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An Interview With David Bromwich About Obama, Afghanistan

Radio Open Source | Christopher Lydon | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Yale, David Bromwich, Obama Job Performance, Bromwich, Press Criticism, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Obama Watch, New York Times, Obama, Iraq, Watson Institute, William Safire, New York Times Watch, Media News

David Bromwich seems to me better yet at Obama-watching than at press criticism. He can write with penetration of Barack Obama as an American almost-l...

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Elgin Community College Beats Yale At Mock Trial Tournament

NBC Chicago | ANDREW GREINER | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Elgin Community College, Harvard Crimson Classic, Elgin Mock Trial, Yale, Chicago News

They might object to a David and Goliath comparison, then again, as their twitter message said yesterday. "WE BEAT YALE!!!!"...

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Censored Images of Muhammad Finally Printed in New Book

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Muhammad Cartoon, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Campus Liberty, Gary Hull, Fire, Greg Lukianoff, Yale, Free Speech, Media News
Greg Lukianoff

My organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), is proud to join a broad coalition criticizing Yale University's decision to censor the Muhammad cartoons from a book about the cartoons.

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Dongguk University, Korean School, Begins Legal Fight With Yale

The New York Times | JOHN SCHWARTZ | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Yale University, South Korea Economy, Sue, South Korea Education, South Korea, Yale, World News

A major Korean university is engaged in a heated legal battle with Yale University, bringing a culture preoccupied with honor into a clash with bare-k...

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Nursing a Memoir to Publication: Finding a Niche, Defining a Life

Monroe Price | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Yale University, Memoir, Vienna, Jewish, Yale, Holocaust, Refugees, Books News
Monroe Price

When I wrote this book, Objects of Remembrance: A Memoir of American Opportunities and Viennese Dreams, there was a question of genre: Was this a Holocaust or refugee book?

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Sotomayor's Clothes Picked By Government Officials During Supreme Court Nomination, Says New Justice

AP | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Sotomayor Clothing, Sotomayor Nomination, Sotomayor Suits, Obama, Sonia Sotomayor's Style, Sotomayor Style, Yale Law, Yale, Justice Sotomayor, Senate, White House, Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Sotomayor, New Haven, Sotomayor, Politics News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her nomination process was so tightly scripted that even her clothes were chosen f...

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"Spiritual America": Censorship at Yale, and Now London?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Tate Modern, Baroness Kishwer Falker, Richard Prince, Brooke SHields, Roger Kimball, World, Jyette Klausen, London, Yale, Scotland Yard, Entertainment, Guggenheim Museum, Roberta Smith, New York Times, Walker Art Center, Books, Ken Livingstone, Living, Politics, Media News
Raymond J. Learsy

Ominously, officers of the London Police forced the withdrawal of a naked image of actress Brooke Shields, aged 10, from the newly opened "Pop Life" exhibition at the Tate Modern.

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How Smart People at Yale and Harvard Invested Stupidly

Dan Solin | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard, Dan Solin, Yale, Business News
Dan Solin

The trustees of the Yale and Harvard endowments lost sight of a basic rule of finance: When you take more risk, you increase the potential for both higher returns and higher losses.

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Ten Least Wanted In The News: The Spreadsheet Suspect

Jonathan Littman | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Yale, Ten Least Wanted, Jonathan Littman, Annie Le, Raymond Clark III, I Hate People, Marc Hershon, Spreadsheet, Bulldozer, Business News
Jonathan Littman

What may have made Raymond Clark lethal in the workplace was the fact that his supervisors failed to check his obsession for absolute control.

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Raymond Clark III Arrested, But Many Questions Remain

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Person of Interest, Raymond Clark III, Yale Student Death, Alan Dershowitz, Annie Le Person of Interest, Yale University, Annie Le, Yale Murder, Yale, Raymond Clark, Politics News
Alan Dershowitz

It would be a sad day in America if anyone deemed by the police to be a "person of interest" -- which could almost include anyone -- could be handcuffed, and hauled down to the police station.

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A "Person of Interest" Can't Be Arrested

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Yale Murder, Raymond Clark III, Constitutional Law, Constitution, Annie Le, New Haven, Yale, Yale Student Death, Missing Yale Student, Murder, Crime, Person of Interest, Guilty Until Proven Innocent, Politics News
Alan Dershowitz

If Raymond Clark III was in fact taken away in handcuffs and compelled to go to the police station in connection with the Yale murder case, he was arrested. But in order to be arrested, there must be probable cause.

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Annie Le: Body Found Inside Yale Lab Building: Police

Posted 11.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Wtnh, New Haven, Yale Campus, Missing Student, Annie Le, Body Found, Yale, Body Found in Wall, New York News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)-- Police in Connecticut say a body has been found in a building where a Yale University graduate student vanished. New Haven As...

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Annie Le: Body found inside Yale lab building: Police

AP | PATRICK SANDERS | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Annie Le Missing, Grad Student, Found, 10 Amistad, Body, Missing Yale Student, New Haven, Yale Student Disappearance, Lab, Annie Le, Yale, Annie Le Body Found, Annie Le Body, New York News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police on Sunday said they found what they believe is the body of a Yale University graduate student and bride-to-be hidden i...

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Annie Le: Police Search Hartford Garbage Incinerator For Clues

AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Laboratory, Clues, Crime, Bloody Clothes, Hartford, Connecticut, Missing Yale Student, New Haven, Missing Student, Annie Le, Yale, Yale Student Disappearance, Incinerator, New York News

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)- Investigators sifted through garbage at an incinerator Sunday, looking for clues into the disappearance of a Yale University gra...

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Harvard's Endowment Drops Sharply Amid Recession

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Yale, Harvard, Harvard University, Brown, Brown University, Ivy League, Recession, Harvard Management Company, Endowment, Home News

BOSTON — The total value of Harvard's endowment plunged nearly 30 percent in the last fiscal year as the Ivy League institution's portfolio was ...

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Harvard's Endowment Drops Sharply Amid Recession

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Yale, Ivy League, Harvard, Yale Endowment, Endowments, Harvard Endowment, Business News

BOSTON — The total value of Harvard's endowment plunged nearly 30 percent in the last fiscal year as the Ivy League institution's portfolio was ...

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Annie Le, Yale Grad Student, Disappears Days Before Wedding

AP | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

Read More: New Haven, Yale Grad Student, Missing Persons, Yale Police, Annie Le, Yale, New York News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police used search dogs and reviewed security camera footage as they tried to find a 24-year-old Yale University graduate stu...

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Yale and the Danish Cartoons

Kamran Pasha | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Islamophobia, Racism, Christianity, Islam, John Bolton, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Yale, World News
Kamran Pasha

Muslims have always used art, including fiction, to spread the message of Islam. We have just forgotten our own heritage.

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Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ivory Tower, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Aphasia, Derrida, Ivy League, Mormonism, Lost in the Meritocracy, Intellectuals, Meritocracy, Yale, Harvard, Walter Kirn, Education, Keasbey Scholarship, Wall Street, High Schools, Princeton, Western Canon, Competition for Ivy League, Rhodes Scholarship, Theory, Schools, Academia, Education Reform, Higher Education, Public Education, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Postmodern Theory, Learning, Elite, Oxford University, Class, Oxford, Minnesota, Ruling Elite, Income Inequality, Great Books, Classics, Humanities, Politics News
Anis Shivani

Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.

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The Uninsured Has a Black Face -- White Ambivalence Is Obama's Struggle

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Mongers, President Obama, News, African American President, Hateful Acts, White Ambivalence, Obama, White Privilege, Hate Crimes, Racists, Hate Groups, Rosa Parks, John Dovidio, Liberal Racism, Great White Hope, African Americans, Post Racial Society, Politics, Right Wing, Blacks, Barack Obama, Reparations, Breaking News, Yale, Racism, Race, Healthcare Reform, Functional Racism, Whites, Prof. Dovidio, Health Care, Dr. John Dovidio, Hate, Dovidio, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

Yale professor, John Dovidio, does not feel the ongoing protests, name calling and Hitler labels by white protesters are hate, but a fight by whites struggling to defend and maintain their position and status.

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A Twa Lala -- Play a Song: My Keynote Address at the Music Educators Symposium at the Yale School of Music

Lucia Brawley | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Education, Music, Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Teachers, Arts Education, Yale, Yale School of Music, u.s. Department of Education, Living News
Lucia Brawley

On June 10, 2009, it was my great honor to deliver the keynote address at the Yale School of Music's biennial Music Educators Symposium.

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Obama, McCain Lawyers Unite for Election Reform

Jacob Soboroff | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jacob Soboroff, Election Reform, Democracy Index, Obama, Mccain, Yale, Politics News
Jacob Soboroff

Policymakers need solid, comparative data to referee the inevitable fights that take place between reformers, parties, candidates and election administrators over whether the system is working.

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Why Did Financial Journalists Miss the Financial Crisis?

Neena Satija | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Financial TImes, Mad Money, Economics, Lionel Barber, Yale, Newspapers, Jouralists, Financial Journalism, Media News
Neena Satija

Financial journalists failed because they're in the same straits that most journalists have been in for a while now: Understaffed and unduly influenced by their revenue sources and by the public.

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Confirm Harold Koh as State Department Legal Adviser

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Rule of Law, President Obama, Harold Koh, Guantanamo, Oxford, State Department, Yale, Harvard, Senate, Human Rights, Treaties, Ted Olson, South Korea, Supreme Court, Cuba, Legal Adviser, Constitution, Obama Transition, Politics News
Brandt Goldstein

Harold Koh is a brilliant and hard-working lawyer with a strong dedication to protecting America's interests and upholding our Constitution.

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Are You Happy?

Sam Bagg | Posted 04.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Health, Yale, Happiness, Living News
Sam Bagg

We value happiness highly in our culture, so depression often means failure. This is especially true in spheres which fetishize success -- at Yale, unhappiness is simply unacceptable.

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