January 10, 2006
THE PERVERSE LOGIC THAT PUSHED DOW OVER 11,000
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amHALLELUJAH, 11,000! Now watch out below. Wall Street thought the employment report last Friday was so bad that it was worth pushing the Dow above the 11,000 level for the...
WEST SIDE TECH STORY
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amIN a pair of relocations that suggest interesting reverse parallels, the world's oldest English-language publisher is moving to one of the city's highest-tech buildings, while one of the world's cutting-edge...
SUPER DROLL; GAME'S ADVERTISERS AIM FOR LAUGH ZONE
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amSuper Bowl advertisers believe there's one way to score big with audiences: go for the laughs. This year, marketers hawking products from cell phone service to household cleaners are all...
BALLY BOSSES BEG SHAREHOLDERS FOR SUPPORT
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amBally Total Fitness Corp. asked investors for support as the troubled health-club chain approaches the final days of its battle with two hedge funds. In a letter released yesterday, Chicago-based...
SAKS CHANGE; SHAKE-UP FALLS SHORT, SOME SHAREHOLDERS SAY
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amSaks Inc. said yesterday that R. Brad Martin, the architect of the company's ill-fated expansion, would relinquish his role as chief executive, paving the way for his hand-picked successor to...
PUBLISHER IN W. SIDE STORY
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amIN a pair of relocations that suggest interesting reverse parallels, the world's oldest English-language publisher is moving to one of the city's highest-tech buildings, while one of the world's cutting-edge...
WILD THINGS; NEW 'SURVIVORS' INCLUDE ASTRONAUT
January 10, 2006 | 5:00am'SURVIVOR" has added some island-hopping to its mix of backstabbing strategy. Contestants booted off the upcoming "Survivor: Panama - Exile Island" will be banished to a separate island, miles away...
'SOUTH PARK' DEFENDS 'BLOODY' CUT
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amCOMEDY Central says religious groups are prematurely claiming victory in a battle over a recent episode of "South Park." In the controversial episode of the racy animated show - titled...
WHO DIES?
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amA senseless slaughter will bring "24" commando Jack Bauer back from the dead. Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) went into hiding at the end of last season after convincing the world he...
FUTURE TENSE - NOT ENOUGH HOURS IN THE DAY TO HOLD SUPERCHARGED '24'
January 10, 2006 | 5:00am"24" Sunday night at 8 on Fox/Ch. 5 4 STARS Believe it or not, this season "24" turns 100. Or more accurately, this season (which is Season Five - yes...
STARR REPORT
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amGrant gone Friday WOR's Bob Grant made official yesterday what The Post's John Mainelli re ported exclusively Dec. 14 - that he's leaving the station this Friday. "Effective at 6:00...
BROADWAY ENGAGED IN 'WEDDING' PLANS
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amWHO needs Adam Sandler when you've got . . . Stephen Lynch? So say the folks who are bringing "The Wedding Singer" to Broadway. Veteran producer Margo Lion - whose...
'SWAN' DIVE SET TO SCORE FEW POINTS
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amSWAN LAKE New York City Ballet, at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center; (212) 870-5570. Season runs through Feb. 26. PETER Martins' full-evening "Swan Lake" is something of an odd...
WILD NIGHT - THE PARTY STARTS LATE IN MADRID
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amIT was 9:30 p.m and well over 40 hours since I last slept, thanks to an 11-hour flight from New York to London to Madrid. (And to an ill-mannered toddler...
THE BENEFACTOR - N.Y. FASHION MOURNS ITS TASTEMAKER
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe first time Kal Ruttenstein visited Zac Posen's studio, the wunderkind designer was so scared, he hid behind a door. As the fashion director of Bloomingdale's, Ruttenstein had the power...
CHENEY IN HEALTH SCARE
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney went to the hospital at 3 a.m. after suffering shortness of breath, and left after about four hours, but aides said the incident had...
'MURDER' BY BOW AND ARROW; L.I. HUNTER SHOOTS SHAFT THROUGH NEIGHBOR: COPS
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amA deranged deer hunter who stalked his prey using a powerful compound bow inexplicably fired a razor-tipped arrow into his neighbor's chest, killing the young father of three, Long Island...
WE'VE GOT NO DEATH PENALTY - NOW THAT'S CRIMINAL
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amIT WAS a cop killers' day - or should we give lice the benefit of the doubt and call it an alleged cop killers' day? In The Bronx and Brooklyn...
SKYLER NAMED MIKE'S DEPUTY
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amEd Skyler, who has served as Mayor Bloomberg's press secretary since he took office, got a promotion yesterday, becoming deputy mayor for administration. At 32, Skyler - who worked in...
VALERY CUSTODY BATTLE RAGES ON
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amValery Lozada, the 4-year-old found wandering the streets of Middle Village, Queens, in September after her mother was murdered, will have to wait until at least May to learn who...
TOASTING HIS HEALTH; HOPE & RAGE AS ARIEL BREATHES, MOVES
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - While dozens of masked Palestinian gunmen burned his picture in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave the first signs yesterday that he may survive his...
PIRRO 'FIRES' AIDE WHO PAID SELF BIG BUCKS
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - The 29-year-old manager of Jeanine Pirro's now-defunct Senate campaign was fired amid revelations he paid himself $16,000 a month, a source close to Pirro told The Post yesterday....
DON'T BE SO !@#$ NICE, HOWARD!
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amHOWARD STERN has done the impossible. He's turned me into a nice person. Well, nicer. Please. Make him stop. At an hour in which this city is normally safe only...
OWW-NOLD KEEPS STIFF UPPER LIP
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, his lip swollen from a motorcycle spill, vowed yesterday he won't leave the fast lane. California's leading man, smiling through 15 stitches in his...
BODY PARTS FOUND IN JERSEY PARK
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amFour garbage bags containing human body parts were discovered over the weekend in a secluded area of a park, police said yesterday. The bags, located within 100 yards of each...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amBROOKLYN *** An ex-con, recently released from prison after 12 years, was arrested for slashing a livery driver in the face during a robbery, authorities said yesterday. George Synodinos, 38,...
TEEN HELD IN SLAY OF SCHLOMY
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amA 17-year-old boy was charged yesterday with tying up, strangling and robbing a male hustler who specialized in erotic massage, then setting his apartment on fire to cover up the...
WORLD SHARES ITS 9/11 GRIEF IN PICTURES AND POEMS
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amWith words from the heart, poems and a stirring photo, people yesterday began sharing on the Internet their memories and thoughts about 9/11 with us - and with generations to...
NFL REVEALS PLAN TO STIFF-ARM LEVITRA AND NOT RE-UP
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe NFL announced yesterday that it does not plan to renew its $6 million-a-year sponsorship deal with Levitra and that it has no interest in signing on with Cialis, Viagra...
CHURCH-MILK SOURPUSS; WHINES AT 500G BOND
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amFour alleged scammers accused of swiping $2 million in milk money earmarked for New York's Catholic schoolkids pleaded not guilty yesterday and were released on bail. Suspect Joseph DeRusso 59,...
HERE COME DA GRUDGE; ALITO SUPREMELY SERENE ON DAY 1 IN SENATE AS DEMS READY FOR BATTLE
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Speaking in a quiet, humble voice, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito yesterday said a good judge "can't have any agenda" as his Senate confirmation hearings kicked off. The...
BIG 'LIES' IN WRITER'S 'LITTLE PIECES' BEST-SELLING MEMOIR BLASTED AS FICTION
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amLast year's biggest-selling nonfiction book, "A Million Little Pieces," has been ripped to shreds. Author James Frey "wholly fabricated or wildly embellished" such details as spending three months behind bars...
FAREWELL TO SAGO MINERS
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amThree West Virginia mineworkers were laid to rest yesterday, and two others were waked - as the Senate scheduled hearings into the Sago mine tragedy that killed 12 men. At...
'SORRY' FERRY SKIPPER GETS 18 MOS. IN JAIL
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amA judge yesterday threw the book at the captain of the doomed Staten Island ferry, sentencing him to 18 months behind bars after he took full responsibility for the 2003...
WINDOW TINT HINT IN 1989 SLAY
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe suspect in a 15-year-old Queens murder was caught because his truck windows were improperly tinted, prosecutors said yesterday. Nelson Diaz, 35, went on trial yesterday in the cold-case 1989...
BUS DRIVER AIDS IN BUST
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens bus driver helped cops nab a serial robber who had been terrorizing Flushing residents for nearly three months, law-enforcement officials said yesterday. Darrel Cordes, 39, was arrested Sunday...
MIRACULOUS MIDTOWN ESCAPE
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amFirefighters rescue one of four construction workers trapped yesterday when the first floor of a four-story Midtown building collapsed into the basement. The four plunged 15 feet when the floor...
STRIPPER SLAY DIARY
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amHe had to save her from sin - by slashing her throat. A personal trainer charged with slaughtering his stripper girlfriend in her Upper East Side apartment admitted his sadistic...
BITTER 'EYE CANDY'; WOMEN FILE $1.4B SEX-BIAS SUIT VS. BANK
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amSix female employees filed a $1.4 billion class- action discrimination lawsuit against a German investment bank yesterday, claiming their bosses were more interested in them as honey-makers than moneymakers. The...
GRAFFITI ARTIST 'KIKO' INDICTED
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amOne of the city's most notorious graffiti artists has been tagged with a 30-count indictment that could have him writing nothing but letters - from prison - for up to...
DAD'S 'HIT' ORDER; MOB BIG'S SON KILLED BUDDY AFTER G-MAN'S TIP: AFFIDAVIT
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amActing on a tip from his FBI handler, Colombo crime family capo Greg Scarpa Sr. ordered his teenage son to kill his best buddy, according to an explosive affidavit filed...
SURVIVORS 'DEALING WITH A LIFE SENTENCE'
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amIt's not enough. That's how Kathy Healy felt moments after hearing that the man behind the Staten Island ferry crash that killed her husband, John, had been sentenced to 18...
DYING OFFICERS HELPED NAB OWN SLAYER
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amAn ex-con gunned down two NYPD detectives at close range - but his escape was thwarted by the heroic actions of the dying cops, a prosecutor said yesterday in opening...
TEACHER FUNDS LOOTED; 'ID-THEFT INSIDER'
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe futures of thousands of city public-school teachers were put at risk by an insider at the New York City Teachers' Retirement System - who allegedly conspired with bumbling identity...
DYING WIFE: MY HUSBAND STABBED ME
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amAs she lay bleeding to death in her Upper East Side kitchen, the younger wife of an aging real-estate mogul pointed to her blood-splattered husband, and gasped to a cop,...
SWANK MARRIAGE LAID LOWE; OSCAR-WINNER DIVORCING CHAD
January 10, 2006 | 5:00am"Million Dollar Baby" star Hilary Swank's marriage is down for the count. The two-time Oscar winner and her limelight-challenged hubby, Chad Lowe, yesterday announced that they were splitting after eight...
SWANK MARRIAGE LAID LOWE; OSCAR-WINNER & HUBBY CHAD ARE SPLITTING UP
January 10, 2006 | 5:00am"Million Dollar Baby" star Hilary Swank's marriage is down for the count. The two-time Oscar-winner and her limelight-challenged hubby, Chad Lowe, yesterday announced that they were splitting after eight years...
TOUSSAINT PACT PUSH
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amRoger Toussaint, the president of Transit Workers Union Local 100, was grilled by 400 of the group's members in Brooklyn last night as he feverishly campaigned to get a controversial...
WHY I KILLED STRIPPER BEAUTY - BOYFRIEND'S SECRET MURDER DIARY
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amHe had to save Catherine Woods (top) from sin - by slashing her throat. Personal trainer Paul Cortez (above),charged with slaughtering his stripper girlfriend in her Upper East Side apartment,...
KIDS' FLU DEATHS SPUR CITY ALERT
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amTwo young children in the city have died recently from flu-related illnesses, The Post has learned. Pediatricians said they had just received alerts from the city Health Department notifying them...
SEX FIEND RAPES MAID IN W HOTEL
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amA young housekeeper at the posh W hotel in Midtown was beaten unconscious and brutally raped in a utility closet just feet from guest rooms early yesterday morning, police said....
COPS JAM COURT; ACTOR & 'KILLER' PAL PLEAD NOT GUILTY
January 10, 2006 | 5:00am"Sopranos" actor and suspected cop killer Lillo Brancato Jr. had a bad premiere in court yesterday, despite having a captive audience - a room packed with angry cops. He entered...
PAY CUT'S TOLL ON POLICE CADETS
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe number of NYPD cadets sworn in yesterday was 25 percent below the department's target, a possible result of the new police contract that slashed the starting pay for rookies....
CYCLIST KILLED ON CITY ISLAND
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amA Bronx man riding a bicycle was hit by a car and killed yesterday on City Island, police said. Ivan Morales, 61, was struck as he rode along Shore Road...
INMATE-PUNCH JAILER BUSTED
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amA veteran correction officer, caught on tape punching an inmate during a scuffle on Rikers Island, was arrested yesterday. Joseph Collins, 42, was unprovoked by the inmate, the city Department...
DRUNK INJURES 2 IN S.I. HORROR CRASH
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amTwo people were injured when a drunk driver slammed into another car on Staten Island early today, police said. The horrific accident happened at the intersection of Woodrow Road and...
COPS JAM COURT - ACTOR & 'KILLER' PAL LEAD NOT GUILTY
January 10, 2006 | 5:00am"Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato Jr. and his cohort were arraigned yesterday on charges they murdered a cop, and pleaded not guilty under the glare of the victim's family and a...
MAYOR VOWS TO KEEP COPS SAFE
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg swore in a new class of NYPD recruits yesterday with a promise to keep them safe in the wake of the shooting deaths of two of New York's...
CALL TO BOOST VACCINATIONS AS 2 CITY CHILDREN DIE FROM FLU
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amTwo young children in the city have died recently from flu-related illnesses, The Post has learned. Pediatricians said they had just received alerts from the city Health Department notifying them...
GOP'ED OFF AT HASTERT
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - An upstate Republican has rocked the boat by suggesting that House GOPers vote on whether to keep or bounce Speaker Dennis Hastert in the wake of the Jack...
BLACKLEDGE OFF TO ESPN
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amTodd Blackledge is leaving CBS to become a college football analyst for ESPN, The Post has learned. Blackedge, who had worked CBS' SEC schedule with Verne Lundquist, is expected to...
GIANT REPORT CARD - AWFUL WAY TO END
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amQUARTERBACKS Question: How will Eli Manning (10 of 18, 113 yards, 3 INTs) han dle his first playoff start? Answer: Not very well. He'll get better because he can't get...
TITANIC TURNABOUT; STEPH'S REBIRTH SHIPS KNICKS IN NEW DIRECTION
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amCLEVELAND - New York City has its basketball team back again. Infused with new life by the stunning transformation of point guard Stephon Marbury as an on-court leader, the Knicks...
STIRLING KNOWS AX MAY FALL
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amFor an Islanders team in complete freefall, a team with three wins in 12 games and a coach with essentially one foot out the door, there was surprisingly little different...
LEWIS TALKING TO SUITORS
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES One day after the Giants were eliminated from the playoffs, defensive coordinator Tim Lewis began the interview process, as he was expected to speak with the Lions, Packers...
NETS FACE TOUGH TRIP
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amSAN ANTONIO - The first 10 were easy. Now comes the hard part. The world champion Spurs. At home. After a loss. Hey, the Nets have seen tougher assignments. But...
THIS BRADWAY SHOW'S A FLOP; GANG GREEN IN TERRY-BLE SHAPE
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amTHE longer Terry Bradway kept talking yesterday, the deeper he sank into quicksand. You know the old saying about how the lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a...
SYKORA FEELS RIGHT AT HOME AS BLUESHIRT
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amPetr Sykora skated as a Ranger for the first time yesterday, but he didn't feel like a typical newcomer. The 29-year-old forward whom the Blueshirts traded for on Sunday is...
METS PROMOTE KID
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amGary Carter was named manager of the Mets' high-A minor league affiliate in Port St. Lucie, Fla., yesterday. Last year, while managing in the Gulf Coast League - a Mets...
TITANIC TURNABOUT; STEPH'S REBIRTH TURNS KNICKS' SINKING SHIP TOWARD NEW DIRECTION
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amCLEVELAND - New York City has its basketball team back again. Infused with new life by the stunning transformation of point guard Stephon Marbury as an on-court leader, the Knicks...
LOU COULD MOVE SOON
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amToday would be the logical time to bring in the new coach, giving him three days to work his magic before the Devils' next game against Vancouver Friday. It could...
CLUELESS GM IN SPIN CYCLE
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amYesterday provided yet another chapter of bizarro world moments in Jets' history. Early in the afternoon on Long Island, you had Jets GM Terry Bradway finally surfacing from behind the...
'RAPT' ATTENTION - BOSH & CO. ARE OPENING EYES
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amTHE 10-in-a-row Nets are playing so well, I did a double-take to make sure Bye-Ron Scott hadn't been fired the day before the run started. Before Vince Carter's 42-point detonation...
CAVS' MALONE: KNICKS STIFFED ME
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES CLEVELAND - Cavaliers assistant coach Mike Malone, the lone Knicks staffer not retained by Larry Brown when he took over as head coach last summer, said he had...
LOU & CO. FLYIN'
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amDevils 3Flyers 0 They trashed the high-flying Flyers, these Devils who are looking for a coach, looking over their shoulders at the GM in what started as emergency mode. Today...
FORDHAM: DIGS NOT WORTH HILL OF BEANS
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amFordham 78Penn 63 Fordham athletic director Frank McLaughlin signed Bob Hill to a 10-year, $2.5 million contract in 1999, hoping to rejuvenate a program that had fallen on hard times...
RAMS' VITT IN JET MIX
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amJoe Vitt, who did an admirable job as the Rams' interim coach when Mike Martz fell ill this season, is so amped about his interview with Jet GM Terry Bradway...
EAGER ELI OPTIMISTIC DESPITE SUNDAY SWOON
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amHis voice, usually a flat monotone, contained a bit more resonance, his words delivered slightly more forcefully. Almost as if Eli Manning was attempting to put the "first-year starter" label...
JINTS PICKING UP THE PIECES - TIKI BACKTRACKS ON COMMENTS ABOUT COUGHLIN
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amTiki backtracks on comments about Coughlin The two sat together yesterday morning, Tom Coughlin and Tiki Barber in a darkened room, the tape rolling of Sunday's abominable 23-0 playoff loss...
HALL, YEAH! PUT THESE GUYS IN COOPERSTOWN, I SAY!
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amPut these guys in Cooperstown, I say! AT 2 p.m. today the world gets to see how wrong I am. Such is the beauty of baseball writing - everybody thinks...
KING JAMES SOUNDS OFF ON BROWN
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES CLEVELAND - Knicks coach Larry Brown was LeBron James' boss in Athens during the 2004 Olympics and came close to being his superior again last spring. During the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 10, 2006 | 5:00amLove me tender, or I'm gone! That was the threat Jim Curtin's girlfriend made, when she told him either his Elvis Presley memorabilia goes or she does. Her warning got...