Each night as a child, Connie Roberts stroked her white plastic rosary beads, recited her prayers and curled up in her comfortless bed at the Mount Carmel Industrial School for Girls, in Ireland’s Midlands region. She often heard screams echo through the cavernous institution.
Now 52, Roberts can still hear them in her head. They were, she said, “the worst.”
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By Scott Brinton
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7/22/15
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Harry Chapin’s tragic death has now faded into the background, but his music and philanthropic contributions retain their vital significance.
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By Karen Bloom
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7/15/15
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The acclaimed trio shares some spirited harmonies when they take to the stage this weekend.
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6/3/15
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Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, are the targets of a federal criminal inquiry, according to sources cited by the New York Times.
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By Alex Costello
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4/22/15
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Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, are the sources of a federal criminal inquiry, according to sources cited by the New York Times.
According to the Times, which published an article late Wednesday …
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By Alex Costello
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4/15/15
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Victory or death. On the freezing-cold night of Dec. 25, 1776, George Washington crossed the ice-choked Delaware River with those code words assigned to each soldier.
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2/5/15
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Last month, many readers of The New York Times were outraged to learn that columnist David Brooks’s son is serving with the Israel Defense Forces.
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10/29/14
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The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has claimed more than 2,300 victims. There are close to 4,500 known cases, and they are no longer isolated to West Africa. So far in the U.S. as I write . . .
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10/23/14
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Every year, London's West End and our Broadway exchange exciting plays and musicals. This year, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, winner of seven Olivier Awards, including Best Play, …
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10/23/14
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Charles A. Frisch, a famed Long Island entrepreneur, built a house in 1909 at what was formerly 109 Martin Ave., before his son, Charles Jr., was born. About a hundred years later, Walter Eisenhardt …
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By Julie Mansmann
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10/22/14
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