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Russell Banks teaches his last class | |||
 Don Oberdorfer '52 |
About two-thirds of the way through The Two Koreas, Don
Oberdorfer '52's fine general-interest history of post-war
Korea, the veteran Washington Post foreign
correspondent drops something of a bombshell. In the
spring and summer of 1994, he matter-of-factly asserts, the
political crisis over the North Korean nuclear weapons
program brought America closer to the brink of war than
at any time since the Persian Gulf conflict.... Click here for more... |
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It's not that Banks has turned against teaching, he
says, but that having written four novels in the past 10 years,
he's worn out, "bone weary."... Click here for more... |
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Reflections on the civil-rights movement |
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Jacques Smith '93 lands a role in Rent | |||
 A Circle of Trust |
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg '80, an associate professor of history at
Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, helped
organize a conference several years ago that brought
together for the first time many of the
civil-rights workers who had been active in the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s. Click here for more... |
 Jacques Smith '93 |
This past fall, Jacques Smith '93 was just
beginning his third year of an
M.F.A. program in acting at University of California, San Diego, when he was invited to audition for a part in the musical Rent, about a group of poor, striving young artists in New York City.... Click here for more... |
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