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Two brothers. Two personalities. Two definitions of success. The lives of Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan ’81 and Catholic missionary Patrick Moynihan ’87 show there’s more than one way to change the world.

Teaching Computers to Spell

A farewell to Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences Henry Kucera, inventor of spell-check software.

She Was the First

A farewell to Elizabeth Leduc '48 PhD, Brown's first female biology professor and dean of biological sciences.

Obituaries

Obituaries from the May/June 2010 Issue.

A Sweet Decision

An alumna facing marriage ponders taking on her husband’s surname.

Problem Solved

A scholar uses a computer to reunite two halves of a single page from a Lincoln math notebook.

When Did Slavery End?

Just fifty years ago, argues Wall Street Journal reporter Douglas Blackmon.

Fight Like an Egyptian

War breaks out on the Front Green.

Latin America

Former president of Chile Ricardo Lagos, now a Brown professor at large, explores the contrasting social consequences of the recent earthquakes in his country and Haiti.

Practical Studies

Bringing business managers to campus.

Photography

Fazal Sheikh takes photographs of the displaced of rural India.

Obama’s Future

Mara Liasson '77 briefs campus on the national political scene.

Retreat of the Secular

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Anthony Shadid observes the changing Middle East.

Book Publishing: Any Hope?

Three publishers on the future of books.

Creating Worlds

Broadway composer David Yazbek '82 teaches a master class in songwriting.

Topping Off

Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts gets its final i-beam.

Since Last Time

A Home for Medicine

Work begins on a rehabbing an old industrial building in Providence's Jewelry District for a new medical school headquarters, marking a turning point for Brown, the city, and the state.