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  • 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 ...

  • Amanda charging cop grope

    Wigged-out starlet Amanda Bynes told authorities she was sexually assaulted by the cops that arrested her, The Post has learned. Bynes - who was busted last week on drug charges after allegedly tossing a bong from her high-rise window - claimed that two officers who hauled her in ran their fingers up her arm and one of them penetrated her with his finger, law- enforcement sources said. Sources ...

  • Artful bike-share protest in Soho

    Protests against Citi Bike moved into high gear yesterday. Soho residents rallied at Petrosino Square, demanding the removal of a 43-cycle station that replaced a public art space in the tiny park in the square.Dozens of people held signs and chanted, "Art, not bikes!" and "Art, not ads!" The hecklers also circulated a petition that contained more than 500 signatures."I ...


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Movie Review

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (¡Atame!)

Near the middle of Pedro Almodovar's "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!," a young man tells the object of his affection, "I'm 23 years old, I have 50,000 pesetas, and I'm alone in the world. I'll try to be a good husband to you, and a good father to your kids." It's lines like this that make this deranged black comedy work despite its shortcomings because you never have any doubt that he means it. It's humo ... ...

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  • Cornell students bolster search on Cayuga Lake for Ithaca man

    Dennis, 22, is a Cornell senior and Ithaca native. He left a campsite around 5 a.m. Wednesday and put a canoe into Cayuga Lake alone. He hasn't been heard from ...

  • Manchester City beat Chelsea and plant a flag at New Yorks Yankee stadium

    Manchester City played the second of two exhibition matches on a brief post-season US tour, at a Yankee Stadium that may soon be home to regular Major League Soccer games. For sure, the day's main conversation, here as elsewhere, may have been on the all-German ascendancy of Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, and the opening of a new front in Europe, but locally (and for New York, the ...

  • Cobbled-together Yankees send CC vs. Cobb

    The biggest constant for the Yankees lineup this season has been its seemingly constant state of flux. Roster shuffling is becoming the norm for New York, which on Saturday placed Curtis Granderson on the 15-day disabled list, recalled his presumed replacement -- Brennan Boesch -- from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, and claimed reliever David Huff off waivers from the Indians. "I think ...

  • Police investigate body found near Burnet Park

    David Lassman | dlassman@syracuse.com Syracuse, NY -- Police are on the scene where a dead body was found in a wet marsh area this afternoon. The body was found partially submerged in the water near Velasko Road and Grand Avenue, police said. The circumstances surrounding the death are unknown and an investigation is ongoing. We'll update with more information as it becomes ...

  • New Yorks Hot Dog Hooker arrested again

    New York's infamous "Hot Dog Hooker" allegedly tried to serve up the full works to one customer, but she didn't know the customer was an undercover detective and is now facing a prostitution case, police ...

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