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The Real National Pastime
by Rand Richards Cooper ’80
In the 1990s, did a preoccupation with sex lay the groundwork for today?
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Ideals Man
by Paul Statt ’78
Gorbachev boldly made his own history, but certainly not just as he pleased.
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An Old Crime, a New Opera
by Rachel Rogol
Two Amherst professors teamed up with students and professional actors to dramatize the true, local story of a Smith faculty member’s arrest.
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Authentically Fake
by Josh Bell ’02
What if Sylvester Stallone were a proud Romanian communist? The result would be something like this buddy-cop parody.
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Short Takes
by Katherine Duke ’05
SIT! STAY! And dog-ear these pages from Amherst alumni.
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Becoming the Grand Old Man
by Tess Taylor ’00
What made Richard Wilbur ’42 the poet he was?