“Heaven is a Mixed Neighborhood”
In this excerpt from his new book, Metropolitan Philadelphia, the author describes “the closest thing I have known to a peaceable kingdom.”
Understanding Pashto
Benedicte Grima Santry spent years in the remote reaches of Afghanistan and Pakistan. What she learned—and now teaches—is invaluable, especially in the wake of 9/11.
Continental Drift
In his latest work, an atlas of North American English, Penn sociolinguist Bill Labov shows that we are talking more differently from one another.
Building Global Bridges
From College Hall | Penn’s links to India, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Letters
May|Jun 2006: Premature demise, and more.
Life Lessons from a Coach
What a non-basketball-playing English major learned from Fran Dunphy.
Expatriate Games
Every time I moved, I was faced with the prospect of reinventing myself.
Remains of a Cold Day
I naively imagined exhumations would be solemn affairs to honor the dead.
Make the Child the Client
Safety, not family preservation, must be the first goal.
Revering, Rejecting, Rethinking Ben
Ben, begone?
Commencement Envy
Commencement complaints (What else is new?)
Boom … or Doom?
Assessing Philadelphia’s building boom
A Healthy Rank for Penn Medicine
School of Medicine ranked third in U.S. News
Research in Brief
Research in Brief: May|Jun 2006
Desi Dancing the Night Away
Getting down with Dhamaka
Penn’s Most Dangerous Minds?
Penn’s “tenured radicals”?
Lifting the Burden of School Loans
Penn replaces loans with grants for incomes under $50,000
A Quaker Turns Owl
Dunphy headed to Temple
Valenti Pins Wrestling Championship
Championship “chess match” in wrestling
Reflections in a Poetic Eye
Remembering Objectivist poet Karl Rakosi SW’40
Eyes on the Prizes
The Economy of Prestige. Rise of the prize
One + One = $3.5 Billion
John Gross W’64
Flavor of Reality
Schatar Sapphira Taylor C’92
Film and the Sport of Life
Jonathan Hock C’85