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What Eden Full ’15 did on her break from college

By Mark F. Bernstein ’83

IT WOULD SEEM LIKE A VERY HARD phone call to make, the ultimate good news/bad news story. When Eden Full called her parents one afternoon in May...

A Moment With ... Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76

By Mark F. Bernstein ’83

In her recently released memoir, “My Beloved World” (Alfred A. Knopf), Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 describes her rise from poverty in the South...

Ditch the furniture; line up the laptops

The lives of young entrepreneurs

By Mark F. Bernstein ’83

THE 2,700-SQUARE-FOOT RANCH HOUSE on a quiet, tree-lined street in Mountain View, Calif., would seem perfect for a family with small children: four...

Acclaimed author Oates to retire from University

By Jennifer Altmann

This is a corrected version of an article published in the March 6, 2013, issue. The correction appears at the end of the story. Joyce Carol Oates,...

Princeton to raise undergraduate fees by 3.8 percent

By W. Raymond Ollwerther ’71

Undergraduate tuition, room, and board charges will increase 3.8 percent for 2013–14 as part of a $1.58 billion operating budget approved Jan. 26...

The quantified life: In this brave new world, people listen to their forks

By Caroline McCarthy ’06

Thank goodness Nike is so effective at marketing. Before it started heavily promoting its FuelBand, a black, ­rubber electronic wristband that...

IDEAS: An impetuous singer, exiled to the gulag

By W. Barksdale Maynard ’88

When music professor Simon ­Morrison *97 set out to write a biography of the wife of composer Serge Prokofiev, he worried that gaps in the...