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November/December 2004
Volume 68, Number 2

Feature stories:

The Genius of the Unpredictable
by Steve Olson ’78
Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractals, looks at the stock market, math education, and the wild improbability of his own life.

Yale in Light and Shadow
Photographs by Arnold Gold
A photographer finds the essential and the elegant in Yale’s architecture.

Yale and the Next Superpower
by Mark Alden Branch ’86
What Rick Levin wants from China—and what China wants from Yale.

When Men Were Men and Football Was Brutal
by Bernard Corbett and Paul Simpson
In the late 1800s, football was a blood sport, and the Yale-Harvard game was an annual national scandal. Yale captain Frank Hinkey was the most dangerous player of all.

from the editor

letters
Responding to hate.

light & verity
+  Yale’s provost goes to MIT
+  the Alumni Chorus goes south
+  Pierson College comes home

milestones
Two MacArthur winners.

scene on campus
The Eden on Prospect Hill.

q&a: rick levin
Legacy admissions.

forum
Should we send humans or robots to Mars? And should they return?

findings
Rap in Boswell’s day; the interrelatedness of everybody.

arts & culture
Michael Jackson deconstructed; Leo Villareal ’90 lights up New Haven.

news from alumni house
The online career network.

old yale
Yale’s Chinese pioneer.

sporting life
An Olympian grapples with torts; a brother act in squash comes to an end.

where they are now
When design meets democracy.

last look

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