Vol. 101, No. 4
Features
Make It Plain!
In the pulpit and the classroom, on TV and radio talk-shows, in newspaper columns and scholarly journals, Michael Eric Dyson “brings the noise” to the “United States of Amnesia.”
By Susan Frith
Laugh It Up
For three young alumni trying to make it in New York, comedy is serious business.
By Ted Mann
The Good Citizen
When asked why he gave, the late Walter Annenberg—Penn’s largest benefactor, who for years headed the list of Most Generous Americans—always said, “Because it’s the right thing to do.”
By Joan Capuzzi Giresi
Lines in the Sand
Graduate alumnus and director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute Harvey Sicherman on war in Iraq and peace in the Middle East.
Interview by Samuel Hughes
Departments
Notes From the Undergrad
Ticket to diversity.
Alumni Voices
The Queen of Obscurica meets her match.
Gazetteer
What “blind justice” misses
McNeil Center for Early American Studies gets $6 million
University of Alabama’s Marjorie Jeffcoat named dental school dean
Gifts Revisited: Penn and Philadelphia Health Care Trust dissolve $100 million agreement
What killed the woolly mammoth?
Former SAS Dean Rosemary Stevens’ “parallel career” as a painter
Penn ordered to pay $2.9 million to vet school professor
Magical “birth brick” discovered at Abydos in Egypt
Off the Shelf
A Matter of Degrees. Taking temperature’s measure.
Can’t Be Satisfied. A life of Muddy Waters.
Sports
Challenging road ahead for men’s basketball.
THE ALUMNI
Alumni Profiles
Penn Quaker Voyages | Scrambling to Machu Picchu
Kirk Marcolina C’92 | Four Weddings and a Hit TV Series
Jake Wilson C’99 | News—and Group-Therapy—for Ivy Basketball Fans
Mike Rutstein C’86 | Unspoiled by Fame
Window
The view from Huntsman Hall.