Ahmadinejad in New York
Campus in the Clouds
By MARK STEYN | October 1, 2007
"I'm proud of my university today," Stina Reksten, a 28-year-old Columbia graduate student from Norway, told The New York Times. "I don't want to confuse the very dire human rights situation in Iran with the issue here, which is freedom of speech....
Free Speech For All?
By ALICIA COLON | September 28, 2007
If Columbia University's president, Lee Bollinger, thinks he was brave for insulting Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his introduction of his invited guest, he needs to check the definition of that word. It would show more courage to stand up...
Bollinger's Next Job
Editorial of The New York Sun | September 27, 2007
Columbia University's president, Lee Bollinger, certainly has his work cut out for him in the wake of his showdown with President Ahmadinejad. It turns out that the Middle East faculty at Columbia University is up in arms over Mr. Bollinger's harsh...
Bollinger: ‘Free Speech At Its Best'
By ANNIE KARNI | September 27, 2007
The president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, whose sharp rebuke of the President Ahmadinejad came under the most criticism from students and faculty on his own campus, yesterday defended his remarks as an example of "free speech at its best,"...
Backlash Against Bollinger Hits Columbia
By ANNIE KARNI | September 26, 2007
A backlash against the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, who on Monday delivered a harsh rebuke to President Ahmadinejad, is coming from faculty members and students who said he struck an "insulting tone" and that his remarks amounted...
Paradiso ...
By JOHN McWHORTER | September 26, 2007
There's an old game in my closet called Melody Dicer. They gave you a bunch of single measures of Mozartean piano music, each one with a number. Rolling the dice, you strung together your own sonata. Inevitably each tune sounded the same.
I debated...
... or Inferno?
By ED KOCH | September 26, 2007
The president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, and President Ahmadinejad met Monday on a field of rhetorical battle at Columbia.
Mr. Bollinger opened the proceedings, to which he had invited Mr. Ahmadinejad, by presenting a series of...
Teaching Moment
Editorial of The New York Sun | September 25, 2007
President Bollinger ended his remarks to President Ahmadinejad at Morningside Heights yesterday with these words: "I am only a professor, who is also a university president, and today I feel all the weight of the modern civilized world yearning to...
Iranian: Nuclear Issue Is ‘Closed
By Associated Press | September 25, 2007
UNITED NATIONS — President Ahmadinejad of Iran announced today that "the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed," and indicated that Tehran will disregard U.N. Security Council resolutions imposed by "arrogant powers" and demanding suspension of its...
Bollinger Stuns Ahmadinejad With Blunt Rebuke
By ANNIE KARNI | September 25, 2007
President Lee Bollinger of Columbia, in a dramatic speech broadcast around the globe yesterday from Morningside Heights, delivered an oratorical haymaker to President Ahmadinejad, attacking his record on human rights, Israel, and terrorism in remarks...
'Who Are We?' Iranian Gays Ask President
By GRACE RAUH | September 25, 2007
President Ahmadinejad's contention during a speech at Columbia University that there are no homosexuals in Iran drew a swift rebuke from human rights organizations, with one activist challenging the president to explain how he, a gay Iranian, exists....
Yom Kippur at Columbia
Editorial of The New York Sun | September 24, 2007
Jewish students at Columbia who went to their computers after breaking the fast for Yom Kippur were met Saturday evening with a link on the Drudge Report to an interview with the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs saying that he'd...
Obama: I Wouldn't Have Invited Ahmadinejad to Columbia
By GRACE RAUH | September 24, 2007
Senator Obama, who has pledged to meet with the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during his first year in office if elected president, said today that inviting the leader to speak at Columbia University is "not a choice I would have made."...
Ahmadinejad Arrives to City
By NAHAL TOOSI | September 24, 2007
President Ahmadinejad of Iran, facing protests and tabloid headlines calling him "evil" and a "madman," stirred debate today about free speech ahead of his appearance at Columbia University.
The president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, has...
Legislatures May Act on Columbia
By JACOB GERSHMAN | September 24, 2007
As the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, prepares to address Columbia University today amid a storm of student protest, state and city lawmakers say they are considering withholding public funds from the school to protest its decision to invite...
Columbia Dean Defends Ahmadinejad Invitation
By ANNIE KARNI | September 24, 2007
The Columbia dean who recently said he would have invited Hitler to speak at the university, and who has invited Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to speak there this afternoon, said in an interview yesterday that providing a forum for the most...
Of Bollinger And Brown
By JAMES KIRCHICK | September 24, 2007
This week's United Nations General Assembly, where the world's leaders — many of them unelected despots — is a veritable rogues' gallery. Garnering most of the critical press coverage has been the Holocaust-denying and Holocaust-prophesizing president...
Columbia Would Welcome Hitler, a Dean Insists
By Staff Reporter of the Sun | September 23, 2007
The next round of controversy at Columbia will involve remarks of a dean who says that Hitler would have been welcome on Morningside Heights if he would take questions from students.
The dean, John Coatsworth, heads the same institution that will...
Ahmadinejad Lashes Out at America
By ALI AKBAR DARENEI | September 22, 2007
TEHRAN - A day before flying to New York to speak directly to the American people, Iranian President Ahmadinejad struck a confrontational tone yesterday with a parade of fighter jets and missiles and tough warnings for America to stay out of the...
Ahmadinejad's Hosts
Editorial of The New York Sun | September 21, 2007
Our phone has been ringing with calls from New Yorkers appalled, most of them, that President Bollinger is going to permit Columbia University to host President Ahmadinejad — and sick that Mr. Bollinger is personally going to honor the Iranian...
Columbia Stands by Iranian Visit
By Associated Press | September 21, 2007
Columbia University said it does not plan to call off a speech by President Ahmadinejad of Iran despite pressure from critics including the City Council speaker, who said the Ivy League school was providing a forum for "hate-mongering vitriol."
The...
Quinn Rebukes Columbia on Iranian
By ANNIE KARNI | September 21, 2007
As Columbia University prepares to welcome President Ahmadinejad to its Morningside Heights campus Monday afternoon, elected officials and Jewish leaders are urging the university to withdraw its invitation, some students are threatening to boycott...
Why I Miss A Tough Mayor
By ALICIA COLON | September 21, 2007
If Rudolph Giuliani were mayor, I think his denial of President Ahmadinejad's request to visit ground zero would have been a bit pithier than the New York City Police Department's rebuff.
Instead of citing "security reasons," Mr. Giuliani probably...
Iranian Backs Down on Ground Zero Visit
By SARAH GARLAND | September 21, 2007
President Ahmadinejad of Iran is now saying he will not insist on visiting ground zero during his upcoming trip to New York, following an outcry by New Yorkers and national leaders.
Meanwhile, at an afternoon news conference yesterday, Mayor...
U.S.-Iran Confrontation Ratchets Up
By ELI LAKE | September 21, 2007
WASHINGTON — With the Iranian president on his way to the United Nations, the confrontation between America and the Islamic Republic is ratcheting up in Iraq and Washington.
American soldiers arrested an Iranian Quds Force operative in northern Iraq...
Ahmadinejad In New York
Editorial of The New York Sun | September 20, 2007
If the bizarre request of President Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath at ground zero has been put to rest once and for all, New Yorkers can thank three persons — the police commissioner, Raymond Kelly; Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Daniel...
New York to Ahmadinejad: 'No'
By SARAH GARLAND | September 20, 2007
New York City, moving swiftly in the face of outrage from the White House to the political hustings to the Jewish community, is opposing a request by President Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath at ground zero when the Iranian is in New York next week for a...
Ahmadinejad Will Speak At Columbia Forum
By ANNIE KARNI | September 20, 2007
President Ahmadinejad of Iran has accepted an invitation to speak at Columbia University on Monday afternoon at a forum sponsored by the university's School of International and Public Affairs, a spokesman for the university said last night.
The...
U.S. May Escort Ahmadinejad to Ground Zero
By SARAH GARLAND | September 19, 2007
In a move that has stunned New York, the Bloomberg administration is in discussions to escort the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to ground zero during his visit to New York next week, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said today.
The Iranian...
New York Braces for Ahmadinejad
By BENNY AVNI | September 18, 2007
A major drama is shaping up over the planned appearance at the United Nations next week of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with the Jewish community scheduling a protest rally, Mitt Romney calling on the world body to ban the tyrant, and...
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