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College Students: How to Get the Most Out of Your Parents This Holiday Season

Miranda Lewis | Posted 12.21.2009 | Comedy

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Miranda Lewis

Call them as many times as possible (I can't stress the importance of this one enough) over finals period telling them how excited you are to see them. "Only 84 more hours, daddy! Can you put the dog on the phone? I want to make sure she remembers my voice when she sees me."

Crouch Quadruplets Accepted By Yale

nytimes.com | JACQUES STEINBERG | Posted 12.22.2009 | New York


The Crouches' perfect batting average represents a first for Yale the first time in anyone's memory that it has offered admission to quadruplets. It i...

Generation Wins SmartPower's Energy Smart Ad Challenge

Brian Keane | Posted 12.16.2009 | Green


Brian Keane

We challenged filmmakers across the country to create what they think is the best 30-second ad that compels young people to save energy. The winning video, Generation does just that.

John DiNello Found: Yale Lab Technician Found Safe Near Home

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 12.11.2009 | Home


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police say they've found a Yale University employee who was missing for several days. Police say 47-year-old John DiNello wa...

Some Great New Books!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books


Michael Henry Adams

If one is known to be a lover of fine books, one of the best times of the year is quite near. Thanks to this short list of selections from Random House's Monacelli Press, we can happily enjoy some of life's finer pleasures.

The Harvard-Yale Game

Tina Sloan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living


Tina Sloan

The Harvard Yale football game is a microcosm of how the world has changed in my lifetime and yet has remained exactly the same.

Harvard Vs. Yale: Harvard Comes Back To Defeat Yale, 14-10

AP | PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 11.21.2009 | Sports


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Collier Winters threw for 211 yards and two touchdowns Saturday as Harvard came back from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit t...

An Interview With David Bromwich About Obama, Afghanistan

Radio Open Source | Christopher Lydon | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media


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...

Elgin Community College Beats Yale At Mock Trial Tournament

NBC Chicago | ANDREW GREINER | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago


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

Censored Images of Muhammad Finally Printed in New Book

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media


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.

Dongguk University, Korean School, Begins Legal Fight With Yale

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


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...

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

Monroe Price | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books


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?

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

AP | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics


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

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

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media


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.

How Smart People at Yale and Harvard Invested Stupidly

Dan Solin | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business


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.

Ten Least Wanted In The News: The Spreadsheet Suspect

Jonathan Littman | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business


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.

Raymond Clark III Arrested, But Many Questions Remain

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics


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.

A "Person of Interest" Can't Be Arrested

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


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.

Annie Le: Body Found Inside Yale Lab Building: Police

Posted 11.13.2009 | New York


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...

Annie Le: Body found inside Yale lab building: Police

AP | PATRICK SANDERS | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York


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...

Annie Le: Police Search Hartford Garbage Incinerator For Clues

AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York


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

Harvard's Endowment Drops Sharply Amid Recession

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home


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 ...

Harvard's Endowment Drops Sharply Amid Recession

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business


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 ...

Annie Le, Yale Grad Student, Disappears Days Before Wedding

AP | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York


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...

Yale and the Danish Cartoons

Kamran Pasha | Posted 11.08.2009 | World


Kamran Pasha

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