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November/December 2004
Volume 68, Number 2

Feature stories:

Nov/Dec 04 cover  

The Genius of the Unpredictable

Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractals, looks at the stock market, math education, and the wild improbability of his own life.

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Yale in Light and Shadow

A photographer finds the essential and the elegant in Yale’s architecture.

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Yale and the Next Superpower

What Rick Levin wants from China—and what China wants from Yale.

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When Men Were Men and Football Was Brutal

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.

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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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