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Return on principles
David Booth, MBA’71, built his investment career applying mentor Eugene Fama’s efficient-market research. Now he’s sharing the dividends.![](features/images/toc_feature_2.jpg)
Color lines
After a brief segregated past, the U of C emerged as one of the few places to welcome African Americans to its academic ranks.![](features/images/toc_feature_3.jpg)
Studs: A lifetime of listening
Raconteur Studs Terkel had an ear for other people’s stories.![](features/images/toc_feature_4.jpg)
Glimpses
Marc Pollick, AB’75, gave up a 17-year career in Holocaust studies when he decided he could do more good by encouraging philanthropy than by teaching about genocide.![](features/images/toc_feature_5.jpg)
On the ground
Aid worker Scott Braunschweig fights poverty in some of the world’s most destitute countries.Features »
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Behind every president…
…there’s a local angle. In assembling his White House team, Barack Obama has chosen a fair share of experts and advisers with ties to Chicago.![photo: -](features/images/toc_inv.jpg)
Fossil watch
Susan Kidwell likes to say that her whole career—mostly spent on the faculty of Chicago’s geophysical-sciences department—has been one long digression.
Why did the vampire cross the road?*
Scott Sherman doesn’t try too hard to define his career—and that’s the way he likes it.
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