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November/December 2003
Volume 67, Number 2

Feature stories:

The Land That Knew Hell
by David Case
For those who survived the massacres in East Timor, justice depends on historical truth. Genocide researcher Ben Kiernan is helping them find it.

How Yale Got Its Groove Back
by Gaddis Smith ’54 and David Gergen ’63
In 1993, President Rick Levin inherited a budget crisis and a campus beset by malaise. Two veteran Yale watchers assess his response.

David vs. Goliath
by David Pogue ’85
David Gelernter is a computer scientist who doesn’t like computers. So he’s launched a quest to rebuild everybody’s desktop.

Where the Wild Things Are
by Mark Alden Branch ’86
From Panthera leo to Danus handsomia, Yale’s architecture is teeming with life. See if you can identify their habitats.

Freshman Address
by Richard Levin ’74PhD
… in which the president heeds his own advice: “Don’t be tempted to write papers on books you haven’t read.”

From the Editor

Letters

Light & Verity
+  post-strike postmortem
+  goodbye Barrie’s
+  Sprague Hall reopens
+  Pierson Inferno extinguished
+  a new coach sets some goals
+  Yalie in Jeopardy!

Calendar
Deconstructing images of India; “total” architecture; Culture Clash in New Haven; Handel’s influences.

Faces
A philosopher-priest goes to London; a medievalist and his MacArthur.

Details
Serendipity and sleuthing a cancer cure.

Inside the Blue Book
What is it about Goodnight Moon? Students find out in a seminar where the reading list is child’s play.

In Print
The boxing “bidness”; religious legacy of the ’60s.

News from Alumni House

Old Yale
Yale’s first Native American graduate.

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