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Here’s a Music Video I Did With Some of My Former Students in the South Bronx About the Drop Out Crisis The Movement: Droppin Out Recently, President Barack Obama pledged his efforts as well as $900 million to stop the national high school drop out crisis. The efforts of one leader and money are not […]

From the NY Times: WASHINGTON — President Obama, beginning his final push for a health care overhaul, called for Congress to allow an “up or down vote” on the measure, and sketched out an ambitious — and, some Democrats said, unrealistic — timetable for his party to pass a bill on its own within weeks.

From the NY Daily News: Gov. David Paterson’s communications director Peter Kauffmann has resigned his post, effective close of business today.

SAN BERNARDO, Chile — The Desarmes family left their native Haiti two weeks after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, joining the eldest son in Chile for what seemed a refuge from the fear and chaos of Port-au-Prince. Their sense of security lasted barely a month. It was shattered at 3:43 a.m. Saturday when one of […]

The walls have been closing in on Paterson for weeks (with plenty of help from the NY Times, which is enthusiastically reporting every detail and angle of his downfall).

From CNN: John Gaeta received a letter of apology this week from the man who shot him point-blank in the neck at a Louisiana mall in 2002.