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In Havana this past October, Professor James Blight brought together old foes Robert McNamara and Fidel Castro for the fortieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Such meetings, part of Blight’s unconventional fifteen-year study of the crisis, have led McNamara and others to a startling conclusion: we were much closer to nuclear war than anyone thought.
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A child teaches her mother an unexpected lesson in patriotism.
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What Lincoln would have said about September 11, 2001.
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Meet Jerry Green ’50, the Cal Ripken Jr. of Super Bowl coverage.
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Men’s water polo hosts the Eastern Championships with an eye on the NCAAs.
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The hopes of the men’s soccer team for another strong season were thwarted this fall by an unlikely foe: the frailty of the human knee.
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Harvey Pitt on the proper role of an ex–SEC chairman
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A medical-school professor opens up his operating room to teens
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Aboveground tunes from the Underground
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Bernard Reginster: Associate Professor of Philosophy
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After years of frustration, faculty members get more power to make policy
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Jesse Jackson Jr. calls for a new struggle for a new century
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The John Carter Brown Library spends $159,000–on a single book
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New York City welcomes a very young playwright
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V-Dub’s plastic cups are all the rage
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The Sayles organ turns 100.
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What is a book? Walter Feldman is asking students to make one and find out.
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Alfred Uhry takes on the battle of the faithful.
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Short stories from the first Gulf War.
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Finally, a mainstream film with real roles for Asian-American actors.
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How adoption has changed the American family—and how our notion of family has transformed adoption.
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Ken Shaw ’84 kicks the L out of the BLM.
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In Pasadena, David Ebershoff ’91 tells a complex tale of love and ambition.
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Artificial intelligence may be quick, but is it smart?
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Farewell: John F. Sheehan ’53
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Farewell: Charles A. Baldwin II
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Filling in Native American history by studying the objects left behind.
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Biological warfare’s surprisingly ancient past.
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Alumni in the Headlines
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Who won and who lost.
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Passing the baton to a new, more youthful regime.
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From the May 1934 BAM
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New titles from Brown authors.
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