Quiet start for NYC Arabic school
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After all the fuss and fracas, the opening of the city's new Arabic school turned out to be much like any other first day of class. The 55 sixth-grade students enrolled at the Khalil Gibran International Academy were greeted Tuesday morning by only supportive faces as they made their way into the space they share in Brooklyn with another middle school and a high school.
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NEW YORK -- The World Trade Center site fell silent four times _ twice each to mark jetliner crashes and the collapse of its iconic towers _ and solemn remembrances were held around the nation Monday to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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A moderate Shiite cleric has been quietly floating a proposal that could break a deadlock and ease sectarian tensions.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The main US base in Afghanistan fell silent yesterday at the moment the first hijacked jetliner struck the World Trade Center. Soldiers bowed their heads in prayer.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s disappearance from the scene has raised hopes that perhaps a window of opportunity to a new era has now opened.
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The Manhattan School of Music is trying to get out of the shadow âof that other school.â
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Americans observed a moment of silence at the very hour and place of the first Sept. 11 attack on Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of a day remembered with solemnity and ceremony.
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NEW YORK -- City officials last month quietly activated some of the nation's newest generation of early warning sensors to detect a biological attack, turning on a limited number of filing-cabinet-size air filters in sensitive, high-volume areas of Manhattan.
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Hereâs a measure of how healthy new music is in New York these days: In a city with roughly a gazillion new-music groups, a new one made its debut on Monday evening at Mannes College the New School for Music, and the schoolâs auditorium was packed.
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HEBRON, West Bank  - With the al-Hussein public   high school shut down because of a teachers' strike,   Palestinian student Razi al-Juneidi, 17, idles away his free   time with other frustrated teens on the pavement outside.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - In a matter of weeks, once   the bells are in place and the marble tiles laid, the final   chapter in a century-long saga over a Greek Orthodox monastery   in the middle of the West Bank may finally be written.
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The door is constantly swinging at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in Rockville, Md.: Janet McNichol leaves early some days to take a photography class or watch her sons' baseball games. Colleen Glackin ducks out for a few hours in the morning to go to school part time. Arthur Lynch Jr., who commutes more than an hour to work, has been ...
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This week&#39;s intra-holiday sessions will likely be quiet as many people take a break before the New Year. There are a few economic reports of interest.
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Even the back-to-school season doesn't heat up Hot Topic.
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Students lined up for security checks, while sprinklers watered the grass on nearby median strips. In another neighborhood across the Tigris River, streets were deserted, blocked by mounds of dirt or concrete barriers.
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One of the city's newest public schools is named for poet who promoted peace and published his most famous work while living in New York, but there has been little peace for the Khalil Gibran International Academy.
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Teachers are going to have to make some changes.