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Damage of social media during the pandemic

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMARCIA HUNT Special to The Leader It would take you less than five minutes of scrolling through Twitter to find posts about the global coronavirus pandemic. And this is understandable — these are unprecedented times. Social media has given people everywhere the ability to put their feelings of fear, frustration......
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One family’s struggle with the virus

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Reading Time: 6 minutesMICHAEL MORRISSEY Special to The Leader My grandfather, whom we call Poppy, has been itching to get out of The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing Home in Rome, N.Y., since the day he got there. His health conditions, which have been piling up for years, prevented him from remaining in the......
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I’m an acting major in quarantine. This is my story.

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMATTHEW BAUM Staff Scallywag Before I begin, I have to preface this article with the fact that everything I’m about to say is true. There is nothing in this article that has been fabricated or exaggerated in any way, and I am living in Hell.  I am an acting major.......
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Nurse responds to COVID-19

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSAMUEL LEWANDOWSKI Special to The Leader In her 33 years working as a nurse, Nancy Lewandowski — my mother  — said that COVID-19 is the scariest thing she’s ever seen.  Lewandowski’s career began at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, where she worked as a graduate nurse. After receiving her license and......
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WHO exactly is to blame for a worldwide pandemic?

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Reading Time: 5 minutesHOPE WINTER Special to The Leader It’s been yet another week of COVID-19 holding people hostage in their homes, and while Americans are beginning to go stir-crazy with their families, Trump continues to wave his finger guns. Every night at six o’clock, while American families sit down for dinner, Trump......
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The school bully and the popular kid: An analysis of the relationship between Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCASEY HUBER Special to The Leader As the president of the wealthiest, most powerful nation on Earth dragged on about how many ventilators New York State needed, I had a thought. How does the popular kid in school interact with the school bully? There seems to be a mutual respect......
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Uncle Sam is cutting us a check, but will it work?

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer If you are like me and about 70 million other Americans, by the Treasury Department’s estimates, you may have, or will be receiving a check from the Federal Government in a compensatory consolation for the world being on shutdown. The direct payment to the people,......

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