winter 2011
F E AT U R E S 16 Family Affair
By H. Jay Burns Rachel Segall ’91 gives birth to a baby for Erik Mercer ’91, helping to create a new family — and a new definition of family.
22 Our Man in Russia
By Peter van Dyk You can still make money in Russian business, says Jere Calmes ’92, just not in the same wild ways.
26 A Day at the Ranch
Text and photographs by Shauna Stephenson An idyllic but hardly idle day at the Laramie River Dude Ranch of Bill Burleigh ’86 and family.
30 Good Eggs
By Edgar Allen Beem Here in Maine, the national eggsalmonella scare didn’t surprise social-justice Batesies.
P RO F I L E S 34 George Billias ’48
Billias’ book on American constitutionalism is hailed as “magisterial” and “pioneering.”
43 Portia Hard Clark ’98
Clark’s handmade wedding gift of pearls became a business.
45 Jesse Reich ’01
Government dithering means Reich’s biofuel biz faces a ludicrous situation.