Tag: South Carolina
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Living ‘Black’ in the United States of America
And living to tell the tales. Traffic was heavy on Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights on my way home to Ridgewood, NJ, after work on Wednesday, which wasn’t exactly news. But, as I approached a stretch where Route 46 and Interstate 80 go over Route 17, traffic eased and I saw the reason why. Rubbernecking…
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Non-union shop*
Let’s see. BMWs have never been my favorite. I’m all for innovation and cutting-edge engineering but there’s something to be said for beauty, too. While BMWs have always had a reputation for the former and, as to the latter, beauty has always been in the eye of the beholder. This writer from the Telegraph in…
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“A.B.M.”
The Clintons and the national media covering the Democratic Party race for the presidential nomination have broken out a new story line regarding Barack Obama: That he’s “angry” and “frustrated.” Hillary Clinton practically taunts him with this. It does not help that the media has not only totally bought into this, they’re mischaracterizing their news…
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THEIR FEAR OF FLYING OVERCOME BY WRECK
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, August 1, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | One Star | NEWS | Page A10 Richard Umbrino Jr. and Arthur Colombino took the train back from a Florida vacation because they were afraid to fly. But after their experiences aboard the ill-fated Amtrak Silver Star, which…
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ANGRY N.J. SURVIVOR CITES DELAY IN RESCUE
By Elizabeth Auster and Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writers | Thursday, August 1, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | Four Star B | NEWS | Page A10 “You have no idea how horrifying this has been.” It was 9 p.m., 16 hours after the disaster. But Peter Cepeda, pacing agitatedly in Washington’s Union Station…