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Monday, May 21, 2012

Some Gay Rights Advocates Uneasy About Long Jail Time for Dharun Ravi
Prominent gay rights advocates argue that pinning blame on Dharun Ravi, who faces sentencing Monday, ignores the complicated pressures that drive gay teenagers to suicide.

City Room: Cornell's High-Tech Campus Will Have a Temporary Home at Google
Before Cornell builds its new applied sciences school on Roosevelt Island, its first classes will be held in Google's building in Chelsea.

City Room: Lillian Jacobs, Mainstay of East 84th St., Dies at 102
For a century, Lillian Jacobs lived on the same stretch of an Upper East Side street; she died there on Sunday.

City Room: Metropolitan Diary: A Brooklyn Tale of Woe for the Belt Parkway
Metropolitan Diary: One woman's rant on the parkway that plagues her.

City Room: Reforming Stop-and-Frisk by Adding More Stops
The Day: How to reform the police's stop-and-frisk tactic? It's quite simple: greatly increase the number of New Yorkers who are stopped, gum chewers and bicyclists included.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Hold Rally on Internet at Citi Field
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men attended the rally, which was held to discuss the potential dangers of Internet use and the temptations that can come from social media and pornography.

Liberals Urge Cuomo to Champion Higher Minimum Wage
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has said he supports increasing the minimum wage, but some backers of a bill said that he had not lobbied for it strongly.

Middle Class Smaller in New York City Than Nationally, Study Finds
A city comptroller’s office study found that the wealthiest 1 percent of New Yorkers had nearly one-third of all personal income in 2009.

Sunday Liquor Sales End an Era in Connecticut
While some were lining up at spirit shops across the state to be the first to be served on a Sunday, others were heading out to church.

Closing of Peninsula Hospital in Rockaway Raises Fears
State officials closed Peninsula Hospital Center in April, leaving St. John’s Episcopal Hospital and walk-in clinics to pick up the slack.