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January/February 2007
Volume 70, Number 3

Feature stories:

When Good People Do Evil
by Philip Zimbardo ’59PhD
Forty-five years ago, Stanley Milgram’s experiments showed that, under orders, decent human beings will do anything.

Coming to Light
by Mark Alden Branch ’86
The genius of Louis Kahn’s 1953 addition to the Art Gallery was obscured for years by partitioning, window problems, and crowding. A three-year, $44-million renovation has uncovered the building that Kahn designed.

Students Who Cheat
by Paul Bass ’82
Is academic plagiarism on the rise? At Yale (and elsewhere), the answer is “maybe.” But administrators aren’t taking any chances.

The Boola Boola Thing
by Tom Perrotta ’83
Novelist Tom Perrotta ’83 never attended the Yale-Harvard Game—until now.

from the editor

letters
Readers weigh in on the “new evangelists,” tribunals, and Frost.

light & verity
+  talk of new residential colleges
+  how Elis fared in the election
+  Toad’s won’t be hopping this summer

milestones
The dean of calamities calls it quits.

where they are now
One of People’s “50 Hottest Bachelors” in the kitchen.

scene on campus
Opera with ice cream.

old yale
Blues in Alaska.

out of the blue
How to make it to your 74th reunion.

forum
The morality of healthcare for all.

q&a: rick levin
Why Yale College will keep early admissions.

findings
Better heart attack care; a rumination gene; baked scorpions; lemur surprise.

arts & culture
A one-man, forty-character show; the Danielewski cult; on the female brain.

news from alumni house
Experience Yale through podcasts.

sporting life
The fall 2006 sports highlights.

deaths

school notes
News about your Yale school.

last look

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