Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 12:00am
I dared to enter Zen Palate, fearing my fondness for everything meat might somehow blaspheme the vegetarian hipster’s paradise, but at some point between sipping on Jasmine tea and tasting the veggie ravioli peanut sauce, I think I saw the light.
Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 12:00am
A resident of Morningside Heights was killed yesterday morning on the Upper East Side.
The victim was identified as Ruth Barrera of 410 West 110th St., police sources said. She was sixty years old.
Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 12:00am
The Engineering Student Council was just finishing up its last item on the Monday night agenda when four men burst into the room.
Leading the charge was Police Chief Brendan Shanahan, SEAS ’06, who turned over a table, dropped into a roll, and came up shooting.
Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 12:00am
This time, it wasn’t a drill.Residents of the Barnard Quad were evacuated for almost an hour yesterday afternoon after a grease fire ignited in a kitchen on the 11th floor of Sulzberger Tower.
Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 12:00am
Just hours after The New York Sun published a story saying that Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi was helping lead an in-service course for K-12 teachers, the New York City Department of Education announced last week it would exclude him from the program.
Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 12:00am
While he addressed everything from MEALAC to the Olympic Games, mayoral candidate and Representative Anthony Weiner (D-Queens) kept coming back to the same message—the importance of preserving freedom and openness both at Columbia and in City Hall.
Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 12:00am
“One night, Jackie woke up past her bedtime. She smelled something funny in the air, so she walked down the hall to her parents’ bedroom.
“‘What’s that, Mommy?’ asked Jackie. ‘Are you and Daddy smoking a cigarette?’
Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 12:00am
Feeling spry after two and a half hours sleep on a Chinatown bus, I slipped into my bargain-basement business suit, grabbed my trusty steno pad, and ventured out into the chilly morning air of our nation's capital.
Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 12:00am
WASHINGTON-As home owners from New London, CT packed the courtroom here to await a decision on the fate of their dwellings, Manhattanville residents wondered whether the resolution might change the ground rules in the fight against the expansion.
Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 12:00am
Grade inflation is a nationwide problem, one that affects every room of the ivory towers. The problem will not go away on its own and that the university system as a whole isn’t going to do anything about it. What is needed is a pioneer, someone to take the initiative and address the problem.
