January / February 2000

Timekeeper to the World

Richard Ormond '61 may be the first man on earth to step into the new millennium. He's already helped change how some of us view the last one.

There's something about Morey

Failure in Kosovo

The World According to Glass

Why do 900,000 people drop everything once a week to tune in to a radio show called This American Life? Ira Glass '82, that's why.

Becoming Virtual

High technology and the moral life.

A River Runs Through It

Roy told a President's Lecture audience she would "rather be loved by a river than a nation state."

The Race-Report Card

Graduation rates for blacks and whites.

Punch, Counterpunch

Malina Brown '01 and Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci discuss media and celebrity on Brown's new BTV talk show, Point Taken.

The Shoo-In Provost

A campus veteran gets a new promotion and a load of controversy.

Wrong Number

The curse of 867-5309.

True North

Iceland's president on why his country matters.

Play Right

David Mamet spares no one.

Since Last Time

Try this at Home

Walking off the holidays.

Carrot Money

George Soros on the global economy.

The Big Push

Are early admissions getting out of hand?

Behind Every Bench

A (very) short history of women and the Supreme Court.

Balkan Musings

A U.S. deputy secretary of state visits campus.

Alumni, Call Home

Alumni relations vice president Lisa J. Raiola '84

Sports

Carrying the Mail

The BAM 100

On This Bus

Books