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45 years after death, recalling Robert Kennedy’s funeral train
All these years later, John Malone still remembers the last words of Robert F. Kennedy’s last speech: “. . . and now it’s on to Chicago, and let’s win there!” There was hope in that, momentum. John had finished his junior year at Seton Hall and was at his parents’ home, in Elizabeth, N.J., watching coverage of [...]
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June 7, 2013 by with Comments (0)
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11 Years Later, Debris From Plane Is Found Near Ground Zero
N.Y.P.D. A part of a landing gear, apparently from one of the airplanes that crashed on Sept. 11, was found on Wednesday in Lower Manhattan. Connect with NYTMetro Follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook for news and conversation. Land surveyors working just north of the former World Trade Center site have discovered [...]
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April 27, 2013 by with Comments (0)
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After Rough Patch, ‘The Bachelor’ Wins Back Viewers
Rick Rowell/ABC Sean Lowe, a fan favorite on “The Bachelorette,” was cast as “The Bachelor” this season. No matter which contestant Sean Lowe, the chiseled, strawberry blond, chooses as his fantasy fiancée on the three-hour season finale of ABC’s “The Bachelor” on Monday — will it be Catherine Giudici, 26, a quirky graphic designer from [...]
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March 11, 2013 by with Comments (0)
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After Cashing In on Job Cuts, Wall St. Looks to Worker Upturn
Tony Dejak/Associated Press Todd Riley works on the assembly line at Ford’s engine plant in Cleveland. Wall Street is hopeful that American companies, after years of gaining ground at the expense of their employees, will start to succeed because of the rising fortune of those workers. Less than a week since the Dow Jones industrial [...]
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March 10, 2013 by with Comments (0)
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3 Fund-Raisers Show Latinos’ Rising Clout
Michael Stravato for The New York Times Henry R. Muñoz III with a framed protest sign he carried as a child during a farm workers’ march. SAN ANTONIO – On a wall in his sun-drenched, art-filled Tudor home, Henry R. Muñoz III displays a memento of his childhood: a framed protest sign proclaiming, “Texas needs $ [...]
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March 7, 2013 by with Comments (0)
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A Driver’s Deeds Fail to Match Her Words
Tia Norfleet in a photo from her Web site. Her exact age is in some dispute. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Nascar, which has long struggled to develop minority and female participants, seemed to have a barrier-breaking athlete in its ranks in recent years: Tia Norfleet, a 20-something driver from Georgia. With a savvy marketing campaign, Norfleet [...]
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A Private Boom Amid Detroit’s Public Blight
DETROIT — Private industry is blooming here, even as the city’s finances have descended into wreckage. In late 2011, Rachel Lutz opened a clothing shop, the Peacock Room, which proved so successful that she opened another one, Emerald, last fall. Shel Kimen, who had worked in advertising in New York, is negotiating to build a [...]
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March 5, 2013 by with Comments (0)
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100 years after suffrage march, activists walk in tradition of Inez Milholland
At the 100th anniversary of Washington’s Women’s Suffrage Parade on Sunday, participants will march in the bold tradition of suffragette Inez Milholland — even if they, and most of America, have never heard of her. Of all the images and people invoked during this centennial celebration, perhaps the least remembered is the one woman said [...]
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February 28, 2013 by with Comments (0)
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