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March 2001 - Volume 11, No. 2
		CONFERENCES Upcoming Conferences FIELD NOTES The unreal poet/Fuzzy mass/ Morningside rights/and more INSIDE PUBLISHING Tales from the Batcave/ Life on the margins/Jest Foolin'/and more BREAKTHROUGH BOOKS Mexico HYPOTHESES Jim Holt on Einstein's sneaky friends.

Clothes Encounters The campus anti-sweatshop movement has become a force to reckon with. But a group of high-profile economists questions the students' logic. Do the free traders have a monopoly on economic thought? BY LIZA FEATHERSTONE AND DOUG HENWOOD A Blacker Shade of Yale African-American studies has achieved disciplinary status. Has the time come to broaden its scope? Hazel Carby and Paul Gilroy bring a transatlantic flair to black studies at Yale. BY CHRISTOPHER SHEA		Sofia's Choice Bulgaria refused to relinquish its Jews to Hitler. Who deserves the credit—the communists, the king, the people, or the parliament? A little-known history and its contemporary uses and misuses. BY LAURA SECOR May the Course Be With You The Internet has made lecture classes a hot commodity. Some universities hope to cash in. Hang on to your copyrights, professors—you may be in for a rough ride. BY JOHN PALATTELLA

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