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

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  • Van Jones ’93JD

    He was hired to promote green jobs, but Van Jones ’93JD turned out to have too many red flags for the White House. The environmental activist... Read on
    the staff | September 11 2009 12:11pm

  • Robert Morgenthau ’48LLB

    In nearly 35 years as Manhattan District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau ’48LLB has drawn hundreds of headlines, prosecuted everyone from... Read on
    the staff | September 4 2009 12:08pm

  • Dawn Johnsen ’83, ’86JD

    Nearly eight months after Barack Obama nominated her to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, Indiana University law professor... Read on
    the staff | August 28 2009 12:06pm

  • Joseph Finder ’80

    A Yale degree in Russian studies—earned while the Cold War still raged—plus a master’s from Harvard would seem like good preparation for the... Read on
    the staff | August 21 2009 12:04pm

  • Bill Clinton ’73JD

    It took 20 hours, one dinner with the head of state, and one crucial apology to win the reversal of a 12-year sentence for two American journalists in... Read on
    the staff | August 7 2009 12:02pm

  • Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. ’73

    Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. ’73 has written for the New Yorker, made PBS documentaries, won a MacArthur “genius... Read on
    the staff | July 24 2009 12:22pm

  • Bryan Townsend ’09JD

    Before picking up his Yale law degree this spring, Bryan Townsend ’09JD studied economics, philosophy, and disabilities law in China... Read on
    the staff | July 17 2009 11:58am

  • 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

  • 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

  • Dan Froomkin ’85

    Since his days at the Yale Daily News, Dan Froomkin ’85 has never been one to duck an argument. He started plenty in the past five years in... Read on
    the staff | June 26 2009 11:53am

  • 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

  • Garth Harries ’95

    Running for an unprecedented ninth term, New Haven mayor John DeStefano Jr. has for months been promising radical improvements in the city’s... Read on
    the staff | June 12 2009 11:49am

  • Brian Deese

    Many people wish for fame. For Brian Deese’s turn in the spotlight, maybe not so much. Deese, a once-and-perhaps-future Yale law student, is... Read on
    the staff | June 5 2009 11:48am

  • Sonia Sotomayor ’79JD

    For Sonia Sotomayor ’79JD, it was a Memorial Day to remember. That’s the night when, after weeks of speculation, President Barack... Read on
    the staff | May 29 2009 11:46am

  • Davan Maharaj ’95MSLJ: A new newspaper editor tries to stop the bleeding.

    What they teach journalists: “If your mother says she loves you, get a second source.” What they teach at Yale Law School: “If you can... Read on
    the staff | December 16 2011 10:43am

  • Neal Wolin ’83, ’88JD

    Like a lot of former Clinton administration appointees, Neal Wolin ’83, ’88JD, has found his way back to Washington under President... Read on
    the staff | May 22 2009 11:46am

  • Rocco Landesman ’76DFA

    Playwright Tony Kushner previews it as the American arts community’s “best news… since the birth of Walt Whitman.” Other colleagues... Read on
    the staff | May 15 2009 11:44am

  • Steven Calabresi ’80, ’83JD, David McIntosh ’80 & Lee Liberman Otis ’79

    Not all is misery on the right these days. Just ask the co-founders of the Federalist Society: they and their organization of conservative law students... Read on
    the staff | May 8 2009 11:42am

  • Arlen Specter ’56LLB

    When Arlen Specter ’56LLB jumped parties this week, after 43 years in the GOP and 29 in the U.S. Senate, he set off a flurry of counting:... Read on
    the staff | May 1 2009 11:38am