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N.Y. / Region
Fraternity Is Banned From Pennsylvania After Student’s Hazing Death
A Baruch College freshman died after taking part in a fraternity hazing, and the fraternity was convicted of aggravated assault and involuntary manslaughter.The death in hazing is common enough that the judge should not be shocked.
Baruch college will change its culture.
I doubt the change will be enough.
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Business Day
BBC News Editor Quits Her Post to Protest Gender Pay Gap
Carrie Gracie, the network’s China editor, said she learned last summer that her male colleagues earned 50 percent more than she did.She did the right thing.
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U.S.
Death Penalty Case Heard by Racist Juror Is Reopened by Supreme Court
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that a juror’s racist statements required an appeals court to reconsider a death row inmate’s case.I am surprised.
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Movies
Sam Rockwell’s Golden Globes Win Fuels a Debate
The actor won for playing a loathsome character in one of the awards season’s most divisive movies, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”I have no plan to see the movie soon.
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Opinion
How to Get New York Moving Again
Traffic is so bad that people can often outpace cars.Congestion pricing is good. High fuel prices would help.
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World
Iran Can’t Keep Dictating Lifestyle, Its President Warns
Hassan Rouhani argued that it was not only the bad economy that brought Iranians to the streets last week but also restrictive policies.Hope.
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Opinion
New York Leaders Are Failing Its Subway Riders
As construction companies and labor unions drove up costs, watchdogs — including governors and lawmakers — have done too little to stop it.Corruption costs the public.
Get the details before complaining about a government agency.
There is much partisan noise that should be ignored.
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U.S.
Trump Administration Says That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave
The administration decided that Salvadorans no longer qualified for temporary protection for deportation that had been granted after two devastating earthquakes in 2001.The Trump administration is mad.
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Fashion & Style
The Golden Globes’ 500 Shades of Black: Did It Work?
The choice by almost every woman to wear black to the awards show made for more personal expression than anyone expected.It is too soon to know.
Women have been heard.
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Opinion
Can We Learn to Believe in God?
And what does ‘The Breakfast Club’ have to do with it?Authority without legitimacy is noise.
Faith can be trained into existence.
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