Columbia Professor of Anthropology and Latino/a Studies Nicholas De Genova is in hiding because he says he feels personally threatened after he publicly wished for "a million Mogadishus" during a teach-in last Wednesday. (Violent dissent is apparently okay if the targets are military personnel, journalists, photographers, aid workers, etc., but not if they're academics in Morningside Heights. Some of us are actually inclined to believe that neither is okay.)

· Willem Dafoe: "There were certain films when I was young that you'd get high and go to. People would drop acid and go to 'Fantasia'...Drugs are glamorous. They are fun...There are all kinds of benefits, but there are a lot of negative things, and people have to be able to figure that out themselves." [Page Six]
· Hunter S. Thompson is engaged to his former assistant. [Page Six]
· Columbia anthropology professor Nicholas De Genova was "warmly applauded" when he told students, "The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military...I personally would like to see a million Mogadishus." [Page Six]