Mon, Mar 26, 2007, 12:00am
War provides an excellent cover for despots and murderers. The Ottoman Empire stretched this cover to new lengths amid the chaos of World War I. The Armenians, Christians who had lived in Anatolia and the Caucasus Mountains for three millennia, were a minority under Ottoman rule.
Mon, Mar 26, 2007, 12:00am
A press conference was held yesterday to show off the ongoing progress toward shutting down the insurgency in Baghdad. Ban Ki-moon was brought in to hold a news conference with Nouri al-Maliki, who has just announced that he will begin negotiations with the insurgents.
Mon, Mar 26, 2007, 12:00am
Along with, I imagine, the majority of students at this school, I worked incredibly hard inside of the classroom and on a variety of extracurricular activities to attain admission to Columbia.
Mon, Mar 26, 2007, 12:00am
In a recent article in the London Review of Books, Columbia professor Mahmood Mamdani presented a controversial view of the situation in Darfur and the international responsibility to intervene. Most discussions of Darfur use stock catchphrases and sweeping generalizations.
Mon, Mar 26, 2007, 12:00am
Next Saturday is my nephew Jacob's fourth birthday. It also marks the anniversary of a four-year war with my mother that began shortly after his birth.
Mon, Mar 26, 2007, 12:00am
By now most of us have heard about the 20 Columbia students facing lawsuits by the Recording Industry Association of America over illegal music downloads.
Mon, Mar 26, 2007, 12:00am
Student council elections rarely seem to yield dramatic policy differences or meaningful ideological diversity. This year's race for the Columbia College Student Council executive board is no exception.
Mon, Mar 26, 2007, 12:00am
Columbia got some wood at the 2007 NCAA Championships, and although the event may not have ended up in a national championship, the Lions' third-place finish was the program's best since the field expanded to include all three women's disciplines.
Mon, Mar 26, 2007, 12:00am
The Columbia women's lacrosse team dropped to 0-2 in the Ivy League, losing to Dartmouth 11-5 yesterday. Dartmouth (4-3, 1-1 Ivy) managed to split its opening Ivy weekend after a loss to Cornell on Saturday.
Mon, Mar 26, 2007, 12:00am
A lead midway through the race did not result in a win for the Columbia men's heavyweight rowing team. The heavyweight team took second at the 2007 Maxwell Stevenson Cup, beating George Washington but losing to Navy.
