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Putting controversy in ‘context’

PANEL/Experts discuss press freedom, cultural clashes and the causes of the Muhammad cartoon mess.   Top Stories Penn responds to avian flu threat

A homecoming for Dr. Gutmann

President Amy Gutmann took to the dance floor on a recent visit to India, where she met with alumni and friends of Penn in Mumbai. Gutmann hosted a January 5 alumni event that drew more than 300 people and featured a magnificent performance by the Penn student a capella group Penn Masala, which traveled from Philadelphia for the event. Later in the week, Gutmann was the capstone speaker at the Wharton Global Alumni Forum, also in Mumbai, where she told the audience how this was literally a homecoming: Her father fled Nazi Germany in 1934 and found refuge in Mumbai.

Movable Feast: Let them eat cake

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The fastest game on two feet

What's the reason for those propane tanks?

Illustration by Bo Brown   Ask Benny: What's the reason for those propane tanks? Out and About: On the face of it

Foster to speak in May

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Nursing prof finds time to play music for troops

  Top Stories Nursing prof finds time to play music for troops Burning away the pain  

News briefs

No B.S. Henry Louis Gates Jr., who had been scheduled to speak at the next SAS Dean’s Forum Lecture on March 23, had to cancel. The good news? The School has found an able replacement: Harry G. Frankfurt, author of the bestselling “On Bullshit.” Go to www.sas.upenn.edu for more information. . Change of the guard

Staff Q&A: Bob Gutowski

STAFF Q&A/Bob Gutowski shares his love of nature as head of Morris Arboretum’s public programs. “You’ve never seen an evening gown that’s as beautiful as a cedar waxwing.” Bob Gutowski paid his first visit to Penn’s Morris Arboretum in the 1960s when he was making ends meet with landscaping jobs. “My employer came out here to ask some questions of the rose gardener,” he recalls. “It was like going into a Dickens novel. I have a dim memory of huge overgrown honeysuckles.”

Burning away the pain

When Dottie Brown was in high school she worked at a local veterinary practice, learning valuable real-world lessons about her career of choice. But even as a teenager, Brown sensed something odd about the way the veterinarians of the day treated—or maybe more accurately, didn't treat—their patients' pain.