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Shooter Takes Deadly Toll at Virginia Tech

Cho Writings Highlight a Writing Class Quandary

April 18, 2007 • Virginia Tech gunman Seung-hui Cho revealed a troubling level of violence in his creative writing class. Creative writing instructors are in a unique position to observe the emotional lives of their students. They also walk a fine line in judging what is creative and what is dangerous.

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Politics

Dusting Off American Communist Archives

April 16, 2007 • New York University's Tamiment Library recently inherited the complete archive of the American Communist Party, including millions of photos and correspondence by some of the party's most infamous members.

Dusting Off American Communist Archives

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National

Sculpting a New York Park in Sound

March 23, 2007 • Take a walk through New York City's Madison Square Park, and you might be surprised by the sounds reverberating through it. Bird songs, bell chimes and traffic sounds all interwoven to form the latest creation of sound artist Bill Fontana.

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Race

Douglass Memorial Sparks Debate on Art vs. History

March 5, 2007 • Did slaves use secretly coded quilt patterns to help plan their escapes on the Underground Railroad? Many historians have their doubts. The design for a new Frederick Douglass memorial sparks a debate pitting oral tradition against documented historical fact.

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Religion

Filmmaker Cameron Claims to Find 'Tomb of Jesus'

February 27, 2007 • Titanic director James Cameron says he has found the remains of Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene and a son named Judah. Scholars are skeptical. A documentary, The Lost Tomb of Jesus, will debut March 4 on the Discovery Channel.

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The Immigration Debate

NYU Immigration Game Draws Protests

February 23, 2007 • Members of New York University's student Republican Club put on a game called "Find the Illegal Immigrant," an event that draws hundreds of protesters. Some call the game offensive and even racist, but the president of the club says it draws attention to an issue that needs debate.

NYU Immigration Game Draws Protests

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The College Admissions Game

Some Top Students Look for Hidden-Gem Colleges

February 22, 2007 • It's a mini-trend among high school students. Some are choosing small, lesser-known schools over more prestigious colleges. They say they want to go to a college that fits who they are.

Some Top Students Look for Hidden-Gem Colleges

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The College Admissions Game

Colleges Want to Cool Admissions Frenzy

February 22, 2007 • College presidents are trying to reduce the frenzy surrounding the admissions process through small changes. The goal is to reduce anxiety among applicants and offer more help for low-income students who want to go to selective schools.

Colleges Want to Cool Admissions Frenzy

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Performing Arts

New York Critics Hail 'Heights' Composer

February 20, 2007 • Dominican/Cuban composer Lin-Manuel Miranda is drawing critical praise for mixing salsa, meringue, hip-hop and other Latin styles with traditional Broadway fare. In the Heights is set in Washington Heights, a primarily Latino neighborhood in northern Manhattan.

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World

Letters of Anne Frank's Father Uncovered

February 14, 2007 • Newly discovered letters written by Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank, detail his efforts to get his family out of Nazi-occupied Holland in 1941 and emigrate to the United States or Cuba.

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Arts & Life

Lights, Camera, Action on a Museum Wall

January 20, 2007 • 'Sleepwalkers' is a new film that projects moving images onto the outdoor walls of New York's Museum of Modern Art. The interweaving narratives follow the lives of five characters as they awaken and make their way to work.

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National

Hunger on the Rise in New York City

December 31, 2006 • Wages are not keeping up with the notoriously high cost of living in New York City. Food bank workers say they're seeing more working families, single women with children and immigrants.

Hunger on the Rise in New York City

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Arts & Life

African Artists Display Continent in Comic Strips

December 28, 2006 • The Studio Museum in Harlem is showing a first-ever U.S. exhibit of comic strips from Africa. Three dozen artists deal with postmodern daily life and the problems facing 20 African countries: war, corruption, poverty, sexism and child slavery.

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Saving a Family Marzipan Christmas Tradition

December 23, 2006 • One family's holiday tradition -- hanging marzipan pringles on the Christmas tree -- was briefly imperiled by the closing of a Manhattan candy store. Then despair was followed by a decision to get baking.

Saving a Family Marzipan Christmas Tradition

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Religion

Rabbis Discuss Judaism's Relationship with Gays

December 6, 2006 • Conservative Jews are struggling to redefine the role of gays in their congregations. An advisory panel of conservative rabbis is meeting in New York to consider changes to the movement's ban on gay rabbis and same-sex commitment ceremonies.

Rabbis Discuss Judaism's Relationship with Gays

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