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  • Matthew Sussman

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    Professor of mambo

    Robert Farris Thompson—Master T—teaches "the black aesthetic of the cool."

    Jul/Aug 2010
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    Your summer reading assignment

    Dotty royal memoirs! Thousand-year-old Persian epics! “Blistering, high-voltage prose!” We asked Yale faculty what you should bring to the beach.

    Jul/Aug 2010
  • Peter Yang

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    The prose whisperer

    A writer's writer turns mentor to Yale undergraduates.

    May/Jun 2010
  • Office of U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello

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    The Virginia experiment

    Is Tom Perriello ’96, ’01JD, a new kind of congressman? Or just the kind who doesn't get reelected?

    May/Jun 2010
  • Tian Xu ’90PhD

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    Building a better mouse

    A Yale geneticist and a Chinese lab are creating the Amazon.com of medical research animals.

    May/Jun 2010
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    The Wunderkind

    Out of works built from his inner fears, a 32-year-old playwright stages an extraordinary rise.

    Mar/Apr 2010