March / April 2008

Critic's Corner

New York Magazine readers have been flipping to "The Look Book" features. Now 100 of those portraits are in book form.

On Screen

Yaya DaCosta '04 became a water-cooler sensation as first runner-up on season three of the reality program America's Next Top Model. Now she's on the big screen.

Art

Artist Pam Hall was reminded to begin each day mindfully and with full attention.

Demolition

With a few swings of a wrecking ball, the Smith Swim Center became no more in February.

Astronomy

Professor of Geological Sciences James Head '69 PhD says, "We'll be seeing terrain no human has ever seen before."

Foreign Affairs

Ali Allawi, a former senior minister in the post-Saddam Iraq government, urged his countrymen to seize the moment and take control of their own destiny.

Nature

Patrick Dougherty's sculpture was destroyed in March when a gale sent a nearby elm tree crashing down on it.

Sports Replay

New York Giants celebrating on Broadway after this year’s Super Bowl.

The Power of Music

Carmen Cors '93Can the didgeridoo be what’s curing her cancer?

Into the Woodshed

Adam Rubin '84 & Theodore Whitehead '84 What happens when a stockbroker and a lawyer decide to chuck it all and go split wood?

High Scorer

Gwyneth Walker '68She's no household name, but she's among the most-heard composers in the United States.

Settling Down

Marcia McBeath '45Settling Down a Long Way From Home

Game Day

Game Day: Mark McAndrew ’08 led the Bears to a school-record nineteen wins this year.

The Last Round

Seniors Blythe Crane and Larry Haertel are hoping to lead their respective golf teams to Brown’s first-ever Ivy championship titles.

Major League

Two of last season’s baseball stars reported to spring training in the majors this year.

Helping Africa

A new program provides help for students from sub-Saharan Africa.

Pay As You Go

John Bolton and Richard Holbrooke debate reforming the U.N.

Women and Breast Cancer

Charging women anything for a mammogram makes bad business sense and even worse medical sense.

Today's Racists

Angela Davis, as angry as ever.

Eating Disorder

A healthy diet is simple, says Michael Pollan: if it won’t rot, don’t eat it.

Stepping Up

Attention parents: a Brown education just got more affordable.

Anti Pro Choice

Fresh Ink

Looking For A Job?

Why look to the experts when you can get advice from a pal?

Bringing Up Baby

Edward Hardy’s new novel reads like a kiss on the noggin.

Too Jew For Who?

Sean Altman ’83 writes songs for a new generation of Jews willing to poke fun at their culture.

Unholy War

Filmmaker Oren Jacoby wants to know how we ever got the idea it was okay to kill in the name of God.

Pushing The Limits

Three avant-garde knitters who take their craft where grandma never imagined.

Collateral Damage

Delayed by the Virginia Tech massacre, Dark Matter explores the pressures that can drive a student to kill.

Clock Work

How they got the trains to run on time.

Dodging the Glass Ceiling

A farewell to Linda Pei '67.

Marriage Could Wait

A farewell to Charlotte Lowney Tomas '57, '65 AM.

Ask Yourself

When it comes to the color of your skin, some things never change.

Obituaries

Obituaries from the March/April 2008 Issue.

Abolish Early Decision

Being Green’s Not New

Revisiting McCarthy

Setting the Table

Swearer’s Dignity

Reactionary or Sage?

Scents + Sensibility

Researcher Rachel Herz studies the link between smell and behavior. After reading what she has to say, you may never smell the roses in the same way again. 

The Tax Cut That Neutered Congress

A former U.S. Senator recalls that before the War on Terror came the War on Congress.

A Nation of Jailers

Economics professor Glenn Loury is speaking out about what he believes is one of the nation’s gravest injustices: despite falling crime rates, the number of black men sent to prison continues to rise. It's the latest cause for a man whose work has taken him from liberal to conservative and back again.