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View ArticleThe Marathon, Course by Course
One doesn’t typically take a bus to Staten Island before dawn unless $130,000 is involved. That’s the prize money for the male and female winner of the New York City Marathon—which has to be called...
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I was researching this article—on how the economic downturn is affecting the food industry—when I got my own news of a 30 percent pay cut. There was nothing to do but shrug and keep writing—maybe...
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King Phojanakong has a lot going on. He’s best known for being the chef-owner of Kuma Inn, a barely marked second-floor restaurant on Ludlow Street that serves Asian small plates like Chinese sausage...
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