Letters
Jul|Aug 2012
Seems Like Old Times
The rotary phone, transistor radio, three-piece-suit-on-an-airplane blues.
Pilgrim’s Progress
On walking at the spirit’s pace.
Driving Up The Dalton
A road lover celebrates his 80th year on the most distant patch of gravel he can find.
The Third Man
How America’s secret hunt for al Qaeda’s No. 3 transformed the struggle against terrorism.
Needed: Winners for the “Losing Team”
Canada to Class of 2012: “Get in the game”
Honorary Degrees
Honorary-degree recipients
Bond Buyers Bet Penn Will Last Another Century
Buy and hold: University sells $300 million in 100-year bonds
Gutmann Gets Five-Year Contract Extension
Contract extension will keep Gutmann in College Hall until 2019
Garry Kasparov on Chess and Politics
Kasparov on politics: “The comparison with chess is not correct”
Celebrating 25 Years of TCPW, and a Nobel Prize Winner
Toni Morrison gets Beacon Award at TCPW’s 25th
Back To School
Penn offering free courses through Coursera online-education platform
Improving Women’s Health—One Man, Pig, or Cityscape at a Time
Nursing’s Center for Global Women’s Health holds first symposium
Findings
Blood Sugar, Brains, and Memory plus Pain: Separate but Unequal
Holocaust Archive Comes to Penn
Shoah Foundation’s Holocaust archives coming to Penn
False Credentials Prompt GSE Vice Dean’s Exit
GSE’s Lynch resigns over false credentials