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Customization ups satisfaction
If you find yourself agonizing over how to select a new laptop computer or devouring a chocolate bar right after dinner, do not despair. Ravi Dhar can assure you that you are neither abnormal nor alone.
Q&A | From East, consumer insights
The China India Consumer Insights Program, an initiative of the Yale Center for Customer Insights, was established by Professor K. Sudhir last year.
Elis interview, dry cleaners find work
By all accounts, the on-campus job interview season is a stressful period in the lives of Yale undergraduates — the pressure, the uncertainty, the need to be constantly well-groomed.
Stimulus, re-examined
How would you predict the effects of the stimulus package?
Elm City sows seeds for Apple store
Last Monday, as Richard Yao chomped on a juicy green apple, regular office work was a distant concern. Instead, the economic development officer of New Haven was supervising the assembly of a video clip to be broadcast on YouTube.
Iraq War vets get ‘lucky’ upon return
For Neil Burger ’85, there could be no better time than last Friday to make his voice heard. As senators Obama and McCain debated their fundamental differences on the Iraq War, Burger’s latest movie, “The Lucky Ones,” was released in theaters earlier that day. Unlike the candidates’ distant discussion of strategies and policies, the Yalie director portrays a story about personal suffering and internal conflict. But Burger’s interesting story almost loses its spell as the director tries to combine drama and comedy into a single movie. Trying to achieve too many things at the same time, Burger abandons all verisimilitude.
Univ. archiving bin Laden tapes
English majors getting tired of Shakespeare and Wordsworth will soon be able to turn to Yale’s libraries for a poet of different kind altogether: Osama bin Laden.
In Conn., arrests may require DNA tests
Some state leaders are renewing their efforts to pass a bill that would require DNA samples of suspected criminals to be taken at the time of arrest or arraignment, rather than only after conviction, as is allowed under current law.
Spurlock doc finds bin Laden
Many experience excitement, shock and even dread as they await the birth of their offspring, but Morgan Spurlock is different.
Librarian of Congress discusses globalization
Technology can be used to heal both broken bones and cultural conflicts, James Billington, the 13th librarian of Congress, said Wednesday.