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Cynthia McKinney for
President?
 Viva Chavez
A Fine Time for the NSA
by Maurice
Hinchey
Posted on 11-28-2006
Among other things, we specifically requested that IG Fine
investigate: whether the president, the attorney general, and the director of
the NSA violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by establishing and
carrying out the program; who within the DOJ first authorized the domestic
surveillance program and what that official's justification was for doing so; if
the Bush administration had already enacted the program before getting original
DOJ approval...
Read the entire article.
Hey
Maurice: Tell me MORA!  Democracy
Democracy Now! Amy Goodman
Rocks the House
by
Robert Miraldi
 No News is Bad News
by Robert Miraldi
Posted on 11-16-2006
On a Sunday night, when the New York Times
has been picked over, the morning talk shows are long gone
and when “60 Minutes” is done, I turn to radio.
Radio in the Hudson Valley – and what a vast wasteland I find.
Read the entire article.
 Ticked
With... Rachel Lagodka Posted on
11-13-2006
When I
came out of the woods the other day and checked myself for ticks I found one
burrowed into my belly and yanked it out. Soon after the classic circular
pattern emerged around the bite indicative of Lyme’s disease...
Read the entire article.
 Knick
Picking: Time of Knick
by Greg Olear
Posted on 11-03-06
I love his dreads and
sleepy-eyed nonchalance. Watch him clap on the bench—he looks like he’s
stoned! Already my favorite player on the team.
Read the entire article.
The Capitalist Times
by Robert Miraldi
Posted on 9-5-2006
The press is never a great forum for
debating major questions of social science,
such as whether a pure uncoerced communism would be a better
way to organize ourselves than capitalism. And that is certainly a big debate
and a big question. Read the entire article.
 Swimming
is supposed to be hard. It's not supposed to feel especially good
-- even though logic suggests that the best way to move in water is to
move like water.
Read the entire article.
The New Coach in Swimtown
Posted on
9-07-06
by
Erin Quinn
 Unlike
the brashness of a Bobby Knight or a seasoned, sweet-smiling, tobacco spitting
Yogi Bera, or a jump-in-my arms and give me a kiss-like Bela Karoli, Al-Mashat
isl...
Read the entire article.
Swimtown: New Paltz, USA
by Erin Quinn
While New Paltz is
on the map worldwide as a rock-climbing haven, it is also home to another, less
visible and less high-risk sport -- swimming.
Read the entire article.
Katie in Anchorland
by Robert Miraldi
Posted on 9-5-2006
Was Katie Couric working her way across the
streets of Darfur to see the misery there? Was she trolling around in New
Orleans to see what progress is not being made in recovery? Was she in
Afghanistan measuring a war-torn country?
Read the entire article.
 Blogger
Greg Olear Gives Birth to Baby Prudence Janice
Olear 8-29-06
The
Wonderful Wacky World of Wikipaltz
by Rachel Lagodka Posted on 9-1-2006
My friends think the WIKIpaltz is
a form of
mental illness, but I prefer to see it as a kind of Dungeons and Dragons
except people are separated on their own terminals or hanging around with
laptops half listening to the TV or the conversation. It?s certainly not
weirder than MySpace, though nobody uses it to get a date. From what they say on
the site about
Wikidiction I understand it is used either as a substitute for or as a
temporary deterrent to having sex.
Read the entire article.
A
Day in Court
by Rachel Lagodka Posted on 8-22-2006
August 21, 2006. Today was the day the three student
leaders, Justin Holmes, president, RJ Partington, vice president, and Dan
Curtis, recently deposed president of the statewide SUNY senate, were going to
have their day in criminal court. The director of Residence life, Corrinna
Caracci was pressing charges of harassment on them because of a verbal exchange
in a hallway.
Read the entire article.
The
Cinema Blues; An Open Letter to A.O.Scott
by Greg Olear
Posted on 7-3-06
What you want to know, it
seems, is why people willingly spend money to see movies they know suck. Let me
explain... Read the entire article.
Unrest
in New Paltz
by Rachel Lagodka Posted on 7-30-2006
The New Paltzers are
restless. Well at least some of them are restless enough about the war to be out
in
the pouring rain on the corner of Main Street and North Front St. in front of
the Elting Library. Pouring that is until it turns torrential for a few moments
and walls of water come down off their umbrellas.
Read the entire article.
Secrets, Surveillance, and Scapegoating
the Press
by Robert
Miraldi
Posted on 7-26-2006
?We should not know about it,? the man
said, adding,
"the press should not tell us; just get the troops
in and clean them out. In fact," he said, looking
at me, almost as if he knew I was a long-time journalist, "The press should not
even be In Iraq. They have no right to be there.?
Read the entire article.
New Paltz Nation Editorial Staff Endorses Green Party Candidate Malachy
McCourt for Governor of New
York State.
by Erin Quinn
Posted on 6-19-06l
 Why
Why I Wont vote for the Greens or Malachy: Even though I agree with them
by Carole Bell Ford
7-18-2006
Why
I Agree with Carole but am still Voting Green
by Rachel Lagodka
Posted on 7-19-2006
 Supreme
Court Deals Blow to 4th Amendment
Posted on 6-25-06
by
Eamon Martin
 Just
Another Day in the Gunks by Susan E.B. Schwartz
The question I posed in two previous blogs
? Why do people climb?? leads inexorably to the next, seemingly
inevitable question: Why do so many people climb in
the Shawangunks?
Read the entire article.
Little
Stop & Shop of Horrors
by Rachel Lagodka Posted on 6-12-2006
I walked in the door and was smacked nearly
senseless by the bright lights, the utter hugeness, the teeming humanity,
parents and their offspring lined up for giant meatballs in an orange sauce and
sparkling cider from a fountain.
Read the entire article.
 Besides
being one of the top endurance swims in the world, the proceeds from MIMS help
provide free swim instruction for thousands of underprivileged kids in the city
Read the entire article.
NPN's Launch Party Video
with a
speech and an Irish Ballad by Green
Party Gubernatorial Candidate,
Malachy McCourt. To viewthis video
click here.
HOPE,
THY NAME IS BALKMAN: A Look at the Knicks by Greg Olear
Posted on 7-3-06
When then-GM Ernie Grunfeld stole Latrell
Sprewell from the Golden State Warriors in '98, the New York media was ready to
pounce. Here was a guy who choked his coach and was suspended for a full
year!
Read the entire article.
 Front
Row
by Nina Shengold
Posted on 7-1-2006
When I
was in high school and newly in love with the theatre, I upgraded my hippie
delinquencies with a classier vice: cutting school to attend Wednesday matinees.
Read the entire article.
NPN
Launch Party - Great Success
by
Erin Quinn
I hate parties. The only thing I like less than parties, is
actually throwing one myself. But this time, I got off easy.
Read
the entire article.
Sunflowers
in New Paltz: Life and Death in the Village
by Rachel Lagodka Posted on
6-07-2006
Andrew B stars as the size guide. U.S. Secretary of
Defense William Perry stated, "Sunflowers instead of missiles in the soil would
ensure peace for future generations."
Read the entire article.
 Drop
The Rock
by Rob Robinson
There are now well over
15,000 drug offenders in NY's prisons; most of them
minor offenders with no history of violent behavior
and it costs NY taxpayers nearly $500 million a year
to imprison these drug offenders.
Read the entire article.
The
Persecution of Student Association President Justin Holmes Continues
by Rachel Lagodka Posted on
6-07-2006
I am terribly concerned about the SUNY New Paltz Administration's flagrant abuse
of their authority to undermine the student government. I am only asking tenured
professors to help with this case, but I am urging the untenured folks to
support the cause by reaffirming the right of the students to hold their own
elections without interference from the administration.
Read the entire article.
Got Gay Pride? Posted on
6-07-06
by
Erin Quinn
 Enough
is enough! While President Bush is once again exploiting the issue of same-sex
marriage to try and solidify his crumbling conservative base, the death toll in
Iraq grows. Millions of Americans are living below the poverty wage, can?t
afford health care coverage, and have to debate between gas and food while Exxon
and their oil giant cohorts post record breaking profits.
Read the entire article.
 George
Bush Signs New Immigration Law: A Journalistic Parody
Posted on 6-08-06
by
Kim Ellis
Washington, July 2006 (AP) ? Today in a ceremony
on the White House lawn, President George W. Bush signed the new Immigration
Law. ?All Americans will be proud to know that the integrity of the workforce
and the language of our great country is now assured,? stated President Bush.
He then shook the hand of the newly appointed head of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS), Henry S. Warren, former director of Human
Resources at Hellburden and Company.
Read the entire article.
Why
People Climb Part II
by Susan E.B. Schwartz
 To
someone who doesn't climb, the idea of
climbing is probably like the way I regard Olympic aerial skiing decidedly eye
catching, somewhat admirable, arguably absurd, completely unimaginable.
Read the entire article.
Three Bad Apples...
Political Cartoon by Chris Watkins Posted on 6-01-06
DON'T
YOU BELIEVE IT.
Religion and Ridicule
by Greg
Olear
 Highland,
N.Y., where I live, was founded by the Pang Yangs, a free love cult...
Read the entire article.
SUNY
New Paltz Administration Persecutes Student Association President Justin Holmes
by Rachel Lagodka
 Whatever
else you may want to say about Justin Holmes, he is a student who is being
persecuted by the SUNY administration. Did I really mean persecuted? They sent
the police to his office in the middle of the night to arrest him even though he
had not done anything wrong. I think that qualifies.
Read the entire article.
A
Matter of Equity
by Kim Ellis
When the time for state tests comes around here in
New York, most public schools make every effort to provide the optimum testing
environment for their students. Certainly the administrators and teachers want
to give the students all possible advantages, which include a quiet workplace
with plenty of light and no interruptions.
Read the entire article.
Le
Tente Rouge
by
Erin Quinn
 I?m
probably one of the few women who did not read The Red Tent. I did buy a
used copy at last year?s library fair, but when reaching for it one night I
accidentally knocked a full glass of merlot onto its porous pages making it
quite red and unreadable.
Read
the entire article.
 Getting
off the Target Tit Part 1? Posted on 5-15-06
by Melissa Halvorson
I?m not a writer, I?m a
knitter. I knit so that I don?t have to write; craft doesn?t have a
voice. Craft has utility; most writing doesn?t, and yet, as s a
non-professional writer, not even a writer really, I seem to be collecting
editors. Almost a month late with the next installment of this completely
self-indulgent rant against commercialism..
Read the entire article.
Pandora's
Joke
by Kim Ellis
?Where is that cat?? I ask myself, peering
once again out the glass door in the kitchen. Ziggy, the furry cat, showed
up right on time. But where is Pandora?
Read the entire article.
 US
Department of Justice Stonewalls Investigation...
by Maurice Hinchey
US Department
of Justice Stonewalls Investigation into who Authorized, Approved and Oversaw
the NSA?s Warrantless Domestic Spying Program.
Read the entire article.
They're
Not My Kids
by Kim Ellis
Exactly one year ago, just before
the school budget vote, I wrote an article in the MWTA News about the
crowded conditions in the Smith Clove school building. At that time I was
teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) on the stage above the cafeteria.
Read the entire article.
Climbing
Like Sex - Part II
by
Susan E.B. Schwartz
In my last column, I posed the
scientific question of how climbing was like sex, and posited equally scientific
answers. But I am not the first to ponder this socially pressing issue.
Read the entire article.
I
Hate College
by Greg
Olear
 The
Electoral College, that is. Out with it. Let me explain. I am, and always have
been, an elitist. Elitism is part of human nature.
Read the entire article.
 What
sets Total Immersion apart from traditional swimming? The most important
distinction has less to do with your muscles than with your mind.
Read the entire article.
The
Drug Czar Strikes Again
by Rob Robinson
Well the Drug czar is at it again. The Bush administration's point man on drug policy wants random drug testing in every
child's school.
Read the entire article.
Abortion
Blog
by Rachel Lagodka
 Before
I used to let my students write about abortion I made them look at this
website...
Read the entire article.
Health
Care and Profits Don't Mix
by Greg Olear
Recently, the state of
Maryland passed a law that, in effect, forced Walmart to
pay more towards its employees? health insurance. While I admire Maryland?s
attempt to redress a glaring problem, the solution they came up with is unfair.
Read the entire article.
Waxing
Update and the North West Shutdown
by
Erin Quinn
 You
can imagine that the post-waxing growth isn?t a pretty situation. I find myself
rubbing up against hard edges in public places unconsciously. Sometimes it gets
so bad that I have to stick a capped pen into my pants pockets and scratch while
attending meetings.
Read the entire article.
 A
Trip to Bountiful: The Tasty
Challenge of Joining a CSA
by Mala Hoffman
 For
some, becoming a member of a Community Supported Agriculture farm [CSA] is a
chance to enjoy the bounty of the season while participating in the preservation
of an important local resource. For me, it?s a culinary challenge and a race
with time.
Read the entire article.
 Beeped
Into Submission
by Jeff
McGowan
 Why
is it every time you do something you are not supposed to do, there is a little
beep to remind you to be a better citizen? If you don?t put on your seat belt, a
series of beeps occurs, until you comply by buckling up...
Read the entire article.
Getting
Off The Target Tit Part 1
by Melissa Halvorson
 My
business partner (owners of The Year of the Goat yarn and knitting shop) and I
recently made a pact that when the new corporate taco place opens up in the
Ariel space, effectively destroying any dignity that may have been left on that
corner, we will commence to eat all three meals of every day at Mexicali Blue in
peaceful protest.
Read the entire article.
Another
Vote for Idol: After Years
Without Television, A Return To Reality by
Mala Hoffman
 In
the six years we?ve lived in this house without it, there?s little on television
that I?ve missed. Shows I?d loved, like ?Homicide,? are either long gone or,
like ?Law and Order,? have mutated far beyond my original interest. Must-see t.v.
for me, such as the Oscars, I?ve managed to watch through the kindness of
colleagues.
Read the entire article.
 How
Swimming is Different From Running-And
How to Make the Difference Work in Your Favor
by
Terry Laughlin
 The
world's best swimmers move through the water with grace, economy and flow, while
novices are awkward, clumsy and inefficient. But the rest of us can learn to
swim well if we take the time to master swimming as an
art before tackling it as a
sport.
Read the entire article.
Is
Climbing Like Sex?
by
Susan E.B. Schwartz
 Climbing is a favorite activity for many in New Paltz, as well as around the
world. But so is sex. To some inquisitive minds, this raises an inevitable and
eminently logical train of thought: Coincidence? Or not?
Read the entire article.
My Friend Bart
by
Jeff
McGowan
 Two
weeks ago, the best dog I ever had passed away at the ripe old age of 15. My
dog?s name was Bart and he was a cute little balck pug. I didn?t buy Bart, he
came to me through my relationship with my ex-partner Billiam...
Read the entire article.
What
More?
by
Greg Olear
When
Bush won the election in 2004, I decided to withdraw from the political
process. The idiot majority who had allowed him to remain in office deserved
what they got, I thought at the time. As for me, I was going to enjoy watching
the wheels fall off.
Read the entire article.
 Everyone's
a Winter
by
Rich Gottlieb
 My
motto is, ?Everyone?s a winter,? that is, if you want to get in touch with your
arctic side. Packing the car with all the imaginable cold weather gear in my
arsenal and driving up east of Qu?ec City has...
Read the entire article.
Life
in the shadows...
by Eamon Martin
I help publish a small, nonprofit, independent newspaper in western North
Carolina called the Asheville Global Report...
Read
the entire article.
The
Waxing
by Erin Quinn
 One
of the upsides of winter, even a mild winter, is the lack of waxing that needs
to take place on the more sensitive parts of the female anatomy...
Read the entire article
Why Do People Climb?
by
Susan E.B. Schwartz
 Not everyone in New Paltz,
of course, is a rock climber. You can look west from Main Street and
be perfectly happy to admire
the Shawangunk cliffs from afar...
Read the entire article.
Boobs
by Rachel Lagodka
 Jugs,
rack, boobs, or ?mammalian protruberances? as Frank Zappa once called them on
his album ?Joe?s Garage,? (also famous for the quote, ?anything over a mouthful
is wasted),? whatever you want to call them: breasts are man-bait...
Read the entire article.
I
Have Questions!
by Jeff
McGowan
 When
Brokeback Mountain came out, I went to see it on the first day. I, like many
gay people, was excited about the movie and the buzz that its release caused.
Anyone who has seen it, I believe, will acknowledge that it is a finely made
film? with beautiful landscape shots and excellent acting.
Read the entire article.
It's
Not Easy Being Green
by
Rachel Lagodka
 When he says that it?s not easy being Green, Kermit
the frog is making a vast understatement: really, it?s darn near impossible. The
Green Party is about values. It is about the ideals of social justice and
environmental conservation. These issues have very few footings in the current
political climate...
Read the entire article.
A
Woman's Place in the Pool
by
Terry Laughlin
 In
teaching Total Immersion
weekend workshops, we have discovered an interesting predictability to one
aspect of our instruction. Although women make up only 30% to 40% of a typical
class, they are chosen nearly 80% of the time when our coaches need to select a
class member to demonstrate fluent, beautiful execution of one of our skill
drills...
Read the entire article.
Menopausal Hedgehogs
by Kimberly Quinn Smith
 Today
I would like to tell you about our discussion on menopausal hedgehogs. Last
night, I took our oldest daughter to her first 4H meeting. This is my kid that
does her own thing.
Read the entire article.
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Features:
 Susan
Recommends VI: A Passage to India
Review by Susan Avery
Posted on 12-06-2006
I grew up in New York City, and a number of the
stores mentioned as “stores that live only in the mind” were places where I
passed many happy hours and still retain the imprinted memories of acquired
books.
Read the entire article.
Viva
Mexicoosted
on 9-21-06
by
Kim Ellis
 The
hidden heart and beauty of Mexico often lies within plain walls. From the
outside, Don Quijote University in Guanajuato is nothing special... Ah, but pass
inside and the building reveals its secrets.
Read the entire article.
On and Off the Beaten Path:
Montreal
By Carole
Bell
Ford
We have been making an annual trek to
Montreal in the late summer for the World Film Festival since
we-can’t-remember-when. What we do remember is that we fell in love with the
city and have been hooked ever since.
Read the entire article.
 The
Environment and the War on Terror
by David Clark posted on 11-03-06
Most Americans are very concerned with the problem of
international terrorism. Some Americans are concerned about the problem of
global environmental collapse...both problems could be solved by a more
responsible American government.
Read the entire article.
 Dylan: Chillin' not Illin'
by Robert Polito
 Seeing
the Monster
by
Jim Gordon posted on 10-11-06
I don’t mean
individuals aren’t doing acts that matter, but collectively, it’s as if each of
us is continuing hoeing our garden as Godzilla draws ever nearer our village....
Read the entire article.
 Terrorist
by John Updike reviewed by Gerald Sorin
Posted on 10-10-06
Although John
Updike is incapable of writing anything without some literary panache or deep
philosophical and theological musing, Terrorist, his twenty-second novel,
reads in many places like a less-than-thoughtful feature story
Read the entire article.
Susan
Recommends V: Vichysoisse
Review by Susan Avery
Posted on 9-21-2006
All the books I
read
Are full of
dazzling heroes,
always sure of
themselves.
I die with envy
of them;
And in films
full of wind and bullets,
I goggle at the
cowboys,
I even admire
the horses.
From We
Are Many by Pablo Neruda
Read the entire article.
Paricutin:
Birth of a Volcano Posted on
9-21-06
by
Kim Ellis
 I
then felt a thunder. The trees trembled,
and it was then I saw how, in the hole, the ground swelled and raised itself
two or two-and-a-half meters high, and a kind of smoke or fine dust gray, like
ashes began to rise, with a hiss or whistle, loud and continuous; and there was
a smell of sulphur.
Read the entire article.
Everyman
by Philip Roth reviewed by Gerald Sorin
Posted on 9-5-06 first published in Jewish
Book World (Summer 2006),
Roth has flirted with
the idea and reality of death in earlier work including The Counterlife,
Sabbath?s Theatre, and The Dying Animal, but here he goes full
throttle.
Read the entire article.
Susan
Recommends IV: Hot Enough For You?
Review by Susan Avery
Posted on 8-19-2006
The Man Booker Prize for
Fiction represents the very best in contemporary fiction. One of the world?s
most prestigious awards, and one of incomparable influence, it continues to be
the pinnacle of ambition for every fiction writer.
Read the entire article.
Jesus'
Son by
Denis Johnson
reviewed by Gerald Sorin
Posted on
8-17 2006
Denis
Johnson?s Jesus? Son, one of the very few books by young writers
mentioned in the New York Times ?survey? of the best fiction of
the last twenty-five years, is well worth reading....
Read the entire article.
DADA
at MOMA: 11 Outlined Epitaphs
Saying Dada ultimately embraced a complex of slippery, contrary notions and lots
of devastating, gorgeous, irreconcilable artworks. But as Raoul Hausmann, an
artist out of the aggressively politicized Berlin Dada, once proposed, "In Dada
you will recognize your real situation...
Read the entire article
The
Charm and Fine Dining of the Outer Banks:
Basnight?s Lone Cedars Restaurant and Mother?s Money of Manteo
Village
by Kimberly Quinn Smith
We had the very fortunate experience of
traveling to the Outer Banks of North Carolina this summer.
Read the entire article.
 The
Beautiful, Bountiful Berkshires: A Multi-Cultural
Adventure
by Teresa Thompson
It?s the height of summer?it?s
hot, sticky, humid, and frankly, I?m tired. While trying to keep my children
happily occupied during school?s summer vacation (there?s a full-time job), plus
trying to juggle a myriad of other duties, I need a break. So?
read the entire article.
WAR CRIMES: A Trilogy by
Chris Watkins
I Guess Something Happened
Came home from Walter Reed
and found my fianc?
living with my best friend.
This shit happens,
it happened to me.
One
Book One New Paltz: Susan Avery Reviews The
Dewbreaker by Edwidge Dandicat
by Susan Avery
Posted on 7-26-2006
Last year inspired by Dean Gerald Benjamin, New Paltz launched its own ?One Book
One New Paltz? and in the first week of November 2005 we all read The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon. It was a
great success...
Read the entire article.
Susan
Recommends III
Review by Susan Avery
Posted on 6-30-2006
"Many will ask
why this is happening," the company said. "The reasons are many and complex. The
simple answer is that the book buying market has moved on...
Read the entire article.
Upstatin? It: The Crystal Clear Path to the
Adirondacks
by Teresa Thompson
School?s out and it?s time for?Road Trip!
Read the entire article.
FLASHBACK
By Penny Coleman reviewed by Gerald Sorin
Posted on 07-7-06
On
Tuesday, July 4, 2006, in a speech marking Independence Day, George W. Bush,
exuding confidence and still talking about ?winning? the war, thanked American
troops for their service in Iraq. Inches from this news item on the New York
Times website was another story suggesting the vacuousness of the
President?s appreciation: ?Homelessness a threat to Iraq Vets...?
Read the entire article.
On
and Off the Beaten Path: Basel Pizza, Fountains, and Magritte
By
Carole Bell Ford
Last
fall we visited our friend David Vogt in Switzerland, in Basel. But first, the
short version of a Steve Ford shaggy-dog story.
Read the entire article.
Susan
Recommends II
Review by Susan Avery
Posted on 6-30-2006
When a
bookstore opens its door, the rest of the world enters, too, the day's weather
and the day's news, the streams of customers, and of course the boxes of books
and the many other worlds they contain...
Read the entire article.
A
Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, and Reform In New York City's
Garment Industry
edited by Daniel Soyer
reviewed by Gerald Sorin Posted on 6-24-2006
"What's the difference
between a Jewish clothing worker and a Jewish psychiatrist?" an old joke goes.
Answer: "One generation."
Read the entire article.
Susan
Recommends
Review by Susan Avery
Posted on 6-19-2006
Perhaps now I have more books
than I need, but it is with books as with other things; the more one gets the
more one wants. Yet, there is something special about books.
Read the entire article.
Burning
Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke
by Dean Kuipers
Review by Rob Robinson Posted
on 6-19-2006
Right
before 9/11 in rural southwest Michigan, Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm's, dreams
of a peaceful
utopia were shot dead by snipers bullets.
Read the entire article.
Water
Babies
by Nina Shengold Posted
on 6-14-2006
When my mother's wallet was
stolen on
 a
New York City bus, the thing she missed most was a dog-eared black and white
snapshot of her only
daughter, age two and a half, charging into the waves on a Cape Cod beach.
Read the entire article.
It Can't Happen Here ... Can It?
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
reviewed by Gerald Sorin Posted on
6-12-2006
Fascists are in power at the
very top and ordinary life is
virtually crushed by a juggernaut of mass hatred; antisemitic mobs are roaming
the streets, and Jews are hunkering down in their flats, some ready to arm
themselves. No, this is not happening in totalitarian Germany, but in Weequahic,
a lower-middle class section of Newark, New Jersey in democratic America.
Read the entire article.
 Toys
in the Attack
by John Bridges
Posted on
6-10-2006
The
Army Men Project
is an
ingenious and biting tactic
in The War On War?. It's an easy, subversive, inexpensive, and LOCAL form of
protest. The surreality of these little green irony bombs will get people to
take notice. The medium is the message:
Read the entire article.
 A
Supermarket in Upstate NY
by Barbara Adams
Posted on
6-07-2006
Felicia wears a used mink jacket, especially when she?s near the door her
name tag pinned to the ShopnSave dark green shirt underneath her mink
jacket stretched over her swollen belly but she can?t sit down like supermarket
cashiers I?ve seen in Europe. But she smiles all the time at no one.
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Racing to St. Croix: A Triathlete?s Perspective by Teresa Thompson
Posted on
6-04-2006
My husband is an avid triathlete.
 For those of you non-athletes like myself, a
triathlon is an unfathomably sick exertion, called a sport where the
participants engage in a race that includes running, cycling and swimming long
distances consecutively.
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On and Off the Beaten Path
by Carole Bell Ford Descending into Spring: Chincoteague and Assateague Islands
By Carole
Bell
Ford
We did a lot of traveling
in Europe last year. This
Easter, neither my husband Steve nor I were ready for packing and unpacking
bags, or even getting on a plane. It was Steve?s idea, instead, to pack up our
camper and re-visit one of the places in Virginia that we?ve always
enjoyed?Chincoteague and Assateague Islands.
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 2005's
BEST REVIEWED BOOKS BY HUDSON VALLEY AUTHORS
Dog
Poaching, Magic Potties, and Kicking Bird
by Kimberly Quinn Smith
 We
landed in Memphis in time to head to the indoor pool for fifteen well-earned
minutes. In fact, after repeated arrivals at hotels where the pools closed by
10:00 pm, that fifteen minutes spent the right way could do wonders after a long
journey.
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Conquering
the Great Indoors: Family Fun
at the Great Wolf Lodge
by
Teresa Thompson
 The buzz
began late last summer when we received the first promotional piece in the mail.
A few weeks later, the television ads started popping up. Then, my children and
I drooled over the website. Soon, parents were talking. ?Did you hear about
Great Wolf Lodge??
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A
Tribute to William Gottlieb:
Jazz Photographer Extraordinaire
by
Rich Gottlieb
 My
father didn?t have a pious bone in his body, although he did read the New York
Times religiously. You won?t be getting any men of the cloth today although I,
like my dad, am a man of the paper.
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On
and Off the Beaten Path:
Final
article in a Special Three-Part Series on Poland and the Holocaust
By Carole
Bell
Ford
If you?ve been following
this series, you know that I
have been involved with research related to a particular group of women,
Holocaust survivors, mostly from Poland. And it was a conference on Women in the
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