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The 17th Annual Jewish Film Festival Makes Its Way Around Area Cinemas
17th Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Fest April 4-15, hjff.org. Two documentaries are the highlights at the 17th Annual Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival, which will be bringing 21 films related to Jewish culture and history to theaters...
Tags: Human Interest, Politics, Music, Religion and Belief, West Hartford
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'Koch': The mayor's great love was New York City ★★★
What an entertaining rapscallion Ed Koch was during his run as mayor of New York in the late '70s and '80s. Popular, polarizing, loved, hated, even 20-plus years after he left office, he never failed to attract a crowd as he walked the streets of the...
Tags: David Dinkins, Movies, Times Square, Entertainment, Koch (movie)
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Edward Koch dies at 88; outspoken mayor led New York City comeback
In the late 1970s when Edward I. Koch won his first term as mayor of New York, the city was in shambles, its coffers and confidence sapped by financial crises and a paralyzing blackout. It needed a fighter and found one in Koch, a well-practiced pol...Tags: Literature, Jesse Jackson, Politics, Executive Branch, Religion and Belief
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Eric Garcetti for mayor
Los Angeles is an underachieving city led in recent decades by a succession of underachieving mayors — people who came in with big dreams or big talk but soon got bored with the day-to-day task of steering a municipality. Voters don't get to conduct...
Tags: Kevin James, Finance, Jan Perry, Human Interest, Politics
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The Political Transformation Of Joe Lieberman
Hartford CourantTalking to reporters in his driveway on a hot day in August 2000, Connecticut U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman beamed — he had just been chosen as the Democratic vice presidential candidate to Al Gore. "Miracles happen," the proud son of a Stamford liquor...Tags: Washington, DC, Human Interest, Politics, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice
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A fine state indeed
The recent State of the Community luncheon was headlined by four speakers who gave, if not glowing then surely positive, reports on where their organizations stand at the start of 2013 — John Scholten of the Public Schools of Petoskey, Dr. Josh...Tags: Services and Shopping, Fire Island, Local Government, Real Estate
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A fine state indeed says State of the Community report, remembering Ed Koch
The recent State of the Community luncheon was headlined by four speakers who gave, if not glowing then surely positive, reports on where their organizations stand at the start of 2013 -- John Scholten of the Public Schools of Petoskey, Dr. Josh...Tags: Services and Shopping, Fire Island, Local Government, Real Estate
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Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's obituary didn't do the man justice
As a transplanted New Yorker living in Maryland, I was offended by your one-sided obituary of former Mayor Ed Koch ("Ed Koch, New York's colorful longtime former mayor, dies," Feb. 1. You say he was a "shtick-artist" who appeared "relentlessly" in the...Tags: Obituaries, New York City
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Ed Koch remembered as 'Uncle Eddie' and a savior of New York
NEW YORK -- To his family, Ed Koch was "Uncle Eddie." To New Yorkers, he was "hizzoner," the omnipresent three-term mayor who was remembered Monday as the man who lifted a grim city to glory but who always had time for his nieces, nephews, and a...Tags: David Dinkins, Politics, Executive Branch, Rudy Giuliani, Andrew Cuomo
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Beer monopoly? What beer monopoly?
Like many of you readers, I find a way to pass through the beer aisle just about every time I go to the supermarket. And over the years, I've seen lesser-known regional and imported brews take up an increasing amount of shelf space next to the Budweisers,...
Tags: Anheuser-Busch, Justice System, Consumers, Anheuser-Busch InBev, The New York Times
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Alabama abduction: Boy still held in underground bunker
Police negotiated through a 4-inch ventilation pipe Friday with the suspected gunman holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in rural southeast Alabama, four days after a man shot and killed a bus driver while abducting the boy from a...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Jimmy Lee Dykes
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