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Swing Shift

Bipolar teens experience more and different mood swings than adults do, according to a new study. [Elms]

One Great Piano

A new Steinway arrives in Sayles Hall, and President Simmons plays the first chord.

Clues from a Comet

Okay, all life requires water, but how do you get the water in space? [Elms]

Anticlimax

Brown police are finally armed, but no one's up in arms. [Elms]

Getting Oriented

Latin Dancing, a student toes the line between East and West. [Student POV]

The End of Innocence

When classes began in the fall of 1963, the civil rights movement was in full swing. Two months later, President Kennedy was dead. It was enough to make a young freshman from Louisiana doubt everything he'd been raised to believe. [Feature]

The Player

He championed indie films during the 1980s. Later, as a Fox studio executive, Tom Rothman '76 supervised the making of Titanic, which has grossed $1.9 billion. Now, as cochairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, he's found a way to make good stories pay. [Feature]

Saving the Children

Two of them are from warring ethnic groups, but these three South Asians have been united by friendship for fourteen years. Now they are putting their bond to a higher purpose: building a model of pediatric health care for the entire developing world. [Cover Story]

Intrusions

Kirstin Allio’s unforgettable first novel begins with a corpse and continues through the unraveling of a town. [Arts]

Double Vision

Insights into mental illness from a poet with schizophrenia and her psychiatrist twin sister. [Arts]

What We Eat

Anna Lappé is changing the world, one forkful at a time. [Arts]

Jew-venilia

Sean Altman and Rob Tannenbaum take Jewish comedy way beyond Mel Brooks. [Arts]

Comeback Kids

Mary Seid '06 ends a career marked by early injuries and late triumphs. [Sports]