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Friday, April 23, 2004

Queens has become home to millions of immigrants. On the streets of the borough hundreds of languages can be heard, different cuisines can be sampled, and thousands of stories are told. This weekend some of these stories will be told through the aid of dance, theater and the spoken word.

The Dealer Takes All

Jamal E. Watson contributing editor to the Amsterdam News wraps up the week in city politics reviewing fights over labor contracts and the Snapple deal
and Wayne Barrett Senior Editor at the Village Voice, and Author Rudy: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani (Basic ...

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Hard as a Rock

Danny Simmons artist and author Three Days As the Crow Flies : A Novel (Atria Books, 2003)is organizing a scholarship for people incarcerated under the Rockefeller Drug Laws with his brothers (Russell and Joseph)

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Green with Envy

Carl Pope Executive Director of the Sierra Club and author, Strategic Ignorance : Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress (Sierra Club Books, 2004)criticizes Bush administration environmental policies

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That's Just EarSay…

Judith Sloan Co-Director of Earsay and co-author (with Warren Lehrer), Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America (Norton, 2003)with more students performing at the Cross Cultural Dialogue Arts Project
and Farin Sultana student at Queens International high school, from Bangladesh
and ...

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The Official High Fructose Corn Syrup of New York City

Maybe the politically androgynous Michael Bloomberg is a Republican after all! The New York Times poll today finds half of NY Republicans approve of the job he’s doing, but only a third of NY Democrats do. And his Department of Education policies, the centerpiece of his administration ...

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