Radcliffe Quarterly—Spring 2003

The Universe as They Know It Delia Cabe and Pat Harrison A "cosmology cluster"--comprising four women and two men who are Radcliffe fellows--is conducting research at the frontiers of science. Considering Human Rights E. J. Graff The political realities of divisions by class, race, and sex in postcolonial Morocco, Siam/Thailand, and contemporary Latin America are the research subject of three Radcliffe fellows. Meet the Author: Ha-yun Jung RI '03 Meta Wagner Short story writer and novelist Ha-yun Jung is interested in juxtapositions and contradictions. In her work, she mixes personal story lines with vivid social and political narratives. "Our Lady of the Height" Ha-yun Jung An excerpt from a short story by Ha-yun Jung RI '03 Departments From the Dean Institute Explorations The Long Story of a Town A Thick Soup of Artwork Music and Meaning in South Asia Fellow Update Mary Karr's "Revenge of the Ex-Mistress" Around the Institute Institute Holds Conference on Women, Money, and Power Dean's Lecture Series From the Schlesinger Library Improving Social Services in Poor Countries Radcliffe Institute at Head of Trend From the Murray Center New Books Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham '85 and Laura Leedy Gansler '85 The Escher Twist: A Homer Kelly Mystery by Jane Langton AM '48 Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood by Sandra Steingraber B '94 Quick Study Alumnae/i News NEWSmakers Under the Apple Tree

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Spring 2003
Volume No. 88 / No. 2
The Radcliffe Quarterly (ISSN 0033-7528) is published four times a year by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
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Cover image by Barbara Fahs Charles of Staples & Charles. This X-ray image taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory shows NGC 6240, a butterfly-shaped galaxy that is the product of two smaller galaxies. The colors in the X-ray image show the intensity of the low (red), medium (green), and high (blue) energy X rays.