oseph C. Tsai, a Taiwanese Canadian billionaire who is a cofounder and executive vice chairman of the China-based Alibaba Group.* Tsai, an alumnus of Yale College and Yale Law School, made the gift in honor of his father, also an alumnus of Yale Law School. China is not the only authoritarian government that h

tical roots on Capitol Hill, Kathleen served on the staff of Senator Christopher Dodd and has worked on several Presidential campaigns. A graduate of Yale College with a Masters degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, Kathleen is an avid sports woman and Red Sox fan, whose

chool in 1959, I noticed that the university’s motto was written in Hebrew—the biblical words “Urim V’Tomim.” When I asked a friend who has graduated Yale College why Yale’s motto was in Hebrew, he replied: “It’s a test—if you can read it, you can’t go here!”) But in a zero sum game — which admissions surely ar