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Volume 42, Issue 12

Top Stories

Is New College dying?

The famed liberal arts school faces a financial crisis after a tough year

G.W. Schulz
Top Stories
Shop like a Scrooge

Last-minute shopping strategies for humbugs experiencing a change of heart

Deborah Giattina
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Learning from Enrique

A journalist joins the immigrant trains to gain perspective on a divisive issue

David G. Crockett
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Homes for whom?

Homes for whom? Affordable housing is shaping up to be the big political issue of 2008

Sarah Phelan
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Gifts for good causes

Some suggestions for holiday giving that helps the planet and its neediest inhabitants

Molly Freedenberg
Top Stories

Volume 42, Issue 12

News & Culture

Loose women
Andrea Nemerson
Humans are dogs

Even monkeys can do math

Annalee Newitz
The case for Kucinich

If you don't vote in February for what you believe in, you won't get to vote for it in November

Tom Gallagher
Green City: The baby question

Is childbirth bad for the Earth?

Amanda Witherell
Reining in the UC

Bad neighbor needs State limits

Editorial
Editor's Notes

It's time to choose affordable housing

Tim Redmond
Don't accept Bike Plan delays

The city's job shouldn't be to find ways to facilitate more cars on busy streets

Editorial

Volume 42, Issue 12

Food & Drink

Feeding the food brainiac

Books about culinary history

Paul Reidinger
Food & Drink
Clay Oven

Church of the holy tandoor

Paul Reidinger
Food & Drink
Chopped liver

Pho 84

L.E. Leone
Food & Drink

Volume 42, Issue 12

Arts & Culture

Seeing other people

On highways, families, ghosts, and gods: unwrapping the gift of a good story

Ari Messer
Shelf help

Books to get you through the holidays — and ready for a new year

Amanda Davidson
Lust and loss

Cruising the landscape of gay world-making

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Marginalia

Ruminations on Exit Ghost -- and the responsibility of fiction

Paul Reidinger