Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and a special advisor to U.N.

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Through her charitable foundation, sends Spanish fellows to study child psychiatry in England and the U.S. at places like Columbia University's medical center.

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A. at New York's Columbia University and is well-plugged-in to U.S. management practices.

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She returned to the U.S. to begin law school at Columbia University, and moved to an apartment in Manhattan.

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Two Columbia University researchers, Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund, were poring over U.S. Census data when they noticed a statistical anomaly: Americans from China, Korea and India have relatively few daughters.

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Arntzen, who obtained his U.S. citizenship in 1985, attended Ohio Wesleyan University and Columbia's school of international affairs before joining Manufacturers Hanover in 1979.

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"More than half the works in our first show were bought by non-Indians, " says Prajit Dutta, a Columbia University economics professor who runs Aicon, the largest gallery of Indian contemporary art in the U.S., with showrooms in Palo Alto, Calif.

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Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs had launched an unusual, public campaign for the job, criticizing the U.S. and pocketing endorsements from a number of developing countries by arguing that a development expert should head the bank.

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Columbia University's Gary Sick says there is only so long Tehran can watch and do nothing while the U.S. increases its posture and rhetoric.

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