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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.
Futuristic 3D videogame-esque film “Avatar” is a “triumph of technology storytelling” for a writer/director who had to propel the special effects he wanted into existence.
Hostage negotiations are continuing after at least nine of the 57 detainees being held by gunmen in the Southern Philippines were released.
A joint bid from oil companies Shell and Petronas has today secured a contract for one of Iraq’s “supergiant” oilfields following a two-day-long auction of the resources.
Do-It-Yourself retail stores will soon be stocking solar panels so climate change-conscious customers can pop sustainability into their trolleys and wheel it home.
Google.org has demonstrated a new tool which, if implemented, could help to combat climate change by monitoring the state of the world’s rainforests.
Grave robbers have stolen the body of Tassos Papadopoulos, the former president of the Republic of Cyprus, a year after his death.
A simple genetic “flick switch” can transform female ovary cells into male testicular ones according to scientists who have been experimenting on mice.
My dad read me Jack London's The Call of the Wild when I was nine. I graduated from high school in a city that makes a big deal of its […]
There have been myriad memorable speeches, and memorable lines, from our current President, but perhaps today's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech will be remembered as his finest. Its lyricism was notable, […]