October 3, 2004
CITI SLICKER - KRAWCHECK A DIFFERENTKIND OF STREET BOSS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amAs an investment reseacher, Sallie Krawcheck used to joke, "How can you tell when management is lying? Their lips are moving." Now, Krawcheck not only represents management, she will serve...
BEST MEX
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amBAM Rose Cinemas is traveling south of the border, down Mexico way, for a 13-film series. The spicy fare includes "Japon" (2002), unreel ing on Friday, the startling feature debut...
BOMBAY DREAMS; BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL AT THIS YEAR'S CAT SHOW
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amOn Saturday, the Cat Show returns to Madison Square Garden for two days - and in anticipation of Halloween, the buzz is all about black cats. Called the "miniature black...
BOBBY'S STRANGE LIFE ON THE LAM
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amNEW details are emerging about the Bobby Fischer saga. Fischer has been more or less underground since 1976, when, he says, he stopped paying U.S. taxes. After his brief return...
SHARK ATTACK - EMMY-WINNERS JAMES SPADER AND WILLIAM SHATNER TEAM UP AS RUTHLESS LAWYERS IN 'BOSTON LEGAL'
October 3, 2004 | 4:00am"THE Practice" has changed its title to "Boston Legal," but it isn't just the same old show with a new name. "Besides the fact that you've got an entirely different...
LIGHTS OUT, GANG - STERN 'COLD TURKEY' MAY BE THE CRUELEST REALITY SHOW
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amIMAGINE a house filled with 10 people, all lured by opportunity to compete in their ''dream'' reality show - only to find that they've been conned into quitting smoking. So...
UNREAL PHILLY - CITY'S CHARMS LOST ON MTV'S 'WORLD'
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amWHO knew Philadelphia was so hip? Certainly not Philadelphians, who have never seemed to care whether outsiders think they're hip or not. Now, though, millions of young people are seeing...
MOVIE PIX
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amRaiders of the Lost Ark 42nd Street The Odd Couple Rain Man Johnny Guitar House of Sand and Fog
RATHER'S INTERVIEW HARDLY EXCLUSIVE
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amSO here's CBS News taking on water during this Dan Rather/ "60 Minutes" affair following a report on George W. Bush's military career - a report rooted in bogus documents...
HOT LIST - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amCustom 501s This week is your last chance to shop at the temporary Alife shop (the permanent boutique on the Lower East Side is best known as an emporium for...
THE HEART OF FRIDAY- BILLY BOB RELIVES SOUTHERN CHILDHOOD IN FIERY FOOTBALL FILM
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amWhen he was a kid, Billy Bob Thornton was almost always frightened of his father - especially when the University of Arkansas Razorbacks were losing. Thornton's father, Billy Ray, would...
CANDID CAMERA - ON-THE-CHEAP 'TARNATION' CHARTS FILMMAKER'S HARROWING CHILDHOOD
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amWhen we last caught up with Jonathan Caouette, the 31-year-old filmmaker's groundbreaking autobiographical opus "Tarnation" - already acclaimed at Sundance - earned a ten-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amANDROMEDIA Teen brings his dead girlfriend back as a computer character. But an evil corporation wants her and the technology that make it possible. From - where else? - Japan....
FINE & DANDY VANDY - GLORIA TELL-ALL A RICH-GIRL ROMP
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amIt Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoirby Gloria Vanderbilt Two stars Simon & Schuster, $22 Now 80, heiress Gloria Vanderbilt is the spiritual godmother of today's Paris Hiltons:...
DEADBEAT DAD - A SON'S MEMOIR OF ALCOHOLISM
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amANOTHER BULLS - - -NIGHT IN SUCK CITY Nick Flynn Four stars Norton, $23.95 You know you've plumbed the darkest depths of drinking when you make a move on your...
HEAR THIS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amIN CONCERT * On Wednesday: Brit rockers Marillion at Irving Plaza. Songstress PJ Harvey at the Hammerstein. Crooner Barry Manilow at Madison Square Garden on Thursday. Indie rockers Now It's...
ALTERED STATE - REVAMPED BAND ROCKS ON AFTER THE DEMISE OF CREED
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amTHE decision to crash Creed, a band that sold more than 30 million albums, had to be a hard one. Or perhaps not. As former Creed guitarist Mark Tremonti told...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amMinnie Driver "Everything I've Got in My Pocket" (one star) Zoe Records So few actors have made good records that just a passable effort makes Minnie Driver's debut a success....
TOUCH CHOICES - NEW GOOD CHARLOTTE A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amGOOD Charlotte is giving their fans an ultimatum: choose Life or choose Death. Or choose both. The rock quintet is offering up "The Chronicles of Life and Death," two new...
HOW NOT TO LOOK FAT - THIS WEEK: SKINNY SHOES
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amShoes can make or break the proportions of an outfit - and your figure. The enduringly fashionable high-heel slingback, available in flattering beiges and browns this fall, is incredibly graceful...
QUICK BITES - THE TASTIEST EVENTS THIS WEEK
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amYOU'RE THE TAPAS: Casa Mono's Andy Nusser, Spice Market's Pichet Ong and wd-50's Wylie Dufresne are some of the local toques putting a global spin on Wednesday's "The Great Match:...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amCOMEDIAN WANTS TO SHARE A FEW LAUGHS Sean is looking for someone to share his pizza fixation. When Sean, 27, made his first appearance in our dating column a few...
GUNS & ROSES FOR BRIT & KEVIN
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amBritney Spears' new husband has spent their "honeymoon" learning how to protect his new bride. One of her bodyguards, named Todd, has been teaching Kevin Federline how to shoot a...
TRUMP'S OBNOXIOUS APPRENTICE LONG FILLED WITH 'FIRE'
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amOn Wednesday night, more than 14 million Americans tuned in with anticipation to see who Donald Trump would eviscerate with his two favorite words, "You're fired!" But last week's show...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amTwo thieves got a taste of their own "money" when they passed $300 worth of fake bills at a Wal-Mart near Cincinnati. Store workers said a man who bought a...
JOEL-MATES TIE KNOT; PIANO MAN & HIS GAL WED ON L.I. ESTATE
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amThe sound of wedding bells have chimed again for the "Piano Man." More than 100 guests gathered yesterday to see singer Billy Joel tie the knot with a woman less...
LONG-'HALL' DEBATE PUTS HEAT ON PREZ
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amComing off perhaps his worst-ever debate performance, President Bush must rebound at Friday's town hall-style debate in St. Louis - but he faces an uphill battle, political gurus and debate...
B'DAY GIRL BURIED; ANGUISH FOR DWI VICTIM'S KIN, PALS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amUnder overcast skies, a young woman who loved life was buried yesterday on her birthday, the victim of an alleged DWI car crash. Anelie Thelemaque would have been 17 yesterday...
U.S. SLAMS REBELS; IRAQ TROOPS JOIN SAMARRA BATTLE
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amAmerican-led forces backed by warplanes tightened their grip on the Iraqi rebel stronghold of Samarra yesterday, saying they had killed 125 militants in one of the largest offensives since the...
BITE-TER DISPUTE; HOMELESS MAN'S DOGS TERRORIZE W. SIDE
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amResidents living on Manhattan's far West Side want to send a local pack of hot-blooded dogs straight to hell's kitchen. "Eight months ago, if you'd told me I'd be obsessed...
BASH-SLAY RATTLES FAR ROCKAWAY
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amA man was chased, beaten, stabbed and then fatally shot after a brutal foot chase through a residential neighborhood in Far Rockaway early yesterday, eyewitnesses said. The chase appeared to...
JAIL GETS MAKEOVER
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amALDERSON, W.Va. - The federal lockup Martha Stewart will call home for the next five months is getting a makeover just in time for domestic diva's arrival this week. "They...
GRANNY-SLAY WAS 'ROBBERY GONE WRONG'
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amInvestigators believe the shocking daylight stabbing murder of an elderly church volunteer was a random purse-snatching gone awry. And they're hoping someone will recognize the faces of the two suspects...
STROKE VICTIM FIGHTING FOR 9/11 FUNDS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amSince witnessing the destruction of the World Trade Center, Fuji Bank vice president Yaeno White's world has become blurry - and extremely frustrating. White, now 59, suffered almost complete vision...
RUDY STUMPING IN JERSEY
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amShowing that President Bush's campaign firmly believes that New Jersey is up for grabs on Nov. 2, GOP super-surrogate Rudy Giuliani yesterday hit the Garden State to stump on behalf...
YIDDISH'S SECRET SAINT
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amOUTWITTING HISTORY: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF A MAN WHO RESCUED A MILLION YIDDISH BOOKSBY AARON LANSKY ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL, 316 PAGES, $24.95 IN Jewish mysticism, there are 36...
DUQUE NOT OK ; SAYS BUM SHOULDER'S EVEN WORSE
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amTORONTO - Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez pointed to the back of his right shoulder yesterday and uttered words the Yankees and their fans hated to hear. "This time it's worse...
TEARS FOR CRIB-DEATH L.I. BABY
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amThe family of a 3-month-old baby who died at a Long Island day-care center last week after she was put to sleep face-down in her crib remembered their beloved infant...
APPLE-TOUR PLANS JUST 'DUCK'Y
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amPerennial adversaries Boston and New York might have a new rivalry to cry fowl over: single-vehicle land-and-water tours. A Scottish transport company, Stagecoach, is in talks to bring the amphibious-tour...
INVESTING IN CULTURE
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amA BILLBOARD near the Lincoln Tunnel recently posed a provocative question: "How many teachers could the city hire with your $600 million?" The sign was referring to the plan by...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN *** A man was shot yesterday during a dispute in Flatbush, police said. The 22-year-old victim became embroiled in an argument with another man at 12:50 a.m. in front...
'MURDER' BODY BAG IS FOUND
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amThe body of a probable murder victim was found stuffed in a laundry bag on a Brooklyn street early yesterday, cops said. The discovery was originally made at about 9:50...
MARTHA 'WAVES' BYE-BYE; PARTIES AWAY IN BAHAMAS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amWith only a few days left before she goes to jail, Martha Stewart partied with her pals in the Bahamas this weekend as if she didn't have a care in...
DAN DIGS IN AFTER SCANDAL
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amSays he won't retire. Dan Rather said he's not planning on retiring soon and will stay with CBS news as long as the network brass think he's performing "reasonably well."...
STRIP CLUB 'RAPE'; COPS IN B'KLYN RAID
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amCops raided a topless club in Brooklyn last night after a 17-year-old runaway from Virginia said she had been raped by the club staff as part of an initiation rite...
PRESIDENT IN POLL STUMBLE; KERRY UP 49-46 ON DEBATE WIN
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amRiding the momentum of his dominating debate performance, Sen. John Kerry has grabbed the lead over President Bush, a national poll released yesterday revealed. In a two-way match-up, the Kerry-Edwards...
'DWI' TRIO BURIED; ONE VICTIM LAIDTO REST ON B'DAY
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amThree of the four teens killed in an alleged DWI car crash were buried yesterday - the birthday of one of the victims. Anelie Thelemaque would have been 17 yesterday...
DEAL SHAKER ; COSTLY DELAY AT 'SOLD' ED. BOARD HQ
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amMORE than a year after Mayor Bloomberg proudly announced the $45 million sale of the infamous Board of Education headquarters in downtown Brooklyn, the deal still hasn't been completed. In...
IRAQ'S GOOD 'BOMBERS' ; YANK INSIGNIA A BIG HIT WITH GIS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amEven in Mosul, the Yankees tower over the Red Sox. Maj. Kent Cassella just returned from Iraq and had this picture snapped there. One soldier had painted the interlocking NY...
MANNERS TO MATTER AT VEEP FACE-OFF
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amThe fireworks that normally accompany vice-presidential debates may be noticeably absent when Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards square off in Cleveland Tuesday night - but don't think it's because...
SABOTAGE; FORCES OF REACTION STILL OUT TO STIFLE THE DRIVE TO REBUILD DOWNTOWN
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amTHE forces that want to sabotage the rational reclamation of the World Trade Center site never give up. The latest: an October insurgency to demonize David Childs, the architect who...
LADY GETS A 'BUZZ' - FUROR AT STATUE FLYOVER
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amIn a flagrant aerial no-no that violated security measures established after 9/11, two Marine Corps transport planes - possibly escorted by three jet fighters - buzzed over the Statue of...
'TERROR' HOAXERS BUSTED ; BI-STATE PHONE PRANK
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amThe NYPD unraveled two phony bomb threats after two teenage cousins - one in Manhattan and another in North Carolina - decided to pull the prank as a way to...
BATTERED FLA. PREPS FOR VOTING
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - After losing roofs, polling places, people and time, officials in hurricane-ravaged Florida are scrambling frantically to be ready for Election Day - and to ensure...
CANCER SCANDAL; BANKRUPT RESEARCH INSTITUTE BLEW $5M
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amA world-renowned New York cancer-research institute has gone broke and abruptly closed its doors after years of lavish spending on executive salaries of up to $400,000 and fancy Fifth Avenue...
HOSP HAS NO X-CUSE; SICKLY X-RAY READER FLUBS CANCER DIAGNOSIS: SUIT
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amAn 80-year-old radiologist at a Queens public hospital - whose own doctor says he is so ill he "should have retired years ago" - misread a woman's mammogram and failed...
DAN: I'D RATHER NOT QUIT
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amDan Rather said he's not planning on retiring and will stay with CBS news as long as the network brass think he's performing "reasonably well." The embattled CBS-TV anchor Rather,...
MARTHA 'WAVES' BYE-BYE
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amWith only one week left before she goes to jail, Martha Stewart partied with her pals in the Bahamas this weekend as if she didn't have a care in the...
W. ZINGS FOE'S FOREIGN 'FLUB' - 'KERRY DOCTRINE WEAKENS U.S.'
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amRiding the momentum of his dominating debate performance, Sen. John Kerry grabbed the lead over President Bush last week, a national poll released yesterday revealed. In a two-way match-up, the...
HEAVYWEIGHTS FILL BIG CARD
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amThe first step toward clarifying the muddled heavyweight division will come Nov. 13 when two current champions defend their titles and two former champions try to stay in contention in...
GANG GREEN TACKLES FACE TAYLOR-MADE CHALLENGE
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES MIAMI - There was growing concern about the Jets' left tackle situation as today's 4:15 p.m. game time against the Dolphins neared. Starter Jason Fabini missed practice all...
JETS SCHEDULE IS EASY PICKIN'S
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amSTILL nothing wrong with that Dolphin defense, says Kevin Mawae, as the Jets yap, yap, yap about how today's game in Miami is a trap, trap, trap. And it's not...
CANADIAN CONDITIONS BOOST WATERFOWL SEASON
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amTHANKS to favorable habitat conditions in Canada that have helped to increase duck populations and boost the numbers of migratory geese along the Atlantic Flyway, waterfowl hunters should enjoy numerous...
BIG BLUE MAKING RARE TRIP
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES GREEN BAY - Today's game is only the fourth time since 1971 the Giants have faced the Packers at Lambeau Field, and it's been 33 years since the...
IT'S NOT EASY IN GREEN BAY
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amGREEN BAY - No. 70 turns 70-years-old tomorrow, but memories of his epic bloodbaths with Jim Taylor and the Packers seem like yesterday to Sam Huff. "I think that's an...
LIBS AGAINST IT YET AGAIN
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amThis is exactly where the Liberty thrive, where they have no fear. Right here, with their season on the line and facing elimination in these Eastern finals, is where the...
ESPN GETS 'JACKASSED UP!' ; BRUTAL NFL CLIPS A CHEAPSHOT FEST
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amI ADMIT it. I have the best readers in the business. Rob ert Lubin, for example, who writes to ask two good questions: 1) "If an NFL player is rendered...
BENSON: NO PLACE LIKE SHEA
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amIf Kris Benson has it his way, he will be a Met next season. Benson, eligible to be a free agent after the season, likes being at Shea. New York...
BAYSIDE TRIUMPHS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amH.S. FOOTBALLBayside 24B'klyn Tech 20 Kenan Brogdon called last week "the worst week of my life" after he and his Bayside teammates had to forfeit a game against Kennedy because...
TORRE SERVES HIS BAN
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Suspended by MLB for yesterday's game, Yankee manager Joe Torre opted not to come to SkyDome at all, as Kevin Brown made his second start since...
MAIDEN RACE DERBY PREVIEW
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amTHIRD RACE: Nation's top 2-year-olds appear to be surfacing late this year, and here's bold statement: Don't be surprised if next year's Derby winner comes out of this maiden field....
'KITTEN' IS PURR-FECT AT BELMONT
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amStriking a blow for the red, white and blue, Kitten's Joy sent the European invaders who have so long dominated American turf racing an emphatic message yesterday, exploding down the...
SET TO BOIL OVER ; BEHIND ORTON, PURDUE AIMED TO SMITE IRISH
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amSOUTH BEND - Fourteen consecutive times, the Purdue Boilermakers and their fans have made the two-hour drive from West Lafayette to South Bend full of hope. Fourteen times they've made...
TRIUMPHANT RETURN - TITO STOPS MAYORGA IN 8TH AT GARDEN
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amIt was the Felix "Tito" Trinidad of old and not an old Trinidad who made his return to boxing last night at the Garden - delivering a dramatic and emphatic...
SOLID GOLD 'CIDE' - 'FUNNY' FINALLY FINDS BELMONT WINNER'S CIRCLE
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amFunny Cide is back! Recapturing the championship form that made him a national hero last year, when the storybook New York-bred won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Sackatoga Stable's gutsy...
GILBERTO'S D-LIVERING FOR METROS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amAs any accountant can attest, numbers can be made to say anything. But in the case of the MLS in general, and the Metro- Stars in particular, the numbers tell...
HE'S GOLDEN BROWN ; KEVIN EFFECTIVE IN LOSS; PLAYOFF STATUS IN AIR
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amBlue Jays 4Yankees 2 TORONTO - It's never easy with Kevin Brown. On the same day Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez said his tired shoulder was worse than it was a...
SMITIN' THE IRISH ; PURDUE'S ORTON MAKES HEISMAN CASE IN BLOWOUT
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amPurdue 41Rutgers 16 SOUTH BEND - America's hottest Heisman candidate is a complicated young man. Soft-spoken off the field, reluctant to answer any question that includes the Heisman Trophy, Purdue...
ROY JONES SAYS HE'LL TAKE BREAK
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amRoy Jones last night said he'd take a break from boxing but isn't ready to call it career after suffering back-to-back defeats by knockout. Jones spoke before working as a...
METROS' BID HURT BY ADU
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amD.C. United 1MetroStars 0 The last time the MetroStars faced D.C. United, they suffered a four-goal loss that was their most humbling in recent memory. But last night's 1-0 loss,...
FRANCO FINALE TODAY?
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amExpos 6Mets 3 John Franco expects today to be the final time he pitches in a Met uniform. "Probably," the 44-year-old reliever said before last night's 6-3 loss to the...
DUQUE NOT OK - SAYS BUM SHOULDER'S EVEN WORSE
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amTORONTO - Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez pointed to the back of his right shoulder yesterday and uttered words the Yankees and their fans hated to hear. "This time it's worse...
FIELD OF DREAMS - GIANTS LOOKING FORWARD TO LEGEND OF LAMBEAU
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amGREEN BAY - Jim Finn's memory is vivid and vibrant. His first glimpse of Lambeau Field was filled with awe and respect, and he left with his first career touchdown....
OUT OF MIAMI'S VICE - SKY-HIGH JETS WANT TO CRUSH DOLPHINS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amMIAMI - Herman Edwards remembers the feeling he had walking off the field at Pro Player Stadium last Dec. 28, the reality of a 6-10 season having already ingrained itself...
BEST ON THE BASES - THE POST'S JOEL SHERMAN PITCHES HIS POSTSEASON AWARDS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amIchiro Suzuki hit like no one before him and Adam Dunn missed like no one else ever had. Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Randy Johnson defied age, and Edgar Martinez...
SHEFF & THE CITY - YANKS' MVP CANDIDATE FINDS HOME IN NEW YORK
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amGary Sheffield sat at the end of the bench in the Yankees' dugout. Puddles formed along the floor from the rain pouring outside. No other Yankees were around. There would...
HEAD TO HEAD
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amPost football writers Paul Schwartz and Steve Serby slug it out over whether the Patriots are an NFL dynasty Schwartz: There's really no argument to be made here. Of course...
LEGENDS OF THE FALL - THIS TIME OF YEAR, BASEBALL RULES
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amSURE, it can be easy to get fed up with baseball. It can boil your blood in a way no other sport can. It can alienate you. It can take...
IN-DEPTH COVERAGE 0 ROLE PLAYERS COULD GIVE KNICKS BIG LIFT
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amInside the Pistons champagne-soaked dressing room last June, Detroit president Joe Dumars predicted other GMs might copycat the new champion's formula. Dumars opined, after beating the Shaq-Kobe Lakers, that the...
NET THE END OF THE WORLD - DEPLETED ROSTER WON'T CHANGE JERSEY'S GOALS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amFind a power forward. Convince players, fans, the NBA world that the team is still legit. Settle the two-guard position. Determine what Alonzo Mourning can do, conclude when Jason Kidd...
WHO'S YOUR CADDY? TRY 10 QUICK FIXES FOR AN EASY RYDER
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amREVIVING myself from my annual self-induced summer stupor has never been more challenging. The thought of trying to disentangle the 2004-05 NBA bramble, as well as comprehend the commands of...
PAYING FOR LOCKOUT TIX OFF FANS
October 3, 2004 | 4:00amA WEEK AGO, I main tained that polls publicized by the NHL demonstrating public support for its position in the lockout were immaterial, given the fact that the fans have...