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U.S. True or False? The Vinland Map, seen since the 1950s as possible proof that Norse explorers reached North America before Christopher Columbus, has been branded a fake. British scientists analyzed the composition of the map's ink and discovered that it dates from the 1920s or later. However, the...
If the innocents of The Winter Zoo are looking for pleasure, Vladimir Girshkin, the hero of Gary Shteyngart's first novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, is after money. Girshkin isn't so much an expatriate but a repatriate--born in Leningrad and raised in New York City. Girshkin does...
This particular old soldier has the greatest respect for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [NATION, May 20] but wonders if he should have the final say on axing the Crusader, the U.S. Army's mobile howitzer. Though not yet deployed, it is an important component of U.S. tactics for the 21st...
In his previous roles, Kirby has earned a reputation as a skillful conciliator and visionary, which his colleagues say will allow him to lead the Faculty well.
It is difficult to imagine that Budbill could find a more skillful interpreter of his material than director Joy B. Fairfield ’03. She establishes a sense of community, reinforced by an inventive physical staging that brings her actors together as living machinery and, at one point, as...