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Meet Leslie Crocker Snyder

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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Leslie Crocker Snyder is challenging eight-term Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgethau for the Democratic Party nomination. A former assistant DA and criminal court judge, Snyder favors the death penalty and has built her reputation fighting sex crimes.

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For Rich or for Poor

Mark Levitan, senior policy analyst, Community Service Society of New York
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Fernando Ferrer, candidate for Mayor in the Democratic primary and former Bronx Borough President,
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Bob's Your Uncle

Leslie Crocker-Snyder, candidate in the Democratic primary for Manhattan District Attorney
- on her bid to unseat Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau

» Snyder for New York

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Polish Pioneers

Shana Penn, visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, director of the Jewish Heritage Initiative in Poland, and author,Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland (University of Michigan Press, 2005)
- shares the history of the women behind the Polish pro-democracy movement
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Galbraith really an independent analyst?

The Columbia Journalism Review Daily's Gal Beckerman listened to our Monday interview with Peter Galbraith and says Galbraith--and WNYC--should have been more above-board about Galbraith's Kurdish connections:

"An advisor to the Kurds would be much less likely to look seriously at the complaints of the Sunnis, dismissing them, as ...

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Photo File: Leslie Crocker Snyder


The challenger: Leslie Crocker Snyder

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The Sun Endorses Morgethau

And here's why their endorsement came today:

"we'd have waited until Friday to express our view, but the endorsement of his rival, Leslie Crocker Snyder, by the New York Times Tuesday, was so filled with error, ageism, and illogic that we don't mind advancing our schedule".

Bolding our own, of ...

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