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I’d like to devote my 750 words this week to shamelessly promoting two books by a former colleague and good friend, Michael Otterman. They are “American Torture” (Melbourne University Publishing, 2007) and “Erasing Iraq: The Human Cost of Carnage,” to be published in 2010.
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Scott Brinton
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10/22/09
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Last week, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration slammed a probe deep into the dark side of the moon to kick up tons of dust high into the sky — oh, sorry, there’s no sky on the moon. Um, high into the air. No, wait, there’s no air on the moon. Well, high into the something.
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Scott Brinton
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10/15/09
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Rabbi Avraham Holtzberg stood beside Cammans Pond in Merrick last December with head bent slightly to the side and hands clasped at his waist, looking solemn and forlorn at the Merrick Chabad’s otherwise joyful Hanukkah celebration. A month earlier, terrorists had murdered Holtzberg’s brother, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his sister-in-law, Rivka, 28, in Mumbai, India.
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Scott Brinton
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10/8/09
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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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President Obama is asking Gov. David Paterson, a fellow Democrat, to withdraw from the governor’s race, according to The New York Times. Paterson should consider obliging. As a matter of fact, why bother waiting until 2010? He should consider stepping down now.
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Scott Brinton
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9/24/09
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Updated: Dec. 10, 12:24 p.m.
No doubt, the current recession is an equal-opportunity offender, battering rich, poor and everyone in between. According to a recent report, …
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Scott Brinton
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9/17/09
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I remember driving west on Park Avenue in Long Beach with my then 1 1/2-year-old daughter tucked in her car seat behind me. It was midday, and the sun shone so brightly. There was a break between the buildings, and through it I could peer toward the destruction.
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Scott Brinton
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9/10/09
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These days, there is a decidedly anti-alcohol message streaming through mainstream music, fueled by a cadre of young, talented — if not confused, even dysfunctional at times — female songsters.
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Scott Brinton
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9/3/09
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