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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
Scott Atran

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
Alex Pasternack

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 09.23.2009 | 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
Nick Carr

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 09.24.2009 | World

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

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 09.21.2009 | New York

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

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 09.24.2009 | 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
Jim Luce

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 09.12.2009 | New York

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

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
Lee C. Bollinger

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
Jonathan A. Schein

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
Menachem Kaiser

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
Yoani Sanchez

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
Elaine Shannon

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
Naazish YarKhan

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
John W. McArthur

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
Anna Kelner

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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Italy Hosts Child Soldiers Symposium

Jim Luce | Posted 07.28.2009 | World

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Tamil Tigers, Giulio Terzi, Sri Lanka, Paris Principles, Iraq, Italian Government, Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, Rome Symposium on Children and Armed Conflict, U.N. Resolution 1612, Ban Ki-Moon, Warlords, U.N. International School, Sexual Violence, Early Mortality, Francis Deng, Uganda, Suicide Bombing, N.Y.U. School of Law, Poverty, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rome, Unicef, U.N. Security Council”, Child Soldiers, International Save the Children Alliance, Kofi Annan, Save the Children Italy, Radhika Coomaraswamy, u.n. Human Rights Council, Education, Prevention of Genocide, Columbia University, Illiteracy, U.N. General Assembly, Harvard University, Child Rape, Health, Colombo, Innocenti Research Centre, Yale University, United Nations’ Millennium Declaration, Afghanistan, Human Rights, Special Representative of the Secretary General, Special Court for Sierra Leone, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Explaining the Tamil Tigers, Children and Young People Affected by Armed Conflict, World News
Jim Luce

With the changing nature of armed conflict, the impact of war on children and young people has become more brutal than ever.

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Meeting the Maysles: Grey Gardens Comes to Harlem

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 07.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Harlem, Harlem's Maysles Cinema, Albert Maysles, Lesbian, Roman Catholicism, President Obama, Rebekah Maysles, Aristotle-Onassis, Sara Maysles, Gay Rights, Tiger Woods, Judge Sotomayor, Gay Parade, Big Edie Bouvier Beale, Stonewall, African-American Issues, Latinos, Women, Gillian Maysles, Little Edie Bouvier Beale, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Episcopal Church, Grey Gardens, Gay Pride Parade, New York City, Lgbt, Columbia University, Philip Maysles, High Society, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Hotel St Regis, Gay Issues, Jerry Torre, Paper Magazine, Mr. Mickey, Jacqueline Bouvier, Lee Radziwel, New York, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Bred to be lovely and pleasant, to take for granted an ample supply of cash, the women of Grey Gardens were essentially abandoned to languish in a mansion infested with raccoons and cats.

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Bleecker Street Bar Crawls for Kids in Cambodia and Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 06.18.2009 | Local

Read More: Thunder Jackson’s, Orphans International Tanzania, Scott Knoll, Northeastern University, Thought Leaders, Orphans International Haiti, Facebook, Haiti, Global Citizens, 1849 Bar, Bar Crawl, Elvis Presley, Lindsay Mure-O'Neill, Columbia University, The Cambodia Project, Jean-Michel Tijerina, Cambodia, Bleecker Street Bar, Wicked Willie’s, Orphans International Worldwide, Carleton College, Bleecker Street, Linda Stanley, Africa, Local News
Jim Luce

"Everyone can relate to Elvis and we hope to leverage this for great causes like Orphans International Haiti."

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Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

Read More: Hiv, United Nations, Malaria, Thought Leaders, Tb, Global Citizens, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Raising Malawi, Jim Luce, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Respiratory Illness, Earth Institute, African Children, Infant Mortality, Africa, Madonna, Parasites, Malawi, Public Health, Mathew Luce, Parenting, Jeffry Sachs, Haiti, David Banda, Columbia University, Diarrhea, Mercy, Millennium Villages, N.Y.U. Medical School, Orphans International Worldwide, Dried Mopane Worms, World News
Jim Luce

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

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My Interview with the Columbia Professor Who Says There is No Genocide in Darfur -- It's an Environmental Crisis

Joel Whitney | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, guernicamag.com, Guernica Magazine, Columbia University, Sudan, Mamdani, Save Darfur, Genocide, World News
Joel Whitney

Saviors and Survivors argues against those who substitute moral certainty for knowledge, and who feel virtuous even when acting on the basis of total ignorance.

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Global China Connection: From Columbia to Stanford and McGill

Jim Luce | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: University of Toronto, American Century, McGill University, Derrick Fu, University of Chicago, Keith Miao, University of Michigan, Timothy Liu, Gavin Newton-Tanzer, Emory University, Global China Connection, Rice University, Chinese Century, Columbia University, Harvard University, Joseph Stiglitz, Tyco International, Yale University, Uc-Berkeley, Stanford University, Alice Zhang, China, World News
Jim Luce

Hundreds of Chinese studies majors at top universities in North America have recently formed a network dedicated to forging new economic, cultural, and political links between East and West.

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The Armenian Question: A Snapshot

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.13.2009 | World

Read More: European Union, Obama, Turkey, Columbia University, Armenia, Genocide, World News
Betwa Sharma

Akcam, a Turkish scholar, told an emotionally charged audience at Columbia University that the record should be set straight: "You cannot solve ethnic problems without facing history."

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"Stop Doing Dumb Things!" Ted Turner on GM, CNN, at Columbia Climate Center Launch

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Jeffrey Sachs, Climate Change, Columbia University, Ted Turner, Green News
Alex Pasternack

"We need stop doing dumb things and start doing smart things. To use a baseball analogy, humanity is in the seventh inning and down by two runs."

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