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Diary of a lost weekend
A close reading of a historic Palestinian text
Foreign policy in an age of ambivalence
Native Americans want their ancestors’ bones back
Student racism, academic pluralism, and the end of a dream
A post-election parable
How the sixties erupted in one man's life
Culture, identity, and the free-trade agreement
After the last battle of the Iran-Iraq war
Dancing in the heart of regional arts
The iguana-stew issue
A spy's memoir banned in Britain
Ways we know, and don't
Of Republicans and their America
Notes on nationalism
In search of a worthy "no"
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