July 14, 2016: Before the horror unfolded, it was a joyous Bastille Day in France, and the citizens of Nice, a seaside resort town on the French Riviera, were celebrating the occasion with a parade and a …
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By Mary Malloy
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7/15/16
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Nazi fighter planes suddenly swooped in, strafing the ground with machine-gun fire, as U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Frank DePergola raced a Jeep through a forest in Luxembourg as the end of World War II approached, with a lieutenant in the passenger seat.
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By Scott Brinton
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1/20/16
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Frances Rosalie Bye, who worked for Security National Bank and Chemical Bank, raised four children and was dedicated to her Lutheran faith, died April 17 of natural causes. She was 93.
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5/28/15
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Occasionally, maybe once every 300 years, France actually does something that is intuitively correct, progressive and ethically enlightened.
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3/26/15
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Rudy D’Amico had quite a storied basketball career before his current gig coaching the Cougars.
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By Stephen Levine
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2/26/15
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Merrick’s Noah Rubin, a freshman at Wake Forest University and the 2014 Wimbledon Junior singles champion, helped lead Team USA to the Master U’ BNP Paribas World Collegiate Championship recently.
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By Scott Brinton
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1/28/15
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"China Then and Now" explores three millennia of one of the world’s most important artistic traditions, going all the way back to the first millennium.
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By Karen Bloom
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1/21/15
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The very word “French” has its connotations, of cancans and certain kinds of kisses and naughty movies, not to mention postcards.
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9/26/13
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As World War II raged in May 1943, Bernard Rader was called to battle. The then 19-year-old Brooklynite, two years into college, welcomed the draft notice that he received by telegram.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/19/13
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When I heard that President Obama was playing golf with Tiger Woods two weekends ago, I wondered if the event might be interpreted as a kind of presidential pardon.
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2/28/13
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