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

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  • 3/18/11: Yasir Qadhi ’09MPhil

    One of his former students is the accused underwear bomber of Christmas 2009. Another was convicted of training with an Al Qaeda offshoot in Somalia. A... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 11:40am

  • Jared Taylor ’73

    Jared Taylor ’73 calls himself a “racial realist.” Other people call him a white supremacist. But this week, Taylor found himself... Read on
    the staff | January 14 2011 10:57am

  • Rabbi James Ponet ’68

    James Ponet ’68 is the first Yale graduate to serve as Yale’s Jewish chaplain. He may also be the first rabbi to conduct the wedding of a... Read on
    the staff | August 6 2010 10:31am

  • Duncan Stroik ’87MArch

    Catholic children are sometimes taught that the important part of their church is not the building, but the people. That doesn’t mean the building has... Read on
    the staff | March 19 2010 04:29pm

  • Rashad Hussain ’07JD

    Rashad Hussain ’07JD comes from a family of doctors. Now, President Barack Obama is calling on this young Indian American lawyer to help heal... Read on
    the staff | February 19 2010 03:22pm

  • Geoffrey Black ’72MAR

    Geoffrey Black ’72MAR has been elected leader of the United Church of Christ—but don’t call him Your Holiness. “The... Read on
    the staff | July 2 2009 11:55am

  • 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

  • Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins ’84MDiv

    The inaugural prayers offered by Rick Warren, Joseph Lowery, and Gene Robinson each kicked up their own mini-controversies. But the Reverend... Read on
    the staff | January 23 2009 09:35am