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Touch This, FCC: January 2007
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Touch This, FCC. Pre-edited submissions to assorted newspapers. NEWS; KIDS COMPETE WITH LEGO ROBOTS (TIMES OF MIDDLE COUNTRY). MIDDLE ISLAND, NY, Jan. 20—Most kids play with Legos at some point during their childhood, but a select few gifted children use the toys to compete. Windham, NH’s “Nerds” played best, using nanotechnology to make a robot made from only Lego products perform tasks from everyday life. The Lego League Tournament starts in September, when FIRST. The Nerds from Windham, N.H., ...The F...
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Touch This, FCC: NEWS; NEW DEAN OF STUDENTS
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Touch This, FCC. Pre-edited submissions to assorted newspapers. NEWS; NEW DEAN OF STUDENTS. President Stuart Rabinowitz announced in a statement May 31 that the University has hired a new dean of students, Peter Libman. He will report to Sandra Johnson, Vice President for Student Affairs. Libman most recently was a participant in the New York City Board of Education Leadership Academy, according to the statement. Prior to his work at the Leadership Academy, he held the senior student affairs position...
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Touch This, FCC: ALBUM REVIEW; QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE- ERA VULGARIS
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Touch This, FCC. Pre-edited submissions to assorted newspapers. ALBUM REVIEW; QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE- ERA VULGARIS. Of the Stone Age- Era Vulgaris. 8220;My generation’s for sale,” snarls Josh Homme in the fifth record of his project (for lack of a better term) Queens of the Stone Age. “It beats a steady job.” Well, that’s for sure. Homme treads new ground on this record: we dig even deeper into the nether regions of his mind, where the acid mixes with the pot, mushrooms with the c-c-c-cocaine! Robotic g...
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Touch This, FCC: April 2007
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Touch This, FCC. Pre-edited submissions to assorted newspapers. NEWS; PROPERTY TAX FREEZE PROPOSED. MINEOLA, Mar. 29—Nassau County Republican lawmakers have proposed a freeze on property tax assessment increases for the next five years because the 2003 reassessments, and subsequent annual assessments, have caused “sticker shock” for. Residents, according to the legislators. Annually reassessing the value of Nassau residents’ homes during a real estate boom is not an accurate reflection of proper pr...
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Touch This, FCC: July 2007
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Touch This, FCC. Pre-edited submissions to assorted newspapers. Since June 11, I have been a "Support Staff" intern for Long Island's. Rather than going out on assignment and filing stories as a "staff writer" intern, I have been relegated to answering phones and making photocopies in the Melville newsroom. This, however, has not stopped me from contributing to the paper in any capacity possible. I have also contributed to the main political blog, Spincycle. Will update this post as the summer continues,...
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Touch This, FCC: NEWSDAY INTERNSHIP
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Touch This, FCC. Pre-edited submissions to assorted newspapers. Since June 11, I have been a "Support Staff" intern for Long Island's. Rather than going out on assignment and filing stories as a "staff writer" intern, I have been relegated to answering phones and making photocopies in the Melville newsroom. This, however, has not stopped me from contributing to the paper in any capacity possible. I have also contributed to the main political blog, Spincycle. Will update this post as the summer continues,...
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Touch This, FCC: November 2006
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Touch This, FCC. Pre-edited submissions to assorted newspapers. OP-ED; DEMS WIN, BUT WHAT NOW? What Does it All Mean? As you must have heard by now, the Democratic Party swept the 2006-midterm elections, including capturing control of the House of Representatives, the Senate, a majority of the governorships and control of many state legislatures. But what does this all mean? After the pleasantries, however, the bickering began again. The President, in trying to rush through last-minute legislation be...
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Touch This, FCC: June 2007
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Touch This, FCC. Pre-edited submissions to assorted newspapers. OP-ED; GLOBAL WARMING. Global Warming Should Not be a Political Football. For the last seven years, the President has avoided the global warming debate by denying its existence, then recognizing it but saying humans had nothing to do with it, and now he claims that he wants to solve it. He was better off avoiding it. Especially when the other party’s work is so much better—it doesn’t make any sense. As I said earlier, Bush has angered many i...
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Touch This, FCC: OP-ED; GLOBAL WARMING
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Touch This, FCC. Pre-edited submissions to assorted newspapers. OP-ED; GLOBAL WARMING. Global Warming Should Not be a Political Football. For the last seven years, the President has avoided the global warming debate by denying its existence, then recognizing it but saying humans had nothing to do with it, and now he claims that he wants to solve it. He was better off avoiding it. Especially when the other party’s work is so much better—it doesn’t make any sense. As I said earlier, Bush has angered many i...
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Touch This, FCC: September 2006
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Touch This, FCC. Pre-edited submissions to assorted newspapers. OP-ED; NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE. The Long, Hard Slog…. Donald Rumsfeld knew it all along, but he and his cohorts sent American and multinational soldiers into harm’s way anyway. He knew, when he wrote the now infamous memo, that we may be creating more terrorists than we are killing by invading Iraq. He knew that we would be in it for the long haul. 8220;Bring it on! But it isn’t. According to officials involved in the drafting of the ...