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  • NYT website attacked by unknown hackers

    The New York Times has revealed that its website was hacked earlier this week, preventing access to a small number of users. The newspaper claimed that earlier Chinese hackers had attacked the website for months, but did not mention the sources for the latest round of attacks. The Chinese hacking led the paper to turn to an outside security firm to block future attacks. A Huffington Post ...

  • Police Cop shot Hofstra student

    Twin sisters Andrea Rebello and Jessica Rebello at their 2010 graduation from Sleepy Hollow High School. Andrea Rebello was killed Friday morning in a break-in near Hofstra University. Jessica was in the house, but was unharmed. / Ricky Flores/The Journal News file ...

  • Stephenson spurs late rally to lead Pacers past Knicks and into East finals

    Indiana Pacers guard D.J. Augustin passes the basketball to centre Roy Hibbert (55) around New York Knicks centre Amar'e Stoudemire (1) while Knicks guards Jason Kidd (R) and J.R. Smith (8) watch the play during the first half of their NBA Eastern Conference second round playoff game in Indianapolis, Indiana May 18, 2013. (BRENT ...

  • Pacers knock out Knicks with 106-99 win in Game 6

    New York Knicks guard Raymond Felton, right, shoots under Indiana Pacers forward Paul George during the third quarter of Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series in Indianapolis, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael ...

  • Book buff’s Wilde accusation

    Will the real Earnest please step up?A Soho man claims that he has owned a rare first edition of Oscar Wilde’s play "The Importance of Being Earnest" for nearly 30 years, but that his attempt to auction it failed after a British man declared the book stolen, according to a lawsuit.Elia Zois says in his Manhattan Supreme Court suit that he bought the book, one of just 12, in 1985. ...


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Movie Review

The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito)

The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito)

I usually work very hard to avoid repeating myself when writing about certain auteurs whose films have so much in common stylistically, thematically, or otherwise, that it is virtually impossible not to do exactly that. But, sometimes you just have to give in, which is why I would ... ...

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  • Pervy pol’s hefty ‘harass’ets

    INSIDE CITY HALL The playing field may not be level when disgraced Assemblyman Vito Lopez makes his audacious move for a City Council seat. Like everyone running for the council, Lopez will be able to claim as much as $92,000 in public matching funds from the Campaign Finance Board even as he’s being booted from Albany for a series of repulsive actions toward female staffers.And like all ...

  • Connect dots to Obama

    To believe the deputy, Neal Wolin, didn’t tell Geithner about such abuses, in the middle of a presidential campaign no less, is to believe they were all too busy to focus on politics. And to believe that Geithner didn’t warn the White House is to believe the IRS agents just made honest mistakes that coincidentally helped the incumbent president.And to believe that nobody told Obama ...

  • 14-year-old girl struck killed by bullet while riding a city bus in Queens

    A 14-year-old girl was killed aboard a moving city bus tonight in Queens after a shooter fired multiple rounds into the side of the vehicle from the sidewalk, cops said.The shots rang out at around 9 p.m. when the gunman shot several times into the side of the Q6 bus as it traveled south on Sutphin Boulvard in Jamaica, cops said.The unidentified girl was shot at least once in the head, according ...

  • Galactic war rockets ahead

    Space travel is nothing to toy with.A Manhattan company that bills itself as the world’s first commercial "spaceline" claims an effort to turn its lofty rocket ships into pint-sized promotional items was grounded after a New Jersey company stiffed it on a business deal, according to a lawsuit.Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, which has yet to launch a single trip to the ...

  • Pacers eliminate Knicks will face Heat in East final

    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Lance Stephenson scored a playoff career-high 25 points and led a late 11-2 run Saturday night, leading the Indiana Pacers past the New York Knicks, 106-99 and into the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2004. The New York native also had 10 rebounds and the Pacers were spurred by the return of point guard George Hill two days after he was diagnosed with a ...

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