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President Bush visited New York City yesterday to encourage Congress to reauthorize his No Child Left Behind program. Bush gave a speech at the Harlem Village Academy school and praised its founder, faculty and students and emphasized the importance of the NCLB Act. Bush made it a point to visit all eight classrooms and shake every student's hand, prompting one student to tell the Sun, "I think it was the best day of my life," and a teacher to ask Bush for more money to be added to NCLB.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: Falling debris at 107th St. and Lexington Ave. in Manhattan, a police officer is shot in Brooklyn's Nassau County's 3rd Precinct, and a car vs. building incident on Atlantic Avenue.
• Kittens in trees are over. Firefighters rescue drowning dog in Hudson River
• When your roommate is a mysterious stranger, write about him in The New York Times.
• NYC playing fields: no longer just for "having sex, getting high on drugs or settling fights."
• The man behind the woman behind the man. How Charlie Rangel played queenmaker to Hillary.
• And speaking of the queens, she's flush: Hillary raised $26 million in the first three months of 2007.
• One 13-year-old is dead and another 13-year-old is arrested after a playground fight turns deadly.
• Are special ed kids on Staten Island getting the shaft from the Department of Education?
• Is this cliche-fulfillment: Three city teachers caught smoking a joint outside an Allman Bros. concert at the Beacon Theater.

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3 Pack by Jeffrey Docherty.

In no time flat has Congressman Charles Rangel upset people. Actually, the new head of the House's Ways and Means Committee may have upset a whole state. In Thursday's NY Times story about how New York politicians will head very influential committees in Congress, Rangel said while discussing how New York State gives up a lot in federal taxes but doesn't get much in return (whereas Mississippi gets much more in federal money than what it pays in taxes), "Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?"

Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg gave his fourth State of the City address (which was titled "Building a City of Opportunity"), which was notable for how positive he was about the city. The NY Times called it "feel-good," Newsday called it "upbeat," with lines like "The state of our city is strong -- and we are going to make it even stronger for the future." Clearly, that was the only way to go since he's running for re-election this fall, but some things, like keeping the streets safe and improving education standards, are timeless in being effective at publis sentiment. Here some gold from his closing:

We may not agree on everything. In fact, that’s one thing that will never change in this city. But I know we all share the same love and passion for this great city. And with our passion, our pride, and our people how can we not succeed?

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