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Best Alma Maters for Billionaires

Yeah, Harvard's the place to be

(Newser) - Bill Gates and Carl Icahn may be college dropouts (Harvard and NYU, respectively), but most billionaires carry a sheepskin diploma with them. These top-tier universities have educated the most billionaires:
  1. Harvard: with 50, including Steve Ballmer, Michael Bloomberg, and Sumner Redstone.
  1. Stanford: was founded by a billionaire and counts 30
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'Abortion Art' a Hoax, Yale Says
'Abortion Art'
a Hoax,
Yale Says
Apr 18, 2008 11:00 AM CDT

'Abortion Art' a Hoax, Yale Says

Student maintains that she impregnated herself over and over

(Newser) - When Yale art student Aliza Shvarts said she’d impregnated herself “as often as possible,” aborted all the results, and intended to display the resulting menstrual blood, people got a bit upset. Students gathered in protest as the story blazed across a disgusted blogosphere. One problem: It was...

Insemination, Miscarriage Make Yale Senior's Art Project

'I hope it inspires some sort of discourse,' says student, preparing for angry response

(Newser) - A Yale art student repeatedly impregnated herself and then induced miscarriages with drugs; her undergraduate thesis documenting the process goes on display next week. The exhibition will include video of the miscarriages, the Yale Daily News reports, and also the student’s own preserved blood. Aliza Shvarts insists “it’...

Inside Oliver Stone's Leaked Bush Biopic Script

Slate looks at some key W moments

(Newser) - The script for Oliver Stone’s biopic about George Bush has leaked to the press, and Juliet Lapidos picked through it to find some choice lines for Slate:
  • The future president’s proudest moment at Yale? Pouring “cheap vodka into a large garbage can” while another frat pledge “
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War Game Takes Colleges by Storm
War Game
Takes Colleges
by Storm
Mar 21, 2008 12:15 PM CDT

War Game Takes Colleges by Storm

CoCrossCampus blends online play with real life interaction

(Newser) - Somewhere, Harvard is plotting an assault on Yale, while Cornell forges an alliance with Princeton. Such mass maneuvers are routine in GoCrossCampus, a Risk-like online war game in which teams of hundreds of players move armies across virtual versions of real campus locations. But it’s the real-world interaction, as...

William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82
William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82
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Feb 27, 2008 10:32 AM CST

William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82

Influential conservative columnist founded National Review

(Newser) - Conservative columnist and editor William F. Buckley Jr. died today at age 82; he suffered from diabetes and emphysema. Buckley founded the opinion magazine National Review, hosted the show “Firing Line” and wrote 45 books. The author of God and Man at Yale and defender of Joe McCarthy was...

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