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Harry Potter: An unlikely Yale hero

The answer first lies in the author herself, J.K. Rowling. Her intelligent and often quirky description challenges the reader, for she constantly invents new ideas […]

Cultural Performance Groups

It’s 9:05 p.m. on Monday, and Tina Chong ’03, teasingly described by her friends as “the slave master,” is whipping around the room, clearing out […]

Lifestyle perspectives: Classical music

Walk past the “Flower Guy” on the corner of Elm and York streets and you will hear classical music’s most pervasive presence on campus — […]

A shameless celebration of nudity

Old Campus — Winter 1998 — a freshman boy tears off his shirt. He toys anxiously with the zipper of his fly as he waits […]

The death of an institution

There’s almost no more room for initials. Old Yalies are ten times lacquered into the backroom tables; Y’s and years, manifestos and fraternities are two […]

RANA and Trowbridge '03 rock it in the real world

For Ezra Stiles junior Matthew Trowbridge, Sundays are “dreadful” — and not only because of the mountains of readings that await his return to New […]

Sexy 'Love Cruise' star tells all

If you’ve been following the first five episodes of Fox’s hit reality-TV show “Love Cruise: Maiden Voyage,” the name Greg Kendig might ring a bell. […]

'Crows' rock at Yale's 300th

Iwas down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl, Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with the black haired flamenco …” For many […]

The story of the great masters of British art

Wandering through the second floor of the British Art Center, through the maze of wall panels and gilt frames, it is impossible not to be […]

On lower Crown Street, nightclub boom days are back

It’s 11:30, and Destiny’s Child might say that the club is jumpin’ jumpin’. But Don Prohaski, owner of new Crown Street club Funktion, has other […]

As terror ends, instant nostalgia

The day after did not seem too soon. Indeed, moments after did not seem too soon. Instantly, nostalgia. For a city skyline. For national security. […]