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After being freed from a Lerner closet, the first Blue and White issue is hitting newsstands near you. To whet you appetite, here’s another morsel from the issue: Hannah Lepow looking at a teen fiction novel’s take on Columbia. In Homer’s Iliad, Achilles must choose between infinite glory and the simple pleasures of home. In […]

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The Columbia website (and daily editor Pierce Stanley) informs us that History prof Samuel Moyn has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his works on the Holocaust’s impact on postwar France. Moyn then informed us, too, by changing his Facebook status to “Samuel Moyn is gloating.” Fortunately, he’s since wised up and changed it to “Samuel […]

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