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Two Elis win Rhodes 11.22.09 (7)
Matthew Baum ’09 and Geoffrey Shaw ’10 are among 32 students nationwide who this weekend were awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, the most prestigious undergraduate academic scholarship.
Eli a long shot in Nebraska
HASTINGS, Neb. — Two years and two weeks ago, Scott Kleeb GRD ’06 felt like he could achieve the near-impossible: turn a red region blue for the first time in 48 years by edging out Adrian Smith for Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District seat. The momentum, he says, was all his.
Homework? No, there’s a state to be canvassed (1)
KEENE, N.H. — With just a few days remaining before the 2008 elections, polls from New Hampshire show Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with a sizable lead among voters. But, taking nothing for granted, 35 members of the Yale College Democrats ventured here on Saturday to canvass.
Warner House memo | Yale to curb spending (2)
The boom years are over. As reports of plunging endowments and vanishing student loans sweep across the world of higher education, Yale is well-positioned to weather the economic crisis, administrators responsible for the University’s budget said. But they, too, are feeling the strain of the recession on the University’s sources of income.
Cross Campus: 11.03.08
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Conn. rallies for Obama
BRIDGEPORT — Campaigning for what many are calling the most inspirational presidential candidate since his uncle was running, Ted Kennedy Jr. gave the keynote address at the largest Connecticut rally since early September in support of the Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
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A trip to Palin country (16)
WASILLA, Alaska — The Great Bear Brewery is famous for its “good beer, good chow, good company.”
- Endorsements tilt toward Dems.
- Calhoun renovation on schedule (1)
- Construction of Yale Biology Building to begin
- Racial profiling suspected
- ItsHaky fights for seat
- Channeling Obama, teens embrace oratory (4)
- Cornell faces budget cuts (1)
- Yale Opera performs scenes
- Briefly: School of Public Health program combines voting and vaccination
- Briefly: Crown Street bar raided for serving minors
- Briefly: Two men shot Saturday, condition stable
- Briefly: Yale professor mugged at gunpoint (2)
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Tent City fights homelessness 11.20.09
Elm Street was alive with the sounds of laughter, the strains of a guitar and the shouts of people calling, “Fight the fight — end homelessness!”
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FOOTBALL | Yale blows lead in final minutes 11.21.09 (28)
All season, Yale head coach Tom Williams has used trick plays to his team's advantage. But that changed for the Bulldogs at the Yale Bowl on Saturday — and in the most critical of ways. Harvard overcame a 10–0 deficit in the fourth quarter and defeated the Bulldogs 14–10.
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A tradition of their own, 37 years and counting 11.20.09 (6)
Overcoming their alma maters’ rivalry, Richard Sperry ’68 and Roger Cheever, Harvard class of 1967, say they hold the record for most consecutive Games attended.
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West Campus stays safe 11.20.09 (2)
WEST HAVEN — The last reported “crime” at Yale’s 136-acre West Campus occurred four to five years ago, said Thomas Paddock, one of the four head security officers who cover the area.
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Expenses a concern for arts majors 11.20.09 (5)
Photography student Miranda Lewis ’12 said she worked all summer to purchase a new digital camera for her “Digital Photography” class.
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