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December 2002
Volume 66, Number 3

Feature stories:

Getting to Yes
by James McElroy
Forget “grim professionalism.” For members of the Yale Entrepreneurial Society, starting a business is a way to effect change, make money, or just have fun. Only three years old, YES has become one of the biggest organizations on campus.

Rediscovering Machu Picchu
by Bruce Fellman
In 1911, Hiram Bingham III, a Yale professor of Latin American history, stunned the world with his announcement that he'd located the “lost city of the Incas.” But Machu Picchu was neither lost nor was it a city. Two scientists at the Peabody Museum of Natural History have put together an exhibit that explains what Bingham actually found.

AYA Assembly
by Mark Alden Branch ’86
To help alumni think about what ought to constitute a liberal education, this fall’s Assembly delegates were asked how they’d do it if they had a second chance.

Letters

Light & Verity
+  ending early decision
+  a center for emeriti
+  the campus gets its closeup—on film
+  surf’s up

Faces
Yale Nobelist; Ehud Barak; Dame Edna’s alter ego.

College Comment
A freshman looks for her place.

Details
Dean to CEOs: Shape up!

Calendar
Fighting words; sacred art; Messiah sing; master portraits.

In Print
Teacher’s tale; hazardous material; Saroyan’s story.

News from Alumni House

From the Archives

Inside the Blue Book
The art of detecting archeological hoaxes.

Old Yale
During WWII, Yale trained soldiers and scholars.

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