March / April 2004

Game Day

Savings Account

Who’s up and who’s down

In The News

Alumni making headlines

The Best Thing Since …What?

From the April 1937 BAM

At the Old Ball Game: Eric Nadel ’72

Even after twenty-five years of calling plays for the Texas Rangers, the job still makes him smile.

Layers of the Past

Uncovering—literally—the history of a building.

Fresh Ink

New books by alumni authors

Sunstruck

Critic’s Corner

Art by the Ton

A Roy Lichtenstein comes to campus

Hot House

Climate change is good for some, bad for others.

Always a Smile, Always in Control

Farewell: Samuel M. Nabrit ’32 PhD

Once Upon a Time in America: June Suzuki Kawamura ’46

How one family went from national security threat to California state government.

A Cop with a Six-Pack: Karen DeLucia Pinch ’88

Meet the fittest female state trooper in the United States. 

Oxford Diary

In which our correspondent provides an irreverent account of his life as a Rhodes Scholar.

Good-Bye to All That

When the old Sarah Doyle House was demolished last year to make way for the $94 million life sciences center, few people noticed. But invisible among the rubble was something that gave meaning to all that wood and brick. 

No Trench Coat Required

As a private eye, Amy Gray ’97 exposed crooks and evaluated potential husbands

No More Killing Fields

How genocide shaped the twentieth century.

Anything for a Laugh

Screenwriter John Hamburg ’92 and actor Ben Stiller are keeping the box office busy.

Me and Mel Brooks

Jed Spingarn ’85'

The Good Angel

Edwidge Danticat examines the contradictions inherent in love and guilt.

Double Play

They came from the heart of the country four years ago, and they’ve been winning the hearts of Brown baseball fans ever since.

Data Points

The latest in research on campus

Boogie Night

What’s it like to party with a Nobel laureate?

Mail Room

Heroes’ Return

An impulsive offer reaps unexpected rewards.

Upward Mobility

Facing graduation, a student looks ambivalently at how far she’s come.

Old Friends

The most comprehensive study yet on how the dying are treated

Counting Heads

Reviewing the reviewers at the <i>New York Times</i>

Beyond Shabbat

Not your parents’ Hillel.

Judging Merit

The affirmative-action debate misses the point.

60 Seconds With...

Barbara Roberts, Clinical Assistant Professor

Rowing in Step

Brown's most consistently successful team is led by a pair of coaches who are also husband and wife. How do they do it?

Obituaries

The Woman Who Knew Too Much

Jesselyn Brown Radack ’92 was a triple concentrator at Brown, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a graduate of Yale Law School, and a well-respected lawyer in the U.S. Department of Justice. So why can’t she find a job?

Nesting in Razor Wire

C.D. Wright’s latest poems were born inside Louisiana’s prisons.