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

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  • Heidi Miller ’79PhD

    After picking up her Yale degree in Latin American history, Heidi Miller ’79PhD took a job at Chemical Bank. That doctorate—and three... Read on
    the staff | June 25 2010 04:59pm

  • Richard Klapper ’79MA, ’79JD

    Facing an aggressive fraud suit by the federal government, who ya gonna call? When you’re Goldman Sachs, you call Richard Klapper ’79MA... Read on
    the staff | April 23 2010 04:45pm

  • R. Owen Williams ’07MSL, ’09PhD

    In this economy, most brand-new PhDs are grateful for a job—any job. But R. Owen Williams ’07MSL, ’09PhD, isn’t most new... Read on
    the staff | April 16 2010 04:44pm

  • David Frum ’82, ’82MA

    Since the days when his Reagan-era undergraduate views graced the opinion pages of the Yale Daily News, David Frum ’82, ’82MA, has... Read on
    the staff | April 9 2010 04:43pm

  • Montgomery McFate ’94PhD

    Tuesday night, President Barack Obama announced his plan to send another 30,000 American soldiers to Afghanistan. Thursday, the American Anthropological... Read on
    the staff | December 4 2009 02:53pm

  • Francis Collins ’74PhD

    Francis Collins ’74PhD came to Yale to study chemistry, drawn to the mathematical precision of molecular interactions. But at Yale he took... Read on
    the staff | July 10 2009 11:56am

  • J. Augustine Di Noia ’80PhD

    How often except in daydreams does someone get to make a statement like “I am happy the Pope has entrusted to me an area that he considers so... Read on
    the staff | June 19 2009 11:51am

  • Camille Paglia ’74PhD

    The reaction of most left-leaning critics and commentators to the choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate has been uniform and... Read on
    the staff | October 10 2008 10:12am

  • Chimamanda Adichie ’08MA

    As the object of daydreams, the $500,000 MacArthur Fellowships are even better than the lottery in that you don’t have to buy a ticket—the... Read on
    the staff | September 26 2008 09:52am

  • Austan Goolsbee ’91, ’91MA

    With huge financial institutions falling like dominoes this week, the presidential campaign may finally be turning away from issues like lipstick on... Read on
    the staff | September 19 2008 09:50am