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- Court: NY can seize property for new NJ Nets arena
- ALBANY, N.Y. — New York's top court ruled Tuesday that the state can use eminent domain to force homeowners and businesses to sell their properties for a massive development in Brooklyn that includes a new arena for the New Jersey Nets. In…
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- Poll Puts Gray Over Fenty In 2010: Loose Lips Daily
- AFTER THE JUMP--- Protesters settle with city for $13.7M; Serrano says vouchers should be D.C.'s problem, not his; WaPo ed board smacks Gray for obstructionism; WaPo looks at the Pamela Butler whodunit; archdiocese warns that if vouchers…
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- The majority is much too deferential to the self-serving ...
- Earlier today New York’s highest court upheld the state’s controversial use of eminent domain on behalf of real estate tycoon Bruce Ratner and his Atlantic Yards/basketball stadium project. Not only does this disastrous 6-1 decision put…
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- The spirit of this season: Be thankful, spend less
- NEW YORK — Sometime in the 1980s, when he was living on the street, the kid who later became the seminal rapper KRS-One stopped at the Bowery Mission for a sandwich. He doesn't recall what kind, only that it was served with respect. On…
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- Lexington Realty Trust Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results
- NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lexington Realty Trust ("Lexington") (NYSE: LXP), a real estate investment trust focused on single-tenant real estate investments, today announced results for the third quarter ended September 30,…
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- U.N.: 150,000 still in Sri Lankan camps
- headquarters in New York, Holmes said that the Sri Lankan government showed "good ... He said that many of those released from the camps were returning to villages where their homes and possessions had been destroyed by acts of war and…
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- Regular series key Nielsen win for CBS
- NEW YORK - CBS flexed its strength in scripted series to sail to the top of the weekly television standings. Of the 11 most popular dramas or comedies in prime-time last week, 10 were CBS shows, the Nielsen Co. said. ABC's "Grey's Anatomy"…
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- Take Notice of the Sustainability Factor and the Disposable…
- New York City ships 12,000 tons of garbage to places as far away as Virginia. Athens, Greece ran out of space for their 6,000 ton daily refuse pileups and had to beg the EU to help them. There are floating refuse dumps in both the Pacific…
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Natural News.com- "Cancer of fraud" permeates healthcare system
- MIAMI - It's a crime so profitable that even dead people are in on the act. A U.S. Senate committee revealed last year that public health insurer Medicare had paid as much as $92 million from 2000 to 2007 for medical services or equipment…
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- What Facebook Can't Give You
- Before there was Facebook, there was the Wednesday 10. In 1957, as men in their late 20s, they began meeting—initially over breakfast, then over dinners held at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel or at the Harvard Club in midtown Manhattan. Few…
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