Word: columbia
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Outlook: Like Cornell, Columbia has lost half of its starters, including quarterback Mike Cavanaugh and running back John Harper. Despite returning the league's best defensive lineman in Rory Wilfork (141 tackles), the Lions porous defense allowed more than 30 points in five of its final six games...
...teachers as Big Labor, like the Steelworkers." But they do see an education system in terrible disarray, and last week's back-to-school headlines brought fresh evidence: 91,000 students without classroom space in New York City, a bankrupt board closing schools in the District of Columbia, buildings crumbling, test scores falling. Voters are looking for someone to blame, and the Dole campaign is trying to capitalize on the perception--and sometime reality--that the unions, rich, powerful and self-protective, are part of the problem, not part of the solution...
...Great Books (Simon & Schuster; 492 pages; $30), David Denby, film critic for New York magazine, recounts a personal odyssey. Some 30 years after taking the two core-curriculum courses--Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization--at Columbia University, he takes them again, traveling with students several decades younger the long road from Homer to Woolf and Socrates to Nietzsche. Denby finds the so-called--and currently much maligned--great books more exhilarating the second time around: "They scrape away the media haze of second-handedness." The overarching impression left by his account is that education may be wasted on the young...