Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
HASTINGS, Neb. — Two years and two weeks ago, Scott Kleeb GRD ’06 felt like he could achieve...
KEENE, N.H. — With just a few days remaining before the 2008 elections, polls from New Hampshire...
The boom years are over. As reports of plunging endowments and vanishing student loans sweep...
Halloween costumes were highly political this year, as multiple Elis dressed up as Sarah...
BRIDGEPORT — Campaigning for what many are calling the most inspirational presidential candidate...
WASILLA, Alaska — The Great Bear Brewery is famous for its “good beer, good chow, good...
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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