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I’m no Trump apologist. But I detest tough women who dissolve into shrinking victims, as Kelly has done, when it suits them. Kelly’s attack was as unfair as it was sexist.

THE horror. The horror. As I sat, scratching miserably - Is that dry skin? Or is something eating me alive? - the City Council cranked up its brain power yesterday to deal with a menace so resilient and stomach-churning, I dare not speak its name. Bedbugs. I said it.

Celebutards. They eat, sleep and breed just like ordinary humans. But at some point between the moment a movie script wanders into the hands of a world-class celebutard such as George Clooney, and the words travel through lilting vocal chords and land on unsuspecting ears, something terrible occurs. Andrea Peyser's 5 Worst Celebutards

HIS face looked pinched and ghostly pale. And the words he pushed out of his mouth frequently tangled his tongue, an endearing quirk for some politicians. But for Mayor Bloomberg — who even referred to "Mark Twain" as "Train" — the necessity of communication only seemed to make him annoyed. ---Snip--- I would love to visit this gorgeous oasis called New York. In halting and occasionally mangled terms, he painted a picture of this city as a land where public schools are all but fixed, businesses are free to flourish, and — get this — you will get a tax...

DON'T hog that lethal injection needle, Scott Peterson. Pass it on down to Lisa Montgomery when you're done. Montgomery's alleged crime is so gruesome, it is enough to turn even the strongest stomach. And her motive is so diabolically vicious, it should be sufficient to turn sensitive people to hate.

<p>MOTHER of the Year Madelyne Toogood has three small children, four driver's licenses, and two names to chose from - depending upon the state in which she parks her trailer. But Mommie Dearest has not one permanent address.</p> <p>The country now is as familiar with Toogood's parenting skills as it is with the danger of Hurricane Isidore. This past weekend, the savage in blue jeans was all over TV, furiously whacking her small daughter about the head, a scene caught on surveillance videotape.</p>

Not since the communist Diego Rivera painted his mural for Rockefeller Center has there been such a ruckus about a piece of art in Midtown. The contretemps has erupted over Eric Fischl’s “Tumbling Woman,” which he sculpted during the weeks when he kept thinking of the image of bodies falling from the World Trade Center. “I didn’t see it,” he told our Rachel Donadio last week, “but it was the most complicated, infinitely complicated resonant image.” He captured it in the form of a woman in free fall, her legs in the air, her head and neck pulling her downward...