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Q & A: No Amicable Divorce

  Jonathan Cutler is associate professor of sociology at Wesleyan and author of Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism (Temple University Press, 2004). In an op-ed published recently in the Christian Science Monitor, he argues that the acrimonious split in…
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WW II Vets Honored

For many college students in the early 1940s, personal dreams for a college degree were cast aside for the national goal. Carl Zier ’44 was one such student. He had made it threequarters of the way through his bachelor’s…
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View From Turkey

“A Jewish chaplain and a Muslim chaplain took some college students on a trip to Turkey?”   If American stereotypes lead you to expect a punchline?not so fast! This is a real event?an eight-day trip that two Wesle…
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A Secret Sacrifice

TUESDAY, NOV. 3, 1981 CIA HEADQUARTERS, LANGLEY, VIRGINIA As David Forden '52 displayed his ID badge to the guards at the entrance gate to CIA headquarters, he was preoccupied by the growing unrest in Poland. Over brea…
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Calculated Risks

ALAN DACHS '70, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE SAN FRANCISO-BASED INVESTMENT COMPANY FREMONT GROUP, recently concluded 14 years of service on Wesleyan's Board of Trustees, eight of those as chair. He played…
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