FEATURESSummer 2007

Cover Story
Working Skiffs
Through the ancient art of boatbuilding, the teenagers in Joe Youcha's workshop are finding a viable alternative to the streets.
by Paul Hond

Moving Picture
Alice Neel was one of the 20th century's most provocative portraitists. "Now she's the subject of an emotionally charged film by Andrew Neel, her grandson."
by Margaret Moorman

Politics and Prose
The plot turns of Orhan Pamuk's life over the past two years are enough to fill a novel. Lila Azam Zanganeh interviews the Nobel Prize-winning author.

Rash Judgment
Scientists can't agree whether Lyme disease is an overhyped "wastebasket diagnosis" or the cause of myriad neurological problems. Columbia researchers led by Brian Fallon are finding answers.
by David J. Craig and Amy Sara Clarke

The Fixer
Franklin Foer grew up reading the New Republic. Now he's been asked to save it.
by Tim Warren

French Preoccupation
As a child in Virginia, Robert Paxton valued the idea of France as a cultural and intellectual touchstone. Years later, he took a journey that resulted in a myth-piercing body of work about the Vichy regime.
by Robert O. Paxton

DEPARTMENTS

Letters
Letters to the editor

College Walk
Checkered Past
At Wellfleet
Executor Privilege
Is This Thing On?

News
School of the Arts gets Becker
Green acres
Stock shock
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Newsmakers
Augment and Lift
Les Honorés
Lion Fever
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Ideas
Shining cities
Psychological warfare
Bad buzz

Science, Medicine, Technology
Water wars
A fall of moodust
Are you sure it doesn't hurt?
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Sports
A perfect run
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Reviews
Beerly Legal
Children of the Marshlands
The Odd Couple

My Columbia
A shy freshman learned how to make
friends the hard way.

Finals
College Drive