Will Wesleyan Be the Next School to Do Away With Frats?
Wesleyan University, a school that has recently generated an uncomfortable degree of attention because of a rape lawsuit accusing one of its fraternities of negligence, is involved in another rape...
View ArticleInjustice in a Time of Cholera
Non-receivable is the legal term United Nations officials use to dismiss a growing number of lawsuits, as claimants increasingly turn to American courts and pressure Turtle Bay to admit its role in...
View ArticleIn Immigration Politics, Nobody Is Winning
With prospects for immigration reform dimming in Congress, immigration activists have ramped up political pressure on President Barack Obama to use his executive authority to scale back on deportations...
View ArticleSeeing Value in 'Gap Years,' Tufts University Offers to Pay
When Gregory Kristoff graduated high school in 2010, he opted not to start college immediately. Instead, he spent the better part of a year studying Chinese in Beijing and then Dalian, China. Then he...
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Early Results Show Support for Crimea Joining Russia; U.S. Rejects Referendum
Update 9:17 pm ET: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Sunday that the United States rejected the results of a referendum in Ukraine's...
View ArticleRussia Can Turn U.S. to Radioactive Ash: Kremlin-Backed Journalist
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Kremlin-backed journalist issued a stark warning to the United States about Moscow's nuclear capabilities on Sunday as the White House threatened sanctions over Crimea's referendum...
View ArticleCo-Pilot Spoke Last Words Heard from Missing Malaysian Plane
(Reuters) - The co-pilot of a missing Malaysian jetliner spoke the last words heard from the cockpit, the airline's chief executive said on Monday, as investigators consider suicide by the captain or...
View ArticleU.S., EU Set Sanctions as Putin Recognizes Crimea 'Sovereignty'
SIMFEROPOL/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States and European Union imposed personal sanctions on Monday on Russian and Crimean officials involved in the seizure of Crimea from Ukraine as Russian...
View ArticleU.S. Forces Seize Tanker Carrying Oil from Libya Rebel Port
(Reuters) - U.S. special forces have seized a commercial tanker that fled with a cargo of oil from a Libyan port controlled by anti-government rebels, halting their attempt to sell petroleum on the...
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Shine On, Tiny Little Star
Here it is, just another techno-nirvana nestled within the verdant undulations of the East Bay area of San Francisco. Yellow bikes, unlocked, abound. Ride yours to a nearby server farm where one sleek...
View ArticleNewsweek Statement on Dorian Nakamoto
Newsweek has not received any statement or letter from either Mr. Nakamoto or his legal counsel. If and when we do, we will respond as necessary. NoYesYesWebWhitelist
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What Really Keeps Vladimir Putin Up at Night
When the world awoke to Russian troops in Crimea late last month after months of bloody protests in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, many American and global leaders raced to denounce Russian President...
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Today in Tabs: When St. Patrick Drove the Tabs from Ireland
omg they had a giant rug that said meritocracy and then they swept things under it .... oO— kate losse (@katelosse) March 17, 2014Github developer Julie Ann Horvath, long the only reason many people...
View ArticleFashion Designer L'Wren Scott Found Dead in NYC
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fashion designer L'Wren Scott, the girlfriend of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, was found dead in her New York apartment on Monday from an apparent suicide, according to a law...
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Guinness Opts Out of NYC’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade Over Anti-Gay Policy
The world’s top St. Patrick’s Day Parade is running low on luck—and beer.Guinness announced Sunday that it will no longer sponsor the New York City parade along Fifth Avenue on Monday because...
View ArticleProfessor Linde, Who Predicted Big Bang Result, Chokes Up When Confronted...
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced Monday that they finally found evidence that the universe underwent rapid expansion a fraction of a second after the Big Bang....
View ArticleData Wizard Nate Silver's New Site Launches Under ESPN Ownership
More than seven months after ditching The New YorkTimes for ESPN, statistician-wizard Nate Silver has finally gotten around to launching the new incarnation of his FiveThirtyEight site.We're live! But...
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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité — but Don’t Touch the Family
My Paris flat is a few steps from the Boulevard des Invalides, a wide, tree-lined road which perhaps should be renamed “Protest Alley.” When the French have a gripe, which is often, they usually clog...
View ArticleChile’s Hip-Hop Heroine Goes Deep
Over a beat laid down by Andean pan flutes, Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux breathes out her new album’s first line in her calm, steady alto: “I come in search of answers with a full bunch of open veins.”...
View ArticleUkrainian Soldier's Death Hightens Tensions After Putin Tries to Make Crimea...
(Reuters) - Defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty on Tuesday making Crimea part of Russia again but said he did not plan to seize any other...
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