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

  • Richard Blumenthal ’73JD

    Being Yalie of the Week, we have to explain from time to time, isn’t necessarily something you want to put on your résumé. It may... Read on
    the staff | May 21 2010 04:51pm

  • John Kerry ’66

    Don’t be confused by the bill’s title or the co-authorship of Senator Joseph Lieberman ’64, ’67LLB. The American Power Act... Read on
    the staff | May 14 2010 04:50pm

  • Kris Kobach ’95JD

    Amid all the talk about whether Arizona’s controversial new immigration law is constitutional, law professor Kris Kobach ’95JD has... Read on
    the staff | May 7 2010 04:49pm

  • Alex Gibney ’77

    This week finds documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney ’77 with three—count ’em—three movies in the Tribeca Film Festival, prompting a... Read on
    the staff | April 30 2010 04:48pm

  • Richard Klapper ’79MA, ’79JD

    Facing an aggressive fraud suit by the federal government, who ya gonna call? When you’re Goldman Sachs, you call Richard Klapper ’79MA... Read on
    the staff | April 23 2010 04:45pm

  • R. Owen Williams ’07MSL, ’09PhD

    In this economy, most brand-new PhDs are grateful for a job—any job. But R. Owen Williams ’07MSL, ’09PhD, isn’t most new... Read on
    the staff | April 16 2010 04:44pm

  • David Frum ’82, ’82MA

    Since the days when his Reagan-era undergraduate views graced the opinion pages of the Yale Daily News, David Frum ’82, ’82MA, has... Read on
    the staff | April 9 2010 04:43pm

  • Craig Becker ’78, ’81JD

    “I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government.” So declared President Barack Obama... Read on
    the staff | April 2 2010 04:41pm

  • 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

  • Duncan Stroik ’87MArch

    Catholic children are sometimes taught that the important part of their church is not the building, but the people. That doesn’t mean the building has... Read on
    the staff | March 19 2010 04:29pm

  • Zoe Kazan ’05

    If you haven’t heard of Zoe Kazan ’05 yet, get ready. It’s not just her Hollywood-famous last name (grandpa Elia Kazan directed On the... Read on
    the staff | February 12 2012 03:27pm

  • Richard Ravitch ’58LLB

    Richard Ravitch ’58LLB ran for public office only once, two decades ago, and came in third. Yet the 76-year-old lawyer/real estate... Read on
    the staff | March 5 2010 03:25pm

  • Goodwin Liu ’98JD

    Wednesday, a group of liberal law professors delivered a letter urging President Barack Obama to move more aggressively in appointing “a new... Read on
    the staff | February 26 2010 03:23pm

  • Rashad Hussain ’07JD

    Rashad Hussain ’07JD comes from a family of doctors. Now, President Barack Obama is calling on this young Indian American lawyer to help heal... Read on
    the staff | February 19 2010 03:22pm

  • Natalie Babony ’06

    When the Canadian women’s hockey team takes the ice in Vancouver on Saturday for its Winter Olympics opener, Natalie Babony ’06 will... Read on
    02/12/2010 | December 19 2011 03:21pm

  • Reshma Saujani ’02JD

    Standing on a bench in a Manhattan coffee shop Sunday, Reshma Saujani ’02JD declared: “This is a new decade and we need a new... Read on
    the staff | February 5 2010 03:19pm

  • Robert Freling ’82

    Even before this month’s devastating earthquake, Haiti’s infrastructure was a disaster. But the Solar Electric Light Fund, run by... Read on
    the staff | January 29 2010 03:17pm

  • Sarah Hughes ’09

    She was an Olympic gold medalist at age 16; the subject of at least four biographies (variously dubbing her a “Golden Girl,”... Read on
    the staff | January 22 2010 03:16pm

  • David Boies ’66LLB

    He’s represented everyone from George Steinbrenner to Napster, from Michael Moore to disgraced Enron exec Andy Fastow. In his best-known case, Bush... Read on
    the staff | January 15 2010 03:14pm