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Why would students with first-rate musical talent choose Brown over a music conservatory and then opt not to concentrate in music? And why, while taking a full load of courses, would they continue to spend hours each day rehearsing and performing?
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In an honor many think was long overdue, Fritz Pollard ’19 enters the NFL Hall of Fame this year. His induction is the perfect time to recognize that this African American pioneer’s most far-reaching successes had little to do with football.
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How Pollard was voted into the NFL Hall of Fame.
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After covering drug wars in Colombia and civil war in Angola, journalist David Marcus ’82 thought he was emotionally bulletproof. Writing a book about troubled teenagers in pastoral western Massachusetts shattered that illusion.
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For one of the girls in David Marcus’s book, the most basic challenge was to feed herself.
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As teenagers and their parents were concluding a grueling fourteen-month therapeutic program, author David Marcus asked them to offer advice to other parents of teens. Some of their pointers:
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Frozen moments from indoor and outdoor winter seasons.
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What this generation of new moms has in common: middle age.
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A sophomore succumbs to the allure of fruit flies.
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Twelve months of produce and recipes to promote local farmers
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Tracking Peace Corps volunteers
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The medical school has a new dean. Can he keep the hospitals happy, the school growing, and his sanity intact?
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Way beyond fusion, Chris Elam ’98 is creating a new dance language. And he’s using Brown students as his verbs.
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Jon Grant: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
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Among this year’s record-breaking 16,835 applicants to Brown is an anxious Midwestern blogger named Pete.
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An exchange student becomes an unwitting witness to history.
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Jessica Porter ’88 goes macrobiotic, with an occasional side of McHeartbreak.
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Marilynne Robinson’s long-awaited second novel.
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Marilynne Robinson berates collective hypochondria, Flannery O’Connor, and industrialized culture.
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David Yazbek ’82 heads back to Broadway with a musical based on the Steve Martin comedy.
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In 1912, just out of Brown and newly wed, ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy hitched a ride on an Antarctica-bound whale ship to observe seabirds.
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Graham Tanaka ’70: How technology’s gains are upending the economy
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Joe Harris ’81: Sixteen days with gale-force winds and thirty-foot waves.
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Shermay Lee '97: Sometimes you just have to go with your genes.
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