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A Nation Worth Defending William J. Bennett
Category: American Thought Published: November 2002
"American patriotism has always been rooted in love of the principles upon which the nation was founded: liberty, equality, justice, and democracy."
 
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown Works
Category: Focus on America Published: November 2002
". . . He sought to make photographs that were the pictorial equivalents of emotional responses, similar to music."
 
Conservative Catholics and the GOP Patricia Miller
Category: National Affairs Published: November 2002
"While the long-term outcome of efforts to lock up the Catholic vote for the Republican Party is in doubt, the short-term impact of conservative Catholics on the Bush Administration's policies is easier to see."
 
Establishing Rules for the New Workplace John A. Challenger
Category: Economics Published: November 2002
"The forces of technology, globalization, deregulation, shareholder power, and free agency have combined to change the social contract between the individual and the organization."
 
Frank Capra and the Image of Journalists in American Film Joe Saltzman
Category: Entertainment Published: November 2002
"From the beginning, [he] had an intimate relationship with newspapers."
 
Is America Ready for a Woman President? Marie C. Wilson
Category: National Affairs Published: November 2002
"With each Election Day, as more females fill the political pipeline from city councils to statehouses to Congress, we get another year closer to a nation where it is normal for a woman to be CEO, governor, and, yes, even president."
 
Is Your Company at Risk? Lessons from Enron John W. Zimmerman
Category: Business & Finance Published: November 2002
"Every organization has a soul, Enron's was ill-defined and badly abused."
 
Murderous Mothers: A Challenge for the Insanity Defense Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg
Category: Psychology Published: November 2002
Andrea Yates' killing of her five children is the most-recent case triggering a clash between psychiatrists and prosecutors.
 
Portraits by Richard Avedon
Category: Focus on America Published: November 2002
"The people in his photographs seem posed to walk right out of their frames, immediately recognizable and wholly alive, down to the most-telling detail."
 
Scandal in Corporate America: An Ethical, Not a Legal, Problem Bruce Frohnen , Leo Clarke
Category: Law & Justice Published: November 2002
"We have become so tolerant of half-truths, hair-splitting definitions, and the notion that truth is 'subjective' that we have lost our ability to enforce basic, commonsense honesty, even where it is crucial to our economic well-being."
 
Standardization: How to Weather the Coming Storm David L. Braswell
Category: Education Published: November 2002
"The existing system is broken and seriously disconnected. Its processes do not ensure the results we expect or want."
 
The Joy of Sets Robert S. Rothenberg
Category: Entertainment Published: November 2002
DVDs make ideal holiday gifts for film buffs, and there is a wide range of boxed sets out there to choose from.
 
The Painted Sculpture of Joan Miro
Category: Museums Today Published: November 2002
"As Miro had wanted them to be, the colorful works were particularly shocking, and also fool of mischief and sly humor."
 
The Search for Objectivity in Journalism Howard A. Myrick
Category: Mass Media Published: November 2002
". . . Ultimately, reporting is the product of the sum total of all of [journalists'] prior experiences, socialization, beliefs, and indoctrination--in brief, their culture, augmented by race, ethnicity, sex, and myriad other intervening variables."
 
Treasures from Scotland's Kelvingrove Art Gallery Peter Morrin
Category: Museums Today Published: November 2002
The gallery houses the most-important municipal collection in Great Britain of renowned artists who worked in France from the late 19th to the mid 20th century.
 
Washington's Unsavory Antidrug Partners Ted Galen Carpenter
Category: Worldview Published: November 2002
"The willingness of U.S. administrations to collaborate with the most-odious dictatorships in the war on drugs is long-standing and continuing."