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Thursday, February 3, 2005

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For lack of a rope

In the year 2005 the technology must exist to create a lightweight lifeline that could become standard gear for all firefighters.

It’s understandable that most firefighters don’t want to carry a heavy, bulky rope that might slow them do
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Welcome Dr. Keizs

York is no ordinary college. As has often been noted, York College is not just an academic institution. Although the college has drifted in recent years under lackluster leadership, it has long been a focal point for community organization in southeast Qu
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In whose hands?

The so-called “big box” store is taking considerable heat from the Central Labor Council and other labor leaders because it has succeeded thus far in resisting efforts to unionize its workforce. The unions are equally concerned about plans to
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Math Regents standards too low to benefit students

The most recent Math A Regents, administered on Jan. 25, passes a student with a raw score of 26 out of a total raw score of 84 points. A raw score of 26 points is scaled to a final examination passing score of 55 percent. A raw score of 84 points is scal
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Hannah Shi’s life was an inspiration

For many of us her story puts a “face” on the horrible disaster which has devastated so many families.

Hannah was a student in my first assignment as a grade assistant principal at Russell Sage Junior High School in Forest Hills.
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Gonzalez hearing disappointing

While the senators, mostly Democrats, focused on the memos concerning torture, they failed to question Gonzalez about his role in the nomination of Bernard Kerik for secretary of Homeland Security.

As the president’s counsel, it was his job t
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Military access, usage of student data wrong

Entombed but thriving in that legislative sepulchre called “No Child Left Behind” is a stealthy clause that coerces schools to yield to the armed forces such personal data as may be necessary to contact potential cannon fodder. It is the milit
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Social Security propaganda nothing but a smokescreen

The Jan. 20 inauguration proves the adage that one can “fool most of the people all of the time.” This administration did a very effective job of repeating (and repeating and repeating) that we needed to go to war, that we were in imminent dan
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Buddhist Vihara expresses thanks

From the warm, embracing efforts of Presidents Bush and Bill Clinton and the U.S. troops shoveling the remains of the wrath of the tsunami, to the ordinary citizens of New York who arrived with medical supplies, tents, food, clothes and more, even more th

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