Overheard

The Cutting Edge: Woodsman’s Weekend, started by the Outing Club in 1947 and hosted by the College every three years, attracts gung-ho competitors—and lots of power tools.

Deaths

De Forest Barkley Voorhees ’33 • June 9 Robert Folger Thorne ’41 • March 24 Richard Alan Ensor ’42 • Jan. 24 John Stewart ’42 • May 2 John William Bartemus ’43 • April 16 Joshua…

The Spy Game

CIA veteran Robert Grenier ’76 offers his take on his critical role in post-9/11 Afghanistan and explains what it was like to deal with Hamid Karzai, U.S. presidents and enhanced interrogation.

To Build a Fire

Here’s how former smokejumper and Montana professor Carl Seielstad ’90 is helping change fire policy forever. For starters, he says, you’ve got to fight fire with fire.

The Beat of Terror

For New York Times foreign correspondent and Pulitzer nominee Rukmini Callimachi ’95, digging for the truth sometimes means digging for bodies.