The Yale Globalist is excited to announce a collaboration between our publication and the world-renowned foreign policy organization responsible for some of the best coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Council on Foreign Relations. We want you to be part of it.
Catherine Cheney, Senior Editor of our magazine, went to the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States this past Tuesday and shot this amazing video of the inauguration. Other Globalist members, as well as many other Yale students, also made the trip to Washington D.C. to witness firsthand this memorable event.
The Yale Globalist is excited to present our new blog for the season: The World Weighs In: International Perspectives on the US Elections! Jeania Ree Moore, a freshman in Saybrook College at Yale, is blogging about the 2008 United States elections as seen by the international community. If you are tired of the same news about the elections and want a new twist on them, you’ll enjoy this new blog.
The Yale Globalist is proud and thrilled to have Paull Randt, a Yale senior, reporting from China throughout all the craze surrounding the 2008 Olympic Games. His blog is available at http://olympics.tyglobalist.org.
More information about Paull can be found after the jump.
This past Friday, April 18, Yale hosted the 2008 Conference of Governors on Climate Change to sign a declaration to push for better state and federal legislature to fight against climate change. The Conference was attended by the governors of Connecticut, Kansas, New Jersey, and California, as well as by representatives from Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, New York, and Washington. There were various international observers including the Premier of Quebec and Manitoba, the Environment Minister of the Czech Republic, and the Minister of Ecology of Sonora. Other notable attendants included Yale President Richard Levin and Nobel Laureate Dr. R.K. Pachauri.
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Last week, the Romanian capital welcomed the leaders of 26 countries for the 20th annual NATO summit. One of the week’s many happenings raised eyebrows: Greece’s vote against the membership bid by Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
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