Elis make the most of Beijing hosts 8.29.08
Many Yalies bound for Beijing this summer found a way to make it happen by being resourceful: by maximizing connections and minimizing costs.
Many Yalies bound for Beijing this summer found a way to make it happen by being resourceful: by maximizing connections and minimizing costs.
Five Yale alumni and one current Bulldog participated in athletic competition at this summer’s 29th Olympiad in China.
As someone who has obsessively watched almost every hour of NBC’s Olympic broadcast coverage in recent memory, I would be making a gross understatement by saying that I was excited to spend this past summer in Beijing, host to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
Jacobson earned a bronze metal in the team sabre competition Thursday to accompany the silver she won individually last Saturday and the individual bronze she picked up in Athens four years ago.
It did not take long for the Americans to leap — or duel rather — to the top of the medal standings at the Beijing Olympics with the help of a Yale alumna.
A candlelight vigil to honor the victims of the massive earthquake that struck the Chinese province of Sichuan last Monday drew approximately 80 to Cross Campus last night.
While in China, where he has traveled frequently in recent years, Levin was scheduled to meet with a range of government officials to discuss the continuation of the University’s collaboration with the country.
The New Haven Green played host to a face-off between supporters of the Chinese government and opponents of its human-rights record.
Amid growing pressure from students and others in the Yale community to speak out on the subject, University President Richard Levin has disclosed that he “expressed concern” last week to a top Chinese official about the recent instability in Tibet.
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Many governments justify public ownership of corporations as a way to increase economic equality. But Yale economics professor Zhiwu Chen GRD ’90 disagrees.
As activists worldwide are stepping up their criticism of China in the run-up to this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, the New Haven Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Monday night to approve street closures for an April 26 protest of China’s alleged human-rights violations that will temporarily shut down several streets around the New Haven Green.
Less than five months before the 2008 Olympic Games open, administrators have been forced to pare back their plans for a summit of business heavyweights in Beijing.