One Year After Sandy, the Flood of Occupy Volunteers Recedes

One year after Sandy, the flood of Occupy volunteers recedes
The son of Sicilian immigrants, Lopizzo had spent his savings on the center — which he called You Are Never Alone, or YANA — in the hope that it would become "an Amazon.com" for Rockaways residents in need of housing, food or drug rehabilitation …
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Bernard Kerik Criticizes 'Insane' Mandatory Minimum Sentences
"I had no idea that for five grams of cocaine — which is what that nickel weighs, five grams — you could be sentenced to 10 years in prison," Kerik said in a clip of an interview that aired on "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "I was with men sentenced to …
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: A candidate loving her gay brother, supporting marriage …
He kept his secret, flunked out freshman year. “Looking back that's certainly where the depression started for me, the hopelessness.” Eventually, he moved to Grand Island. Finally, to Omaha, still losing himself in alcohol and drugs. Meth, LSD …
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