Wed, Oct 15, 2003, 12:00am
In a season where every game has been a close contest, the Columbia men's soccer team owes much of its success to its defense.
Wed, Oct 15, 2003, 12:00am
Lions volleyball dropped both of its home matches this weekend, losing 3-0 against then-undefeated Harvard (20-30, 21-30, 28-30), and then 3-1 against Dartmouth (27-30, 22-30, 30-17, 28-30), but the team is steadily building in strength and confidence in spite of its ongoing roster problems.
Wed, Oct 15, 2003, 12:00am
Following the 2000-2001 season, when the wrestling team failed to win a single league game and finished in the Ivy cellar, the proposition of Columbia vying for an Ivy title just three seasons later might have sounded ludicrous.
Wed, Oct 15, 2003, 12:00am
From the zebra-striped pillows with hot pink trim that adorn her office to the pink stilettos that add two inches to her 6-foot frame, Atoosa Rubenstein, the new editor-in-chief of Seventeen, looks like something out of the pages of her own magazine.
Mon, Oct 13, 2003, 12:00am
When Julia Lovell wrote to Han Shaogong asking to translate his novel A Dictionary of Maqiao, Han gave her permission, but added, "I'm afraid it will be terribly difficult." A Dictionary of Maqiao is itself an act of translation of a motley selection of dialect words from the southern Chinese vi
Mon, Oct 13, 2003, 12:00am
What is the function of a sex scene in a novel? How many of us secretly read impatiently, and furtively flip pages in order to get to the steamier scenes in a book? How was St. Augustine's sex life?
Mon, Oct 13, 2003, 12:00am
Bar food is a delicacy all too often overlooked. Sometimes dismissed as an impulse purchase, or the fruits of a drunken soirée, bar food should be properly recognized for its nutritional value and general utilitarianism.
Mon, Oct 13, 2003, 12:00am
Evermore, I have been yearning for my hometown of Pittsburgh. My love-hate relationship with New York has slowly tilted towards the latter, and aside from a few shining moments of "only in New York" glory, my outlook of late has been rather glum.
Mon, Oct 13, 2003, 12:00am
Several Harlem small businesses have former U.S. president Bill Clinton to thank for the neighborhood's recent growth. With help from a team of volunteers--including Columbia University graduate students--Clinton has launched an initiative to revitalize local businesses.
Mon, Oct 13, 2003, 12:00am
Sophocles and Virgil, immortalized forever in the minds of Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization students, are now immortalized in two Tiffany stained glass windows flanking the lobby of the renovated Hamilton Hall.
