Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:48 AM EST
Birds are chirping, the grass is green and tea is being served amid blossoming bushes.
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Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:07 PM EST
The Martha Graham Dance Company wants to know: What are you thinking — or feeling?
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Sun Jan 8, 2012 3:48 PM EST
Property owners across the country bear a burden from the recession: paying a fortune in moving and storage costs to evict tenants who fail to pay their rent.
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Thu Dec 29, 2011 2:31 AM EST
The weeping, cash-strapped relatives of a woman torched in the elevator of her apartment building said Thursday that she was kindhearted and helped a homeless man and paid with her life.
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Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:00 PM EST
Subway riders stuck all night in a train trapped by snow after a blizzard sued a transportation agency on Tuesday, saying officials told them it was simply "an act of God."
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:24 AM EST
In the role that shot Luciano Pavarotti to superstardom, tenor Lawrence Brownlee tossed nine high Cs to a Metropolitan Opera audience — in less than one minute.
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Mon Dec 5, 2011 12:19 PM EST
After a year of tough negotiations, Germany has agreed to pay pensions to about 16,000 additional Holocaust victims worldwide — mostly survivors who were once starving children in Nazi ghettos, or were forced to live in hiding for fear of death.
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Sun Nov 13, 2011 3:34 PM EST
Peaceful marchers sent a clear message Sunday to vandals who torched cars and scrawled Nazi swastikas in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn where Woody Allen was raised: Don't repeat the kind of attacks that once led to the Holocaust.
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Thu Nov 3, 2011 2:31 AM EDT
U.S. military veterans are heeding the rallying cry of Occupy Wall Street, saying corporate contractors in Iraq made big money while the troops defending them came home — and can't make a living now.
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Wed Nov 2, 2011 11:54 PM EDT
About 100 military veterans are joining the Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan.
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Sun Oct 30, 2011 6:36 PM EDT
To some, the drummers in the Manhattan park that's become the epicenter of Occupy Wall Street are the protest's energizing force.
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Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:15 PM EDT
Shawn Lahey, a ruler factory worker from Poughkeepsie, was watching the show. A dancing man held a pole marked "corporation," attached to a noose marked "financial system" — from which another dancing man was "hanging." Masked drummers provided a thumping soundtrack.
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Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:31 AM EDT
The month-old Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, with nearly $300,000 in the bank and participants finding satisfaction in the widening impact they hope will counter the influence on society by those who hold the purse strings of the world's economies.
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Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:56 PM EDT
Now it's personal: Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters held a "Millionaires March" on Tuesday past the homes of some of the wealthiest executives in America, stopping to jeer "Tax the rich!" and "Where's my bailout?"
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Fri Oct 7, 2011 2:51 AM EDT
For weeks, a cluster of computerized protesters have camped in a park near Wall Street, telling the world how they believe America's billionaires destroyed the economy.
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Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:52 PM EDT
The $50,000-a-month Manhattan townhouse that Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife rented while he fought sexual assault charges is on the market again.
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Thu Sep 8, 2011 4:25 PM EDT
Every day, Michael Simon is reminded of 11 men he worked alongside as a rookie firefighter, in the lessons of the craft they taught him, by their photos hanging on the walls of his Manhattan firehouse.
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Tue Sep 6, 2011 2:13 PM EDT
Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine has canceled his fall conducting engagements after reinjuring his back, and Italian conductor Fabio Luisi has been named principal conductor.
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Tue Sep 6, 2011 2:12 AM EDT
A shooting on a street corner a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade, scarred by violence at least twice in the last several years, left two police officers wounded and three people dead Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
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Tue Sep 6, 2011 1:37 AM EDT
A shooting a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade, scarred by violence at least twice in the last several years, left two police officers wounded and three people dead Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
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Tue Sep 6, 2011 1:27 AM EDT
A shooting a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day parade on Monday left a police officer wounded and three people dead, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
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Tue Sep 6, 2011 1:21 AM EDT
New York City police say a shooting a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day parade has left an officer wounded and two people dead.
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Mon Sep 5, 2011 11:47 PM EDT
A shooting a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade, scarred by violence at least twice in the last several years, left a police officer wounded and a person dead.
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Mon Sep 5, 2011 11:18 PM EDT
A shooting a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade on Monday night left a police officer wounded and a person dead.
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Mon Sep 5, 2011 10:57 PM EDT
The city's West Indian Day Parade thundered down a thoroughfare Monday with its usual colorful, musical energy, but gun violence shocked the festivities to a stop in spots.
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