I knew after a few weeks
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An American in Prague
A team of Czech architects and sculptors is reconstructing a 1928 monument to Woodrow Wilson (right) that was destroyed in 1941 by the Nazi invaders.
Words apart: a writer in Quebec finds that language creates an unbridgeable divide
In January 1989, I received a letter from Francois Hebert, the editor of Liberte, a French-Canadian cultural periodical.
Not ready for Mt. Rushmore: reconciling the myth of Ronald Reagan with the reality
When Ronald Reagan stepped down from the presidency in 1989, he had acquired a reputation as a resilient, savvy politician.
A Letter to M.A. Who Lives Far Away
A Letter to M.A. Who Lives Far Away Dear Melissa, I do remember you You had curly hair And stood by the stair Up there on Quadra Isle With a shy smile Say
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Vibrato wars: Elgar, served neat: and unshaken, stirs up the Brits
Unless you happen to be British, the brash spectacle known as the Last Night of the Proms might seem more like a carnival than the culmination of a venerable classical music
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At liberty to divulge: one student's perspective from inside Jerry Falwell's university
THE UNLIKELY DISCIPLE A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University By Kevin Roose Grand Central Publishing 336 pp |
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Smarter than dirt
You can't outfox natural selection for billions of years without some rudimentary smarts. Now scientists in Europe and Japan are showing that primordial slime molds are clever
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