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Columbia Lou and Cocky Collins Ride Again
Cocky Collins and Lou Gehrig
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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
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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
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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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Checkered Past
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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

The Not-So-Gray Lady
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The Not-So-Gray Lady

Jodi Kantor was just 27 when she was called in to revivify the Times’s venerable Arts & Leisure section. Now, she’s ready for the next challenge

Paradigm Lost
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Paradigm Lost

Anthony Lappé and his colleagues at the Guerrilla News Network find that even they’re surprised when they just let the tape roll

Columbia's New Yorkers
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Columbia's New Yorkers

Nearly half of Columbia’s 250,000 alumni — both transplants and homegrown — now live in the greater metropolitan area

The Secretary on the State
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The Secretary on the State

Madeleine Albright ’76GSAS, ’95HON shares her thoughts on the Iraq War and reflects on her time at Columbia

Rose Revolutionary
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Rose Revolutionary

As president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili wants to clean up his whole country

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