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  • Sports Professional leagues plan to play after superstorm

    Professional leagues plan to play after superstorm

    The Nets' regular-season debut in Brooklyn will have to wait. The New York City Marathon, however, is good to go. With mass transportation still crippled in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked the NBA to postpone Thursday's highly anticipated opener between the Knicks and Nets at the Barclays Center, and the league agreed. "It's a great stadium, it would have [...]

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  • Politics NYC Marathon planning moves forward after Sandy

    NYC Marathon planning moves forward after Sandy

    NEW YORK (AP) — Inspiring or inappropriate? New Yorkers and runners from around the world debated whether a marathon should be run with disaster for a backdrop. The New York City Marathon is a go for Sunday, with many logistical questions to be answered. "To us the marathon really epitomizes the spirit of New York City, the vitality, the tenacity, the determination of New Yorkers," New York [...]

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  • Business US stock market reopens after a two-day shutdown

    US stock market reopens after a two-day shutdown

    NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is back in business. Traffic is snarled, streets flooded, subways idle and power out in many parts of Manhattan and beyond, but the New York Stock Exchange opened trading without a hitch Wednesday after a historic two-day shutdown caused by Superstorm Sandy. At 9:30 a.m., right on schedule, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg rang the opening bell, then gave a [...]

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  • Business Romney faces scrutiny on aid in storm’s wake

    Romney faces scrutiny on aid in storm’s wake

    WASHINGTON (AP) — There's nothing like a natural disaster to test the depth of politicians' preference for small government. And so it turns out that after Superstorm Sandy battered the East Coast, Mitt Romney is far more supportive of the government agency in charge of coordinating disaster relief. Only last year, as Romney hewed to the right while battling for the GOP nomination, he seemed to [...]

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  • Business Photos of enormous NKorea hotel show bare lobby

    Photos of enormous NKorea hotel show bare lobby

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — International hotel operator Kempinski AG says it will manage a 105-story, pyramid-shaped hotel in Pyongyang that is expected to open next year. Kempinski AG chief Reto Wittwer told a Seoul forum Thursday that the Ryugyong Hotel will open "partially, probably" in the middle of next year with shops, offices, ball rooms, restaurants and 150 rooms. He says Cairo-based [...]

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