September/October 2008

Macho Policy Geeks

Remembering the early days of the Brown Journal of World Affairs.

Wild Welcome

As 400 freshmen settled into their new digs 70 years ago, one of the most violent storms ever to hit New England surged in.

The Know-How Guy

All politics is local in Afghanistan, too. Paul Ware '98 MD

The Midtown Angel

When doing time just doesn’t work. Angela Tolosa '97

Long-Distance Donor

Classmates share lots of things: secrets, clothes—in this case, even their kidneys. Robin Graves '82 & Martha Hansen '82

Those Poor Bastards

The September day that changed a man for good. Edward Krug '39

Obituaries

Obituaries from the September/October 2008 issue.

A Virtual Friend To Millions

A farewell to Randy Pausch '82.

Unseen

The Pausch Difference

Theater At Brown

Favorite Topics

Speaking Up For Iceland

What Is Patriotism?

Heated Views

A Tragic Death

The Haffenreffer Closes

Brown hopes to move the anthropology museum nearer to campus but doesn’t yet know where.

Open Door Man

Brown’s first vice president for international affairs David Kennedy ’76 envisions “a Davos for young intellectuals.”

CSI: College Hill

Summer school brings tweens to campus to solve fictional crimes and learn from real pros.

How Much Danger in a Light Bulb?

CFLs may reduce our energy consumption, but they also contain mercury.

The Player

The new dean of medicine hopes to succeed where others have not.

Since Last Time

Gatekeeping

Just after Commencement, the Van Wickle Gates vanished...

Staying the Course

Brown takes a long hard look at the curriculum and offers reforms.

Fresh Ink

Free Market Music

At the music website Amie Street, downloads start off free; their cost increases with their popularity.

Critics Corner

Critics Corner: The 19th Wife

Critics Corner

Critics Corner: Only A Theory

Question & Answer Men

Ben Finkel and Andrew McClain dreamed up Fluther.com in the Sun Lab at Brown—inspired by their fellow students’ advice.

Trust Account

Novelist Amity Gaige ’95 unravels the risks and rewards of love.

A Wig and a Cane

Peter DuBois ’97 AM takes over Boston’s Huntington Theater.

Look Upward, Angel

Cell phones and automobiles bounce signals off satellites in orbit. Brown scientists download data from space probes cruising the surface of Mars. Yet in one building near campus, you can still experience science and astronomy much the way Galileo did.

Why Are We in Iraq?

The rationales may have shifted, but as New Republic executive editor Peter Scoblic ’96 argues in his new book, the reasons go back at least fifty years to a view of foreign policy as an epic struggle between good and evil.

What's in a Building?

When Brown announced plans last year for a new mind, brain, and behavior building, a group of faculty, students, and alumni objected that the Urban Environmental Lab would have to be torn down. What followed was a debate about how to capture the future without forgetting the past.

Brown In Beijing

Sacramone brings home a silver in gymnastics, and track and crew alumni finish strong.

The Contenders

To unseat Harvard and Yale in football this season, the Bears need to keep playing offense—and block, too.

Produce Center

At the garden on Hope Street, students harvest and teach.

The Narrator Within

A writer explains what’s been keeping her at it for half a century.