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Editor's Notes
Big blocks on campus - This issue includes a photo essay on the newly opened Max Palevsky Residential Commons and the reincarnation of Bartlett Hall (Lifestyles of the Young and Studious). In its second life, the 1904 gymnasium has come back as a dining hall cum student center, and you'd be hard put to find someone, anyone, who isn't thrilled with the new Bartlett.
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From the President
The secret of leading a truth-and-beauty business - What is leadership in a university? Who does it, and to whom? How is it done, if at all? I have often remarked that the University is a $1.5 billion-per-year enterprise in which there is no one to whom I can give a direct personal order. What kind of order would I give if I thought I could?
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Chicagophile
Coming soon - by Jessica Abel, AB'91 [ MORE ]

Letters
Nobel notes
What remains
Fermi remembered
Teens and intact families
The proof isn't in the provenance
Is Stanford really the standard?
Some like it, some like it not
Buying and spending we lay waste
Collectors we missed
Dean Boyer gets high marks
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