On a sunny post-Labor Day afternoon, Simone Berkower ’09 parted the curtains behind the treadmill in her room, turned the air conditioner on maximum power and sat back against the five pillows on her queen-size bed, freshly showered and dressed in summer garb. On a television nearby, pristine scenes of waterfalls and flower petals accompanied a hazy soprano...
DENVER — In the search for a vice president, the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama vetted two snow-haired senior senators, both hailing from reliably blue states and possessing decades of foreign-policy experience. But in the end, it was Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware who stood on the podium here at the Democratic National Convention last week to officially join his...
A $3 million gift to the Yale Law School in July boosted the school’s renewed efforts to support graduates going into public service. The gift, from the Minnesota-based Robina Foundation, will fund a human-rights fellowship over the next three years. The Law School announced a concerted public-service initiative last April after concerns among students and faculty...
Following his conquest of the Crimea, Russian General Grigori Potemkin is said to have built empty façades meant to resemble small towns along the banks of the Dnieper River. As history tells it, he hoped the sight of these settlements would impress foreign dignitaries traveling through the region with Catherine the Great. His objective was to convince them that Russia...
The cameras cut to a shot of the barricaded school — as if it was just another mundane news story. As I watched television with my host mother in her Buenos Aires apartment, I was shocked to hear that the city’s most prestigious public high school had been taken over by its students. They were demanding that the building’s facilities be improved. As an American...
My cell phone rudely wakes me before the first light of dawn. I rise from bed and put on the dirt-caked shorts and pungent shirt I wore yesterday and the day before. In the kitchen, a few of the early risers greet me with wan smiles as they huddle over cold cereal and steaming espresso. The lack of sleep has killed my appetite, but with seven hours of work ahead of me, I...
The settlement is over. Now comes the hard part. This month, Yale-New Haven Hospital paid $2 million to District 1199 of the Service Employees International Union as part of an arbitration deal forged after a near-decade-long battle between the two parties. In 2006, SEIU/1199 workers had tried to have a “fair” union election, but the hospital interfered, according to...
Yale Law School’s public-service portfolio scored another boost last week with a $3 million gift from the Minnesota-based Robina Foundation, which will sponsor a human-rights fellowship over the next three years. The grant bolsters the school’s renewed effort to expand its support for public service, unveiled last April after concerns that it had been upstaged by a...
Standing on Class Day — for peace By Yonah Freemark and Lea Krivchenia We are two Yale seniors against the war. We will graduate in the year 2008, the fifth year of the conflict in Iraq. Like many of our fellow Yalies, we ended our high school years with an energy and determination to speak out against a war that we considered unjust. We both went...
It is unfortunate that members of our class seek to politicize Class Day, putting a negative spin on what would otherwise be a purely festive and celebratory occasion ("Stand on Class Day — for peace" 5/24). The Senior Class Officers, in conjunction with the Yale President’s Office and the Yale College...
Sean Matteson could be doing more important things with his time. The 37-year-old mayoral chief of staff swivels in his chair like a restless teenager, no doubt frustrated to be wasting half an hour with a reporter. His eyes flick from any of several gaudy Post-it notes affixed to his computer screen to the two cell phones lying by his keyboard. His left hand taps...
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