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March/April 2009
Volume lxxi, Number 4

Click on photos at left to read stories. (Credits, from top: Mark Ostow, Bob Handelman, Gregory Nemec.)

Feature stories:

The chemical secrets of memory  
by Elizabeth Svoboda '03
This is your brain on estrogen.

First, use plain English  
by William Zinsser
The author of On Writing Well recalls how he taught Yale students to cut through the clutter.

David Swensen's guide to sleeping soundly
interview by Marc Gunther '73
Financial wisdom for troubled times -- plus strong opinions on the current crisis -- from Yale's celebrated chief investment officer.

from the editor
The business school dean gives herself a pay cut

letters
Faith and Tony Blair; defining "Yalie"; the f-word.

light & verity
+ Yale settles with the feds
+ Man bites dog. School gives money to alumni.
+ The Whiffenpoofs turn 100
+ Quoted
+ Closing time for Mory's
+ New alumni faces in Washington, DC
+ Campus clips
+ Better living through green chemistry
+ Webwatching

milestones
+ With the change in administration, diplomat John Negroponte '60 tries teaching
+ More news of Yale people

where they are now
A Law School alum sees green paying off for the inner city

scene on campus
Wall art

old yale
When Yale was a farming school

q&a: rick levin
The economy hits Yale

findings
+ The persistence of prejudice
+ Noted
+ In search of fair elections
+ Caffeine and birth defects
+ Why people worry about the HPV vaccine

arts & culture
+ On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
+ Tony winner turns her back on Broadway
+ Fred Shapiro on two economic quotations
+ Calendar
+ Presidential poet Elizabeth Alexander '84
+ Thornton Wilder's letters
+ Books by Yale authors

sporting life
+ Tom Williams: Yale's first African American football coach
+ Sports shorts

news from alumni house
The AYA "State of the Union"

the yale classifieds

school notes
News about your Yale school

alumni notes
News of Yale College classmates

deaths

last look
Bling, in the rough