The lawsuit that Peru filed against Yale in December moved closer to New Haven this summer when a federal judge in Washington ruled that his court had no jurisdiction over the matter.
When the Yale University Press was faced with the decision of whether to reprint the caricatures of the prophet Muhammad that are at the center of its forthcoming book, “The Cartoons that Shook the World,” it turned to the University proper for advice.
The difficult has recently become the near-impossible for international students looking for jobs in the shattered financial sector after graduation.
The China India Consumer Insights Program, an initiative of the Yale Center for Customer Insights, was established by Professor K. Sudhir last year.
The area designated as a Jordanian national parkland, situated about six miles south of the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee, is a slice of no-man’s-land on the Israel-Jordan border. Some biblical scholars believe the site is the entrance to the Garden of Eden, but at the moment it is home only to ruins, scraggly weeds and a crack squadron of Jordan’s Royal Guard.
Following the collapse, the Icelandic government tapped Yale economics lecturer Sigridur Benediktsdottir GRD ’05 to be a part of its special Investigation Commission.
Lord “Paddy” Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon came across the pond to spend two days at Yale before heading to New York to discuss the situation in Afghanistan with United States special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke.
The lawyer representing Pierre Konowaloff, the descendant of a Russian aristocrat contesting Yale’s ownership of Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece “The Night Café,” has his legal roots here in New Haven.
Unfamiliar to western ears, the natural, trembling tone of the bamboo flute evokes pastoral scenes of India’s distant past. But bamboo flutist Shashank Subramanyam will sing through the instrument at the Yale Center for British Art tonight to give Yalies a taste of India today.
If Yale has to defend a lawsuit contesting its ownership of Inca artifacts, it would prefer to do so a little closer to campus than Washington, D.C.
MONTERREY, Mexico — Stranded in the mountains on the outskirts of industrialized Monterrey is a sprawling slum called Alianza Reál. The shantytown is home to 40,000 Mexicans, most of them displaced persons.
