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January/February 2011
Volume 74, Number 3

Credits, from top: ©Christopher Gardner, ©Ross MacDonald, and ©Mark Ostow.

Feature stories:

The Brain Cutter
by Richard Conniff ’73
Harvey Cushing, father of modern neurosurgery, performed his first operation as a Yale undergraduate. (The “patient” was a dog.) He didn’t work at Yale again for 40 years. But in his will, he left Yale the fruits of his labor.

How I Stole a Yale Chair
by Brandt Goldstein ’92JD
A Law School grad confesses—but he’s not giving it back.

Anonymous Was a Woman
by Fred R. Shapiro
Your favorite famous quotation: was it by Voltaire? Yogi Berra? Or some woman you’ve never heard of?

Driving Sideways
by Jane Kamensky ’85, ’93PhD
History, coeducation, and what women want: reflections at the 127th edition of The Game.

Special online features for this issue of the print magazine include:

Recordings of American English speakers from around the country demonstrating their regional accents.

Links to Yale-related clips from The Simpsons.

A panoramic view of Harvey Cushing’s brain collection.

A slide show of photos from The Game, featuring athletes and spectators.

from the editor
White House calling?

letters
Yale in Singapore; a call for more athletes; name that chestnut tree.

light & verity
+ Metropolitan Opera screenings at Sprague Hall
+ Yale Tomorrow capital campaign
+ Elis in office
+ White House post for Yale’s president?
+ North American dialects
+ SRO at the “Yale whale”
+ Machu Picchu artifacts to return to Peru
+ DKE pledges shout rape “jokes” on Old Campus
+ Updates
+ Quoted
+ Campus Clips
+ New rules on doctors & Big Pharma
+ Yale’s promise to New Haven students
+ Webwatching

milestones
+ West Campus czar Scott Strobel
+ More news of Yale people

where they are now
Poet J. D. McClatchy on the Yale Review and other “culturally endangered species.”

scene on campus
The letterpress in the basement.

old yale
The man who bought Science Hill.

q&a: rick levin
Yale president Richard Levin ’74PhD discusses why Yale will fund college tuition—at other colleges.

findings
+ Business-casual penguins
+ Hanny’s Voorwerp
+ Noted
+ Why gentlemen prefer booze
+ Parents’ fears about video games

arts & culture
+ Object Lesson: hundreds of glass threads combine to form a single vessel
+ Page 73, an Off-Broadway theater company
+ Yalies in The Simpsons
+ A Freakanomics-style take on sports
+ Books by Yale authors
+ Calendar

sporting life
The fall roundup.

news from alumni house
The Association of Yale Alumni strategic plan.

the yale classifieds
Ski, sail, scooter … travel for the active Yale alumnus.

school notes
News from Yale’s graduate and professional schools.

deaths

last look
An exploding house.

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