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Annie Get Your Camera
Category: Focus on Photography Published: March 2007
"Few contemporary photographers can rival Annie Leibovitz in terms of sheer popularity and immediate familiarity. Her imagery compels deeper attention to the critical dimensions of photojournalism and has earned her the respect of her subjects and peers."
 
Annie on Annie Annie Leibovitz
Category: Focus on Photography Published: March 2007
"Rosanne Cash had given me a copy of her CD, 'Black Cadillac,' which she wrote after her parents and stepmother died. I would go into the barn every morning and put it on very loud and cry for 10 minutes and then start working, editing the pictures. . ."
 
Charting a Course Toward Better Education Dan Lips , Evan Feinberg , Jennifer A. Marshall
Category: Education Published: March 2007
"Policymakers from across the political spectrum should recognize the limits of formulating education policy at the Federal level and steer a course toward restoring local controls by enacting a charter state option."
 
Daring Wives: Why Women Cheat Frances Cohen Praver
Category: Life in America Published: March 2007
"An awakening and urgent cry for change, the affair has multiple meanings. Above all, it is a desperate move toward a fuller, richer life."
 
Gustave Dore and L'Annee Terrible et La Semaine Sanglante Lisa Small
Category: Art History Published: March 2007
The Franco-Prussian War--a significant chapter in the personal and professional life of artist Paul Gustave Dore--produces a tragic terrible year (and one horribly blood week) in France's history, as Napoleon's troops are crushed by Bismarck's forces. . .
 
Is Europe's Economic Giant Sputtering? Murray Weidenbaum
Category: The World Today Published: March 2007
"What economists call structural rigidities in Germany's labor market have slowed down the pace of ecoonomic activity. They have made it more difficult for Germany industry to adjust to unexpected shocks and changes, notably low-cost competition. . . ."
 
Life After the Atomic Bomb Julia Chaitin , Aiko Sawada , Dan Bar-On
Category: The World Yesterday Published: March 2007
". . . The horrific consequences of the A-Bombs did not end when Japan surrendered. The events continue to reverberate, touching people born many years after the tragedy."
 
Sports of All Sorts
Category: Athletic Arena Published: March 2007
"Artists . . . often get caught up in the spirit of the . . . Season, their creative juices producing an interesting array of works, each with its own unique perspective of that particular athletic arena."
 
Stop Compromising on "Civil Unions" Midge Decter
Category: American Thought Published: March 2007
"Let us be decent, civil, and even loving to our homosexual fellow citizens, but draw the line on what they stand for and on everything else that makes light of our existence."
 
The Devil Made Them Do It Richard E. Vatz
Category: Law & Justice Published: March 2007
"When it comes to ascertaining what motivates killers or others to violate the law, the forensic psychiatric community stands waiting and willing to lend its impossible to disprove fanciful, scientific-appearing explanations to mystify juries, attys. . ."
 
Treasured Arts for Latin America
Category: Museums Today Published: March 2007
"The earliest contact between Europeans and indigenous populations created a crisis in identity and self-repressentation, eventually leading to a new culture born of a mix of creative energies confidently expressed in the arts in novel mediums/styles."
 
War with Iran Is Not the Answer Justin Logan
Category: National Affairs Published: March 2007
"The consequences of a 'nuclear' preventive war with Iran easily could be worse than what has occurred after the 'weapons of mass destruction' preventive war in Iraq. Neither the Bush Administration nor the country should seek to make same mistake twice."
 
When Love Goes Missing Dolores Puterbaugh
Category: Psychology Published: March 2007
"A couple that can turn one individual's expression of loneliness into an opportunity to connect more deeply . . . is a couple whose marriage will be resistant to the passing attraction of a sympathetic colleague or an old friend."
 
Who Is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and What Is He Really After? Ilan Berman
Category: Worldview Published: March 2007
"Iran's new president is plain-spoken in his radicalism, and open about his intentions. Policymakers in Washington would do well to take him at his word."
 
Why So Many Murder-Suicides? Katherine van Wormer
Category: Law & Justice Published: March 2007
". . . The girlfriend or wife makes a move to leave. Her partner is totally distraught in the belief that he cannot live without her. . . . At some point, the man decides that, if they cannot live together, they can die together. . . ."