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Anthony Weiner Talks Health Care on Staten Island Morning Read: ‘Tailor Messages Based on Brands of Toilet Paper’Mayoral Candidates Sound Pretty Skeptical of Regulation-Skirting ‘Disruptors’

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Morning Media Mix Michael Hastings Dies In Car Accident Michael Cooper Moves to The Times Culture Desk

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Prada Intifada: With Luxury Chains Driving Soho Rents to Record Levels, Shops and Eateries Are Elbowed Out By $4,500 Purses On the Market: Beer "CSA" Launches In Long Island City; Gays Have a Harder Time Finding Housing; A $2 Billion Offer For the Empire State Building Alms for the Upper Middle Class: Subsidized Apartments Aim at $200K Earners

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To Error Is Human: The Slapstick Shakespeare in the Park Is Irresistible Stare Thee Well: Eye-Gazing Parties Aren't Just for Pick-Up Artists Anymore Write Man in the Palais: Michael Azerrad's New Site Brings DIY Ethos and Peer Review to Music Criticism

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The Next Flood Waste Not Keep the City Safe

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By Jimmy Vielkind 8/12/09 4:23pm

Paterson’s Court Friends, Skelos’ Court Friends

ALBANY—Groups and scholars on both sides of the court case related to the constitutionality of David Paterson's appointment of Richard Ravitch have filed amicus briefs ahead of a court hearing August 17.

The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a brief last week supporting the governor's position–that Ravitch's appointment is appropriate Read More

By Azi Paybarah 10/22/07 7:42pm

Expert: Courts Unlikely to Look Kindly on Dopp Tactic

So, what to make of Darren Dopp’s refusal to obey a subpoena from the state legislature, claiming executive privilege?

“I don’t see anything specific that’s going to be directly related to this,” said Peter Galie, chair of the department of political science at Caisius College in Buffalo, after Read More

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