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  • Mets ace Matt Harvey dating Victorias Secret model Anne V

    New York Mets pitcher Matt Harvey and supermodel Anne V were reportedly spotted getting intimate in public at the New York Rangers playoff game at Madison Square Garden, on Thursday. Harvey- who is a Connecticut-born, die-hard Rangers fan- first met the green-eyed blond bombshell in early May after they watched the Broadway Blueshirts win at the Garden, the New York Post reported. According to ...

  • US Defense Chief Calls for End to Military Sex Assaults

    U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called for an end to sexual assaults in the military Saturday in a commencement speech to graduates of the West Point military academy in New York state. Hagel called sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military a "profound betrayal" of sacred oaths and trusts and a "scourge" that must be stamped out. A day earlier, President Barack Obama ...

  • Bang With Friends mysterious CEO revealed

    Bang with Friends- the controversial Facebook app run by its CEO and co-founder who just goes by his initial 'C' has been revealed accidentally by Internet New York which included the founders' name on the online ballot. BWF app creator Colin Hodge, 28, and Omri Mor had remained anonymous till last week, but the leak of their identity through Internet Week New York disappointed Hodge, the Daily ...

  • Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

    New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...

  • Aust javelin thrower 3rd in New York

    Australian thrower Kim Mickle has recorded a season's best of 63.93m in the women's javelin to come third in a strong field at the IAAF Diamond League meet in New York.Competing in the third instalment of the IAAF Diamond League, Mickle opened the competition with a throw of 61.01m.She followed that with 59.89m in the second round before hurling the spear 63.93m in the third round to ...


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Consider the following passage from Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1912 pulp classic, "Tarzan of the Apes": ...

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  • Words to live by

    Lt. Col. Mark Weber prepared his family for the worst countless times during his 23-year Army career - but now faces a battle he knows he can’t win.In December 2010, doctors diagnosed Weber, who had survived 19 years in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, with Stage 4 intestinal cancer. Told he had only two months to live, the decorated soldier set out to write a farewell letter to his three sons, ...

  • He’s a flippin’ champion

    The man plays a mean pinball.Native New Yorker Steve Zahler is a pinball wizard - beating players with years of experience to become the metropolitan area’s first-place flipper.Now he’s facing the ultimate test as he prepares for the game’s world championships in Germany beginning Friday, where 64 hot shots will vie for the coin-operated crown."I’m not there to beat ...

  • ‘Bad bust’ cop defense

    EXCLUSIVE He allegedly browbeat witnesses and railroaded suspects, but the retired Brooklyn homicide detective with 50 cases now under review insists he did nothing wrong - and that a killer has been freed."I’m standing up for myself because it’s the truthful thing to do," said Louis Scarcella, 61, a decorated cop involved in more than 300 murder probes during the ...

  • Who’s screwed by Weiner’s entry

    INSIDE CITY HALL It’s hard to find anyone in politics who thinks Anthony Weiner can actually become mayor.But just about everyone views him as a factor in the multi-candidate race who, if there are no more sexting surprises, could have a profound impact on who gets to City Hall next year."He lives, sleeps and eats politics," said one source who has tangled with the ...

  • Fallen tree traps Harlem gal 4 hrs.

    A woman spent four hours pinned under her neighbor’s apple tree in Harlem yesterday after it snapped in high winds and fell into her yard, authorities said. The woman, whose name was not released, was rescued after residents noticed her missing and her son rushed to her West 132nd Street home and pulled her out. Ronald Sheppard said he heard the tree snap at "about 4 or 5 ...

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