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Jan/Feb 2009

Our readers respond

Love and hate at the A&A The story about the A&A ("Love It? Hate It? Or Both?" November/December) stirred memories of the night they burned...

Mar/Apr 2009

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On faith and Tony BlairIt is curious that Tony Blair has become an apologist for religion ("God and Tony Blair," January/February). One wonders how...

Jul/Aug 2009

Quoted

"It is true that the fancier your alma mater, the more famous people you will know when you're 45. You, however, will not necessarily be one of...

Sep/Oct 2009

They called him “Mr. Bubble.”

Sometime in the mid-1980s, Robert Shiller and John Campbell ’84PhD created The Chart. It wasn't especially complicated. It showed average...

May/Jun 2010

You can quote them

Information about words and quotations is of two kinds. There are reference works that use traditional research methods (or no research methods at...

Nov/Dec 2010

You can quote them

To keep this column somewhat grounded in Yaleiana, I have written about the most famous quotations by Yale alumni (March/April 2007) and...

Nov/Dec 2010

Mory's comes back

Mory’s, that Old Blue bastion of college clubbiness,communal drinking, and (historically) mediocre food, is back from the dead. After years of...

Jan/Feb 2011

You can quote them

In the last column I began an examination of the most famous quotations by fictitious Yale alumni. I focused on the monuments of...

Sep/Oct 2011

You can quote them

In my last column I referred to Mark Twain as a “quotation magnet,” meaning someone to whom quotations are attributed...

Sep/Oct 2011

Spymasters

Yale has a famous, or notorious, kinship with espionage. Richard Bissell ’32, ’39PhD, helped mastermind the botched 1961 Bay of...

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