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Ruth A. Murray

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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.