Wed, Oct 1, 2008, 7:39pm
Life is not a promenade. Internally it is never, so why should society be? Along with duels and after-school fist fights, insults have gone out of fashion. Occasionally we gossip about the people we detest. When we see these people, we, at most, smile a bit less sunnily.
Wed, Oct 1, 2008, 7:37pm
This past Friday, the Department of Public Safety released its first-ever Annual Security Report. The report delineated University safety measures and provided statistics regarding criminal activity on Columbia's campus over the past three years.
Wed, Oct 1, 2008, 7:32pm
Sometimes, being a bookworm, you start to doubt whether what you do has any real impact on the world. Several weeks ago, I was having a drink with a few people who, like me, are English majors trying to break into the world of publishing and reviewing. “Wow,” somebody said.
Wed, Oct 1, 2008, 7:31pm
At the beginning of Religulous, Bill Maher (of HBO’s Real Time) claims that he wants to hear why religious individuals believe in their respective faiths, establishing a mission statement for the remainder of the documentary.
Wed, Oct 1, 2008, 7:30pm
In a reserved museum brimming with individual artistic gems, the three paintings by Johannes Vermeer have long been among the most laudable of the canvasses presented by the Frick Collection.
Wed, Oct 1, 2008, 7:29pm
The university press—not the first place you would think to go for sexy, subversive, or scandalous reading? Maybe it should be.
