Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
Twenty New Haven firefighters – 19 of them white, one of them Hispanic – stood outside the...
The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of 20 New Haven firefighters who claimed in a reverse...
For years, New Haven’s firefighters have waited. Not a single firefighter has been promoted to...
The Senate voted 62 to 35 on Thursday to confirm former Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh for...
University President Richard Levin announced Monday the appointment of Robert Post LAW ’77 as the...
WASHINGTON — Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh entered the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations conference room this afternoon with a huge smile across his face. Whether he left the room feeling the same way is another matter entirely. The Foreign Relations Committee met Tuesday to discuss Koh’s nomination as legal adviser to the Department of State. While...
BETHANY, Conn. — Bethany is small, says its First-Selectman Derrylyn Gorski — so small in fact, that the town of 5,600 relies on its neighbors to get by. Several years ago, Gorski said, Bethany officials realized it could not afford both a street sweeper and a catch basin cleaner (an elephant-like vacuum used to clean storm drains). The solution, Gorski says, was to...
Coming into the season, the softball team didn’t know what to expect from senior pitcher Deanna DiBernardi ’09. The southpaw had a shoulder injury that could only be fixed with major surgery and was put on a 70-pitch limit for each of her starts — until a couple weeks ago, when the decision was made to let DiBernardi stay in games as long as she was effective and...
When the University of Pennsylvania named then-Yale Provost Judith Rodin its president in December of 1993, much was made of the fact that a woman had finally risen to the top post at an Ivy League school. “I think it’s about time,” Rodin said at the time. Yale pointed out that it had already had a female president. Hanna Holborn Gray, after all, had served as...
Federal officials declared a national health emergency Sunday following the identification of 20 cases of swine flu — a new form of influenza — in five states. Here on campus, Yale University Health Services has a “robust emergency plan” that can be deployed in the event of a pandemic flu, said Paul Genecin, the director of Yale University Health Services. But he...
“I’m gonna see some folks who have already been let down. I’m so tired of America,” sang Rufus Wainwright, opening his concert with the melodic strains of his popular song “Going To A Town.” As the audience erupted into applause, Wainwright shook his head and tweaked the words for his next line: “They never really seem to want to tell the truth. I’m so...
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