January / February 2003

Citizen Nellie

A child teaches her mother an unexpected lesson in patriotism. 

The Battle Over Gettysburg

What Lincoln would have said about September 11, 2001.

Keeping the Streak Alive

Meet Jerry Green ’50, the Cal Ripken Jr. of Super Bowl coverage.

A Turbulent Weekend

Men’s water polo hosts the Eastern Championships with an eye on the NCAAs.

Man on Fire

The hopes of the men’s soccer team for another strong season were thwarted this fall by an unlikely foe: the frailty of the human knee.

Seen, But Not Heard

Harvey Pitt on the proper role of an ex–SEC chairman

Reading, Writing—& Surgery

A medical-school professor opens up his operating room to teens

BYOM(usic)

Aboveground tunes from the Underground

60 Seconds With...

Bernard Reginster: Associate Professor of Philosophy

A Seat at the Table

After years of frustration, faculty members get more power to make policy

A New Civil Rights Movement

Jesse Jackson Jr. calls for a new struggle for a new century

Old Trade Secrets

The John Carter Brown Library spends $159,000–on a single book

The Ice Cream Man Cometh

New York City welcomes a very young playwright

Hot Items

V-Dub’s plastic cups are all the rage

Our Men in Havana

In Havana this past October, Professor James Blight brought together old foes Robert McNamara and Fidel Castro for the fortieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Such meetings, part of Blight’s unconventional fifteen-year study of the crisis, have led McNamara and others to a startling conclusion: we were much closer to nuclear war than anyone thought.

Thunders & Whispers

The Sayles organ turns 100. 

The Good Book

What is a book? Walter Feldman is asking students to make one and find out.

Pius IX, con Gusto

Alfred Uhry takes on the battle of the faithful.

Game Over

Short stories from the first Gulf War.

Leading Man

Finally, a mainstream film with real roles for Asian-American actors.

Quest for Kinship

How adoption has changed the American family—and how our notion of family has transformed adoption. 

Utah’s Wry Minstrel

Ken Shaw ’84 kicks the L out of the BLM.

California Dreaming

In Pasadena, David Ebershoff ’91 tells a complex tale of love and ambition.

The End of Writer’s Block: Selmer Bringsjord ’87 Ph.D.

Artificial intelligence may be quick, but is it smart?

The Defender

Farewell: John F. Sheehan ’53

One of the Righteous Few

Farewell: Charles A. Baldwin II

So Artists Could Thrive

Farewell: Vera List

Art for History’s Sake: Barbara Hail ’52

Filling in Native American history by studying the objects left behind.

How to Kill

Biological warfare’s surprisingly ancient past.

In The News

Alumni in the Headlines

Brunonians on the Ballot

Who won and who lost.

Attention, Sports Fans

Passing the baton to a new, more youthful regime.

Would You Like That Egg Dropped?

From the May 1934 BAM

Fresh Ink

New titles from Brown authors.

Game Day

Data Points

Obituaries

Since Last Time

Mail Room