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1. REVIEW: ‘Stick Fly’ stirs up secrets
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... a prickly graduate student of entomology (reference the title) who obviously is ill at ease within the family’s stately halls. The slicker elder sibling, Flip (Mekhi Phifer), is a ladies’ man snared by ...

2. Poor health could drive you to the poorhouse
(Money/Economy)

... Law Foundation, an organization accredited by the American Bar Association. Knee is a graduate of Fordham College and Fordham Law School, and she also holds a masters of law in taxation from New York ...

3. Financial literacy is for consumers of all ages
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Starting with the 2010-11 ninth grade class, students will be required to take at least 2.5 credits in financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy before they graduate. Throughout the ...

4. N.J. National Guard commander, Major Gen. Glenn Rieth, resigning amid sex scandal
(N.J./State)

... as adjutant general 2002, Rieth was the director of the state Army Aviation Office for the New Jersey Army National Guard. He is a graduate of The Citadel-Military College of South Carolina and has been ...

5. Gov. Christie announces initiative to help criminal offenders re-enter N.J. society
(N.J./State)

... considered to have been effective in reducing recidivism rates. According to the October 2010 Drug Court report, the rate at which drug court graduates are re-arrested for a new indictable offense is ...

6. REVIEW: Alan Rickman leads a so-what ‘Seminar’
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... even as they rebel, despair or otherwise writhe under his verbal lashings. Lily Rabe plays the well-off Bennington graduate whose swank Manhattan apartment is the scene for most of the 100-minute story. ...

7. Christie vamps up education overhaul rhetoric ahead of deadline
(Opinion/Commentary)

... will be another kid from Newark standing here who graduated from the public schools in Newark and became governor of the state of New Jersey. He or she will be here because we did our moral duty.” Naturally, ...

8. Thanksgiving travel in N.J.: Half of residents plan to hit the road
(N.J./State)

... those with a high school education or less, and those with graduate degrees. The in-betweeners are much less stressed by the holiday. While about 18 percent with a college education report stress, twice ...

9. State Community Affairs chief Lori Grifa to be replaced by Deputy Labor Commissioner Richard Constable
(N.J./State)

... Prosecutions Division handling public corruption cases. Constable received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Michigan and his law degree and a masters in government administration ...

10. The absolute basics of estate taxes
(Money/Economy)

... the highest Federal estate tax rate is 35 percent. In New Jersey, someone can leave $675,000 without a state estate tax. A couple can thus leave $1,350,000. The tax itself follows a graduated schedule ...

11. Yale Sex Week, ties to porn industry raise concerns
(Health/Healthquest)

... and the private inurement of student organizers." Student group Undergraduates for a Better Yale College began a protest against Sex Week earlier this year. They said that about one-third of the events ...

12. Funeral service for N.J. Assemblyman Peter Biondi held in Somerville
(N.J./State)

... “He always made helping others and good public policy his priority. He carried himself with dignity and integrity. He was a friend to all of New Jersey.” Biondi was born in Newark in 1942 and graduated ...

13. Penn State riot focused on Joe Paterno, not Jerry Sandusky's alleged victims
(Sports/Professional)

... eight boys between the mid-1990s and 2008. Philly.com reports that state police said a ninth man has come forward to say he had also been abused by Sandusky. The report said that a graduate assistant saw ...

14. Gov. Christie nominates BPU President Lee Solomon to Superior Court judgeship
(N.J./State)

... of those years were served under then-U.S. Attorney Christie. Hanna is a graduate of Manhattan College and the Fordham University School of Law. Both the Solomon and Hanna nominations are subject to ...

15. Penn State football coach Joe Paterno may be forced to leave sooner
(Sports/Professional)

... assistant coach Jerry Sandusky after a graduate assistant came to him in 2002 after having allegedly seen Sandusky molesting a 10-year-old boy in the showers. Paterno told his players and coaching staff ...

16. Jerome Wright and Nashali Gadson arrested as suspects in death of Newark Detective Michael Morgan
(N.J./State)

...  Funeral arrangements for the Belleville native and graduate of Queen of Peace High School graduate in North Arlington are scheduled for Saturday at the Saint Lucy's Roman Catholic Church in Newark.  ...

17. Penn State football coach Joe Paterno could lose job in Sandusky scandal
(Sports/Professional)

... state police Commissioner Frank Noonan said that Paterno fulfilled his legal requirement when he told university administrators that a graduate assistant had seen Sandusky attacking a young boy in the ...

18. Sex abuse allegations in Penn State football program lead to staff resignations
(Sports/Professional)

... and eventually led to his arrest Saturday. The criminal indictment stated that seven years prior to the Clinton County allegation, Penn State graduate assistant, Mike McQueary, went to the home of current ...

19. N.J. Assembly candidate Patrick Short on the state's 3 most important issues
(Opinion/Commentary)

... from the status quo that plagues the Trenton this days. Here is what he sent: 1. Restore Trust in Government (Leadership, Trust and Responsibility) I am a West Point graduate and a retired military ...

20. Interview with N.J.'s Vanessa Selbst: Poker Nations Cup player and Yale Law student
(Sports/Professional)

... rising stars overall in the game today. Selbst, a Yale University graduate now completing her studies at Yale Law School, began playing in high school and quickly increased her skill level, eventually ...