She studied music at Florida State University and later moved to New York City to study violin and composition.

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David Johnson is a chemistry professor in the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

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Professor Robert Thompson at Syracuse University in New York state is an expert on American popular culture.

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Larry Norden of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School said New York has only 63 state senators and over the last seven years 13 have been charged with or convicted of crimes.

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Joining the Vice President at his law school alma mater were Task Force members Secretary Geithner and Secretary Duncan, Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, and a panel of education policy experts.

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Donald Boyd of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public-policy research arm of the State University of New York, found that in the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s state tax revenues declined at about the same rate as the national economy.

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