New Speaker, New Ideas
Editorial
     Another page of history was written into the annals of New York City government and the City Council last week when Councilmember Christine Quinn was elected by her colleagues in the 51-member city legislature as the first woman and the first gay woman ever to occupy the powerful office of Council S
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Timely Information Not Always Feasible
     A Chicago newspaper was so certain of the outcome of the 1948 presidential election that it set its front page headline and sent the morning edition to the presses a good six hours before the results came in. The next day, a photograph of a grinning re-elected Harry S Truman holding up the paper wit
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Letters
Save The RKO Keith’s To The Editor:
     Rarely have I read a bigger self-serving pile of dog droppings than the letter from Chuck Apelian of Community Board 7 praising Chairperson Meenakshi Srinivasan and the Board of Standards and Appeals for the “shining example” of the RKO Keith’s Theater fiasco.
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Democracy: Different Things To Different People
Op—ed
By Martin H. Levinson To The Editor:
     The word democracy is frequently in the news these days. But that word is not so easily defined.
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