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November/December 2003
Volume 67, Number 2

Feature stories:

The Land That Knew Hell
by David Case
For those who survived the massacres in East Timor, justice depends on historical truth. Genocide researcher Ben Kiernan is helping them find it.

How Yale Got Its Groove Back
by Gaddis Smith ’54 and David Gergen ’63
In 1993, President Rick Levin inherited a budget crisis and a campus beset by malaise. Two veteran Yale watchers assess his response.

David vs. Goliath
by David Pogue ’85
David Gelernter is a computer scientist who doesn’t like computers. So he’s launched a quest to rebuild everybody’s desktop.

Where the Wild Things Are
by Mark Alden Branch ’86
From Panthera leo to Danus handsomia, Yale’s architecture is teeming with life. See if you can identify their habitats.

Freshman Address
by Richard Levin ’74PhD
… in which the president heeds his own advice: “Don’t be tempted to write papers on books you haven’t read.”

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