Unholy War
Filmmaker Oren Jacoby wants to know how we ever got the idea it was okay to kill in the name of God.
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Pushing The Limits
Three avant-garde knitters who take their craft where grandma never imagined.
Collateral Damage
Delayed by the Virginia Tech massacre, Dark Matter explores the pressures that can drive a student to kill.
Clock Work
How they got the trains to run on time.
Dodging the Glass Ceiling
A farewell to Linda Pei '67.
Marriage Could Wait
A farewell to Charlotte Lowney Tomas '57, '65 AM.
Ask Yourself
When it comes to the color of your skin, some things never change.
Obituaries
Obituaries from the March/April 2008 Issue.
Scents + Sensibility
Researcher Rachel Herz studies the link between smell and behavior. After reading what she has to say, you may never smell the roses in the same way again.
The Tax Cut That Neutered Congress
A former U.S. Senator recalls that before the War on Terror came the War on Congress.
A Nation of Jailers
Economics professor Glenn Loury is speaking out about what he believes is one of the nation’s gravest injustices: despite falling crime rates, the number of black men sent to prison continues to rise. It's the latest cause for a man whose work has taken him from liberal to conservative and back again.
Women’s Hockey
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A Cut Above
You want a scotch and a shoe shine with your trim?
The Czar of Transfat
Why Big Brother wants to save you from your own gluttony.
Railroad Artist
Using tile, she connects travelers with America’s past.
Green Graveyards
She wants her body to keep the land going.
Did He Really Say That?
You report that Lee Silver, in rebutting Francis Fukuyama’s argument that every evil that bioengineering might be able to eliminate has its good, picked bipolar disorder as a counterexample (“Playing God,” Elms, November/December).
Swearer’s Wisdom
Reading the “finally” article on Howard Swearer in the November/December issue reminded me of his closing remarks at the June 1990 weeklong seminar at Brown on the collapse of the Soviet Union.