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Bloody good remedies | ||
 Gordon Merrick '39 |
I first came across Gordon Merrick's landmark bestseller The Lord Won't Mind when I was in the eighth grade, at an Air Force library in Madrid. ... it was the first bestselling novel to feature a gay romantic theme ...the gay protagonists were two Ivy League preppies, Peter and Charlie, the latter of whom went to Old Nassau. Click here for more... |
 The Root- Bernsteins |
In the irresistibly titled Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels, Robert Root-Bernstein and his wife, Michele, examine and explain the use of various medicinal practices that have sprung from folk medicine. Click here for more... |
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Aging gracefully in San Francisco |
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Surviving the Revolution | ||
 Time to Live |
Jim brogan '63 is one of many San Francisco writers who find the city irresistible as a backdrop ...in this one, the protagonist is Brian, a single university professor approaching 50 and not entirely happy about the prospect. Click here for more... |
The enforcement of a strict dress code for women was just one of the many shocks professional women experienced after the 1979 Islamic revolution, writes Haleh Esfandiari in Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution. Click here for more... |
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Limericks by Al Kracht '49: There once was a poet named Kracht/ Whose new book of limericks was packed/ With rhymes fun and bawdy,/ And several quite naughty,/ And most with no decorum or tact. Limericks New and Naughty, $19, Limerick Lane Press, 5 Birch Lane, Chappaqua, NY 10514.
British Models for American Universities: At the turn of the century, reformers worried that undergraduate education was in danger. Alex Duke examines the intellectual origins and uneven implementation of the "Oxbridge" system in U.S. schools.
Short Takes: Being Positive: The Lives of Men and Women with HIV, by Robert Klitzman '80; From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo, by Norma Field *83; Oriental Journal of a Flirt, by Ruth Isabel Strong, with a preface by S. Sterling McMillan '29
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TELEVISION - Mathematician at Work: As a topic for a documentary film, pure mathematics lacks a certain visual zip. Nonetheless, last fall the PBS program Nova tackled mathematics professor Andrew Wiles and his efforts to solve Fermat's last theorem in "The Proof." Click here for more...
FILM - After a town's children die: What happens to a town when a freak accident takes away its children? This is the subjext of Atom Egoyan's superb new film, The Sweet Hereafter, based on the novel by Russel Banks, the Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor of the Humanities.
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