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  • Bloomberg accused of threatening to destroy New Yorks taxi industry

    USA New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has found himself at the center of unwanted media attention after allegedly unleashing a profanity-laced tirade against the CEO of a large taxi fleet company over his opposition to the city's "Taxi of Tomorrow" plan. The altercation, which is said to have occurred last Thursday during a basketball game at Madison Square Garden's private ...

  • Hail destroys West Monroe farmers berry crop

    Greg Levkefech, of Syracuse, with pails of blueberries he picked for S.G. & S. Farms in Cato in 2008. On Wednesday, a severe thunderstorm produced hail that destroyed this year's berry crop for one farm in West ...

  • Jurors deadlock on death penalty for convicted murderer Jodi Arias retrial set for July...

    A new panel likely will be seated to try again to reach a decision on a sentence - unless the prosecutor takes death off the table and agrees to a life sentence. The judge scheduled a retrial for July ...

  • Fired teacher says meaning lost in translation after calling student Negro

    A Bronx teacher says her language lesson was lost in translation when she was fired for calling a student "Negro" - though she claims she was simply using the Spanish word for the color "black" at the time, according to a new lawsuit. The non-tenured junior high instructor, Petrona Smith, 65, was booted from the bilingual PS 211 in March 2012 after a seventh-grader reported ...

  • Boy Scouts drops ban on openly gay boys

    GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout ...


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Movie Review

The Fourth Man (De vierde man)

The opening scene of Paul Verhoeven's Dutch erotic comedy/thriller "The Fourth Man" is none too subtle: in queasy close-up it shows a large spider capturing and devouring a helpless fly that has become caught in its web. For a film that deals with a blond femme fatal who may or may not have knocked off three husbands and may or may not be positioning herself to get a fourth, this is not a good sig ... ...

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