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Hillel Targets Russian Immigrants at City Schools
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Forward
08-11-1995
Hillel Targets Russian Immigrants at City Schools.
NEW YORK -- Come September, Brooklyn College will unveil its new Center for Russian Jewish Life, a student organization run by Hillel that will cater to the Russian students who have flooded the campus in the past couple of years. At other City University of New York campuses, as well as state universities upstate, once-moribund Hillel Houses are experiencing a renaissance thanks to the arriv...
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Brooklyn College, ConEd install chilled water plant.(Brief Article)
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; WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- At a groundbreaking ceremony held at Brooklyn College in mid-September, Con Edison Solutions and Brooklyn College officials announced an energy-performance agreement and that construction is underway of a new 10,000-ton capacity central chilled water facility and distribution
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Agencies Finding Creative Ways To Respond to the Needs of Immigrants: Brooklyn College Hillel Becomes Center for Grants, Social Services
Forward
; Cattan, Nacha Forward 11-10-2000 Agencies Finding Creative Ways To Respond to the Needs of Immigrants: Brooklyn College Hillel Becomes Center for Grants, Social Services By NACHA CATTAN When Roman Zeltser's father died, lack of funds made it almost impossible for him to continue his studies as a
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Faxon's LINX at Brooklyn College. (periodicals management system)
Computers in Libraries
; LINX is an online, remote access periodicals management system developed by F.W. Faxon Company and available to a network of users through dedicated lines and dial-up access. What follows is a discussion of LINX, what it has to offer librarians in general and serialists in particular, and a case
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Left Behind: Estonia's Russians.
World and I
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Clinton, Visiting Brooklyn College, Presses Programs to Reduce Crime
The Washington Post
; For more than two hours President Clinton sat on a theater stage at Brooklyn College here and chatted, almost like a talk show host, about changing America so people no longer felt afraid. He said crime was strangling American streets and schools and referred to a shooting Wednesday at Eastern High
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Your Space or MySpace?(Brooklyn College Library )
netConnect
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Brooklyn College graduation
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Russians are back in the diplomacy business, and still retain tremendous potential for danger. (Originated from Boston Globe)
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No end of war in sight; Russia and Chechnya; Russia's stalemate in Chechnya.(the Russians are facing a stalemate in Chechnya; they may eventually have to negotiate with the rebels)(Europe)(Brief Article)
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; ... the near future are dim. Third, they want to prevent outsiders from seeing what is really going on, by controlling the flow of news far more tightly than before, so that they can act without restraint against the rebels and the civilians who are suspected of ...
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