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Five men on the Supreme Court and another one in the White House have scorned fairness for women.' - Planned Parenthood president Faye Wattleton
A PAIR OF UPSET STOMACHS A nyone who ever wondered whether New York City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman and Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari can stomach one another had only to be within earshot of the pair the other day to realize that the answer most likely is: NO.
Outside a House hearing room Monday where both had testified on the subject of the Staten Island Homeport - Democrat Holtzman for shutting down the facility and Republican Molinari for keeping it open - Holtzman confronted Molinari about his testimony that she had turned down a classified Navy briefing on the port. This exchange ensued:
Molinari: Well, let me ask you this: Have you asked for a briefing? How can you take this position without asking for a briefing?
Holtzman: I'm not sure the Navy would be willing to supply it.
Molinari: Oh, come on. The Navy has provided anyone who has asked for a briefing.
Holtzman: Listen, you didn't know what you were talking about and you said it anyway.
Molinari: I know a little more about the city, I think, than you do. To make the outrageous statement that you have here today . . .
Holtzman: I don't agree with you about that . . .
Molinari: You would take a briefing?
Holtzman: I'm happy to.
Holtzman then turned and walked away. Without even a goodbye.
NAVIGATING IN TROUBLED WATERS
To seek to declare the waters around a port "non-navigable" would seem pointless.
But that's what Rep. Ted Weiss (D-Manhattan) and the New York City Public Development Corp., among others, asked of a House subcommittee last week in an attempt to promote the redevelopment of historic Pier A, at the foot of Battery Park City.
The supporters' request resulted from a nearly century-old federal statute that gives the government the right to condemn without compensation anything built in "navigable"...