2009-02-04

Wed, Feb 4, 2009, 12:22am
Eat. Sleep. Weight-lift. Shoot. Practice. Repeat.
Wed, Feb 4, 2009, 12:18am
This past weekend of Ivy women’s basketball was a rough one for Princeton, Brown, and Penn, who were all swept. Each conference team played two games and when the dust settled, Dartmouth emerged 3-0 and first place in the division.
Tue, Feb 3, 2009, 11:57pm
At the end of an avant-garde concert, it is not uncommon for the audience to feel in the dark about what they have just heard. But when the musicians share the darkness onstage as well, perhaps being in the dark is not so negative after all.
Tue, Feb 3, 2009, 11:54pm
In a city where irony and cynicism reign, James Lenzi is a pleasantly unique surprise.
Tue, Feb 3, 2009, 11:52pm
Even as the world economy continues to struggle, the Columbia Athletics Department is making headway in the Columbia Campaign for Athletics—the $100-million fundraising campaign launched in October 2007.
Tue, Feb 3, 2009, 11:10pm
“Ah you drinkin’ a cawsmo-politan, Shh-awn?” drawled my eldest cousin, Britney.
Tue, Feb 3, 2009, 10:33pm
Many times, sitting in John Jay Dining Hall, I look across the room and see clusters of my fellow classmates—friends sitting with friends, eating, laughing, chattering, a group of black students at one table, a group of Indians at another.
Tue, Feb 3, 2009, 10:28pm
I was shocked when I watched on CNN as my prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, abandoned a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos called “Gaza: The Case for Middle East Peace.” My first reaction involved an attempt at patriotic rationalization, as I hoped that there must have been
Tue, Feb 3, 2009, 10:01pm
I recently read A Room of One’s Own, a classic essay by Virginia Woolf based upon a series of lectures Woolf gave to women’s colleges at University of Cambridge. Woolf creates a fictitious sister of William Shakespeare, equal in talent and genius.
Tue, Feb 3, 2009, 9:57pm
With the recent hype over “change,” the word seems to have lost its neutrality and acquired a staggeringly positive connotation.

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