Spring 1996

Features

Dollars for Scholars
For close to two decades, scholars and administrators have been nurturing the research environment at GW. It's paying off.
Angus Paul

Asia Rising: Can America Meet the Challenge?
The economic transformation of Japan and China is changing the shape of the world -- politically, militarily, even psychologically. America's choice: isolation or engagement.
Dean Harry Harding

The Way to a Woman's Heart (is Through Her Hormones)
GW's Valery Miller sees estrogen replacement therapy as a boon to post-menopausal women, despite breast cancer risks.
Reginald Rhein

The Bumpy Road to a Flat Tax
Sure, a flat tax would make life simpler. Does that mean it would be fairer?
Professors Joseph J. Cordes and Robert M. Dunn

Will GW Become a Virtual University?
Distance Learning via computer and video promises a new world of round-the-clock access and learning on demand. But what happens to the human touch?
Professor William E. Halal

Departments

GW News

• 175th Anniversary: Charter Day Shines
• In the Tradition: Martin Luther King Awards
• GW Moves Centuries Ahead
• Emeritus Trustees Smith and Cooper Die
• The 175th Anniversary Calendar
• Colonial Basketball: Two Strong Seasons
• Biggest-Ever Commencement to Include Alternate Plans
• Is Racism in the Eye of the Beholder?
• GW Hospital: New Moms Stay an Extra Day - On Us
• Trachtenberg Speaks to Newcomen Society
• The GW of 1996 Lives on Through Time Capsules

Alumni Newsmakers

• Michele Wehrwein Albion, MA '91 (first curator of the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford Winter Estates)
• Senda Benaissa, BA '92 (born deaf, downhill skiing competitor)

A Faculty for Writing

• Thomas Moore, Deadly Medicine
• Joe Jeff Goldblatt, Stedman Graham, and Lisa Delpy, The Ultimate Guide to Sport Event Management and Marketing
• Michael Worth, The Development Officer in Higher Education
• Priscilla Roosevelt, Life on the Russian Country Estate
• Howard Gillette Jr., Between Justice and Beauty
• Richard B. Stott, History of My Own Times

Speak Out

• In Bed With the Coach (It's Not What You Think)
  Philip H. DeTurk, BA '54, JD '56

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