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Friday, February 1, 2008

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‘Dr. Melfi’ lifts a glass at Austin’s Steakhouse

To your very good health! The prescription for good cheer came from Dr. Jennifer Melfi, herself, when Sopranos’ star Lorraine Bracco visited her hometown nabe to acquaint discerning diners with a selection of her premium vintages during a wine-tastin
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Preferential treatment

Re: A teacher’s parking privilege. I take exception to voicer Ron Isaac’s position on teachers also getting privileged parking permits.

When did it become an accepted practice that New York City employees are entitled to privileged
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Political wrangling

While reading Helen Klein’s recent article, “Re-energizing Brooklyn’s Republicans,” I could not help noticing that she writes almost half of the article about somebody by the name of Steve Maresca (who?) and his comments about the Bro
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Buddhists & baseball

What do you think the “stand alone” spirit means to you?

I can think of many examples, such as Paul Revere yelling, “The British are coming, the British are coming”; Lincoln freeing the slaves; Gandhi getting the British out o
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Israel on the plank

Israel withdrew from the territory over two years in the hopes of sparking peace, yet the Palestinian Arabs living there have used it as a platform for daily rocket attacks on Israeli civilians.

The current situation in Gaza demonstrates what so m
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Way to go professors

Professors Barjis and Samararrai of City Tech deserve credit for trying to bring the Biology and Anatomy courses into the 21st century.

For too long, students have been asked to do unethical dissection of frogs, pigs and cats without even asking
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Give us a tree

I want to respond to the recent ‘menorah envy’ letter.

There is no ‘menorah envy,’ Catholics want to see a Christmas tree in Bartel Pritchard Circle. There was always a tree and now they come in and put up a menorah and not a C
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Horses get their day

The carriage horse issue has been in the news a lot lately with the pink billboard in Times Square, asking people to “Buck cruelty” and “Say no to horse drawn carriage rides.”

After years of controversy, City Councilman Tony Av
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Disgusted with hate

I have been disgusted by the recent emergence of nooses, swastikas and racial epithets as symbols of hate in our city.

In the last several weeks, we have heard of an attack on a yeshiva student and of an African-American judge being the subject a

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