December 22, 2003
BLACK TAKING 5TH ; HOLLINGER HONCHO TO STAY MUM AT SEC: SOURCES
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amNewspaper baron Conrad Black will decline to answer questions about the ongoing financial scandal at Hollinger International in front of the Securities and Exchange Commission today, The Post has learned....
BANKS A MILLION: AMEX EXEC LANDS DEAL BONUS
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amAmerican Stock Exchange vice chairman Anthony Boglioli has received $1 million for his work brokering a deal to sell the troubled exchange, say members who have been briefed on the...
JUNKIE BECOMES 'ADDICTED' TO LIFE
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amADDICTED At the Zipper Theatre, 336 W. 37th St. Call (212) 563-0480. 'ADDICTED" is a one man's comic but brutal recounting of how he clawed his way up from the...
ANTI-WAR TALE A REAL 'LEMON'
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amAUNT DAN AND LEMON At the Harold Clurman, 410 W. 42nd St. Through Jan. 31. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. A PLAY about the makers of the Vietnam War, and human...
PRESSING THE FLESH; 'TOP MODEL' CAN GET UGLY ABOUT BEAUTY
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amTHE would-be runway divas of "America's Next Top Model" are back. On the show - created and produced by sultry supermodel Tyra Banks - 12 wannabe models live together in...
STARR REPORT
December 22, 2003 | 5:00am'Experience' this! Spike TV is putting a novel twist on the reality show genre - geared toward guys, of course. TV's "First Network for Men" has a new show, "10...
SEARCH IS ON FOR PATAKIS' SECRET VACATION DONOR
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - A mystery benefactor provided Gov. Pataki and his wife, Libby, with a deluxe vacation to exclusive St. Barts in the Caribbean last month, sources told The Post. Pataki...
WINNERS AND LOSERS OF 2003
December 22, 2003 | 5:00am'TIS the season . . . to declare the winners and losers of New York state politics. The list was prepared with the assistance of some of the state's top...
CADILLAC MAN IN COKE BUST
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amIt won't be a white Christmas for a Queens man who was busted for carrying over a kilo of cocaine in his Cadillac, cops said. Germaine Williams, 25, of Bayside,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amWorkers renovating a 94-year-old house in Canton, Ohio, refused to enter because of strange and scary noises - until the owners hired a ghostbuster to purge the spirits. "[I told]...
DI WAS PREGNANT WHEN SHE DIED: COP
December 22, 2003 | 5:00am"The shocking rumor that's shadowed the memory of Princess Diana for years is true - she was pregnant at the time of her tragic death, a British newspaper is reporting....
MORE COPS FOR GANG-PLAGUED QUEENS NABES
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amThe Queens neighborhoods of Corona, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights will get a beefed-up police presence next month to help fight gangs and violent crime. City Councilman Hiram Monserrate announced the...
THIRD CHAPTER OF 'LORD' RUNS RINGS AROUND RIVALS
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amThe third "Lord of the Rings" ran circles around the competition over the weekend, with an astounding $125.1 million worth of ticket sales. But "Return of the King" - Peter...
NETS ARENA MAY FORCE 1,000 OUT OF HOMES
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amThe newly proposed Brooklyn arena that is being built to house the New Jersey Nets would force 1,000 people from their homes, a city legislator charged yesterday. Councilwoman Letitia James'...
WES: DEAN WANTED ME AS VEEP
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic front-runner Howard Dean tried to head off a challenge from retired Gen. Wesley Clark by offering to name the former military man as his running mate, Clark...
HOW THE PARKS DEPARTMENT STOLE CHRISTMAS
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amTO HEAR Tony Golio tell it, no good deed goes unpunished when talking about City Hall. "The Parks Department has emerged as a real Grinch who stole Christmas," said Golio,...
SON'S TRAGIC QUEST; BID TO BRING KILLER NURSE TO JUSTICE
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amMOHRSVILLE, Pa. - Larry Dean spent the last eight years of his life trying to nail confessed killer nurse Charles Cullen for murdering his mom. The mission consumed Dean, a...
WHEELS OF FIRE AS BLAZE ENGULFS CAR LOT
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amNineteen vehicles worth $400,000 went up in flames yesterday at a Long Island dealership. Thirty firefighters rushed to Legend Nissan's outdoor parking lot on Jericho Turnpike in Syosset at around...
D'AMATO PA PROBE DEMANDED
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amA prominent state lawmaker yesterday called for an investigation into former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato's lobbying activities at the Port Authority, where he persuaded Republican officials to reverse a contract decision...
IT'S A BLUE CHRISTMAS FOR MARTHA
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amShe was once the doyenne of the holiday season - but Martha Stewart is saying bah-humbug to Christmas this year, thanks to her pending securities fraud trial. The embattled domestic...
BRIT CELEBS: IT'LL BE A COLD 'KNIGHT' IN HELL
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amLots of celebrities don't want to lord it over their fellow Brits. Hundreds, including rocker David Bowie, actor Albert Finney and comic John Cleese, have told the British government to...
TIME NAMES GIS 'PERSON OF THE YEAR'
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amTime magazine has picked "the American soldier" - all 2.6 million of them collectively - as its Person of the Year, the newsweekly said yesterday. It was the president who...
IT'S A WRAP! SHOPPERS ON FINAL GIFT PUSH
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amShoppers were checking their lists twice as they fanned out around the Big Apple yesterday, one of the busiest days for retailers before Christmas. The Toys 'R' Us at Union...
ARMY VET, 74, FATALLY RUN DOWN
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amA 74-year-old Long Island man was fatally mowed down as he walked home from a Chinese restaurant in Freeport, police said yesterday. James Figgs, an Army veteran who loved to...
SADDAM WAS SPITTING MAD WHEN CAUGHT
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amAfter his capture, Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein spat on a soldier and the GI hit him, it was reported today. Original military accounts said Saddam offered no resistance at all...
EX-WORKERS CASH IN BY QUITTING CITY JOBS
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amThere's a new $100,000 club in town - veteran city employees who are leaving the payroll with six-figure settlements for unused vacation and sick time. Records provided by Comptroller William...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amManhattan Longtime criminal and parole violator George Konstantinides, who engaged in a blazing shootout with cops on Saturday, was busted yesterday in the bar of a Times Square-area hotel, cops...
TEEN SLAY MYSTERY; SHOOTING OF 'GOOD KID' BAFFLES COPS
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amCops are trying to figure out why a teenage boy was shot to death over the weekend inside the lobby of a Brooklyn housing-project building. Jimmy Bauvin, 19, received a...
PAIR NABBED IN L.I. KIDNAP
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amTwo bandits who kidnapped a Long Island mother and her two kids earlier this month in a plot to extort a half-million dollars were busted over the weekend, officials said...
BUTCHER'S PAPERS BAG OTHER THUGS
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amU.S. troops in Iraq rounded up dozens of suspected terrorists over the weekend, acting on information obtained in the capture of Saddam Hussein, officials said. Even as the crackdown on...
BILLBOARD BUCKS; SUBWAY ADS RAKE IN $77M FOR MTA
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amThe MTA has generated $77 million from advertisers this year - double the amount it pulled in seven years ago - after transforming once-empty wall space at stations into giant...
THE BAD STEED GIRL HURT IN HORSE FALL AT NYPD PARTY
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amThe 8-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn police officer was rushed to the hospital yesterday after she fell off a police horse during a Christmas party that her dad's precinct was...
BAGHDAD WAR MADE KHADAFY BLINK
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amLibyan leader Moammar Khadafy's pledge to give up his country's weapons of mass destruction program came about because of the get-tough tactics used against Iraq, a British official said yesterday....
BIG-BUCKS LURE SENDS LOTTO BLOTTO
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - New Yorkers this year have been tantalized by the major jackpots of the Mega Millions game rather than plucking down a dollar and a dream on the older...
GIRL HURT IN HORSE FALL AT NYPD PARTY
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amThe 8-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn police officer was rushed to the hospital yesterday after she fell off an NYPD horse that reared up during a Christmas party her dad's...
FEDS WARN OF ANOTHER 9/11 - RAISE ALERT AMID AIR-ATTACK FEARS
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amWashington ramped up the national terror alert to "high risk" yesterday, warning that al Qaeda has been searching for gaps in airport security to launch a devastating attack during the...
THE 'GOTCHA!' GANG; NYPD SQUAD TARGETS 'WORST OF THE WORST'
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amMembers of the NYPD's violent-felon squad are looking for a few bad men. Actually, more than a few. They're "civil-servant bounty hunters" charged with going after the 150 most violent...
KINKY 'COP' IS KILLED
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amThe half-naked body of a Brooklyn hospital officer who was known for kinky sex tastes and shared his name with a comic-book superhero was found in his apartment yesterday, his...
BROOKLYN 'DEATH' VERDICT DUE
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amA federal jury could decide as soon as today whether a Brooklyn drug thug who committed two capital murders - including the slaying of a witness - should be executed...
OUR FORGOTTEN ALLIES; POLES DEFEND FREEDOM, WITH FEW THANKS
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amTHE decisive turning point in the West's long struggle against Islamic conquerors came on the afternoon of Sept. 12, 1683, during the last Turkish siege of Vienna. Severely outnumbered Polish...
CLUELESS EDUCRATS GIVE 'TACKY' ORDERS
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amAs dozens of schools are being rocked by a series of assaults, fights and rampaging students roaming hallways, the city's top educrats are tuning their attention to - bulletin boards....
WHEELS ON FIRE AS BLAZE ENGULFS CAR LOT
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amNineteen vehicles worth $400,000 went up in flames yesterday at a Long Island dealership. Thirty firefighters rushed to Legend Nissan's outdoor parking lot on Jericho Turnpike in Syosset around 3:05...
RASMUSSEN ADJUSTS TO AN OFFENSIVE ROLE
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amCHICAGO - Usually, coming to the Devils means learning to be conservative. For Eric Rasmussen, though, the education is how to play offensively with the likes of Patrik Elias. Signed...
JET REPORT CARD: PICK YOUR POISON
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amQUARTERBACKSThough he didn't have a lot of help, Chad Pennington (24-43, 229 yards, 5 INTs, 31.2 rating) was at his worst, though he did engineer three scoring drives, scoring two...
YOUR MOVE, GLEN
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amSO ON a night that Eric Lindros was clearly the best player the Rangers had and Petr Nedved was among the worst, somehow in Saturday's 3-1 loss in Ottawa Glen...
JETS INTERCEPT BLAME FOR CHAD
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amHerman Edwards, as usual, was at the office early yesterday morning following the Jets 21-16 Saturday night loss to the Patriots, a defeat that assured the 6-9 Jets of a...
JARVIS LIKE OLD TIMES ; COACH'S RECRUITMENT RECORD IS NO SURPRISE
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amODD, how Mike Jarvis, on the way out, is now so widely thought of as having been a bad fit for St. John's. Not that college basketball coaches normally arrive...
MAKE-OR-BREAK TIME
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Islanders closed out the calendar year a season ago by going 8-3-0 in December, capped by a dramatic OT win in Buffalo on New Year's Eve to...
PARCELLS STILL INSPIRING
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amIRVING, Texas - Love him or hate him, Bill Parcells is special, our modern-day Vince Lombardi. Trust me, our grandchildren will be reading about Parcells, the way we read about...
TUNA: JIM WILL BE FINE ; PARCELLS A BIG FAN OF FASSEL
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amCowboys 19 Giants 3 IRVING - Bill Parcells offered Jim Fassel some words of encouragement yesterday before sending his Cowboys out to claim a 19-3 victory and hand the Giants...
BEING A SACKS MACHINE NO CONSOLATION FOR STRAHAN
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES IRVING - In his record-breaking season of 2001, Michael Strahan had 22½ sacks and the Giants finished 7-9. With three sacks yesterday in a 19-3 loss to the...
BENGALS FAIL TEST ; FALL FROM DIVISION LEAD AFTER LOSS TO RAMS
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amRams 27 Bengals10 ST. LOUIS - Bucking 12 years of ineptitude, eyeing an AFC North title, Cincinnati knew better than to ask for help from any persons from Cleveland. Riding...
EMBATTLED DON FATHOMS REALITY
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amIf Don Chaney smoked a corn-cob pipe, he could pass for a college professor. He's certainly enjoyed the tenure of one. Unfortunately for Knicks fans, though, his students regularly pull...
NINERS STUN EAGLES PHILLY FLUBS CHANCE FOR HOMEFIELD ADVANTAGE
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIME49ers 31Eagles 28-> PHILADELPHIA - The ball, along with the winning streak, and homefield advantage, hung in the air right in front of Eagle receiver Todd Pinkston, close enough to...
NETS BANGED UP, LONGING FOR BALM
December 22, 2003 | 5:00am"We're in first place in the Black- and-Blue Division."JASON KIDD Health, thy name most certainly is not New Jersey. The Nets took the day off yesterday; it was either that...
JOHNNIES RUN INTO A WRECK ; GA. TECH ROLLS OVER SJU
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amGa. Tech 79 St. John's66 ATLANTA - The team bus pulled up outside Alexander Memorial Coliseum at 1:10 p.m. yesterday and the St. John's Red Storm, clad in their red...
JINTS CAN'T SPOIL TUNA PARTY ; BIG BLUE NO MATCH AS BILL'S BOYS ROLL INTO PLAYOFFS
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amCowboys 19Giants 3 IRVING, Texas - As Bill Parcells was doused and Texas Stadium erupted in full celebration mode, the Giants were left yesterday to watch and learn. Of course,...
JOHNNIES RUN INTO A WRECK: MIFFED STORM PLAYERS: NOBODY CONSULTED US
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTA - Grady Reynolds said St. John's tried to win yesterday's game at Georgia Tech for recently fired coach Mike Jarvis. The Red Storm came up short, 79-66, but they...
MIKE'S NOT 'LOCAL' GUY ; RECRUITING RECORD NO SURPRISE
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amODD, how Mike Jarvis, on the way out, is now so widely thought of as having been a bad fit for St. John's. Not that college basketball coaches normally arrive...
IT'S A SHOCKER IN D.C.
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amIsles 5Capitals 4 WASHINGTON - They came in here encumbered by a 15-game D.C. winless streak since 1997, and the Islanders left last night with their heads a little higher...
POINT WELL TAKEN ; BURNS, DEVS OK WITH TIE
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 2Blackhawks 2 CHICAGO - Other nights, the Devils' coach might fume at victory squandered in the final four minutes. This time, Pat Burns gave them a pass, one this...
BIG FLOP IN PHILLY ; EAGLES FALL TO 49ERS, MISS SHOT TO CLINCH
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIME49ers 31Eagles 28 PHILADELPHIA - It was all hanging in the air, close enough for Eagle receiver Freddie Mitchell to touch: The ball. The winning streak. The division title. Homefield...
LINCOLN LOSES AGAIN
December 22, 2003 | 5:00amLincoln's woes continued Saturday night when the Railsplitters dropped their second straight game, this one a 70-62 loss to Cardinal Dougherty (Pa.) and its star guard, Kyle Lowry at the...