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I remember bright yellow trams as they lumbered along a virtually lifeless Vitosha Boulevard in Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital. They squeaked and creaked as they . . .
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8/24/16
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During a school break last winter, my wife, kids and I fell ill with a nasty virus, and we were lying around the living room, moaning in misery, fumbling through cable’s on-demand menu, seeking something, anything, to watch.
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8/5/15
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Journalism lost one of its greats last week. Jonathan Schell, a best-selling nonfiction author, columnist and correspondent for The New Yorker, Newsday and The Nation, died . . .
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By Scott Brinton
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4/3/14
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Scott Brinton, senior editor at Herald Community Newspapers and an adjunct journalism professor in the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication, was named to the inaugural class of the Press Club of Long Island’s Journalism Hall of Fame on Feb. 12. All winners of PCLI’s Outstanding Journalist Award, the group’s highest individual honor, were included in the first class of Hall of Fame inductees. Brinton received the accolade in 2006.
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2/19/14
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Squads of muscled police officers in slate-colored jumpsuits crowded together on the sidewalk as we made our way up Stamboliiski Boulevard in Sofia, Bulgaria, on June 23, two days after we touched down in the country’s capital.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/10/13
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“When do we see average, law-abiding Muslims piecing together their lives in a chaotic world? When do we meet the vast majority of the Middle East’s dense population to understand them, to know them, to feel any sense of sympathy for them?”
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by Scott Brinton
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2/24/11
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I remember a hallway full of sunlight that streamed through floor-to-ceiling windows. Off to one side were tables and chairs for 3- and 4-year-olds. Miniature wooden tea sets from Russia, hand-painted in brilliant colors, were set neatly atop each table. At the end of the hall, I entered a playroom with rainforest murals covering the walls.
This, I thought, is the Evil Empire?
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Scott Brinton
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9/22/10
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As the health-reform merry-go-round wound down last week, I was struck by an Associated Press photo of a reform protester at an Iowa City rally last Wednesday.
He was a middle-aged man wearing a …
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Scott Brinton
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4/3/10
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Funny story: I coach youth soccer. I recently e-mailed the German-born trainer of my daughter’s travel team to let him know that our practice venue had changed from Speno Park in East Meadow to Mitchel Field in Uniondale so the squad could play under the lights. I received this perplexing reply:
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Scott Brinton
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10/1/09
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