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End of line for lirr 'bribe' exec

An administrator for the Long Island Rail Road was busted for taking a bribe from a colleague to help him score a disability pension - the first in a long line of rogues riding the "Gravy Train," authorities said yesterday. Even before he cut the... ...

Top Stories and Blog Review - 17th Nov

Secret GM crop trials planned Nationwide Ministers look to widen role of post offices Tories to make it harder to divorce John Reid: the internet is a threat The pornographer who wants to challenge govt. Ubuntu is coming to Mobile Phones. International Obama: Whose president is he anyway? First...

Japanese hardware sales, Nov. 3 - Nov. 9: Dear brother edition

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business To my younger brother and sworn enemy, the DS Lite:From high atop the pillowed throne you've become so accustomed to over the years, I doubt you ever looked beneath you at the comp ...

M. and V. Sommer, D. Wyles: Obama: Having Nothing to Fear, Not Even Fear Itself?

Commentary by Michael Sommer The essential task of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th President of the United States will be, first, to get America and the world out of the Black Hole created by the immoral, illegal, and often stupid domestic and foreign policies of the worst, most incompetent Pr...

Polls and empty promises - (poem)

Rogues: gov wants latino

ALBANY - Two rogue Democrats say Gov. Paterson encouraged them to push for a Hispanic as Senate leader, even as he was publicly backing Sen. Malcolm Smith - an African-American - for the job. Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. and Senator-elect Pedro Espada Jr... ...