All Divisions of Horace Mann School will be closed from Wednesday, May 20, 2009 through Monday, May 25, 2009. The School will reopen on Tuesday, May 26, 2009.
On Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Tiki Barber of Tiki Recreation will be announcing the donation and permanent placement of a playground at Cedar Playground in the Bronx.
The following is the transcribed remarks of Geoffrey Canada, CEO and President of the Harlem Children’s Zone, who delivered the Colgate University commencement address on May 17, 2009. Thank you Madame President, the trustees, the
Today, in advance of a Con Ed shareholders meeting on Monday, and with two deadly home explosions within two years, Councilman Eric Gioia (D-Queens), Chairman of the Council Committee on Oversight and Investigations, called for
The current governing paradigm in most Middle Eastern countries is marked by executive supremacy unbridled by any legal body or branch of government to restrain the oppressive power of the ruler. Bereft of a legitimate
As a country economically, culturally, and politically disparate from its neighbors, Israel represents a democratic bastion in a region rife with stagnant, totalitarian regimes. Zionism yielded a state born of immigrants from various backgrounds bound
Hezbollah emerged in Lebanon as a corollary to a foreign intrusion by a country deemed the anathema of the Islamic world. In 1982, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon subsequently spawned the force that was to
There was a great deal of talk late last year and in early 2009 about corruption in Illinois politics, highlighted by the desire of former Governor Rod Blagojevich to in effect sell President Barack Obama’s