Catherine Cheney
Catherine Cheney
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Profile - The Greenhouse Effect
Linda Greenhouse pulled a thick white packet out of her black leather bag. It was a recent Supreme Court decision, and for nearly thirty years, she had made cases like this one matter to millions of readers.
It's not easy hearing green
Rich chords cresendoed beneath the emerald and gold ceiling of Woolsey Hall as Jessica French MUS ’08 struck at the ivory keys of the organ during her senior recital.
Immigration’s two-sided border
Interning for a Los Angeles newspaper in the first six weeks of summer, I sought stories relevant to the communities I covered. Some of these articles inevitably related to immigration.
At Yale, former NSA director was just Professor Odom
Smith: Three-star general was ‘academic, practical and worldly’
William Eldridge Odom, three-star general, former leader of the National Security Agency and Yale faculty member died suddenly on Friday, May 30. He was 75.
As cold persists, options for immigrants are few
Tension rises between black citizens, illegal immigrants
On an icy Thursday afternoon, three federal agents in a Chevy uplander brimming with boxes of documents drive down Whalley Avenue. A U-Haul truck soon pulls up to the entrance of the Community Action Agency of New Haven, and frightened employees watch as more than a dozen agents burst through the front door marked with a scrap of yellow notebook paper reading “Agency Closed.” With bulletproof vests and guns at their sides, the agents skid over black ice and up the concrete stairwell. They tear through the tired brick building, emerging with stacks of files in their arms, many marked “ENERGY.” By 4 a.m. the next morning, the agents load up and speed away with the product of their search: three computers and nearly 90 boxes of documents.
Anchor Curry talks journalism
Ann Curry, news anchor for The Today Show and co-anchor of Dateline NBC, spoke about her work in international and humanitarian journalism yesterday at a lecture sponsored by The Women’s Leadership Initiative and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.
First ‘Asian Idol’ crowned
Eleven Yale singers belting out tunes ranging from Coco Lee to Xu Meijing on Friday night, drawing a spirited crowd at Yale’s first Asian Idol competition.
Wiesel urges hope, tolerance, dialogue
Droves of students, buses full of local retirees and others from the Yale-New Haven community flocked to the Yale Law School on Tuesday to listen to distinguished author and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.
Prof. wins award for work in child psychiatry
Yale professor James Comer’s innovative ideas in child psychiatry and his effective implementation of a groundbreaking education program earned him the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Education, the University announced Thursday.
New dog is the bomb for YPD
Most police officers wear their badges on their uniforms, but one of the newest members of the Yale Police Department wears his badge on a collar.