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Every Friday, we choose an alum who has been making headlines—for better or for worse.

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  • 6/3/11: John Bryson ’69LLB

    A longtime utility executive who also cofounded a leading environmental organization? A nominee for Secretary of Commerce who wins praise from both... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 12:46pm

  • 5/13/11: Cory Booker ’97JD

      Last September, when the American Civil Liberties Union called for a federal investigation of alleged police brutality in Newark, New... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 12:40pm

  • 1/8/11: Timothy Naftali ’83

    “President Nixon was in no way connected” with a break-in at the Watergate Hotel office of the Democratic National Committee. Despite the... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 12:25pm

  • 1/1/11: William Cronon ’90PhD

    William Cronon ’90PhD recently compared his governor, Scott Walker, to another famous Wisconsin politician: Senator Joe... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 12:20pm

  • 2/18/11: Eben Moglen ’85JD, ’93PhD

    While many of us liberal-arts types were cheering the people power that toppled Egypt’s dictatorship this month, tech geeks were worried. If... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 11:25am

  • 2/4/11: Anderson Cooper ’89

    While Connecticut-based Yalies chopped their way through an ice storm this week, a famous fellow alum was fending off a hotter onslaught: attacks... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 11:13am

  • Jay Carney ’87

    You may have seen Jay Carney ’87 on TV before, analyzing and opining as a Time magazine journalist. But you’ll be seeing a lot more of... Read on
    the staff | January 28 2011 11:10am

  • Susan Bysiewicz ’83

    Lots of female politicians play up their first names. Susan Bysiewicz ’83 has more than the usual reasons. Fortunately for Bysiewicz, who... Read on
    the staff | January 21 2011 11:01am

  • Adrian Bonenberger ’02

    In a week when the headlines were full of Congress’s repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell”—led by former Yalie of the Week Joe... Read on
    the staff | December 22 2010 10:49am

  • 12/3/10: David Carel ’13 & Gregg Gonsalves ’11

    Yale sophomore David Carel (right) had a brush with fame in October, when he and fellow protesters heckled President Barack Obama at a Connecticut... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 10:38am

  • 10/29/10: Mark Gorton ’88

    Long before there was Mark Zuckerberg, there was Mark Gorton ’88. And long before there was Facebook, there was... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 10:20am

  • 9/17/10: Chris Coons ’92MAR, ’92JD

      At the beginning of this week, Chris Coons ’92MAR, ’92JD, was the “who’s that?” Democratic nominee... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 09:52am

  • Flagg Youngblood ’97

    Flagg Youngblood ’97 lives up to both halves of his name. A former Army captain who attended Yale on an ROTC scholarship, Youngblood... Read on
    the staff | September 3 2010 10:49am

  • Fareed Zakaria ’86

    Author and journalist Fareed Zakaria ’86 has made a career of explaining the world to Americans. Starting next month, he’ll do it from a slightly... Read on
    the staff | August 27 2010 10:46am

  • Mark Rosekind ’87PhD

    Mark Rosekind ’87PhD takes the Metro every day to his new job in Washington, DC. So it was with both personal and professional interest... Read on
    the staff | July 30 2010 10:28am

  • Bob Greenlee ’96

    It can’t be fun to testify in court that you were Rod Blagojevich’s yes-man. But it beats being called his co-conspirator. Bob Greenlee... Read on
    the staff | July 16 2010 10:23am

  • Joe Miller ’95JD

    Senator Lisa Murkowski joined a half-dozen Republican colleagues in a West Wing huddle with President Barack Obama over climate policy this week. But it... Read on
    the staff | July 2 2010 05:01pm

  • John Mazzuto ’70

    Last year, Yale saluted the “incredible generosity” of a $1.5 million gift from John Mazzuto ’70. This week, a New York... Read on
    the staff | May 28 2010 04:53pm

  • Richard Blumenthal ’73JD

    Being Yalie of the Week, we have to explain from time to time, isn’t necessarily something you want to put on your résumé. It may... Read on
    the staff | May 21 2010 04:51pm