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Ruth A. Murray

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The Rhyme of an Ancient Mariner

BOOKS And The Sea Is Never Full By Elie Wiesel When Elie Wiesel was 15, he, his family and his

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.

Fragmented Plot, Offbeat Characters, Humor Fill Pages of `The Midden'

"It was weird," an insightful character remarks, upon encountering one of the many bizarre players in Tom Sharpe's new satirical

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