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Forest City's Longshot Bond Issue in Brooklyn

Steve Ettlinger | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Forest City Ratner, Mayor Bloomberg, Eminent Domain Abuse, Appellate Court, Basketball Arena, Brooklyn, NJ Nets, Blight, Forest City Enterprises, Atlantic Yards, Basketball, Mta, NY State Senate, Bond Issue, Eminent Domain, Goldman Sachs, Bond Buyer, Columbia University, NYC Budget, Ratner, FInancial Markets, Bruce Ratner, Pilots, Urban Development, Gov. Paterson, Developdontdestroybrooklyn, Barclays Plc, New York News

As Forest City Enterprises markets bonds for Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn -- which includes the most expensive basketball arena in the country -- I'm struck by how tenuous the whole thing is.

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Only in America: Ambassador Sichan Siv - From the Killing Fields to the White House

Jim Luce | Posted 12.12.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Washington, National Republican Women’s’ Club, Angkor Wat, United Nations, Slave-Labor Camp, Thought Leaders, Phnom Penh, Thailand, Golden Bones, Global Citizens, Voice of America, Global China Connection, Vietnam, Jim Luce, Jean-Michel Tijerina, Columbia Business School, Making It in America, John Lee, Cambodian Cowboy, Martha Pattillo Siv, Presbyterian, Theravada Buddhist, Cambodia Project, Khmer Rouge, Gavin Newton-Tanzer, Texas, Hollywood Movie, Bangkok, Fall of Saigon, New York City, Mandarin, Columbia University, Care, Pol Pot, Sichan Siv, Cambodia, Killing Fields, New York Times, Refugee Camp, Buddhism, Orphans International Worldwide, Khmer, Takeo, World News

I first met Ambassador Sichan Siv in 2004. He spoke on surviving Pol Pot's Killing Fields in Cambodia - and coming to America. He ended up working in the White House and then the United Nations.

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Raphael Drawing Sells For $48 Million At UK Auction, Sets Records

AP | Posted 12.09.2009 | World

Read More: Christies Auction, Columbia University, Rembrandt, Christies, Art, Old Masters, London, Raphael, London-United Kingdom, World News

LONDON — A drawing by Raphael and a Rembrandt portrait have set records and together sold for almost 50 million pounds ($82 million) at an aucti...

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Home, Blighted Home

Daniel Goldstein | Posted 12.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Blight, Atlantic Yards, Daniel Goldstein, Eminent Domain, Bruce Ratner, Columbia University, Keloprospect Heights, New York News

I put my toe in the real estate market. I asked friends what should I be looking for, and they all said the same thing, "You gotta find something in a substandard and insanitary neighborhood."

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Alavi Foundation, Columbia University Donor, Linked To Iran

nytimes.com | A. G. SULZBERGER | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Alavi Foundation, Iran, Columbia University, Columbia University Donor Iran Link, Donors, Columbia University Donor, New York News

David M. Stone, a spokesman for Columbia Univeristy, said Monday that the donation from the Alavi Foundation came several months before the speaking i...

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Twelve Reporters Slaughtered: The Worst Day In The History Of Journalism

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Philippines, Columbia University, Reporters Sans Frontieres, Sheila Coronel, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Media, Media News, Journalism, Mindanao, World News

Twelve journalists in the southern Philippines have been slaughtered, in what will surely be remembered as the worst single day in the history of journalism.

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Warren Buffet Tells Columbia Business Students: "The Financial Panic Is Over" (VIDEO)

cnbc.com | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Future Leaders, Warren Buffett, Business School, Columbia University, Business News

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates spoke to a group of Columbia students on Thursday for a CNBC town hall and question-and-answer session. The business gia...

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Lionel McIntyre, Columbia Professor, Assaulted Camille Davis At Toast Bar

columbiaspectator.com | Sarah Darville and Sam Levin | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Camille Davis Attack, Columbia University, Columbia Professor, Lionel McIntyre, Lionel McIntyre Assault, Camille Davis, Toast, New York, New York News

Columbia associate professor Lionel McIntyre assaulted Margaret Camille Davis, a production manager at the Columbia University School of the Arts, on ...

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A Memory of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Scott Atran | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Anthropology, Jean Piaget, Macques Monod, Columbia University, Claude-Levi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, Living News

In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of universals. At the time, I was working for Margaret Mead as one of her assistants.

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Citarella Making A Stink In Harlem

columbiaspectator.com | Lindsey Ward | Posted 10.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Columbia University, Harlem, 126th Street and Amsterdam, 126th Street and Amsterdam Lot, New York City, New York, 126th Street and Amsterdam Citarella, Citarella, New York News

Though Citarella was evicted in June, managers say the store isn't leaving anytime soon. And one block away from the upscale supermarket's Harlem loc...

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Columbia Axes Environmental Journalism, and Malcolm Gladwell Is Okay With That

Alex Pasternack | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Environment, Malcolm Gladwell, Journalism, Green News, Journalism School, Columbia University, Columbia Journalism School, Media News

The media needs to get over the superficial, celebrity-soaked fad approach to environmental journalism and deliver something that people want: more and better in-depth environmental news.

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New York, You've Changed -- Ghostbusters, Part Two

Nick Carr | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Chinatown, Ghostbusters, Columbia University, New York, Harold Ramis, New York Public Library, Bill Murray, Tribeca, Little Italy, Hudson Street, Scouting Ny, Movies, New York You've Changed, Ghost Busters, Ghostbusters 3, New York News

A full shot-by-shot dissection to see what New York once was and what it has become -- by way of Ghostbusters scenes.

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Child Slavery in Haiti: Odette's Story

The Morningside Post | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Child Slaves, Haiti, Poverty, Columbia University, Foreign Affairs, Slavery, Human Trafficking, Restavek, World News

More than 300,000 children are currently enslaved as restaveks in Haiti. They make up 3 percent of Haiti's population. More often than not they are emotionally and physically abused.

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New York, You've Changed: Ghostbusters, Part One

Nick Carr | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Central Park, Ghostbusters, Rudy Giuliani, 1980s, Columbia University, Bill Murray, Tribeca, Fifth Avenue, Spiderman, Scouting Ny, Movies, New York News

Reliving the magic of Ghostbusters through pictures of New York, then and now.

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Asia Society's Prez on Global Citizens Like Obama

Jim Luce | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Upper East Side, Facebook, Performances, That, Shanghai, Afs, Pakistan, Jaffna, Hong Kong, Asian Art, Vishakha Desai, John D. Rockefeller, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Muslim, Andy Warhol Foundation, Indonesia, Hindu, Vietnam War, Korea, Williams College, Buddhist, Elephant Story, Nigeria, Mumbai, Brookings Institution, Sri Lanka., Robert B. Oxnam, Thought Leader, Manila, University of Massachusetts, Education, Asian Women Leaders, United States, Asia Society, Mathew Luce, Barack Obama, Global Citizen, Boston University, Asian-Americans, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Columbia University, Bombay University, U.S.-Asia Relationship, Hillary Clinton., Youtube, Taliban, India, International Relations, Asian Art History, Gates Foundation, New York News

Asia Society president Vishakha Desai says, "Ours is a complex institution, and those experiencing it can describe it in the same way the blind men touch and describe an elephant."

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The Magic of Immigrant Charm

Venkat Srinivasan | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Washington Square, Columbia University, Sri Lanka, New York City, Vegan, Food, Food Carts, Immigrants, Dosas, New York News

Serving a long line of hungry customers from his vegan dosa cart at a busy square in Manhattan, Thirukumar Kandasamy, it would seem, knows his constituency. Nobody knows him by that name though.

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New York: Media Capital 2.0

Lee C. Bollinger | Posted 10.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Michael Bloomberg, New York City, Medianyc 2020, Columbia University, New Media, Lee Bollinger, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, New York News

Like Wall Street, many of our traditional media companies are shedding jobs while the new media and technology sector is growing -- unfortunately, mostly outside of New York City.

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Re-"Kindle" Our Past with Green Technology

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar Energy, Rare Books, Columbia University, Princeton University, New York Public Library, Green Technology, Kindle, Importance of Reading, Amazon Kindle, Reading, Sustainability, Green News

Preserving books is one of our most important duties if we are going remain relevant in the eyes of future societies.

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Why I (Sometimes) Don't Wear A Kipah*

Menachem Kaiser | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Yarmulkes, Orthodox Judaism, Kosher, Jews, Columbia University, Israel-Palestine, Orthodox Jews, Religious-Issues, Jewish Culture, Jewish People, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Kipah, Living News

Open, visible identification with any group whose rules and/or opinions are stated or implicitly assumed is a responsibility, or, conversely, a burden.

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Honored Today With The Cabot Journalism Prize, I Will Use It To Grow The Cuban Blogosphere

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Cuban Blogosphere, Columbia University, Maria Moors Cabot Journalism Prize, Cabot Prize, US-Cuba Relations, Blog Comments, Blogging, Journalism, Cuba, Generation Y, Living News

As I don't plan to wait to be allowed to open school of digital journalism in order to realize this project, I will begin it with bureaucratic and legal formality.

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Columbia Finds NYC Air Lowers Kids' IQs

Elaine Shannon | Posted 08.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Auto Emissions, Air Pollution, New York City Air Pollution, Children's Health, Harlem, Columbia University, Columbia University Research, Washington Heights, Columbia University Prenatal Pollution Study, New York City, South Bronx, New York News

A landmark study found children exposed in the womb to urban air pollutants score significantly lower on intelligence tests than children of mothers who breathed cleaner air while pregnant.

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Atlas of Unknowns Keeps Readers Engrossed Until the Last Page

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Harvard, A Tale of Two Sisters, Columbia University, Summer Reads, India, Tania James, Author, Kerela, Media News

In literary fiction, it all comes down to the writing. Ultimately, the book you're trying to sell to an agent/publisher has to stand on its own merit.

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A New Approach to Global Problem-Solving

John W. McArthur | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Energy, Pyongyang, Columbia University, Climate Change, G8 Summit, Kabul, Obama Administration, Tehran, World Food Programme, Earth Institute, H1n1, World News

Obama's critics must ask: Which among macroeconomic coordination, food production, energy, climate change, or disease control could be considered optional at this stage?

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Joseph Massad's Tenure and its Implications for Columbia's Liberal, Jewish Student Body

Anna Kelner | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Joseph Massad, Columbia University, Academic, Israel, Judaism, Tenure, New York News

Massad once called Israel a "Jewish and a racist state," and a student alleged that he demanded of an Israeli student, "How many Palestinians did you kill?"

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