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February 28 2011

The thin envelope

Academy Award co-hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway. Photo: Bob D'Amico/ABC The Academy Awards envelope came up empty for Yalies last night. While...

February 21 2011

The $48,875 tape measure

Bull tails: Bernie Madoff's footstool sold for $3,300. Photo: U.S. Marshals. When the U.S. government auctioned personal belongings of Ponzi schemer...

April 14 2015

Yale acquires ‘definitive’ trove of Lincoln and Civil War-era photos

In 1897, Frederick Hill Meserve began a family history project. Five generations later, his family’s collection tells the story of an entire...

January 25 2011

Pushing — and maybe opening — the envelope

"The Warriors of Qiugang": best documentary? The most famous current Yalie and an alumnus you probably never heard of have both snagged Oscar...

January 24 2011

Bartlett’s familiar — but should he be?

Illustration: Michael Gillette Voltaire? Fitzgerald? Yogi Berra? Guess again: some of their most famous quotations are actually distaff in origin....

June 22 2015

The naked truth about Yale’s posture program

My first weeks at Yale in 1953 were filled with all sorts of interviews and tests, written and physical. I got through the written ones with no...

December 6 2010

The Whiffs and the peacock

Monday is traditionally the night the Whiffenpoofs perform at Mory’s. Tonight, however, you needn’t be at the York Street eating club in New Haven...

November 19 2010

Glenn Beck on a pink T-shirt? Must be the Harvard Dems at work

It’s a bird! It's a toupee! It’s… Pope Glenn? Photo: Harvard College Democrats Before there was Beck University, there was Glenn Beck, Yalie. And...

August 19 2015

“Thy light and truth shall set me free”

When you roam the campus looking for a new picture every day, your eye might fall on an inscription you’d never really processed before, like...

November 4 2010

Garry Trudeau, war correspondent

Yesterday afternoon, someone sent me a video link to a mock “Save the Children”–style campaign for newspaper professionals who, “through no fault of...

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