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This weekendâs Green Apple Festival, which includes free concerts in eight cities, will feature a nontraditional lineup in the hopes of getting a younger audience.
City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn is facing a growing rebellion of council members for the way she responded to revelations about the Councilâs appropriation of money to fictitious organizations.
The balancing of art and commerce at this yearâs Tribeca Film Festival has tilted more toward art.
The officers, their lawyers and courtroom onlookers in the Sean Bell case are sifting through the varying outcomes of similar cases in the past as they seek hints of what the future may hold.
The meeting made clear that a message concerning priestly abuse was central to Pope Benedict XVIâs visit.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 16, 2008, covering April 18, 2008.
George Strait
R.E.M.
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2008Germaine Tillion, French ethnologist and anthropologist (born 1907)[â ]
Germaine Tillion was a French ethnologist, known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the Government of France. A member of the French Resistance in World War II, she spent time in RavensbrĂŒck concentration camp.
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