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Bernie Madoff won’t be headed to “Club Fed.” The convicted Ponzi-schemer’s 150-year sentence excludes him from the cushy minimum-security “work-camp” facilities where white-collar criminals often land. Instead, Madoff, 71, will serve out his…

LEO
Who said Leos have fixed ideas? Clearly they don’t know what they are talking about and you will prove it today as you go out of your way to think in new directions. You are about to make a mind-blowing discovery.

DOING GOOD — QUITE COMFORTABLY
The president of one of New York’s most reputable charities has appar ently mastered the art of doing well by doing good. Emphasis on doing well. As The Post’s Tom Topousis reported yesterday, George McDonald, president of The Doe Fund, and…

WE HEAR
THAT Elle Senior VP Carol Smith is hosting a cocktail party celebrating summer and the magazine’s success at her Washington Square West apartment tonight with Editor-in-Chief Robbie Myers and Joe Zee.

MAN COMMITS SUICIDE ON SUBWAY TRACKS
NEW YORK — Authorities say a man jumped to his death in front of a Brooklyn subway train, causing rush-hour service delays for about 90 minutes. The Fire Department said two other people received medical treatment. They reportedly suffered from…

STATE’S HIGHEST COURT TO HEAR ATLANTIC YARDS CASE
In a stunning move, the state’s highest court has agreed to hear a legal challenge over the use of eminent domain to seize private land for Brooklyn’s controversial Atlantic Yards project. The Court of Appeals decision, issued in a letter to…

1ST-PLACE SOX BLANK BIRDS, INCREASE EAST LEAD
Jon Lester pitched seven shutout innings, J.D. Drew came within a double of hitting for the cycle, and the first-place Red Sox cruised past the Orioles 4-0 last night in Baltimore to move 3 games ahead of the idle Yankees in the AL East…

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