Wed, May 17, 2006, 12:00am
It wasn't your typical midlife crisis.
When Amittai Aviram, a professor of English at the University of South Carolina and a 1978 graduate of Columbia College, decided he'd had enough of the dogmatism of some of his colleagues, he didn't buy a sports car or a fancy house.
Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:00am
Buried in the state budget passed last week, alongside the billions for education, Medicaid, and transportation, was a $14,000 allocation for "NYS Onion Research."
The item was listed in a group of unusually specific allocations for agricultural programs.
Thu, Mar 23, 2006, 12:00am
For Ellen Binder, assistant vice president for budget operations and financial planning, the choice to send her son, Zach, now 14, to Manhattan's private Dwight School was well worth it.
Thu, Feb 2, 2006, 12:00am
Spectator has launched SpecBlogs.com, an online site bringing you up-to-the-minute news, commentary, and photography from our staff. Check back frequently as we add more blogs on other subjects.
Thu, Feb 2, 2006, 12:00am
Mon, Dec 12, 2005, 12:00am
It was too little, too late for the Lions.
Fri, Dec 9, 2005, 12:00am
When the class of 2011 receives Columbia admissions brochures in their mailboxes, they'll have no doubt that for this University, location is everything.
Wed, Nov 9, 2005, 12:00am
The cop guarding the entrance to the WNBC television studio wouldn't budge.
"Press pass!" he demanded.
Wed, Nov 2, 2005, 12:00am
Last night's final debate between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Democratic challenger, Fernando Ferrer, could be called yet another draw.
Mon, Oct 24, 2005, 12:00am
Columbia's proposed Manhattanville campus will include a new public high school for science and engineering, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Friday afternoon in Butler Library.
