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Judah the Maccabee's Five Lessons for Barack Obama

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

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Aaron Zelinsky

From the story of Chanukah, we see how not to fight a guerrilla insurgency. From the Maccabees, we learn how to rally a people and a nation. Here are Chanukah's five geopolitical lessons.

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Subway Sandwich Shop Opening Atop World Trade Center Crane

nypost.com | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York

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As the Freedom Tower makes its ascent into the city skyline, rising alongside it atop a crane will be a Subway sandwich shop that will turn out subs f...

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9/11's Dark Heritage

Dan Collins | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

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Dan Collins

We still haven't quite acknowledged that our leaders never adequately warned the men and women working around the smoldering site that the place where they were flinging themselves into duty was a toxic landmine.

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What World Trade Center? What We Need is a Sheriff

Glyn Vincent | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

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Glyn Vincent

This year, after ninety six months of starts and stops, re-designs and security modifications, court battles and other miscellaneous delays, a few steel columns of the new World Trade Center tower are finally visible.

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Largest Column Installed Yet At World Trade Center Site (PHOTOS)

Posted 09.12.2009 | New York

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Workers at One World Trade Center have set a 70-ton piece of steel into place, making it the largest column installed yet at the tragic construction s...

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Ground Zero Freedom Tower To Finish In 2018

New York Daily News | Douglas Feiden | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York

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A secret report predicts the Freedom Tower - billed as America's defiant answer to terrorism - won't be finished until 17 years after the 9/11 attacks...

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The Definition of National Embarrassment

Sheldon Silver | Posted 07.26.2009 | New York

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Sheldon Silver

As a native of Lower Manhattan and as the assemblyman who represents the district within which Ground Zero is located, the failure of the rebuilding effort is as appalling as it is intensely personal.

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Freedom Tower: Screw the Name, Just Build it Already

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics

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John Wellington Ennis

Quite honestly, the most patriotic thing to do would have been to rebuild immediately on the WTC site to hurry up and start turning a profit again, as a capitalist "screw you" to religious fundamentalists.

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Critics Call Freedom Tower Name Change Unpatriotic

AP | AMY WESTFELDT | Posted 04.28.2009 | Home

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NEW YORK — Even without the name, the symbolism of the Freedom Tower as an American response to the Sept. 11 terror attacks was hard to miss. T...

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Freedom Tower Loses Its Name

New York Post | Posted 04.26.2009 | Home

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Freedom is so passe at Ground Zero. Once hailed as a beacon of rebirth in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Freedom Tower's patriot...

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Ground Zero Rents Cut

New York Daily News | Robert Gearty | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business

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Facing a rough real estate market, the Port Authority will cut tenants of the Freedom Tower and the other towers at Ground Zero a rent break. The aut...

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NYC Prosecutors Question Tests Of Concrete At Yankee Stadium, Freedom Tower

New York Times | WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

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Manhattan prosecutors are investigating whether the leading concrete testing company in the New York area, which has been hired to measure and analyze...

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Freedom Tower Plans In New York Trash Can By Homeless Man

Posted 04.26.2008 | Home

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The New York Post has an exclusive report on a homeless man who found the "confidential" blueprints for the Freedom Tower in a New York dumpster! It'...

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