Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's novel
Things Fall Apart will be required reading for more than 3,000 incoming freshman and transfer students this fall.
In a preliminary report about the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami's magnitude, Cornell Professor Philip Liu said three large waves engulfed Sri Lanka's coastal areas, and it was the second wave -- the largest of the three -- that cost people their lives. "The destruction was more severe than I anticipated and the magnitude of destruction was beyond any imagination," he said.
Central New York gets less than 10 hours of daylight each day in January. But looking on the bright side, there's Ithaca's second annual Light in Winter Festival Jan. 28-30, illuminating the local scene with a fulgent display of local and international artistic talent and Fulbright-intensity mind power.
