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May/Jun 2013

Top dogs

Last summer, while reading a book about presidential leadership, Yale hockey player Jesse Root ’14 came across the famous maxim from Greek...

May/Jun 2013

Heated words on climate change

The naïve article on Professor Mann’s research and its repercussions should not have been published in the Yale Alumni Magazine...

May/Jun 2013

You can quote them: Elementary, my dear reader

Any discussion of the quotations of Sherlock Holmes must begin with the Great Misquotation. Ranking with the famous but erroneous “Beam me up...

Jul/Aug 2013

On retiring as the president’s wife

We find ourselves in the same position—on the brink of ending our particular time at Yale. You are about to stop being undergraduates and I...

Sep/Oct 2013

The fraud detective

On a muggy Thursday in the dog days of August 2011, the news broke that the American technology giant Hewlett-Packard was about to acquire British...

Jan/Feb 2014

The SS Elihu Yale

Seventy years ago this February, the SS Elihu Yale was bombed and sunk off Anzio, Italy. By chance, Welford Macon Durrer, Seaman First Class, had...

Jan/Feb 2014

Framing space, using light

“The art of designing stage sets for the theater is not an illustration, it is not a flat image,” says Ming Cho Lee. “It is body...

Jan/Feb 2014

The college in Singapore

Your description of Yale-NUS College and its new curriculum warms the heart (“The Founding,” November/December). In our rapid-turnover...

Jan/Feb 2014

A goddess for Josef Albers

Josef and Anni Albers came to the United States in 1933 from Germany after Hitler had shuttered the Bauhaus, the great design school founded by...

Jan/Feb 2014

Board-book bard

Sandra Boynton ’74 first became famous in the 1970s for her quirky greeting cards. She has since written more than 50 books, the vast majority...

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