Word: newark
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...behind an ambitious exhibition "Masters of American Comics." The show began in 2005 at both the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and ended this week in another dual venue, at the Jewish Museum in New York City and across the Hudson at the Newark Museum. That final leg was a severely reduced and somewhat censored version of the L.A. spectacle, which showcased some 900 works assembled by John Carlin, a MOCA curator, with the help of Brian Walker, founder of another MOCA, the Museum of Cartoon Art, and son of Mort Walker, the creator...
...their heads once again. Using the schools to instruct children about sex remains a form of invasion and is a usurpation of parental rights. Something so intimate must be kept within the confines of the home and the church. God never made a substitute for a mother. Frank Kolk Newark...
...organizers posted a memo on civil war policy issued in November 2005 by the Somalian Islamic court system's Office of the Chief of the Imams. Wikileaks also posted a 17-page analysis of the memo. According to Dr S. Samatar, professor of African History at Rutgers University-Newark, the analysis is "very well-written, but is out of date because events have since overtaken it." He says he was contacted by a Wikileaks organizer two weeks ago and was asked to look over the analysis. Samatar says he did not previously know the organizer, nor did he know anything...
...this raises the question: Is a candidate automatically more qualified to represent people of the same race? The recent controversy in Newark, where some African-Americans have criticized the new mayor as “not black enough,” offers an interesting case study. Some felt that Cory Booker should not serve as mayor of Newark (54 percent black) because he was raised in a predominantly white suburb of New Jersey. Booker has had to prove his commitment to the city and its residents, especially by trying to decrease the crime rate, since he took office three months...
...down Manhattan Island, over either the East River or the Hudson River to the west. Since much of the surrounding air space is the busiest in the U.S. - with hundreds of airliners and business jet flights going in and out of John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, Newark International and Teterboro airports, small planes are required to fly below 1,100 feet...