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Sam Roberts (born October 2, 1974) is a Juno Award winning Canadian rock singer-songwriter, whose 2002 debut release, The Inhuman Condition, became one of the bestselling independent releases in Quebec and Canadian music history.

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Economy Is Forcing Young Adults Back Home in Big Numbers, Survey Finds

For more young adults, there is no place like home for the holidays, and for the rest of the year, too. Ten percent of adults younger than 35 told the Pew Research Center that they had moved back in with their parents because of the recession. They ...

From SAM ROBERTS, The New York Times,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pew Research Center

Survey Finds Hard Times Preceded Recession

Even before the recession, more than one in five Americans needed help from family, friends or outsiders to pay for basic needs, according to a survey by the Census Bureau. In addition, 14 percent of all Americans and 26 percent of blacks who ...

From SAM ROBERTS, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Census Bureau

Survey Shows Hard Times Before Recession

Even before the recession, more than one in five Americans could not afford to pay for basic needs without help from family, friends or outsiders, according to a survey by the Census Bureau. Fourteen percent of all Americans and 26 percent of blacks ...

From SAM ROBERTS, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Census Bureau

High Tech Tries to Lift Veil on 18 ½ Tantalizing Minutes in Watergate

Stymied in its digital effort to fill in the mysterious 18 ½-minute gap in the Watergate tapes, the government will apply high technology to the paper trail to try to answer the scandal’s most intriguing question: What did President Richard M. Nixon ...

From SAM ROBERTS, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: H. R. Haldeman,  White House,  Democratic National Committee

Bookshelf | New York’s Terrain: Wild Spaces, Street Patterns and a Splashdown

IF Ken Burns’s recent television series on America’s national parks has you craving natural splendor, the city is a perfect if surprising place to look. For proof, look no further than to “Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks” ( ...

From SAM ROBERTS, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ken Burns,  Joel Meyerowitz,  New York Times Company,  Adrian Benepe,  Phillip Lopate

Polls Predicted a Bloomberg Blowout, but Expert Knew Better

More than three months ago, Bruce N. Gyory was telling anyone who would listen, including advisers to both mayoral campaigns, that while Michael R. Bloomberg was favored to win, his margin would not be more than five to seven percentage points. Mr. ...

From SAM ROBERTS, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Bloomberg

Still Trying to Lure New Yorkers Across the Hudson

Newport, a development built by Samuel J. LeFrak, is trying to lure residents from New York. “Mass Exodus to New Jersey Underway” one headline screams from a Web advertisement. “Governor Plots Ginormous Tax Increases for New York City” another ...

From SAM ROBERTS, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company

A Chance to See the City Change, Site by Site

At the start of the 20th century, Henry James pronounced New York “a provisional city,” a phrase echoed decades later by Le Corbusier. The architectural historian Max Page suggested that “creative destruction” the intentional razing and rebuilding of ...

From SAM ROBERTS, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Henry James,  O. Henry,  New York Times Company

Third-Term Blues Are Job Hazard in Mayor’s Office and Albany

Fiorello H. La Guardia, ill with cancer and already fitted for a uniform, craved a military commission that would get him out of New York. Robert F. Wagner’s wife had just died and he was growing weary of juggling work and family. Edward I. Koch, ...

From SAM ROBERTS, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert F. Wagner,  Michael Bloomberg,  New York Giants,  Jesse Jackson, Jr. (politician),  Mario M. Cuomo

David Nutt's sacking provokes mass revolt

Alan Johnson faces prospect of 'collective action' over David Nutt sacking. Photograph: David Mansell/Guardian The home secretary faces mass resignations from the government's drug advisory body over his decision to force out its chairman, who accused ...

From SAM JONES, ROBERT BOOTH, Guardian Unlimited,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Alan Johnson,  Home Office,  National Health Service,  Gordon Brown

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