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A conversation with the founder and CEO of Sherman’s Travel Media.
I joined a panel yesterday on BBC Radio’s “World Have Your Say” that included former Nobel Peace prize winner Jody Williamson to talk about President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech. […]
In recent years, the ancient debate over how male and female brains differ has generated competing parenting theories, academic scandals, and heated media debate. In her Big Think interview, Chicago […]
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Though Ed Koch served terms as mayor and has been celebrated as the “quintessential New Yorker” ever since, his decision to close down a Harlem hospital is still a source […]
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Aside from medical issues, the beguiling effect of letter-writing is the only thing that the former mayor is losing sleep over.
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Conventional wisdom says it take 10 years in the city to become a “New Yorker.” According to Ed Koch, however, all it takes is 6 months, a quicker mouth and […]
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They must be educated, says Ed Koch, who was an early champion of anti-discrimination measures in the mid-1980s.
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Party divisions ruin friendships, and New York is just one of many cities begging Washington for fiscal relief.
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There are a variety of reasons why Ed Koch remains one of New York’s most esteemed former mayors.
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Ed Koch remembers his first days as New York’s surprise mayor and his early confrontations with municipal unions.
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Amid Greenwich Village’s days of Bohemianism, dime beers and a radical Village Voice, Ed Koch was “a liberal with sanity.”
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After a $1,000,000 doctor bill, Ed Koch is in favor of whatever reform legislation, with all of its warts, makes it through the Senate.
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If the president doesn’t exercise his authority to get out of Afghanistan, he will not only lose the Democratic majority in the House, he will also go down as a […]
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After serving in the Battle of the Bulge, in which 19,000 of his fellow Americans were killed, he had a hardened attitude: “I’m not afraid of death. Death is a […]
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The legendary mayor endured two fortuitous losses in his early political career: one while campaigning against Eisenhower, and one that helped him avoid Albany, “a fate worse than death.”
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The former mayor’s family had to abandon New York for Newark during the Great Depression.
Was President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech more political than polite? And was it the speech the Nobel committee wanted to hear?
The mystery of a giant light spiral in the Arctic has been solved after the Russians admitted it was a Bulava missile fired from a submarine.
The United Nations wants Western powers to spend more than $2.1bn per year for the next five years and at least $60bn overall during that period, reports Fox News.