"If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." This quote is from ...
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I can't even remember the last time we had a really hard rain, but the other day, crossing Park Avenue South at 23rd street, I spotted no less than 4 broken, dirty discarded umbrellas laying in the ...
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Airing tomorrow night (Monday July 28) on MTV at 10:00 pm will be a documentary called Choose or Lose & Kanye West Present: Homecoming. In the show Kanye West and “Sway” Calloway visit thr...
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If you've ever sat around and thought, "Gee, wouldn't it be cool if there was a Zagat-style guide to local green businesses?" then wish no longer concerned citizen, because a small, ambitious grou...
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With the rise of shady corporations like Enron and shady executives like the ones at Bear Sterns turning themselves in for fraud, the corporate world has turned into a profit-guzzling machine.  It'...
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"If you had to rebuild your city, how would you rebuild it?" Almost three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still recovering from a storm that destroyed 80% of the city. While many a...
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Today is exactly one month after Valentine's Day. If you had a valentine then and still have that same valentine, then congratulations, that's no small feat in this day and age. If you had a valenti...
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