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A no-nonsense judge went off on "Jersey Shore" star Snooki yesterday -- telling the pouf princess that she's fist-pumping her way toward Lindsay Lohan-style infamy.
"You seem to be acting like a Lindsay Lohan wannabe in this matter, going through life rude, profane, obnoxious and self-indulgent," Judge Damien Murray...

It was a trip to Cambodia about five years ago that changed Manhattan real-estate broker Barton Brooks' life.
"There were a bunch of kids I fell in love with, orphans being taken care of by monks," he said. "I wanted to help."
Brooks, 38, came home and got donations of...

Writing a 700-page memoir can be a lot of work -- good thing for Tony Blair he apparently had help.
The screenwriter of the Oscar-winning movie "The Queen" has accused the former British Prime Minister of plagiarizing his dialogue, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported.
Peter Morgan yesterday cited remarkable similarities...

A major investor in the mosque near Ground Zero said yesterday he is ready to pull the plug and sell some or all of the site if the price is right.
Hisham Elzanaty, an Egyptian-born businessman who says he provided a majority of the financing to gain control over the...

WASHINGTON -- Public opinion of Democrats has soured so badly that vocal Obama supporters like Sheriff Andy are suffering, even in Mayberry.
A new poll shows that Andy Griffith -- an outspoken Democrat who appeared in a controversial ad promoting President Obama's health-care plan -- has seen his popularity...

Yankee captain Derek Jeter is giving up the Midtown pad he bought when he was one of the Big Apple's most eligible bachelors -- leading pals to wonder if he's planning to play house at a trendy downtown address with his gorgeous squeeze, TV star Minka Kelly.
He...

As a child, Gov. Paterson was teased so mercilessly about being blind that he once smacked one of his pint-sized tormentors in the head with his metal lunch box, he revealed yesterday before signing a historic anti-bullying bill into law.
"Today, we're going to take a historic step to...

The city is transforming hundreds of high-priced, do-nothing teachers accused of wrongdoing into pricey paper pushers.
The teachers -- who for years spent their time dozing, playing games or doing zilch while earning full pay in infamous holding pens known as "rubber rooms" -- are now being dispersed to DOE...

Former Yankees fireballer Roger Clemens threw a wicked curveball yesterday when his lawyers suggested the Bronx Bombers have minimal ties to New York.
Clemens, already losing popularity in the Big Apple after his indictment on charges that he lied about steroid use, brushed back the city with a high hard...

The Ivy League ain't what it used to be.
Academic giant Harvard University was knocked off its perch as the world's best school by Britain's Cambridge University, which earned high marks for research quality, according a survey released yesterday.
The two institutions switched places based on the...

It's the surest bet in New York state politics: put your money on Pedro Espada to top just about any list of politicians doing something they shouldn't.
The much-investigated Bronx Democratic state senator has received the most violations so far this election season for putting up illegal campaign...

An investment firm managed by Leon Black's Apollo Global Management got slammed by a US Bankruptcy Court judge for hammering out an inside deal to restructure a hotel company it controls in a way that would only benefit itself and a single other creditor, according to a newly released...