Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:00am
After three practices in helmets and shorts and two days in full pads, the outline of a new football team is starting to form.
Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 12:00am
The weeks until my ungraceful expulsion into the world are passing far too quickly, which means that soon I'll lose this pulpit and the ability to broadcast my opinions to all of you. I still have a number of thoughts that I would have like to have turn into columns if I'd had the time.
Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 12:00am
Linn Ullmann, the author of Grace, is Norwegian, which, it goes without saying, means her writing is a little bit weird. There's something slightly disconcerting about reading an almost-sentimental meditation on death peppered with names like Odd Karlsen and Ole Torjoussen.
Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 12:00am
By Sofia Leung
Senior Staff Writer
"[A]s a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." Written in 1938 by Virginia Woolf for Three Guineas, her polemic against the insensibility of war, these words still resonate today.
Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 12:00am
In 146 B.C., the Romans ended the century-long Punic Wars and achieved the complete destruction of Carthage: they burned the city to the ground, killed its men, sold its women and children into slavery, and put salt in the soil so nothing could grow there in the future.
Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 12:00am
Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 12:00am
At 10 p.m. Friday, hundreds of officers from the New York Police Department's Narcotics, Quality Assurance, and Vice Units stormed seven Chelsea nightclubs, shutting down five of them under "crack house law" rules.
Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 12:00am
After serving burgers and Beat-generation nostalgia for 17 years, the owners of the West End say they will sell the restaurant to Havana Central, a chain of restaurants with branches in Greenwich Village and Times Square.
Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 12:00am
After another planning meeting Sunday night, the student coalition Stop Hate on Columbia's Campus announced that it had finalized plans for a sweeping three-day awareness campaign beginning today and culminating in a large rally on the Low Steps on Wednesday, the day Lee Bollinger returns from a
Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 12:00am
Members of Financial Aid Reform hosted a speak-out on Low Plaza on Saturday to share experiences and demand more generous aid policies.
"Columbia stands conspicuously anti-financial aid right now," said Emily Bean. CC '06 and a member of FAiR.
