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- Kilgannon, Corey (March 7, 1999), "To Sell A Guidebook, A Dose Of Attitude", The New York Times
- Busis, Hillary (September 22, 2009), "'Inside New York' takes students outside the bubble", Columbia Daily Spectator, archived from the original on December 13, 2009, retrieved October 27, 2009