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FAMILY MATTER: Subway Station Agent Gale Broughton and her daughter, Sezlyn
Petersen, were among those who came to City Hall March 3 to rally opposition
to the closing of token booths. (03.11.05)
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FOR A DETERMINED PATIENT: Neurosurgeon Dr. Roger Hartl says Firefighter
Eugene Stolowski's mental toughness played a large role in his ability
to survive a serious spinal injury that had left him near death. (03.04.05)
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| KERRY COMES TO HARLEM: With Sen. Hillary Clinton and Congressman Charles B. Rangel looking on, Sen. John Kerry tells an audience at City College April 14 that he will make his campaign against President Bush something more than 'slogans and 30-second advertisements and continuing to dupe people by pretending to deal with issues rather than really dealing with issues.' (2004) | ||||||||||
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TO TRIUMPH: Retired Police Officer Isabelle Redman grins after receiving
the Purple Shield at the NYPD's Medal Day. Ten years after being critically
injured in the crash of her patrol car, Ms. Redman has started a second
career as an Assistant District Attorney and lectures cops on safe driving.
(6/25/04)
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TO REFLECT ON: Firefighter Pete Critsimilios of Ladder Co. 40 in Harlem
and his daughter, Cassandra, take a look at one of the proposed designs
for the World Trade Center Memorial that were unveiled Nov. 19, 2003,
in the Winter Garden.
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ACTIONS DETAILED: Firefighter Patrick McCarvill is among those who want
the World Trade Center Memorial to provide descriptions of the heroic
actions of the emergency rescue personnel who died during its destruction.
Such descriptions, he said, would offer answers 50 years from now to visitors
who asked, 'Why were so many firefighters killed?'
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 | SPEAK SOFTLY AND DON'T CHARGE THE MOUND?: The perception that Governor Pataki was behind a state corporation's scuttling of a crucial city bond deal reportedly has some mayoral advisers urging Mr. Bloomberg to take the bat off his shoulder, but the mayor, pictured at a police/fire stickball contest a few hours before the veto, is not ready to start swinging at his fellow Republicans. (8/15/03)
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IN THE AIR: With union leaders and fellow elected officials looking on,
U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton demands an investigation into why Environmental
Protection Agency officials assured the public a week after the World
Trade Center's destruction that the air in the vicinity was 'safe to breathe'
although it had yet to conduct several key tests that uncovered high levels
of toxic materials. (9/5/03)
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| WHO HASN'T SACRIFICED?: District Council 37 members came to City Hall despite the rain Oct. 28 to urge Mayor Bloomberg to give them a new wage contract and to counter his claims that the unions haven't contributed to helping the city out of its fiscal problems. One protester said of the Mayor, 'He acts as if the subway fare increases and tax increases don't affect us. We pay them.' (2003) | ||||||||||
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TO DUTY EARLY: Probationary Police Officer Michael Acosta, who began his
training on July 1, directs traffic Aug. 15 on the Manhattan side of the
Williamsburg Bridge. Police Academy cadets were pressed into service in
the Herculean effort to keep the city's traffic flowing at major intersections
when the blackout knocked out traffic signals. (2003)
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