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January/February 2006
The Theology of Jihad To understand the Muslim extremist group collectively known as jihadis, it is essential to understand their relationship to the religion of Islam.
The Anthropology of The Game When the Bulldogs and the Crimson squared off at the Bowl for their 122nd meeting, the 53,213 fans got their money's worth: a four-hour, 169-play epic that, for the first time in the rivalry's long history, went into overtime.
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No More Starving Musicians Thanks to an anonymous $100 million donation, Yale will grant full tuition remission for all School of Music students beginning next fall. |
International Incident? On October 20, the Graduate Employees and Students Organization staged a rally in front of the Hall of Graduate Studies to protest alleged discrimination against Chinese nationals at Yale.
Campus Revolution? Only on a campus like Yale -- where George W. Bush finished third behind Ralph Nader in the student vote in 2000 -- could the election of a self-proclaimed "moderate Democrat" seem like a conservative coup. |
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Child's Play
The Yale Rep is pulling out all the stops for a children's opera from the 1930s. The sets are by Maurice Sendak, the libretto is by Tony Kushner, and there's a happy ending. But the production history of this play is tragic.
Man and Myth at Yale
For 30 years, Charles Hill was a quietly effective diplomat in the back corridors of the State Department. At Yale, he is the kind of teacher some students hold in awe. In this essay, a former student tells why Hill's classes have "the aura of power, the whiff of elitism, the promise of an answer to life's messiest questions."
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