The New York Times
Features Smokey D. Fontaine '93

"Who can stake a claim to today's America?

Is it American Magazine, a do-it-yourself publication out of Memphis with a relentlessly sunny, rural disposition? The magazine was muscled into existence last year by J. Mignonne Wright, an independent publishing executive, when she walked into a Wal-Mart with a few pages of ideas and came away with a commitment for distribution.

Or is it America magazine, which uses a musical movement to assert its dominion over pop culture? This lush slab of a publication, conceived by Smokey D. Fontaine, a former editor of The Source, has the backing of the hip-hop entrepreneur Damon Dash."
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Fortune Magazine Online
Features Tanya Rosenblat, professor of economics

"Q. Please settle an argument. I have noticed throughout my career that really good-looking people (that is, people who fit our society's stereotypes of what is attractive) tend to get hired more easily and make more money than people who are just average-looking. A friend says this is simplistic and there is much more to the decision-making process than just looks. Who is right?"
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The Middletown Press
Quotes Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, professor of Earth and evironmental studies

"EAST HADDAM --The proposed fourth through eighth grade school would be built in an area that continues to be prone to earthquakes, according to a geologist from Wesleyan University who lives in Haddam. Jella Zeilinga de Boer presented to the Board of Selectmen last week his findings of a study he worked on from 1985 to 1995.

He talked with the selectmen after Guy Mazzotta, an East Haddam resident, asked him his opinion on the seismic activity. The school will be located off Clarks Gate Road near North Moodus Road."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN - In its final turn as Wesleyan University's oldest indoor athletic stage, 'the Cage' was all the rage. Amid the closing ceremonies of the Alumni Athletic Building on the Wesleyan campus Friday night, a basketball game took place and saw the Cardinal women shut the doors in typical 2004-05 fashion by handily defeating Springfield College 74-53 to remain perfect after seven games."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- A Wesleyan University student has earned the 2005 Rhodes Scholarship for Malaysia. Cheryl Lim Sze-Hui, a senior sociology and psychology major from Kuala Lumpur, was the only student chosen from 58 Malaysian applications. 'I feel incredibly thankful and lucky to have been offered this amazing opportunity,' said Sze-Hui through a Wesleyan press release."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- Wesleyan University announced this week that it will be acquiring and installing eight new bells for the South College belfry. The additional bells will upgrade the Wesleyan bells from the status of a chime, 10 to 22 bells, to that of a carillon, 23 or more, and will provide the Wesleyan bell players with two full octaves and one additional note."
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The Middletown Press
Quotes Richard Boyd, professor of government

"MIDDLETOWN -- A battle is brewing on Randolph Road as the South Fire District firefighters' union tries to get the annual budget vote back to a town meeting format."
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The Middletown Press
Features Dic Wheeler '81

"MIDDLETOWN -- The familiar energetic, curly-haired facet of Oddfellows Playhouse for more than a quarter century -- Dic Wheeler -- will be leaving his post at the beginning of the year. Wheeler, the youth theater's artistic director for nearly 23 years, is taking an 18-month sabbatical from his position in the 128 Washington St. organization."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN - In its final turn as Wesleyan University's oldest indoor athletic stage, 'the Cage' was all the rage. Amid the closing ceremonies of the Alumni Athletic Building on the Wesleyan campus Friday night, a basketball game took place and saw the Cardinal women shut the doors in typical 2004-05 fashion by handily defeating Springfield College 74-53 to remain perfect after seven games."
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The Middletown Press
Features Dic Wheeler '81

"MIDDLETOWN -- The familiar energetic, curly-haired facet of Oddfellows Playhouse for more than a quarter century -- Dic Wheeler -- will be leaving his post at the beginning of the year. Wheeler, the youth theater's artistic director for nearly 23 years, is taking an 18-month sabbatical from his position in the 128 Washington St. organization."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- A Wesleyan University student has earned the 2005 Rhodes Scholarship for Malaysia. Cheryl Lim Sze-Hui, a senior sociology and psychology major from Kuala Lumpur, was the only student chosen from 58 Malaysian applications. 'I feel incredibly thankful and lucky to have been offered this amazing opportunity,' said Sze-Hui through a Wesleyan press release."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- After seven years of hard work, the Green Street Arts Center opened it?s doors -- even if just for a little while -- giving everyone a sneak peak on Saturday.

'For me to be able to be here and help all those people, that have been involved with this since the beginning, get to this point, it just gives me chills,' said Ricardo Morris, director of the center. 'To see their faces, it makes it all worth it.' Complete with belly dancing and salsa workshops, area residents were able to experience just a taste of what will be offered when the center opens full time on Jan. 5."
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The Middletown Press

"The two men whose names are synonymous with Wesleyan men's ice hockey are finally getting the recognition they deserve -- in a major way. The University will formally dedicate its 34-year old ice hockey rink, known as Wesleyan Arena, for the founder of Wesleyan's club ice hockey program in the 1950s, William Spurrier, and its long-time varsity men's ice hockey skipper, David "Duke" Snyder, during a ceremony to be held Saturday afternoon."
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The New York Times
Wesleyan Press

" 'The News From Paraguay,' Lily Tuck's historical epic set in 19th-century South America, won the National Book Award for fiction last night, capping a month in which the publishing world debated the merits of the work of five little-known female authors living in New York City and the meaning and purpose of literary awards."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN --Rarely does a massive $13 million expansion come in either on time nor on budget.

Fortunately for Wesleyan University, both of those goals seem to be within reach as the final stages of the overhaul of its Freeman Athletic Center have been initiated. School officials broke ground on the project nearly one year ago and since that time, nearly every aspect of the remodeling has met with success, according to athletics director John Biddiscombe."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- The Green Street Arts Center will offer a special sneak peak and open house next weekend as it prepares for it?s grand reopening in January."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN?The Green Street Arts Center announced this week the addition of a new assistant director.

Manuel 'Manny' Rivera started last week after having served as the sirector of Community Cultural Development for the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. The appointment is the result of a two-month search to fill the position. 'We could have used him a month ago,' joked Ricardo Morris, the center?s director. 'The earlier we got him in here the better.'"
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN?Wesleyan University held a special ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday for the donation of a house to Northern Middlesex Habitat for Humanity.
"This is just a tremendous help. We could never have gotten a five-bedroom home," said Joyce Yarrow, executive director for NMHFH. "It is just a wonderful donation from Wesleyan University."
The house, located at 34 Fairview Ave., will go to Jennifer MacNeil and her five children, who is currently living in Meriden with her sister, but has spent nearly her whole life in the city."
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The Middletown Press

"(MIDDLETOWN)?Construction has begun and is proceeding as scheduled for Wesleyan University's newest residence hall -- The Fauver Field Residence Complex.

'Along with creating a more beautiful campus, part of our overall master plan includes improving access and sight lines,' said Joyce Topshe, Wesleyan's assistant vice president for facilities. 'This project accomplishes all of that and gives students a comfortable, accommodating place to live.' Construction has been going on since late August and all signs point to the project being finished on time."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN --The new squash facility at Wesleyan University, which is part of a 56,000 square foot addition to Wesleyan?s Freeman Athletic Center, will be named the Robert A. Rosenbaum Squash Center due to an anonymous donation of $1 million to the university."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN ? Former chairman and chief executive of Citicorp, Walter Wriston, who led Citibank as it became the largest bank in the world, has set up the Henry Merritt Wriston Professorship in Public Policy at Wesleyan University in honor of his late father, a member of the class of 1911."
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The New York Times
Quotes Douglas C. Foyle, assistant professor of government

"WASHINGTON ? President Bush told voters in Minnesota on Thursday that 'there's ongoing acts of violence" in Iraq but "this country's headed toward democracy.'"
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Newsweek Magazine
Q & A with Daniel Handler, '92

"You might feel sorrier for the orphaned Baudelaire siblings?Violet, Klaus and Sunny?if only they weren't so popular. But to date the 10 volumes of 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' by Lemony Snicket (a.k.a. Daniel Handler, 34), in which the Baudelaires are forever fighting the evil Count Olaf's attempts to steal their fortune, have sold 25 million copies since the series began in 1999."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN?Wesleyan University will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of W.E.B Du Bois? book, 'Souls of Black Folk,' on Oct. 12."
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The New York Times
Daniel Handler, '92

"The writer Daniel Handler, a k a Lemony Snicket, was in New York this week promoting two new works. One is "The Grim Grotto," the 11th installment of his hugely successful "Series of Unfortunate Events." These gothic children's books, following the star-crossed Baudelaire orphans through fantastical misadventures, have sold about 25 million copies in the last five years and won approval from grown-ups for their shrewd storytelling and clever wordplay."
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The New York Times
Features Jonathan Schwartz, '87

"SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19 - Standing before 30 executives from a Wall Street investment banking customer, Jonathan Schwartz, the 38-year-old software executive who is trying to revive the foundering computer company Sun Microsystems, acknowledged why his company was in trouble."
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The Middletown Press

"New students to Wesleyan University were walking along Main Street picking up trash along the sidewalks and pulling all the fliers off and staples out of the wooden kiosks."
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The Middletown Press
Features Daniel Poliner '97

"Area residents interested in short films, or those who may have been a film extra two years ago for independent filmmaker Dan Poliner will have the chance to see themselves on the silver screen this week."
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The Middletown Press
Extensively quotes Earl W. Phillips Jr, '77

"EAST HAMPTON ? Attorney Earl W. Phillips Jr. thinks the next Department of Environmental Protection commissioner will come across a number of opportunities and challenges."
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USA Today
Quotes Joyce Jacobsen, Andrews professor of economics

"The disparity in pay between men and women working full time widened in 2003 for the first time in four years as women saw their incomes fall, the government said Thursday."
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The Middletown Press
Features Keiji Shinohara, professor of art

"MIDDLETOWN -- Wesleyan professor of Art, Keiji Shinohara, will be exhibiting his most recent work at a New York gallery starting in September.

Shinohara, who is a visiting teacher in East Asian Studies and a visiting artist in the art and art history department, will have paintings and woodblock prints at the DFN Gallery. For Shinohara this will not be his first show in the city, but still knows what an honor it is to have a show in New York City."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- The city received a $300,000 grant this week to put toward the renovation of the Green Street Art School."
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The Middletown Press
Features Neely Bruce, professor of music

"MIDDLETOWN ? Steeped in the days of our founding fathers, shape note singing brought the spirit of democracy to choral music. Believing that music is for everyone, singing masters would sojourn from town to town."
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The Middletown Press
Features Rob Rosenthal, professor of sociology and Gina Langhout, assistant professor of psychology

"MIDDLETOWN ? A 2004 survey shows a substantial portion of the homeless population in Middlesex County is in Middletown.

The survey, although imperfect because people are often missed during a count, found there were 413 people counted as homeless in Middletown. Although the 2004 count is a snapshot of a moment in time, it does indicate a trend of homelessness, that continues to be an issue -- often unseen -- with real effects."
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Newsweek
Wesleyan, Hottest for Diversity

"Pull apart the DNA of a student's dream school and you'll find so many different strands. Perhaps it's the location, either in the rolling countryside far from anything that resembles a sidewalk, or in the midst of a hip urban neighborhood. It could be a college's unique educational mission or the array of quirky personalities on campus. Maybe it's the outstanding labs or libraries or theaters, even the fitness center. All 25 colleges on the Hot List for 2005 have one thing in common: they provide an outstanding education. But what makes them hot is their differences and special traits."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- Wesleyan University has been chosen as one of the country?s top schools in two different lists rating colleges and universities."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN ? A town-and-gown cooperative relationship will occur in the fall as a vacant house formerly occupied by students will be refurbished for a local family."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- A $1.5 million matching grant will allow Wesleyan University students to study more of their interests in American Studies."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- After 10 weeks of research, Wesleyan students finally got to show off all they discovered while working during the Hughes Program In The Life Sciences at Wesleyan University."
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The Chroncile of Higher Education
Features Robert Lane, assistant professor of molecular biology and biochemistry

"Picture life as a lonely mouse on the make. Identifying a mate should be easy, right? If it walks like a mouse and squeaks like a mouse, it must be a mouse.

Not necessarily. It could be a rat. Then the mouse's amorous advances would go to waste."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN ? Wesleyan University is using a $1.3 million grant to build interactions between disciplines to benefit the study of life sciences."
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The New York Times
Quotes Christiaan Hogendorn, assistant professor of economics

"The decision by the Bush administration last week to side with the regional Bell companies in their legal fight over the access fees they charge others to lease their phone lines has set off alarm bells among consumer groups, long-distance providers and state utility commissions."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN?They came by bus, plane, car and train as writers from across the nation converged on Wesleyan University for its 48th annual Writers Conference.
'People are coming from the West Coast and some from as far as Alaska,' said conference director Anne Greene. 'Last year we had people from Nepal, but it?s a lot harder to get into the country right now, so we just have people from the U.S. this year.'"
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN ? Mayor Domenique Thornton Thursday officially welcomed the Goodspeed Opera House at a press conference held where the theater's campus will be."
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Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN?Writers of all experience levels and genres, as well as those who love to read, are gathering this week for one of the country's oldest and (most) distinguished writing programs."
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The Middletown Press
Feature Buddhist program house

"MIDDLETOWN -- Although Buddhism has long been practiced in the United States-- there were 30,000 Buddhists in 1900 in the country -- the number of people practicing it sharply rose in the past two decades. There were 200,000 Buddhist in the United States in the mid-70s. The number swelled to 1.8 million by 1995, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- As 704 Wesleyan undergraduates prepared to move onto the next phase of their lives during Wesleyan?s 172nd commencment, the message of taking their degree to make their world a better place rather than just making money echoed throughout the day."
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The Middletown Press
Features William H. Merritt '35

"EAST HAMPTON -- Years of research, meetings and frustration has finally paid off for semi-retired, 63-year-old East Hamp-ton resident, James McHutchi-son. On Monday, Congressman Rob Simmons, R-2nd District, will be handing him his uncle?s Silver Star for combat in Europe during WWII."
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USA Today
Features Beverly Daniel Tatum, '75

"Born four months after the Supreme Court's historic 1954 ruling outlawing a 'separate but equal' education based on race, Beverly Daniel Tatum calls herself an 'integration baby.' Often the only black student in her classes growing up in Bridgewater, Mass., she recalls her schooling as 'reasonably pleasant' and 'relatively benign.'"
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The New York Times

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"The letter Wesleyan University sends to wait-listed applicants includes commonly asked questions. Here's one: 'Is there anything I can do to increase my chances of being admitted?' The answer is a disheartening ''Not really,'' a blunt assessment tempered with some boilerplate advice: 'Since we will be carefully monitoring your academic performance, the most positive thing you can do is work hard and do your absolute best in school.'"
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The New York Times
Features Dan Stillman '04 and Matt Eaton '04

"One lazy evening during his sophomore year at Wesleyan University here, Dan Stillman, a high-strung sociology student with an interest in technology, was hanging out with his friend Matt Eaton, complaining about a romantic dry spell."
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The Middletown Press
Feature Crowell Concert Hall and Wesleyan seniors Haejung Park and Colin Ellis

"MIDDLETOWN -- Sounds of Sonata and Concerto piano notes filled a softly-lit concert hall on Sunday afternoon in a bitter-sweet finale. The audience listened intently, becoming lost in the piano?s notes, as they sat in their seats at Wesleyan University?s Crowell Hall."
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The New York Times
Feature in Spencer Reece, '85

"PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.--Last weekend at the Gardens, a bustling mall about a 40-minute drive from gilded Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, it was Saturday business as usual. Thousands were there to escape the scorching Florida humdrum. The lines at Starbucks were endless, and even the staid bastion of Brooks Brothers was charged with the energy of a country club dance. A 25-percent-off sale for friends and family had brought fathers shopping with young sons, boyfriends with girlfriends, boyfriends with boyfriends, mothers and sons and ? over by the pleated pants ? a retired couple agreeing to disagree over the combination of green and brown."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- Members of several communities united Sunday in a celebration of possibilities.

Members of the North End community, the city of Middletown, the arts community, and Wesleyan University came together for the dedication of Green Street Arts Center, which is housed in the former Johnson School. Wesleyan and the city have teamed up to help launch the center, which will be renovated for an ambitious program and daytime and evening programs with Wesleyan students serving as instructors and mentors for neighborhood youth."
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The Boston Globe
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"At first, writer-producer Lawrence O'Donnell thought his idea for a story set at a cable television news network had the makings of a semidramatic film. Then he looked closer and saw comic gold.

O'Donnell, a Dorchester native and veteran of NBC's 'The West Wing,' says he's now scripting the material as a half-hour comedy for HBO, complete with 'really funny bursts of egotism and failure and embarrassment and fortunes rising and falling on the weirdest things, and ratings driving people nuts' -- some of the things that define our media-saturated age."
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The Middletown Press
Features Amanda Belichick '07

"MIDDLETOWN -- Having a recognizable or famous name on the campus of Wesleyan University rarely draws more than a slight lift of the eyebrow."
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Today
Mentions Tanya Rosenblat, asssistant professor of economics

"Back-stabbing's fun, but it doesn't win you the job. The public may hate downsizing, layoffs and jobs moving to India, but as many as 30 million Americans are expected to watch Donald Trump utter, 'You're fired!' on tonight's final episode of NBC's reality hit The Apprentice."
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The New York Times

"Rebecca Ginsberg thought she was done making her pitch to colleges -- the transcripts, the essays, the recommendations -- by the time application deadlines rolled around in January 2003.

Not so fast, she learned."
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The New York Times
Features Middletown and Wesleyan

"Sophistication, nightlife, that savoir faire tends to be lacking in the state's towns and small cities. For that kind of experience, residents head to New Haven, Stamford, and, of course, Manhattan and Boston."
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The Middletown Press
Athlete of the Week, Molly Gaebe, softball

"MIDDLETOWN -- With a name like Jen Shea, it could be assumed that every once in a while a bit of pure luck courtesy of the Emerald Isle would bless the Wesleyan softball coach. The manner in which freshman sensation Molly Gaebe literally fell into her lap seems to qualify for placement in the "luck of the Irish" file."
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The New York Times
Mentions/quotes Kathryn Leila Buck '99
"People who came to Layla Dowlatshahi's play "The Joys of Lipstick" last December at the Producers Club thought they were lining up to see a comedy about pretty Iranian women and makeup. What they got was a drama about an Iranian lesbian who goes to visit relatives in Los Angeles so she can get a sex change and return to Tehran to live with her American girlfriend as a man."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro told Wesleyan University officials about proposed legislation that is before Congress that would help to make the rising costs of college or university tuition more affordable for students."
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The Boston Globe
Feaures Joyce Jacobsen, Andrews Professor of Economics

"The pay gap between young men and women is smaller than it's ever been, but women still face an uphill climb in the workplace, according to a new study presented yesterday at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston."
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Quotes Joyce Jacobsen, Andrews Professor of Economics

"Gender and pay: The pay gap between young men and women is smaller than it has ever been, but women still face an uphill climb in the workplace, according to a study presented last week at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston."
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The New York Times
Mentions Eben Ellertson, '02

"Matthew Onek, the 31-year-old son of Schools Chancellor's Joel I. Klein's former law partner, is now one of New York City's most powerful education officials, a senior counselor for management widely viewed as the chancellor's most trusted aide and the overseer of a complex planning process for the start of school next fall."
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The Middletown Press
Features Chris Potter, newly appointed adjunct faculty and coach

"MIDDLETOWN-- Chris Potter, who served as interim men's ice hockey and golf coach since being hired at Wesleyan in mid-October, has been named an adjunct faculty member and head men's ice hockey coach along with taking the reigns on a full-time basis of the golf program, athletics director John Biddiscombe announced recently."
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The New York Times
Features Wendy Spero, '97

"Ten years ago, when she was in her teens, before she had even dreamed of becoming a comic actress, Wendy Spero got a summer job in Manhattan selling knives. Barely five feet tall and pixie slim, with close-cropped candy-apple red hair and freckles, she had just returned from the beaches of Martha's Vineyard with a flaming sunburn when she took the job. The doctor who treated her painful sun condition prescribed a healing steroid cream that gave her a luxuriant furze of facial hair. "I went door to door with this burn, the mustache and a sack of knives," she said. "I ended up winning two trophies and a VCR for selling the most knives in the tri-state area."
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The Middletown Press
Features Steve Roslonek '93

"MIDDLETOWN -- Children were swinging around and following musical directions like Simon Says on Saturday during a children?s concert.

SteveSongs, consisting of Steve Roslonek and his accompanying band, kicked off his East Coast tour at Wesleyan University?s Crowell Concert Hall. Roslonek is a multi-award winning children?s songwriter and performer celebrating the release of his fourth album 'Little Superman.' The concert was organized through the university?s alumni relations department."
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The New York Times
Features Bill Belichick '75

"The academic paper that David Romer began writing two years ago did not look like something that could determine the outcome of a Super Bowl. Sure, it was an analysis of whether professional football teams punt more often than is rational, but it seemed intended mainly for the amusement of sports fans who happen to be professors."
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The New York Times
Quotes Phillip B. Wagoner, professor of art history

"Wailua, Kauai - The barefoot man from Bangalore, India, wedged a woolly coconut husk underneath a 400-pound block of stone and began rocking it into place, chanting 'aisha, aisha' to keep his rhythm with each little shove."
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The San Francisco Chronicle Online - SFGate.com Day in Pictures
Features Wesleyan Crew Team
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The Middletown Press
Features William Gillespie '73

"DURHAM -- A white and ghostly ship sails the walls in the upstairs bedroom of the house at 256 Main St.

William Gillespie opened a small door on the bedroom?s western wall, revealing the grayed, weathered wood of a wall two centuries old."
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USA Today
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"The term "sidekick" originally referred to the side pockets in a pair of trousers ? the hardest for thieves to pick. The word later became slang for a faithful companion who stays by your side."
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The Boston Globe
Features Bill Belichick '75

"The lights in the room aren't always dimmed, the seats aren't always theater-style, and the clicker isn't always in his right hand. As talented as Bill Belichick is in places where football films are studied, the head coach of the Patriots didn't become who he is by spending all his time in the dark."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
Features John Kirn, associate professor of biology; Carolyn Pytte, postdoctoral fellow; Yi-Lo, graduate student

"Botox may fight the wrinkles in your forehead, but what can it do for the wrinkles in your brain?"
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The New York Times
Mentions Nataly Kogan '98 and Avi Spivack '99

" 'Students Helping Students'
Following the axiom 'it takes one to know one,' two recent Wesleyan graduates, Nataly Kogan and Avi Spivack, started the 'Students Helping Students' series last year."
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The New York Times
Features Strauss Zelnick '79

"Strauss Zelnick has run a worldwide music company, a video gaming start-up, and a movie studio. But where he once cut deals with Whitney Houston and rolled out "Home Alone," Mr. Zelnick is now spending his days worrying over the next Lillian Vernon gift catalog and Time Life Inc.'s forthcoming collection of gospel hymns."
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The New York Times
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"In the climactic battle of "Kill Bill Vol. 1," Quentin Tarantino's bloody revenge flick, O-Ren Ishii, the kimono-clad yakuza chieftess played by Lucy Liu, turns to Uma Thurman's blonde, blue-eyed Bride, and caustically remarks: "Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with samurai swords"
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