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...Scott Haig is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has a private practice in the New York City area...
...through sophomore year, he decided to focus on academics.“I nearly did myself in by spending too many days and nights at WHRB and not enough reading Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau,” he recalls.He joined the U.S. Army intelligence branch after graduating from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. But four years later, he found himself back in journalism’s trenches—at The Wall Street Journal.As a beat reporter covering the movie industry, he unearthed an embezzlement scandal at Columbia Pictures. His reporting led to a 1982 book...
...There is going to be an extra degree of scrutiny,” Daley said. “We’ll be held to an exceedingly high standard.”Daley said that the HSCI’s network of collaborators, which include the Columbia University Medical Center and the New York Stem Cell Foundation, would serve to provide independent validation of research methods and strategies.In addition, the researchers said yesterday that they would be using “fail-to-fertilize” eggs from in vitro fertilization clinics. They added that they are in the process...
...began with the traditional procession of seniors into Memorial Church from the Yard. Readings from Hebrew and Hindu scriptures as well as the Qur’an and the New Testament were read in both their original languages and in English. The origins of the Baccalaureate service are unclear. Columbia and Dartmouth both say on their websites that the ceremony began at Oxford University in 1432, when each graduate had to deliver a Latin oration. But Gomes traces the ceremony to 13th-century Cambridge University, where graduates sat shrouded in hoods—“a picture of abject...
...world. “It’s impossible to evaluate the cost and benefits of the war if you don’t have an accurate picture of what the cost is,” she says. Bilmes collaborated with Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz of Columbia University to calculate the mind-boggling quantity. They presented their findings at a conference in Boston this past January.Bilmes and Stiglitz say their estimate is four times the projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). But that CBO sum only takes into account the direct costs of waging...