Fall 1996

Features

As We Like It
The Folger Shakespeare Library and GW have long had a symbiotic relationship. For University scholars, the literary riches of early England are no farther than Capitol Hill.
Louis Lappin

Fulbright and the Fulbrights
Senator J. William Fulbright, LLB '34, LLD '59, left behind an enormous legacy: the scholarship program that bears his name has permitted 210, 000 professors to study abroad.
Marc Leepson, BA '67, MA '71

October Brown
The story went that October Brown, when she was a child, had watched her father fire through his rage right on into her mother's. Now she was our grown-woman school teacher, and the burnt brown of her left cheek was marked with a white brand, a Devil's kiss.
Fiction by Professor Maxine Clair

The Cool American, and Other Dispatches from the Russian Front
When a GW editor volunteers to help the Russians, it's "Mission Improbable" time
Robert Guldin

Departments

GW News

• Reaching for the Future
• Clinton on Campus Assails Terrorism
• Scientist Donald Lehman Named VP for Academic Affairs
• GW Solar Car Takes the Gold in Japan
• The University Greets the Class of 2000
• Students Get Behind the Scenes at Atlanta Olympics
• Gateway on Washington Circle Says, "You're at GW"
• 175th Anniversary Celebration Never Flags
• Honor Among Students
• GW Sports: Teams Hope to Repeat Last Year's Success
• It's the Battle of the Warners (but one's a GW Trustee)
• Master's Degrees in Science to Minorities: A GW Strength
• Green U, Phase II

Alumni Newsmakers

• Craig Coble, BA '83 (Ex's Inc. greeting card company)
• Iron Woman (Heather Mitchell, BA '86)

A Faculty for Writing

• Kim Moreland, The Medievalist Impulse in American Literature
• Richard Schlagel, From Myth to Modern Mind
• Frederic Siegel, Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards in Development Planning

Speak Out and Viewpoint

• Do Elections Have to Be So Dirty?
  Dennis W. Johnson, associate dean of the Graduate School of Political Management
• Maps to the White House
  Charles T. Manatt, JD '62

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