Table of Contents

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

October 1994 ■Volume 87 ■ Number 2

18 Bait & Bullet and the Politically Correct

Essayist Sydney Lea goes on a duck hunt some decades away from campus.

34 God Keep Me a Damned Fool

Poet Robert Pack '51 tells what the liberal arts are for.

4 Letters

6 Dr. Wheelock'sJournal

8 On the Hill

Rewrite of the Valkyries • Curing Fake Patients • Sneaker Research Plus: Bragging Rites

42 Syllabus

44 Presidential Range

56 Class Notes

76 Obituaries

96 Dartmouth Undying

26 Boswell to the Mob

George Anastasia '69 used to sip cafe au lait on Dartmouth foreign-study programs in France. Now he hangs out in scary Philadelphia neighborhoods and gets middle-of-the-night calls from wiseguys. Tom Avril '89 profiles the man who has watched the Mafia disintegrate.

On the cover: "Vito" Anastasia. The photo is by Joe Mehling '69.