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Category 2008 Issue 4Posted on

Rise of Retail, Thai Style

BY ERIC GERSHON ’98 THE STORY STARTS WITH BOOKS AND MAGAZINES, as it did for Tos’ father, Samrit, the eldest of the 26 children of Tiang Cheng, who emigrated in 1927 from the Chinese island of Hainan to Thailand, then known as Siam. Time, Life, Ladies’ Home Journal, McCall’s—they were all on the r…
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Category 2008 Issue 4Posted on

More Than a Blip

BY TOM MATLACK ’86 BALTHAZAR RESTAURANT, A FRENCH BISTRO ON SPRING STREET IN THE SOHO SECTION OF MANHATTAN, buzzes at 11 o’clock on a Thursday morning as waiters in white aprons serve espresso, a sprinkling of tourists …
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Category 2008 Issue 3Posted on

FILM STUDIES

Two associate professors of film studies, Lisa Dombrowski ’92 and Scott Higgins, have published groundbreaking books that are sure to be useful in American film classes.   Lisa Dombrowski’s If You Die, I’ll Kill Y…
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NEW MUSIC

Last fall, Ben Goldwasser ’05 and Andrew Vanwyngarden ’05, who form the electro-rock music duo named MGMT, released their new CD, Oracular Spectacular on Columbia Records, and since then, their legion of fans continues t…
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HUMANITIES

Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities, one of the oldest humanities institutes in the United States, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a focus on the ways “the human” has been figured over the past half-centu…
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