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The Victimization of Victims: How the Justice System Fails Savannah Dietrich and Other Women

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Via Twitter By Rebecca Hoffman Hating on victims seems to be a popular trend these days. Because, after all, she was dressing for it, asking for it, or should’ve just kept her mouth shut. The last one seems to be especially true for, 17-year-old, Savannah Dietrich who was facing potential jail time for tweeting the names of
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Q&A With Meghan McCain: The Outspoken McCain on Mitt Romney and Never Dating a Liberal

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meghan mccain By Angela Barbuti Last Fourth of July, Meghan McCain brought Michael Ian Black home to Arizona to meet her parents. McCain, 27, a single Republican, and Black, 40, a married Democrat, decided to tour the country together to see how the two political camps can get along. They survived surprisingly well and lived to tell
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Happy Father’s Day: Top Five Dads Currently on TV

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Jay Prittchard on Modern Family. By Magdalena Burnham In the early days of TV, there was nothing more sacred than the idea of the American father, so TV dads tended to be all-knowing figures of unquestioned authority. This makes those old shows seem stale and unrealistic. Eventually, shows like The Simpsons and Married with Children took down the idealized father figure
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Washington Square Parks Famous “Hangman’s Elm” To Get Minor Surgery

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Various community members, CB2’s Parks Committee and a representative from the Parks Department, met last Wednesday to discuss the department’s decision to do some pruning on the popular “Hangman’s Elm” in Washington Square Park. The nearly 250-year-old tree has vast community significance: It graces the cover of the Parks Department’s publication on “great New York
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Congressman Nadler’s Top Five “Radical Bills Against Women”

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The always outspoken Congressman Jerrold Nadler launched into a discussion on the “War on Women,” an intiative he says is being perpetrated by the GOP, last week at a Lower Manhattan Democrats meeting. The congressman, who represents the 8th congressional district in New York City, raised the crowd’s vitriol by discussing a series of bills
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Celebrity Summer Guide

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Rachel Roy and Shauna Mei Celebrate Dr. Deepak Chopra's Law of Attraction Mp3 Playbutton All interviews by Angela Barbuti Dylan Lauren, owner of Dylan’s Candy Store What’s your favorite thing about New York in the summer? The colorful flowers along Park Avenue and in Central Park and the happy vibe when seeing New Yorkers in bright candy colors on the street. What’s your favorite summertime activity? Going to the
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