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COMPTROLLER HOPEFULS ARE FINE $$ FRIENDS Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| THE 2009 race for comp troller is shaping up as the most competitive in years, but developer Peter Fine is almost certain to line up with the winner - because he's backing four of the five Democratic candidates. Campaign filings show that Fine -... |
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'CELEBRITY' KABBALAH GOD COMPLEX Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| THE kabbalah of A-Rod and Madonna, of the gossip columns, is far from synonymous with the theosophical doctrines developed under that name (kabbalah literally means "received tradition") by Jewish mystics in medieval Spain. It is a vulgar... |
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MIDDLE EAST MINEFIELD FOR BARACK Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| It's not going to be all rousing cheers and adoring accolades. Obama is traveling with a team of advisers and experts and will likely try to stick to prepared remarks to avoid any missteps. But Israeli officials - with whom he's reportedly... |
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BAM IS IN THE ZONE Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| His first-ever trip to Afghanistan and Iraq is the initial leg of a campaign-season tour of that's expected to also take him to other parts of the Middle East this week. After touching down at Bagram Air Base in Kabul, the congressional... |
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'NET HINT OF HILL 2012 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| Former Clinton advisers have reserved the Web address HRC2012.com. HRC2012.com was bought by the Markham Group on June 8, according to the Atlantic Monthly's Marc Ambinder. Greg Hale of the Markham Group was a key Clinton campaign aide... |
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BIG DAY FOR 'KNIGHT' Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| "The Dark Knight" already broke one box office record - and is on track for the highest-grossing opening weekend of all time. Heath Ledger's eerie portrayal as the psychotic Joker helped the movie earn $66.4 million Friday, topping the $59.8... |
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NYPD DAILY BLOTTER Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| BROOKLYN * A 17-year-old was found slain in Bedford-Stuyvesant. A 911 call reporting gunfire at 7:30 p.m. Friday directed cops to Myrtle Avenue near Throop Avenue, where they found the youth slumped outside the Sumner Houses. He had been shot... |
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KABBALAH PARKING PARADISE Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| Mayor Bloomberg's crackdown on city-issued parking permits doesn't apply to the celebrity-studded Midtown Kabbalah Centre - even as police, firefighters and teachers are having their parking passes yanked. The spiritual home of Madonna, Alex... |
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FBI 'BIG SHOTS' LEFT OUT Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| Undercover FBI agents assigned to security detail at Billy Joel's final Shea Stadium concert were left in the lurch Friday night when NYPD officers working the star-studded show inexplicably denied them admission passes and forced them to find their... |
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THE MEMBER-ABILIA AMONG US Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| Treasure-troves of "member-abilia" - Napoleon's privates, Einstein's eyeballs and other morbid collectibles - are being kept under lock and key, prized like family heirlooms, right in our own back yard. An elderly New Jersey ophthalmologist owns... |
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MTA GUNSLINGER TAKES TOUGH TOLL Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| Beware what you say to that testy toll taker - he has a gun! Last summer, a toll worker pulled his MTA Bridges and Tunnels-issued Glock 9mm pistol on a driver who handed him a wad of crumpled cash. B&T Officer Daniel Bell, 38, was working toll... |
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'BORDELLO' BOSS A BIG BLOWHARD Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| The slovenly owner of an illegal Midtown strip club busted for offering its wealthy, white-collar customers sexual favors often booked the VIP room for himself and treated employees badly, sources said yesterday. "Lou is a scumbag. I hope he burns... |
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GIULIANI'S 'LANDING' A NEW BIZ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| His Giuliani Partners firm is creating a fund that invests in commercial and residential properties despite the sagging market, according to those close to the deal. The fund will work with Berman Enterprises, which has agreed to front $50... |
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MY GIRL DIED AS 'GUINEA PIG' FOR GARDASIL Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| She loved SpaghettiO's, pepperoni, lilies, listening to her iPod and making her pals laugh. In her senior yearbook, she wrote, "The best things in life aren't things, they're friends." Now that's the quote chiseled into her gravestone. Jessica... |
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NJ MAYOR SHORE LIKES 'BENNY' $$ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| It's all about the Bennys, baby. The foot-in-mouth mayor of Belmar, NJ, Ken Pringle, yesterday apologized to beach-lovin' guidos and bottle blondes and what he called "Bennys" - a slightly derogatory Garden State term for New Yorkers. Sporting a... |
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B'KLYN BOY, 11, KILLED IN HIT-RUN HORROR Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| An 11-year-old Brooklyn boy was killed by a hit-run driver early yesterday, cops and his family said. Three cars were racing down a Flatbush street as Rondell Grant Jr. was leaving a barbecue at his grandmother's house on East 42nd Street at 1:24... |
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DESPERATE SWIM TO SAVE PAL Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| Swamped by huge waves churned up by a hurricane, Carla Armaza desperately swam out to save her pal from being dragged out to sea. But the force of the surf off Rockaway Beach late Friday afternoon was too strong. She was choking on seawater... |
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ONE GEM OF A GARBAGE HAUL FOR SI COUPLE Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| The city's trash was this man's treasure. A Staten Island jeweler found his wife's $20,000 diamond earrings, which had been inadvertently tossed in the trash, after digging through a mound of garbage at the Fresh Kills landfill. Haya Sharon, 56... |
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SI MAN DROWNS IN UPSTATE RIVER SWIM Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| A college student from Staten Island enjoying a camping trip upstate drowned while trying to cross the Delaware River, authorities said yesterday. Salvatore Valenziano Jr., 20, was swimming with four childhood friends Friday evening near Minisink... |
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BEEPS' BIG SIS-BOOM-BUCKS Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| One has three drivers, a speechwriter and a writer of proclamations - like the one presented to Ms. Full-Figured USA 2005. Another has a "secretary to the assistant to the president" who makes $85,000 - on top of two other special assistants, two... |
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2ND VID CATCHES COP-SLAY SUSPECT'S GUARDED TRYST Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| Yet another tape has surfaced showing Rikers Island Correction Officer Kadessha Mulgrav in a questionable position with accused cop killer Lee Woods. Video surveillance shows Mulgrav, 34, standing before Woods' cell as they exchange photos and... |
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NEW SNAFU AT B'KLYN 'LEFT TO DIE' HOSP Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| The family of a Brooklyn man who died at Kings County Hospital Center says the staff misidentified him - despite repeated pleas to fix the goof - and sent him to the morgue under the wrong name. It happened at the same hospital where last month... |
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CLUB CRUD IS BACK Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| A young woman sat on the sidewalk down the street from one of the eight nightclubs on far West 27th Street, leaning against a wall, clinging to a bottle of water. A friend rubbed her back, saying, "It'll be OK. Just calm down." "She's just not... |
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'STRANGE' PAL LINK TO SLAIN ATT'Y Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| A lawyer gunned down in bed alongside his wife had a curiously entangled relationship with a shady business partner he called a friend but also represented in various legal matters, said an attorney who worked against them. Investigators yesterday... |
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A-ROD AND HIS FLA. PARTY PALS Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| Bronx Bomber Alex Rodriguez partied with not one, but two of the other women in his life - brawny stripper Joslyn Morse and buff gal pal Alicia Marie - at a swanky Florida hotel in 2006, according to hotel staff and reservation records reviewed by... |
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BRUNO RIDING OFF INTO HIS SUNSET Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| ALBANY - Having resigned as Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno calls former Gov. Eliot Spitzer "demented" and contends Gov. Paterson will be "very difficult" to defeat. Bruno, 79, the almost always provocative and personally engaging leader of... |
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WEIRD BUT TRUE Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| Talk about causing a giant stink! Huge chunks of rotting sperm whale were scattered on Oahu island after they toppled off a tractor-trailer carrying a 12-ton carcass to Hawaii Pacific University. Workers had to use chainsaws to hack the blubbery... |
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QAEDA'S AFGHAN RETREAT Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| BAGHDAD - After intense US assaults, al Qaeda may be considering shifting focus to its original home base in Afghanistan, where American casualties are running higher than in Iraq, the top US commander in Iraq said yesterday. "We do think that... |
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BRANGELINA BABIES EXIT HOSP Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| NICE, France - Angelina Jolie left the French Riviera hospital where she gave birth to twins last week, the hospital said yesterday. Before dawn, the Hollywood superstar and her newborns slipped out of the Fondation Lenval hospital, where she gave... |
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A CON IN HERO'S GARB Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| Nigerian e-mail scammers are preying on the patriotism of Americans by posing as US Marines. A con artist using the name Capt. Cole Morgan has flooded inboxes with e-mails in recent weeks seeking help to "evacuate" more than $12 million from... |
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SERB MA PUT HEAT ON ENVOY Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:26:00 -0400 |
| SERB MA PUT HEAT ON ENVOYA Serb diplomat whose office helped a hulking basketball player flee upstate assault charges had bowed to pressure from the brute's politically well-connected mother to provide her son with an emergency passport. In an... |
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