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A Glorious Harvest Peter Barberie
Category: Focus on the World Published: September 2004
"Many of the photographs in the exhibition reflect [Michael] Hoffman's interests and his passionate convictions about photography, both as an art form and journalistic tool."
 
Avoiding the Four Deadly Sins of Performance Development Scott C. Watson
Category: Business & Finance Published: September 2004
"While most of these mistakes are avoidable with foresight and vigilance, no organization is immune to the temptation."
 
Broadway: The Great American Musical Michael Kantor
Category: Entertainment Published: September 2004
". . . The musical theater pieces staged in these few blocks have mirrored nearly every social phenomenon that ever has swept the nation. . . . No matter what is happening in America, it is reflected back in the stories acted out upon those stages."
 
Disenfranchisement's Threat to Democracy Rev. Otis Moss Jr.
Category: National Affairs Published: September 2004
There is a real danger to the Republic when large segments of the population never make it to the polls while politicians "gerrymand" the boundaries for those who do vote.
 
From Homer to the Harem: The Art of Jean Lecomte du Nouy
Category: Museums Today Published: September 2004
"For all his accomplishments in other genres, [this great French painter] carried to the end of his career a desire to be recognized as a history painter in the grand academic tradition."
 
Getting Real with Reality TV Cynthia M. Frisby
Category: Mass Media Published: September 2004
While viewers realize they are not the Next Top Model, American Idol, or All American Girl, they do enjoy the fact that, through a vicarious social comparison process, they can fall in love, win $1,000,000, or get the office snitch fired.
 
Greenspan Fiddled While the Economy Burned William D. Rutherford
Category: Economics Published: September 2004
"How did the man who engineered the collapse of the greatest economy in history . . . Ushering in the longest market decline since the Great Depression, costing 2,500,000 people their jobs . . . Keep his position, let alone achieve such a lofty status?"
 
How Hitler Reached the Final Solution David Williamson
Category: Literary Scene Published: September 2004
"The Nazis were fantasizing--basically planning to redesign the demographic map of Eastern Europe by moving all sorts of populations from here to there and eliminating those they thought superfluous. . . ."
 
John Hinckley: The Judge Should Have Just Said "No" Richard E. Vatz
Category: Psychology Published: September 2004
". . . While supporting and promoting rehabilitation are important, there are other classic purposes of punishment and incarceration which may supercede it. . . ."
 
Pell Grants vs. Advanced Placement Kirk A. Johnson
Category: Education Published: September 2004
"Under a Pell grant program . . . A low-income student who might be particularly gifted in computers could take computer science courses at a local junior college--an option he or she would not enjoy in most AP programs."
 
Reflecting on the Days of Reaganomics Craig R. Smith
Category: USA Yesterday Published: September 2004
Pres. Ronald Reagan brought financial greatness back to America by reducing regulation, government spending, marginal tax rates, and inflation.
 
The Faces of Germany
Category: The World Yesterday Published: September 2004
"Endowed with extraordinary observational powers and heroic determination, August Sander has left us with a compelling collective portrait of the German people during one of their most turbulent periods in history."
 
Van Gogh and Company
Category: Museums Today Published: September 2004
This exhibit has "a remarkable ensemble of paintings by the most significant figures of the early modern period . . . [showing] art as evolving from 19th-century Realism towards an increasing 'idealism' of spirituality and inner clarity."
 
Why We Need a Federal Marriage Amendment Mathew D. Staver
Category: Law & Justice Published: September 2004
"We must draw a line in the sand and preserve marriage once and for all between one man and one woman."