Amherst College e-News 3/6/2014
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FBI Reopens Investigation into Long-Lost Mead Masterwork
The painting has been missing from the art museum since 1975, when it was stolen along with two other since-recovered paintings.
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"Botched Executions" Common Throughout U.S. History, Says LJST Prof's New Book
While the image on the cover of the latest book by Austin Sarat and his students is lurid - it features an electric chair dripping with blood - and the title, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty, is provocative, its conclusion is quite sobering.
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Poli Sci Prof and '04 Alum Study "The Promise of Participation"
Politicians and social scientists alike have long extolled the benefits of having citizens participate in running the government, but they've also wondered: Can civic engagement affect behavior in other areas? Javier Corrales and his former advisee Daniel Altschuler, a visiting scholar at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School for Public Engagement, answer this and other questions in their new book The Promise of Participation: Experiments in Participatory Governance in Honduras and Guatemala.
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'85 Artist Featured on National Public Radio's World Café and in New York Times
In the radio segment, Jonatha Brooke speaks about her life, music, career and one-woman musical. My Mother Has Four Noses, running off-Broadway until May 4, is about Brooke's mother and how Alzheimer's disease and her Christian Science faith complicated her final days.
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Trustee Profiled by New York Times Magazine
The lengthy article about Chris Lehane '90 describes him as "the Democratic strategist with his own extreme brand of performance politics."
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A President's Son in the Ring
Eighty-eight years ago, John Coolidge '28 faced off in the boxing ring against classmate Matty Silverman '28. John's father - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, Class of 1895 - did not approve. The American Spectator reported on the history-making matchup.
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A Close Look at Privacy Today
What balance should we strike between an individual right to privacy and national security concerns? Between the ownership of personal information and economic innovation? Three Amherst faculty members and two alumnae on the front lines of the privacy debate will explore these issues during the next Amherst Today program, April 24-25. Register today - space is limited.
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Join the Amherst Women's Network
The AWN is an Amherst College student and alumni organization that connects, informs and empowers all people who identify as - and with - Amherst women, with resources, mentorship, support and action. Check out their new blog!
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