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Clifford Chanin at the 9/11 Museum
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How Do You Memorialize a Mass Tragedy?

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Clifford Chanin ’77JRN, ’80SIPA keeps the events of that day in the public consciousness

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16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections

These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series

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My Medievalist Mentor

A conversation with Columbia historian Caroline Walker Bynum on writing, mentorship, and the long arc of intellectual formation

Jeff Bridges and Barbara Streisand on Columbia University campus in The Mirror Has Two Faces

Columbia in the Movies

22 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

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Brooklyn Beat

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Bergdoll Named MoMA’s Curator for Architecture and Design

The high line in 2000, photographed by Joel Sternfeld
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Walk the Line

The fight to put Manhattan’s High Line on a whole new track

Illustration of Dick Hyman with a keyboard, by PJ Loughran
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Shoot the Piano Player

Has the ultimate Dick Hyman movie already been made?

Alicia Graf Mack photographed in 2006 by Lois Greenfield for Columbia Magazine
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Pointe Taken

After a knee injury nearly ended her career, Alicia Graf '03GS is back on her toes

Vaclav Havel in the Kremlin shortly before meeting with President Boris Yeltsin in April 1992
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The Artist as Citizen

An up-close view of playwright and former Czech president Václav Havel

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A Hanging at the Met

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Auld Lang ’Zine

The Columbia Review claims to be the nation’s oldest college literary journal

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Classics à la Mode?

Why traditional humanistic education is worth fighting for

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Still Life with Critic

On a broad canvas, Jed Perl finds figures in the shadows

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The Confessions and Obsessions of Ariel Schrag

A young cartoonist draws inspiration from high school

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A Fling and a Prayer

The Great Throwdini fills his audience with the adrenaline of anxiety and dread

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