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Pimping a Ph.D.
Michael Erard
A new graduate program turns Chaucer scholars into money-grubbing entrepreneurs.
Singing the pink blues
Margot Mifflin
Why do makers of toys and computer games still practice segregation?
“The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction” by Linda Gordon
Debra Dickerson
A historian unearths a bizarre-but-true story of New York nuns, Irish Catholic orphans, their Mexican-American would-be parents and a white Protestant lynch mob.
Who killed Betty Van Patter?
David Horowitz
A letter from an old friend stirs up passions from one of the most disturbing, yet little-known, crimes of the New Left era. It happened exactly 25 years ago.
Revenge of the nerd
Jake Tapper
Steve Forbes' poll numbers in New Hampshire slowly rise even though the media ignores him.
The day I became a Muslim
Zachary Karabell
At an Indian mosque on a blazing summer afternoon, a moment that I had only dreamed of came true.
Beyond step and spinning
Christina Valhouli
There are as many ethnic-style workouts as ethnic restaurants in New York.
What the National Guard is doing for New Year's Eve
Sam Stanton, Gary Delsohn
If the world doesn't end at the turn of the millennium, the FBI warns that militia groups and religious nuts might try to help it along.
Dear Diary
Todd Levin
Andrew Smales' astonishing Diaryland site provides the format. You supply the secrets.
“The Green Mile”
Andrew O'Hehir
Tom Hanks and a sparkling cast squeeze Stephen King's story for surprisingly effective Hollywood melodrama.
She loves me, she loves me not
Susan Caba
In an exhaustive -- and exhausting -- book on motherhood, anthropologist Sara Blaffer Hrdy breaks some big news: There is no such thing as maternal instinct.
TV party tonight
Jeff Stark
Commercials feature the best music on television, but that hasn't gotten in the way of more soundtracks from "Friends," "Buffy," "Ally," "The Simpsons" and more.
Secretin may not be effective against childhood autism
Arthur Allen
The pig hormone has been found to be no better than a placebo in several studies.
How victors split their spoils
Suzi Parker
Trent Lott was all set to funnel yet another military project to his home state of Mississippi until Arkansas Sen. Tim Hutchinson took him on.
Day of the Jackal
Bill Donahue
A young punk who lives on the streets of Los Angeles tried to make his mark during the WTO protests in Seattle.
Sophie’s choice
Alyson Mead
A Canadian court will decide whether Sophie Brassard must give her children a drug cocktail or lose them to a foster home.
“The Trouble With Normal” by Michael Warner
Peter Kurth
A sex activist defends the right of gay men -- and everybody else -- to screw around.
How the Demos lost the White House in Seattle
Camille Paglia
The WTO battles blew the election for Gore; McCain needs more than bad luck to qualify for the presidency; Hillary's one of the most destructive personalities in American politics; and why Madonna talks like the queen mother.
Memories of an Aggie Bonfire boy
Dave Morris
Texas A&M's annual ritual, which killed 12 this year, is not just a football rally. It's a homoerotic rite of passage.
Letters to the editor
Letters to the Editor
Are cutting-edge schizophrenia treatments just old news? Plus: News flash --
online pornographers are "shady" characters; misguided fighters in the Battle of Seattle.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Why send a prude to cover a bondage party? Plus: Mom should worry more about kid's health than Ritalin's stigma; what the heck's an "Agilent," anyway?
Hand holding for moms
David Brauer
One father's ode to his doula -- the woman who remembered everything he forgot in Lamaze class.
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