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Reflections On My New “Irish” Identity
Honestly, who doesn't want beer and sausage at 10am? I’m mostly Irish. And by that, of course, I mean two hundred years ago I had some unknown relatives hop on a boat from the old to the new...
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I kicked the sharp points of the crampons I wore over my snowboarding boots into the packed snow on the trail, knocking chunks of snow into the icy brook below. To the left I could see untracked powder...
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Don’t Be a Twit: Become One With the Twitterverse
When, in May 2010, I finally made the decision to attend SIPA, one of the first things that I did as a member of this new community was to search for current and admitted students on Twitter. I...
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Double Lives at SIPA: Moms Balance Pacifiers and Problem Sets
If you’re like most SIPA students, it’s all you can do to manage the endless to-do list of reading, exams, internship and job hunting, events, and everything else that keeps many of us up until 3 am...
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Fukushima Native Living in New York Survived Quake, Misses Family, Gives Back
Yuicho Ando, second from left, at his graduation from Columbia Law School in 2010 with his parents Yoiko (left) and Hiroki (second from right), and his wife Yuka. Yuichi Ando, 36, a Japanese...
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Juggling Wet Diapers and Hefty Textbooks
Photo credit: Jasper van Santen By Breanna Lai The clock strikes 2:01 a.m. Jasper van Santen paces to and fro, swaddling a fussy Friso, his 19-month-old son, in his arms. “He’s an angelic little man,...
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Letters to Fabio
By Lisa Du and Andrea Kramar Fabio is a fourth-year MPA student at SIPA. When he is not applying for his third capstone or checking boxes off his concentration audit form, he solicits questions from...
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