Wednesday digest

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New today from the Century:

• The editors on the 40th anniversary of Title IX: "Title IX revolutionized sports at the scholastic and collegiate levels. The results show up elsewhere as well. "

• David Heim reviews Alain de Botton, who "is offiicially enthusiastic, but his book is wistful. Atheists who pick it up may find themselves undergoing a crisis of faithlessness." (subscription required)

• Steve Thorngate on elitism in Chicago's debates about public education

In the news:

• Film traces Southern preacher's trip to hell and back
• Miss America uses platform for kids of prisoners
• Pope's butler faces trial, and eyes turn to Vatican judicial system
• Malcolm X's boyhood home, MLK's neighborhood listed as 'endangered'
• Conservative Jews' gay wedding rules mostly met with a shrug