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Summer 2003
Volume 66, Number 8

Feature stories:

 

The Books That Made the Writers

The “man in white” and other alumni authors mine their library shelves to reveal why you are what you read.

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The Golden Hours of the Romanovs

In 1920, a Russian aristocrat fled the country with hundreds of photographs, now at the Beinecke, of the tsar and his family.

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Commencement

A lunar eclipse, a mysterious bomb, and a “Last Chance Dance”: Commencement confessions from a newly minted alumnus.

Laboratory for Free Expression

The Baccalaureate Address

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Solid State

Alumni assembly: Engineers at work—cleaner flames, smarter robots, and better ways to have your head examined.

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The Night Dubya Joined the Whiffs

The 35th reunion of the Class of 1968 included a visit to the White House.

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Editor’s Letter

Letters

Light & Verity
+  bombing at the Law School
+  GESO loses an election
+  last lap for the O’Neill sisters
+  Mona Lisa’s secret revealed?

In Print
Genocide chronicler; gulag history; dream dissected.

Faces
Winks and Sewall remembered; a pair of Kings.

Inside the Blue Book
The monarchy business.

Calendar
Sea fever; folding stools; women in the arts.

Details
Of mice, menopause, and preventing memory loss.

News from Alumni House

Old Yale
“Pomp and Circumstance” made its first commencement appearance at Yale.

 
     
 
 
 
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