Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:06am
This past Saturday, the New Haven Green witnessed a scene that has become all too common: two rallies at loggerheads over the Beijing Olympics, both making overblown claims and neither willing to listen to the other’s perspective. The anti-Olympics rally fell victim to extreme viewpoints and name-calling, while the pro-Olympics rally missed the point altogether. Those...
Ask New Haven Police Department Interim Chief Stephanie Redding, and she’ll say that being a woman has never made her more or less successful at her job. “I think every officer individually has their strengths and weaknesses,” Redding says. But during her 23-year career at the NHPD, being a woman has always made Redding a minority within the department, and that...
Though their ideas are still in their beginning stages, participants in this year’s Yale Entrepreneurial Society Y50K Business Plan Competition may be on their way to becoming promising leaders in the business and nonprofit sectors. Teams proposing business models for engine-sensor technology and software applications for rural health workers walked away with the first...
Let’s face it: You’d enjoy watching a cute little boy playing soccer. You might even pay to sit in a dark theater and eat popcorn while doing so. But if you’re expecting a more meaningful experience than that from “O Ano em Que Meus Pais Sairam de Ferias” (“The Year My Parents Went on Vacation”), you will be disappointed. The film, directed by Cao Hamburger...
It was early September, 1968. A tall, lanky junior wandered into 202 York St., home of the Yale Daily News, holding a handful of hand-drawn comics — a series about the football team called “Bull Tales.” Nervously, the young man greeted Executive Editor Reed Hundt ’69 LAW ’74. After rifling through the first three or four comic strips, Hundt shrugged. He was...
Comparing Islamic radicalism to communism, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned Yale students Monday that the United States will have to be on guard against the threat of terrorism for at least a generation. In a public address at the Yale Law School, Chertoff painted the threat of terrorism as a matter that can be best overcome by winning hearts and minds...
Ari Berlin ’10 fared well during his spring-break travels to Morocco and Spain. He mastered “jus d’orange” in French and got by in Barcelona with his high-school Spanish. “I’m not a languages kind of guy,” Berlin says. Yet he speaks — or “interacts,” rather — in four languages: English since birth, Spanish from high school and Zulu and Afrikaans...
To the Editor: Thank you for the honest picture of life in Sderot (Schwartz, “In Sderot, terrorism the rule, not the exception,” 4/2). You may ask your readers what they would do if the theoretical desperados across the Mexican border upped the ante, but Israel will not have the luxury of discussing theoretical scenarios. As of April 1, Iranian 120mm mortars were...
Amid a chorus of condemning hisses, supportive banging and outright laughter, former Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum argued for war with radical Islam at the Yale Political Union debate Thursday night. As part of a speaking tour throughout various college campuses about the dangers of Islamic extremism, Santorum spoke before a full house in...
Late last week, John McCain unveiled what his campaign described as its “first general election ad.” The 60-second clip introduces McCain as “the American president Americans have been waiting for.” The American president? I was unaware that there was any confusion about his nationality. I suppose that we could count a minor controversy that generated buzz...
Professor Paul Bracken walked into his class yesterday and — like any good student — sat down in the front row. When the highest-ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces guest-teaches a course on “Strategy, Technology, and War,” listeners should take notes — chances are that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen knows a little...
When Capt. Jason Hamill was in Baghdad, he used to show the local Iraqis a picture of his nephew, a toddler whom he’d promised to teach baseball when he got a little older. He would say the boy was his son because he knew how much children were valued in Iraqi culture. While Jason had a wife in Texas, he didn’t want to have kids until he could be there to watch them...
