In later years, Summers lived with his partner and personal secretary, Hector Stewart Forbes, and his beloved dog, Tango.
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Wayne Allyn Root ’83CC, professional sports prognosticator, gives the following picks: John McCain will beat Barack Obama; the Colts will meet the Cowboys in this season’s Super Bowl; and in 2024, ...
Her cell phone rang for the tenth time in an hour, and for the tenth time, she let it go to voice mail. When she opened her purse on the sidewalk, it was only to get her keys. She entered the lobby of ...
The Varsity Show has lampooned life at Columbia since 1894, but it was no joke when this year’s organizers presented Art Garfunkel ’62CC, ’65GSAS with the third annual I.A.L. Diamond Award for ...
Some quit school due to war or tragedy, others to focus on art or politics. Though each of these dropouts left Columbia without an official diploma, they all found a degree of success. Casey Affleck, ...
From left: Ryan, Jack, and Adam Met of AJR. The experimental indie band Animal Collective burst onto the underground scene in the early 2000s with the breakthrough album Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit ...
On a recent Monday afternoon, Columbia astrophysicist David Kipping was strolling through the quiet streets of Tunbridge Wells, a town thirty miles southeast of London, when his phone rang. The caller ...
La Carmina, a graduate of Columbia College and Yale Law School, is an award-winning blogger, journalist, and author. Her most recent publication, The Little Book of Satanism, is a fascinating ...
In This Land Is Your Land, a guide to some of America’s most consequential (and at times controversial) historical sites, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage ’04GSAS tells the story of the ...
Just before midnight on June 24, 1971, Mike Gravel ’56GS, Democratic senator from Alaska, drove to the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, five blocks from the White House. The streets were quiet, and ...
On Christmas Eve 1822, Clement Clarke Moore 1798CC, 1829HON, a newly minted professor of Greek and Hebrew literature at General Theological Seminary, permitted himself a flight of whimsy. He was ...