Start Of School Marks True New Year
      The summer of 2009 will come to an official end two weeks from now on September 22, the day of the autumnal equinox when the sun is vertically above a point on the earth's equator, day and night are of equal length and autumn begins. For 1.1 million New York City schoolchildren, however, today, September 9 marks the real end of summer.
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Letters to the Editor
      Avoid VAT Trap To The Editor: President Obama said, while running in the Democratic primaries, that he supported a healthcare reform plan that would be based on free will, not compulsion or coercion. But all the Congressional plans approved mandate garnishment of wages if the citizen refuses to purchase insurance.
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Getting Our New School Year Off On The Right Foot
BY MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
      In just two weeks, starting from August 27, our public school students will be going back to class. We've got every reason to believe that they'll pick up right where they left off last school year- a year when across the city, elementary and middle school students at every grade level continued to make impressive gains, as measured by the state's standardized tests,
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