CONTENTS
November/December 2009 Volume 98, Number 6
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DON HAMERMAN
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Brutally Frank
by Susan Hudson Houston ’ 84
Frank Bruni ’ 86 remembers thinking,“A couple of years from now, if the job goes well
and I’m still wearing 34 pants and I’m not back up to 42, I may have a story to tell.”
That story, from The New York Times’ restaurant critic who first experienced eating
disorders as a toddler, is now on his newspaper’s bestseller list.
Departments
3 From the Hill
8 Sightings
10 Issues
30
Dreams Deferred
by Katherine Evans ’09
The class of 2009 walked out of Kenan Stadium in May into the worst economy
in decades. Some have been tenacious in applying for jobs; others have waited out
their first postgrad months in states of “funemployment.”
12 Extracurricular
14 Timelines
18 Letters
38
Freshman Seminar
by David E. Brown ’ 75
Chancellor Holden Thorp’s first
year in South Building has been
an extraordinary one for learning
— much of it about delayed
gratification.
DAN SEARS ’ 74
49 GAA Today
62 Alumni Today
64 Class Notes
76 Class Quotes
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100
DTH Crossword
Books
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102 Around Town
104 Yours at Carolina
On the cover: One of the first goals in this classic board game is to get a job. Many in the class of
2009 are working overtime on that. Photo by Sarah McCarty Arneson ’ 96 / THE GAME OF LIFE ® & ©2009
Hasbro Inc. Used with permission.
