I watched the sun set this week down at a storm-ravaged beach, and I realized that while the sun rises and the sun sets, pretty much everything else changes.
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11/23/12
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What I saw: lines of people, bundled against the cold, gas containers in hand, waiting, shuffling their feet to keep warm, waiting even longer than they thought possible for enough gasoline to get their cars going.
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11/15/12
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The most stunning image I saw in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy was a YouTube video of a huge carp hanging from a pole in the parking lot of the Woodmere Middle School on Peninsula Boulevard.
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11/15/12
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I couldn’t wait for November. Once the calendar page turned, Breast Cancer Awareness Month was officially over.
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11/2/12
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Undecided women voters, especially on Long Island, came into sharp focus during the Hofstra presidential debate.
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10/24/12
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I recently went clothes shopping. In my life, that’s a once-a-year event to pick up some more black cardigans to wear over my black pants.
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10/18/12
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Bring back the Explainer in Chief! The last time I understood a policy presentation was when former President Bill Clinton explained the economy, the debt and taxes to us at the Democratic National Convention.
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10/11/12
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There was a time when you got bad news from good old-fashioned clerks, operators and bill collectors. The bad news bearers were real humans who dialed your number and stated their business.
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10/4/12
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Kofi Annan was on the Jon Stewart show last week. Asked to evaluate the state of the world at the moment, the former secretary general of the United Nations said we are in pretty much of a “mess.”
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9/27/12
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If you’re a Navy SEAL, you don’t kill and tell.
Author Matt Bissonnette, the ex-SEAL who wrote a firsthand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, is self-aggrandizing at best and disloyal at worst.
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9/20/12
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