Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
The difficult has recently become the near-impossible for international students looking for jobs in the shattered financial sector after graduation. A February law effectively barring banks who took bailout money from hiring non-immigrant foreign workers has forced those firms to rescind dozens of offers made to international students before the law’s...
Washington D.C., District Court Judge John Bates ruled Thursday that the federal government could not deny habeas corpus rights to prisoners held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. The court ruled that the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Boumediene v. Bush in 2008 — which extended habeas corpus rights to prisoners at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo...
The China India Consumer Insights Program, an initiative of the Yale Center for Customer Insights, was established by Professor K. Sudhir last year. The program’s first annual conference will be held this weekend, April 3-4, at the School of Management, featuring speakers from various business schools and...
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...
After almost four years of rapid economic expansion, the entire Icelandic banking system melted down last October, resulting in the biggest banking collapse that any country has suffered, relative to its size. The country’s financial success from 2003 to 2007 — during which the Icelandic stock market multiplied by nine times — turned out to be a debacle when the...
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. Ashdown was elected to the House of Commons in Britain’s Parliament in 1979 and became leader of the Liberal Democrats Party in...
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. According to new court documents filed by Yale last week, Allan Gerson LAW ’76 is representing the defendant, who claims to be the rightful owner of the...
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. Subramanyam, who was invited by the Yale Raga Society, an undergraduate organization whose...
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. Earlier this month, Yale’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Peru’s government in December, claiming that Peru filed suit in the wrong court. The United States District Court in Washington, Yale says...
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. Ten thousand children attend school in a building no larger than Connecticut Hall. They live without plumbing or sanitation. The nicest homes are cinder-block...
The pair of us have been about a week on bases in and around Tikrit, Saddam's birthplace. To get out here we took a big old twin rotor Chinook helicopter from Baghdad, hopping northward up the country. They fly with all the lights out in total darkness to avoid rockets and small arms fire. All the eye can see are layers of profound black delineated by the dim neon green...
Despite growing concerns about drug-related violence along the border of Texas and Mexico, a group of Yale affiliates will spend the next week in the country to raise Yale’s profile south of the border. About 150 Elis, including students, alumni and faculty, will travel to Mexico City and Monterrey next week for the University’s largest-ever Yale Week in Mexico. The...
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