Holiday Season Belongs To Us All
Editorial
     A few holiday seasons ago, clerks in some stores were reprimanded for wishing their customers “Merry Christmas” as they finished ringing up a sale. The proper formula, they were told, was a nonsectarian “Happy Holidays”. This year, the situation is different. Customers are to be sent on their way w
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Simple Steps Will Help Prevent Tragic Fires
Op—ed
By Mayor Michael Bloomberg
     Recently, the holiday season turned tragic for the Gaston family, when a fire ripped through their home in Elmhurst, claiming the lives of three of their children and an elderly man who was in the same building. But the most heartbreaking part of this story is that the blaze could easily have been
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Beg Pardon
     The article “Press Need For Affordable Housing In Queens West” by John Toscano on page 11 of the December 14 edition of the
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Letters
Christmas Past To The Editor:
     Christmas is almost here and there is much for most of us to do, gifts to buy and to wrap, a few more cards to send out, even a few more decorations to put up. It is also a time to reflect about troubles in the world, like the ongoing war in Iraq and more people dying, not to mention terrorist attac
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