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FIELD NOTES
Chemical Spill/Deathly Sentence/Coming on Stage in Australia, and more

BREAKTHROUGH BOOKS
The Postcommunist Condition

INSIDE PUBLISHING
Math's forgotten man/Grifters without borders/The other American exceptionalism, and more

Sinister Designs
In which Pat Conroy, a man called Batman, and a band of indignant students take on their local art college and set the city of Savannah on its ear.
BY WARREN ST. JOHN

The Color of the Law
By emphasizing personal experience and the endurance of racism, critical race theorists want to rewrite civil rights law and remake the law schools. But have they developed a coherant theory of justice of their own?
BY LARISSA MACFARQUHAR

Our MBAs in Havana
A crew of mild-mannered Canadian professors do their darndest to bring Cuban economics pedagogy into the twentieth century.
BY ARTHUR ALLEN

Mystery Science Theater
You've read the articles. You've slogged through the e-mail. Now tune into Part II of the Great Social Text Hoax--starring Andrew Ross, Bruce Robbins, Alan Sokal, Evelyn Fox Keller, and more!

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