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Kenneth A. Katz
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"Liberating" History
W hen the emperor has no clothes, it's a problem. When no one seems to care, it's a fiasco. And
I Want Them
W illiam J. Stehley simply did not believe that I've never been arrested. He asked me four times in our
Paying Dues To See a Good Play
Creditors and Playing with Fire by Johan August Strindberg directed by Leo Cabranes-Grant at the Cabot House Underground Theater through
A Compromise For the Cambridge Common
I t's shaping up to be a battle between the councils, and the prize is the Cambridge Common. Cambridge's City
History Says Bush Can't Win
F or precedent-oriented pundits of presidential-election politics, the 1988 contest was supposed to be a joke. George Bush didn't stand
Unity from One Side
H e's a Jew. That was qualification enough, it seems, for Jack Nusan Porter to speak at the "Conversation on
UnCoop the Coop
S omething's rotten at the Coop. It goes far beyond the Coop's plethora of perennial problems, like unfriendly employees, mediocre
Hey, Frat Boys, Don't Touch My Sister
E VER SINCE my little sister Karen started her first year at Indiana University this fall, I've been a pretty
The New Justice
POTOMAC, MD L IKE SIMI VALLEY--the Los Angeles suburb where a jury acquitted the four police officers accused in the
Will Clinton Be America's Neil Kinnock?
O N THE Big issues, the Brits always seem to be a step ahead of us. They were the ones,
And Justice for Some
B ACK IN THE Middle Ages, justice was a pretty informal commodity. In between jousting bouts, feudal lords would hang
Burning Bush
F OUR YEARS ago, George Bush won the presidency despite himself. He won because his campaign brain trust--Lee Atwater, James
Safe at Home?
I SURVIVED Jerusalem. Unfortunately, that's how my mother and many of my friends and other family members in America translate
Revenge of the Ice People
O N WEDNESDAY night at Sanders Theatre, the University's most distinguished speaking venue, there was Black and there was white.
43 Years of Freedom
I SHOVELED TURKEY SHIT last summer. That is what happens on turkey farms, after all. You've got a lot of
