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...absolute worst conference game of the season is now behind us, as the only winless schools left in the Ivies—Columbia and Dartmouth—did battle in a contest that was meant to be the virtual antithesis of the annual Harvard-Penn title bout...
That kind of win keeps talk of an at-large NCAA tournament bid alive for the Harvard squad, provided that the Crimson wins its remaining two games against Ivy doormats Dartmouth and Columbia...
...Saturday, the collegiate crowd milled around the tents and kiosks without taking much notice of the races. Two girls rowing for Tufts admitted that they were not concerned with their results, and one Columbia oarsman said that he came up mainly “for the festivities...
Payne, who graduated from Stanford, was simultaneously accepted by Columbia's journalism school and UCLA'S film program and only narrowly chose filmmaking over being a foreign correspondent. "They both use the self as a filter to show what is going on in the world," he says. He scored a writing-directing deal from Universal shortly after graduating in 1990, and promptly spent five grand of his paycheck on late-'80s Bordeaux. "I was overeager, like most tyros are," he says...
...least one faith, according to one of its best-known scholars, formalizes the idea of gene-based spirituality and even puts a pretty spin on it. Buddhists, says Robert Thurman, professor of Buddhist studies at Columbia University, have long entertained the idea that we inherit a spirituality gene from the person we were in a previous life. Smaller than an ordinary gene, it combines with two larger physical genes we inherit from our parents, and together they shape our physical and spiritual profile. Says Thurman: "The spiritual gene helps establish a general trust in the universe, a sense of openness...