Issue in doubt

After 65 years, a Princeton family has guarded hope that a loved one’s remains might come home

Published in the May 13, 2009, issue

On paper, the November 1943 battle for Tarawa should have been no contest. An atoll in the Gilbert Islands about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii, Tarawa stood at the gateway of the U.S. “island-hopping” drive through the central Pacific toward the...Read more

Reunions 2009: Jobs, economy in the spotlight

Published in the May 13, 2009, issue

The Alumni Council Careers Conference has been a fixture on the Reunions calendar for nearly a decade, and this year, against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, alumni are taking a keen interest in the event’s theme: “How to Tune Up Your Career in a Down...Read more

Homer, Hobbes, and hope

Steve Fallon ’76 teaches the classics to homeless people, who understand the struggles central to the world’s great books.

Published in the May 13, 2009, issue

  Here’s a question of the tantalizing would-you-rather variety: If you could live on an island with the most beautiful man or woman in the world and never die, or you could go home, knowing that doing so meant you would suffer and eventually die, which would...Read more

A moment with ... William Greider ’58

Published in the May 13, 2009, issue

Over a 50-year career that has run from The Washington Post Rolling Stone and The Nation, where he currently is national affairs correspondent, William Greider ’58 has been a persistent and incisive critic of government. His previous books have addressed...Read more