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Editor's Notes
We stand behind our taste in books - The Magazine staff is pictured to the left, illustrating the principle You are what you read. I'm behind Frosty the Snowman. When we got the idea for this column, as part of an issue in which all the features discuss books worth reading, writing, publishing, teaching, seeing, or otherwise thinking about, we decided that each editor would write a bit about his or her favorite books. As the oldest reader in the group, I got the most space. [ MORE ]

From the President
Making the mind -- and the University -- ready - "All things are ready if our minds be so." Thus says the young king in Henry V as he and his men prepare to enter the fury and chaos of battle. At a moment of millennial change, these words tell us much about how the University community will navigate that change. Indeed, these words might be thought to capture what our University is all about. [ MORE ]

Chicagophile
Costume Classical - by Jessica Abel, AB'91 [ MORE ]

Letters
Slate:blank. Face:red.
Misleading fractals
Course redux
The play's the thing
Equal responsibility
Faulty thought on tenure, faculty
Correcting the record
UNext connections
Query:Isenberg's silent style
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