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Columbia 1935
Posted in Columbia @ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:10:38 -0400A Poverty Row denizen for years, Columbia broke into the "big league" in a spectacular way in 1934: releasing the year's most popular (and most Oscared) film "It Happened One Night", and commen...
Kirkland boy, 5, drowns in Columbia River
Posted in Columbia @ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:23:03 -0400A 5-year-old Kirkland boy drowned Saturday after falling into the Columbia River near Rainier, Ore., authorities said. It happened off Dibblee Point Beach shortly after 2 pm, according to Co...
Will Columbia Sportswear win the Tour de France?
Posted in Columbia @ Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:31:20 -0400Lest we forget: As the leader of the tour, Kirchen, NOT Columbia Sportswear, gets to wear the yellow jersey. Oh, and Kirchen is from Luxembourg, which is not sponsored by Columbia Sports...
Columbia Journalism Review Wrong About bloggers
Posted in Columbia @ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:22:19 -0400The Columbia Journalism Review felt it necessary to attack blogs as news sources because of the New York Times's piece today on Charlie Rangel's rent-controlled apartments. [[ This is a conten...
Popularity and readability
Posted in Columbia @ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:43:04 -0400Seth had this discussion where he quoted Nassim Taleb's Black Swan book, to which someone commented that Taleb's books are "unreadable," to which Seth responded:. If The Black Swan is “so unrea...
Tour de France: Team Columbia dominates
Posted in Columbia @ Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:09:56 -0400TOULOUSE, France - One day after doping hit cycling yet again, a team that knows the perils of drug scandals all too well sped to victory Saturday as the daunting climbs of the Pyrenees awaited Tour d...
In Columbia, McCain Sees Progress Against Drug Shipments
Posted in Columbia @ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:11:03 -0400CARTAGENA, Colombia—Senator John McCain took a fast ride on a Colombian drug interdiction boat in the Bay of Cartagena this morning on the second day of a Latin American tour meant to promote his co...
Funeral set for SC teen killed by amusement ride
Posted in Columbia @ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:20:43 -0400A teenager from Columbia, SC, who was hit and killed by a roller coaster at a Georgia amusement park will be remembered at a funeral service a week after the accident....
Comment on McCain in Columbia, Hostages Freed. Coincidence? I Don ...
Posted in Columbia @ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:48:08 -0400The Colombian military had spent months infiltrating FARC and were able to direct that the hostages be brought to a location to be transferred to another hideout by helicopter. Moving hostages was com...
Columbia Releases Video Purporting to Show Authentic Rescue ...
Posted in Columbia @ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:45:30 -0400To stave off allegations of help from the US and Israel or European reports that $20 million was paid to FARC to release the hostages, a convenient video was released by Columbia which sources ...