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| Dept. Of Whatever Happened With That Whole Anthrax Terrorism Thingy?: ABC News DC Bureau Attacked by Powder |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 3:18 pm |
| Tags: Abc News, Anthrax, Dept Of Whatever Happened With That Whole Anthrax Terrorism Thingy, Fearmongering, Terrorism |
| Continuing our day of paranoia and horror and terror, the ABC News Washington bureau has been evacuated because somebody found some OMFG NOT THE ANTHRAX CRAP AGAIN! Yes, maybe. “A suspicious... |
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| Dow Jones Deal: All Over But the Shoutin'... |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 12:52 pm |
| Tags: It Just Happened, Bancroft Family, Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, The Wall Street Journal |
| and the payoffs to the Bancrofts' lawyers and bankers, and the inevitable fury of Christopher Bancroft, and the mass defection of Journal staffers to the FT and the Times and, as at least the folks at CJR would have you think, the topless chicks on the front of "Money & Investing": But, yeah, it's basically over. Bancroft Family Accepts |
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| Amateur Submarining in East River? NYPD, Coast Guard Say No |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 3:14 pm |
| Tags: It Just Happened, Boats, Brooklyn, Coast Guard, East River, Nypd, Queen Mary 2 |
| Photo: KeylimeSteve's Flickr It is, as we've already made clear, a day to be by the water — or, even better, in it. But might we suggest you not attempt to go in the water by building a homemade submarine and launching you Cousteauian adventure in the East River near the Queen Mary 2, which is docked off Red Hook? "Several men are being |
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| Flip-Flop Weather |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 6:20 pm |
| Tags: It Happened This Week |
| Photo: Ross D. Franklin/AP Citizens left the city in droves as August began, apparently fleeing the cloud of uncertainty that seemed to have settled over the city. Governor Spitzer called the appointment of a special prosecutor in the Joe Bruno investigation “unnecessary,” then offered to testify under oath. The families of 9/11 |
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| Monkey Loose at La Guardia! |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 5:24 pm |
| Tags: It Just Happened, Airports, Animals, Florida, Laguadia Airport |
| Photo: Getty ImagesBreaking! There's a monkey on the loose in La Guardia Airport! We repeat, monkey on the loose! The Times' City Room blog reports that the primate disembarked from Spirit Airlines flight 180 from "the Miami–Ft. Lauderdale area." It's running amok in the main terminal, but we suspect they'll catch it quickly: Based on its |
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| Round Round |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: It Happened This Week |
| Photo: Charles Eckert/Polaris In a week in which a freak twister whipped through Brooklyn, downing trees and smashing cars, everything seemed like it was spinning, starting with the MTA PR department after the same tornado-producing storm washed out the subway system. (They blamed the city’s clogged drains.) Thrice-married adulterer Rudy |
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| Whatever Happened To Sterling HitchBLEEP: Fox Sports Protects Us From The Horrors Of Boof |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 2:45 pm |
| Tags: Boof Bonser, Censorship, Whatever Happened To Sterling Hitchbleep |
| By now we're all deathly familiar with ESPN's travails trying to moderate comments with little ####ing success. And if ESPN opts not to be the bastion of uncensored response in user-generated content among network giants, where else do we turn? Fox Sports? Try again. A tipster sent in a year-old blog post residing on the Fox Sports website |
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| Whatever Happened To Sterling HitchBLEEP: Fox Sports Protects Us From The Horrors Of Boof |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 2:45 pm |
| Tags: Boof Bonser, Censorship, Whatever Happened To Sterling Hitchbleep |
| By now we're all deathly familiar with ESPN's travails trying to moderate comments with little ####ing success. And if ESPN opts not to be the bastion of uncensored response in user-generated content... |
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| Brooke Astor Dies at 105 |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 6:13 pm |
| Tags: It Just Happened, Brooke Astor |
| Photo: Chester Higgins, Jr.After a messy year of battles between her son and her friends for control of her finances and well-being, Brooke Astor died today at her Westchester estate in Briarcliff Manor. She was 105. For decades Astor was a paragon of Upper East Side elegance and noblesse-oblige charity, but last year a legal battle waged on her |
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| Catherine Zeta has new fun bags |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 6:06 pm |
| Tags: What Happened |
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| What happened to Bret Michaels? |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 6:37 pm |
| Tags: What Happened |
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| Imus In the Money |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 1:00 pm |
| Tags: It Just Happened, Don Imus, Drudge Report, Radio, Robert Kolker |
| Breaking news! From Matt Drudge! Don Imus has a deal! Woo-hoo! Reports the fedora'd one: Radio host Don Imus has agreed to settle his contract with CBS for $20 million, and a non disparaging clause, legal sources claim. The move opens the possibility Imus will soon return to the airwaves -- on WABC in New York! [Top radio executive strongly |
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| Feds to City: Decongest! |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 12:33 pm |
| Tags: It Just Happened, Albany, Cars, Congestion Pricing, Mike Bloomberg, Traffic, Transportation, Washington |
| And so it has finally happened: The U.S. Department of Transportation just announced it will give New York City a $354 million grant to implement a congestion-pricing system in the city. It's not quite the $500 million Mayor Bloomberg and Dan Doctoroff told everyone the city stood to receive, but it's a whole lot more than nothing, too. |
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| Moving On |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: It Happened This Week |
| Photo: Patrick Andrade/AtlasPress As the city draped itself in black last week to mourn the death of its unofficial monarch, Brooke Astor, stock-market troubles aside, the summer’s darkest days otherwise seemed to have passed. A dirty-bomb scare was canceled for lack of interest (or evidence), and Lexington Avenue reopened at 41st Street |
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| Fred Thompson Calls City of New York ‘A Big Bully’ |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 6:32 pm |
| Tags: It Just Happened, Fred Thomspon |
| Photo: Getty Images Presidential non-candidate Fred Thompson has finally turned on the city that made him rich and famous. The Law & Order star, who spent years pretending to fight violent crime as district attorney Arthur Branch, lashed out at the Big Apple today in a blog post that decries efforts by Giuliani and Bloomberg to crack down on gun |
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