Archive for the ‘Blogroll’ Category

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Resigns Because …

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

… there’s a hobgoblin on her tail.

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We All Gonna’ Die And Most Departures Won’t Make the Evening News But RIP Michael Jackson

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Mom called me around 9 a.m. September 11, 2001, to tell me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.

“Turn on the television,” she said.

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Protected: WORD Editor Back in Three Weeks (Check Out This Photo Documentary)

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

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ER: I Blame George Clooney, Trapper John, Dr. Kildare, Marcus Welby, Doogie Howser And the Like

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Since May 30, Saturday, because of a bike accident, I’ve been to two emergency rooms, the first via ambulance in Jersey City, and the second in Manhattan via PATH and taxi, and have made office visits to two Manhattan doctors, one to my personal physician who referred me to a podiatrist, who told me I really needed to see an orthopedic specialist. He told me to rush to NYU’s orthopedics emergency room where a NYU orthopedics ER doc told me what I suspected when I was in the Jersey City Medical Center but couldn’t get anyone there to take serious my concerns: My Achilles tendon was mangled, to what degree she couldn’t determine because the NYU MRI folks had left at 7 p.m.

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Lori Berenson Update: Her Newborn Baby Is Salvador Anespori Apari Berenson

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

From Mark & Rhoda Berenson:

To Friends and Supporters of Lori Berenson – Despite the odds she faced owing to compromised health after 13.5 years of incarceration in harsh Peruvian prison environments, Lori gave birth Wednesday morning May 6 in Lima. Salvador Anespori Apari Berenson was delivered via Caesarian-section due to Lori’s precarious back condition that will require delicate spinal surgery to prevent permanent nerve damage.  Surgery will be scheduled after she recovers from childbirth.

File Photo: Lori in a Lima Courtroom, March 22, 2001

File Photo: Lori in a Lima Courtroom, March 22, 2001

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“Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes” – New York Times

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

So, what do students think about this? The question to be posed sometime March 18 on Hunter-L, the College’s main listserv for general info and communication for the Hunter community, this being this New York Times article. The Big Question to be put to the students: Should I reconsider my default grade, B?

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Hunter’s Erstwhile Renaissance Woman Says …

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

… that for now she only accepts $$$ for movie projects and she is appearing in several soon-to-be released pics.

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Don’t Forget This Date

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Wednesday, May 7: 21-1. A Second Referendum: The Ewenian legacy continues. Academic departments get the chairs that they deserve.

Apologies for this cryptic message. It will make sense later this fall.

Senior Editor/Producer Jonathan Mena And Writer/Reporter Kisha Allison at the New Hampshire Primaries

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

They hit New Hampshire running, arriving Monday, January 7, in South Boston, via Amtrack, and then hopping a bus ride about an hour later to Manchester where they were hoping to catch up with members of the Independent Press Association of New York (soon – we’re talking days – to become known as the New York Community Media Alliance) which had arrived about an hour before them.

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