March 2000 \| Volume 285 No. 3
	The Kept University American universities have turned increasingly to corporations for money. All the corporations want in return is unprecedented control over the creation and commercialization of knowledge. by Eyal Press and Jennifer Washburn
The Soundtracking of America We are terrorized by music -- in stores and restaurants, in cars and elevators, on the telephone, in the restroom. Give us a break. by J. Bottum
Notes on the Murder of Thirty of My Neighbors "Near my house in the 1990s we had drive-by killings, run-by killings, sneak-up killings, gunfights and battles, car chases," the author writes. "We have had so many killings that our own values have been blasted askew." A report from "Our Nation's Neighborhood," on Capitol Hill. by Jim Myers

Reports

Notes & Comment:
What Makes History
Where the Enlightenment encountered reality.
by Robert D. Kaplan

Foreign Affairs:
Uncertain Objects of Desire
In India's newspaper matrimonial columns high-tech careers intersect with the caste system.
by Chitra Divakaruni

Brief Lives:
The Joy of Sexing
It's not easy to tell male and female chicks apart. Hugh Grove has done it millions of times.
by Brian Doyle

Fiction & Poetry

Inshallah
A poem
by Ben Downing

The Third Generation
A short story
by Tova Reich
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The Guest
A poem
by Judith McCune

Spring
A drawing
by Guy Billout

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Arts & Leisure

Travel:
The Edge of the World
The island of Tasmania is the Australia that Australians go to see.
by Jamie James

Music:
Resurrecting Fats
Fats Waller's pipe-organ and piano solos, newly transcribed, call attention to his often ignored or belittled genius as a composer.
by Stephen Budiansky

Sport:
Extreme Stargazing
The goal: spotting 110 specific celestial objects on a single night.
by David H. Freedman

Books

John O'Hara's Protectorate
Revisiting Gibbsville.
by Benjamin and Christina Schwarz

The Future Did Not Work
The Passing of an Illusion, by François Furet; The Black Book of Communism, by Stéphane Courtois, et al.
by J. Arch Getty

Brief Reviews
by Phoebe-Lou Adams

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The Puzzler
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Word Improvisation
by J. E. Lighter