NYC Sentinel

From the sidelines to the finish line, New Yorkers come out for the big race

By Radhika Marya and Clare O’Connor Meb Keflezighi blessed himself and kissed the ground after bursting through the finish line tape at the ING New York City Marathon today, a day of historic firsts for the event’s male and female winners.

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Diplomacy … with diamonds

Madeleine Albright can give as good as she gets. Take the incident in 1994, when she criticized Saddam Hussein’s policies, and was called an “unparalleled serpent” in the Iraqi press. The former Secretary of State responded by arriving at her next meeting with Iraqi officials with a serpent on her shoulder: an 18-karat gold snake [...]

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A hustler aims for Hollywood

By Clare O'Connor Jeremy Redleaf, the young creator and star of the TV series “Odd Jobs,” shot the show on his own dime in New York. He then found the perfect way to turn it into a viable business. He set up a job board similar to Craigslist on his Web site, OddJobNation.com, allowing employers to advertise for help with any odd jobs at all – and for the unemployed to find a day’s work.

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Juilliard and the job market

By Clare O'Connor Violinist Jane Hunt realizes that to make any money as a musician, she must be savvy. Rather than resign herself to a precarious and often financially risky life of constant auditions for orchestras, she has taken a modern, populist approach to classical performance: marketing, networking, publicizing.

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Sex and the Slope

New York media types gathered on Wednesday night at Ochre, a design store in Soho, where publishers Simon & Schuster set up a makeshift bar alongside shelves of expensive home décor. Vanity Fair contributing editor Leslie Bennetts sipped white wine a few feet from Michael Solomon, features editor at Tina Brown’s Daily Beast. Nearby stood [...]

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Back to school: Capturing the first day

By Clare O'Connor and Ruth Schneider Summer vacation officially ended for New York City’s 1.1 million public school students, who started a new academic year today. The NYC Sentinel dispatched reporters to Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan to capture the first morning of elementary school.

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Crossing the language barrier at P.S. 69

Five-year-old Daliana Estevez stands outside Public School 69 in Jackson Heights, Queens, on the first day of school, staring into the distance and biting her thumb. Today marks Daliana’s first time speaking English, and despite her stepmother’s claims to the contrary, she seems nervous. Daliana moved to Queens from the Dominican Republic one month ago. She [...]

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