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American Icons: “Fiddler on the Roof”

Arts, Culture & Media

How a milkman from a Russian shtetl became a Broadway star and a hero of postwar American culture.

New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority to Run an Anti-Islam Ad Campaign it Finds ‘Demeaning’

Conflict & Justice
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Laughing at 9/11

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How 9/11 changed comedy

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Sky Express May Have Defied Feds

Conflict & Justice
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Are Cheap Buses Safe?

The federal government shut down the Sky Express bus company indefinitely following a crash on Tuesday which killed four passengers and injured 50. The bus, traveling from Raleigh, North Carolina to New York City, was one of three major crashes involving discount, long-distance bus companies in the Northeast in May alone.   These bus accidents are […]

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