JOURNEYS: Mistress of many trades
RENEE ANTONELLI VALENTE: Someone recently called me a “rock chick.” You know: a hard-partying, band-type broad whose life revolves around rock and roll.Rock chick? Me? The hardest partying I’ve done in eons is a few extra glasses of wine at dinner, and “my music” revolves around a set group of diverse tunes in an old iPod that I listen to while in the car, or to keep me company while jogging.
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Bergen Marine buried in Arlington today
Kate Sullivan Coen wondered aloud whether the two feet of snow that fell on the nation's capital would force the government to postpone today's U.S. Marine Sgt. Christopher Hrbek in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery. "A couple of Marines will make short work of it in no time. Blizzard or not," her husband told her. "Nothing will stop them." And he was right.
Woman had sex with boy less than half her age, cops say
A 41-year-old woman had consensual sex with a 16-year-old boy, said authorities, who arrested her on her birthday -- the same day that the youth got his report card at school.SLIGHTLY 'TJADED: Make room for Daddy
I’ve heard it said that the relationship between a father and his son never ends -- not even after the son is an adult and the father is dead and gone. Read more...
EILEEN KELLY: Lookin' out for No. 1
I’m on a bus from New York City yesterday and two women are behind me talking so loudly that, after fighting it off for about five minutes, I had to give up trying to have my own thoughts and eavesdrop on their conversation. “Don’t be comin’ to me for marital advice because I ain’t the one. Girl, I am tellin’ you I have about had it...."Read more...
TOMMY'S TOOLBOX: Acres of Diamonds
One of my first business mentors, a gentleman named Earl Nightingale, changed my life forever -- even though I never met him. In a book that made such a big difference for me, "Lead the Field," Nightingale tells a wonderful story adapted from Russell Conwell’s book "Acres of Diamonds."Read more...
Snow: what?
All bundled up and no place with snow -- at least not in North Jersey. Sure, heavy snow pounded the mid-Atlantic, fulfilling those "paralyzing" predictions by overwhelming travelers and road crews. A.C., D.C. and Philly got smacked with upwards of two feet or more. But along the Palisades, it was one long glazed cruller. Read more...
Cops: $9G mugging reported
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An employee of Raymour and Flanagan in Paramus told police two men in ski masks jumped him outside the Route 17 store and made off with $9,000 worth of the day's receipts after putting a knife to his throat. Read more...
James O'Keefe: Media darling or dipstick?
EDITORIAL: Guerilla prankster James O'Keefe is as much an investigative journalist as I am Lord of the Dance.Read more...
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- Horse head in a box: True blood or gangster wannabe?
- Newspaper blogger clarifies suggestive comment on Obama daughter -- or does he?
- Corzine caves: Murderers, rapists could soon go free
- Dilemma: If cop's suicide is nobody's business, how do we prevent others?
The silent victims: Battered husbands
NEW PERSPECTIVE: If there’s anything I’ve learned in 10 years of advocacy for unserved victims of partner abuse, it’s that men don’t tell. Read more...
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