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Summer 2003
Motive
for Law School Bombing Still Not Known
No arrests have been made in connection with the May 21 explosion
at the Law School. The university's end-of-the-year rituals
continued more or less as planned -- albeit with tighter security
and a sense of puzzlement about the crime.
Graduate
Students Reject GESO
The Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO)
suffered a setback in its quest for union representation of
teaching assistants when it held a non-binding referendum
on April 30.
Was
Mona Lisa Smiling for Two?
What was Mona Lisa thinking about? Clinical professor
of surgery Sherwin Nuland thinks she's having a baby.
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Stephen
King
showed up in jeans and a tie-dyed T-shirt
to talk about the origins of his books and read from
his forthcoming Wolves of the Calla at a Berkeley
College master's tea. |
Van
de Velde Sues University Officials
Former
Yale lecturer James Van de Velde '82 has added several university
officials to a federal lawsuit he filed against the New Haven
police in 2001. He says that by publicly naming him as a suspect
in the murder of Suzanne Jovin '99, the parties violated his
civil rights.
Slave
Manuscript Given in Gratitude
Harvard
professor Henry Lewis Gates Jr. '73 has presented the university
with the original manuscript of The Bondwoman's Narrative, believed to be the first novel ever written by an African
American slave. |
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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.
Commencement
'03
A lunar eclipse,
a mysterious bomb, and a "Last Chance Dance": Commencement
confessions from a newly minted alumnus.
Baccalaureate
Address
By Richard
C. Levin
The
Night Dubya Joined the Whiffs
The bash at
George's house, by Steve Weisman '68.
Solid
State
Alumni assembly:
Engineers at work -- cleaner flames, smarter robots, and better
ways to have your head examined.
From
the Editor
By Kathrin
Day Lassila '81
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