Jul|Aug 2004

01 Jul 2004

Volume 102, No. 6

Features

The Global Garden
Penn’s Morris Arboretum owes its rich variety of specimens to a century of worldwide plant-hunting—an activity that requires both a healthy sense of adventure and extraordinary patience.
By Susan Frith

A Dark Task
“That man, I reasoned, was dead long before I stepped foot into that valley.” An excerpt from This Man’s Army. Plus: An interview with the author.
By Andrew Exum

Alumni Weekend 2004
Hot fun in the springtime. A photo album.

Saving Bentley
With the help of Penn’s Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital, the family of a pet with cancer finds both pain and empowerment.
By Kathryn Levy Feldman

Freak Love
Mixing references to carnival sideshows and art history, James Mundie is creating a compelling, unsettling—yet tender—series of portraits.
By Samuel Hughes

Departments

From the Editor

Letters

FIRST PERSON : Essays

Notes From the Undergrad: A true and even exchange

Alumni Voices: A summer to remember

Elsewhere: Locked without barbed wire in Kolyma

Expert Opinion: Good news ecology

GAZETTEER : News & Sports

Bono to grads: “The world is more malleable than you think”

Departing Rodin honored by Penn and others

Honorary degree recipients

Penn Reading Project picks The Tipping Point

Vet School breaks ground for $54 million facility

Freemasons: Conspirators for the Enlightenment

Barchi leaving for Thomas Jefferson University presidency

Analyzing the father of psychoanalysis and his world

Dr. Ruth on Freud: “a catastrophe”

Christopher Reeve on digging deep

Kirkuk: “The weathervane of interethnic relations in Iraq”