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readers write...about old friends, small print, startling coincidence,
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kind of letter
Let me compliment you on the high quality, imaginativeness, and
seriousness represented by the December/99 issue of the University
of Chicago Magazine. [
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Alumni
board nominees sought
Do you know some alumni who could make a difference? [
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Nobel
hat trick?
Is this Chicago or what? Robert Mundell, 1999 Nobel Prize winner
in economics, was Chicago�s 71st, Chicago economics� 19th, and
the third and final supervisor of my dissertation committee to
win the prize (�For the Record,� December/99). [
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How
MAB got U2 to U of C
The December issue�s notice regarding MAB (�Major Activities Board
lures MTV to campus�) brought back a few pleasant memories. [
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Medieval
theology
Regarding Jenny Adams�s article, �Positively Medieval� (December/99),
I find it strange that Adams describes Fulton as seeming to assert
that �Before that time [the turn of the first millennium], pious
Christians prayed to Christ as the all-powerful King of Heaven
rather than as the man who died a humiliating death.� [
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Medieval
muddles
The Magazine might be misrepresenting the excellence of
the University by reproducing a fine Trecento painting in the
Smart Museum of Art accompanied by an outdated attribution and
a typographical error (�Positively Medieval�). [
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More
on wandering wombs
It is of interest that the Hippocratic Corpus describes the wandering
womb syndrome (�Coursework,� December/99) in the Parthenoi
(�Illness of Maidens�), stating that its cure is early marriage
followed by childbirth. [
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D�j�
view
This year my son Ben is happily enrolled in his first year as
an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, which provides
me with the new and pleasant experience of being an alumni parent
for the first time.
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Why
crime has dropped
The October/99 issue presented the rather interesting thesis of
University of Chicago economics professor Steve Levitt (�Chicago
Journal�), which was summarized as follows: �[A]s much as half
of the U.S. crime drop in the 1990s can be explained by the legalization
and high frequency of abortion in the 1970s, which prevented the
birth of many potential criminals.� [
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Delighted
with decal
I wish to thank the University of Chicago Alumni Association for
the splendid University decal that came with the October/99 issue
[included with the Alumni Gateway].
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