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- As the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York was still smoldering, President George W. Bush told the nation that the terrorists came from a small group of religious extremists who “hate our freedoms.” That extremism, he said, “perverts the
- For Shakespeare festival, where there’s a Will, there’s a way, new leader hopesThe Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s credentials run deep and wide. In 1975, for instance, it became the first American Shakespeare company to perform all 37 plays of the
- CU experts note positives, negatives and a plethora of pitfallsJust after the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, a wry newspaper headline announced, “Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job.”“America’s Finest News Source
- The Cold War is history, and major nuclear powers are slashing their arsenals. No rational leader would start a nuclear war. And even if India and Pakistan traded a few nuclear bombs, conventional wisdom suggests, most of the world wouldn’t suffer
- First was a riddle: Why did Maxentius, the last pagan emperor of Rome, never occupy his 80-acre villa outside the great city? Then came a different mystery, then evidence spawning new questions. A CU team leads the painstaking search for answers.
- Leading thinkers and researchers at CU are helping society understand what we know about climate change, how well we know it, what the future might hold, and how the world should react.
- After a stroke, Professor Ted Snow thought his career was over. But with the help of CU's Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Science, he has returned to teaching, and a full life.
- When Mary Rippon stepped off the train in 1878, she proclaimed the university "glorious." She was right.
- Lisa Tamiris Becker’s name will be immortalized in the new Visual Arts Complex at the University of Colorado.The advisory board to the CU Art Museum has raised funds to name a space in the new arts complex after Becker, director of the CU Art Museum