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Best Translated Book Award finalists announced

2012-02-28 16:35:54

<![CDATA[Best Translated Book Award finalists announced]]>

Two summertime cross-country adventures

2011-07-09 16:35:01

<![CDATA[Two summertime cross-country adventures]]>

Herman Melville was big in 2010

2010-12-20 16:33:40

<![CDATA[Herman Melville was big in 2010]]>

Book review: 'The Passages of H.M.'

2010-11-07 00:00:00

The Passages of H.M. A Novel of Herman Melville Jay Parini Doubleday: 454 pp., $26.95 "The time for me hasn't come yet: Some men are born posthumously," Nietzsche wrote in "Ecce Homo." It's a statement that might have provided comfort to Herman...

Los Angeles Times Names Nicholas Goldberg Op-Ed Editor

2002-10-28 00:00:00

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Pushing for expansion of Suffolk's trade zone

2013-04-27 00:24:03

A Melville company hopes a proposed expansion of international trade benefits in Suffolk County will make its warehouses too small. International Warehouse Group has two buildings now with roughly 250,000 square feet of space. Jeffrey Heydt, chief...

School Notebook: State Science Olympiad winner

2013-04-23 00:14:02

The Three Village Central School District swept the state level of the 2013 New York State Science Olympiad and will go on to compete nationally next month. Earlier this month, teams from Ward Melville High School and Paul J. Gelinas Junior High School,...

Mailbag: Even those without clout can dislike fire rings

2013-04-04 09:20:05

I read Chris Epting's perspective on the beach fire issue this morning and I wanted to give you another perspective. I live in Huntington Beach about two blocks from the beach. I am not a "wealthy person" who is trying to keep others from beach...

Best-known works, yes, but best?

2012-08-10 15:24:00

Let's play the author/title association game. I'll give the author, you tell me a title. Herman Melville J.D. Salinger Alice Walker Joseph Heller Here's what you didn't say: "Mardi, and a Voyage Thither," "Franny and Zooey," "The Third Life of Grange...

The God Squad: Commandment about taking another's life lost in translation

2012-04-13 20:14:41

Question: I was raised in and still practice the Catholic faith. After high school in 1962, I enlisted in the U.S. Army, as I felt I needed to give back to my country some of what it had given me. Lo and behold, in late 1965, I was sent to Vietnam for...

The God Squad: Past those pearly gates, our suffering ends

2012-03-09 20:17:53

Question: My question is about heaven, and in particular the belief that we're united in heaven with the souls of our departed relatives. My late wife of 59 years had a father who was a sadistic pedophile. Not only did he destroy her self-confidence but...

A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims

2011-09-07 13:31:00

A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims from data compiled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 -- including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184...

Job seekers wait in line for a job fair at the Hilton Hotel on Thursday in Melville , New York . The number of jobless workers claiming benefits rose slightly to just under five million, an all-time high, according to a Labor Department report.

2009-02-19 00:00:00

Job seekers wait in line for a job fair at the Hilton Hotel on Thursday in Melville , New York . The number of jobless workers claiming benefits rose slightly to just under five million, an all-time high, according to a Labor Department report.

2009-02-19 00:00:00

Job seekers wait in line for a job fair at the Hilton Hotel on Thursday in Melville , New York . The number of jobless workers claiming benefits rose slightly to just under five million, an all-time high, according to a Labor Department report.

2009-02-19 00:00:00