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CONTEMPLATING A COSMIC CONVERGENCE by Robert J. Bliwise
Sometimes seen as rivals for popular support, sometimes seen as separate spheres of
engagement, science and religion have had an uneasy partnership in exploring the
great questions
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THE COLLABORATOR by Alice Kaplan
An excerpt: "For at least a year following the execution, one can say with no
exaggeration that the death of Robert Brasillach was at the forefront of every French
writer's mind"
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NOXIOUS WORDS, HEINOUS ACTS by Kim Koster
"There are words as murderous as gas chambers," wrote Simone de Beauvoir about
a Nazi collaborator; today, deadly words are still being uttered as free speech continues
to collide with accountability
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FREEDOM FLOWERS IN THE DELTA by Eric Larson
A Teach for America worker returns to a familiar--and troubled--setting to continue
to fight the economic and educational poverty of a community in need
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TRICKING THE EYE OR Tapping A REFLEX? by Dennis Meredith
Experiments with the enigma of optical illusions have led a team of neurobiologists
to a controversial new theory of how our brains perceive the visual world
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ASSAYING THE ESSAY
Students apply themselves to the art of standing out in the admissions process,
writing as if their futures depended upon it
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BACK TO VIETNAM by Richard Lieb
Thirty years after the fall of Saigon, an ex-Marine reflects on matters of duty, friendship,
and forgiveness
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