Newsmakers

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "I created the only sports league in America where you can come out and play." —STEVE LIPSCOMB '84, CREATOR OF THE WORLD POKER TOUR

Female soldiers are filling more combat roles in Iraq than in any previous U.S. conflict—and are experiencing higher levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than their male counterparts, according to recent studies lead by Dr. Paula Schnurr,Adv'Bs. "PTSD is a very real problem for women who serve in the military," she told the Chicago Tribune in midmarch male counterparts to have been exposed to some kind of trauma—sexual abuse, physical assault, or rape—prior to joining the military. "The speculation is that many of them are joining the military to get away from adverse environments," said Schnurr. Although women are the focus of the study, Schnurr said the findings may be applicable to all veterans... .With 13 jury convictions in the past seven years, David Anders '91 had built a reputation as one of the best prosecutors in the U.S. attorneys Manhattan office. But after his masterful cross-examination of Bernard T. Ebbers helped lead to the fraud conviction of the former Worldcom boss in March, the hard-working prosecutor has a national profile. Anders' role in the Ebbers trial could earn him the John Marshall Award, one of the Justice Department's most prestigious litigation awards, according to defense lawyer and former prosecutor George Newhouse. "He's clearly a rising star in the bar," Newhouse told The New York Times....The cartoons of Sam Means 'O3, whose work you may recognize from TheD and the Jack-O-Lantern, have been running in The New Yorker, most recently in the May 2 issue. For a laugh, see them at www.cartoonbank.com.... While working for the Foreign Service for 10 years and later practicing civil rights and international law, Lauren Austin '81 quilted for relaxation. Now she devotes herself to quilting full time as the community artistin residence for the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Austin learned to sew traditional African-American "story quilts" as a child in Syracuse, New York, where she grew up listening to stories of the civil rights movement at her grandmother's sewing circles. "I guess those stories inspired me to become a civil rights lawyer," Austin told the DaytonaBeach News Journal prior to a February arts festival in which she was exhibiting.... Screenwriter Shonda Rhimes '91, the creator and executive producer of ABC's medical drama, Grey's Anatomy, hit one out of the proverbial park with her first television series. Since the show debuted in March, Grey's Anatomy has become aTop 10 hit,with more than 17 million viewers tuning in every week to follow the medical and romantic exploits of five young interns at a cutthroat Seattle hospital (including fictional Dartmouth grad Meredith Grey, who regularly sports Dartmouth T-shirts). Rhimes told The New York Times in April that the show's runaway success began to sink in when, "I started hearing from people I haven't spoken to since fifth grade. And then my mom got a call from her congressman, sol knew there was something going on."...When the Rev. George William Rutler '65 was assigned in 2001 to the Church of Our Saviour on New York City's Park Avenue, the church was poorly attended and burdened with debt. In four years the converted Episcopalian priest, named by the Daily Catholic in 1999 one of the "Top 100 Catholics of the 20th Century," has put the church in the black and attracted large numbers of young Catholics. Well known as a television personality on EWTN, the Catholic cable network, and for his prowess as a preacher, Rutler is also turning the church into an art center. He commissioned two artists to create a 24-foot Christos Pantokrator, which is based on the iconic image of Jesus at St. Catherines Monastery on Mount Sinai, to hang behind the altar. "New York has so many talented young people trained in the fine arts, and yet there's no place to showcase their work," Rutler, himself an author and artist, told the Sun last February...."lf you want to start a fight, mention the documentary Mondovino to people in the wine business and step back," The New York Times' columnist Eric Asimov wrote when the film by Jonathan Nossiter '84 opened in New York in March. Already a hotly debated hit in France, Nossiter s documentary explores the effect of globalization on centuries-old winemaking cultures. "Like a modern Thoreau, he offers a starkly divided world in which the monolithic forces of wealth, technology and marketing are at war with a pastoral peasantry," The Times reported. .. .Matt Bank'04 and Pamela Crikelair '01 battled their way to the final rounds of two nationwide competitions this spring: Bank competed against thousands for an internship with ESPN columnist Bill Simmons, while Crikelair pitched and putted her way to the final of the Golf Channel's The BigBreak II: Ladies Only, in which 10 players vied for wild cards into select LPGA Tour events. Bank's witty responses to the online " "interview" (www.sports.espn.go.com/espn/ page2/simmons/index) punched his ticket et to the final three. Crikelair, who first picked up a golf club as a Dartmouth senior to help rehab a field hockey injury, finished second in the 10-week competition. ...It's not surprising that Randall Dottin '94 tackles the theme of clashing cultures in his award-winning film, A-Alike, given the disparate worlds he straddled as a youth, maneuvering between public housing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a private high school. "You have to be able to codeswitch, " Dottin explained to The BostonGlobe at a March screening of his film. "When you move between radically different worlds, you have to know how to communicate in many different ways, but Awithout losing your own language." Alike, which was Dottin's film thesis project at the Columbia School of the Arts, tells the story of two estranged brothers, one who works in the corporate world and conceals his impoverished past and the other who winds up in prison. The film earned Dottin a 2004 Student Academy Award for best narrative film and was picked up by HBO and Cinemax. Dottin began filming his next project, Lifted, in Boston in May....After lampooning Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in the play Matt&Ben, Mindy Kaling '01 is now tackling the beloved British comedy, The Office, as a writer and actress in NBC's stateside version, which premiered in late spring. Kaling plays an uptight employee at a paper distributorship who, as she told the WashingtonPost,wears her shirt "buttoned right to the neck. Pants pulled up right to my bra. And flats. Puritan women's wear."

Shonda Rhimes '91

Rev. George William Rutler '65

OUOTE/UNQUOTE "With James Nachtwey's ['70] masterly eye and bold, iconic composition, these photos go further than cataloging what's been lost: They show the grandeur of the humanity and dignity that survive," —2005 NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD JUDGES, GIVING TOP HONORS FOR HIS TIME MAGAZINE PHOTO ESSAY, THE TRAGEDY OF SUDAN