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...final tune-up for Harvard’s Ivy season, which starts today with a pair of contests at Columbia that were postponed from Saturday due to rain...
...eagles. The discovery set in motion a major investigation involving law enforcement and conservation officials in both Canada and the U.S. Now, TIME has learned, authorities have identified suspects in a poaching and smuggling ring that they say annually slaughters more than 500 of the protected animals on British Columbia's southwestern coast alone, with perhaps hundreds more killed each year elsewhere in the province. Officials are expected to make a formal announcement of their progress in the case early next week...
...WorldCom's collapse hit directors where it counted: their wallets. Last week 11 former directors agreed to pay $20 million of their own money to settle a class action by investors. "Any time you put a gun to directors' heads, you'll get them to exercise more oversight," says Columbia Law School professor John Coffee...
...record $8 million at home, and is on a pace for $100 million globally. It's tough to copy Chow's style, but his film may provide a blueprint for a changing industry. Shot in China with a cast and crew that was mostly from Hong Kong, and with Columbia Pictures on board as a co-producer, Kung Fu Hustle had the budget, the star and the story to cross borders. In a globalized film market, that's what it's going to take to be successful. "You have to know how to make an international film," says...
...cynical take on the Core curriculum will cause many a recent Harvard graduate to nod in agreement. Douthat suggests a Columbia-style great books curriculum as an alternative, allowing Harvard undergraduates to gain a traditional, broad-based liberal arts education in lieu of the narrow, overly specific “approaches to knowledge” introduced in esoteric classes like Literature and Arts C-42, “Constructing the Samurai” and Literature and Arts B-31, “The Portrait.” No argument here—undergrads have wasted too much time learning about...