Radcliffe Quarterly—Summer 2004

Crossing Borders E. J. Graff How has recent immigration affected American society? Have gender and skin color influenced the experience of newcomers to the United States? An interdisciplinary, international group of Radcliffe Institute scholars explores these and other questions that result from crossing borders. Democracy's Response to Terrorism Laura Secor Should the campaign against Al Qaeda be conceived as a war, and what roles should intelligence, diplomacy, and legal measures play? Must civil liberties suffer for the sake of security? Three experts address the specter of terrorism in America. Meet the Author: Marilyn Chin RI ’04 Ruth E. C. Prince A bicultural, bilingual poet, Marilyn Chin shuttles between East and West, experimenting with diverse poetic traditions. "That Half Is Almost Gone" Marilyn Chin RI ’04 Departments From the Dean Announcements Deans Elected to Academic Societies Quarterly to Change Publication Frequency Enterprising Women Wins Book Award Institute Explorations Fellow Update Excerpt from "Truth and Beauty: A Friendship" Around the Institute News from the Schlesinger Library Dean's Lecture Series New Books Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths by Mary Lefkowitz AM ’59, PhD ’61, BI ’67, BI ’73 Steal Away: Selected and New Poems by C. D. Wright BI ’88 Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America by Laura Shapiro ’68 No Hair Day by Elsa Dorfman BI ’73 Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women’s Changing Lives by Anna Fels ’71 This Side of Married by Rachel Pastan ’87 Quick Study Alumnae/i News NEWSmakers

RADCLIFFE QUARTERLY

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Summer 2004

Volume No. 89 / No. 3

The Radcliffe Quarterly (ISSN 0033-7528) is published two times a year by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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