Birthdays

Birthdays

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  World's oldest ex-big leaguer turns 102 in Cuba

  There weren't nearly enough birthday candles on hand to do justice to Conrado Marrero, the world's oldest living former Major League Baseball player. 

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  Roth's 80th cause for Newark, NJ, celebration

  "Sitting there in the park," Philip Roth wrote in "Goodbye Columbus, "I felt a deep knowledge of Newark, an attachment so rooted that it could not ... 

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  Mom of NYC teen shot by police: Why was he killed?

  Carol Gray, her head wrapped in a black scarf and her tearful eyes concealed by sunglasses, held up a photograph of her 16-year-old son, who was shot ... 

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  NYC's landmark Grand Central Terminal turns 100

  Grand Central station, once in danger of being demolished, is celebrating its 100th birthday with speeches, a brass band and a rollback to 1913 prices ...