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  • Worlds largest Star Wars Lego model unveiled in NYC

    A massive Lego model of the Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter was unveiled in Times Square, New York City on Thursday. Made out of a whopping 5.3 million Lego pieces, the craft weighs in at nearly 46,000lbs and is 43 feet (13.1 metres) long. Its wingspan measures 44 feet (13.44 metres) across, and is the largest Lego model ever built, Sky News reported. The ship is the work of 32 master Lego ...

  • Hedge hog No mamas

    Hedge funds may be the last bastion of white male privilege - and that’s just the way these Neanderthals like it."I don’t think you’ll ever see as many great women investors or traders as men, period," said billionaire Tudor Investment Corp. founder Paul Tudor Jones, adding that children are the kiss of death for an investment career. "As soon as that ...

  • ‘F-bombed’ taxi big slaps harder at Mike

    The taxi magnate who said he was cursed out by Mayor Bloomberg has added the alleged F-bomb-laced tirade to a lawsuit accusing the mayor of harassing him for opposing the "Taxi of Tomorrow" plan.The amended suit, filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, charges that Bloomberg and Taxi and Limousine Commission chief David Yassky orchestrated a blizzard of bogus tickets on cabs ...

  • Heat on Kelly for cam jam

    NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly was grilled yesterday over the delay in installing $300,000 worth of security cameras in the Rockaways - and e-mails obtained by The Post show that the paperwork is on his desk. Correspondence between the NYPD’s grant department and a Queens assemblyman indicate the ball is in Kelly’s court. A source said the only thing holding back the cameras is ...

  • I win I quit

    A Long Island dockworker raked in a $26.5 million Lotto jackpot - and promptly quit his job. Fidencio Argueta, 60, from Brentwood, said the decision to play Quick-Pick numbers in the state’s six-digit lottery on April 10 just came to him on a whim."I felt like I should play," he explained at a press conference yesterday. After taxes, Argueta yesterday got a lump sum check for ...


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Movie Review

Deep Impact

Last year it was the battle of the dueling volcano movies, "Dante's Peak" and "Volcano." This year, history repeats itself, except volcanoes have been replaced with giant meteors on collision courses for Earth. Michael Bay's "Armageddon" isn't due until July, but for those who just can't wait to see Earth destroyed by fire from the heavens, the Steven Spielberg-produced "Deep Impact" has arrived. ... ...

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  • Wire pol’s bid to run bugs Dems

    ALBANY - Disgraced ex-Assemblyman Nelson Castro was mocked by fellow Democrats yesterday for mulling a run at the very seat he was forced to vacate in a perjury plea deal."What would he run for, New York’s best informant?" New York state Democratic Party co-chair Keith Wright joked of Castro, who wore a wire for the feds and turned evidence against fellow lawmakers. Castro ...

  • E. End scribe busted

    A national best-selling author and Hamptons socialite was busted for pot possession while cruising around the East End, cops said.Steven Gaines, 66, wrote "Philistines at the Hedgerow," a 1998 social and cultural history of the Hamptons exposing the excesses of the rich and powerful, like billionaire Ron Perelman.The Brooklyn native, 66, was cruising around Wainscott at about 1:40 p.m. ...

  • Jodi will get new death jury

    PHOENIX - Jurors who spent five months determining Jodi Arias’ fate couldn’t decide whether she should get life in prison or die for murdering her boyfriend, sending prosecutors back to the drawing board to rehash the shocking case of sex, lies and violence to another 12 people.Judge Sherry Stephens gave a heavy sigh as she announced a mistrial in the penalty phase of the case ...

  • Gov takes stiff poke at Weiner

    ALBANY - Gov. Cuomo took a bite out of Anthony Weiner - declaring "shame on us" if city voters elect him mayor.Cuomo flamed Weiner during an interview Wednesday with The Syracuse Post-Standard editorial board, it was revealed yesterday. "So if Anthony Weiner wants to run for mayor, he can run for mayor?" Cuomo was asked.The governor responded: "He runs? He runs." ...

  • Biker barrels into bus

    A motorcyclist was fighting for his life yesterday after colliding with a city bus in morning rush-hour traffic, officials said yesterday.Sources said the unidentified biker sped past a red light at Third Avenue and East 34th Street at 9 a.m. as a traffic agent waved a westbound bus through the intersection. The motorcycle clipped the bus near its back wheel, cops said. The biker was rushed to ...

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