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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 Barry, a man he had met some seven years earlier when a mutual friend of theirs…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Healing Torture’s Wounds

CYNTHIA WILLARD '88 REMEMBERS THE EXACT MOMENT she decided to become a physician. She was walking down a red-dirt path between her dormitory and a mission hospital in rural Liberia. Flanked by large green reeds, she stop…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 2, 2014

The Fault of Prophecy

THE SOLUTION TO PERHAPS THE GREATEST MYSTERY of ancient Greece depended on a chance meeting near the remains of a Roman villa in Portugal in 1995. True, things got clearer as an unsuspecting woman became giddy in a tool…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: FOOD FOR THOUGHT

In Wesleyan's first years, when most students boarded in town or lived in the Old Boarding Hall or the Dormitory (now known as North College), food was simple and plain. Many students were of relatively modest means, and…

2004 Issue 2April 6, 2004March 23, 2015