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Summer 2003
Volume 66, Number 8

Feature stories:

The Books That Made the Writers
Introduction by Tom Wolfe Jr. ’57PhD
The “man in white” and other alumni authors mine their library shelves to reveal why you are what you read.

The Golden Hours of the Romanovs
by Tim Townsend
In 1920, a Russian aristocrat fled the country with hundreds of photographs, now at the Beinecke, of the tsar and his family.

Commencement
by Darrell Hartman ’03
A lunar eclipse, a mysterious bomb, and a “Last Chance Dance”: Commencement confessions from a newly minted alumnus.

Laboratory for Free Expression
by Richard Levin ’74Phd
The Baccalaureate Address

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

The Night Dubya Joined the Whiffs
by Steven R. Weisman ’68
The 35th reunion of the Class of 1968 included a visit to the White House.

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