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American Universities in the Mideast Dwell in a Realpolitik World of Wealth, Exploitation and Oppression
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Poor Dory, Surrounded by Five Very Brilliant -- and Off-Putting -- Older Siblings
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A Young Widow Finds an Unholy Love, and Puts Her Soul in the Balance
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And an Ex-Inmate's Lament that "Private Companies are Now Making Money off of Our Incarceration”
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And Environmentalist Bill McKibben Tries His Hand at Fiction
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The Former President Calls the Late Wiesel 'in Many Ways, the Conscience of the World'
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A Tragedy of a Life Cut Short that Shines a Light on the Problem of Overincarceration
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And 'The Water Will Come' Warns of Rising Seas and Sinking Cities
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An Honest, and at Times Alarming, Journal from the 2016 Campaign Trail
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The Protagonist Wrestles with What in His Sometimes-Difficult Past was Real
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And Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s '100 Amazing Facts'
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A Diverse Set of Lives, Full of Emotional Intensity
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An Illuminating Survey of 1865-1896, Critical Years for the American Republic
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And a Joni Mitchell Biography that Covers Her Complex Personality and Her Genius
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Trying Hard Not to Hand the President a Draft with Coffee Stains on It
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