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15 Unique Holiday Gifts from Columbia Alumni
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15 Unique Holiday Gifts from Columbia Alumni

Surprise your friends and family this December with scents, spices, and more

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Your Chance to Cook with 5 Famous Columbia Chefs
Judy Joo, Jacques Pépin, Christopher Kimball, Melissa Clark, Anita Lo

Your Chance to Cook with 5 Famous Columbia Chefs

Add these classic cookbooks to your collection

Why Cars Are More Dangerous for Women
Illustration by Simoul Alva of female crash-test dummies in and around car

Why Cars Are More Dangerous for Women

Drive US Forward, founded by Maria Weston Kuhn ’23CC, is fighting for more accurate female crash-test dummies

A Death Investigator Learns to Live
Death investigator Barbara Butcher

A Death Investigator Learns to Live

Barbara Butcher ’83PH spent two decades behind police tape in New York City, examining bodies. Now, she reflects on the hard lessons learned

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McBlogger
Illustration by Mark Steele of John McCain campaigning for president in 2008 with Meghan McCain blogging behind him
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McBlogger

Meghan McCain '07CC starts a blog to promote her father's presidential campaign

Harlem on a Roll
Harlem Lanes
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Harlem on a Roll

Entrepreneur Sharon Joseph brings a long-lost pastime back home

Whither Underground?
Illustration of an abandoned subway station by Mark Steele
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Whither Underground?

Joseph Brennan '73CC, '82LS documents New York City's "ghost" stations

Smoke Rising
Football in grass
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Smoke Rising

Sam Dana had been listed as dead for nearly 34 years before the National Football League realized that he was alive

Baselines
Fernando Perez playing for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
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Baselines

MLB player Fernando Perez '04CC takes on a writing project

Checkered Past
Illustration of Mike Gravel visiting Columbia University in a taxi in 2006, by Mark Steele
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Checkered Past

Mike Gravel '56GS, former Democratic senator from Alaska, runs for president

Truth and Consequences
Charles Van Doren and Vivienne Nearing on the "Twenty One" quiz show in 1957
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Truth and Consequences

Van Doren vs. Nearing

The Old Man and the Key
The Butler Library periodicals reading room, circa 1940
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The Old Man and the Key

A grad student gets locked up with her books

Right on the Money
Milton Friedman, circa 1946
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Right on the Money

Remembering Milton Friedman '46GSAS

Legal Combatant
Michael Ratner photographed by Bjorn Wallander for Columbia Magazine in 2006
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Legal Combatant

Michael Ratner ’70LAW goes head-to-head with the U.S. government over the rights of Guantánamo Bay detainees

His Long March
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His Long March

Six Who Served
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Six Who Served

Sixty years after the end of World War II, Columbia veterans remember

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