Sun, Mar 23, 2008, 9:56pm
In 1976, on a visit to Columbia, I was surprised to spot, on a wall of the Journalism building abutting college walk, the spectral remains of the spray-painted initials “sds.” Thirty years on, those faded letters have long since vanished, but it feels to me frequently that the specter of 1968’s
Sun, Mar 23, 2008, 9:01pm
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, “Talking about economics is a little like pissing on your leg. It may seem hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.” These days, student activism often provokes similar reactions.
Sun, Mar 23, 2008, 8:57pm
No one took Fritz Zwicky seriously when he pointed out that the universe does not follow the rules we think it does. Working at Caltech in the 1930s, he studied galaxies, supernovae, and other recently discovered phenomena in the heavens.
