2008-04-08

Tue, Apr 8, 2008, 2:04am
Fresh off a season in which it went 19-10 overall, 11-3 in the Ivy League, finished second in league standings behind Cornell, and earned its fourth-ever postseason berth, the Brown’s men’s basketball program is at a loss.
Tue, Apr 8, 2008, 2:00am
It’s common knowledge that successful Columbia athletic teams are few and far between. In the big three sports—football, basketball and baseball—the Light Blue has traditionally stumbled through season after season of futility.
Tue, Apr 8, 2008, 1:57am
In the second series of its four-game road trip, the Columbia softball team was swept by Dartmouth, losing twice on Monday. The losses came a day after a sweep at the hands of Harvard and dropped the Lions to 2-4 in Ivy League play.
Tue, Apr 8, 2008, 1:57am
The New York State Assembly killed Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s controversial congestion pricing plan Monday.
Tue, Apr 8, 2008, 1:53am
A hormone known as insulin-like growth factor is heavily involved in nerve connections dealing with the human sense of smell, a group of researchers, including two from the Department of Genetics and Development at Columbia University Medical Center, has found.
Tue, Apr 8, 2008, 1:52am
The Athletics Department announced on Thursday, April 3 that the annual Blue and White football game will take place on April 19 at Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at 4 p.m.
Mon, Apr 7, 2008, 11:27pm
Theatre for a New Audience’s current production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra immediately submerges its audience in a world of sensuality and passion in which the title lovers engage in acts of lust as soon as the lights go down.
Mon, Apr 7, 2008, 11:22pm
When I think of museums, typically my first thoughts are of whitewashed floors, white walls, and white noise. Beautiful though the art may be at art landmarks like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, these establishments often feel slightly cavernous and impersonal.
Mon, Apr 7, 2008, 11:17pm
At first, the idea of watching Poison front man Bret Michaels frolic with prepubescent girls while they bare all—at least physically—was nothing more than a way to distract myself from a bad case of mono. But then I saw her.
Mon, Apr 7, 2008, 11:12pm
The beauty of living in New York is that you can walk into a museum and suddenly be in the presence of a painting worth $135 million. In this case, that painting is the Portrait of Adele Block Bauer by Gustav Klimt, and is on display at the Neue Galerie.

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