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Every Friday, we choose an alum who has been making headlines—for better or for worse.

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  • 11/18/11: Sari Bashi ’97, ’03JD

    In a week when Yale students staged mock Israeli checkpoints on campus to dramatize their support for Palestinian freedom of... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 02:02pm

  • 12/3/10: David Carel ’13 & Gregg Gonsalves ’11

    Yale sophomore David Carel (right) had a brush with fame in October, when he and fellow protesters heckled President Barack Obama at a Connecticut... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 10:38am

  • Margo Lang ’10

    “Everyone at my school was ridiculously driven,” Margo Lang ’10 tells a reporter in her hometown of Manhattan Beach... Read on
    the staff | November 19 2010 10:28am

  • Earl Phalen ’89

    A poor black child, abandoned at birth, is adopted by a civil-rights-loving Irish-American family outside Boston. The youngest of eight, Earl Phalen... Read on
    the staff | March 16 2010 04:31pm

  • Edward Norton ’91

    Some people might embark on their first marathon as quietly as possible, just in case they don’t finish. Actor Edward Norton ’91... Read on
    the staff | November 6 2009 11:26am

  • Van Jones ’93JD

    He was hired to promote green jobs, but Van Jones ’93JD turned out to have too many red flags for the White House. The environmental activist... Read on
    the staff | September 11 2009 12:11pm

  • Alexis Ringwald ’05, ’06MEM, & Caroline Howe ’07

    First there was the French Fry Mobile, driving around the U.S. on used fast-food grease to demonstrate that biodiesel works. Now comes the India Climate... Read on
    the staff | February 20 2009 10:09am