STARTING WITH THE INCONSEQUENTIAL really, what about the Yankees baseball and its manager Joe Torre... Almost everyone has had an opinion. Mine is that the Yankees showed their lack of class by trying to cut their manager’s pay (to $5 million and bonuses) when they probably figured he would quit. They could have retired him to the front office, etc., with a bonus for his four World Series triumphs and otherwise stellar record.
I, however, was not on the band wagon that Torre is such a wonderful manager. Guiding the 200 million plus payroll personnel to a dozen playoffs, I think, was to be expected with his gang of superstars. Many praised Torre for the team’s success in the second half of the ‘07 season. But why were the results so woeful in the first half?
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With the president’s veto of the SCHIP bill and the failure in the overrride attempt, articles here detailing the pros and cons and some of the politics involved in the attempt to add more health insurance for more children had to be scuttled.
My thought here is that a family of four with an income of $80,000 surely canafford some sort of health insurance, so perhaps a new bill could be entertained with a lift of eligibility to be as high as $60,000, a sort of compromise!
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The Armenian Genocide. No one is refuting that something did happen.
Columnists and commentators are giving their views, many stressing the realpolitik that relations with Turkey could be affected—the struggle in Iraq and Israel’s support.
It happened almost 100 years ago. No one in Turkey today can be blamed. Let’s get over it, and worry about current issues. The Germans in half that span, have accepted their history, and today’s generation may honestly be trying to make amends.
Of course, it is difficult for people to excuse their own excesses. In this great land of ours, slavery has been wiped out and there have been many efforts to ameliorate the living conditions of African-Americans. Perhaps, too, there could be more governmental institutional aid for native Americans, Indians here—but few are denying that earlier generations of Americans pushed the natives westward and out.
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The press was barred from the talk by former Gov. Mario Cuomo for the Headliner Series Sunday night. However, the sponsoring United Jewish Federation did send material that the accompanying solicitation drive grossed $1,045,241, which is a major start for the 2008 campaign. In all, 170 were on hand to hear Cuomo.
The new Federation-Golub Center on Washington Avenue Extension, in front of The Massry Assisted Living Center and the Daughters of Sarah Campus, received some credit Sunday afternoon for the turnout of about 75 at the annual public program of the Jewish Historical Society of Northeastern New York. Robert L. Cohen reviewed the Jewish immigrant experience in song.