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Columns
December
2002 Yale Nobelist; Ehud Barak; Dame Edna's alter ego.
November
2002 Kofi Annan at Yale; birthday honors for Edward Bouchet.
October
2002 R.W.B. Lewis recalled; new crew coach; jazz great.
Summer
2002 New Peabody head; Garrison Keillor; Ben Carson inspires.
May
2002 James Tobin remembered; an Eli on the Segway team.
April
2002 Art collectors memorialized; new BAC chief; Rushdie.
March
2002 Cyrus Vance recalled; Sopranos shrink; a contrarian
on gender.
February
2002 The Times's literary gatekeeper; James Jeffords,
the Shah's heir.
December
2002 Donald Cohen remembered; Judy Blume visits; a "hero"
is honored.
November
2001 New Drama dean; Hart and Coffin discuss 9/11.
October
2001 A royal shutterbug; Venus shines; Bobby Seale finally
sees Yale; rhythm and blues on the Green.
Summer
2001 Beltway veteran, Survivor champ; new master.
May
2001 New dean for Divinity; plus-size model; lone bowlers;
a psychologist for Morse.
April
2001 Sandra Boynton '74 on chickens, pigs, and Yale.
February
2001 A pianist's guide to life; candidate Schiavone; farewell
to a hero on and off the field.
December
2000
November
2000
October
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Faces
February
2003
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Invited by the
Yale Daily News, former Washington Post editor
Benjamin Bradlee
spoke on October 31 about the past and present of American
journalism. "The quality of reporting and reporters covering
wars today is much higher," he said. "In the first place,
there are no drunks left in our business." Bradlee declined
to reveal the identity of Deep Throat, the Post's Watergate
anonymous informant; he said the newspaper will make such
revelations only after his or her death.
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Catherine
Lynch Gilliss has been appointed to a second five-year
term as dean of the School of Nursing. In announcing the reappointment,
President Richard Levin cited Gilliss's success in strengthening
the school's doctoral and research programs. In addition,
Gilliss launched the Yale-Howard Scholars Program, which encourages
undergraduate nursing students at Howard University to pursue
advanced education by pairing them with faculty mentors at
Yale. Gilliss is also a director of the American Academy of
Nursing.
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Paul
Goldberger
'72, the architecture critic of the New Yorker,
talked about the World Trade Center, its loss, and the rebuilding
process in a Poynter Fellowship lecture on November 11. Calling
the Trade Center "a weird mix of delicacy and bombast," Goldberger
said that he misses its presence. "I never thought I'd consider
the skyline without the World Trade Center dull," he said,
"but I do." He called for the redeveloped site to incorporate
a tall, uninhabited structure such as a broadcast tower. "We
need a 21st-century Eiffel Tower for New York," he said.
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he won the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor, last
year, Australian architect Glenn
Murcutt has had opportunities to design large-scale
projects around the world. But Murcutt, who lectured at the
School of Architecture on November 7, said he wants to keep
doing small, environmentally responsible projects in his home
country. "I am an extraordinarily restless person," he said.
"I want to work with smaller projects because they give me a
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Actor and activist
Edward James
Olmos lectured on ethnic diversity on November
15 as a Chubb Fellow. Raised as a "Spanish-speaking Southern
Baptist" in Los Angeles, Olmos blamed educators for ignoring
the contributions of America's minority groups. "This country
has fed our children, from the first grade through the twelfth
grade, a one-course diet," he said, challenging the audience
to name non-white national heroes.
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accepted the tap because of curiosity and stayed in because
of the beer," explained Secrets
of the Tomb author Alexandra
Robbins '98 about her membership in Scroll and Key.
At a Saybrook College master's tea on November 11, Robbins said
she researched her book on Skull and Bones by going through
a Bones membership catalog and finding alumni who were "sick
of the rules like me" to interview. Her efforts were aided,
she said, by a memo during George
W. Bush's campaign telling Bonesmen not to talk to the press.
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Close-Up
Eugene
Victor Rostow '33, '37LLB, who died on November 25 at
the age of 89, will always be associated by many people with his
better-known brother Walt Rostow '36 and their support for the Vietnam
War as officials in the Johnson Administration. But at Yale, Gene
Rostow is known for his half-century's association with the Law
School, most notably as its dean from 1955 to 1965. "He was perhaps
the greatest dean the Law School ever had," said another former
dean, Guido Calabresi. It was as an undersecretary of state from
1966 to 1969 that Rostow became known as a defender of Johnson's
Vietnam policy, of which his brother, the national security adviser,
was an architect.
Rostow was born in
Brooklyn in 1913 and attended high school in New Haven, where his
father worked as a chemist. A top scholar and debater at Yale, he
studied at Cambridge for a year after graduating then returned to
Yale for law school. After a year in private practice, he joined
the school's faculty, where he remained -- with occasional leaves
for jobs in public service -- until 1984.
As dean, he remade
the Law School's curriculum to emphasize interdisciplinary connections.
"Our purpose is to train lawyers, law teachers, and public servants
who will be capable of constructive leadership in American life,"
he explained at the time. 
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