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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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Queens Museum of Art | The Panorama of the Cit...
Queens Museum of Art | The Panorama of the City of New York | view from the east over Long Island near JFK Airport, looking across Queens toward Brooklyn, The Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island (Photo credit: Chris Devers)
NEW YORK - OCTOBER 30:  Founder of the Huffing...
NEW YORK - OCTOBER 30: Founder of the Huffington Post Arianna Huffington talks with travellers aboard one of the HuffPost Sanity Buses going from New York City to Washington, DC to attend the 'Rally to Restore Sanity' on October 30, 2010. Huffington reserved 200 buses so rally participants who gathered at CitiField in Queens can get a free ride down to the event. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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Rhode Island (Photo credit: Dougtone)
SUN VALLEY, ID - JULY 10:  Joel Klein, former ...
SUN VALLEY, ID - JULY 10: Joel Klein, former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, arrives with wife Nicole Seligman, for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 10, 2012 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have been invited to attend the conference which begins Tuesday. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
English: Michael Bloomberg visiting with Grand...
English: Michael Bloomberg visiting with Grand Rabbi Moshe Leib Rabinovich of the Munkacs Hasidic sect in Brooklyn, 2004. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 07:  Actor Alec Baldwi...
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 07: Actor Alec Baldwin, President of the National Education Association Lily Eskelsen, Director Davis Guggenheim and Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education Joel Klein attend the Creative Coalition - Waiting For Superman at Paley Center For Media on December 7, 2010 in New York City. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

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