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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE

February 1996

Table of Contents
VOLUME 88, NUMBER 3 FEBRUARY 1996

Cover: Anthropologist Sherry Ortner, AM'66, PhD'70, looks at her high-school class ("The Long Way Home"). Photo by Dan Dry.

  • Cut to the quick
    Bringing a Shakespearean father and son closer required some serious editing-and a lot of nerve.
    JOHN EASTON

  • The crimes of silence
    The evil that Bernard Meltzer helped expose at Nuremberg 50 years ago is far from behind us.
    CATHERINE BEHAN

  • The long way home
    Once her focus was on faraway places. Now Sherry Ortner looks for anthropology in her own backyard.
    JOE LEVINE

  • Are we having fun yet?
    An alumnus returns to campus to seek merriment amid the Gothic gloom.
    BOB LEVEY

  • Life on ice
    Even when the sun never sets, doing science at the South Pole is no day at the beach.
    DIANA STEELE

    DEPARTMENTS

    Actor John Reeger coaxes a laugh out of Court Theatre Director Charles Newell ("Cut to the Quick" ). Photo by Matthew Gilson.

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