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		<title>The Bard Comes to Park Avenue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a six-week, five-play residency at the Park Avenue Armory for summer 2011. The run, part of the Lincoln Center Festival, is scheduled to last from July 6 to Aug. 14, 2011, and will feature 45 performances of five Shakespeare plays, which will be selected from the company’s 2009 and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtownny.com/?p=5326</link>
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		<title>Millrose Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jamaica’s Sheree Francis clears the bar in the high jump event during the 103rd Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden. Francis took home first place with her jump of 1.88 meters at the annual track and field event, held Jan. 29. Photo by Andrew Schwartz.

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		<link>http://ourtownny.com/?p=5316</link>
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		<title>Subway Lawsuit Filed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Residents at a co-op on  Second Avenue and East 69th Street are fed up with the MTA’s plan for a ventilation structure next to their building and have filed a federal lawsuit against the transit authority. The plaintiffs claim that the building design residents saw at a Nov. 30, 2009 Community Board 8 meeting greatly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtownny.com/?p=5314</link>
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		<title>McCourt High School Recruiting Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Frank McCourt High School slated to open in September, administrators are starting the recruiting and application phase to assemble the first class of freshmen.
The high school, housed on the Brandeis High School campus at 145 W. 84th St. between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, will be open to students in all five boroughs. Named after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtownny.com/?p=5312</link>
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		<title>Why We Need Non-Partisan Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our city, state and nation are at an historic political crossroads. Citizen resentment and cynicism about partisanship and our elected leaders is at an all-time high.
In Albany, our legislators have become synonymous with dysfunction. Scandals have taken down a governor and comptroller, and a dramatic State Senate coup last summer brought government to a standstill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtownny.com/?p=5309</link>
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		<title>Saujani Launches Congress Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the back of a packed East Village coffee shop, about five miles away from Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s Upper East Side base, Reshma Saujani kicked off her campaign to unseat the nine-term incumbent.
Saujani, 34, held the event at Everyman Espresso, across the street from an NYU career development center on East 13th Street, between Third [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtownny.com/?p=5307</link>
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		<title>Monday Morning Football Flashback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My only son announced that Jerry Rice will be voted into the upcoming 2010 Hall of Fame Class during Super Bowl weekend. He specifically relayed this factoid to me because he knows that Rice will always hold a special place in my heart—not because of his maneuvers on the football field, but because of his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtownny.com/?p=5305</link>
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		<title>The 51st State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To the Editor:
The Jimmy Breslin Q&#38;A (Jan. 28) was a wonderful trip down memory lane. It reminded me of a great idea put forward by the team of Norman Mailer/Jimmy Breslin in the 1969 Democratic mayoral primary. They proposed making New York City the 51st state. Considering the historic imbalance of tax dollars going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtownny.com/?p=5303</link>
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		<title>Support for Paterson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To the Editor:
While it may help to compare New York to some other state governments (New Jersey, California) that are arguably even more dysfunctional than our own Empire State, it’s a poor consolation (“The Right Reforms,” Editorial, Jan. 14).
This is not even a partisan battle. Entrenched thinking, special interests and sweetheart deals have long polluted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtownny.com/?p=5301</link>
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		<title>Help Wanted, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After grad school, I pushed and pulled my life so that I could immigrate to Manhattan.
I was in love. With everything here.
I remember telling my grandmother how I loved studying each different ethnic face on subways. My ardor was undiminished even when she worried from San Diego that I should move to a safer place.
These [...]]]></description>
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