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

  • Kevin Kopelson ’79

    It’s one thing to get caught plagiarizing. It’s another to shout about your own plagiarism from the rooftops—or at least in the... Read on
    the staff | May 30 2008 02:37pm

  • Cash Warren ’01

    Expect a record turnout at the tenth reunion of the Class of 2001. Budding film producer Cash Warren ’01 became the envy of millions of men on... Read on
    the staff | May 23 2008 02:36pm

  • Scott Kleeb ’06PhD

    He rode bulls for the rodeo team in college. He’s worked off and on as a ranch hand in his home state of Nebraska. And he logged 65,000 miles in a... Read on
    the staff | May 16 2008 02:35pm

  • Indra Nooyi ’80MPPM

    It’s hard to find a woman higher on the ladder of success than Yale trustee Indra Nooyi ’80MPPM, chair and CEO of Pepsico since 2006.... Read on
    the staff | May 9 2008 02:33pm

  • W. Bing Gordon ’72

    W. Bing Gordon ’72 is a 58-year-old executive who sees an empty nest on his horizon and, as he told the San Jose Mercury News, wants to... Read on
    the staff | May 2 2008 02:32pm

  • Hillary Clinton ’73JD

    The Yale Alumni Magazine is emphatically not in the business of endorsing presidential candidates, but for newsworthiness this week, it’s... Read on
    the staff | April 25 2008 02:31pm

  • David McCullough ’55

    We don’t know who gave the Library of Congress the authority to decide who is and who isn’t a “living legend,” but David... Read on
    the staff | April 18 2008 02:30pm

  • David Lang ’83MAM

    Never thought Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Match Girl” and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion were a natural combination?... Read on
    the staff | April 10 2008 08:00pm

  • Byeon Yang-kyoon ’87MA

    Almost unnoticed in the scandal surrounding Shin Jeong-ah—the South Korean art history professor who falsely claimed to have a Yale PhD—is... Read on
    the staff | April 4 2008 02:25pm

  • Angela Bassett ’80, ’83MFA

    No one’s going to walk all over Angela Bassett ’80, ’83MFA, the Academy Award–nominated actress best known for portraying... Read on
    the staff | March 28 2008 02:20pm

  • Rev. Otis Moss III ’95MDiv

    At 37, the Rev. Otis Moss III ’95MDiv is a rising star: a minister with a degree from Yale Divinity, a noted youth pastor named one of... Read on
    the staff | March 21 2008 02:15pm

  • Seth Hawkins ’93

    Seth Hawkins ’93 did not actually have to leap tall buildings or jump off cliffs in order to be officially declared a hero. But he does... Read on
    the staff | March 14 2008 02:13pm

  • Richard Lalli ’80MM, ’86DMA

    When Richard Lalli ’80MUSAM, ’86MUSAD, received the 2007 Yale College prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, eight of his... Read on
    the staff | March 7 2008 10:04am

  • Jeff Orleans ’67, ’71JD

    It’s not easy being the arbiter of sports in a league that’s still hanging on to the idea of the “scholar-athlete.” But as... Read on
    the staff | February 29 2008 01:31pm

  • Chris Cuomo ’92

    He’s smart, he’s an Emmy-winning reporter, and he’s a co-anchor on Good Morning America. But the reason Christopher Cuomo... Read on
    the staff | February 22 2008 01:25pm

  • Erna Schneider Hoover ’52PhD

    For designing the first computerized switching system for telephone calls, Bell Labs researcher Erna Schneider Hoover ’52PhD was awarded... Read on
    the staff | February 15 2008 01:19pm

  • Eleanor Holmes Norton ’63MA, ’64LLB

    In Congress, she’s the Doyenne of DC and the Voice without a Vote. For 17 years, Georgetown U. law prof Eleanor Holmes Norton ’63MA... Read on
    the staff | February 8 2008 01:16pm

  • Glenn Reynolds ’85JD

    Yalies? Liberal? So they say. But consider Glenn Reynolds ’85JD whose blog Instapundit is one of the most influential on the Web.... Read on
    the staff | February 1 2008 01:07pm

  • Allison Davies ’99MFA

    Allison Davies ’99MFA is a bit of a mystery woman. A professional photographer with a new book out, she seems to have no website, no Facebook... Read on
    the staff | August 19 2010 10:14am