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  1. The Hevesi probe (remember that?) is still going on-- and it has expanded to include Hevesi's Chief of Staff, who apparently was also abusing the state chauffeur services.
  2. City Comptroller Bill Thompson says the Department of Education's graduation rates may be inflated. The state agrees-- they say NYC's graduation rate is 43%, fifteen points lower than the City's estimate.
  3. A Bronx electrician took shelter from the rain at an Upper West Side newsstand. While he was there, he bought a lottery ticket worth $20m.
  4. The Sopranos are shooting in Park Slope on Tuesday. [Publisher's note: on the block where I grew up!]
  5. The Daily News reports on the Black Friday sales ("New Yorkers go bananas for bargains") included an account of a stampede at Toys R' Us. Jen reports: "by the way, my brother's girlfriend went to a Best Buy in Queens at 3AM yesterday and people were getting STABBED on line!"
  6. Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an overturned auto on the Verrazzano Bridge, a DOA in the Bronx, and a sinking Barge off 59th Street in the Hudson.

Kentile (again!) by Dalton Rooney.

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It's IN line, people were getting stabbed IN line. Getting stabbed ON line isn't nearly as bad. And you don't ax questions...

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In New York people wait on line. The only people who wait in line tend to be from the vast lands beyond the tri-state area.

Most people in this country - and in fact most people from the tri-state area - wait IN line (contrary to your erroneous statement.)

It amazes me that you all thought to choose this particular topic to comment on . The correct usage of this term is ................Dependant on the situation . If your "waiting" your "On" line , If your trying to get "Too" the line, Your "In" line ! One's used in the "Past" tense, and the other refers to "Present", or in a limited state "Future" tense !

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