Yale University
New York Times Metro reporter Lisa W. Foderaro takes on an enigma--the academic life of James Franco, Yale doctoral student. The timing of a still-breathlessly-impressed ("James Franco, movie star, had rushed back on the red-eye to play his other big role") profile of Mr. Franco's enthusiasms is curious, given the widely criticized lack of enthusiasm the student brought to his Academy Awards hosting last weekend. The world is finally beginning to get over Mr.... MORE >
Marilyn Manson takes on the role of fine artist, a Velazquez parades as basement junk, and Louis Vuitton purses and porn are reconfigured into fine art with varying results. This week in art news: Come as you're not! 1. Ukranian Billionaire Selects Art-Prize Nominees... MORE >
Call him Dr. Sir McCartney! Or rather, Paul McCartney, D.Mus., M.B.E.? Actually just stick to Mr.... MORE >
Last October, in the chandeliered Tap Room of New York’s Yale Club, some members of the college’s Class of 1987 were lunching together when Timothy P. Harkness, class secretary, and one of the litigators that represented Arthur Andersen in the Enron trials, had a capital idea. Why not re-create the 30-year-old New Haven tradition of “Feb Club,” a month-long chain of nightly campus parties thrown by Yale seniors, to alumni around the globes?... MORE >
Star Childs, who graduated from Yale with a forestry degree 27 years ago, was hammering a nail into a stump outside Sunday’s Yale-Harvard football game. He wore a tie, vest, and blazer, plus matching knit cap, and had a red cup in his non-hammering left hand. The dozen students gathered around him cheered. “I’m a forester, I’m a lumberjack! And I’m okay,” Mr. Childs said. His family owns the one-room Yale Outdoors Cabin, with fireplace... MORE >
By | April 11, 2007 | 6:15 am
"It's a Princeton versus Yale thing." That's Edward Tenner, the author of Why Things Bite Back, summing up the rivalry between Robert Caro and the master builder. Mr. Caro graduated Princeton in 1957; Moses finished Yale in 1909. Mr. Tenner told The Real Estate: There is a certain kind of ultra-industrious Princetonian that does everything in a most thorough way and is totally obsessed with doing it right. Then there is the Yalie who loves to spread... MORE >
By | April 8, 2007 | 8:00 pm
A Bloomberg Bonus for City’s Hidden 20... MORE >
By | April 8, 2007 | 8:00 pm
A Bloomberg Bonus for City’s Hidden 20... MORE >
Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, from a screenplay by Eric Roth, has been described as &ldq... MORE >
By | November 13, 2006 | 10:51 am
The Forward reported two years ago that Sacha Baron Cohen was playing clubs as Borat, in a singalong urging the audience to throw Jews "down the well" to purify his country. Sounds like he's modeling Stanley Milgram, the Yale psychologist whose famous experiment induced its unwitting subjects to turn up the electric shocks for every bad answer from a supposed test subject, screaming in pain through the walls from another room. Thereby answering... MORE >
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By | July 6, 2006 | 12:01 pm
The other day I got a copy of Stephen Walt's 2005 book Taming American Power:The Global Response to U.S. Primacy and was surprised to read the section on the Israel lobby. It was nearly as forceful as the paper on the same subject that he and John Mearsheimer published three months ago in the London Review of Books. It had many of the same ideas (including the red-hot assertion that the Israel lobby... MORE >
By | June 12, 2006 | 7:03 am
Anderson Cooper's down-home, appealing commencement speech at Yale 10 days ago was marred by a crack he took at Yoko Ono. He brought up a commencement speech she gave 3 years ago, as a non-model. She said: "I say you can't stand if you've got too much muck in your head. Let it go, and dance through life." So true, so much muck, you know? Muck is a big problem. Of course. it's... MORE >
For nearly 30 years, theater audiences knew Wendy Wasserstein as the wry mistress of wit who could m... MORE >
Last year, Fareed Zakaria, the Newsweek International editor and television pundit, was invited to p... MORE >
