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Editor 
Emily Gold Boutilier

Alumni Editor 
Betsy Cannon Smith ’84

Print Design Director 
Ronn Campisi

Assistant Editor 
Katherine Duke ’05

Senior Writer 
Katharine Whittemore

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Table of Contents

Features

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North By East

Almost, Maine is the biggest hit play you’ve never heard of—unless you know a high schooler. Playwright John Cariani ’91 on writing about rural lives in a mostly urban art form.

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It’s Hard to Speak Out. Yet We Must.

Psychology professor Catherine Sanderson explains the science of bystander inaction—and how we can move forward with courage.

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The Real Power of Money

Chloe McKenzie ’14 set out to study her contentious relationship with wealth. In doing so, she created a term—financial trauma—that’s gaining traction.

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