Spring 2005

Should you worry about the dollar’s decline? Columbia economists say Yes. And No

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

The former New York City mayor reflects on the first black woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives 

Director Peter Brook was drawn to the Columbia audience as much as it was drawn to him

Richard Axel ’67CC followed his nose to the mysteries of smell and cracked the two great problems of olfaction

Although his vision was never realized, longtime dean Carl W. Ackerman largely shaped the Journalism School as we know it

An essay by Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger

Had Dudley really been gassed in the trenches?

High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Max Frankel ’52CC, ’53GSAS

The Invention of Painting in America, by David Rosand ’59CC, ’65GSAS

102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, by Jim Dwyer ’80JRN and Kevin Flynn ’79JRN

New York, Empire City 1920–1945, by David Stravitz with Christopher Gray ’75GS

The School of Social Work finally got a permanent home