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...Kremer, a Long Island attorney and political consultant. “She’s probably the most interesting candidate on the map, but the odds against her are daunting,” he said. Currently, all nine of State Senate seats from Long Island’s Nassau and Suffolk counties are held by Republicans. However, the Democratic Party only needs to win four seats this year to gain a majority in the State Senate. So far, Ellison said her campaign has been aided by notable time and monetary contributions from former students of the Class...
...Nassau County, N.Y., courtroom last year, almost everyone wept when Blake Slade and Kyle Soukup were sentenced to three years in prison. The youths cried as they apologized. The families of the betrothed who died in the Muttontown crash spoke of justice and forgiveness. Even the judge dabbed his eyes and choked...
...hard to do your best thinking when your feet hurt. That's true even for geniuses. On a crisp fall morning back in 1952, Peter Hulit was tending to business at his shoe store on Nassau Street--the venerable main drag of Princeton, N.J.--when he got an emergency call. Helen Dukas, Albert Einstein's secretary-housekeeper, was on the line. Could Hulit come to the physicist's home? "Dr. Einstein's shoes are hurting him," Dukas said. Recalls Hulit: "I'd never made a house call before or since. But this was Einstein...
...Cornell]…the heated rivalry and the fact that most Old Blue consider the Big Three the only games that really matter [easy to say when you’ve been eliminated from the Ivy title hunt for a good month now], the Elis and Old Nassau need some momentum [because they’ve been especially terrible of late] heading into the off-season for recruiting [which these teams need to do a lot of] and team spirit. The Bulldogs and Tigers kick it off at 12:35 p.m. [and fumble the kickoff...
...sterile town, brimming with haughty WASPs, oozing with pretension, a Banana Republic advertisement writ large. Nassau Street, the primary artery bordering the college, stripped of all vivacity, home to a pancake house, an ATM and little else. The university, a third-wheel in a two-school rivalry, pitifully attempting to insert itself into a game like The Game, a little sister trying to finagle her way into her older brothers’ wrestling match, sent to her room crying with nothing more than a black...