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Adolfo Carrion to be Obama's urban affairs director

Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, the former schoolteacher and urban planner who helped the Yankees put up their new billion-dollar stadium, was named White House director of urban affairs on Thursday.

President Barack Obama said Carrion "will bring long overdue attention to the urban areas where 80 percent of the American people live and work." He said the new urban affairs office...

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