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The Test ClothingIs it better to know or not to know? This question haunts Jean Barma, a French journalist who witnessed his mother's agonizing death from Huntington's disease. Now his brother and sister are succumbing to the disease, and he is about to find out if he, too, will be its victim. Huntington's disease, a slow degeneration of the central nervous system, ravages the mind and body. It is caused by a defective gene transmitted from one generation to the next,

(Previously published as Why You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America

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and always impassioned articles and essays graced the pages of Harper’s Magazine for over a decade until his death in 1989

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the civil rights movement

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and a columnist for The Providence Journal and Le Devoir

“This satisfying spread of essays

Is it better to know or not to know

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