| City Rejects Judge's Offer on Hiring Firefighters The City of New York said it would not hire 300 firefighters using any of the options outlined by a federal judge because officials said the choices amounted to race-based quotas and were illegal. feeds.nytimes.com |
Agency Admits Fault in Death of Child The Administration for Children’s Services initially blamed a private provider, but its contract had lapsed. feeds.nytimes.com |
Stewart 'fires' back at Sanchez at fundraiser Jon Stewart stood up to Rick Sanchez on Saturday night. As host of Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars," a fundraiser for autism research, Stewart spoke out for the first time about CNN's former anchor calling the "Daily Show" host a bigot and suggesting the Jews control the media. feeds.nydailynews.com |
Campaign Trailer: So Many People at a Parade, and Yet, Somehow, One Stands Out A simple task of collecting quotations at the Columbus Day Parade about New York’s candidates for governor turns out not to be so easy. feeds.nytimes.com |
Cunningham: 'By Nightfall' is love letter to art New York City-based Michael Cunningham, celebrated author of "The Hours," set his new novel "By Nightfall" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) in the downtown art world because,he says, "I love art. I have to content myself with writing books. I have a lot of questions about what I see in a lot of the galle feeds.nydailynews.com |