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Is There a Fort Hood-New Haven Connection?

Aimee Liu | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Yale University, Veterans PTSD, New Haven-Connecticut, Fort Hood, Major Hasan, Psychology, Fort Hood Shootings, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Media News
Aimee Liu

Could it be that there is something about the steady exposure to stories of the horror of war that twists the psyche?

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Wynton Marsalis Awarded French Legion of Honor in NYC

Jim Luce | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Garth Fagan Dance, Wynton Marsalis Awarded, Jazz, Alcatel-Lucent, French Grand Prix Du Disque, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Bernadine Restaurant, U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Trumpet, Festival of Marciac, Bill Cosby, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Elie Wiesel, Eric Ripert, Hurricane Katrina, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Barry Kula, New York Philharmonic, Blood on the Fields, U.N. Messenger of Peace, Berlin Philharmonic, Barbara Streisand, Kofi Annan, American Ballet Theatre, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Grammy Awards, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, France, Howard University, New Orleans Philharmonic, Harvard University, Yale University, Philippe Camus, Chevalier De La LéGion D’Honneur, French Legion of Honor, French National Order of the Legion of Honor, French Embassy Cultural Services New York, New York City Ballet, Evercore, LagardèRe, Triumph, New York News
Jim Luce

Wynton Marsalis received France’s highest distinction last week in New York – the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of Honor, an honor t...

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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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Slow Sell, or, Why Professors Matter

Amy Hungerford | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: University, Literature, Book Marketing, Professors, Textbooks, Yale University, Jonathan Lethem, David Mitchell, Reading, Elizabeth Strout, Motherless Brooklyn, Black Swan Green, Books News
Amy Hungerford

The slow sell can't be done pre-publication. It requires -- wait for it -- reading. My last week's reading is a case in point: I read David Mitchell's Black Swan Green.

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The Tokyo String Quartet in Performance at Yale

Ivan Katz | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Yale University, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Bela Bartok, Tokyo String Quartet, Chamber Music, Franz Josef Haydn, Classical Music Reviews, Great Classical Music Concerts, Entertainment News
Ivan Katz

The program was judiciously chosen: Haydn, Beethoven and Bartok. Sprague Hall was, predictably, packed to hear New Haven's longest running audience draw.

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Yale Lab Tech Accused Of Brutal Murder Appears In Court (PHOTO)

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Yale Lab Tech, Yale University, Yale Murder, Yale Lab Tech Appears in Court, Raymond Clark III, Annie Le, New York News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A former Yale University lab technician charged with strangling a graduate student and stuffing her body behind a laboratory ...

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Raymond Clark III Arrested, But Many Questions Remain

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 11.18.2009 | 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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In Le Murder Case Arrest, They Blame Workplace Violence

Michelle Renee | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Yale University, Living, Ptsd, Raymond Clark III, Annie Le, Violent Crime, Le Case, Workplace Violence, Living News
Michelle Renee

Workplace violence, including the bank robbery-motivated stalking, kidnapping and 14 hour hostage ordeal my daughter and I survived, makes up 18 percent of all violent crimes.

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What Happened at Yale and the Dark Side of the Human Soul

Richard Levin | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Raymond Clark III, Crime, Yale Arrest, Yale Student Death, Richard Levin, Annie Le Dead, Annie Le Murder, Yale University, New Haven, Raymond Clark Arrested, Annie Le, New York News
Richard Levin

It is frightening that a member of our own community might have committed this terrible crime. But we must not let this incident shatter our trust in one another.

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God and Man and Mohammed at Yale

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mohammed Cartoons, Jr., Islam, Yale University, Publishing, William Buckley, Censorship, Politics News
Joan Z. Shore

This is worse than censorship: this is self-censorship. This is knowing what is right and appropriate and deliberately overriding it, and then trying to rationalize the decision.

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Italy Hosts Child Soldiers Symposium

Jim Luce | Posted 07.28.2009 | World

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Tamil Tigers, Giulio Terzi, Sri Lanka, Paris Principles, Iraq, Italian Government, Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, Rome Symposium on Children and Armed Conflict, U.N. Resolution 1612, Ban Ki-Moon, Warlords, U.N. International School, Sexual Violence, Early Mortality, Francis Deng, Uganda, Suicide Bombing, N.Y.U. School of Law, Poverty, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rome, Unicef, U.N. Security Council”, Child Soldiers, International Save the Children Alliance, Kofi Annan, Save the Children Italy, Radhika Coomaraswamy, u.n. Human Rights Council, Education, Prevention of Genocide, Columbia University, Illiteracy, U.N. General Assembly, Harvard University, Child Rape, Health, Colombo, Innocenti Research Centre, Yale University, United Nations’ Millennium Declaration, Afghanistan, Human Rights, Special Representative of the Secretary General, Special Court for Sierra Leone, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Explaining the Tamil Tigers, Children and Young People Affected by Armed Conflict, World News
Jim Luce

With the changing nature of armed conflict, the impact of war on children and young people has become more brutal than ever.

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Ethiopian-American Lawyer on Conflicts Along the Nile

Jim Luce | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Uganda, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Lawyer, Thought Leaders, Global Citizens, Ethiopia, Fasil Amdetsion, Lake Victoria, Harvard University, Jim Luce, Yale University, Water Rights, Sudan, Tanzania, Mediterranean, River Nile, Ethiopian-American, World News
Jim Luce

Fasil Amdetsion, an attorney from Ethiopia, thinks the Nile basin will be the most likely site of a future "water war" because the Nile embodies "all the challenges that transnational management of fresh water could possibly present."

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Jules Verne's Kip Brothers Translated into English after 100 Years

Jim Luce | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Extraordinary Voyages, Thought Leader, Stanford L. Luce, The Begum’s Millions, French Guiana, Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Dreyfus Affair, Victorian France, The Mighty Orinoco, Jim Luce, Yale University, Emile Zola, Devil's Island, Global Citizen, Wesleyan University Press, Alfred Dreyfus, The Kip Brothers, Crime Drama, Dreyfusards, Anti-Dreyfusards, Entertainment News
Jim Luce

The book, a crime drama, celebrates the fraternal bonds of brotherhood, written shortly after the death of Verne's brother and best friend, a French sailor.

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Global China Connection: From Columbia to Stanford and McGill

Jim Luce | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: University of Toronto, American Century, McGill University, Derrick Fu, University of Chicago, Keith Miao, University of Michigan, Timothy Liu, Gavin Newton-Tanzer, Emory University, Global China Connection, Rice University, Chinese Century, Columbia University, Harvard University, Joseph Stiglitz, Tyco International, Yale University, Uc-Berkeley, Stanford University, Alice Zhang, China, World News
Jim Luce

Hundreds of Chinese studies majors at top universities in North America have recently formed a network dedicated to forging new economic, cultural, and political links between East and West.

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AIG v. Detroit - Renegotiating Contracts

Steve Parker | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Congress, Boeing, Rick Wagoner, United Auto Workers, Barney Frank, Cars, Job Bank, Harvard, Aig, Wwwtalkradioonecom, General Motors, Dodge Challenger, Fiat, Sema, Bob Nardelli, Allstate, Tarp, Elijah Cummings, 2010 Chevrolet Camaro, Alan Mulally, Detroit Three, Dearborn, Washington DC, Ford Motor Co, Las Vegas, Detroit Automakers, Chrysler, Chrysler Jeep, Wharton, Ron Gettelfinger, Yale University, Ford Mustang, Uaw, Edward Liddy, Business News
Steve Parker

Congress could throw hundreds of billions at GM, Ford and Chrysler -- but how could the results be any different from what we see now?'

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A Yale Man's Guide to Sleeping Soundly

Marc Gunther | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business

Read More: David Swensen, Investing, Yale University, Jim Cramer, Business News
Marc Gunther

In just under a quarter century as Yale's chief investment officer, Swensen has generated Madoff-like returns for the university - except that he made his money honestly.

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Jesse Maiman, Yale Student, Sues Airline For $1M Over Lost Xbox

AP | Posted 04.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Xbox Lawsuit, Yale University, Xbox 360, Xbox, US Airways, Business News

CINCINNATI — A Yale University student from Ohio has filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million from US Airways for a video game console he says was tak...

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New Documents Indicate That Bush Didn't Show Up to Presidency

Tom McCaffrey | Posted 04.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: President of the United States, George H.W. Bush, 2004 Presidential Election, Vietnam War, Dereliction of Military Service, George W. Bush, Yale University, 2000 Presidential Election, Texas National Guard, The White House, 2008 Presidential Election, Comedy News
Tom McCaffrey

During the Vietnam War George W. Bush was handed a cushy assignment in the Texas National Guard thanks to his powerful connections. This ensured that ...

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Geronimo's Descendants Sue Yale's Skull And Bones Over Remains

AP | STEPHANIE REITZ | Posted 03.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Yale, Skull and Bones, Yale University, Geronimo Remains, Geronimo, Geronimo Bones, Geronimo's Skull, Home News

HARTFORD, Conn. — Geronimo's descendants have sued Skull and Bones _ the secret society at Yale University linked to presidents and other powerf...

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College Students Travel to New Hampshire to Volunteer for Obama

Mary Ann West | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home

Read More: College Students, Yale for Change, New Hampshire Mccain, New Hampshire, Election Day, New Hampshire Obama, Obama Volunteers, Barack Obama, Jim Himes, Connecticut, Yale University, Smith College, Yale College Democrats, Hillary Clinton, On the Ground 2008, Home News
Mary Ann West

In the quintessential town of Keene, New Hampshire, volunteers waved as cars honked in support while standing on the picturesque Village Common, hoist...

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Yale Women's Center May Sue Fraternity For Sexist Sign

Yale Daily News | Zachary Abrahamson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Yale, Yale University, Zeta Psi, Yale Women's Center, Yale Feminists, Home News

Members of the Yale Women's Center board threatened to initiate legal action Sunday after discovering a photograph posted on Facebook.com depicting 12...

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