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Volume CXXXII, Number 10
November 22, 2002

Wethli raises bar with his brush
ADAM BABER, COLUMNIST
It is 1978. Arriving at Bowdoin for a job interview, Mark Wethli realizes he has found the ideal academic environment. He meets with the search committee about the position, is offered the position, and promptly turns Bowdoin down in favor of a job in California. Why? Because the Bowdoin position is for only one year. [read the article]

Banking nightmare
TIMOTHY J. RIEMER, COLUMNIST
The 90s were an unusually prosperous time for the US. With the invention of the internet many people believed that the economy had been transformed. Firms in the late 90s saw unheard-of profits, especially in the technology sector. However, while everything was all warm and fuzzy here in the U.S, across the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese economy was facing one of its worst declines ever, nearly a polar opposite of the U.S. economy. [read the article]

Student fire fighters fight fires fiercely
ANN SULLIVAN, STAFF WRITER
The Orient spoke with student voluneers to get the down-low on the hot spots.[read the article]

New Contraceptives
JEFF BENSON, M.D.
Dear Dr. Jeff: What have you heard about the new birth control rings and patches? A.A. [read the article]

A dark road to a terrible war
KID WONGSRICHANALAI, STAFF WRITER
With the gathering storm clouds of another world war far in the distance the members of the Class of 1941 returned to Bowdoin College after a refreshing summer, ready to begin their second year in the fall of 1938. The campus they returned to was quite a different one from the one they had left. Among the additions to Bowdoin's campus were the new statue of a polar bear in front of Sargent Gymnasium and the new sound system in Moulton Union. [read the article]

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