Last autumn I took time off to go back to school. The timing turned out to be just right: My American economic history course at the University of California at Berkeley got to the Great Depression in early October, around the time everyone became convinced we were about to have another one.
Two Americans and an Israeli were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for painstakingly mapping out the thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome -- work that paves the way for new antibiotics.
The suspect in the killing of Yale pharmacology graduate student Annie Le appeared in court in New Haven, Connecticut, Tuesday, but did not enter a plea, his attorney told CNN.
Mourners gathered Saturday in a California church to remember slain Yale graduate student Annie Le, 24, whose body was found on the day she was to be married.
When it comes to college investing, Harvard and Yale's endowments are powerhouses. Yale has posted a 12% annualized return over the last 10 years, and Harvard has returned 9% (versus 1.4% for an indexed stock-and-bond fund).
A DNA match linking Raymond J. Clark III to Yale student Annie Le led to his arrest on murder charges, a source with knowledge of the investigation said.
Neighbors and documents suggest Raymond Clark III had a history of violence
A Yale University lab technician was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in the slaying of a graduate student whose body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building, police said.
Yale University graduate student Annie Le, whose body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building, was strangled, a spokesman for the Connecticut medical examiner's office said Wednesday.
Police take DNA but don't arrest the 24-year-old lab technician who worked with Annie Le
Last autumn I took time off to go back to school. The timing turned out to be just right: My American economic history course at the University of California at Berkeley got to the Great Depression in early October, around the time everyone became convinced we were about to have another one.
Two Americans and an Israeli were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for painstakingly mapping out the thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome -- work that paves the way for new antibiotics.
The suspect in the killing of Yale pharmacology graduate student Annie Le appeared in court in New Haven, Connecticut, Tuesday, but did not enter a plea, his attorney told CNN.
Mourners gathered Saturday in a California church to remember slain Yale graduate student Annie Le, 24, whose body was found on the day she was to be married.
When it comes to college investing, Harvard and Yale's endowments are powerhouses. Yale has posted a 12% annualized return over the last 10 years, and Harvard has returned 9% (versus 1.4% for an indexed stock-and-bond fund).
A DNA match linking Raymond J. Clark III to Yale student Annie Le led to his arrest on murder charges, a source with knowledge of the investigation said.
Neighbors and documents suggest Raymond Clark III had a history of violence
A Yale University lab technician was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in the slaying of a graduate student whose body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building, police said.
Yale University graduate student Annie Le, whose body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building, was strangled, a spokesman for the Connecticut medical examiner's office said Wednesday.
Police take DNA but don't arrest the 24-year-old lab technician who worked with Annie Le
Police said Tuesday night they have a Yale University employee in custody in connection with the killing of Yale student Annie Le.
Slain Yale University graduate student Annie Le was intelligent, driven and destined for greatness, said those who knew her.
Investigators found the remains of a woman they assume is missing Yale graduate student Annie Le, a senior police official said Sunday.
Annie Le's remains were discovered in the medical school lab where she was last seen
The FBI joins the search for graduate student Annie Marie Le who was last seen Tuesday
There is no reason to believe that a missing Yale graduate student and bride-to-be ran away, the school's vice president said Saturday.
Yale University announced Friday a $10,000 reward to anyone with information leading to a missing graduate student and bride-to-be.
Police are searching for a Yale University graduate student and bride-to-be who disappeared and was last seen outside a school of medicine building.
Police are searching for a Yale University graduate student, reportedly a bride-to-be, who disappeared and was last seen outside a school of medicine building.
This article appears in the Sports Illustrated Presents 75th Anniversary of the Heisman Trophy issue.
Oh, how the Gosselins' world has changed since June, when in their last new episode, Jon and Kate announced their separation.
It's noon in New Haven, and Yale economist Robert Shiller and I are leaving his office to walk down the block for pizza. It was a damp morning, but now the sun is breaking through the clouds. "Do we need an umbrella?" he asks. I say I don't think so. But a few steps outside his office, he turns around to get one. "It's better to be safe," he says.
Are great leaders born, or are they made through offbeat jobs? Let's have a look.
Constant news of layoffs, pay cuts, and stock declines has all of us tightening our belts: A recent Money poll found that in light of the financial crisis, 89% of us are changing the way we manage our finances, and 88% plan to be more frugal.
Let's say you work in an industry that's been hit hard by the economic downturn, and you're watching competitors downsize left and right. You're pretty sure that layoffs are headed to your place too, and fast. What's your best strategy to keep your job?
My Rolls-Royce is a lot more expensive than your Buick. A pint of Ben & Jerry's costs double the A&P generic brand. That makes sense. But when it comes to college tuition, the difference between the Harvards and the Podunks is not nearly so great.
The great-grandson of Apache warrior Geronimo argues in a lawsuit that a secretive society at Yale University holds the remains of his great-grandfather.
David Swensen, chief investment officer at Yale University since 1985, manages its $17 billion endowment, which is known for consistently outperforming the market. In fact, it averaged returns of 17% annually over the past 10 years.
For nearly a half-century, some of college football's greatest players didn't have the opportunity to vie for what has become the sport's most prestigious piece of hardware: the Heisman Trophy.
Making the argument that Yale has the upper hand in its football rivalry with Harvard is not exactly a Sisyphean task. All you have to do is give the boulder the lightest of taps, and off it goes, up the hill and down the other side. First proven long ago, and confirmed so frequently over the years that it has entered the realm of fact, here's my list of ways in which Yale is superior to Harvard, as the universities prepare for the 125th playing of The Game.
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English majors getting tired of Shakespeare and Wordsworth will soon be able to turn to Yale's libraries for a poet of different kind altogether: Osama bin Laden.
We asked some additional writers to weigh in with their favorite venues: Harvard Stadium Boy and man, undergrad and ancient grad, I've been attending games at Harvard Stadium since 1959. In typically Harvardian fashion (Class of '73), let me be overweeningly prideful about the place: It is no less than hallowed ground. Foremost, it is, like so much connected with the school, the first -- the nation's oldest stadium, built in 1903. It is also important. In 1906, when football was in danger of being abolished because of its fatal violence, Yale's Walter Camp proposed widening the field to open up play. But the stands at Stadium were immovable, so the forward pass was introduced instead. (So, you can blame Harvard Stadium for Terry Bradshaw.) More than that, though, in its current incarnation -- a modest 30,898 seats, filled (if then) only biennially for The Game with Yale -- Harvard Stadium is football on a perfect scale. With the stands snug to the field, every seat is a good
Can we all just stop the silly nonsense over who is an elitist and whether an "average American" will occupy the White House?
A new Yale study suggests Americans may be getting less tolerant of fat people. At least, that's what fat people think
Jennifer Staple runs the Unite For Sight program which started in the U.S., but has branched out into working overseas.
J.K. Rowling has retired Harry Potter, but the fictional boy wizard lives in on college classes across the country where the children's books are embraced as literary and academic texts.
Al Gore may have won the Nobel Peace Prize, but Internet data shows that the public still has a lot to learn about climate change
Looking for some offbeat ways to spend a day in New England as the final weeks of summer give way to the golden days of autumn?
When you first meet Mohamed El-Erian, 48, who heads up Harvard University's $30 billion endowment, two things immediately strike you: First, he's incredibly sharp, particularly when it comes to highbrow things like geo-political economics; second, despite being one of the world's most respected money managers, he's the antithesis of a hubristic hedgie or swaggering Wall Streeter: the Oxford and Cambridge-educated Egyptian is enormously polite and charming.
We don't know what Eddie Lowery or Rodney Dangerfield or Byron Nelson thought about the game in the gathering darkness, but we do know what Tom Hearn thought. He was an insurance man and a duffer, and John Updike would have put him in his novels had he ever known him. Tom Hearn spent a day when his days were numbered assessing how golf fit into the last 66 years of his life, the freckled early ones and the speckled ones at the close.
Back when the members of the upcoming crop of college freshmen were smearing their high chairs with strained peas, no sane parents could have predicted that paying for their kids' education would cost as much as a fleet of new cars.
For many business school students in the United States, early January would usually see them enjoy some time off to visit friends and family, or perhaps take a holiday. Not any more.
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Yale University pulled out its $500 million investment in the UK-based Children's Investment (TCI) Fund Management LLP, after concerns that the university's position in the hedge fund had grown too large, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The university's $200 million investment more than doubled since January 2004 when Christopher Hohn launched the fund, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Yale University's Sage Hall is a long way from Alburgh, Vermont, a tiny agricultural hamlet that sits on a peninsula jutting southward from Canada into frigid Lake Champlain.
If you want to know where real estate prices are headed in California's Orange County, the man to talk to is Gary Watts. The Mission Viejo broker has 35 years of experience and doubles as a spokesman for the O.C.'s Association of Realtors.
Dr. When most kids were learning to ride bikes, little Frank J. Rauscher III was learning the ins and outs of a cancer research lab.
The most richly endowed colleges and universities in North America got even richer in the 12 months ended June 30, according to the latest data available from the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
ON A HAZY AFTERNOON IN LATE August, two of the most successful moneymen of our age made their way among the steep bunkers and double-blind holes of the venerable Yale Golf Club. Their showdown wasn't much of a contest: Host David F. Swensen, who runs Yale University's $15 billion endowment, shot "somewhere in the 90s," he says. His longtime friend and rival Jack R. Meyer, manager of Harvard's $22 billion endowment, shot a 76. "Jack's a spectacular golfer," Swensen admits. "He crushed me." When it comes to running money, though, Swensen and Meyer are much more closely matched. Swensen, 51, has managed Yale's endowment for two decades and built one of the most spectacular investment records on the planet--up 16.1% a year (while the S&P 500 index gained 12.3%). "Yale has the best returns of any endowment anywhere," he is quick to tell you. Meyer, 60, can't argue with that. Since he got the job at Harvard in 1990--thanks in part to a glowing recommendation from Swensen--he has trailed his Connecticut riva
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In his 2000 bestseller, Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller argued that Americans had become overly obsessed with the stock market. Now the Yale economics professor sees signs of a similar obsess...
So many investors--maybe even you--bought into some wild notions about stocks in the headiest days of the bull market. Today, perhaps a bit poorer, you're certainly wiser.
Quit worrying. If you're choosing among the 25 schools in this guide, you're going to get a great education. These schools attract the best of the best: The professors are top-notch, and the studen...
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If the world seems to have surrendered to its inner Easy Rider lately, take note: Harley-Davidson is turning 100, and everyone's invited to the party.
If the world seems to have surrendered to its inner Easy Rider lately, take note: Harley-Davidson is turning 100, and everyone's invited to the party. Shareholders are already celebrating. As of Ju...
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Fred Smith may have stuck with the same company for 31 years, but don't call him inflexible. Since he founded Federal Express in 1971, he's kept his business nimble, always changing to meet the dem...
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Let's face it: Snoring is embarrassing. No one wants to picture him- or herself supine, slack-mouthed and roaring away like a chainsaw. But about 40 million Americans do it--and for as many as half...
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