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Coffee-Table Chat

Stars of women’s sports talk about athletics, money, and respect.

Kertzer’s Way

Brown searches for a provost and finds one right on campus

The Franco-American Divide

The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik explains why Americans just don’t get the French.

A Cheaper Way to Quit

A new study finds therapy with medication may be the key to sobriety

The Case of the Missing Mies

How do you lose a house? More interesting is how you find one.

One Way to Stop Genocide

Brown divests from companies supporting the Sudanese government, and Providence follows suit. [Elms]

Easy Isn’t Always Right

W. Warren Harper was the father of a poet and the grandfather of a novelist. No wonder that, after he died, they found a way to keep him alive.

Serious Fun

Four years of tuition, room, board, and fees: $155,876 Commencement day: Priceless

Let’s Make a Game

Scientists are creating games usingvirtual boxers, medieval trolls, and robotic poodles that observe howyou think. What they learn may one day be used to reshape your everydaychoices.

Pride & Joy

Tradition requires that graduates wear caps and gowns. But concealed beneath the uniform are more than 2,000 extraordinary young men & women. Here are portraits of a random few.

Truth and Memory Robert Scholes writes that he commented to William Faulkner that the imaginative reconstruction of events is perhaps closer to the truth than even (or especially) eyewitness accounts (“Mr. Faulkner Comes to Class,” May/June). The comment surely must have resonated with the novelist. The first sentence of Chapter 6 of Faulkner’s Light in August says it all: “Memory believes before knowing remembers.”