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New York Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Laura Schöe Grosshans and Jordyn A. Buchanan were married Saturday at Per Se, a restaurant in New York. The Rev. Jewelnel Davis, a Baptist minister and the chaplain of Columbia University, led the ceremony.
Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Read original... Pat Fenton began to chase the ghost of Jack Kerouac across Queens in 1986. From Ozone Park to Richmond Hill and the Van Wyck Expressway to Phil Rizzuto Park, he has followed the beloved writer’s footsteps throughout the borough the so-called father of the Beatgeneration inhabited for 12 years. Fenton, now 68, first discovered Kerouac when he was a 17-year-old growing up in the...
PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
Notes on a scandal. Charles Nemeroff, an Atlanta psychiatrist who was the subject of a Senate investigation concerning huge sums he received from drug companies, has been named chairman of the psychiatry department at the University of Miami. Last year Nemeroff, as the top psychiatrist at Emory University, was the focus of an investigation by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who said he was concerned...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
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.
Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong Starring Phakpoom Surapongsanurak, Arkaney Cherkham, Paramej Noieam Opening film of the 7th World Film Festival of Bangkok, November 6, 2009 Wise Kwai's rating: 5/5 Like a jazz saxophone solo, Mundane History wails. It circles around, repeats patterns and doubles back on itself. It starts and stops yet also flows. It reaches highs that zoom into outer space, all the...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Kenneth Crew of the Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office has a first-hand report of the status conference which he attended today. You can read the full report here. No great news, except that the Judge set November 9 as the date for the parties to submit the revised settlement agreement. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Since she spent years living in between New York City and Alaska, Joan Kane 's poetry crisscrosses two vastly different worlds. In this video interview, she described how these two places influenced her new book, " The Cormorant Hunter's Wife ." Kane was one of the ten writers honored at the 25th annual Whiting Writers' Awards last week. GalleyCat prowled the aisles of the 2009 Whiting Awards,...
ONE (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Les Roberts, Clinical Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health has worked extensively in countries ranging from Zimbabwe to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Today he writes about a lesser-known country– the Central African Republic: The Central African Republic (CAR) is a little known nation in the middle of Africa with a [...]
Worldfocus (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Carla Robbins of The New York Times and James Rubin of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs discuss Hamid Karzai's second term and the worsening security situation in Afghanistan. They also examine the fallout from a landmark case in Italy involving the alleged CIA abduction and "rendition" of a Muslim cleric.
Healthy Child Healthy World Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Top Tips Concerned about how much chlorine is in your tap water ? Mom Goes Green has one simple and free tip to eliminate the worry, leave the water out. Haven’t purchased a water filter yet, here are some options . Finally an opportunity to ditch those old holiday lights! Home Depot is hosting an event to bring in your used lights and save on purchasing new energy efficient LED lights. A similar...
Jake Weird (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
“I love you!” screamed a girl seated in the buzzing crowd when James Franco made his way to the small stage in Linsly-Chittenden Hall Thursday afternoon. The giggling din grew even louder as Yale’s own paparazzi — students armed with camera phones and digital cameras — snapped away before Franco’s talk began. Approximately 80 percent of the audience was female....
Sequenza21/ (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Miller Theatre at Columbia University is running a great little series of composer portrait concerts this month: Saturday, Nov. 7th, Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) is featured, with Chicago’s Fifth House Ensemble doing the honors. The program includes Ustvolskaya’s Trio (1949), Piano Sonata No. 6 (1988), Octet (1949-1950), Composition 2 (1972-1973), Piano Sonata No. [...]
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In his remarks yesterday to Native American leaders, the president said, "I know what it means to feel ignored and forgotten, and what it means to struggle. So you will not be forgotten as long as I'm in this White House." I don't quite know what "ignored" and "forgotten" means in this particular context (apparently it was not a reference to the behavior of Obama's absent...
market folly (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In a 13G filed with the SEC, noted investor and hedge fund founder Leon Cooperman has disclosed a 5.4% ownership stake in Given Imaging (GIVN). The filing was made due to activity on October 28th, 2009 and he now own 1,588,409 shares. This is an increase from his 978,709 shares that he held back on June 30th, 2009 as reported in his last filing. Back in September we covered a brief hedge fund panel...
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By guruek. Edmund Phelps, professor of economics at Columbia University and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in economics, talks with Bloomberg's about the outlook for the U.S. economy. Phelps says an economic upturn is coming pretty quick but that the recovery will run out of gas with unemployment at 6 percent to 7.5 percent. Read more » »
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urmee | 07/31/2009
Alicia Augello Cook was born January 25, 1981 better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She was raised in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York by her single mother, where Keys made a television appearance on The Cosby Show at the age of four. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16. She later attended
aarkstore | 07/27/2009
Summary New York Presbyterian Hospital is a university hospital comprising of Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center with a total beds of 2335. It is affiliated to both Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. It is engaged in providing services relating to patient care, medical teaching, and research. New York...
laylaelizabeth | 02/26/2008
I have been saying all along that Obama is a Muslim - he calls himself the hope of the entire world - he is a kook that has cronies coming out of the wood work to support his new age message - the sky is glowing. The sky really is glowing and G-d is shining His truth down on the double speak candidate that is the most liberal of any to date. Obama worked with terrorists. Obama does not support Israel
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