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Despite Brown being one of the “hot” and “fashionable” colleges of the 1980s, radiant in its John F. Kennedy Jr. ’83 and Countess Cosima von Bulow Pavoncelli ’89 glow, I couldn’t write a major research paper without borrowing books from Harvard. I’m sure things have changed!

Stephen Ornstein ’86 Washington, D.C.

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