Feisal Abdul Rauf: I worked as a teacher in the public...

Quote	I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment. Copy
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