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Mary Thom dies at 68; executive editor at Ms. magazine
Mary Thom, an early staffer at Ms. magazine who rose to executive editor and later wrote an insider's history of the groundbreaking, mass-market chronicle of the women's movement, died Friday in a motorcycle crash in Yonkers, N.Y. She was 68. Her...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Career and Workplace, Book, Accidental Death, Feminism
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Anthony Lewis dies at 85; two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Two-time Pulitzer-Prize winner Anthony Lewis, whose New York Times column championed liberal causes for three decades, died Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85. Lewis worked for 32 years as a columnist for the New York Times, taking up...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Freedom of the Press, Boston, Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Lawsuit challenges NYPD 'stop-and-frisks'
NEW YORK — To Pedro Serrano, a New York City police officer, his low rate of stopping and frisking people while patrolling the South Bronx was a sign he was exercising restraint in using the controversial law enforcement technique. His bosses...
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Racism, Los Angeles Police Department
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6 New York officials charged in political corruption scandal
A lawmaker was so eager to be New York City’s next mayor that he tried to buy his way into the election, prosecutors alleged on Tuesday, as they announced charges of bribery, extortion and fraud against the legislator as well as a New York City...
Tags: Local Elections, FBI, New York City Council, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Review: 'Gimme the Loot' paints the town red
"Gimme the Loot" shouldn't be as appealing and exuberant as it is, it really shouldn't. It's set in the Bronx, the grittiest of New York City boroughs. Its larcenous teenage protagonists are introduced stealing spray paint from a hardware store; the...
Tags: Movies, Theft, Entertainment, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Mickey Rooney
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PASSINGS: Peter Meyerson, Fran Warren, Max Jakobson
Peter Meyerson TV writer, producer worked on 'The Monkees' and 'Welcome Back, Kotter' Peter Meyerson, 81, a TV writer and producer who co-wrote the debut episodes of sitcom classics "The Monkees" and "Welcome Back, Kotter," died March 11 at Hoag...
Tags: The Monkees (music group), Finland, Heart Problems, Pneumonia, The Bob Newhart Show (tv program)
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Goldberg: A ruling on racial progress
I can only hope that the scourge of racism is finally purged from Stewartstown and Pinkham's Grant. These are two of 10 New Hampshire towns covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which requires local officials to get permission, or...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Racism, Clarence Thomas, Voting
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Florabel Kinsler dies at 83; social worker aided Holocaust survivors
After World War II, social workers typically urged Holocaust survivors to forget their horrific wartime experiences and get on with their lives. That struck Florabel Kinsler as a foolish and impossible order. During a decades-long career, the Los...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Social Services, Long Island, Colleges and Universities
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Linda Pugach dies at 75; disfigured by lye, she married attacker
"It's me and Burt against the world." -- Linda Pugach, 2007 With those words, Linda Pugach explained, perhaps as well as anyone could, an unfathomable chain of events. PHOTOS: Linda Pugach | 1937 - 2013 In 1959, she was Linda Riss, a 22-year-old dark-...
Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Heart Surgery, Geraldo Rivera
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Basketball: Wednesday's scores
Varsity Times InsiderBOYS' BASKETBALL NONLEAGUE Aliso Niguel 46, Snoqualmie (Wash.) Mount Si 43 Brea Olinda 76, Poway 63 El Dorado 53, Chula Vista Otay Ranch 40 Irvine University 87, San Francisco Lincoln 78 Murrieta Valley 47, El Modena 45 Servite 66, South...... -
Supreme Court's Sonia Sotomayor shows off salsa moves
She may be far from her Bronx roots these days, but Sonia Sotomayor still knows how to salsa. Sotomayor, the Nuyorican Supreme Court justice appointed by President Obama, has been busy this week promoting her new autobiography, "My Beloved World," which...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama, Alicia Keys, Univision (tv network)
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Herbert Moskowitz dies at 87; pioneer in drunk driving research
Herbert Moskowitz, an experimental psychologist whose pioneering research on the effects of alcohol and drugs on driving helped produce standardized field sobriety tests and pushed policymakers to set lower legal limits for intoxicated driving in the U.S....
Tags: Medical Specialization, Medical Research, Health and Medical Professionals, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Psychology
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