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March/April 2011
Volume 74, Number 4

Credits, from top: ©Gregory Nemec, ©Manuscripts & Archives, and ©Yale University Art Gallery.

Feature stories:

Holy Eli, Batman!
A secret—hidden, like his true identity, for many years—stands revealed: the Dark Knight is a Yalie.
by Chip Kidd

Why Batman Went to Yale
by Kathrin Day Lassila ’81
Batman has no superpowers; he is a great detective thanks to sheer brains and drive. The man is an overachiever.

Bruce Wayne’s Verbal Legacy
by Fred R. Shapiro
From Zamm! to “Holy Interplanetary Yardstick, Batman!”: a critical analysis.

A Delicate Balance
Josh Rodarmel ’07 and his brother have shot to success selling Power Balance bracelets to help athletes “maximize their potential.” Today, they’re facing lawsuits. But they still believe in their company.
by Alex Goldberger ’08

The Architect at Work
Art history isn’t just the finished product. You also need to see the rough drafts.
by Mark Alden Branch ’86

Special online feature

A slide show of aerial photographer Robert Haas’s shots of the world seen from above (see “Life As a Double Agent”).

from the editor
Yale’s president, still at work.

letters
The upside of inequality; the downside of athletics; the memorable words of another anonymous woman.

light & verity
+ “Tiger mother” goes viral
+ Yale Glee Club turns 150
+ President Levin stays put
+ Sledding down the div school hill
+ “High Seas & High Tea” at the BAC
+ Will ROTC return?
+ More budget cuts
+ Campus clips
+ Quoted
+ Withholding error calls attention to “gay tax”
+ $50 million pledge for new School of Management building
+ Updates
+ Webwatching

milestones
+ A new top cop at Yale
+ More news of Yale people

where they are now
Two alumnae who liked their local WNBA team enough to buy it

scene on campus
Skiing up York Street during “snowpocalypse”

old yale
Annie Goodrich, who became Yale’s first female dean in 1923

forum
Does microlending work? Using science to fight poverty.

q&a: rick levin
Yale’s president, an economist, discusses financial sector reform.

findings
+ International election monitoring isn’t enough
+ Gay teens are punished more than their straight peers
+ From flightless bird to fighting bird
+ Noted
+ Personal ties affect relocation
+ Alpha-male chimps have more parasites
+ Can antibiotics cause asthma?

arts & culture
+ Newport-school furniture at the Art Gallery’s Furniture Study
+ Rebecca Salter retrospective at the BAC
+ Calendar
+ Panoramas of the Arctic
+ Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
+ More books by Yale authors

sporting life
+ The end of a track coach’s long run
+ Sports Shorts

news from alumni house
How to spend your summer vacation.

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

deaths

last look
Upsized origami, 1,000 times larger than usual

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