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  • Anthony Weiner Is Too Liberal to Be New York City Mayor

    Since 1993, New York's mayors have been Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, and Mike Bloomberg, who won his first two terms as a Republican and last as an independent. The result has been a city which has blossomed, with crime plummeting, real estate prices rising and the standard of living on a steady upswing. All this has been achieved while living, and persevering through, two major terrorist ...

  • Video New York congressman rebounds from scandal announces run for mayor

    Former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who resigned two years ago after posting a lewd photo online, announces he is running for New York City mayor. Lindsey Parietti ...

  • Police question teen in shooting death of 14-year-old girl on Queens buss

    Queens detectives picked up a 16-year-old boy for questioning, in connection to the shocking slaying of a 14-year-old girl, killed on a city bus this past weekend, police said. NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly disclosed this latest development, after appearing at City Council budget hearing today. New Yorkers were outraged after learning about the death ...

  • Gov. Cuomo says if Weiners elected mayor shame on us

    Gov. Cuomo ALBANY - Gov. Cuomo stuck it to mayoral wannabe Anthony Weiner yesterday when asked what he thought about the disgraced former Congressman's bid for Gracie Mansion. During a interview with The Syracuse Post Standard's Editorial Board yesterday, Cuomo said it's fine if Weiner wants to run, but "shame on us" for electing him. Question: "So if Anthony ...

  • Taxi big files suit against Bloomberg after mayors profanity-laced tirade

    The taxi magnate who said he was subjected to a profanity-laced rant by Mayor Bloomberg has filed a federal lawsuit charging the mayor with threatening him and siccing TLC inspectors on his fleet in retaliation for his opposition to the "Taxi of Tomorrow" plan.The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court late yesterday, accuses Bloomberg and TLC chief David Yassky of ordering inspectors ...


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Movie Review

Vanilla Sky [DVD]

Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's faithful Hollywood remake of Alejandro Amenabar's (The Others) 1997 Spanish film Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes), is many things all at once. It is a romantic melodrama, a murder mystery, an existential thriller, and a perplexing dream-logic puzzlebox, not to mention a barely disguised cinematic meditation on the larger-than-life perfection ... ...

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  • More than 2000 people sign Hofstra petition asking for better off-campus security

    UNIONDALE - More than 2,000 people have signed a petition asking Hofstra University to beef up off-campus security following the killing of a student.Andrea Rebello, a Hofstra junior, was accidentally shot by a police officer during a May 17 home invasion. The intruder, a prison parolee, was also killed.The petition was launched by a former Hofstra homecoming king and queen. It demands that ...

  • Metro-North workers injured in Conn. train crash hire lawyer to pursue damages

    STAMFORD, Conn. - Seven Metro-North railroad workers injured in last week's collision on the commuter line have hired a lawyer to pursue damages.The engineers of the two trains involved are among the clients of George Cahill, a New Haven-based railroad law attorney.Cahill says he's looking into whether recent track repairs may have led an eastbound commuter train to derail near ...

  • BYU animation program featured in The New York Times

    Students working on a short film sit in a daily meeting to discuss their progress in the BYU Animation lab at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Aug. 9, ...

  • Kerry Kennedy farmworker protest Wendys in NYC

    Kennedy heads the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights, named for her late father. She led the crowd outside the stockholders' meeting in a chant of "What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? ...

  • Senate seeks 5 casinos video slots on Long Island

    ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Senate Republicans are proposing five Las Vegas-style casinos including up to three in the Catskills with two video slot machine sites on Long ...

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