* Andrew Weaver, one of the world's leading climate researchers, member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former U. S. vice president Al Gore, and member of the British Columbia's Climate Action Team

On December 1, 1989, Guber and Peters hired longtime lawyer of GPEC Alan J. Levine, to the post of president and COO of Columbia's newly formed company Filmed Entertainment Group ( FEG ).

In 1902, Columbia's new president Nicholas Murray Butler was more receptive to the plan for a school and journalism prizes, but it would not be until after Pulitzer's death that this dream would be fulfilled.

The process of finding qualified individuals begins with submissions from the public to the Order of British Columbia's advisory council, which consists of the Chief Justice of British Columbia, who serves as the Chair ; the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly ; a president, in turn, of one of British Columbia's public universities, for a two-year term ; the President of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities ; the Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Relations ; and two Members of the order.

Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia's president, rejected student appeals to cancel the invitation, calling the request " illiberal " and citing the need for academic freedom.

Columbia's president Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard supported this trend, but his stance lost ground at the College over the following decades.

Rick Baker, who had spent $ 700, 000 on unused Night Skies designs, models and animatronics, had a huge fight with Spielberg, which led to Carlo Rambaldi ( who had previously done alien creature designs for Close Encounters ) doing creature designs for E. T .. John P. Veitch ( then-president of Columbia's world-wide productions ) and Frank Price ( then president of Columbia ) were also unhappy with the emergence of E. T.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Columbia's then-president, appointed Kirk to the position of University Provost in 1949.

From the beginning of their relationship, Mills arranged recording sessions on nearly every label including Brunswick, Victor, Columbia, OKeh, Perfect, Pathe, the ARC / Plaza group of labels ( Cameo, Romeo, Lincoln, Oriole, Domino, Jewel, Banner ), Hit of the Week, and Columbia's cheaper labels ( Harmony, Diva, Velvet Tone, Clarion ) labels which gave Ellington popular recognition, as well giving Ellington's fans the opportunity of hearing multiple versions of the same song.

Columbia's " New Town District " zoning ordinance gave developers great flexibility about what to put where, without requiring county approval for each specific project.

Columbia's arrangement with Katzman was straightforward: Katzman selected the properties, Columbia approved the scripts and financed the productions, Katzman made the films using studio personnel and resources, and Columbia gave Katzman 25 % of the profits.

In one of her last films, Columbia's Redhead from Manhattan, she played a dual role: one in her exaggerated comic dialect, and the other in her actual speaking voice.

Clara Smith was on the whole less fortunate than Bessie in her accompanists, and her voice was less imposing but, to some tastes, prettier, and many of her songs were interesting ( and she was the second best seller on Columbia's 14000-D series, behind Bessie Smith ).

British Columbia's rugged coastline stretches for more than, and includes deep, mountainous fjords and about six thousand islands, most of which are uninhabited.

Most of the Columbia's drainage basin ( which, at, is about the size of France ) lies roughly between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Cascade Mountains on the west.

In 2000, about six million people lived within the Columbia's drainage basin.

Health care is a large sector of Columbia's economy, with nearly one in six people working in a health-care related profession and a physician density that is about three times the United States average.

Columbia's Frank Price read the screenplay and was deeply interested, but the studio was hesitant about its commercial value, so Jewison offered to do the film for a $ 5 million budget and no salary.

The film did well in theaters, and was well enough known to be referenced in one of Columbia's Three Stooges shorts: the Stooges ' spaceship is about to crash when Joe Besser yelps, " I don't want to die!

Mitch Miller, Columbia's chief of A & R at the time, said US sales totaled about 2500 copies.

In the 2010-2011 school year, the school hosted about 150 of Columbia's nearly 300 studying veterans.

Roughly southwest of the village of Grays River, the river enters the broad portion of the Columbia River's tidal estuary from the north, at Grays Bay, about upstream from the Columbia's mouth.

He also co-authored a book with his grandmother titled, There are Survivors: The Michael Cuccione Story about his experiences battling cancer ; his effort eventually raised C $ 500, 000, which was donated to the British Columbia's Children's Hospital.

Caspar Phair ( died 1933 ) was one of Lillooet, British Columbia's early settlers, arriving about 1877 to take up the role of the village's school teacher ..

Despite its strong Australian showing, and having an American producer ( Peter McIan ), Business as Usual was twice rejected by Columbia's parent company in the United States.

) From its last refit to its destruction, Columbia bore markings identical to those of its operational sister orbiters — the NASA " meatball " logo on the left wing and the American flag afore the orbiter's name on the right ; only Columbia's distinctive wing " chines " remained.

* Ric Careless, one of British Columbia's leaders in wilderness preservation, named Environmentalist of the Year ( 1991 ) by Equinox Magazine and River Conservationist of the Year ( 1993 ) by American Rivers

Columbia's logo, a lady carrying a torch and draped in the American flag ( representing Columbia, a personification of the United States ), has gone through five major revisions.

Under EMI, English Columbia's output was mainly licenced recordings from American Columbia until 1951 when American Columbia switched British distribution to Philips Records.

English Columbia continued to distribute American Columbia sister labels Okeh and Epic until 1968 when American Columbia's then parent CBS moved distribution of all its labels to the then new CBS Records created from the purchase of Oriole Records ( UK ) in late 1964.

She won Columbia's Bancroft Dissertation Award in American History in 1976 and her dissertation was published by the prestigious Columbia University Press in 1980 under the title, From Loyalist to Founding Father: The Political Odyssey of William Samuel Johnson.

He took painting classes as an undergraduate at Columbia's Teachers College and after graduation began to study painting with Carl Holty and Francis Criss at the American Artists School, while simultaneously studying portraiture at the National Academy of Design under Karl Anderson.

A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, he is Professor of Practice in the writing program at Columbia's School of the Arts.

Shortly thereafter Guber was named head of American production, an advancement that, due to Columbia's power structure, had little authority.

On December 29, 2003, The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States concluded that the United States is violating the District of Columbia's rights under Articles II and XX of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man by denying District of Columbia citizens an effective opportunity to participate in the Congress.

Television watching outside Ontario was limited to British Columbia's Lower Mainland with access to American programming from Seattle and some sets in Montreal.

During special holidays such as British Columbia's Victoria Day, other issues presented in a satirical yet educational atmosphere include addressing present-day Canadian and American differential sentiments and the use of the 49th parallel to set much of the border between the United States of America and Canada.

The room is capped by a cathedral ceiling and the three storey high north wall is dominated by the Rogers Window, a stained glass creation commissioned by viceregal consort Jane Rogers to commemorate British Columbia's heritage as a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy, the contribution of viceroys and their spouses since the foundation of the Colony of Vancouver Island, and the place of Government House in provincial life.

Boas had planned for Ruth Benedict to succeed him as chair of Columbia's anthropology department, but she was sidelined by Ralph Linton, and Mead was limited to her offices at the AMNH.

British Columbia's economy is largely resource-based.

British Columbia's geography is epitomized by the variety and intensity of its physical relief, which has defined patterns of Human settlement | settlement and industry since colonization.

British Columbia's land area is.

British Columbia's capital is Victoria, located at the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island.

The Coast Mountains and the Inside Passage's many inlets provide some of British Columbia's renowned and spectacular scenery, which forms the backdrop and context for a growing outdoor adventure and ecotourism industry.

Supported by a research fellowship from Columbia University, for several years, Bartók and Ditta worked on a large collection of Serbian and Croatian folk songs in Columbia's libraries.

The Chief Joseph Dam and several dams on the Columbia's tributaries entirely block migration, and there are no migrating fish on the river above these dams.

The Mississippi and Nelson watersheds are separated by the Laurentian Divide, which meets the Continental Divide at Triple Divide Peak near the headwaters of the Columbia's Flathead River tributary.

Its discharge is nearly equal to the Columbia's at the rivers ' confluence.

The first was Columbia's proposed gymnasium in neighboring Morningside Park ; this was seen by the protesters to be an act of aggression aimed at the black residents of neighboring Harlem.

After the debate, the President of the University, Lee C. Bollinger, stated that he did not favor reinstating Columbia's ROTC program, because of the military's anti-gay policies.

In November 2008, Columbia's undergraduate student body held a referendum on the question of whether or not to invite ROTC back to campus, and the students who voted were almost evenly divided on the issue.

Immediately following the College Walk festivities is one of Columbia's older holiday traditions, the lighting of the Yule Log.

The Varsity Show is an annual musical written by and for students and was established in 1894, making it one of Columbia's oldest traditions.

Attendees of King's College, Columbia's predecessor, included five Founding Fathers.

Columbia's hospitals and supporting facilities are a large referral center for the state, and medical related trips to Columbia are common.

Working in the basement laboratory of Columbia's Philosophy Hall, he invented wide-band frequency modulation ( FM ) radio.

Lederman began his Ph. D research working with Columbia's Nevis synchro-cyclotron, which was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world at that time.