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Alumni

Abram Hewitt and the Disputed Election of 1876

How the campaign manager for Democratic nominee Samuel J. Tilden helped keep a contested presidential race in check

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NFL Patriots cheerleader Jade Bucci

Tech Worker by Day, NFL Cheerleader by Night

Jade Bucci ’25CC, a former Columbia computer-science major, leaps into her first season with the New England Patriots

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Let's Talk About Sex on YouTube

Leeza Mangaldas ’11CC has made a career out of demystifying taboos and destigmatizing sexuality

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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Whither Underground?

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

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

Fernando Perez playing for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
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Baselines

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

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

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 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

Milton Friedman, circa 1946
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Right on the Money

Remembering Milton Friedman '46GSAS

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

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His Long March

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Six Who Served

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

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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

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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

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