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  • Moscow safer than New York Russian minister

    Russian police reforms have proved so successful that, in some areas, Moscow outperforms New York on safety, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has boasted while on a visit to the US. Kolokoltsev made the claims during a meeting in New York late Monday with New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. "We have compared the crime situation in Moscow and New York, factoring in ...

  • Shocking lawsuit claims NY high schools admissions policy racially biased

    New York City high school admissions policies are racially biased against black and Hispanic students. A lawsuit filed in a federal civil rights complaint said that parents and activists have charged the school. According to the New York Daily News, in the complaint, filed with the federal Office of Civil Rights, the parents and their lawyers call for a federal investigation and overhaul of a ...

  • US charges three NYU researchers for taking bribes from Chinese company

    Three New York University researchers from China divulged results from a federally funded study to Chinese competitors in exchange for tuition, rent and other expenses. Federal prosecutors said that Yudong Zhu, a U.S.-educated NYU professor, and Xing Yang, a lab engineer, were released on bail after appearing in federal court in Manhattan to face commercial bribery and other charges. ...

  • Kerry Kennedys trying time Drugged-drive rap stands

    Kerry Kennedy must stand trial for drugged driving, a Westchester judge said yesterday in rejecting a bid by the former wife of Gov. Cuomo to dismiss the misdemeanor charge.North Castle Town Court Judge Elyse Lazansky set Oct. 8 for the next court date in the case of Kennedy, 53, who was allegedly under the influence of a sleeping pill when she swerved her Lexus into a tractor-trailer on I-684 ...

  • CUNY salutes ROTC return

    After a nearly four-decade absence, the same army officer training program that launched the legendary career of Gen. Colin Powell is back at CUNY.Powell, a City College of New York alum and former Secretary of State, was on hand yesterday for the return of the Army Senior Reserve Officers Training Corps program - which disappeared from CUNY and most colleges amid the Vietnam War protests.ROTC ...


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Movie Review

Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)

Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)

Paul Morrisseys Flesh for Frankenstein, which was originally known as Andy Warhols Frankenstein even though Warhol did nothing but lend his name, is deliberately and unapologetically sensationalistic and in-your-face. In it, Morrissey consciously orchestrates everything to grandiose excess, from the free-flowing gore, to the cheesy dialogue, to the bad acting. Of course, theres much ... ...

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  • Weiner Announces Candidacy for New York Mayor in Video

    Anthony D. Weiner, once a rising star of New York politics whose career cratered over revelations of his sexually explicit life online, announced an improbable bid on Wednesday for the job he has long coveted: ...

  • Anthony Weiner Enters 2013 New York Mayoral Race

    New York congressman resigned in 2011 after posting a lewd photo of himself on Twitter. Weiner-- who is married to former top aide to Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, with whom he now has a son-- lied and said his account had been hacked. He later admitted to sending inappropriate online messages to six women. Since his resignation, Weiner had remained largely out of the spotlight until last ...

  • Conn. rail service returning to normal

    Metro North employees, in orange vests, help transfer westbound commuters at the transportation center in Bridgeport, Ct., to buses Monday, May 20, 2012, after a train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. The commuters had arrived from New Haven by train and were being bused to Stamford, Ct., where rail service to New York was available. (AP ...

  • Too close Shock as bullet blasts into girls window landing in her hair — shes fine

    A 12 year-old girl got the scare of a lifetime Monday night, when a bullet went flying through her bedroom window and somehow landed in her hair without wounding her, cops said.The victim was in her bedroom around 9:00 p.m. when shots were fired near the Morningside Heights apartment on Seventh Avenue near Adam Clayton Boulevard, cops said.That’s when her sixth floor bedroom window was ...

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