The term "Ivy League" is informally used to describe eight East Coast universities—Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale—which are acknowledged as among the most...

A small number of elite college and universities in America are known by this phrase. It is both a laudatory and divisive term—laudatory because of the academic achievement of many of its students, divisive because they are more easily entered by...

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in the Northeastern United States. The term is now most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group.[1] The term has...

(JIM GREENIDGE'S PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH) 1. PENNSYLVANIA - The defending league champion is led by All-Ivy senior guard Michael Jordan (15.4 ppg) and backcourt mate Matt Langel (11.3 ppg). Jordan enters his fourth year as a starter, Langel his third. Backup guard...

Urban gardener Some London-based clients are desperate to use climbing plants to cover excess bricks and mortar, the result of a new extension. The brickwork, sensitively executed using a mixture of tones, blends beautifully with older parts of the house, but the clients...

Ruth Simmons says she once wrote the best essay in her literature class only to have one of her Harvard University professors shun her because she was black, or a woman, or both.More than three decades after that graduate school indignity, Simmons returned to the...

A University of Pennsylvania professor was charged Monday with bludgeoning his wife to death in their suburban kitchen after she told friends she was going to divorce him.Rafael Robb, 56, taught economics at the Ivy League school and is an expert in game theory, the...