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...creator of El Museo del Barrio in New York City—the first Latino art museum in the United States—Ortiz is known for his involvement in the destructionist movement, which attempted to address what it saw as the social detachment of the post-War avant-garde...
...Staten Island's motto, "Don't dump on me," comes from the fact that its western shore was long dominated by the Fresh Kills landfill, the repository of much of Manhattan's garbage. Culturally, the island nestling at the southern tip of New York state is a world away from New York City's other four boroughs. It has just one-tenth the population density of Manhattan, and its mostly Republican denizens have more in common politically and demographically with the Deep South than with the heavily Democratic and diverse Gotham. In fact, Staten Island tried to secede from...
...McMahon has taken a lot of heat from the left for his vote against President Obama's top priority. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn canceled a fundraiser for him, and the Service Employees International Union withdrew its support and is now actively searching for a Democrat to challenge McMahon in the September primary, as are MoveOn.org and the local progressive Working Families Party. Still, the unions are split on McMahon, who is usually a strong supporter of the labor agenda, and most other local chapters in his district have remained noticeably quiet on his health care vote. Many...
...Senate office, Kaufman has stacked the latest books on the financial crisis on his desk, background reading for his regular trips to New York to meet with bankers and analysts. Financial regulation is a crusade he never expected to take on when he accepted his two-year posting. But his 32 years as a Senate aide - and his subsequent time as an academic observer of Washington - taught him not to be discouraged by long odds...
...political tool for the Prime Minister, who was known for his inability to tolerate dissent. In 2006, top generals believed Thaksin was planning to remove them for refusing his orders to crack down on protesters, so they moved against him while he was attending a U.N. meeting in New York. In one of the many ironies in Thai politics, the man they installed as Prime Minister, General Surayud Chulanont, had, as army chief, opposed soldiers' meddling in politics...