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Ruth A. Murray
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The Rhyme of an Ancient Mariner
BOOKS And The Sea Is Never Full By Elie Wiesel When Elie Wiesel was 15, he, his family and his
CritiCommodity: An 'I' for I-Book
The new iBooks are beautiful. Sitting at my roommate's new Macintosh laptop, I almost wish that I never switched away
Saga of the SAT: A Culture of Obsession
Books The Big Test: The Secret History of The American Meritocracy Nicholas B. Lemann '76 $27.00 406 pp. Farrar, Strauss
Return of the Transparent Eyeball
WINTER HOURS By Mary Oliver Houghton-Mifflin $22, 144 pp. With poems of unparalleled clarity and insight, Mary Oliver captures the
MUSIC JAM
WHY DO THEY ROCK SO HARD? Reel Big Fish Mojo Records Their rhythms are bouncy, their music is happy and
Uncertainty in the Probability of this Crazy Extraterrestrial Life
Over the past 50 years, quite a few fascinating discoveries have been made, changing the direction and the assumptions of
Alumna's Bittersweet Novel Marries MTV, Fiction
FLOATING By Robin Troy '96 MTV/Simon & Schuster Pocket Books $12, 238 pp. MTV and literature? The two seem about
Rediscovering Home
P alm trees and pink stucco houses, flat blue cloudless skies and wide curving roads, the warm, salty smell of
'Echoes' of History In Poignant Vignettes
Highly specific in its substance yet encompassing in its vision, Serge Schmemann's new book, Echoes of a Native Land: Two
Mon Cherie Skamour
To most, the essence of "ska music" is energy: an upbeat, catchy rhythm, that provides the infective inspiration to dance.
Fragmented Plot, Offbeat Characters, Humor Fill Pages of `The Midden'
"It was weird," an insightful character remarks, upon encountering one of the many bizarre players in Tom Sharpe's new satirical
