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Columbia Lou and Cocky Collins Ride Again
Cocky Collins and Lou Gehrig
Alumni

Columbia Lou and Cocky Collins Ride Again

100 years ago, Columbia baseball greats Lou Gehrig and Eddie Collins 1907CC made their own bids for the record books

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28 Famous Columbia Alumni … Who Never Graduated
Timothée Chalamet

28 Famous Columbia Alumni … Who Never Graduated

Though each of these dropouts left school without an official diploma, they all found a degree of success

Old Friends
Sanford Greenberg and Arthur Garfunkel

Old Friends

The return of Sanford Greenberg and Art Garfunkel

Held Hostage for 444 Days: A Story of Survival
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Held Hostage for 444 Days: A Story of Survival

Forty years ago, Barry Rosen ’74GSAS was one of fifty-two Americans released from Iranian captivity

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Shades of Green
Soldiers
Alumni

Shades of Green

Michael Christmas '00SEAS, a Marine in Afghanistan, writes home

The Pillage Option
James Stewart
Alumni

The Pillage Option

How do you stop genocide before it starts? Legal theorist James Stewart, a former war-crimes prosecutor, has revived a forgotten strategy

Ayad Akhtar, Diane Paulus, and Other Alumni in the News
Ayad Akhtar
Alumni

Ayad Akhtar, Diane Paulus, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

Safe at Home
Illustration
Alumni

Safe at Home

At twenty-seven, General Studies sophomore Joey Falcone is the oldest Division I ballplayer in the country

Army of One
Frank Lautenberg
Alumni

Army of One

Remembering Senator Frank Lautenberg ’49BUS

The Tender
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Alumni

The Tender

The story of the steam engine that could

To Deter and Protect
Harold Brown
Alumni

To Deter and Protect

Harold Brown ’45CC, ’49GSAS, who served as secretary of defense under Jimmy Carter, discusses the threats of the Cold War and their lessons for today

Street-Beat Confidential
Carlos Gonzalez
Alumni

Street-Beat Confidential

Journalist Juan González has been writing about wrongs for thirty-five years. What's he got today?

Liz Magic Laser, Beau Willimon, and Other Alumni in the News
Liz Magic Laser
Alumni

Liz Magic Laser, Beau Willimon, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

The Pickup Artists
Robin Nagle
Alumni

The Pickup Artists

What does trash tell us about ourselves? Anthropologist Robin Nagle '94GSAS put on the uniform and found out

A Life in Full
Joshua Prager illustration
Alumni

A Life in Full

Journalist Joshua Prager '94CC, a former quadriplegic, writes a healing memoir

Justice's Son
Ben Jealous
Alumni

Justice's Son

The interconnected world of NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous '94CC

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