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		<title>Million-Dollar Makeover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Light has come to the St. Agnes Library. After a two-year renovation, during which the branch was shuttered, St. Agnes is slated to reopen its doors Feb. 11 and welcome the neighborhood into a bright, airy new space.
Caryl Soriano, the network manager for 19 New York Public Library branches, including St. Agnes, said she is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4314</link>
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		<title>McCourt High School Recruiting Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Frank McCourt High School slated to open in September, administrators are starting the recruiting and application phase to assemble the first class of freshmen.
The high school, housed on the Brandeis High School campus at 145 W. 84th St. between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, will be open to students in all five boroughs. Named after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4310</link>
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		<title>Why We Need Non-Partisan Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our city, state and nation are at an historic political crossroads. Citizen resentment and cynicism about partisanship and our elected leaders is at an all-time high.
In Albany, our legislators have become synonymous with dysfunction. Scandals have taken down a governor and comptroller, and a dramatic State Senate coup last summer brought government to a standstill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4308</link>
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		<title>Help Wanted, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After grad school, I pushed and pulled my life so that I could immigrate to Manhattan.
I was in love. With everything here.
I remember telling my grandmother how I loved studying each different ethnic face on subways. My ardor was undiminished even when she worried from San Diego that I should move to a safer place.
These [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4306</link>
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		<title>Monday Morning Football Flashback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My only son announced that Jerry Rice will be voted into the upcoming 2010 Hall of Fame Class during Super Bowl weekend. He specifically relayed this factoid to me because he knows that Rice will always hold a special place in my heart—not because of his maneuvers on the football field, but because of his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4304</link>
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		<title>A Dream for Dr. King</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please consider how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, dream could apply to so much that we need. To me, the non-violence dream, above all, means protecting the innocent and enforcing the laws that ensure public safety, government’s first Constitutional duty. Fire and crime fighting forces should not be reduced, nor should hospitals and schools be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4302</link>
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		<title>Support for Paterson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To the Editor:
While it may help to compare New York to some other state governments (New Jersey, California) that are arguably even more dysfunctional than our own Empire State, it’s a poor consolation (“The Right Reforms,” Editorial, Jan. 14).
This is not even a partisan battle. Entrenched thinking, special interests and sweetheart deals have long polluted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4300</link>
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		<title>The 51st State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To the Editor:
The Jimmy Breslin Q&#38;A (Jan. 28) was a wonderful trip down memory lane. It reminded me of a great idea put forward by the team of Norman Mailer/Jimmy Breslin in the 1969 Democratic mayoral primary. They proposed making New York City the 51st state. Considering the historic imbalance of tax dollars going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4298</link>
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		<title>Artful Fundraiser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the summer of 2007, Upper West Sider Omri Bloch returned from the second of two six-month trips around the world. His itinerary included developing countries like Cambodia, Malawi and Zambia, an experience he said was both interesting and moving.
That fall, he combined lessons from his travels with a budding interest in photography to co-found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4296</link>
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		<title>Diplomatic Sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know how to read action movies or do you simply obey advertising hype? From Paris With Love delivers the minimal spills and thrills to those who like action movies for escapist release, yet beyond its hype, it is also politically aware filmmaking—without the sanctimoniousness of Syriana, United 93 or The Messenger. Those films [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4294</link>
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