Wed, Jul 31, 2002, 12:00am
Magda al-Nowaihi, Associate Professor of Arabic Literature, passed away after a seven-year-long battle with ovarian cancer. Al-Nowaihi was a dedicated member of the Columbia faculty, maintaining close ties with students and colleagues even while on leave this past spring.
Wed, Jul 31, 2002, 12:00am
Less than two months into his new job, President Lee Bollinger has wasted little time in making his first major decision, choosing to postpone the selection of a dean of the Graduate School of Journalism.
Wed, Jul 31, 2002, 12:00am
These days it takes but a few clicks of a mouse to access several thousands of web-based radio stations and other digital media. Soon, however, web-based radio may be a little less diverse and a lot less voluminous.
Wed, Jul 31, 2002, 12:00am
Even now, the smell of ripe New York grass reminds me, in a strictly Pavlovian sense, of walking through early August mornings, from the train station up a winding hill to my high school football field and its imminent doom.
Wed, Jul 31, 2002, 12:00am
The Saturday night 7 train threw me off and spit me out after a two-hour ride in Long Island City, Queens. I sped down deserted avenues where the factories lit the street like hollow moons, electric and luminous.
Wed, Jul 31, 2002, 12:00am
Growing up on Long Island, an oversized sandbar criss-crossed by parkways and dotted with parking lots, I always dreamt of the day when I would be able to drive myself to the mall instead of having to ask my shopping-phobic mother to transport me there in the family station wagon.
Wed, Jul 31, 2002, 12:00am
I Love New York. Sound familiar? The famous state tourism logo turns 25 this year, and with perfect timing: everyone seems to love New York nowadays as a sense of patriotic duty.
Wed, Jul 31, 2002, 12:00am
Two weeks ago, The New York Times published a special section called "Favorites," in which an assortment of authors and Times contributors described their favorite things in life. The anchovy, the Brooklyn F train, and "Everybody Loves Raymond" were just a few of their responses.
Wed, Jul 31, 2002, 12:00am
I remembered racism--that unspoken Pacific Northwest racism--last week as I stood on a lawn in south Seattle, notebook in hand, trying to focus on a press conference on low-income housing.
Fri, Jul 26, 2002, 12:00am
Pretending to be an urban sophisticate is a cute little game I discovered soon after arriving at Columbia.
