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Harlem, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, is known as a major African American cultural and business center
Harlem, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, is known as a major African American cultural and business center
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NYC OK's cultural center and housing development
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced plans for a housing, retail and cultural center in Manhattan. The development project in East Harlem was approved by the City Council on Tuesday. Officials have selected a partnership to build the $700...Tags: Culture, Michael Bloomberg, Cultural Development, Environmental Pollution
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Bette Midler opens another New York urban garden
Bette Midler will be partying in East Harlem. The star entertainer is expected to help open a community garden Wednesday on East 117th Street _ complete with music and dancing. The Target East Harlem Community Garden is part of a network of gardens...Tags: Bette Midler
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Why diss 'SNL'?
In her piece on Amy Poehler's departure from 'Saturday Night Live,' Julie Gordon pithily notes that Poehler is 'practically the only funny cast member left on the late-night NBC show.' I have to wonder if Gordon's actually bothered to watch the show...Tags: There Will Be Blood, Amy Poehler, NBC, Saturday Night Live, Daniel Day Lewis
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Local Education Fund To Track Progress Of Hartford Schools
Courant Staff WriterAs Hartford's school system settles into a major transformation this year, a new nonprofit entity created to oversee the changes is also getting under way. The Local Education Fund, an independent group of corporate and community members, hired its first...Tags: Metro Hartford Alliance, Government, Heads of State, Academic Progress
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Activist spent career pouncing on injustice
Chicago Tribune reporterRev. Donald Benedict spent 366 days in prison for resisting the draft during World War II, the first chapter in a long career as a civic activist who saw injustice on many fronts and took action. Rev. Benedict, 90, died Thursday, Sept. 4, in Pittsford,...Tags: Values, Chicago Police Department, Christianity, Logan Square, Ethics
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Bearing witness to MLK's 'Dream,' Obama's reality
olivia.winslow@newsday.comOn Aug. 28, 1963, Bishop R.W. Harris, prelate of Grace Cathedral in Uniondale, was 20 years old and living in East Harlem when he boarded an NAACP bus bound for the Washington Mall to hear what became the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a...Tags: Government, NAACP, Slavery, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr.
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The New York bodega fights for its life
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe 7 a.m. sun gleams off the windows of this East Harlem bodega, as its owner, Julio Pimentel, unlocks the door and steps behind the counter that separates him from customers. He switches on a fan and tunes the radio to a Spanish station, and merengue...Tags: Gaming and Lotteries, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Personal Income, Minority Groups, Sales
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Hillary Clinton roll-call vote unlikely at convention
dan.janison@newsday.comIn the end, it would make little sense to push a symbolic roll-call vote for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in three weeks as some suggested - especially since she's now due to deliver the keynote address, several of her...Tags: Private Health Care, Timothy M. Kaine, Madonna, Political Candidates, Kemp Hannon
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Party unity: The memory is the first thing to go
dan.janison@newsday.comParty unity means never having to say you're sorry - or that you even remember what you might have been sorry about. John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator who ran to the left of Barack Obama in the Democratic primary and landed third, toured...Tags: George Bush, Political Candidates, Barack Obama, Minority Groups, Government
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On the town: Gov's guys hit Rao's in E. Harlem
Spin CycleWas that really Gov. David Paterson???s top aide, Secretary Charles O???Byrne, and Deputy Secretary for Public Safety Michael Balboni, among the half-dozen seated one of the 11 tables at the famously exclusive Rao???s restaurant in East Harlem Thursday...Tags: Murder, David Paterson, Madonna, Lance Armstrong
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Mr. Edwards comes to East Harlem
Spin CycleDan Janison spent the morning with John Edwards and City Councilman Bill deBlasio in NYC, and sends along the attempted picture at left (Edwards is the one with the open collar and pronounced "v" in his sportcoat, deBlasio the......Tags: Parliament, John McCain, Bill Clinton, Political Candidates, Elections
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Unity=Amnesia as Obama moves rightward
Spin CycleParty unity means never having to say you're sorry - or that you even remember what you might have been sorry about. John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator who ran to the left of Barack Obama in the......Tags: George Bush, Political Candidates, Barack Obama, Minority Groups, Government
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