March / April 2004 Game Day Savings Account Who’s up and who’s down In The News Alumni making headlines The Best Thing Since …What? From the April 1937 BAM At the Old Ball Game: Eric Nadel ’72 Even after twenty-five years of calling plays for the Texas Rangers, the job still makes him smile. Layers of the Past Uncovering—literally—the history of a building. Fresh Ink New books by alumni authors Sunstruck Critic’s Corner Art by the Ton A Roy Lichtenstein comes to campus Hot House Climate change is good for some, bad for others. Always a Smile, Always in Control Farewell: Samuel M. Nabrit ’32 PhD Once Upon a Time in America: June Suzuki Kawamura ’46 How one family went from national security threat to California state government. A Cop with a Six-Pack: Karen DeLucia Pinch ’88 Meet the fittest female state trooper in the United States. Oxford Diary In which our correspondent provides an irreverent account of his life as a Rhodes Scholar. Good-Bye to All That When the old Sarah Doyle House was demolished last year to make way for the $94 million life sciences center, few people noticed. But invisible among the rubble was something that gave meaning to all that wood and brick. No Trench Coat Required As a private eye, Amy Gray ’97 exposed crooks and evaluated potential husbands No More Killing Fields How genocide shaped the twentieth century. Anything for a Laugh Screenwriter John Hamburg ’92 and actor Ben Stiller are keeping the box office busy. Me and Mel Brooks Jed Spingarn ’85' The Good Angel Edwidge Danticat examines the contradictions inherent in love and guilt. Double Play They came from the heart of the country four years ago, and they’ve been winning the hearts of Brown baseball fans ever since. Data Points The latest in research on campus Boogie Night What’s it like to party with a Nobel laureate? Mail Room Heroes’ Return An impulsive offer reaps unexpected rewards. Upward Mobility Facing graduation, a student looks ambivalently at how far she’s come. Old Friends The most comprehensive study yet on how the dying are treated Counting Heads Reviewing the reviewers at the <i>New York Times</i> Beyond Shabbat Not your parents’ Hillel. Judging Merit The affirmative-action debate misses the point. 60 Seconds With… Barbara Roberts, Clinical Assistant Professor Rowing in Step Brown's most consistently successful team is led by a pair of coaches who are also husband and wife. How do they do it? Obituaries The Woman Who Knew Too Much Jesselyn Brown Radack ’92 was a triple concentrator at Brown, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a graduate of Yale Law School, and a well-respected lawyer in the U.S. Department of Justice. So why can’t she find a job? Nesting in Razor Wire C.D. Wright’s latest poems were born inside Louisiana’s prisons.
