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- News & Politics, Essay Aug 30, 2001
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Pickles and Preserves
A craving for exotic experiences is changing how museums engage and instruct the public.
- News & Politics, Essay May 31, 2001
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Crime in the Suits
The price-fixing scandal at Archer Daniels Midland shone a bright light under the company's table. But who's doing time and how much raises nagging questions about how well justice was served.
- News & Politics, Essay Mar 15, 2001
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Abandoned Buildings
After years of studying the Robert Taylor Homes--including spending much of the 90s living there--sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh shows how residents have survived the city's most feared address.
- News & Politics, Essay Feb 8, 2001
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Small Leaps Forward
Want to save the planet? The best ways to keep it green may be the least grandiose.
- News & Politics, Essay Jan 11, 2001
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Secret Battles
Michael Bonestreet has written the book on one of art's strangest stories.
- News & Politics, Essay Nov 23, 2000
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Divine Inspiration
J.F. Powers didn't just write about priests--he also made them thoroughly human.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jul 13, 2000
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Beast in the East
In Moscow's Exile, hard news jumps in bed with misogyny and mayhem.
- News & Politics, Essay Jan 13, 2000
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Being Andy Kaufman
He seems to be everywhere these days. So why is he still so hard to find?
- News & Politics, Essay Oct 28, 1999
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Gipper Rising
Those who see Edmund Morris's memoir as an attack on Reagan are missing the point entirely: "Dutch" is a love letter, pure and simple.
- News & Politics, Essay Dec 3, 1998
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Harsh Words
Chester Himes didn't let his hard life destroy him--he used it to create a remarkable body of work.
- News & Politics, Essay Nov 12, 1998
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I Ought to Be in Pictures
Two feminist film pioneers look at cinema through the lens of their own lives.
- News & Politics, Essay Aug 27, 1998
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The View From the Street
Why do columnists and city officials think they know more about cabs than the people who drive them?
- News & Politics, Essay Jun 4, 1998
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The Shocking Truth
An academic's account of Billy Tipton's secret life tries to take the high road, but it can't avoid the nitty-gritty--which is why it's such a great read.
- News & Politics, Essay Mar 26, 1998
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Neil and Marilyn
A famous critic and a controversial rock star frolic amid the shattered remains of journalistic integrity.
- News & Politics, Essay Feb 19, 1998
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Car Trouble
Getting rid of cars may be a good idea, but the author of Asphalt Nation needs to get her facts straight.
- News & Politics, Essay Jan 29, 1998
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Missing Links
Robert Hughes stumbles on his journey through American art history.
