In 1932, Yale received thirteen hundred and thirty applications, and it admitted nine hundred and fifty-nine an acceptance rate of seventy-two per cent.

NEWYORKER: Live and Learn

At nine-fifty on a February night in 2001, a twenty-two-year-old black man was shot while driving his Ford Taurus station wagon through a neighborhood on the edge of the Rutgers University campus.

NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

In 2006 and 2008, sixteen Democrats entered the Senate, giving the Party its current majority of fifty-nine to forty-one (counting two independents).

NEWYORKER: The Empty Chamber

Fifty-two remaining defendants - including nine police officers - will be judged by a court sitting for security reasons in the capital, Cairo.

BBC: Egypt police withdraw from Port Said

She died two months later, at the age of fifty-nine.

NEWYORKER: Union Man