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Where Schools Fall Short

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:26:17 -0800

New York Times - Dec. 05 (Opinion) - Millions of students attend abysmally weak school systems that leave them unprepared for college. The states have an obligation to help these students retool.

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Better Late Than Never

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By James Taranto - Nov. 16 (Opinion) - After loitering for nearly two months, New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg finally took action overnight, clearing out so-called protesters who had turned Zuccotti Park, a privately owned, publicly accessible plaza in a residential neighborhood of downtown Manhattan, into a squalid Obamaville. "Health and safety conditions became intolerable," the New York Times quotes the mayor as saying--though why it took him two months to figure that out is left unexplained.

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Panic of the Plutocrats

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:35:46 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 09 (Opinion) -

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2 Dads, 2 Daughters, 1 Big Day

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Frank Bruni - Jul. 21 (Opinion) - Even in a city as diverse as New York and a neighborhood as progressive as the West Village, a little kid knows that having two dads is different. Eight-year-old Maeve certainly did.

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The Day: Fix a Ticket, Alienate a Bronx Jury

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Clyde Haberman - Jun. 06 (Opinion) - Bronx juries are to the New York police what third terms are to New York mayors: sources of bedevilment. There is nothing new in this, but lately it has acquired a fresh twist. The reason is a tendency of some officers — probably more than a few — to fix tickets as a, ahem, “professional courtesy” to an assortment of friends, relatives and some others found in the ranks of the overprivileged.

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The Mistake of 2010

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - A look at some recent dismal economic data shows the results of a pivot away from jobs to other concerns.

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Girl, 4, a U.S. Citizen, Is Deported to Guatemala

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:39:36 -0700

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On Long Island, Fatal Shooting Is a Case of Mistaken Identity

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:31:58 -0700

New York Times - By By ROBERT D. McFADDEN - Mar. 13 - An officer from another department apparently mistook a plainclothes officer with a gun for a suspect.

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Limit Pay, Not Unions

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Michael R. Bloomberg - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - We should work to modernize government’s relationship with unions — and union leaders should be farsighted enough to cooperate.

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Wall Streetâ€™s Dead End - NYTimes.com

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Felix Salmon - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - Wall Street's Dead EndNew York TimesThe show still gets lots of attention, but the real business of the global economy is inexorably leaving the stock market — and the vast majority of us ...and more »

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The Texas Omen

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jan. 07 (Opinion) - Another conservative economic miracle bites the dust, with implications for the nation.

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New York’s H.I.V. Ad Divides Activists

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:24:19 -0800

New York Times - By By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS - Jan. 03 - A public service message has been criticized as stigmatizing and sensationalistic, but others say its approach is needed to get younger people to take the disease seriously.

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Exhibit’s Curators Criticize Controversial Art’s Removal

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:18:03 -0800

New York Times - By By KATE TAYLOR - Dec. 15 - A talk at the New York Public Library by the curators of a controversial exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery drew a show of support for the gallery, as well as criticism of its parent institution, the Smithsonian.

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Mark Madoff Suicide: Bernie Madoff's Son Found Hanged In NYC Apartment

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:05:43 -0800

Associated Press - By AP - Dec. 11 - NEW YORK — One of Bernard Madoff's sons was found dead of an apparent suicide Saturday on the second anniversary of his father's arrest, according to a law enforcement official. Mark Madoff, 46, was found hanged in his apartment in Manhattan's

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Foreign Language Programs Cut as Colleges Lose Aid

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:41:42 -0800

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Jurors Vote for Death in Conn. Triple-Murder Case

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:33:58 -0800

Associated Press - By By WILLIAM GLABERSON - Nov. 08 - The defendant, Steven J. Hayes, was a parolee at the time of the 2007 home invasion in Cheshire, Conn., that left a woman and her two daughters dead.

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Imam Souleimane Konaté Aids African Immigrants in N.Y.C.

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:40:39 -0700

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Thousands of Stops Made by New York Police Are Unjustified, Study Says

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:45:30 -0700

New York Times - By By AL BAKER, RAY RIVERA - Oct. 26 - The report by a Columbia law professor found problems with a practice that has been criticized as being unfair to minorities.

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Immigrants Suing a Connecticut Police Dept.

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:32:25 -0700

New York Times - By By SAM DOLNICK - Oct. 25 - Nine Latino residents of East Haven say they have been subjected to racial profiling and false arrests.

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The End of the Tunnel

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman, New York Times - Oct. 08 (Opinion) - American politics these days is anything but rational. Example: Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey just canceled the Hudson River tunnel project.

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200-Year-Old Echoes in Muslim Center Uproar

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:37:44 -0700

New York Times - By By PAUL VITELLO - Oct. 07 - The protests against Park51 closely mirror Protestant opposition to the oldest Catholic church in New York State, the church’s pastor says.

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Recession Takes Toll on City, Census Survey Shows

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Sam Roberts - Sep. 28 (Opinion) - Data showed more New Yorkers on food stamps, and median income and housing values dropping.

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N.Y. Governor's Race Has Tightened, Poll Finds

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas Confessore, Elizabeth A. Harris - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - At an appearance in Manhattan with Mr. Bloomberg, who announced that he would endorse the attorney general, Mr. Cuomo, looking somber, reiterated that he would not respond to Mr. Paladino’s more outrageous provocations, which have included suggestions that Mr. Cuomo lacks the back bone to face his attacks.

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Mexican New Yorkers Are Steady Force in Workplace

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:37:52 -0700

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Intolerance

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker - Sep. 20 (Opinion) - Last year, when plans were announced for Cordoba House, an Islamic community center to be built two blocks north of Ground Zero, few opposed them. The project was designed to promote moderate Islam and provide a bridge to other faiths. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Sufi cleric leading the effort, told the Times, in December, “We want to push back against the extremists.” In August, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously against granting historic protection to the building at 45-47 Park Place, thereby clearing the way for the construction of Park51, as the center is now known. A month later, it is the focus of a bitter quarrel about the place of Islam in our society.

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