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NEWS ABOUT: Yale

Yale stories: 31 news summaries

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Killer 'Smashed' Le's Body to Fit in 8-Inch Hole

Yale student's bones broken so she could be crammed into wall

Sep 21, 09 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Annie Le’s killer broke her bones and mangled her body to fit her into a hole in the wall the size of a computer monitor, an anonymous source tells the New York Post. “He just crushed her in there,” the source says. “She was... More »

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 Experts See 
 Professional 
 Jealousy in 
 Yale Killing 

Did Raymond Clark kill Annie Le because she was moving on?

Sep 20, 09 6:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ray Clark could have strangled Annie Le because she was moving on to a satisfying career while he had to clean mouse cages in a lab, criminologists tell ABC News. If Clark is guilty, he may have suffered from what experts call "relative deprivation"—a mindset created "... More »

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murder • strangulation • suspect • killings • Yale • Annie Le • Raymond Clark

OPINION

 Another 
 Murder 
 Defies Race 
 Stereotypes 

Annie Le case latest to stir ugly racial fears, which proved false

Sep 18, 09 8:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - When news of Annie Le's murder first emerged, scaremongering commentators seized on the dangers of studying on an "urban" campus, blogs author and sportswriter Jeff Pearlman—by which they didn't mean "an endless stream of Starbucks storefronts." Lo and behold, her alleged murderer is a "... More »

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crime • New Haven • Connecticut • stereotypes • racism • Yale • Annie Le • Raymond Clark

 Clark Tried to 
 Cover His Tracks 
 as Cops Searched 

DNA evidence led to arrest for Annie Le's murder

Sep 18, 09 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Before his arrest, murder suspect Raymond Clark tried to cover his tracks even as FBI agents and police searched the Yale lab where he worked. Clark, who has been charged with the murder of grad student Annie Le, was seen cleaning areas where Le had been before she died and... More »

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FBI • murder • Connecticut • DNA evidence • Yale • Annie Le • Raymond Clark • lab technician

(AP) - After days of suspicion, police arrested Raymond Clark III today in the killing of 24-year-old Yale University graduate student Annie Le. He was taken into custody at a hotel where he was staying in Cromwell, Conn., about about 25 miles north of New Haven, and his bond is set for... More »

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(Newser) - If Ray Clark did, as police apparently suspect, kill Annie Le, investigators have an odd theory about his motivation, the New York Daily News reports. In emails that caught their attention, the Yale lab technician scolded Le about her lax handling of mice in the lab. Le apologized, but... More »

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murder • mice • animal testing • killings • Yale • Annie Le • Raymond Clark

(AP) - Connecticut's state medical examiner says Yale University grad student Annie Le died of traumatic asphyxiation, meaning she was strangled. Dr. Wayne Carver's office released a short statement about the autopsy today, three days after 24-year-old Le was found hidden inside the basement wall of a Yale medical school research building.... More »

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Yale University • murder • autopsy • Yale • asphyxiation • cause of death • Annie Le

UPDATED

 Annie Le Suspect Is Released

Raymond Clark is engaged to live-in girlfriend Jennifer Hromadka

Sep 16, 09 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Raymond Clark, the lab tech "person of interest" who was picked up by police last night in connection with Yale grad student Annie Le’s murder, was released this morning after DNA samples were taken, CNN reports. Clark shares his apartment with the girlfriend he is engaged to marry... More »

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 Police Suspect 
 Lab Tech in 
 Yale Killing 

Cops deny reports that a student was suspected in Annie Le's murder

Sep 15, 09 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police suspect a Yale lab technician in the killing of student Annie Le, rather than another student, as had previously been reported, the New Haven Independent reports. Police were investigating the employee, who works with animal testing, even before they found Le’s body, curious about the scratch marks... More »

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UPDATED

Student Named as Suspect in Yale Homicide

Has defensive wounds, failed polygraph test; may not be fellow Yalie

Sep 14, 09 3:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police have a suspect in the slaying of a Yale graduate student: another student—not necessarily enrolled at Yale—who bears defensive wounds and failed a polygraph test, MSNBC reports. An autopsy performed today confirmed that the body found yesterday is Annie Le's. Police have turned their focus to finding... More »

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murder • New Haven • body • student • suspect • Yale • manhunt • police search • Annie Le

 FBI Sifts Trash for Clues 
 to Missing Yalie 

Investigators hope for hints in lab garbage

Sep 13, 09 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI began investigating today a Hartford trash facility for any clues to the disappearance of Yale student Annie Le, the Hartford Courant reports. A spokesman says the FBI is looking for evidence in garbage from a New Haven laboratory where Le was last seen. Investigators have also started reviewing... More »

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investigation • FBI • New Haven • Connecticut • disappearance • Yale • Hartford • Annie Le

 Bloody Clothes 
 Linked to 
 Missing Yale 
 Student 

Officials deny reports that Annie Le's body was found

Sep 12, 09 5:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Investigators have found bloody clothes tucked in a ceiling at Yale near where missing student Annie Le was last seen, the New Haven Register reports. Declaring the building a crime scene, officials held a news conference today and denied reports that the 24-year-old doctoral student's body had also been found.... More »

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(Newser) - Harvard and Yale remain the richest schools in the US, but both are getting a lesson in economics. The endowments of the Ivy Leaguer shrank by about 30% over the last year thanks to risky investments, reports Bloomberg. Harvard's fell $11 billion to $26 billion and Yale's dropped $7 billion... More »

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Ivy League • Harvard • colleges and universities • endowment • Yale

 Harvard Crimson Runs 
 Holocaust-Denier Ad 

Ad run in error due to 'miscommunication," says newspaper prez

Sep 9, 09 3:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - First, Yale censors Muhammad cartoons in a new book, then the Harvard Crimson runs an ad from a Holocaust denier, notes Gawker. "Can you provide, with proof, the name of one person killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz?" asks the ad from the "Committee for Open Debate... More »

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Ivy League • Holocaust • Harvard • Harvard Crimson • Yale • National Holocaust Museum • Holocaust denier • Bradley Smith

(Newser) - The Ivy League has a reputation for excellence in all things, but the consignment of its sports programs—particularly the more visible ones like football and basketball—to college athletics’ second tier has alumni clamoring for change, the Wall Street Journal reports. Academic standards limit the pool of top student-athletes... More »

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NCAA • NCAA basketball • Columbia University • Ivy League • NCAA football • Dartmouth • Cornell University • Harvard • Princeton • Brown University • Penn • Yale • NCAA hockey • Lane MacDonald • Marcellus Wiley

Bankers Leave Street in Rear View; Head for Academia 

Execs take teaching jobs amid crisis

Apr 21, 09 1:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the financial tornado buffeting Wall Street, some of its leading figures are ditching their careers for work in academia, Time reports. Merrill Lynch’s former president is teaching at Yale; Citigroup’s former merger boss headed to Berkeley; a onetime Goldman Sachs exec is now at Harvard. “It’... More »

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Wall Street • Goldman Sachs • Merrill Lynch • UC Berkeley • college • university • academia • Harvard • Princeton • Yale • bankers • banks • financial crisis

Watson 'Twitter-Jacked'
With Yale Hoax

'I'm not going to Yale,' says Brit actor

Mar 6, 09 10:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Harry Potter muse Emma Watson has turned positively witchy, trashing statements that she's headed to Yale, reports the Boston Globe. Turns out a Twitter note gushing "I got into Yale!" wasn't posted by Watson. In fact, she doesn't have a Twitter account, according to her website. Now fans... More »

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Harry Potter • Harvard • actor • Yale • Twitter • Emma Watson • tweet • Bill Maher Grid

tech review

 Website Lets You 
 Into Harvard—Free 

Academic Earth offers video lectures from top schools

Feb 22, 09 11:35 AM CST
(Newser) - No notes, no homework, and you can wear your PJs the entire time you "sit in" on Harvard classes—online. Academic Earth's online classes are "unexpectedly irresistible," Farhad Manjoo writes for Slate. "It's like Hulu, but for nerds." The company's collection of videotaped lectures from... More »

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Stanford • online videos • Harvard • Yale • college course • Academic Earth • Richard Ludlow

 10 Biggest College Libraries 

Labyrinthine stacks good for more than reading

Jan 11, 09 7:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Whether your purpose is to study, flirt or nap, college libraries are "labyrinths" of opportunity. The editors of College on the Record list the biggest, and why they like them.
  1. Harvard (13,617,133 books): "Because size matters."
  2. Yale (9,932,080 books): "Because
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University of Illinois • University of Texas • UC Berkeley • reading • Harvard • Yale • library

 Recession Shutters 
 Famed Yale Club 

Mory's has closed until further notice

Dec 29, 08 4:59 PM CST
(AP) - Mory's, a legendary Yale University eating and drinking club that traces its roots to the Civil War—and whose membership includes two presidents named Bush—is the latest victim of the recession. A list of patrons that has included the likes of Al Pacino, Tom Hanks, and Jodie Foster hasn't... More »

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New Haven • restaurant • recession • club • meltdown • Yale • financial crisis • financial meltdown • Mory's • recession depression

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