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“I had no idea I would become a professor.”

David E. Scherman ’36 (1916-97) helped sink a German warship with a handy tube of toothpaste.

Diana Hwang ’04 helps Asian American women flex political muscle.

The death of Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot in early May led a dozen old College friends back a half-century to a cellar bar at the Hanover Inn—and well beyond. Here are the emails they exchanged during the week after they heard the news.

An excerpt from “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,” a cross-country exploration of the nation’s deepening divide.