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  • Fredric U. Dicker

    Fredric U. Dicker

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    Battle lines for gov, GOP

    Gov. Cuomo and Senate Republicans are on a collision course that could soon return state government to the “chaos of past years,” sources close to both sides have told The Post. Republicans are...  

    New York GOPers fearing a ‘disaster’ Gingrich victory

    The fate of New York’s nervous GOP is riding on the outcome of tomorrow’s presidential primary in Florida, leading state Republicans told The Post. They said the GOP’s ability to defeat incumbent...  

  • Michael Goodwin

    Michael Goodwin

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    The answer is ‘simple’

    In his masterful biography of the late Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson focuses on a key ingredient in the tech genius’ secret sauce: simplicity. Apple’s first brochure declared that “simplicity is the...  

    O puts up his nukes

    There was so much baloney in President Obama’s State of the Union speech that it was hard to find the beef. But there it was, buried toward the bottom of his remarks. Finally and forcefully, he chose...  

  • Leonard Greene

    Leonard Greene

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    Special bond of daughters

    There’s something about daughters. They bounce back up as quickly as our sons, but it tears us up inside to watch them fall. So, when someone’s little girls are looking out at us from the cover of a...  

    A shocked enclave's anguished search for answers

    David Friedman peered down the block where a little lost boy breathed his last breath, and said out loud what everyone else had only been thinking. "He's a Jew," Friedman said yesterday of Levi...  

  • Andrea Peyser

    Andrea Peyser

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    Cheater GM’s choices were dumb & dumber

    Why are rich and powerful men dumber than roadkill? Yankee GM Brian Cashman could have slept with a supermodel, a soccer mom, a non-English-speaking Slavic immigrant or even his own wife. Instead...  

    Spoiled beauty has got plenty – but not the best Mann!

    Even you can’t have it all, Gisele. Eli Manning is taken! Gisele Bundchen, the skinny supermodel/arm candy/trophy wife of pretty Patriots quarterback Tom Brady looks red hot in a bikini and cool as...  

  • David Seifman

    David Seifman

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    Mwahaha! Ready to rule as Citizen Mike

    Get ready for Bloomberg unleashed. He’s one of the most powerful individuals in the city right now, but Mayor Bloomberg is looking to expand his influence when he leaves office, saying that...  

    ‘Great news’ safety stats flubbed

    Mayor Bloomberg’s visit to an unfinished Long Island City high-rise last week capped a series of upbeat announcements about how safe the city has become. With crime and fire and motor-vehicle...  

  • John Crudele

    John Crudele

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    Labor’s lost faces

    TENT CITY, NJ — Marilyn Berenzweig worked in Manhattan for more than 35 years, rising to design director for a textile company. She was paid $100,000 a year before being laid off from an industry...  

    Apple stock sale is rotten

    Dear John: I had placed an order to sell 50 shares of Apple stock on the day the company was recently reporting quarterly earnings. My order was “good-til-canceled,” or GTC, as they say in the...  

  • Steve Cuozzo

    Steve Cuozzo

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    Hub of WTC’s problem$

    Our column in The Post on Friday about the cost of the Port Authority’s World Trade Center Transportation Hub — the Santiago Calatrava-designed PATH terminal — drew e-mails from readers skeptical...  

    Extell nabs 50th St. site for $61M

    There’s no stopping Gary Barnett. His Extell Development Co. just bought 138 E. 50th St., a prime development site midway between Third and Lexington avenues, for $61 million. The address,...  

  • Terry Keenan

    Terry Keenan

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    No middle-class jobs

    While the White House celebrated Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ announcement that the unemployment rate slipped to 8.3 percent and 243,000 new jobs were created, there appears to be storm...  

    No Middle-class jobs

    While the White House celebrated Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ announcement that the unemployment rate slipped to 8.3 percent and 243,000 new jobs were created, there appears to be storm...  

  • Keith J. Kelly

    Keith J. Kelly

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    O, no! Oprah mag’s newsstand sales plunge

    If the economy is on the mend, someone forgot to tell the nation’s magazine-lovers. Of the top 25 glossy magazines in the country, all but four posted newsstand sale declines in the second half of...  

    Dark days at El Diario as Guild OKs layoffs

    In a divided vote, Newspaper Guild employees at the Spanish language daily El Diario/La Prensa voted to accept a new contract with the parent company ImpreMedia. The deal that will result in the...  

  • Lois Weiss

    Lois Weiss

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    Red Lobster going live next to Apollo

    Red Lobster is rolling into Harlem at 261-267 W. 125th St. to anchor a new project next door to the Apollo Theater. The ubiquitous seafood chain has leased 9,500 square feet on two levels for a 300...  

    SiriusXM tunes in 2 renewals

    Talkative SiriusXM radio has zipped lips when it comes to its business plans, but we discovered the Mel Karmazin-led company has renewed leases at two city hot spots. The deals encompass about 130...  

  • Cindy Adams

    Cindy Adams

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    Greg’s an ice guy

    Greg Kinnear’s in a new movie. “Thin Ice.” A dark comedy that folks of a higher polloi than myself call “a noir thriller.” “I play a small-time opportunistic insurance salesman trying to get through...  

    Party to Max

    Max von Sydow, Best Supporting Actor nominee for “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”: “I was home in France when my wife, checking the TV, heard. We celebrated with Champagne. Although it was the...  

  • Jennifer Gould Keil

    Jennifer Gould Keil

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    Knicks player takes the floor

    Here’s hoping that the Knicks settling into new homes will help them settle down and win some more games. Big man Tyson Chandler has found a full-floor apartment that suits his 7-foot-1 frame. The...  

    Watts up

    Power couple Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber’s extensive downtown home hunt has ended with the purchase of a full-floor loft on Washington Street in TriBeCa. The acting duo have closed on the 4,315...  

  • Ashley Dupre

    Ashley Dupre

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    Ask Ashley: His & her V-day gifting

    I’ve been seeing this guy for a little over a month now. I like him a lot, but he wants to take things slow. I’m fine with that, but it’s no secret that Valentine’s Day is coming up. Can I get him a...  

    Ask Ashley: Gentleman and a caller

    I recently began seeing a guy I really like. While staying over at his house, I got a late-night text from a booty call I’d been playing around with. He means nothing to me, and I haven’t seen him in...  

  • Lou Lumenick

    Lou Lumenick

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    Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

    Dori Berinstein’s cinematic love letter masquerading as a documentary presents a totally adoring portrait of the 91-year-old Broadway icon, who tells many great and funny stories about a show...  

    Perfect Sense

    Would the Mayans have predicted the end of the world in 2012 if they’d known it would inspire not only “The Tree of Life’’ and “Melancholia’’ but an endless supply of more dreary depictions of end...  

  • V.A. Musetto

    V.A. Musetto

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    Splinters

    Surf’s up in the troubled nation of Papua New Guinea. According to Adam Pesce’s documentary “Splinters,” the sport got its start there when an Australian pilot left a surfboard behind in the 1980s....  

    After Fall, Winter

    ‘After Fall, Winter” is a mixed-up movie about mixed-up people. The nuttiest of the bunch is Michael, played by the film’s director-writer, Eric Schaeffer (“My Life’s in Turnaround”). Michael is a...  

  • Phil Mushnick

    Phil Mushnick

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    Celebrity ‘illnesses’ are exhausting

    What do you do for exhaustion? I do one of two things. I either go to sleep, or, if I don’t make it that far, I simply fall asleep. And I’ve always found that a good night’s sleep cures exhaustion,...  

    Breaking news: Sun sets in the west

    This just in . . . A large sinkhole formed today on the Henry Hudson Parkway. Police are looking into it. The shameless and desperate state of TV news now demands that its shot callers ask themselves...  

  • Michael Riedel

    Michael Riedel

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    Williamson tales truly ri-Nicol-ous

    I received a batch of e-mails in response to my column two weeks ago about Nicol Williamson, the brilliant but troubled Scottish actor who died in December. He was as famous for his off-stage antics...  

    Baby, I’m a smash!

    Several years ago I got a call from the BBC asking if I’d be a judge on a new reality show. They had no idea who I was, but they were looking for a mean Broadway critic and when they Googled “mean...  

  • Frank Scheck

    Frank Scheck

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    Drama a Marvell to behold

    Memo to theater companies specializing in the classics: Take a cue from Marvell Rep. The troupe’s second season doesn’t have a Shakespeare, Chekhov or Shaw in the bunch — just six controversial works...  

    Fine writing does not apply here

    In light of the recent Vassar early-admissions snafu, already wary parents of students applying to college should avoid “Inadmissible.” Not that anyone else should rush to see this play about three...  

  • Kyle Smith

    Kyle Smith

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    Extroverts destroy the world

    Extroverts are such a pain and a poison that we feel Virgil Starkwell’s agony when, in “Take the Money and Run,” he breaks the rules while working on a chain gang and “for several days he is locked...  

    Kill List

    Banal at the beginning and preposterous at the close, the British horror film “Kill List” jumbles together wildly incongruous ingredients to create a dramatic mush. We learned from “True Lies” that...  

  • Michael Starr

    Michael Starr

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    Starr report

    With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, who better to give jewelry-buying advice than “Hardcore Pawn” star Les Gold? Gold, who runs the American Jewelry and Loan shop in Detroit (with his son,...  

    Starr Report

    Judge Jackie Glass turns to one of her TV heroes to help her decide a case on tomorrow’s episode of “Swift Justice” (11 a.m./Ch. 9). Glass, who’s a huge fan of Bravo’s “Real Housewives” franchise,...  

  • Linda Stasi

    Linda Stasi

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    Up a Crazy ‘river’

    Lovers of “Lost” take heart. ABC has a new mysterious jungle series with the down- river, patrol-boat feel of “Apocalypse Now” and a character with the relentless need for fame of risk-taking idiot...  

    Matinee Idol

    Broadway musicals don’t bring me joy. In fact, the very sound of “five, six, seven, eight,” makes me physically ill, and dance numbers that include top hats or flying witches can send me into a...  

  • Elisabeth Vincentelli

    Elisabeth Vincentelli

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    No escape from this absurd French caper

    The three-piece orchestra in “Ionescopade” has barely started the overture — zany percussion, wacky noisemakers — and already the whimsy-meter is in the red. You’d think you were at the Big Apple...  

    A look at good ‘Anger’ management

    John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” opened in London with a huge bang in 1956, upending staid British theater and helping usher the era of “angry young men” — smart, educated, working- or middle...  

  • Benny Avni

    Benny Avni

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    Assad’s evil enablers

    Russia and China’s veto Saturday of a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria dismayed and outraged Westerners. So what are they going to do about it? The double veto underlined the...  

    The bear is back

    Syria is on the agenda of the UN Security Council this week, which above all means one thing: The bear is back. Russia is determined to prove itself a power that can determine the course of world...  

  • Adam Brodsky

    Adam Brodsky

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    What won’t happen

    A struggling economy. Cash shortfalls at City Hall, in Albany and Washington. A turbulent Mideast. A fateful US presidential election. The coming year is shaping up to be absolutely . . ....  

    Hidden taxi agendas

    ‘I’m not going to have anything to do with a bill that does not respect the rights of the disabled community,” Gov. Cuomo said Friday, dissing a measure that would notably boost the number of...  

  • Peter Brookes

    Peter Brookes

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    The sad state of US strategy

    President Obama will spend most of tonight’s State of the Union Address on domestic matters — but he also owes the nation a serious look at our pressing foreign-policy and defense issues. It’s fair...  

    A’jad’s Latin tango

    Even as his government back home was sentencing to death an American citizen it outrageously claims is a spy, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad embarked on a five-day visit to four of Latin...  

  • Nicole Gelinas

    Nicole Gelinas

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    Six Years of Gloom

    Staten Island Chuck didn’t see his shadow yesterday. But Mayor Mike saw more budget deficits — meaning six more weeks . . . er, make that years of budget winter for New York. City taxpayers will...  

    ‘Public-private’ poppycock

    Gov. Cuomo wants to “build a new New York” — but he doesn’t want to pay for it. To get billions for construction, he’s turning to “public-private partnerships.” Sorry. Just as there’s no free lunch,...  

  • Arthur Herman

    Arthur Herman

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    Hurry, wait ... and die

    On Sept. 18, Army Spec. Chazray Clark stepped on an IED in Kandahar province, instantly losing an arm and both legs. But the 24-year-old Michigan native was still able to say, “I’m OK,” when his...  

    Showdown at the Strait of Hormuz

    The build-up of the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz took another big step this weekend, when the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln entered the Persian Gulf together with British and French naval...  

  • Bob McManus

    Bob McManus

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    Take ’em to school, gov

    Gov. Cuomo last week waded hip-deep into New York’s fetid education-standards swamp — picking a fight he must win if the state is ever to have real teacher accountability. Now he’s well-positioned...  

    Your move, Governor – don’t blow it

    Mike Bloomberg didn’t precisely call Andrew Cuomo’s public-education bluff yesterday — but he sure did cover the governor’s bet. What happens next isn’t likely to be pretty. The centerpiece of the...  

  • John Podhoretz

    John Podhoretz

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    A right to cute shops

    If you live in Manhattan, you’ve heard it a million times by now: Someone sees a vacant storefront and says, in a tone of dripping irony, “Oh, how I hope a bank will go in there! Because that’s what...  

    Billion-Dollar Target

    ‘a billion dollars aimed at a single person.” There was a week last summer during which I heard that phrase spoken every day by different people in the Republican ambit — two political consultants on...  

  • Amir Taheri

    Amir Taheri

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    A most cynical ‘union’

    In one of those quirks that make Middle East politics interesting, both Israel and Iran have condemned the Palestinian Authority-Hamas accord to form a “national unity” government. Signed on Monday...  

    Kuwaitis vote For democracy

    A year after the Arab Spring began, its ripples have reached oil-rich Kuwait, one of the most politically stable states in the region: Thursday’s elections bring a dramatic change in the makeup of...  

  • Michael A. Walsh

    Michael Walsh

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    Gutting the middle ground on abortion

    When the abortion wars flared up last week, partisans of both sides rushed to the barricades — but the real lesson may be for the countless Americans in the middle. A private charity devoted to...  

    A failed ‘Fast and Furious’ whitewash

    Today’s Capitol Hill hearing on the “Fast and Furious” mess promises drama that may well rival the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings or gangland chieftain Frank Costello’s memorable 1951 testimony in front...  

  • George F. Will

    George F. Will

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    ‘Campaign reform’ means ‘shut up!’

    Fountain Hills, Ariz. Dina Galassini doesn’t seem to pose a threat to Arizona’s civic integrity. But the government of this desert community thinks you can’t be too careful. And state law empowers...  

    Champs who couldn’t play

    CHARLESTON, SC They are nearing 70 now, the 11 men who were 12-year-old boys in 1955 and who are remembered for the baseball games they couldn’t play. They were — actually, with their matching blue...  

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  • Day in Photos: Feb. 7, 2012
    Day in Photos: Feb. 7, 2012
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    Day in Photos: Feb. 8, 2012
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    Celebrity Photos: Feb. 8, 2012
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    Giants Super Bowl Victory Parade

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