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The Yale Alumni Magazine is owned and operated by Yale Alumni Publications, Inc., a nonprofit corporation independent of Yale University.

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January/February 2008
Volume 71, Number 3

Feature stories:

Man on the Street
by Julia M. Klein
As a sociology graduate student in Chicago, Elijah Anderson started hanging out at a South Side bar to learn how the locals saw their place in the world. From that first project grew an academic career that has given the field, and the larger culture, a new understanding of survival, violence, and identity in the inner city.

This is CCL? 
by Mark Alden Branch ’86
Rechristened the Bass Library, the subterranean Cross Campus Library is unrecognizable after a thorough renovation. And most people will agree that that’s a good thing.

A Brief History of Groupthink
In 1972, a Yale psychologist published a book explaining how a group of intelligent presidential advisers could possibly have decided that the Bay of Pigs was a good idea. We talk with four experts for an update on how “groupthink” has influenced their fields.

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