Remember when the Catskills was a place to see Yiddish theater? What ever happened to Grossinger's and the Sha-Wan-Ga? Author Phil Brown grew up in the Borscht Belt before the soup went cold, a time when the mountains north of New York were a haven for working-class Jewish families.
A Sinking Ship? Worldcom Immersed in Accounting Fraud
Rebecca Blumenstein Reporter for The Wall Street Journal
The Political Fear Factor: New Jersey Tax Reform
Laura Mansnerus Reporter for the New York Times
Trombones Are From Mars: Gender Preferences For Music Instruments
Samantha Pickering PhD student at the School of Development and Learning at University of Sydney in Australia
Sugar and Spice and a Crosslinker of Polymers: The Chemical Recipe for the Stradivarius Violin
Joseph Nagyvary Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A & M University violins
Breaking the Sins of the Fathers: The Boston Globe's Investigative Report Of The Catholic Church
Walter Robinson Spotlight team editor for the Boston Globe And Ben Bradlee, Jr. Deputy Managing Editor for Projects for the Boston Globe
School's Out? Money, Politics, and Policy in Education
Michael Rebell Executive Director, Campaign for Fiscal Equity AND Beth FertigWNYC reporter AND Richard Briffault Vice Dean and Professor, Columbia University Law School
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