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Pictures for the first New Haven, Connecticut Freeper meeting at Chowder Pot in Branford Great food, great conversation, great time (Didn't see anyone else posting yet - Race, please help me with name) I believe we had the following people - Mojo114 & husband, KosmicKitty & Mr Kitty, Race Bannon, Fierce Alligience & friend Kelly, Ct Little Tiger, CT_Libertarian, & PuppyPusher - please forgive me if I have left anyone out or not gotten names correct. Chowing down on some wonderful seafood From Left to Right - KosmicKitty, PuppyPusher, CT_Libertarian, CT Little Tiger, Race_Bannon, Firece_Alliegience Great time had by all!!...

Revelations that leading candidates for the US presidency were "Skull and Bones" members have provoked claims of elitism. Charles Laurence reports from New York The "tomb" stands dark and hulking at the heart of the Yale University campus, almost windowless, and shuttered and padlocked in the thick snow of winter storms. Yale's candidates for the White House pictured in their student days and the 'Skull and Bones' mascot Built to mimic a Greco-Egyptian temple, it is the headquarters of the Order of the Skull and Bones, America's most elite and elusive secret society - and it has become the unlikely...

<p>YALIE Barbara Bush has broken a family tradition. Barbara, 22 and a senior, has not been "tapped" to join the exclusive and secret Skull & Bones society. "It's particularly galling for Barbara, because both her father and grandfather were members of the Skull & Bones, as was her great-grandfather, Prescott," reports the London Telegraph. "Sadly, her contribution to campus life has been lacking." As an alternative, she'll join the Yale Potato Sack Relay Team, but the Telegraph said, "it's almost considered better not to get 'tapped' for anywhere at all."</p>