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January/February 2010
volume 73, number 3

Credits, from top: ©Beinecke Library, ©Mark Ostow, and ©Gregory Nemec.

Feature stories:

A self-invented man  
by Michael Cunningham
Walt Whitman’s last pair of eyeglasses—perhaps an element of the poet’s carefully constructed self-image—are in the Beinecke Library. The author of The Hours considers their significance.

The passions and privations of the start-up entrepreneur
by Jake Halpern ’97
Young Yalies trying to make it big.

A tale of two windows
by Richard Conniff ’73
In 1970, Yale’s stained-glass Tiffany masterpiece disappeared. Or did it?

Saving graces of The Game
by L. Jon Wertheim ’93
A senior writer for Sports Illustrated who has had a good look at big-time sports returns for The Game—and finds a lot to like in Ivy League football.

from the editor
Managerial Yale

letters
Readers remember Yale in the Great Depression.

light & verity
+ Gay Ivy: The Musical?
+ Yale's million-dollar man
+ Alumni by the numbers
+ Fat into fuel at Payne Whitney gym
+ Yale World Fellows return
+ Yale’s carbon-reduction progress
+ Webwatching
+ New cancer hospital opens
+ Quoted
+ Campus Clips
+ Student’s death still unexplained
+ Updates
+ Global medication distribution

milestones
+ Matching wits with melanoma.
+ More news of Yale people

where they are now
From Def Jam to Precious.

scene on campus
Glassblowing for chemists.

old yale
The glorious and expensive Yale Prom.

forum
How to make boards do their job.

q&a: rick levin
President Rick Levin '74PhD talks about the state of Yale’s endowment.

findings
+ Those sweet, sweet cereal ads
+ New research on Vioxx
+ Noted
+ Human evolution

arts & culture
+ Object lesson: Silver style on a pewter budget
+ Bassist Jack Vees
+ New evidence about the Serenity Prayer
+ Dorm rooms, 100 years before IKEA
+ Calendar
+ Kagan’s book on Thucydides
+ Books by Yale authors

sporting life
Standout women athletes of the fall season.

news from alumni house
The next alumnae conference.

the yale classifieds
Travel 2010: scooter tours, ecotours, wine and food tours.

school notes
News about your Yale school.

deaths

last look
Field guide to the schoolboy scarf.