Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 12:00am
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 12:00am
The word "neighborhood" does not nearly account for the little patch of Brooklyn featured in Jonathan Lethem's new novel The Fortress of Solitude. Gowanus is a collection of warring kid-ocracies.
Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 12:00am
Lee Bollinger played hard to get. After I worked as an usher and binged on Krispy Kreme doughnuts at his inauguration, things did not play out as I expected. I invited him to dinner and got no reply.
Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 12:00am
Where atmosphere is concerned, restaurants are generally like cloisters: They ignore or disavow whatever happens to be outside their four walls, preferring to construct and control their own interior space. Not so with Terrace in the Sky.
Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 12:00am
This time of year the only thing New Yorkers have to do to get a sense of the approaching winter is look around at the heaping piles of fallen red and tan debris littering gutters, park benches, and trash cans: Starbuck's holiday cups, of course.
Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 12:00am
After pushing back the launch date several weeks, Columbia University will unveil its new homepage on Dec. 12.
Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 12:00am
Autopsy results for a first-year who died last month in her Furnald Hall room have thus far proved inconclusive.
Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 12:00am
When New York Senator Michael Nozzolio's nephew died of meningitis aboard a Navy ship in 1994, Nozzolio (R-Seneca County) made a push for state-sponsored awareness campaigns of the infection in dorms, the military, and sleep-away camps.
Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 12:00am
Like that of the other student councils, the General Studies Student Council's fall semester was characterized by a mix of smaller achievements and long-term projects, with housing, funding, and the 250th anniversary celebration on the top of the agenda.
Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 12:00am
In a city as difficult and expensive as New York, a non-profit organization can fall victim to a lack of resources. But once in a while, an innovative group beats the challenges--and is rewarded.
