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Opera’s celebrated love duo, Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna of the Metropolitan Opera, will perform in a mega-outdoor concert at Prospect Park on Friday.
Friends Seminary is most likely the first school in New York to offer Arabic that doesn’t have a significant Arabic-speaking student body.
The job market in the New York City region is starting to show the effects of layoffs on Wall Street, and rents on stabilized apartments are set to get their biggest increases in years.
The deal reached by leaders in Congress overhauls the rules on the government’s wiretapping powers and provides some immunity to the phone companies.
In the aftermath of his most thrilling triumph, Tiger Woods is going back to the operating table. On the heels of his most shocking defeat, Roger Federer is preparing to face the serrated specter of Rafael Nadal.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 18, 2008, covering June 20, 2008.
Disturbed
Various Artists
Usher
Weezer
Journey
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]