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Letters to the Editor Odious Rulers, Odious Debts Should the people of Iraq be forced to pay back money borrowed by Saddam? A Nobel laureate makes an urgent case for forgiveness by Joseph Stiglitz BRIEF LIVES: Defender of the Faith Why all Anglican eyes in London are nervously fixed on a powerful African archbishop by Philip Jenkins POST MORTEM: Bright Young Thing With a Blind Spot Diana Mosley (1910-2003) by Mark Steyn Primary Sources George Bush's new report card for government agencies; the odds of terrorist attack in the coming year; why marriage and high achievement don't mix—for men THE WORLD IN NUMBERS:
Murder by the Stateby Bruce Falconer Columbia's Last Flight The inside story of the investigation—and the catastrophe it laid bare by William Langewiesche The Structure of an AccidentClose-Up: Young Rumsfeld The Donald Rumsfeld of thirty years ago was a lot like the man we know today—a divisive figure who relishes bureaucratic combat, aims to shake up the established order, and is tenaciously committed to his own ideas and ambitions. But he was also a social moderate and a dove by James Mann Rumsfeld's RootsThe Atlantic College-Admissions Survey "Calm down!" the deans and counselors say. Herewith our first annual exploration of the American college-admissions system The New College Chaos by James Fallows The Late-Decision Program by V. V. Ganeshananthan What Makes a College Good? by Nicholas Confessore The Selectivity Illusion by Don Peck The Bias Question by Jay Mathews Flashback: The Old College Try Natural Settings Pilgrim's Progress A poem by David Barber [audio]  New & Noteworthy A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow, by David L. Chappell; Madam Secretary, by Madeleine Albright; Goethe, Volume II, by Nicholas Boyle; The Scofield Study Bible, King James Version; The Afterlife, by Penelope Fitzgerald; Governor Reagan, by Lou Cannon reviewed by Benjamin Schwarz American Radical Mark Twain developed an enormous and subversive personality—but Fred Kaplan's new biography illumines it only in flickers by Christopher Hitchens Let's Call the Whole Thing Off "Because the contemporary white wedding is an event staged by a dozen subcontractors," our author writes, reviewing a new how-to guide for backing out of an engagement, "the book includes ample advice about breaking the bad news to one's various vendors and possibly leveraging a broken heart into a refunded deposit" by Caitlin Flanagan 'Til Death Do Us Part?Princess of Discrimination Shirley Hazzard's masterly descriptions and expertly drawn characters are in full evidence in The Great Fire—her first novel in more than twenty years reviewed by Thomas Mallon Collected Artistry The Early Stories 1953-1975, by John Updike reviewed by Scott Shibuya Brown The Story of a War The Iraq War: A Military History, by Williamson Murray and Major General Robert H. Scales Jr. reviewed by Robert D. Kaplan Fabulous Forgeries My Life as a Fake, by Peter Carey reviewed by Michael Gorra A Living, Breathing HoaxTheir Show of Shows Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies, by Ted Chapin reviewed by Corby Kummer  INNOCENT BYSTANDER: The Path of Brighteousness The annals of semantic substitution—in which a name change is proposed for an entire group of people, and everyone goes along—are not voluminous. Undaunted, some atheists are now giving it a try, calling themselves "brights" by Cullen Murphy FICTION: Yao's Chick A short story by Max Apple The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff
Cover photograph: television image of Columbia liftoff, January 16, 2003 (AP Photo/NASA TV). All material copyright © 2003 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. | [an error occurred while processing this directive] | |||
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