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Susan Raine (Alberta): Flirty Fishing in the Children of God: The Sexual Body as a Site of Proselytization and Salvation. A review of Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens. A review of The Cambridge Companion to Horace. A review of The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian.

From First Things, a review of Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher by William Taussig Scott and Martin X. Moleski, S.J. and Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing by Mark T. Mitchell. From Inside Higher Ed, Speak, Memory: Did postmodern theorist Zygmunt Bauman conceal his Stalinist past? Scott McLemee looks down the memory hole. A review of Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing by Leszek Kolakowski. Elle Woods, like, totally embodies the best of modern Jewish thought: Legally Blonde and Spiritually Buber.

From American, a review of The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business by Johan Van Overtveldt. A review of The Vanity of the Philosopher: From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics by Sandra Peart and David Levy. A review of Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government by Charles Fried.

A review of Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science by David Lindley. From First Science, Death of the Dinosaurs: There was a time when dinosaurs thrived on Earth. What caused their demise? Why monkeys can't recite Shakespeare: If you are a primate reading this, chances are you have a gene called KLK8, recently discovered by Chinese scientists. The British government has overturned its proposed ban on the creation of human-animal embryos. Biologist Kaj Sand-Jensen of the University of Copenhagen offers advice to other scientists. He wrote a report: "How to Write Consistently Boring Scientific Literature". Nature, the world's best-known scientific publication, is now being transformed into a multimedia platform that includes include blogs, podcasts and even a Second Life presence.

From Williams Alumni Review, blogs are becoming an increasingly popular way for scholars to share their work and insight with a wide audience. But sometimes the publicity these Web journals generate can backfire pdf. From Crisis, an essay on academic freedom and the Catholic university. A mutiny may be brewing at Ave Maria School of Law whose board has voted to pack it up and move it from Ann Arbor, Mich., to a rural community in southwest Florida. The Edge of Reason: Professor Ramani Pilla's failed climb up the ivory tower ends in accusations of a hoax.

From Education Review, a review of The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. And experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, Erik Bryan fashions a taxonomy of American athletes to help a reader get in touch with his jock-dom