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2008 Issue 4December 20, 2008April 28, 2014

Inclusive Baking

WHEN IS A BIRTHDAY CAKE NOT JUST A BIRTHDAY CAKE? The question sounds like a child’s silly riddle. To Jill Greenwald Robbins ’83, a clinical psychologist and the mother of a child with multiple food allergies, the question is both serious and practical. Its answer was the start of her entirely new …

2008 Issue 3September 20, 2008April 28, 2014

X Marks the Sport

“WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, every kid played on a team,” says Chris Stiepock ’87, former varsity basketball captain at Wesleyan and now vice president and general manager of ESPN’s Global X Games franchise. “Last year, more…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Help Needed

MUZZY ROSENBLATT ’87 IS NAVIGATING THE STREETS OF LOWER MANHATTEN IN HIS VAN ON A SUMMER MORNING. We are stopped at a red light when we see a man on the sidewalk tracing an erratic path, from one pedestrian to another. R…

2006 Issue 4December 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Breaking the Grip of Poverty

IN THEY DAYS AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA, many were shocked by the depth of poverty in New Orleans. To others who were already fighting its effects in America’s inner cities, the unfolding story of failed aid held few surpri…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Main Street’s New Buzz

ON A BRIGHT EARLY-AUTUMN SATURDAY AFTERNOON, pedestrians fill the central block of Main Street, which has been closed to vehicles for "Middletown Dances." A dance team from Middletown High School teaches "Hand Jive" on a…

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Charting A Rough Course

MID-JUNE, 2004: IT‘S 7:30 A.M. On the second floor of a brick school building in Harlem, Marc Waxman '94 stands in the corridor, counting the laptops that students returned to the cart after a morning enrichment program.…

2004 Issue 3September 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Politics @ Grassroots

WHEN HOWARD DEAN‘S CAMPAIGN FLAMED OUT, John Kerry's deputy fundraising director called Jonah Sachs '97. "Now are you ready to work with us?" she asked. Sachs and his 13-person firm, Free Range Graphics, had helped esta…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Murder Will Out

THE 7 A.M. MONDAY MORNING PHONE CALLdidn't surprise attorney Bill Devereaux '75. He often gave his home number to clients as a trial approached. But it wasn't one of his clients on the other end of the line. It was Todd…

2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Common Song for An Uncommon Film

ON A JUNE EVENING IN 2002, ethnomusicologist Tim Eriksen M.A. '93 got a call that changed his life. He and his wife, fellow ethnomusicologist Mirjana (Minja) Lausevic Ph.D. '98, were living in Minneapolis. She was a pro…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Who Owns The Past?

KARIN HALVORSEN '97 HAS NO TROUBLE REMEMBERING AN AFTER-DINNER DEBATE she witnessed as an undergraduate on a dig in Morgantina, Sicily, co-sponsored by Wesleyan and the University of Virginia. The archaeologists around t…