Jimmy Breslin

Getting Rich In Supposedly Illegal Businesses

Don McNay | Posted 04.22.2012

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Don McNay

As a society, it would seem logical that we would want drug pushing, loan sharking and corporate influence peddling to stop. At the very least, we could go back to making it against the law.

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Empty Ceremonies:
Grandees Gather for 9/11

Jan Herman | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: 9/11, Skyscrapers, Rudolph Giuliani, Jimmy Breslin, Ground Zero, New York News
Jan Herman

Jimmy Breslin was right. It's a lousy idea to turn the victims of 9/11 into martyrs and just as lousy to turn Ground Zero into a glorified cemetery. ...

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Jimmy Breslin's 143-page Biography Of Branch Rickey Is Much More Than A Great Book About Baseball

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 06.17.2011

Read More: Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey, Jimmy Breslin, Jackie Robinson, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

On the morning before John F. Kennedy's funeral, Jimmy Breslin went up to Arlington National Cemetary and watched Clifton Pollard dig the president's ...

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Pulizer Winning Journalist Jimmy Breslin To Write Book About Rod Blagojevich

Chicago News Cooperative | DANIEL LIBIT | Posted 05.25.2011

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Add Pulitzer-prize winning columnist and investigative reporter Jimmy Breslin to the growing list of media folks following the corruption trial of Rod...

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The Hard-Won Legacy of Gene Hackman

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Farr

The story of Gene Hackman, who quietly turned eighty just two months ago, is one of raw will and talent overcoming a host of limitations that would have defeated most people.

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Jimmy Breslin, Curmudgeonly Columnist, Feted At Celebration

nytimes.com | SEWELL CHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mr. Breslin, who is around 80, was feted by past colleagues from The Daily News and Newsday (several of whom now work at The New York Times) for nearl...

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Twas the Night Before Christmas

Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nypd, Rudy Giuliani, Mama Mia, Ray Kelly, Jimmy Breslin, Michael Bloomberg, David Dinkins, Bill Bratton, New York News
Len Levitt

On the night before Christmas, former police commissioner Bill Bratton finally received an answer to his longstanding dinner invitation to Ray Kelly.

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Giants Of New York Politics

Tony Guida | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Alphonse-Damato, Rudy Guiliani, Ed Koch, Jimmy Breslin, New York News
Tony Guida

The mess in Albany makes me nostalgic for a time when New York politics swaggered with large men: Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Mario Cuomo. Ed Koch. Alfonse D'Amato

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Norman Mailer: Death and Remembrance

Posted 05.25.2011

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Norman Mailer, the Pulitzer-winning novelist and towering figure of American letters, died today in Manhattan, at the age of 84. Over the course of a ...

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Live From New York, It's BriWi! NBC Anchor To Host SNL

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar and Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marvin Hagler, Lorne Michaels, Charlie Gibson, Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Breslin, Amy Poehler, Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News, Eat the Press, Media News

No doubt there will be a sketch where Williams announces that someone was mauled by a pack of wolves.

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