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The Washington Post has, for a second time , reported shocking, abysmal and absolutely predictable results from a...Quel shoc! Sarkozy hates Netanyahu
A microphone left on after a G20 press conference caught French President Nicholas Sarkozy and US President Barack...Obama already rejected President Clinton's solution
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The Arab League supposedly negotiated a truce between Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and the protest movement he's been...Class-action monster vs. class-action savior
Talk about no class. William Burch was fired from his job at Champion, which makes air filters. He hired a lawyer in...It’s official: Zuccotti Park is now a real, live circus -- complete with a series of big new tents designed to turn the area into a giant carnival.
Andy Rooney was America’s national curmudgeon, offering up his trenchant satire each Sunday night for “a few minutes” on whatever petty grievance he found most annoying.
“You are kidding yourself if you think you can be one of the highest-taxed states in the nation, have a reputation for being anti-business -- and have a rosy economic future.” -- Gov. Cuomo on Oct. 17, explaining why he intends to keep his campaign vow and oppose new taxes for New York, including the “millionaires tax”
Last week was a rough one for the White House’s “green jobs” agenda: A House panel subpoenaed Team Obama over the stunning crash of solar-power firm Solyndra, and an Energy Department watchdog hinted there’s worse to come.
As nearly 3 million people in the Northeast shivered with no power after the freak snowstorm nine days ago -- thanks, in part, to a decaying electricity-delivery system -- yet another “green” energy company backed by President Obama bit the dust.
“You are kidding yourself if you think you can be one of the highest-taxed states in the nation, have a reputation for being anti-business -- and have a rosy economic future.” -- Gov. Cuomo on Oct. 17, explaining why he intends to keep his campaign vow and oppose new taxes for New York, including the “millionaires tax”
The Issue: A bill Gov. Cuomo signed last week requiring health insurers to cover autism treatment.
The Issue: Whether the US should stop funding UN groups that are admitting ‘Palestine’ as a member...
The Issue: The federal investigations into the now bankrupt MF Global, which was led by Jon Corzine...
11/22/63 by Stephen King Scribner What if you had an opportunity to change history, but you...
What hath Johnny Carson wrought? Carolines on Broadway, for one thing. “I grew up watching ‘The...
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A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor Viking Is man the sum of his parts?...
So what would Abraham Lincoln have made of the current crop of GOP hopefuls? Bill O’Reilly, who...
I Want My MTV The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks and Rob...
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He jokes that his first big production was his bar mitzvah, where he sang a Broadway medley. These...
Steve McQueen: A Biography by Marc Eliot Crown Archetype A bright Southern California...
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Iq84 by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) This is not your father’s 1984 -- though the latest from...
The Unconquered In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes by Scott Wallace Crown...
For an “SNL” alum best known as “Debbie Downer,” Rachel Dratch sounds surprisingly upbeat. Not only...
If you didn’t know that Ozzy Osbourne is a health (physical and mental) columnist for London’s...
Believe your eyes -- that’s Mulberry Street, on the Lower East Side, teeming with immigrant New...
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (Harper) Something didn’t sit right with “Exorcist” author...
Starmaker: Life as a Hollywood Publicist with Farrah, The Rat Pack, and 600 More Stars Who Fired Me...
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Need a little comfort over Steve Jobs’s untimely death? In mid-November, Agate B2 Books will...
My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte (Knopf) Singer, actor, activist Belafonte starts his...
From the “they’ll publish books about anything” department: “Chewed” (Ideal World Books) by...
Mail-Order Mysteries Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads! By Kirk Demarais Insight Editions...
Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy (Viking) Pulitzer-winner Kennedy (for...
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“Our Bodies, Ourselves,” the feminist classic that inspired millions of women to grab a copy of...
Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story by Michael Seth Starr (Applause) Most people know Redd Foxx...
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