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Kaitlin Paulson

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Local restaurant hosts cookie-tasting

Forget visions of sugar plums — pistachio-cranberry icebox cookies are the new stuff of holiday dreams.

City teens learn to debate

Parents usually want their teenagers to argue less. Yale’s Urban Debate League just wants them to argue better.

YALE-PRINCETON | Who but Yale cheers in ancient Greek?

Leave it to Yalies to cheer in ancient Greek at a football game. Tomorrow during the Yale-Princeton game, Yale Cheerleading will be reintroducing the “Long Cheer,” a traditional chant first used at football games in the 1880s. The team is performing the cheer, written half in Greek and half in English, at the request of alumni Robert O’Connor ’48 and Frank Gibson ’49, who will be attending the game.

Veterans chat over pancakes

While Veterans Day seemed like any other Tuesday for most, a few individuals stopped to remember the people the day was set aside for, with pancakes.

Students unite for second Interfaith Day of Service

When it comes to reaching out to the community, sometimes a game of Scrabble can make all the difference.

Obama pastor visits state

MILFORD — For a change, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was the quiet one. An estimated crowd of 800 gathered at Kingdom Life Christian Church in Milford on Thursday for a “conversation” between Wright — president-elect Barack Obama’s outspoken former pastor — and the Rev. John Rankin, a Harvard-educated evangelical from West Hartford.

Soup kitchen faces steep expenses

Concerns about the economic tremors from Wall Street are stewing on 84 Broadway, the location of New Haven’s Community Soup Kitchen.

Former Freedom Rider addresses Yalies

On Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. Reginald Green stood in the Dwight Hall library, gesturing at a book.

‘Sing’ for social justice

Thursday night, Dwight Hall combated near-freezing temperatures with hot apple cider and singing.

In SSS, a research playground

Stepping into room 210 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall is a little like reentering childhood: Snapshots of babies smile down from the walls of a cozy corner office that is furnished with a bright rug and stuffed with toys.

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