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(GETTY) hate crime laws. to our community,” Wayne leged outing perpetuates a gay marriage In 2007, he and gays in BY EMILY NGO Besen of Truth Wins Out, dangerous stereotype. was accused of the military, [email protected] which fights gay disinforma- “It feeds into this sort of soliciting a male Schrock, 69, More cash for tion, said of Rekers. pop psychology that people undercover cop for abandoned his Yet another religious The Family Research who are homophobes are sex in an airport 2004 re-election leader who fought Council yesterday secretly gay and they’re re- bathroom. He bid after a gay rights apparently distanced itself from pressing their desires,” she pleaded guilty recording came to disorderly catch of day? doesn’t practice what Rekers, saying it has said. “No, they’re homopho- to light of him he preaches. no contact with him. bic because they hate gays.” conduct. soliciting a gay George Alan “While we are ex- Besen countered that the prostitute. BY LUCY COHEN BLATTER Rekers, known as a tremely disappointed incident clears up another [email protected] staunch anti-gay ac- when any Christian misconception. tivist who champions Rekers leader engages in the “Every time these hypo- If you think buying seafood in the city is “curing” homosexuals, very activities that crites are exposed, it does expensive now, there’s a good chance it’ll get solicited a 20-year-old male they ‘preach’ against, it is show that [being gay is] not worse during the next few weeks. hooker online from the web- not surprising. The Scrip- a choice,” he said. Chefs and fish distributors in Gotham site rentboy.com, according tures clearly teach the fallen Julia Borovskaya contributed to this story. predict that the cost of shrimp, crabs and to a published report. The nature of all people,” Council oysters will be most impacted by the two- Baptist minister then report- President Tony Perkins said week-old oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. edly took his escort for a 10- in a statement. “We are planning on getting a lot of crabs day romp through Europe New Yorkers yesterday coming up from there soon and we may have last month. said Rekers was in denial. to rethink that,” said Laurence Edelman, Rekers, 61, a co-founder “What is possible is that executive chef at Mermaid Oyster Bar. of Christian lobbying group he’s being such a prominent At Fairway supermarkets there is specula- Family Research Council, activist to prove to everyone tion that shrimp prices may spike more than said he only hired the man — probably including himself 25 percent. “We’ve been told the to help carry his bags. But price of shrimp will go up $2 he visited rentboy.com, an a pound,” said Tony Maltese, escort website filled with seafood director at Fairway. images of scantily clad men Ted Haggard: An evangelical While most of the shrimp for hire, the Miami New preacher who talked of eaten in the United States the “moral woes” of Times said. In a statement, come from abroad, the Gulf homosexuality, Rekers called the report Haggard, 53, Coast provides 75 percent of “slanderous.” admitted the U.S. supply, said Gavin Gib- The allegation drew par- to paying bons, of the National Fisheries Institute. allels to former Florida Rep. for a male Similarly, it is home to nearly 70 percent of Mark Foley, evangelical pas- prostitute. the U.S. oyster production. Gibbons said that mollusks are most vul- nerable to oil spills because they can’t swim away. “For oysters, it’s going to be a disaster,” • Former Florida Rep. Mark Foley: He Maltese said. railed against child porn and chaired the Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. He resigned after texts he exchanged with a 17-year-old male page were published. All-night art at the Whitney Have you ever had the hankering to check • Former Florida Rep. Bob out some art at 4 a.m.? Here’s your chance. Allen: He was against gay From May 26 at 12 a.m. until May 28 at couples adopting children. Allen, 52, was convicted 11:59 p.m., the Whitney Museum of American of offering to perform oral Art will be open 24 hours a day for Michael sex on a male undercover Asher’s Biennial project. The artist wanted cop for $20 in 2007. the Whitney to stay open for a full week, but budgetary concerns prevented that. (AMNY) (PHOTOS: AP, GETTY) 04 amNewYork THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2010 NEWS NY.com Briefs ‘Terrorist’ began as tourist? Jury convicts barber of killing his successor Barber Eddy Espinal was con- Shahzad had fun in DEVELOPMENTS IN CASE victed yesterday of murdering ● Julio Ernesto Filpo, 25, who The U.S. has so far been unable to Times Square years verify statements by the Times Square took over his failed business, before bomb attempt bombing suspect that he trained at a and wounding three others in Pakistani terror camp. a 2005 shooting prosecutors said was driven by envy at the A year or two before he alleg- ● Shahzad did not appear in new owners’ success. Espinal, edly tried to blow up part of Times court yesterday. Officials said his 45, could face 25 years or more Square, Faisal Shahzad posed for a arraignment is delayed because he’s cooperating with the investigation. in prison when he is sentenced cheery group photo at the Cross- on May 19. roads of the World. (AP) The photo of the wannabe terror- Paper depicts Obamas as ist, obtained by CBS News, was re- admitted his role in the botched ‘Sanford and Son’ actors leased amid revelations that he had bombing plot and is cooperating packed the SUV with fireworks that with investigators. Phillip Sciarello, publisher and couldn’t destroy a watermelon. He is believed to have worked part owner of the weekly Smith- Further details emerged of his alone in the United States on the town Messenger on Long Island, allegedly amateurish attempt to plot almost immediately after yesterday said a photo depicting wreak havoc in the heart of the returning from five-months in Paki- President Barack Obama and city. Faisal Shahzad, right, stands with friends in Times Square less than 100 stan, authorities said. his wife as characters from the The New York Post re- yards from where he parked the explosive SUV (CBS NEWS) They said they have yet to find a 1970s TV sitcom “Sanford and ported Shahzad had done a link to extremist groups. Son” was intended as political trial run the night before and left a tigators to Shahzad, who seemed to The government yesterday Shahzad, 30, was caught on satire and not a racist commen- getaway car nearby. know the jig was up. sought to close the security gap video at a Pennsylvania store le- tary. African-American groups Then he reportedly left the keys “I was expecting you. Are you that let Shahzad board the plane gally buying weak consumer-grade decried the portrayal was for that vehicle in the bomb-laden NYPD or FBI?” Shahzad asked even though his name had ear- fireworks. “despicable.” (AP) Nissan Pathfinder, forcing him to customs officials who came aboard lier been placed on a no-fly list, Another video reported yes- ride a Metro-North train home to the jet to arrest him, an official with mandating that airlines check the terday shows him in a white Hasselbeck’s apology on Connecticut, the Post reported. knowledge of the investigation told list more frequently. baseball cap walking away from ‘View’ ends in tears The sloppy trail quickly led inves- The Associated Press. Authorities said Shahzad has the smoking van. (AMNY/AP) “The View” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck tearfully apolo- gized yesterday to “Dancing Mike: No guns for With the Stars” contestant Erin Andrews for Hasselbeck criticizing her those on no-fly list skimpy outfits on the show. 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WASHINGTON President Barack Pakistan relations Obama said yes- terday he wants to begin work BY EMILY NGO about the tensions. told the BBC that Shahzad this year on leg- [email protected] is the responsibility of the islation overhaul- How has the city’s Paki- U.S., because he became ing the nation’s The botched Times stani community reacted a citizen. Should the U.S. immigration Square bombing — and to the plot? Everybody or Pakistan be blamed for Obama system, firming suspect Faisal Shahzad’s is condemning it, even the his actions? I don’t believe up his commit- confession that he received religious leaders, the imams that he’s American or he’s a ment on a key priority for Latino terror training in his native of the mosques. That’s not Pakistani, he’s just a terrorist. voters and lawmakers. Pakistan — Islam. has placed a Pakistani militants and Volcanic ash snarls spotlight on Are you worried about civilians are weary of U.S. Scottish, Irish flights U.S. relations backlash? People are a little drones in their country with the Mid- bit worried that anybody and a war raging in neigh- DUBLIN, IRELAND A new wave of Leon Fleisher east country. could react or overreact, just boring Afghanistan. Does dense volcanic ash from Iceland It also has by looking at them. [A Paki- the Times Square inci- snarled air traffic yesterday in All Pakistani immigrants, stani New Yorker] said yester- dent further strain U.S.- Ireland and Scotland, stranding Tickets 300,000 of whom live in day he went to the store and Pakistan relations? There’s tens of thousands of people Gotham, fearful about the salesman looked at his going to be more pressure on but narrowly missing England $15 backlash. face and he said, “Where are the government of Pakistan and key London air hubs. Dublin amNewYork spoke with you from?” from the U.S. side to do more, Airport canceled all flights until Mohsin Zaheer, editor of the to go deep into the areas 4 a.m. today, marooning more Brooklyn-based Pakistani Pakistani Foreign Minister where this kind of people than 30,000 passengers. newspaper Sada-E-Pakistan, Rehman Malik yesterday could be. Rising Stars Crews prepare to take containment box to spill in Performance PORT FOURCHON, LA. A 100-ton box designed to help funnel out oil spewing from the bottom of Young Artists Coached by the Gulf of Mexico was loaded Leon Fleisher, Pamela Frank, onto a boat yesterday so it could begin its journey to the leak site and Yo-Yo Ma about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. The box, to be installed Two engaging performances celebrate the today, is considered the best short-term solution to bottling culmination of a weeklong Professional up the disastrous oil spill. Training Workshop during which young professional chamber ensembles explored Joe the Plumber is Brahms’s chamber works featuring piano. elected to party office
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08 amNewYork THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2010 NATION/WORLD NY.com Greek riots turn deadly
Fire kills 3 at bank amid revolt over vital cuts
David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg (GETTY) BY ELENA BECATOROS The Associated Press
Rioting over harsh aus- U.K. election could terity measures left three people dead yesterday in a torched Athens bank and clouds of tear gas drifting end with no winner past parliament. The deaths were the first There’s only one good bet crat upstart Nick Clegg. during a protest in Greece in Britain’s razor-edge elec- “This could go down as one in nearly 20 years. tion: It’s likely to reshape the of the most revolutionary Fear that a financial country’s politics in historic elections,” said Bill Jones, a bailout won’t stop the debt ways. political analyst at Liverpool crisis from spreading to Should Gordon Brown Hope University. other troubled EU coun- cling to power, his Labour A survey by Populus for tries such as Portugal and Party will have pulled off one the Times of London put Spain intensified amid the of the most unlikely political support for the Conserva- violence yesterday, as credit comebacks in modern times. tives at 37 percent, with ratings agency Moody’s put Victory for the Conservatives’ Labour getting 28 percent Portugal on watch for a pos- A Greek bank employee reacts yesterday after a deadly fire broke out following an attack by David Cameron would return and the Liberal Democrats sible downgrade. anti-government protesters in central Athens. (GETTY) his once-discredited party to 27 percent. The Times Greece faces a May 19 office after 13 years. calculated that would give due date on debt it says it of $387.72 billion, back More likely, there will be the Conservatives a total of can’t repay without the help. from the brink of default. no clear winner, and a good 301 seats in Parliament — 25 The new government cut- Reaction until now had showing for Liberal Demo- short of a majority. (AP) backs, which slash salaries been relatively muted by and pensions for civil ser- Greece’s volatile standards. vants and hike consumer But with people begin- taxes, are being ning to feel Queen may have to pick future U.K. leader imposed as a the pain of the condition of get- austerity mea- What if there is a hung Brown is most likely to re- ting a $142.16 $142B sures, anger Parliament? Under British sign as prime minister. He billion pack- Amount of rescue loans boiled over. convention, Gordon could hang on until age of rescue to Greece Although Brown as the incum- the first meeting of loans from the violent demon- bent leader is offered Parliament on May International strations are Greek police clash with demonstrators yesterday in front of the first chance to 18, but the opposition Monetary Fund $387B commonplace a government building in Mytilene, Greece. (GETTY) seek support from would likely attempt and the other Amount of Greek debt in Greece, they his rivals to form a to force a motion of 15 European usually take during a nationwide gen- died of smoke inhalation af- coalition government, no confidence in his Union countries the form of eral strike that grounded ter demonstrators torched even if his party ranks second government. 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All procedures performed at whether the flat spot is √ Stay in the middle Gramercy Surgery Center changing or growing. of a path. Ticks can’t fly When it comes to skin cancer, don’t only look for large marks or jump, so they can ‘I was waiting for on your body. Melanomas can be a few millimeters wide. only get on you if 2it to go away.’ you come into Some people mistake a “Look at your scalp, groin, upper back, said California contact with the MEDICAL basal cell carcinoma for a soles and buttocks,” said Lee dermatologist Raphael kind of environ- pimple or razor bump. “The Laris, an Arizona dermatolo- Darvish. ment they live in: basal cell may last more than gist. “If it has skin, it can get moist, shady, a month at the same loca- skin cancer.” ‘It was tiny’ wooded areas, RESEARCH tion,” said Dr. Murad Alam, 5 “People tend to worry with leaves and professor at Northwestern ‘My moles about spots that are big low-lying plants. University. If a lesion hasn’t 4didn’t change.’ [but] melanomas can be a √ Inspect yourself. STUDIES healed in six to eight weeks, An evolving mole can few millimeters wide,” said Especially the legs and groin. have it checked. indicate melanoma. But the Alam. “Size does not equate Most ticks probably get most common type of skin with dangerousness.” Non- picked up on the lower legs NYU Langone Medical Center ‘It’s where the sun cancer is basal cell carci- melanoma skin cancers can and then climb upward. 3doesn’t shine.’ noma, which isn’t a mole also be subtle, Alam said, The chances of contracting HAVE YOU BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH PSORIASIS? Melanoma can occur any- but a pink pearly bump often and may be slightly raised Lyme disease are minimized if If you are at least 18 years old and have been diagnosed with where on the body. found on the face, ears and red or crusty areas. 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