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The content of the magazine and its website is the responsibility of the editors and does not necessarily reflect the views of Yale or its officers.

September/October 2011
Volume 75, Number 1

Credits, from top: ©Christopher Gardner, ©Gregory Nemec, and ©Atlas of Infant Behavior.

Feature stories:

Spymasters
One takes classes from the FBI. One worked at the CIA. One embedded in Iraq. You thought writing thrillers was easy?
by Alex Beam ’75

Keeping Faith
Alex Berenson ’94 has focused his five novels on the CIA’s war against Islamic terrorists—with a twist: his protagonist is an American Muslim.

Espionage Realist
Joseph Weisberg ’87, once a real-life spook, has fictionalized the glamourless, unsexy lives of latter-day James Bonds.

Company Man
Joseph Finder ’80, who started out with a Cold War spy yarn, has retooled himself as a creator of best-selling corporate espionage thrillers.

“The Mingled Dust of Both Armies”
Yale’s Civil War memorial remembers all who died. But it forgets what the war was about.
by Ali Frick ’07, ’12JD

Cold Case: Dinosaur Edition
Nick Longrich has found a half-dozen new species by looking at fossils other scientists had forgotten.
by Margot Sanger-Katz ’02

Our online content includes:

06520, a blog with daily updates tracking Yale and its alumni

The Yalie of the Week—an alum who has been making headlines, whether for better or for worse

from the editor
Black at Yale, through the decades.

letters
Sexism and free speech; the murky origins of the Myrtle Beach pilgrimage; 9/11 art.

light & verity
+  A peak for stargazers
+  The Class of 2015
+  Boy meets grill. Boy loses.
+ 2 new residential colleges, three new towers
+  Med school gives students free iPads
+  The West Campus shuttle
+  An undergrad who constructs crosswords
+  Campus Clips
+  Yale partners with a drug company for basic research
+  Quoted
+  Webwatching
+  Three undergrads who invented a medical device
+  Updates

milestones
+  The woman who gave away 100,000 books a year
+  More news of Yale people

notebook
The $3.88 billion from Yale’s capital campaign: where it came from and where it’s going

where they are now
The smartest guy in sports?

scene on campus
Yale’s bees

old yale
Yale president Timothy Dwight demolished a fence and built a university

forum
Spending on health care may not be the best way to improve the nation’s health

q&a: rick levin
When corporations give money for Yale’s health research

findings
+  The lure of a bribe versus the power of knowledge
+  How a milkshake may speed up your metabolism
+  The crazy colors birds can see
+  Noted

arts & culture
+  Object Lesson: infants on camera
+  You Can Quote Them: witticisms Mark Twain never made
+  In Print: books by Yale authors
+  Calendar
+  Book review: Harold Bloom on the Bible

sporting life
A football player’s life-changing injury

news from alumni house
Yale alumni, teaching in China

the yale classifieds
Walk Provence, taste Rome, photograph India … enticing travel ideas

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

deaths

last look
Homage to the circle

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