Beauty and Justice

Hibachi

Fela Kuti

Googly Eyes - First Place, Wallace Prize for Nonfiction

There’s no hanging around after last bell for the 1,385 students at Wilbur Cross High School. At least a dozen buses idle in the parking lot waiting to cart students to their homes across New Haven. Administrators distribute bus tokens or bus cards to students traveling downtown. Other students stay at school to participate in any of the eighteen clubs on campus or the various sports teams. The only rule: no hanging around the halls after last bell. According to Ronny Rosabo, a security guard who’s been at the high school for 13 years, “hanging around causes mischief.” So far I haven’t seen any mischief from the few students who roam the hall past the bell, or from the small groups leaning against the front entrance’s glass exterior. Still, his point is well taken: Wilbur Cross High School is all about getting its students somewhere.

A House With a Door Always Open

The professionals admit their love of setting old cop cars on fire for the occasion, but firefighter cadet training is really a process of readying youngsters for a life on the line.

This fall, I started heading down to the House of Salsa on weeknights to meet Alisa, “la morena que baile salsa,” for myself. I sat in on some private lessons, skulked around the studio, and then signed up for a few classes. In terms of ability, I was what Alisa might describe as “beginner, beginner, beginner,” meaning that my shimmy was less of a shimmy and more of a shudder.

The speed of a bullet exiting the muzzle of an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle is 3200 feet per second.
The gun is not as heavy as it looks. The civilian version of an M-16, the AR-15 has a long, black cylindrical body to which you press the soft side of your cheek. Squint into the glowing red sight, and a laser points the way to a bulls-eye.

Yale has a long history of manipulating people’s minds for science.

Carl McManus loves that mug. I could tell from his voice, which hushed when he told me, “This one’s very precious.” The mug is the color of an ivory piano key, with a groove for a barber’s thumb where the handle meets the lip.

The birth control pill: countless women around the world use it, but do they fully understand it? One writer delves into the effects — and side-effects — of hormonal contraception.

A discrete community of Yalies frequently turns triple-digit profits playing internet poker. But a recent law banning online gambling threatens to put an end to their lucrative pastime. Will they call it quits?

What does it take to exorcise a ghost? Camera and holy water in hand, Christine Kaczynski and her fellow “sensitives” track spirits and sweep through haunted condominiums in East Haven.

It's 12:45 p.m. on an average Tuesday, and lunch is in full swing at Commons Dining Hall. "There's usually two or three black tables," says one student. "They're hard not to miss." Sure enough, a quick stroll reveals several tables entirely of black...

Born in Northern Nigeria, where few girls are educated beyond elementary school, Hauwa Ibrahim defied convention and went to law school. Now she is one of the few female lawyers in her home country, working to protect women's civil and human rights.

"I bought a few things," Neil* says casually, before rattling off a list: "some little vibrators, a few movies, an anal plug, cock rings, wet wild balls -- basically, you put those inside a girl, and when she starts to orgasm, they pop out.

As the sun sets on a cold October day, rain taps against the windows of the MacDougal Center in the Hall of Graduate Studies. In one corner, 35 umbrellas, jackets, and pairs of soggy shoes lay clustered in a heap. In another, four metal dining hall...

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