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...don’t think we have the parking capacity to do that kind of situation,” Nolan explained. “The idea behind zipcars is that they’re an alternative transportation mode, not so much to get around campus but to use them to run errands...
Levien Gym, home of the win-starved Columbia men’s basketball team, was in face-saving mode this weekend. On the verge of the Ivies’ first winless campaign in 40 years, the embattled doormat hosted two of the league’s next-easiest marks, Harvard and Dartmouth, in its penultimate chance to spare itself some embarrassment...
...reversal of the rules of children’s entertainment, Fred Rogers favored the familiar. Although he sometimes took his viewers to the post office or to a factory, more often than not he stayed at home and remained in the mode of slow motion. That mode has its own magical quality, one that the German philosopher Walter Benjamin celebrated in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Benjamin reminded us of how close-ups of the objects that surround us, investigations of familiar places and attention...
...Democrats wasted no time hunkering down into traditional filibuster mode, in which one party holds the floor as long as they can in order to prevent a vote on a nominee or issue. Sixty votes are required to stop a filibuster. By Wednesday, February, 12th, less than 36 hours after Estrada's name came to the floor, the always-garrulous Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia was regaling his colleagues with lengthy (and, yes, totally irrelevant) tales of his long-lost youth. It was a scene that brought to mind some of the chamber's famous filibusters...
...Whether Hizballah switches from quiet fund-raising to attack mode in the U.S. "is a big issue," agrees Rep. Jane Harman of California, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. "They don't ask our permission...