Tue, Mar 25, 2003, 12:00am
After a grueling winter, spring finally hits New York. The icy patches on the sidewalk melt after three months, the park is bum-rushed by an army of three-year-olds on training wheels, and the museums draw huge crowds for historic exhibits of daVinci and Picasso.
Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 12:00am
Zora Neale Hurston, BC '28, Anna Quindlen, BC '74, Jhumpa Lahiri, BC '89 ... the list of literary luminaries who once studied at Barnard is getting longer each year. But Barnard does not just produce writers and poets; it gives them a platform from which they can bring their work to people.
Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 12:00am
Modern life is fraught with peril. From the chicken salad at a certain on-campus eatery to floods of biblical proportion and weapons of mass destruction, the list of Things to be Feared and Dreaded grows longer every day.
Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 12:00am
In a discussion that alternated between informal banter and insight on free speech, religion, and human nature, University President Lee Bollinger interviewed author Salman Rushdie in a packed Altschul Auditorium on Saturday.
Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 12:00am
The Oscars had a new character last night to reflect the situation abroad, with a scaled-back red carpet and stars in simple black attire. The ceremony itself was threatened with cancellation.
Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 12:00am
As the fighting continues in Iraq, students at Columbia are for the most part uncertain about the intentions of President George W. Bush's administration and concerned about the economic and political ramifications of the war.
Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 12:00am
Grocery shoppers in Morningside Heights will soon have a new shopping option. After a two-year absence, D'Agostino's Market is returning to the neighborhood this summer.
Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 12:00am
Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 12:00am
This past week in Ramallah, the Palestinian parliament voted 69-1 (with 18 abstentions) to allow the Palestinian Prime Minister--a newly created position--to name his own cabinet members.
Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 12:00am
George W. Bush cannot see beyond the day that Baghdad falls. The realpolitik posturing of his cadre of chickenhawks has succeeded in pitting the greatest military power ever known to man against a shaky Middle Eastern dictator.
