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SaveRomney Says He’s Never Eaten Anything Unusual
Despite the fact that so many Americans consider wild child Mitt Romney an icon of spontaneity and experimentation, the GOP frontrunner says he's never eaten anything weird. And that most Americans eat regularly at fine French-dining establishments. NRO: [I]n light of the president’s strange dietary selections in Indonesia, what is ... More »
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20 Apr 2012
The 19-Year-Old Long Island College Student Whose Lover Buys Her Beer
Once a week, Daily Intel takes a peek behind doors left slightly ajar. This week, the 19-Year-Old Long Island College Student Whose Lover Buys Her Beer: Female, 19, Long Island, student, bisexual, single. DAY ONE 1:37 a.m. I'm sitting at my desk trying to get four papers written. I'm stressed
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Mitt Romney Is Just Chilling
Since losing the election, Mitt Romney has visited Disneyland, a movie theater, a gas station, and the White House, where he had white turkey chili and some kind of conversation with President Obama on Thursday. He's done some other stuff too but, according to a sort of sad Washington Post ... More » Similar >>
Passenger Dies After World’s Worst Limo Driver Mistakes Reverse for Park, Gas for Brake
Not one mix-up but two led to the gruesome dragging death of 53-year-old Viktor Avavayev as he was getting out of a limo in front of his home in Brooklyn. According to the New York Daily News, "Police arrested the driver, who sources believe was drunk, at the scene." Alcohol
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S.E.C. You Later: Wall Street Cop Mary Schapiro Is Taking Off
In a second Obama term, Wall Street won't have Mary Schapiro to kick around anymore. Schapiro, the chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission — the agency whose job it is to sniff out Wall Street wrongdoing and bring financial criminals to justice — is planning to step down from
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Teaching Rich People Not to Suck at Charity Donations
We know that ultrarich people can be very good at giving their money away. Think of Bill Gates, who started a massive and well-respected charitable empire and has given his way off the top of the Rich List. Or George Soros, whose political contributions often overshadow the billions of dollars
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Glenn Beck Keeps it Classy by Selling a Jar of His 'Urine' for $25,000
Roger Ailes must be gnashing his teeth with frustration after letting Fox News part ways with such a brave First Amendment crusader as Glenn Beck. The talk show host and newly debuted experimental artist claims to be making a point about freedom of expression by offering for sale one jar
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Horrific Long Island Bus Crash Kills Boy in House
A bus went out of control when the driver swerved to avoid a pedestrian in Hempsted Tuesday night, but the pedestrian got hit anyway as the bus careened into a house, killing a 6-year-old boy inside. About 30 people were on board the N70 Nassau Inter-County Express bus, 15 of
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Kooky Gay ‘Cure’ Peddlers Sued for Fraud in New Jersey
A lawsuit filed today in New Jersey argues that supposed therapists claiming they can cure homosexuality through an insane "conversion" process are actually snake-oil salesmen committing fraud. According to four gay men who underwent treatment, the group Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH) is "unconscionable and a sham," based
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Charges Dropped Against U.S. Open Tennis Ref in Coffee Mug Killing
Prosecutors in California have dropped the murder charges against veteran tennis umpire Lois Goodman, who was plucked from New York during the U.S. Open for allegedly killing her husband of 50 years with a coffee cup. The case was dismissed without prejudice, so charges could be brought again, but in ... More » Similar >>
Mayor Bloomberg Says Rockaways Boardwalk Will Be Rebuilt Without Boards
The effects of Hurricane Sandy have done nothing to increase Mayor Bloomberg's sentimentality, as he confirmed in an interview with Rockaways newspaper The Wave on Friday. "I guess this settles the issue of wooden boardwalks versus concrete boardwalks," he said while discussing plans for rebuilding the area, which lost huge ... More » Similar >>
Mark Ronson Has No Use for the Naked Cowboy
Name: Mark Ronson Age: 37 Neighborhood: Greenwich Village Occupation: DJ/Producer. You can catch him soundtracking the night tomorrow at the Bowery Hotel, while mixologist David Wondrich provides the drinks. Part of the Esquire, a pop-up sponsored by the magazine, with tickets and information available here. Who's your favorite New Yorker, ... More » Similar >>
Renato Seabra Found Guilty of Castrating and Murdering Carlos Castro
Yesterday, a Manhattan jury found Portuguese underwear model Renato Seabra guilty of the gruesome murder of his 65-year-old lover, noted Portuguese fashion journalist Carlos Castro, at the Times Square InterContinental Hotel nearly two years ago. Seabra, who'd initially confessed to the crime, later recanted and tried for an insanity plea ... More » Similar >>
Polite Canadian Banker Given Job in Horrible, Mean England
The financial blogosphere is buzzing over the appointment of Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney to lead the Bank of England. Carney is a Goldman Sachs alumnus, so you have your "Government Sachs" conspiracy types lamenting the revolving door, and Zero Hedge calling the U.K. one last "key target of Goldman
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Harry Reid Says Bob Dole is 'Infirm,' Aide Says He's Fine
On Tuesday Harry Reid announced on the Senate floor that Bob Dole has been hospitalized, saying he's "at Walter Reed not for a checkup ... He is there because he is infirm. He is sick." Reid's language led many to believe Dole is in grave condition, particularly because he went
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Indicted 'Son of Sal' Plans to 'Vigorously Fight' Murder Charges
If Salvatore Perrone is contemplating a plea of not guilty by insanity, he's already laid the groundwork. After his indictment Tuesday on murder charges in the deaths of three shopkeepers, a lawyer for Perrone, whose Staten Island neighbors had dubbed him "Son of Sal" for his antisocial behavior, said "he intends
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Sunken Roller Coaster Will Not Remain As a Shrine to Death and Destruction
Seaside Heights, New Jersey, mayor Bill Akers regrets his proposal that the roller coaster pulled off of the boardwalk and into the Atlantic Ocean by Hurricane Sandy would make a "great tourist attraction." Apart from the environmental concerns and tragedy the destroyed ride represents, it's actually private property anyway and
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Jeff Zucker is Taking Over CNN, For Real This Time
Rumors about former NBC Universal head Jeff Zucker taking over as head of CNN Worldwide started almost as soon as current president Jim Walton announced this summer that he would be stepping down at the end of the year. Now sources tell multiple news outlets that the deal is nearly
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Allen West Compares Himself to Abraham Lincoln
It's far from the nuttiest thing he has done, but recently unseated congressman Allen West hinted on Friday that he thinks he's destined for greatness not unlike that of our 16th president. "Always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too," he told National Public Radio's Michel Martin. ... More » Similar >>
West Point Marks Its Second Same-Sex Wedding
First there were the two servicewomen who last week inaugurated the Old Cadet Chapel — on the U.S. Military Academy's campus — as a gay-friendly house of worship. Now they've been joined by two of their friends, Penelope Gnesin and Brenda Sue Fulton, who today became the first same-sex couple ... More » Similar >>
New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Had a Breakup
The firing of New York Times Company CEO Janet Robinson last year was complicated, in part, by the involvement of an influential force from outside of the building: the girlfriend of the paper's chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. According to whispers reported by New York's Joe Hagan, Sulzberger was ... More » Similar >>
