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City Room: McCarthyism and City College
Selwyn Raab in 1974, the year he joined The New York Times. Selwyn Raab, a former reporter for The New York Times, on Wednesday received a Townsend Harris Medal , given annually to graduates of City College of New York in memory of the school's founder.
NYC man charged in $365K fitness Web site scam
A former college staffer convicted of ripping off the school raised money to repay it by roping far-flung investors into funding a fictitious online fitness magazine, prosecutors said.
Celebrating the memoir fiction's day is done?
When browsing online or in a bookstore, one might easily conclude that every third person in the country is actively engaged in writing or reading a memoir.
On This Day in History: November 5 Shooting of a Brooklyn-Born Rabbi
On Nov. 5, 1990 Rabbi Meir Kahane, a Brooklyn-born Israeli extremist, was fatally shot after a speech at a New York hotel.
Colleges Fight to Get and Keep Black Males
It was Joshua Almond's first semester grade point average of 3.53 that gave him the motivation he needed to succeed at West Georgia State University.
QU computer science conference begins
Experts and researchers from over 59 countries are participating in Qatar University's joint international technical conferences on Relational Methods in Computer Science and, Applications of Kleene Algebra , which opened yesterday at Ramada Hotel.
Madoff's Accountant Pleads Guilty in Scheme
Bernard L. Madoff 's longtime accountant pleaded guilty on Tuesday to deliberately producing the rubber-stamp audits that helped Mr.
Going green? What about going pagan?
Last weekend, most of us were probably at a party dressed up as our favorite celebrity or superhero, watching a scary movie or screaming with fright at a haunted house.
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A Columbia Skyscraper Clouds Views for the University's Astronomy Students
Despite all the bright lights and tall buildings here in the center of the universe, Rutherford Observatory , on the roof of Columbia University's Pupin Hall , has for decades offered students, researchers, and members of the public plenty of outer space.
Mildred Cohn dies at 96; chemist applied physics to...
Mildred Cohn, a chemist who overcame both religious and sexual prejudice to make major contributions in applying physics to problems of biology, died of respiratory failure Oct.
Paganism, Just Another Religion for Military and Academia
If personal tradition holds, just before sundown today, Michael York will stand before a colonial-style wooden cabinet in his bayside town house here and light a candle.
Applications for New Brooklyn Poet Laureate Due Nov 24
Who should be the next poet laureate? There is no shortage of poets in Brooklyn but who has the talent, the personality, the energy and the expansiveness required for the job? Are you a poet who likes community outreach? Would you like to promote poetry and literacy in the borough? If you think you're the poet for the job get your application over ...
Moms Increasingly Going Back to Work in Recession
With men accounting for 72 percent of the nation's job losses since the beginning of the recession, many American families are looking to mom to bring home the bacon.
DeCarava, photographer who recorded Harlem, dies
NEW YORK - Photographer Roy DeCarava , whose black-and-white images captured Harlem's everyday life and jazz greats who performed there, has died.
Alan Grayson Ambushed By O'Reilly Producer Griff Jenkins
Bill O'Reilly has a long history of sending out producers to ambush people who won't appear on his Fox News show, and his latest target is Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson.
Counting only citizens would alter Congress
Why do Democrats oppose only counting citizens? If you are not hear legally, you don't count and you should be sent home.
The city Department of Corrections will double the prisoner capacity of the Brooklyn House of Detention as part of a scheme to add retail to the jail's first floor.
Multimillion-Dollar Research Center For Social And Cognitive Networks To Be Lead By Rensselaer
Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience Also Included In: Psychology / Psychiatry IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 26 Oct 2009 With $16.75 million in funding from the Army Research Laboratory , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will launch a new interdisciplinary research center devoted to the study of social and cognitive networks.
New York is poised to make another round of deep midyear cuts in both public university systems and in financial aid under the Tuition Assistance Program.
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