Sept. 11 anniversary calls for peace, not divisiveness
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It has been nine years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and ground zero still sits fallow, like a scarred-over knife wound in the heart of downtown Manhattan.
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9/9/10
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Not every controversy is resolved with an easy thumbs-up or thumbs-down — not if you try to use your heart and soul rather than the knee jerk. And if you add your brain, the decision-making becomes even more prickly and challenging.
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Randi Kreiss
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8/12/10
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Believe it or not, in my 18 years in the U.S. Senate, I engaged in many heated debates with my colleagues. I have observed, and history has proven, that political battles benefit the people.
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Al D'Amato
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8/12/10
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Within the next couple of weeks, New York’s Landmarks Preservation Commission will make one of its most politically sensitive decisions — whether a historic downtown building just two blocks from the World Trade Center site can be torn down to make room for a mosque and Islamic cultural center.
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by Al D'Amato
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7/30/10
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More than two months since the BP disaster, a number of polls indicate that a majority of Americans still disapprove of President Obama’s handling of the spill.
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Al D'Amato
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6/24/10
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We Americans know some things about ourselves. It’s part of our narrative. We are winners. We are optimists. We have a “can do” attitude that allows us to smite our enemies and solve our problems. We invent things, fix things and help others.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/20/10
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Crude oil pours into the Louisiana wetlands, Taliban operatives target Times Square, the stock market swoons into a dead faint and Tea Party favorite Rand Paul says on national TV that he’s not so crazy about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/30/10
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A cold drizzle fell as the short, yellow school bus from the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District pulled up last Wednesday to Kennedy Airport's Hagar 17, the 80,000-square-foot storehouse for the remains of what once were the two tallest buildings in the world.
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Scott Brinton
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5/17/10
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Life imitates art, so to me, the recent xenophobic rants against foreigners seem to jump right off the pages of “The Lazarus Project,” an award-winning novel by Aleksandar Hemon.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/14/10
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On May 1, a Pakistani-born American citizen, Faisal Shahzad, attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square. His intent was simple — to kill innocent American citizens and create economic chaos.
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Al D'Amato
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5/13/10
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