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    How the dismal science morphed into freakonomics and made econ the College’s most popular major.
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    John Harrington ’77, St. Paul’s top cop, leaves the force after three decades of service.
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    It took nearly two centuries, but now the College is finally living up to its original mission to help Native Americans.
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    An updated tour of campus statuary, compliments of art history students.
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    Jonathan Snellenburg ’68, Adv’72—of Antiques Roadshow fame—is one of the country’s leading antiquarians.
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    Two frat brothers who never made it to their formal have been acting in concert ever since.
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    Man and beast pant over an alum’s new passion, running with canines.
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    A roundup of fresh findings and insights from faculty and students.
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    On designing technology for its users.
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Shelf Life

New books by Dartmouth alumni.

Donald Casey ’48 recalls his experiences as a 19-year-old B-17 navigator in WW II, including internment in a German prison camp, in To Fight for My Country, Sir! Memoirs of a 19-year-old B-17 Navigator Shot Down in Nazi Germany (CreateSpace).

Avid amateur golfer James “Kip” Hale ’72 shares his collection of 18 humorous Shakespearean style poems, each with its own illustration, in Golf Sonnets (Thom Ward Publishing).

In his second novel Night Work (Under Mountain Books), Andrew L. Pincus ’51 evokes both Mahler symphonies and the Reagan era in the story of a man caught between a comfortable marriage and an impossible love.

William F. Roth ’62, a professor in business administration at Kutztown University, redesigns the U.S. healthcare system in Comprehensive Healthcare for the U.S.: An Idealized Model (CRC Press).

Novelist Deborah Schupack ’84, who has taught writing and literature at Vermont College and Yale, offers a story of the impact of money on contemporary suburban life in Sylvan Street (Penguin).

Alison Mountz ’95, associate professor of geography at Syracuse University, investigates how nations interpret the relationship between geography and law as they negotiate border crossings in Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border (University of Minnesota Press).

Richard Harvell ’01 weaves together the tale of an 18th-century choir boy with the voice of an angel and a dark secret in his debut novel The Bells (Shaye Areheart Books).

Civil rights leader Andrew Young, a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., shares his wisdom and experience with his godson Kabir Sehgal ’05 in Walk in My Shoes: Conversations between a Civil Rights Legend and his Godson on the Journey Ahead (Palgrave Macmillan).

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