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<title><![CDATA[Babylonian Collection Celebrates Centennial]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Yale Babylonian Collection will celebrate its 100th year with a series of events on Saturday, Nov. 14, that include a concert of music with Mesopotamian themes, a symposium, a film screening and two exhibitions showcasing selected holdings.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yale Researcher Co-Authors Book on the Digital Revolution and the Law]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:43:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In a world where video cameras are ubiquitous and PhotoShop can rewrite the past, the influence of the digital revolution in the courtroom is profound, as Christina Spiesel, a professional artist and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, and Quinnipiac Law Professor Neal Feigenson demonstrate in their new book, &ldquo;Law on Display: The Digital Transformation of Legal Persuasion and Judgment&rdquo; (New York University Press).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reading Will Revive Play Once Scorned As Too ‘Salacious’]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7027</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The English Department's 14th annual staged reading will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 5:15 p.m. in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SOM Event Explores the Origins of Shareholder Activism Around the World]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7028</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Corporate executives are paying themselves bloated bonuses while they squander shareowner value; a crony board of directors refuses to pay investors dividends and is keeping key financial accounts secret; the firm's stock price is plummeting.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Private Capital Is Topic of Conference]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Expanding Horizons" is the theme of the ninth annual Yale School of Management (SOM) Private Equity Conference being held on Friday, Nov. 6, at the Hyatt hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CNN Anchor and Special Correspondent Soledad O’Brien to Speak at Yale]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7018</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:55:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Soledad O&rsquo;Brien, anchor and special correspondent for CNN Worldwide, will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Tuesday, November 10.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yale Law School Conference on the Future of Journalism]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7012</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:51:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A dramatic shift in the way Americans receive news and information, stimulated by the growing dominance of the Internet and other electronic media, is the focus of the conference &ldquo;Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?&rdquo; at Yale Law School, November 13-14.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[In Memoriam: Melvin Ember, Helped Foster Comparative Study of Culture]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6998</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Cultural anthropologist Melvin Ember, who helped foster the comparative study of culture during his more than 20 years of service as president of Yale's Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), died on Sept. 26 after a 10-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 76.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Former Law Dean and His Wife Are Recognized as ‘Community Champions’]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7007</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The United Way of Greater New Haven has honored former Law School dean Guido Calabresi and his wife, Anne Calabresi, with the Herbert H. Pearce Award as "community champions for justice, equality and benevolence."]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[‘Freedom of the Seas’ Exhibit Explores International Law]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7008</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In 1609, a little pamphlet touched off a big debate that shaped modern international law. The Lillian Goldman Law Library marks the 400th anniversary of this event with its exhibition "Freedom of the Seas, 1609: Grotius and the Emergence of International Law," which will be on display through January in the Yale Law School, 127 Wall St.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Polish Poet Piotr Sommer Is This Year’s Franke Fellow]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6977</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Polish poet and translator Piotr Sommer has been appointed by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) as the Franke Visiting Fellow for the fall semester.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yale Library Gets Grant to Create Virtual Gallery of Islamic Manuscripts]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6961</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:42:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yale University Library and the University of London&rsquo;s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) have received a joint grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom to create a virtual gallery of Islamic manuscripts.]]></description>
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