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The State University of New York on Wednesday filed a formal plan to close Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill. That action was quickly followed by a judge's order temporarily restraining SUNY's action. … Full Article

A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge’s temporary restraining order stopping the State University of New York from closing Long Island College Hospital (LICH) has made Downtown-area officials and civic leaders, not to mention many of the hospital’s staffers,  … Full Article

Brownstone Brooklyn packed the pews of the historic Kane Street Synagogue Thursday night to shout out the message: LICH (Long Island College Hospital) must be saved.  … Full Article

Following the decision by the board of SUNY Downstate Medical Center to close LICH (Long Island College Hospital) in Cobble Hill, community me … Full Article

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While Pope Benedict XVI is the first pontiff to resign in many centuries; news reports have conflicted on which pope(s) resigned first. The Associated Press was among some that reported that the last pope to resign was Gregory XII, in the fifteenth century. … Full Article

This past November, Gen. David Petraeus resigned from his position as director of the CIA when his affair with Paula Broadwell, his biographer, was discovered and became the center of extensive media attention. … Full Article

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