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Index: Winter 2007
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Here are the alums who appeared in the Winter 2007 issue, by last name and (further below) by school. See anyone you know?
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Power Exes
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Harvard + Internet = <3
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The Billion-Dollar Alimony Check
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Message Bored
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There was a time when bored undergrads at Lamont Library procrastinated simply by sleeping.
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Offensive Fouls
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College football season is over—presumably none too soon for Harvard coach Tim Murphy.
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02163: Vegas, Baby
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Offered an opportunity to lose both money and sleep, HBS students could not refuse.
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Ned Lamont: The Debriefing
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To the victors belong the spoils, but even losers get their kicks.
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Midterm Madness, Redux
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As the Democrats seized control of Congress this fall, the
ranks of Harvard alums shrank.
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Second Acts: The Man Who 02138 Everything
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How a Harvard-educated lawyer ended up writing about food for a living.
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Power, it turns out, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Harvard-Educated?: The Boob of Beverly Hills
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On Dr. 90210, the E! TV network's hit reality show, a Kennedy School alum and plastic surgeon makes you wish implants came with a hit of cyanide—for the doctor.
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Power Couples
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Parallel Universes: Photos by Mark Leong
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Special for 02138mag.com; a photo show by Mark Leong.
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Power Couples
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Unstrung Heroes
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Over the past 20 years, physicists have built up an imposing scientific orthodoxy around a compelling—and unproven—set of postulates they call the "Theory of Everything." Now, from the bottom floor, one mathematician is trying to shake the foundations.
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The Parallel Universes of China
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Mark Leong's photographs of contemporary China capture the surreal coexistence of dazzling development, environmental devastation and the yawning gap between city and country life. Orville Schell dissects this society of opposites.
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The Healer
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Once again, Derek Bok has become president of Harvard at a time of crisis. But can he—or anyone—heal the wounded university?
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All Dressed Up and Someplace to Go
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Before a big night out, Marisa Noel Brown calls on a designer pal to pump up the wow factor.
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The Road to Ruins
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A visit to Afghanistan's ancient "City of Screams" makes history come alive.
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The Walls Are Alive
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Art patron Tom Healy greets guests with a high-tech surprise.
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Have Ham, Will Travel
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The miraculous tale of two brothers, 30 state lines, and one ever-dwindling country ham (stashed in a stainless steel briefcase).
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My Family Jewels
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The heir to the Winston legacy on why diamonds are always a guy's best friend.
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Scotch Is For Drinking
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And Michael Simonetti is, frankly, obsessed.
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Hidden Agendas
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A Harvard test probes the mind in an attempt to learn what's in our hearts. But does it work?
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To "L" and Back
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Scott Turow didn't give up his dream of becoming an author when he went to law school. He just got the best of both worlds.
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Lobby? What Lobby?
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When a controversy about Israel erupted at Harvard, a university publication crossed the line.
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I Am the Great and Powerful Number 25. Heed My Words.
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I am influential. How do I know? This magazine said so.
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Gene Therapy
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Three new books by Harvard alumni—a novel, a memoir, and
a scientific history—explore several disturbing singularities
of genetic determinism.
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Global Warming
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Forget fruitcakes, earmuffs, and Amazon gift cards. Sometimes the best gifts are the ones that give back.
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When Dodo Met Dodo
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Marine biologist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson lampoons former colleagues in his new documentary about evolution. The humor carries a disquieting message: scientists are ceding the intellectual high ground.
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R2D2, M.D.
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William Peine is looking for ways to marry advanced medical imaging technology with surgical robotics, medicine’s most glamorous tool for minimally invasive surgery (MIS).
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Transculturalism, Inc.
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Jamaican dancehall beats in London. A thriving Tokyo hip-hop scene. Richard Wayner is turning urban-style club culture into a socially conscious—and potentially lucrative—vision of the future.
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The Rock Star of Agriculture
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Hobbled by antiquated practices and under assault from industrial
conglomeration, the small family farm is teetering on the brink of obsolescence. Clay Mitchell wants to bring it into the twenty-first century.
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After Hours With… Rebecca Rand Kirshner
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02138 enjoys a round of old-style Hollywood glamour with the Gilmore Girls writer.
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Peter H.O. Claudy, 44; Venture Capitalist
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L. Gaunce Lewis, Jr., 56; Mathematician
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05/17/2006
Syracuse’s respected professor of mathematics L. Gaunce Lewis, Jr. died at 56 from a brain tumor, reported the Syracuse Post-Standard.
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Andrew James Zafis, 80; Attorney and Law Professor
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WWII veteran, native of Oconomowoc, WI, Andrew James Zafis was memorialized in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and will receive military honors at his inurnment later this month. The Law School graduate sailed, led songs, and dabbled in the visual arts. He relocated to the San Diego area, whose Union-Tribune ran the notice of his son John's death two years ago; the son's ashes were scattered at sea.
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William L. Weiss, 77; Lawyer and Navy Veteran
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05/08/2006
Twenty-three years after announcing his son's engagement, the New York Times printed a notice marking the death of William L. Weiss, a graduate of Syracuse University and Harvard Law School. Weiss was the chairman and CEO of Helena Rubenstein, Inc., the cosmetics concern.
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Alexis Bespaloff, 71; Wine Critic
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05/05/2006
Alexis Bespaloff, a Romanian-born wine critic, received warm, admiring tributes from Wine Enthusiast, decanter.com, and the New York Times.
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Walter A. Parrent, 66; Banker
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A little town in Alabama mourns its native son. Walter A. Parrent studied at the likes of HBS and LSU School of Banking, according to a notice in the Opelika-Auburn News, but it was in his hometown of Opelika that he was able to conduct a 41-year banking career, culminating in a presidency and CEOship of a locally-based holding company.
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Thomas W. Heenan; Lawyer
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05/05/2006
A spartan little notice in the Chicago Tribune commemorates Thomas Heenan, graduate of HLS (class of 1960) and a college in New Haven, CT. He contributed to the Republican cause, and his son speaks French.
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Nelson A. Briggs, 79; Marine, Technical Writer
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05/02/2006
There’s no such thing as an ex-Marine, Nelson Briggs used to say, according to a notice in the Boston Globe. Briggs was many things: a nationally recognized technical writer, a 1953 graduate of Harvard College who went on to Harvard Graduate School, and a teacher of English at Beijing University. But after his service in the Pacific theatre of WWII, he considered himself a Marine first and foremost. Briggs was born in Medford, Mass. raised in Boston’s South End, worked for a Bedford Corporation, and after retiring entered New Hampshire’s 100 Acres Monastery.
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Julian Carr, 93; Lawyer
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On May 2, the number of people on Earth who have personally met Benito Mussolini dwindled by one. A notice in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells us that Julian Shakespeare Carr accompanied his stepfather, AJC publisher Clark Howell, on a 1935 goodwill visit to the Duce.
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Virgil Byerly, 75; Ford Representative
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They don’t make 'em like they used to. Detroit-born Virgil Byerly joined the ranks of Ford Motor Company after earning his M.B.A. in 1955, and he stayed with the company for the rest of his career. A notice in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution commemorates him and his commitment to local charities and educational institutions. Some things don’t change, though, like the kind of drive he showed before he even got to Harvard: “He was Valedictorian of his high school class, student body president, star quarterback of the football team, outstanding first team all-state basketball player and state champion in the half-mile.”
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George Mackey, 90; Harvard Professor of Mathematics
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04/28/2006
The third word of the Boston Globe obituary for mathematics Professor George Mackey is “tweed.” An ardent worshipper of the pure aesthetic beauty of mathematics, Mackey embodied much of the ideal of the classic academic.
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Howell Eldridge DuPuy Jr., 90; Businessman
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Boston-born, Newton-bred, Howell Eldridge DuPuy Jr. graduated from Harvard College in 1937 and is commemorated by a notice in the Boston Globe. The Globe notes that he was a WWII veteran and officer in the Navy Signal Corp., a 32nd-degree Mason, and the youngest-ever Master of Dalhousie Lodge.
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David Smillie, 71; Professor
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Raleigh's News & Observer contains a notice for David Smillie, who studied philosophy at Harvard in 1962 as a graduate student. Three years before that, he took his wife and two young children to India on a Fulbright research scholarship. In 1969, he joined the faculty of Sarasota's New College and stayed there for 23 years. He loved dancing and jazz, especially Sidney Bechet.
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Richard R. Missar, 75; DeSoto Chairman
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Richard R. Missar, chief executive of DeSoto, died April 13, according to the Chicago Suburban Daily Herald. Missar served with the Marines in the Korean War and earned a degree at the Harvard Business
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Sumner Howard Rogers, 92: Attorney
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04/15/2006
A notice in The Oregonian memorializes Sumner Howard Rogers, native Bostonian and graduate of Harvard Law School and Boston Latin. Rogers spent 65 years at the same firm and took a lot of pleasure in
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Stephen E. Gantz, 98
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04/12/2006
An obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette notes the passing of Stephen E. Gantz, who attended Harvard but was tapped prior to graduation by the US Navy, his employer during WWII. He loved travel and American history, and got his bachelor's and master's degrees in the latter at the University of Pittsburgh.
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William Benjamin Hopkins, M.D., 82; Cardiologist
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04/11/2006
Dr. Hopkins is remembered in the Tampa Tribune; the Harvard Medical School graduate served in the Army during WWII and with the Naval Reserve Medical Corps during the Korean War. A deeply religious man, he is described in the notice as a "steward of God's bounty." A wife, a sister, a sister-in-law, four children, two nieces, five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, three stepsons, and nine stepgrandchildren survive him.
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Joseph Arthur Haimes, 85: Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
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04/07/2006
A family notice in the Palm Beach Post indicates the passing of Lt. Col. Joseph Arthur Haimes of the US Air Force. Haimes was born in New York and graduated Harvard's Business School, then the Graduate School of Business Administration. He served in the Air Force until 1980.
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Wayland T. Leonard, 88; Engineer and Realtor
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04/02/2006
In the Los Angeles Times, we find that Wayland T. Leonard died in Santa Ana, California, the father of an adoring family. Mr. Leonard served as an engineer during WWII and went into real estate the year after the war's end, working out of his father's law office.
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Fletcher Hodges, Jr., 99, Curator
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03/23/2006
Recent Harvard graduates looking for jobs can quit their obnoxious whining: at least they’re not living in the Great Depression.
For the young Fletcher Hodges Jr. ’28, job prospects were grim after college; he swept slaughterhouse floors and was in the process of being rejected by Eli Lilly and Co., the drug firm, when fate struck in the form of a wonderfully unprofessional interview tactic.
