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Mar/Apr 2013

Served fresh daily

I’m writing three days after winter storm Nemo, possibly the only event that could have gotten my town of Hamden, Connecticut (those famous 40...

Mar/Apr 2013

A rebel comes home

In 1977, when I was working as a sportswriter for the New Haven Journal-Courier, a humble, now long-shuttered newspaper, Yale appointed a man named...

Mar/Apr 2013

You can quote them: The full monty

In my last column I wrote about the cryptic origins of the widespread phrase “the whole nine yards.” This is the best-known of a class...

Mar/Apr 2013

Sense and sensitivity

I confess to a certain impatience with the antibullying program implemented by the public schools in the city where I live. The students’ new...

May/Jun 2013

Top dogs

Last summer, while reading a book about presidential leadership, Yale hockey player Jesse Root ’14 came across the famous maxim from Greek...

May/Jun 2013

Heated words on climate change

The naïve article on Professor Mann’s research and its repercussions should not have been published in the Yale Alumni Magazine...

May/Jun 2013

You can quote them: Elementary, my dear reader

Any discussion of the quotations of Sherlock Holmes must begin with the Great Misquotation. Ranking with the famous but erroneous “Beam me up...

Jul/Aug 2013

On retiring as the president’s wife

We find ourselves in the same position—on the brink of ending our particular time at Yale. You are about to stop being undergraduates and I...

Sep/Oct 2013

The fraud detective

On a muggy Thursday in the dog days of August 2011, the news broke that the American technology giant Hewlett-Packard was about to acquire British...

Jan/Feb 2014

The SS Elihu Yale

Seventy years ago this February, the SS Elihu Yale was bombed and sunk off Anzio, Italy. By chance, Welford Macon Durrer, Seaman First Class, had...

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