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History says 'No' to hosting a Bass Pro - 3/4/2007
Lost in the frenzy to cram Bass Pro into the Erie Canal Harbor history site is a simple fact: It is not allowed there. Not even if the sporting goods monolith is cloaked, as proposed, in a 19th century-style building facade. |
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Anchor Bar is a leader in trans fat war - 3/2/2007
He is the unlikeliest of pioneers, the oddest champion of better eating and sensible reform. Ivano Toscani runs the famous Anchor Bar. It is the nexus of the vast chicken wing world, the place of its invention and arguably the taste standard. |
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Six attackers at school lack consequences - 2/28/2007
Plan an assault, attack a student and take out a teacher as collateral damage. In a sane district, six students - each with a history of trouble - would never again set foot in that school. In Buffalo, they walked back into the Academy for Visual and Performing Arts escorted by the superintendent. |
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The measure of success? Try 67 years! - 2/25/2007
Sometimes success is hard to see. Drive by the Top Hill Grill and wonder what the big deal is. It stands on the raised corner of a no-frills street on the edge of South Buffalo, hard by the railroad tracks and a metal recycling plant. The yellow vinyl siding doesn't dazzle. The interior - paneled walls, charmless dropped ceiling - is no contender for House Beautiful. |
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Spitzer mood gentler, but mission isn't - 2/23/2007
The man who sat in Mary Kinney's living room Wednesday was not the fire-breathing scourge of Wall Street cheaters. He was not the got-mad, get-even public crusader hoisting the names of state lawmakers who had wronged him. He was not spitting-mad Spitzer, exacting retribution on disloyal Democrats who had nuked his choice for state comptroller. |
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