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After speaking with Scott Wilson ’88, I sat at my desk, staring at my laptop, at a complete loss for words — how was I going to capture the essence of this extraordinary journalist in 2,000 words? Wilson has been detained by members of the guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces

In my first semester at Amherst, a friend invited me to the college’s Hermina Gardner Bi-Semester Service, a Christian worship service held in the African-American tradition. Though I had grown up attending church, I hesitantly accepted the invitation, not knowing what to expect. My apprehension about the

For most college students, life after graduation is a shudder-inducing idea — the prospect of finding a job that provides stability and pleasure seems bleak. However, for current students and recent graduates alike, Isabel Camacho ’14 stands out like a beacon in the sea of uncertainty, showing that success and

Lyndsey Scott ’06 struts down the runway with a train of multicolored balloons trailing behind her. It’s 2009 and Scott walks in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, an event 800 million people watch annually, according to Harper’s Bazaar. That same year, she was the first African-American

Joseph F. Quinn ’69 does not fit the mold of the traditional economist — he is not a distinguished intellectual who studies Wall Street, the workings of industry or the accumulation of wealth and capital itself. Quinn’s research instead focuses on what comes after such capital is accumulated: on the

How does one become a writer? For Harlan Coben ’84, the path was less straightforward than he expected. Despite his current status as a globally-acclaimed author, Coben hadn’t even entertained the possibility of writing professionally until the summer before his senior year at Amherst. And even after that,

For Tara Gleason Chicirda ’94, there is no such thing as a dull day. As the curator of furniture for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia and the mother of a 12-year-old boy, her days are full of constant activity, moving from her office to the historic