A potential tenant for 84 Whalley Ave., which Staples will vacate next Saturday, has some area residents up in arms.

Caroline Nguyen ’13 is looking forward to showing her spirit at her first Game — in part, by purchasing lots of merchandise.

MIDDLEFIELD, Conn. — Crisp leaves scatter on the ground, the scent of fresh produce wafts through the air, and rows upon rows of freshly fried cider donuts sit on trays. Add two 18-hole golf courses, the best apple pie in the state and a full-service deli, and you get Lyman Orchards.

After almost a year of delays, a $150 million renovation of a 600,000 square-foot complex at Science Park is expected to begin in spring 2010, said David Silverstone, president of the Science Park Development Corporation, a non-profit of which Yale University is a board member.

At their downtown boutique, Nancy Shea and Todd Lyon are braving the economic downturn with vintage clothing.

David Lat LAW ’99 did not always want to be a blogger. Armed with degrees from Harvard College and Yale Law School — where he was vice president of the conservative Federalist Society — Lat worked at the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz for two and a half years before moving to the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s office in 2003.

His father was Muslim, his mother was Christian, but for the past 38 years, Egyptian investor and philanthropist Shafik Gabr said, religious concerns have not affected his ability to make sound and rational financial decisions.

Yale professor Ernesto Zedillo, president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 and now director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, recently led a review of the governance and international priorities of the World Bank. The 46-page report, “Repowering the World Bank for the 21st Century,” calls for a restructuring of the Bank’s governing bodies and a rethinking of how the Bank devises strategy, among other recommendations.

The fight for social justice and mid-week partying came together Wednesday evening at the first-ever Toad’s Place hosted benefit to fight homelessness.

Jean Recapet immigrated to the United States from Bordeaux, France, in 1977. He worked his way up at Atticus Bookstore Cafe on Chapel Street, where he is now the manager.

The Elm City has been getting a face-lift.

Construction for the new Gateway Community College campus downtown, which begins this coming Monday, may bring new jobs to the city — but it may also cause traffic problems.

While non-profit organizations across the country are barely surviving the recession, the New Haven-León Sister City Project is riding out the storm with relative ease.

Students at the School of Management are trying to revitalize New Haven’s Audubon district through dance — Dance-Dance Institution, that is.

When Superintendent of Schools Reginald Mayo spoke at the ribbon-cutting of the newly-renovated Augusta Lewis Troup School in September, he was brimming with enthusiasm for the city’s innovative school reconstruction efforts.

Notice some vandalism in New Haven? See it, click it and the city will fix it.

You’ve heard it all before.
The Wall Street crisis. The financial meltdown. The economic apocalypse. The markets are crashing and, with it, your hopes of a cushy post-grad I-banking career.

Cooper’s Dress Shop and Cosi are closing their doors, and if sales trends in New Haven continue, they will not be alone.

In its primary fall event, the Yale Entrepreneurial Society hosted a panel of business professionals who spoke before the largest undergraduate showing in its history. The panel, whose members YES President Joe Walker ’09 said were able to relate well to the audience, discussed tricks of the trade and argued that, despite the current economic climate, business is still a viable career. Rachel Wang reports.

On Nov. 12, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson officially abandoned the plan to buy troubled mortgage assets. Instead, he chose to focus on injecting capital (in the form of equity stakes) into troubled banks.