December 12, 2012

Dec 12, 2012

Mission Impossible: One professor's search for something others said could not exist | P.W. Singer '97 on modern warfare

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Features

Warfare under the radar

Peter W. Singer ’97 explains how we can be at war and hardly notice

A world in a grain of sand

Paul Steinhardt’s long, improbable search for a natural quasicrystal

President’s Page

President’s Page

The Arts Take Flight

The Alumni Weekly provides these pages to the president

On the Campus

Princeton trails Ivy peers in enrollment of veterans

Students join together to practice the fine art of public speaking

Sandy fells trees, cuts power to grad housing

Final Scene

New partnerships support global initiative

Brandice Canes-Wrone ’93, on post-election politics

BREAKING GROUND: Detecting when to fix a bridge

Multiclub bicker, with some limits, to return to the Street in February

IDEAS: Democracy: Will Arab countries follow?

Senior thesis moves into the digital era

In Brief

FYI: Findings

The Year at Princeton: Top five campus headlines

Alumni News

Upping the rigor in class

Nick Ehrmann *10

Newsmakers

Starting Out: Taylor Carroll ’10

A world of Islams

New Releases by Alumni

The Year at Princeton: Top five alumni newsmakers

Names in the news: Sotomayor '76 on 60 Minutes, Homeland awards, more

Today in Princeton history, 1996: Barry *80, shuttle launch into space

Violist Kende '07 aims to launch an orchestra career, with a little help

What's new at PAW Online: Jan. 14, 2013

Rally 'Round the Cannon

Princeton ’25 and the American Century

Reunions Guide

From the Editor

Sports

For Dibilio, comeback story starts in the classroom

Extra Point

A bond that endures for coach and player

Defying expectations, football team returns to Ivy prominence

Bonfire!

Top forecasts buoy men’s, women’s hoops

Sports Shorts

The Year at Princeton: Top five sports headlines

Women's squash looks like a title contender in 5-4 win over Harvard

Featured Authors

Featured Authors

Plissner '86 pens debut young adult novel

Featured Authors

Pettit '72 profiles New Mexican artists

Featured Authors

Landy *97 examines the function of fiction

History

From the Archives

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week: Kevin Westgarth '07

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week: Teri Noel Towe '70

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