Yale Student's Fight for Her Life
John Connolly is a former New York City detective turned journalist. He is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine, and is currently finishing a book called The Sin Eater on disgraced and imprisoned Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano.
As Annie Le's fellow students mourn her with vigils, police are sizing up a suspect with defensive wounds, suggesting the petite 24-year-old-whom a friend describes as tougher than people thought-put up a brutal fight to save herself.
Harvard Seeks Hipsters
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
With a new fashion line and an NYC Prep cameo, Harvard is making a bid to become the hippest Ivy. Kathleen Kingsbury wonders whether selling seersucker at schlocky retailers will help make it the go-to destination for glamour.
My Address—and Apology—to Yale
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
Class Day speaker and Daily Beast columnist Christopher Buckley wishes Yale graduates every success as they enter that never-ending graduate school called life-and offers up a long overdue mea culpa for dropping an F-bomb during his own graduation.
Yale's Conspiracy of Silence
Larry Kramer is a writer and gay rights activist.
Twelve years after Yale rejected a $7 million endowment for a gay student center, the school's Gay and Lesbian Association invited legendary playwright and gay-rights activist Larry Kramer back to campus to receive its first Lifetime Achievement Award. The following is his speech.
The Man Who Gutted the Ivy League
Edward Jay Epstein studied government at Cornell and Harvard, and received a PhD from Harvard in 1973. The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood is his 13th book. The sequel, The Hollywood Economist will be published in January 2010.
When Yale's endowment fund was soaring, other Ivies rushed to copy the "alternative investment strategy" of chief investment officer David Swensen. Now those funds are a shadow of their former size-and it may be months before we know the full extent of the damage.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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