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

  • 3/11/11: Millie Tomlinson ’14

    Like a lot of freshmen, Millie Tomlinson ’14 was eager to get home—to Derbyshire, England, in her case—for spring... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 11:38am

  • 3/4/11: David Wu ’82JD

      During the closing weeks of last fall’s election campaign—often nicknamed the “silly season”—some of US... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 11:32am

  • 2/25/11: Robert Lopez ’97

    Robert Lopez ’97 “sang in church choirs throughout college and always suspected he’d return to sacred music,” says the... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 11:29am

  • 2/18/11: Eben Moglen ’85JD, ’93PhD

    While many of us liberal-arts types were cheering the people power that toppled Egypt’s dictatorship this month, tech geeks were worried. If... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 11:25am

  • 2/11/11: Rufus Peabody ’08

    Your kid’s obsessed with sports statistics? No worries. He can grow up to be a vote-counting guru or Freakonomics-style... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 11:22am

  • 2/4/11: Anderson Cooper ’89

    While Connecticut-based Yalies chopped their way through an ice storm this week, a famous fellow alum was fending off a hotter onslaught: attacks... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 11:13am

  • Jay Carney ’87

    You may have seen Jay Carney ’87 on TV before, analyzing and opining as a Time magazine journalist. But you’ll be seeing a lot more of... Read on
    the staff | January 28 2011 11:10am

  • Susan Bysiewicz ’83

    Lots of female politicians play up their first names. Susan Bysiewicz ’83 has more than the usual reasons. Fortunately for Bysiewicz, who... Read on
    the staff | January 21 2011 11:01am

  • Jared Taylor ’73

    Jared Taylor ’73 calls himself a “racial realist.” Other people call him a white supremacist. But this week, Taylor found himself... Read on
    the staff | January 14 2011 10:57am

  • Emily Jenda ’10

    “There’s no greater rush for a critic,” writes Erik Haagensen, “than encountering a blazing new talent.” He speaks of none other... Read on
    the staff | January 7 2011 10:54am

  • Adrian Bonenberger ’02

    In a week when the headlines were full of Congress’s repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell”—led by former Yalie of the Week Joe... Read on
    the staff | December 22 2010 10:49am

  • Robert A. M. Stern ’65MArch

    From the Disney town of Celebration to a Barcelona mall; from the Harvard Business School to Yale’s new residential colleges—oh, and with a... Read on
    the staff | December 17 2010 10:44am

  • 12/10/10: Kathryn Himmelstein ’09

    Kathryn Himmelstein ’09 majored in ethics, politics, and economics. All three come together in a study published this week in the journal... Read on
    the staff | December 10 2010 10:40am

  • 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

  • Daniel Skovronsky ’94

    You could forgive Daniel Skovronsky ’94 if he helped himself to second servings at Thanksgiving this year. The 37-year-old MD/PhD just signed... Read on
    the staff | November 26 2010 10:32am

  • 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

  • 11/12/10: Phil LaMarr ’88

    You don’t have to look—or listen—very hard to find Phil LaMarr ’88 in television, movies, or video games. LaMarr, who... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 10:26am

  • 11/5/10: Chris Dudley ’87

    It came down to the buzzer. But when the electoral contest finally ended Wednesday night, ex-NBAer Chris Dudley ’87 lost his... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 10:23am

  • 10/29/10: Mark Gorton ’88

    Long before there was Mark Zuckerberg, there was Mark Gorton ’88. And long before there was Facebook, there was... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 10:20am