September / October 2005

Fresh Ink

On Stage

Critic's Corner

Game Day

Press Room

The library creates a space for making books.

The Poor Little Rich Woman

Down on her luck, Nancy Grear's Mrs. Alcott refuses to be a victim.

Artist in Exile

Tala Hadid '95 jump-starts a cross-cultural career with a distinctly American icon: an Oscar.

Prescription Blues

Katherine Eban '88 shows how greedy drug wholesalers endanger lives.

Obituaries

In the News

Since Last Time

Occasionally, Nothing Really Does Succeed Like Success

With Favela Rising, Jeff Zimbalist takes honors at Tribeca.

Mail Room

Supersize This

Dave Cole '00 took up knitting at Brown.  He''s still at it, and you won't believe his knitting needles.

And Now a Song for Himself

Gordon Chambers '90 has written for Aretha and Whitney and Beyonce. Now he's creating songs for a new voice - his own.

A Figure Straight Out of the History He Wrote

John L. Thomas '61 PhD

A Life of Service

Frederick Lippitt

The Marriage of Career, Politics, and Family

Maggie Wood Hassen '80: Want to be a supermom? Having a super husband helps.

First Line of Defense

Brad Krevor '70: Who's best at stopping kids from smoking and drinking? The answer may surprise you.

An Officer and a Gentleman

George S. Lima '48: An African American pioneer in aviation, labor, and politics is still keeping an eye on his alma mater.

Data Points

60 Seconds With Serena Eisenberg '87

Director of Hillel

Demolition Derby

A geologist who likes to bust stuff up - in space.

How One Man's Research Turned Political

Hint: it involves an abortion drug and the GOP.

Not-So-Quiet Neighbor

The humanities gets a boost - and an infusion of cash.

Snooze Alarm

Brown doctors on why teens should get more shut-eye.

The Working Life

Summer is the season for a different kind of learning

The Rules of Engagement

Two modern young doctors choose an old and unexpected tradition. [Alumni POV]

What Record?

In his last season, Nick Hartigan is focused on one thing: the seven teams between the Bears and an Ivy title.

Light in August

Spatial Relationship

Two freshmen rearrange their furniture, hoping to find some common ground.  [Student POV]

The Evil of Asylums

The Man Who Would Change Everything

Samuel Gridley Howe was the first American to show that people who are blind, deaf, or disabled could live and learn as well as anyone else. Yet a century later his ideas were being used to justify overcrowded, filthy warehouses of people no one wanted. So why is he a hero to today's activists?

Bearing Witness

At a memorial service for fifteen marines killed in Iraq, a journalist who was embedded with them struggles to reconcile his obligations as a journalist and as a man.

"It's Great Here"

Attanasio is not the only Bear among Brewers.

Baseball's Newest Owner

Mark Attanasio '79 won big in investment banking. Now he's hoping to turn one of the major leagues' perennial losers into a winning team.