Not ready for the obit pages

May 4, 2008

It's a little surprising, all this mogul attention.

Recent columns

• Bell response signals new era

  April 27, 2008

  The verdict is in. The players have spoken. The victim is still in the ground.

• Bell response signals new era

  April 27, 2008

  The verdict is in. The players have spoken. The victim is still in the ground.

• Pope to honor Father Mike in Ground Zero visit

  April 20, 2008

  What? You thought the pope could come to Ground Zero and not meet Mychal Judge?

• The political play's the thing

  April 20, 2008

  It's not the political season. It's the political-theater season.

• Airline industry woes don't seem to fly in election

  April 13, 2008

  The word "turbulence" doesn't quite do justice to the current state of the airlines.

• Defining the state of Long Island

  April 6, 2008

  Sure, the idea sounds enticing: Long Island as the 51st state.

• Defining the state of Long Island

  April 6, 2008

  Sure, the idea sounds enticing: Long Island as the 51st state.

• State of confusion over any Long Island statehood

  March 30, 2008

  You think it's easy getting to be a state?

• Henican: Obama, Bloomberg shine but no endorsement

  March 28, 2008

  Which color are you?

• Henican: At least Paterson keeps it real

  March 26, 2008

  All that's left is the rock and roll.

• Rev. Wright brings race from pulpit to politics

  March 23, 2008

  For a while there, presidential politics felt like a postracial affair.

• Cicciaro's outburst adds to two families' pain

  March 21, 2008

  We are, at the worst moments of our lives, asked to reach into our better natures and pull out our hidden reserves of composure and grace.

• Spitzer's fall shows certainty is not so certain

  March 16, 2008

  A week ago, here's what we knew for certain:

• GOP schemer predicts more shakeups ahead

  March 12, 2008

  First thing in the morning, I was on the Amtrak to Albany. I wanted to see with my own eyes how a whole city gloats.

• GOP schemer predicts more shakeups ahead

  March 12, 2008

  First thing in the morning, I was on the Amtrak to Albany. I wanted to see with my own eyes how a whole city gloats.

• Greedy CEOs have no shame

  March 9, 2008

  It isn't just that some people have no shame. We knew that already.

• Times Square bomb fails to shatter city spirit

  March 7, 2008

  'Hey Brian," the city police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, called over to a subordinate yesterday. "Can you go back to 3:39 and 40 seconds?"

• Trump foes offer advice for Long Islanders

  March 5, 2008

  Jones Beach isn't Donald's only battle now, perhaps not even his bloodiest one.

• WBLI host's joke fails to score in Mastic

  March 2, 2008

  It wasn't quite an Imus-level eruption.

• Henican: New Yorkers blanked in presidential race

  February 29, 2008

  Oh, what fun we could have had this year were it not for the New York Curse!

• Henican: Brain surgeon pushes scanning for tumors

  February 27, 2008

  Millions of women go for mammograms, seeking early signs of breast cancer - and hoping not to find any. Millions of men get their prostate-specific antigen test, trying to get a jump on detecting prostate cancer.

• Oscar writers at their wits' end

  February 24, 2008

  It's Oscar time again, and everyone is wondering: How are the frantic writers holding up?

• Henican: For Davis, life was about armed struggle

  February 22, 2008

  To this day, criminal defense lawyers in New York have an expression for a client who appears especially hard-nosed and violence-prone.

• Fidel exits on his own terms

  February 20, 2008

  The beard is sparser than it used to be. The olive fatigues sometimes give way to a red Adidas running suit. It's been years now since a stadium full of Cubanos sat in rapt attention while Comandante en jefe spoke for seven hours straight.

• Henican: Even Republicans take a liking to Obama

  February 17, 2008

  So here I am, on a chilly mid-February night, inside the Women's National Republican Club at Fifth Avenue and 51st Street in Manhattan.

• This time, bite's a crime that doesn't pay

  February 15, 2008

  Dear Danielle:

• Valentine gift-giving is a lover's minefield

  February 13, 2008

  Love may save us eventually. But everyone's got an angle this Valentine's Day.

• Henican: Hillary an Everyone, in some fashion

  February 10, 2008

  Finally, a Hillary experience we can all relate to - the inexplicable and indefensible fashion choice that seemed so right at the time.

• Ellis Henican: Gangland perp-walk is a throwback

  February 8, 2008

  Who knew there were so many New York Gambinos left to indict?

• More men turning off sex drives

  January 25, 2008

  I went off to meet the authors, their book securely beneath my arm.

• Itching for a downtown life

  January 23, 2008

  Ann Golob certainly loves her children, ages 18, 26 and 31.

• Slaves to the shaky science of sampling

  January 13, 2008

  On second thought, maybe the polls do lie.

• "Ball Four" author Bouton saw steroid mess coming

  December 14, 2007

  There's a scene in "Ball Four," Jim Bouton's unvarnished diary of the 1969 baseball season.

• Put WWIII talk on hold - right?

  December 5, 2007

  Better scratch that whole World War III thing. Iran isn't building nuclear weapons after all.

• Preppy killer's girlfriend: 'He's the love of my life'

  November 20, 2007

  Shawn loves Robert. She loves the guy.

• Love thy neighbor's noise, too?

  June 24, 2007

  We had Mr. Reams, the meanest neighbor in the history of childhood. To this very day, I am still frightened of Mr. Reams.

• Gun woes call for more guns?

  April 18, 2007

  The debate was raging before the sun came up.

• Death feels hollow

  December 31, 2006

  They danced over the body.

• Win was just a bit too easy

  November 8, 2006

  Well, that part was easy.

• Hillary has eyes on White House

  November 7, 2006

  Well, that part was easy.

• THE SUNDAY COLUMN

  September 3, 2006

  Does the camera lie? Sure, sometimes the camera lies. But not nearly as often or as boldly as the computer does.

• Stripping away any sense of security

  August 11, 2006

  They threaten, we think. They threaten again, we think harder. Always, our thinking chases their threats, then must elbow ahead of them.

• Some telling facts but no real rationale

  May 31, 2006

  Tell me again why we're there.

• Listen up! Uncle Sam has your number

  May 12, 2006

  As usual, Earl Long got it right, a good 50 years ahead of his time.

• As players on both sides wait it out, Clinton is quiet about '08

  May 5, 2006

  Hillary is still being coy.

• Big men on campus, cut to size

  April 19, 2006

  Ah, college life!

• Their sacrifice to find the truth

  March 19, 2006

  Reporters got killed in World War II. Reporters were killed in Vietnam.

• A Big Easy family's comeback story

  March 15, 2006

  Mardi Gras must have made a difference. Or else people just got tired of replacing Sheetrock and scrubbing mold.

• Pols part over port security

  February 26, 2006

  Oh, this is getting fun. All my usual opponents are slashing each other now.

• Spitzer looks like Rudy redux

  January 25, 2006

  Same prosecutorial personality.

• He's not a guy to scoot easily to any prison

  October 30, 2005

  The new man on a cellblock should never have to introduce himself like this:

• Two thousand dead - and for what?

  October 26, 2005

  Two thousand is too many names already. Elaine Brower is certain about that.

• The Bloomberg factor

  September 14, 2005

  His name was nowhere on Tuesday's ballot. He isn't even officially a Democrat.

• Don't get too excited over Downing Street memos

  June 19, 2005

  Is the Downing Street memo an interesting historical document? You bet it is.

• Dance to freedom in fame's shoes

  June 14, 2005

  Alert to parents everywhere: Michael Jackson is free to baby-sit again.

• No more gentility at The Plaza

  April 6, 2005

  Yitzhak Tshuva isn't actually threatening to use a wrecking ball on one of the city's grandest landmarks. But he might as well be.

• A well-heeled icon of fashion

  September 10, 2004

  I was over at the Gap yesterday where, of course, I ran into Sarah Jessica Parker.

• From the middle, we can't see the right

  August 30, 2004

  It was a long city block and about a million miles from center stage at Madison Square Garden.

• Star power dim at the Garden

  August 29, 2004

  It's not the trade deficit that ought to be worrying Republicans.

• Sex Assault Case More than Hijinks

  September 14, 2003

  They are known as the Pirates, the high-spirited football players at Mepham High School on Long Island's South Shore.

• Simply Delaying the Inevitable

  January 12, 2003

  The U.S. is still likely to go to war against Iraq, although a little less likely than we were a week ago.

• Love Among The Ruins

  September 10, 2002

  “It’ll be an outdoor wedding,” Ellen Leichert said. “Upstate.”

• Transition Is Tough

  June 14, 2002

  His brother's wake was still two hours off.

• The Fragile State of Priesthood

  June 11, 2002

  When I got the call Monday about Jim McCarthy, I have to say my first reaction was relief.

• Prisoner of His Own Lie

  June 2, 2002

  It's easy to blame the hotel security guard.

• Still in Step With Holiday

  October 9, 2001

  Lockdown?

• Lost Jobs Are Echo of Tragedy

  October 5, 2001

  "You want to see my resume?" William Pierson was asking yesterday.

• Beauty Gives Way to the Beast

  September 30, 2001

  Like all great human struggles, this one pits good against bad. Only this time, good and bad both reside in a single man.

• Thoughts of Kin, Talk of War

  September 23, 2001

  The terrorists have struck. The president has spoken. America is rushing toward war. And all Kevin Farrell can think about is his brother and his son.

• 'I Don't Know the Man'

  September 20, 2001

  The evidence is said to be growing. The case seems to be tightening. Federal authorities have pretty much decided: Osama bin Laden's bloody fingerprints are all over last week's terror attacks.

• The Tragedy Is Hitting Us in Waves

  September 19, 2001

  We're coming back to life around here, or so we keep telling ourselves. That's what the mayor has been asking us to do, isn't it? And the governor. And just about everyone else straight up to the president. God knows the restaurants, the theaters and the airlines are desperately praying we come back to life and quick - before their businesses all go broke.

• One Miracle Short on Wall Street

  September 18, 2001

  It was going to be a "patriot's rally."

• The Little Things Count, Too

  September 17, 2001

  When the big guys on Wall Street decide to do something - well, they do have the wherewithal to bring a proper grandeur to the job.

• Gone Missing In America

  September 15, 2001

  "My little brother is Robert Chin," Suk Tan Chin was saying as she stood in the drizzle on East 26th Street, clutching a single, moist piece of paper. "We are desperately looking for him. He is missing."

• Showing Up Is the First Step

  September 14, 2001

  Now that's more like it.

• Our President Shows That He's No Giuliani

  September 13, 2001

  Where's Bush?

• Worst Brings Out NY's Best

  September 12, 2001

  "A man ran up to us," Stephen Craver said. "His whole face was peeling off. That's how badly burned he was."