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...teacher at Columbia, the late Max Weinreich, took time off from his linguistic research during the Second World War to write “Hitler’s Professors,” documenting the participation of some of Germany’s leading academics in the Nazi movement. This book should lay to rest the notion that there is any necessary correlation between the kind of intelligence that wins Nobel Prizes and the kind of political humility that democracy requires. In fact, because they consider themselves intellectually superior to the rest of the population, academics tend to be uncommonly impatient...
...half. The foul was Stehle’s third and caused him to be forced to the bench after he picked up his fourth just two minutes later. QUAKING AT LEVIEN While the Crimson languished far behind Brown all evening, Ivy League leading Penn struggled to dispense with pesky Columbia at Levien Gym. The Lions hung tough despite falling behind by double-digits on two separate occasions and pulled even on a free throw by Ben Nwachukwu with less than a minute to go. Nwachukwu came through again with a second left, as his tip-in gave Columbia...
...sophomore put up sixteen points on the Crimson center in the teams’ last meeting. The focus of Harvard’s collective defensive effort, however, will be on emerging Ivy star Keenan Jeppesen, who averaged 23 points last weekend in a home split against Cornell and Columbia. This is nothing new to the Crimson, as Jeppesen rang up a team-high 18 points in the loss to Harvard.“He poses a matchup problem because he’s great in the post and has a pretty good outside shot,” Harvard captain Matt...
...will lead a study group on Iraq’s current state of affairs, security issues, and social, political, and economic challenges. And Peru’s former ambassador to the U.S. Ricardo A. Luna will conduct a group on the five Andean countries—Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia, Peru, and Venezuela. In addition, former Boston Globe national editor Kenneth J. Cooper will host a study group entitled “Black and Brown Together Forever? Black Latino Coalition Politics in the 21st century.” And former 9/11 Commission spokesman Alvin S. Felzenberg will examine...
...Tuesday night against the tough three-point shooting defense of Penn.Well, the Big Red leads the league in defending the arc. Princeton only put up 49 points against Cornell at home, and it might struggle to hit 40 in Ithaca. Cornell by 15.PENN (15-6, 7-0) AT COLUMBIA (8-13, 1-7)The Lions have recently been very good at keeping home dates with the Quakers relatively close.Since “relatively close” could be defined as a margin of less than 20 points, such a phrase has a slightly different meaning this season. Unless Penn starts...