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The War Against Boys The conventional wisdom about the relative fortunes of boys and girls turns truth on its head. Boys, not girls, are on the weak side of the education gender gap. by Christina Hoff Sommers 
May 23, 2000Exchange: Carol Gilligan and Christina Hoff Sommers In a letter to the editors, the Harvard professor Carol Gilligan, whose work is criticized in the May cover story, responds to Sommers -- and Sommers replies. |
Keeping Lincoln's Secrets William H. Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's law partner and biographer, did not preserve everything he heard about Lincoln. Serendipitously, we are now provided with a secondhand view of some of what he suppressed. by Douglas L. Wilson | |
Does Civilization Cause Asthma? Asthma is becoming more prevalent -- and we probably don't want to eliminate all the causes. by Ellen Ruppel Shell | |
Girl, Seeming to Disappear The brief life and freshly considered work of the photographer Francesca Woodman. by Peter Davison | |
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Reports Notes & Comment: The Transmission of Hope A legacy of stories. by George McKenna Politics: George W., Knight of Eulogia Inside Skull and Bones with Magog, the former President of the United States, and his son, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. by Alexandra Robbins Foreign Affairs: Out of the Jungle Revolutionary violence comes to Colombia's capital. by Benjamin Ryder Howe Personal File: A Link to the Living In the anatomy lab. by Patsy Garlan Fiction & Poetry
The Hawk Above the HouseA poem by Andrew Hudgins
Thumbnail Sketch of the Tulip ManiaA poem by David Barber Sky Scraper A drawing by Guy Billout
Jerez at EasterA poem by Robert Bly I'm from Ballymullet A short story by Wendy Mai Rawlings
WaterborneA poem by Linda Gregerson The seahorse symbol indicates that an article is supplemented with audio, an author interview, or other Web-only sidebar.
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Arts & Leisure Travel: Faint of Heart in the Heart of Darkness A safari diary. by Samuel Jay Keyser Sport: Someone There Is Who Loves a Wall Steven Allen and his stones. by Michael Finkel Literary Lives: The Unlikely Father of Miami Crime Fiction Charles Willeford -- offbeat, funny, and macabre. by Marshall Jon Fisher Books What JFK Really Said The Kennedy Tapes, which purports to offer the verbatim truth of who said what during the Cuban missile crisis, is a shockingly inaccurate record. by Sheldon M. Stern Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams Other Departments 77 North Washington Street Contributors Letters (Send a letter to the editor.) The May Almanac At Last Count The Manure Menace by Brad Edmondson The Puzzler by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon Word Watch by Anne H. Soukhanov |
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