Columbia Sues Crocs Over Trade Secrets Dispute
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Vail Daily letter: Anti-capitalism plan
Vail Daily. | Vail Daily | Posted 12.08.2009 | Home
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the Cloward-Piven Strat...
What East Anglia's E-mails Really Tell Us About Climate Change
Hearst Communications | Hearst Communications | Posted 12.01.2009 | Home
PM guest analyst Peter Kelemen, a professor of geochemistry at Columbia University's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, explains what sto...
Susan Boyle CD review: Talent abundant, but less evident on disc
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home
I Dreamed a Dream Susan Boyle (Columbia) TWO AND A HALF STARS In April, Susan Boyle walked up to the microphone of the British reality show "Brit...
Raphael Graybill, Rhodes Scholar, Is Auxiliary Police Officer With New York Police Department, Columbia Student
AP | STEPHANIE REITZ | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York
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When Henry Spelman found out he'd won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend. To share the good news, of course, but also to see w...
Week in Review: President Obama's trip to Asia
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.20.2009 | Home
Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs Magazine and James Rubin of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs join Daljit Dhaliwal to di...
Whenever, Wherever, Shakira Wants Global Education
Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
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Many know Shakira for her Latin-inspired pop songs and hip gyrations. But the singer was subdued and earnest in a recent op-ed in the Economist, where...
Shining Some Light on Ocelot
Bronx News Network | Bronx News Network | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home
The Bronx Ink, an online publication written by students at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, recently published an extensive piece...
Barack Obama New York Walking Tour Gives Insight Into "The Lost Years" (VIDEO)
AP | BETH J. HARPAZ | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
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NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Jeremiah Miller calls the time Barack Obama spent in New York "the lost years," because that period from 1981 to 1985 is...
Video: Fed in the Crosshairs
MSNBC | MSNBC | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home
Frederic Mishkin, former Federal Reserve Board Governor and a Columbia University economics professor, discusses Sen. Dodd's financial reform bill and...
A Book About Nothing, Just Like Seinfeld (VIDEO)
Joan Konner | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books
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Nothing exists. Nothing is an essential presence in our lives. Paradoxical? Yes. Illogical and irrational? Yes. Yet to ignore Nothing is to deny our road to renewal.
Week in Review: Afghanistan election and Italian court ruling
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home
This week, Daljit Dhaliwal speaks with Carla Robbins, deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times, and James Rubin, adjunct professor at Columb...
Jon Pittenger
The Aspen Times | Aspen Times | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home
Jon Pittenger Aspen, CO Colorado Jon Pittenger of Glenwood Springs passed away Nov. 3, 2009. He was 50.Jon was born in Columbia, Mo. on J...
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Glenwood Springs Post Independent | Post Independent | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home
Jon Pittenger Post Independent Glenwood Springs, CO Colorado Jon Pittenger of Glenwood Springs passed away Nov. 3, 2009. He was 50. Jon w...
Bronx News Roundup, Oct. 29
Bronx News Network | Bronx News Network | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home
Michelle Obama and Jill Biden were in the Bronx yesterday to watch the Yankees game. Beforehand, they visited a veterans center in Kingsbridge Heights...
Authors urge 'drastic action' to save media giants
AP | LAURA IMPELLIZZERI | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home
— "The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong With the World's Leading Media Companies" (Portfolio, 272 pages, $26.95), by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald and Ava Seave: For each of the world's many now-faltering media conglomerates, there are thousands of former writers, artists, actors, managers, sales people and other employees, plus countless investors, consultants and fans.
So there's no shortage of backseat drivers nattering like disillusioned lovers as media companies crash. The dispassionate critique from Columbia University economist and business professor Greenwald, business instructor and former investment banker Knee and media consultant Seave, which grew out of a class at Columbia's business school, contrasts with most recent commentary.
Reviewing the financial and stock market performance by top media companies – GE/NBC, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, Vivendi, News Corp. and other conglomerates that produce and distribute information and entertainment – the authors conclude the companies have fallen short of the stock market, "significantly and relentlessly," for more than a decade.
They see a simple cause: decision-making in which efficiency is almost taboo and the fundamentals of economics and accounting are frequently suspended in favor of historic status as first mover or a belief unrelated businesses will suddenly experience "convergence."
"Without drastic action," the authors warn, "There is little reason to think that performance during the next 10 years will be any better."
Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part II
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York
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Storecasting: TJ Maxxes Out Columbus Village On October 29
Racked | Racked | Posted 10.20.2009 | Home
Via Flickr/Angela Rutherford In the new stretch of retail and residential that is Columbus Village, between 97th and 100th Streets, Upper West Side...
Julia Stiles revisits a role in Mamet's 'Oleanna'
AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
NEW YORK — Julia Stiles first played the role of life-wrecker Carol in "Oleanna" when she was in college, and the play, about a confused student who accuses her professor of sexual impropriety, stuck with her well beyond the final curtain.
She never felt that she had gotten the part quite right. Now she has a do-over, in a Broadway revival with Bill Pullman.
"I love this play," says Stiles, who took time off from Columbia University to perform the role on London's West End in 2004. "But I always felt I didn't quite get it right, and I really welcomed the chance to get back into it."
Five years later, she is reprising the role in the David Mamet play opposite Pullman who plays John, the object of Carol's ire. The play runs 80 minutes with no intermission, and the story makes the audience twist and squirm with confusion as the heat and intensity rise until the final most shocking moment.
Now 28 and no longer a student – she graduated from Columbia in 2005 – Stiles has a different perspective on both the two-character drama and her role.
Tom Joyner's Great-Uncles Pardoned In SC 94 Years After Execution
AP | SEANNA ADCOX | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina pardoned syndicated radio host Tom Joyner's great-uncles Wednesday, nearly a century after they were sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran.
Officials believe the two men are the first in the state to be posthumously pardoned in a capital murder case.
Black landowners Thomas and Meeks Griffin were executed 94 years ago after a jury convicted them of killing 73-year-old John Lewis, a wealthy white veteran living in Blackstock, a Chester County town 40 miles north of Columbia. Two other black men were also put to death for the crime.
"This won't bring them back, but this will bring closure. I hope now that they rest in peace," Joyner said. "This is a good day."
Joyner, who lives in Dallas, and his attorney made a presentation to the state parole and pardon board on Wednesday, then left the room while the board voted. Family members who flew in for the hearing included his wife and sons, of Dallas, and brother and his family, from Jackson, Miss.
Obama Goes to Oslo: The Quiz
Michael Kubin | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy
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What will President Obama say in his Nobel Peace Prize lecture? Eleven possible quibbles, questions and quotations: you decide.
New Columbia Building's Quick Rise is All Thanks to Science
Curbed | Curbed | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home
[Photo at right via The New York Times.] We're not sure what crazy secrets Columbia University is planning to house in the labs of its new science ...
'This Is It': Listen To Michael Jackson's New Song (AUDIO, LYRICS)
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment
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NEW YORK - The first song from the upcoming Michael Jackson music documentary "This Is It" made it's debut online early Monday morning on MichaelJacks...
100,000 North Koreans dazzle at mass games spectacle
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home
In August, Worldfocus web producer Ben Piven traveled to the 2009 Arirang Games in Pyongyang, North Korea, with a point-and-shoot camera. A North Kore...
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