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The owner of a downtown strip club wants the city, somebody, anybody, to spruce up his neighborhood. His business improvement district, the Alliance for Downtown New York, is taking up the cause.
The alliance is releasing a study Tuesday that recommends a series of changes in the area of Lower Manhattan directly south of the World Trade Center site, an area shaken hard by ground zero construction and the recession.
“No business can survive,” said Robert Kremer, the owner of the Pussycat Lounge, a topless bar on Greenwich Street. Mr. Kremer’s main concern is actually not the economy, but the congested streets bounded by Broadway, West Street, Battery Park and the World Trade Center site, an area that the Downtown Alliance calls Greenwich South. Access to businesses is nearly impossible, he said.

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The owner of a downtown strip club wants the city, somebody, anybody, to spruce up his neighborhood. His business improvement district, the Alliance for Downtown New York, is taking up the cause.
The Alliance is releasing a new study Tuesday that recommends a series of changes in the area of Lower Manhattan directly south of the World Trade Center site — an area shaken hard by ground zero construction and the recession.
“No business can survive,” said Robert Kremer, the owner of the Pussycat Lounge, a topless bar on Greenwich Street. Mr. Kremer’s main concern is actually not the economy, but the congested streets bounded by Broadway, West Street, Battery Park and the World Trade Center site — an area that the Downtown Alliance has dubbed “Greenwich South.” Access to businesses is nearly impossible, he said.

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ZURICH, Switzerland – The Swiss Criminal Court says imprisoned director Roman Polanski has filed a motion requesting to be released.The court said in a statement Tuesday that it will make a decision “in the next weeks.” Any verdict is subject to appeal from both sides.Polanski was arrested Saturday as he arrived in Zurich to receive an award from a film festival. The United States has been seeking his extradition for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
Islamic judge rules caning of beer-drinking woman to go ahead
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A Muslim woman sentenced to be caned for drinking beer wants to quickly get the punishment over with now that it has been confirmed by an Islamic appeals court judge, her father said Tuesday.
Lady Gaga says it’s unfair for fans to judge Kanye West for Swift dustup
TORONTO – Kanye West can rest assured that new tourmate Lady Gaga has got his back.
Activists protests strip club displaying Obama Joker poster
RICHMOND, Va. – Activists gathered outside a downtown strip club Monday to denounce as racist a banner depicting President Obama as the Joker from Batman.

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… I’m blind, but I’m not oblivious,” was the great soundbite New York’s David Paterson offered a national audience on Meet The Press Sunday, responding to moderator David Gregory’s questions on the big story from the week before – that the White House wants Paterson not to run for a full term next year. Paterson subsequently declared that, regardless of any signals that the White House might be sending, ”I am running for governor in 2010.” For Paterson to think that he would have any chance — in the face of a popular (within the Democratic Party) president’s clear message — shows that obliviousness isn’t Paterson’s problem. It’s denial.   
Paterson’s saga has been almost subsumed within the larger psychodrama of New York politics over the last two years:  Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution scandal and subsequent resignation; Paterson’s taking office — and immediately confessing to multiple affairs and drug use; this summer’s legislative gridlock created by two state senate Democrats briefly switching over to the Republicans. But after the Obama story broke, it became rapidly clear how much of a toll the last several months have taken on Paterson. Last Wednesday, he publicly groused that rival Andrew Cuomo, the vastly popular attorney general and likely gubernatorial nominee, was behind the leak to the Times. He also started revealing a bit too much about his once-hoped-for political future:

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NEW ROCHELLE – A 41-year-old city man who, police said, agreed to engage in sex for pay with two prostitutes later complained they set him up for a robbery.
The city man, police said, went to a Washington Avenue apartment with the two women around 4:21 a.m. Sunday after agreeing to pay them for sex. They were met in the apartment by a third woman, who was armed with a knife, police said.
The women went through the man’s pockets and took $400 from him, city Detective Capt. Joseph Schaller said.
Schaller said detectives would investigate the robbery like any other crime, even though the accuser had agreed to engage in illegal activity.

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NEW HAVEN – Nine women were arrested over the weekend in a prostitution sting in the Fair Haven section of town.
The nine suspects approached an under cover officer who drove by in an unmarked vehicle and offered sexual favors in exchange for money, police said.
They were each charged with soliciting prostitution.
The suspects are: Melissa Zawalski, 35, of New Haven, Renee Storo, 41, Tracy Ordonez, 39, Debbie Mumford, 49, Teresa Hart, 43, Aquillah Shamsid Deen, 42, John (aka Vanessa ) Melendez, 24, Maria Nieves, 48, and Denise Lopez, 43.
Melendez was additionally charged with failure to keep drugs in original container.

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by Mark Ginocchio
It’s no shock when another preview of the Nets lists them as a bottom feeder in the league, but it’s still worth noting that ESPN’s statistical guru John Hollinger has his preview up for ESPN Insider members. He too, thinks the Nets are going to be pretty bad – 24 wins bad – and says there’s “no chance” their season extends into the playoffs.
Al Iannazzone has five questions for the Nets at the start of training camp. Fred Kerber also looks at the state of the Nets as training camp gets under way.
France drops its prostitution charges against prospective Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov.
NBA Fanhouse lists Lawrence Frank as one of five NBA coaches on the hot seat this season.
Ball Don’t Lie has former Net Vince Carter as the #3 best shooting guard of the past decade.

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The point is that prosecuting such crimes has a point and purpose now and for the future. It is a matter quite independent of how long ago the crimes were committed. We prosecute and punish in order to maintain our determination not to countenance such crimes. Part of the intention is to make permanent liability to prosecution a deterrent.
This applies to all serious crimes. Rape, murder, child abuse, genocide and crimes against humanity are too serious to allow the mere passage of time to weaken a society’s stand against them. It would be a mistake to see this as an austere refusal to be forgiving. We should indeed be far more forgiving as a society about many more things. We have too many categories of crime now, we have far too many people in prison, and society is far too unforgiving of things that should not be crimes at all: the example of using the criminal law to deal with drugs and prostitution is a glaring case in point.

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Lockheed continued expanding the traffic camera and parking ticket outsourcing business until it was purchased by ACS in August 2001 for $825 million. Since then, the company has been plagued with scandal. In December, a Dallas judge ruled that ACS had been illegally operating its automated ticketing machines without a proper license. In March 2007, ACS was accused of vandalizing speed cameras in Washington, DC after losing the contract to a competitor (view PDF of complaint). In 2006, ACS faced bribery charges in Edmonton, Canada after police officers accepted lavish gifts from the company — including travel, sports tickets and female escort services — in return for a recommendation that ACS be given a no-bid, $90 million photo ticketing contract. In October 2008, a judge let the police officers and ACS off the hook without bringing the case to a jury.

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NAACP, activists protest US strip club banner that depicts Obama as the Joker from Batman
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Islamic judge rules caning of beer-drinking woman to go ahead
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A judge in Malaysia has upheld a court verdict to cane a Muslim woman for drinking beer, news reports said Monday, re-igniting a controversy over Islamic justice in this moderate Muslim-majority country.
Lady Gaga says it’s unfair for fans to judge Kanye West for Swift dustup
TORONTO – Kanye West can rest assured that new tourmate Lady Gaga has got his back.
Activists protests strip club displaying Obama Joker poster
RICHMOND, Va. – Activists gathered outside a downtown strip club Monday to denounce as racist a banner depicting President Obama as the Joker from Batman.
Canadian general vents anger over bombings to Afghan village elders
DEH-E BAGH, Afghanistan – Canada’s top soldier in Afghanistan pulled no punches at a hastily called meeting with Afghan village elders Monday after an IED attack sent …

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