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...Except that this arena was the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York, 13,000 km from Bombay. Most of the stars had flown through 11 time zones to be at last month's Bollywood Awards (and to pick up checks ranging from $10,000 to $70,000). Their Indo-American fans, many gorgeously dressed in turbans or silk saris, had come to bond with their homeland's most popular art form. "Every South Asian grows up with some kind of connection to Bollywood," notes Indian writer (and Brooklyn resident) Suketu Mehta. "In certain ways, it's what unites...
...Harvard women’s swimming team faced international and national competitors as well as Ivy rivals Princeton and Brown at the U.S. Open Championships this weekend at the Nassau County Aquatic Center in East Meadow, New York...
...that juxtaposed an image of the burning World Trade Center with one of the Sears Tower in Chicago. (Her campaign later said the spot, which ran several times in Springfield, was never meant to air.) Others were more successful at catching the moment. Running for chief executive of Nassau County, N.Y., Glen Cove Mayor Thomas Suozzi dumped an ad in which he posed with a garbage truck in favor of one in which he strolled down a street decked out in American flags. But that was less important than voter discontent with the county's once mighty Republican machine...
Leading genetics researcher and well-respected professor Shirley M. Tilghman was named the 19th president of Princeton University on Saturday during a press conference held in Princeton’s Nassau Hall...
...agency conducts criminal investigations, writes traffic tickets and makes arrests. Brown came up through the police department, where for 22 years he was a popular but controversial crusader. He grew up in Lakeview, a suburb on Long Island, N.Y. His father George was a probation-officer training specialist in Nassau County. His mother Burvena was an executive secretary who quit working to raise kids. They encouraged their four kids to read and to appreciate their black heritage. His younger brother Ron says Derwin cherished memories of a visit Martin Luther King Jr. paid to their church. As a teenager...