Topic: Elizabeth Pond

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Why I'm keeping my Encyclopedia Britannica -- all 24 nondigital volumes

‘But I need them!’ I exclaimed. Gently, my wife asked, ‘When did you last use them?’
The comedy of errors that caused a wall to fall
Letters to the editor

On child abuse and the court, the Air Force's $35 billion tanker, Massachusetts healthcare, and the Berlin Wall.
The Berlin Wall: what really made it fall

Extraordinary civil courage by the people of Leipzig on Oct. 9 first dissolved a crucial mental wall.
Russia: Unclenching its fist?

Improved Polish-Russian ties bode well for the US.
Letters to the Editor

Readers write about the lessons that can be learned from Kosovo, the systemic debt problem in US higher education, and another way President Obama may unite rivals.
Kosovo's quiet victory over violent ethnic nationalism

Conflict-ridden world take note: Soft power and elections can work.
Our first century

A mandate to 'lighten' still drives the Monitor at the dawn of its second 100 years.
Serbia's catalyst for stability

The arrest of Radovan Karadzic signals that nationalists no longer speak for Serbia.