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The Borough of Manhattan Community College’s library occupies the fourth floor of its TriBeCa campus. It has a beautiful view in the middle of a neighborhood that was long ago ceded to the elite by way of inflated property values, and it belongs to students whose families are likely to make less than $20,000 a year. Pleasing scenery may seem utterly superfluous to education, but as evidence of actually existing democracy on an island largely governed by real estate speculation, it is priceless. BMCC, like other City University of New York campuses, are reminders that people without money don’t just deserve some job training; they deserve a good education that might even involve some
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Kashimawo Laloko, ex-NFF director, dies at 76 Kashimawo Laloko, former technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), is dead.Advertisement The 76-year-old was said to have died at Sacred Hearts catholic hospital in Abeokuta on Sunday, after.
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Today, I will share my ongoing interactions with the local health insurance system over the last eight months.
My goal is to provide information about how this system – defined as the insurance providers, intermediaries, other service providers, doctors, nurses, public and private hospitals, and diagnostic services such as laboratories, X-ray, imaging, and the CT scan, parts of the medical service supply chain – works to meet the needs of the consumer (a.k.a. patient, policyholder, or caregiver).
I hope that by publishing information about my family’s experiences during an incredibly stressful, emotionally draining. and financially difficult period, ignoring to some degree the COVID-19 impacts – so that other persons can avoid or minimise the many obstacles that we faced. This article paints a different picture from that of Erold Dixon, 68. He said, according to this newspaper on December 12, that he was “cushioned by two health insurance plans”.
Deacon Alfred J. Thompson, a spiritual leader at churches from shore to shore, dies at 92
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
Posted Dec 19, 2020
From the left, Rev. Terry Troia, Deacon Alfred J. Thompson and his son, James Thompson in Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church, Tompkinsville. (Courtesy/Jane Thompson)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Deacon Alfred J. Thompson, a spiritual leader and faithful servant of God at both Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church in Tompkinsville and the Church of the Holy Child in Eltingville, died peacefully Dec. 17 in Staten Island University Hospital, Prince’s Bay, after a bout with pneumonia. His age was 92.
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President-elect Joe Biden says ‘America first’ is history. But is the U.S. as world leader history, too? We discuss Biden’s foreign policy team and America’s place on the world stage.
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Peter Beinart, contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and editor-at-large for Jewish Currents. Professor of journalism at the City University of New York. (@PeterBeinart)
Shaun Breslin, professor of politics and international studies at the University of Warwick. He led the EU’s GREEN Project, which studied the U.S. role in the evolving global order.
Kimberly Atkins, senior opinion writer for the Boston Globe. (@KimberlyEAtkins)