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SportsJuly 27, 2011
On Monica Seles
The collective resentment of Monica Seles was an expression of our cultural discomfort with a kind of overt female aggression that seems to revel in itself.
Jennifer Egan
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GovernmentDecember 2, 2004
False Promises
In American Dream, his masterful new book about welfare reform, Jason DeParle brings together two groups of people who rarely seem to meet: welfare policy-makers and welfare recipients.
Jennifer Egan
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Drug War and Drug PolicyApril 8, 2004
Prison Without Walls
Our nation’s two-decade spree of building prisons and sentencing even nonviolent criminals to long spells inside them has produced a staggering number of incarcerated people in America–more than
Jennifer Egan
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FictionOctober 9, 2003
La Japonaise
With each last reverberation from the world of 1960s and ’70s radicalism–the recent parole of Kathy Boudin, for example, a member of the Weather Underground who served twenty-two years in pris
Jennifer Egan
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