What a treat to read “The Panicked Person’s Holiday Gift Guide” (November/December). As I usually have most of my Christmas shopping done early, I found the guide more a catalog of adventures than of gifts. So many different alumni, from all eras, have pursued their own passions—to fantastic effect.
“The Diva of Cool” (November/December) certainly validates H. L. Mencken’s observation: “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
Thank you for the article on Randy Pausch, as well as for all the other informative and inspirational articles you’ve published over the years. The morning after reading that piece, I watched Randy’s entire lecture online, then ordered two DVDs of it, one to give to the high school where I taught until retiring two years ago.
Mail Room
After fifty-eight years at Penn State, Joe Paterno ’50 enters the College Football Hall of Fame.
Recent highlights from Brown sports
Looking at women's basketball
After a perfect Ivy season, the men’s soccer team stumbles in the NCAA tournament.
Here & Now
This little Zapatista is a lesson in politics.
A haunting debut novel about perception, memory, and the arc of grief.
A historian appraises the bicycle-helmet generation and their coddling parents.
Is Condoleezza Rice’s staunch support of George W. Bush’s foreign policy a matter of political opportunism or something else?
David M. Gross’s career speeds into control.
Vermont’s bounty inspires fine cooking and reading.
Craving a little baby-boomer black humor in the dark days of winter? Check out Laura Linney ’86 in The Savages.
Jumper, a collaboration between Doug Liman ’88 and Simon Kinberg ’95, adopts sci-fi formulas only to turn them on their heads.
How Brown could benefit from the end of early admissions elsewhere.
Brown commissions a table handcrafted by a furniture maker whose ancestor cofounded the University.
Brown goes international.
Landmine Survivors Network (LSN) executive director Jerry White ’86 recounts how a landmine blew off his lower right leg while he was hiking in Galilee during his junior year at Brown.
Can the John Carter Brown library be more than a haven for specialized academics?
