Topic - Yale University

• Richest colleges rake in millions in donations

  For the 99 percent of colleges, it was a pretty good fundraising year.

• Yale loses legal fight in fake-degree lawsuit

  A federal judge in Connecticut has rejected a second bid by Yale University to throw out all the allegations in a lawsuit filed by a South Korean university that claims it lost tens of millions of dollars after Yale damaged its reputation.

• Painter William Theophilus Brown dies at age 92

  William Theophilus Brown, a painter who enjoyed success for more than half-a-century and was closely associated with the San Francisco Bay area's "figurative" movement, has died. He was 92.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'It Was a Long Time Ago, And It Never Happened Anyway'

  Anyone who has paid heed to Russia in the two decades since the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union has come to realize that things have not worked out all that well. Those desiring better lives, seeking the freedoms enjoyed by other peoples of the world, threw off the shackles of an authoritarian state that routinely persecuted, imprisoned and murdered its citizens by the millions.

• Embassy Row

  Rarely does a diplomat speak so bluntly, but with that one word in a Twitter post, the U.S. ambassador to Russia set off a buzz in the blogosphere this week, as he slapped down a critic who accused him of trying to topple the government in the Kremlin.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Rome and Rhetoric'

  First, let's acknowledge that Garry Wills' book-length discussion of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" is full of useful information and likely to be an indispensable companion to students of the play in years to come. It collects in one place much of what you need to know about Shakespeare's knowledge of the classical world and, up to a point, offers a useful account of what he was doing with it in the play.

• Abuse's big toll on littlest victims

  An estimated 4,500 children were so badly abused in 2006 they needed to be taken to a hospital, and 300 of them — mostly babies — died of their injuries, says a first-of-its-kind study released online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

• SANDERS: America's love affair with China

  Old friend and columnist Joseph Alsop once told me of arriving in China with a clanking sword he had hassled across the Pacific, given him by his cousin, FDR, along with an instant "inside-the-Beltway" Navy commission.

• Homeless NY science whiz getting $50K scholarship

  The accolades continue for a homeless New York teen who's a semifinalist in a prestigious national science contest.

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  Tuning in to TV

  A routine news story took a strange turn when an ABC "Nightline" anchor had a full body scan that turned up a possible warning sign.

• ABC's Weir finds health problem on routine story

  A routine news story took a strange turn when an ABC "Nightline" anchor had a full body scan that turned up a possible warning sign.

• Cast named for play based on Jayson Blair scandal

  Producers of a new play inspired by the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal at The New York Times have found the actor who will play the disgraced ex-journalist.

• Tricks for avoiding dry, itchy winter skin

  If it's dry and cold where you live, work or play, it's winter skin season, but the fixes may not be as obvious as they seem.

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  CURL: Is Romney the next Kerry?

  Think about it: Mitt Romney and John F. Kerry are two Boston blue-blood multimillionaires, spending summers in their island estates and winters in their mountain mansions.

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