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  • Shel delay on sex-abuse bill

    ALBANY - Advocates and lawmakers are questioning why Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is dragging his feet moving a bill requiring schools to teach sexual-abuse awareness and prevention.Seven states have enacted what’s known as Erin’s Law, named after Erin Merryn, an Illinois sexual-abuse victim and advocate. Merryn has been on a mission to pass the law, saying she could have ...

  • Court OKs ‘rich’-food eatery in Union Square

    Who knew that Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy would include an $18 omelet?A state appeals court yesterday ordered the completion of an upscale seasonal restaurant at Union Square, the centerpiece of Hizzoner’s $20 million renovation plan for the north end of the plaza.Construction of the tony Chef Driven Market, with brunch entree prices at about $20 a plate, was halted in January when a ...

  • ‘DWI’ gal’s grave turn

    She drank herself into an early grave - and lived to tell about it.Kelly Catapano, 35, of Staten Island, was busted for drunken driving Sunday at the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp when she drove her Chrysler Sebring into a freshly dug grave.Catapano had a blood-alcohol count triple the legal limit, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Her car - which had dropped four feet below ground - had ...

  • ‘Ball buster’ wife is teste

    A knockdown, drag-out brawl between WABC/Channel 7 weatherman Bill Evans and his estranged wife took a nasty turn when she scratched his testicles and bruised his backside with a coat hanger, the meteorologist claimed. Evans, 52, told police his wife, Dana, went below the belt during the nasty fight over a set of car keys last month at their home in Old Greenwich, Conn. But Dana claims he ...

  • Reward now 65G for ’08 Times Sq. bomber

    The feds and the NYPD yesterday offered a $65,000 reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of the bicycle bomber who attacked the Times Square military recruiting center in 2008.In addition to the reward offer, authorities released never-before-seen footage of the bomber taken from surveillance video.New images also show the remains of the homemade explosive device, which was ...


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Movie Review

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Political thriller or political satire? "The Manchurian Candidate" is both, and although it was made in 1962, it has lost none of its edge or any of its biting attacks on the American political circus. It feels just as taut, just as scathing, and just as paranoid as it did thirty-five years ago. "The Manchurian Candidate" is mostly a cinematic backlash against the absurdities of the McCarthy hear ... ...

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  • Christie No no to Speedo

    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has slimmed down after his belly-band surgery, but he’s not about to make a public splash in a swimsuit."We are not doing that on Fourth of July. There are some things I absolutely know at my core would be a bad thing. Me in a Speedo is one of them," Christie quipped on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe." Christie, a popular Republican considered ...

  • AP PHOTOS Astrodome JFK terminal endangered

    WASHINGTON -- Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places.On Wednesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is releasing its listing of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It includes sites from Maine to ...

  • Kuroda Hughes set for twin bill with Dodgers

    The Yankees' first meeting with the Dodgers since 1981 will have to wait another day. The two historic clubs will meet for a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium after Tuesday's series opener was rained out. Rookie left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu, 6-2 with a 2.85 ERA in 13 starts, will start Game 1 for the Dodgers. He is winless in two outings this month, and he said that ...

  • Shouldnt happen to a dog Subway brawler kicks police K-9 in face breaking animals teeth

    An NYPD police dog was kicked in the face during a brawl today in a midtown subway station, police said.The 6-year-old German Shepherd named Bear suffered four broken teeth and a cut to his tongue when he tried to help an officer break up the fight in the 59th Street and Lexington Avenue station at around 11:15 a.m.While breaking up the fight an officer was trying to handcuff Ravenia ...

  • Wall Street opens higher boosted by New York manufacturing data

    U.S. stocks opened broadly higher Monday, as investors awaited Wednesdays Fed policy meeting, with increasing confidence that the Fed wont start tapering in super-easy ...

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