Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sometimes doubt actually exists--that of fulfilling familial bonds and satisfying intellectual pursuits. Madeleine Albright was married as soon as she graduated Wellesley College, proceeded to have twin girls and then a third daughter six years later. But included in this picture was a master's and Ph.D. at Columbia, serving as a legislative aide and congressional liaison, an adored and well-respected Georgetown professor and an ambassador to the United Nations. Many others have juggled the two worlds--but not many of them were playing with a foreign policy ball. Madeleine Albright has demonstrated and will hopefully further demonstrate...
Fortunately for everyone, the boy, girl and just about everybody else in "The Mirror Has Two Faces" happen to be played by very competent actors. Streisand herself plays Rose Morgan, an English professor at Columbia who knows the name of every single student in her 400 person lecture, and appears to be teaching a class entitled "My Personal Life 101." Rose is obviously a delicate flower indeed, witty and smart but resigned to the fact that she is just not that pretty, especially in comparison to her deliciously catty mother Hannah (Lauren Bacall) and sister Claire (Mimi Rogers). A cross...
...counterpart is the tongue-tied Gregory Larkin, a professor of mathematics at Columbia, superbly played by the scene-stealing Jeff Bridges. An academic and a pragmatist rather than a romantic, Gregory is totally overwhelmed by anything remotely related to sex, and literally swoons at the sight of a short skirt or a doe-eyed co-ed; Elle Macpherson, in a cameo as his ex-girlfriend, reduces him to a whimpering puddle without doing much more than blinking and smiling. Devastated by the failure of all his sexual relationships, Gregory decides that the sole route to true happiness is through intellectual...
JOSEPH A. CALIFANO JR. PRESIDENT, THE NATIONAL CENTER ON ADDICTION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY...
...Colby, 2 p.m. M. Swimm. at Virginia (w/ Villanova), TBA. M. Track vs. Boston College, noon. W. Swimm. at Virginia (w/ Villanova), TBA. W. Track vs. Boston College, noon. Wrestling at Lehigh Tourn./Las Vegas W. Basketb. at Ariz. Copper Bowl Classic. Invitational, TBA. M., W. Fencing at Columbia...