Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 12:00am
Last semester I had the joy of meeting Nick Hornby, patron saint of insecure guys, music devotees, and book columnists, at a reading from his new book The Polysyllabic Spree, a collection of monthly essays that Hornby has written for The Believer.
Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 12:00am
Knowledge is a funny thing. You sit in classrooms; you watch the evening news; you diligently read the philosophies of men and women more learned than yourself, all in pursuit of finding out some truth.
Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 12:00am
What does it mean for a writer to commit suicide? We are told to separate the personality of the writer from their work, but during an age of the literary celebrity, this seems nearly impossible.
Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 12:00am
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Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 12:00am
Amid the maze of exhibit booths which would seem like heaven to any toddler, an uneasy haze hung over the 102nd Annual Toy Fair, which may be the last in New York City.
Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 12:00am
When Wasnard Victor, SEAS ’05, was officially elected Mr. SEAS this Friday, he was near giddy. Clutching his new iPod Shuffle and trophy, all he could do was repeat again and again how much he loved SEAS, saying “I wanted to show that SEAS students were more than just engineers.”
Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 12:00am
The residents of 620 W. 116th St. may not realize it, but in case of nuclear bombing, they have a government-certified fallout shelter right under their noses.
Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 12:00am
After four years, three unpaid internships, five art history courses, and twenty-four Shakespeare plays, I need to get a job. And watching reality TV all day doesn’t include benefits.
Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 12:00am
The Kyoto Protocol went into effect February 16 with 166 countries, not including the US, committing to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases which have been linked to global warming.
Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 12:00am
The University Senate returned to its discussion of improving Columbia’s grievance procedures on Friday in response to the ongoing MEALAC controversy, but it began with President Bollinger’s first public criticism of the New York City Department of Education’s recent dismissal of Rashid Khalidi
