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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A disorderly crowd at Washington Square South & Thompson St in Manhattan, a suspicious package at 5th St & Smith St in Brooklyn and a fire at Bronx Blvd & E 239th St in the Bronx.
The Supreme Court overturned, 8-1, a federal law that criminalized the sale of videos depicting animal cruelty. Justice Samuel Alito was the lone dissenter, "The Court strikes down in its entirety a valuable statue, that was enacted not to suppress speech, but to prevent horrific acts of animal cruelty"
Former governor George Pataki is speaking out against health care reform and trying to gather 1 million signatures to repeal it.
With Megamillions at $143 million and Powerball at $252 million, one Queens convenience store is hoping its customers get lucky again (last year, a customer won the $133 million Megamillions jackpot in July).
Um, "scheduling" issues have forced Alan Cumming to drop out of the Broadway musical of Spider-Man.
A Republican candidate for State Comptroller says his Wall Street experience makes him perfect for the job.
Kotex has a new round of ads tweaking "traditional" tampon messaging.
And a British woman recovering from a migraine now has a "Chinese accent"—and she's not Chinese, has never been to China or studied Chinese.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on April 20, 2010 6:25 PM

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Peter

At least for official purposes all East Asians are classified as "Chinese and other." The British use "Asian" to mean South Asian, mostly Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi.

1987porsche944

A disorderly crowd at Washington Square South on April 20th? Who saw that coming???

/sarcasm

Snoopy

Maybe it was the Celestial seasonings she was using in her cooking that caused both the migraine and the relapse into talking like a Chinese short order cook.

TheKlaus

The Court strikes down in its entirety a valuable statue, that was enacted not to suppress speech

Kojak

This Alan Dude seriously needs to figure out whether he's cumming or going

jaycjay

If her speech now resembles that of someone with a Chinese accent, it's nothing more than a coincidence. She's simply mispronouncing, to her ear and those of other people with accents other than Chinese, certain syllables. It really has nothing to do with China or a Chinese language.