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The Spanish Lady Professor Barbara Nelson started her language-instruction Web site on a dare. Now it has attracted a worldwide following of students, high school teachers, and fellow professors who say that Nelson’s highly interactive site is in a class of its own.
The Real NCIS Millions of viewers know the Naval Criminal Investigative Service through the television drama NCIS. Tom Betro ’81 knows it as a former agent who runs the global crime- and terrorism-fighting agency—and has been consulted by his TV counterparts.
DEPARTMENTS 03/From the editor 05/Letters
POINT OF VIEW 12/Assistant Professor Joseph Atkins on racism’s demise
ALUMNI AT LARGE 34/Class Notes 53/Obituaries
COLBY NEWS 07/SAT options added 07/Digging into history 08/Waterville’s landmarks shine 09/Freedom to S.H.O.U.T! 10/Placing displaced Iraqis 11/Go like the wind
FROM THE HILL 18/President Bro Adams on the economy 26/AIDS in Malawi: The photographs 28/The economics of your family tree 30/Playing ball with Colby Jack 32/“Whit” notches 600th win 33/A skiing first for Lucy Garrec ’12
ALUMNI PROFILES 42/Alicia Rodriguez ’78 44/Jim Donahue ’88 48/Robin Ottaway ’95 50/Phoebe Zarnetske ’01 THE LAST PAGE 56/Dave Epstein ’86 is cool to global warming
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An Activist Womanhood | Professor Cheryl Townsend Gilkes delivered a Black History Month address at Michigan State Feb. 26. “Yet With a Steady Beat: An Activist Womanhood,” can be heard online. Keyword: Gilkes
< Ballroom Blitz | Alexandra Desaulniers ’11 didn’t expect to find a hotbed of ballroom dancing in Winslow, Maine. But that’s how it turned out when she and Corey Martin ’10 volunteered to ready 100 students for a Winslow High show. Keyword: ballroom
Of Consequence | Jody Zorgdrager ’89 reads from her new book of poetry, Of Consequence. Her reflections transform seemingly prosaic details and moments. Keyword: poetry