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Well, that was fast. Just a few weeks ago, the Gulf oil spill was a turning point for America....
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A reprimand? That's it?
Anthony Weiner, get thee to a phar macy -- fast.
The Public Integrity Commission's plans to review Gov. Paterson's role in a domestic-abuse case involving his aide is welcome news -- especially since the probe by ex-state Chief Judge Judith Kaye left so many loose ends.
The clock struck thirteen for Charlie Rangel yesterday.
When he signed the Dodd-Frank finan cial-regulation bill this month, Presi dent Obama proudly declared that the dramatic overhaul of Wall Street "will finally bring transparency to the kinds of complex and risky transactions that helped trigger the [2008] crisis."
* "Life isn't fair," griped recently ousted BP CEO Tony Hayward, as he walked away with millions in severance and pension benefits ("Gusher of Self-Pity," July 28).
* Crime doesn't pay ("Bell's Pal on $7M Deal: 'Nobody Wins,' " July 29).
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not just another left-wing, anti-American nut job spewing hatred, like President Obama's best friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright did for years ("O Unleashes a Leak Attack," July 27).
Melindia LeGrand has a subpoena with her name on it for panhandling for phony charities ("Hunt for Nun on Run," July 27).
Former Gov. Hugh L. Carey is the Harry Truman of New York state — a political figure who left office in disrepute, only to have his stature rise in later decades. Just as Truman’s...
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart (Random House) Leningrad-born New Yorker Shteyngart satirized his native land in “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” and...
There are 8 million stories in the naked city — and almost as many ways to break the law. The 21 volume New York City Charter and Administrative Code, and the 14 volume Rules of...
So, Wendy Williams — former DJ, TV and radio talk-show host, author and celebrity baiter — what’s it like to be the Queen of All Media? “I’ve done away with titles, but yeah, I...
The Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer (Spiegel & Grau) With “Ellington Boulevard,” Langer captured the New York obsession with real estate. In his newest novel, he takes on the...
The periodic table is many things — an invaluable scientific tool and a microcosm of the history of science. It’s also a storybook of all the wonderful and clever and ugly aspects...
Tennis has been very good to Venus Williams — and vice-versa — helping her succeed off the court as well, in interior design and fashion. No wonder the grand-slam champ had little...
Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock. Two bomb squad detectives placed their ears against a leather suitcase. Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock. One of the detectives, Joe Lynch, bent...
As Husbands Go by Susan Isaacs (Simon & Schuster) Isaacs’ latest witty heroine is Susan B. Anthony Rabinowitz Gerston, a floral designer and mother of young triplet boys whose...
Everything you wanted to know about ants, courtesy of the addictive “Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions” (University of California Press) by Mark W...
Politics is like love — passions run high. And when they cool, rejection is intense. Consider Commentary magazine — an extraordinary monthly founded by left-wing Jews in 1945 that...
Given his workload — as activist, polygamist, founder of Afrobeat and unofficial patron saint of Nigeria — it’s hard to imagine when Fela Kuti found the time to read...
Beautiful Maria of My Soul by Oscar Hijuelos (Hyperion) It’s 20 years after the events of Hijulos’ Pulitzer-winning “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love” — the story of Cuban...
For an actor invariably described as “wholesome” — a role like John-Boy Walton will do that to you — Richard Thomas is a pretty promiscuous reader. “I read a lot of biography,...
How does pleasure work, exactly? We’ve all felt it, and we all know it’s cause-and-effect, but what happens in the brain to elicit this very specific feeling? Why do we seek out...
Nelson DeMille writes thrillers — best-sellers at that — but he doesn’t read them. “I stay away with them,” he says. “I don’t want to subconsciously use anyone else’s lines or...
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross (Knopf) Seemingly inspired by Hitchcock (protagonist David Pepin meets his wife, Alice, at a college seminar on the filmmaker), this debut novel is both a...
In the decades surrounding World War II, corruption flowed as freely as oily water on the waterfronts of Red Hook, Jersey City and lower Manhattan. Headed by charming...
“It’s hard to keep up with my book reading with so many versions of ‘Law & Order’ to get through, but when I do, I mostly like to read non-fiction stuff,” says Sarah Silverman. If...
Before Blair Waldorf, Regina George or the Heathers, there was the original mean girl: Nellie Oleson. Armed only with a gingham dress and pigtails, actress Alison Arngrim managed...
Pomodoro! A History of the Tomato in Italy by David Gentilcore (Columbia University Press) Italy today produces 6.6 million tons of tomatoes a year, worth $2.2 billion. But in...
Audrey Hepburn sat anxiously in the back of a yellow taxi. It wasn’t the clothes — the Givenchy black dress so tailored that she couldn’t walk, nor the infamous 128.54 carat...
Bret Easton Ellis’ characters have all, always, subsisted on a feedback loop of youthful disaffectedness and alienation, so it’s inevitable that he’d reanimate the teenage...
As heroes go, Jack Reacher travels light: The ex-Army cop carries just a toothbrush and none of the emotional baggage — alcoholism, divorce — that plague the protagonists of so...
When Richard Burton first laid eyes on a ravishing 21-year-old, bikini-clad Elizabeth Taylor, he was so awestruck that he almost laughed out loud. “A girl sitting on the other...
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“I read my first real novel in my 30s, because I was so intimidated by the language, by all those words,” says former “Happy Days” star Henry Winkler. A dyslexic, he’s wrestled...
'Return fire on that position!" hollered Capt. Benjamin Tupper, over the steady crackle of Taliban AK-47s from a mud compound 200 meters away. "We're going to flank them," he...
Colin Powell Retired General and former secretary of state "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose "It's a great book. One of the best at portraying the way men bond together in...
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares (Riverhead, June 1) The “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” author returns with the first book of a proposed trilogy. In the present, Virginia...
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