February 12, 2007
UPDATE: Anything under that kilt?
Rugby player Chris wants to take you on a stroll through an enchanted forest. Ah, sex - the most reliable marketing tool of all time. In most categories, anyway. With...
VIDEO: The burger wars
Some person in Texas' esteemed Legislature, always busy resolving this and proclaiming that, decided that the Lone Star State town of Athens, which nobody has ever heard of, should be...
IT'S A BARGAIN: London air and hotel for $449 RT/pp
Spring at Kensington Gardens, London, originally uploaded by merunka.Boy, British Airways must really feel guilty after all that strike fuss - last week we got the 3 Day Sale which...
Four Weeks To Go
That's right. Selection Sunday is only four weeks away. Here is my latest bracket projection.EAST RUTHERFORD REGIONat Winston-Salem1. North Carolina vs. 16. Delaware State8. West Virginia vs. 9. Xavierat Columbus5....
Sample Sales!
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He Berns To The End
He is reserved, dignified and polite. But make no mistake about it, Bernie Williams is prideful. The overt nature of these other traits has always done a good job of...
THE BUDDHIST IN THE BOARDROOM
I'M talking to executive uber-coach Marshall Goldsmith, and money is on my mind, for several reasons. First, as we chat over late-morning coffee, I'm well aware that most of the...
DO IT BY THE BOOK
IT'S official: New York is deep into the winter work doldrums. The holiday half-days are long gone, the New Year's resolutions about increased productivity are long abandoned, and the next...
DREAM JOB: DONNA ORENDER
WHEN the first-ever professional Women's Basketball League (WBL) was created in 1978, Donna Orender was there. She played for the New York Stars, the New Jersey Gems and the Chicago...
GO TO GREG
Q. All the career advice out there seems to define success as climbing the ladder and making it to the top. Are you less desirable to employers if you aren't...
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER TECHNICIAN (BMET) WHAT does a biomedical engineer technician actually do all day? All of the sophisticated equipment used in health-care settings needs to be set up, maintained and...
HIRAM REVELS
As Illinois Sen. Barack Obama hopes to become the nation's first black president, today's page looks at the man who became the nation's first black senator more than 130 years...
BUSTED!
HYPE aside, the absurdity of a Police reunion leading off last night's Grammy awards was a bad harbinger for the most important night in music. The problem that ripped the...
THOUGHTFUL, PROVOCATIVE . . . BUT THAT'S 'ALL'
IT'S only fitting that it's hard to get a handle on "All That I Will Ever Be," the new play by Alan Ball ("Six Feet Under," "American Beauty"), since its...
RUSSIAN - WITH LOVE
LOVE at the wrong time, love in a cold climate, duels and fidelity, poets and princes - the sweep of Tchaikovs ky's "Eugene Onegin," offers a vivid glimpse of 19th-century...
HOT STUFF
TONIGHT on Lifetime, you will meet a flame-haired young woman training to become an arson investigator who will speak breathlessly about the allure of fire. "I'd been waiting a long...
DAYTIME TV TO GET MAGAZINE SHOW
NBC is said to be work ing secretly on a new, daily entertainment magazine show to air around midday, according to reports. The show, to be called "Fresh Squeezed," will...
'HIGH SCHOOL'
TROUBLE on the set of the "High School Mu sical" sequel - and the movie hasn't even started shooting yet. According to reports, three of the hit movie's four stars...
ROYAL PAIN
WALLIS & Edward - the Charles and Camilla of their time - practically brought the empire to a halt with their wicked, wicked ways way back in 1931. Wallis was...
STARR REPORT
The write stuff Jackie Collins on "Ameri can Idol"? No . . . but Collins has inked a deal with "Idol" producer FremantleMedia North America encompassing a variety of writing...
BABY'S DADDY IS OUT OF WILL
NASSAU, Bahamas - In the wake of a report that Anna Nicole Smith's dead son was the sole heir to her estate, her baby daughter is now in a position...
COP HUBBY'S SHOOTOUT 'LIE'
The ex-con hubby of a Brooklyn cop gunned down a plainclothes police officer even after the undercover flashed his badge at him, authorities charged yesterday. Suspect José Rivera, 31, then...
BOTH PARTIES' POLS PUSH EARLY NEW YORK PRIMARY
ALBANY - New York officials, hoping to boost the candidacies of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, are secretly discussing moving the presidential primary to early February, The Post has...
CIG-TAX DODGERS SPARED
Thousands of cigarette-tax cheats are off the hook after city officials determined that it didn't pay to pursue them, The Post has learned. The Finance Department is giving a pass...
BAD CALL BY ED. DEPT. ON BUS-INFO STAFFERS
Temps hired by the city Department of Education to handle parent concerns about school-bus routes have been given access to sensitive student information despite not being fingerprinted or subjected to...
MTA RIDERS DROP A DIME ON TERROR
About 2,000 tips phoned into an NYPD subway and bus hot line resulted in terrorism-related leads last year, officials said. The tips were among a total of 9,000 calls made...
AIR SAFETY IS OUT OF CONTROL: CHUCK
The Federal Aviation Administration must hire more air-traffic controllers, Sen. Charles Schumer warned yesterday. The towers at area airports are understaffed by as much as 30 percent, mostly due to...
MAYOR URGES CONDI TO KEEP U.N. IN APPLE
Mayor Bloomberg is meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today to urge her to help keep the United Nations in New York City. "The mayor wants to talk with...
ELIOT'S APPLE BITE
Gov. Spitzer ran for the state's top office with a reform-minded agenda and a campaign pledge: "On Day One, everything changes." "Except where I have breakfast," Spitzer joked to a...
SPITZ'S PLOT VS. SHELLY
Gov. Spitzer hopes the state Senate will pass a sweeping series of reforms, and then publicly challenge the Democratic-controlled Assembly to do the same. His plan depends on the success...
'95 WORDS MAY SAVE 'MOB' FED
Dogged by accusations of corruption, mob-busting FBI supervisor Lindley DeVecchio sat down with Justice Department investigators in May 1995 to defend his relationship with the Colombo capo who'd been his...
TANK DROWN TWIST
New investigators probing the still-unsolved drowning of a beloved New Jersey chemist may never find her killer - because she wasn't murdered, says the former top cop on the case....
TROUBLE BRUIN IN N.J.
He was smarter than your average bear - not that there are many in the leafy little town of Maplewood, N.J. A crafty 211-pound black bear was spotted in the...
MEMORIAL SALUTE FOR POST'S ORIN-EILBECK
Deborah Orin-Eilbeck was remembered yesterday as a dogged political reporter whose stellar journalism career was fueled by "tenacity," "intellect and courage." Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), speaking at a ceremony honoring...
COLD-HEARTED
Life has been cruel to 3-year-old Jermaine Davis. At 18 months, he suffered massive brain damage because of botched medical care at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, an explosive...
BID FOR FREE SUBWAYS
Don't burn your MetroCard yet, but a group of mass-transit advocates is lobbying to make the subway system free. Under the plan, the turnstiles would be torn down - while...
'PERV'-PRIEST AX SHOCKS FLOCK
The pastor of a Queens church has been fired and barred from working as a Catholic priest after superiors found that he likely molested a boy decades ago, The Post...
VILLAGE FOLKS RIP 'ILL'BOARDS
About 150 protesters braved the biting cold yesterday to blast billboards planned for outside the trendy Hotel Gansevoort in Greenwich Village, saying the supersized signs will give the attractive neighborhood...
DOOMED SMITH HAD THE SHAKES
Anna Nicole Smith with beau Howard K. Stern, who reportedly was aboard their boat, The Cracker, when he got the news of her collapse, and raced to her hotel but...
CHUCK'S FOOT IN MOUTH
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sen. Chuck Schumer has been backpedaling furiously since saying that the country is not ready to have Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama on the same ticket....
SICKO: KILL HILL
A blogger's rant calling for Hillary Rodham Clinton's death - and posted on one of Sen. Barack Obama's campaign Web sites yesterday - came as her security has been being...
PRESIDENTIAL DOLLAR COINS
The Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea currency may have flopped, but the U.S. Mint is pressing on, flipping another version of a dollar coin into circulation this week. The new...
A GOOD NIGHT FOR BAD GIRLS
The bad girls did good at last night's Gram mys - as Red State renegades the Dixie Chicks grabbed all five awards for which they were nominated, including best Re...
'NORBIT' IN ORBIT WITH FAT $TART
A supersized comedy squashed the competition at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates. "Norbit" - in which "Dream Girls" Oscar nominee Eddie Murphy plays three roles, including a...
NYPD BLOTTER
Staten IslandA 34-year-old man was fatally stabbed near a Port Richmond nightclub early yesterday. Gabriel Acristian, of Bayonne, N.J., was knifed in the chest and arm around the block from...
LAWYER HAS PATERNAL IN$TINCTS
THAT poor child doesn't stand a chance. Bimbo lawyer Howard K. Stern waited until Anna Nicole Smith's body was cold and stiff before flying into the Bahamas with dollar signs...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 233; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 9188; Lucky Sum: 26 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 593; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 4639;...
CROCODILE SCREAMS
In the past few weeks, a Republican president and a Democratic New York governor have come to the same conclusion: Too many tax dollars are going to prop up hospitals...
LYNCH-ING THE ROOKIES
Put aside, momentarily, the question of whether rookie cops deserve a salary of just $25,000 a year. Surely, no fair-minded New Yorker believes that's enough, especially given the dangerous work...
ARABS ALLY VS. PERSIAN POWER
A FEW weeks ago, when British Prime Minister Tony Blair evoked the idea of a bloc of moderate Arab states helping to stabilize the Middle East, many dismissed it as...
GARMENTS AGAINST GENOCIDE
THE ISSUE: Lydia Hearst's Fashion Week show to raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur. A hearty "bravo" is in order for Lydia Hearst's effort to raise the consciousness of...
LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING LIBERTY
THE ISSUE: Brooklyn Sen. Carl Kruger's move to ban the use of electronic devices in crosswalks. "Walking and Talking Idiot" (Feb. 8) is just more evidence of our topsy-turvy world....
TIME INC. 18 MAY QUIT MANHATTAN
Jonas Bonnier, the Swedish mogul who steered the buyout of 18 magazines from Time Inc., will have no room in the new operation for the exec who had been running...
GLITZ VS. GRIT
All the scrutiny surrounding the Super Bowl is pushing advertisers to seek comfort in the arms of Oscar. This year, Bank of America, Microsoft and Dove are among the companies...
WEDDING SELLS
Valentine's Day may start out with chocolate and roses, but most romantics hope it will end with a long walk down the wedding aisle. Our unofficial holiday celebrating romance accounts...
CHANGE COMES TO THE OBSERVER
The most sweeping redesign in the New York Observer's 20-year history will hit newsstands Wednesday, transforming the salmon-colored broadsheet weekly into an extralong tabloid. The 45,000-circulation paper that has carved...
CARLYLE NETS AUSSIE PRIZE
Former Time Inc. honcho Norm Pearlstine has reeled in his first big global prey for his buyout bosses at Carlyle Group - a $2.9 billion deal for Australia's fourth-largest media...
POLITICO THROWS HAT INTO RING
Politico.com, the inside-the-Beltway politics blog that launched just over two weeks ago to much fanfare, managed to attract 280,000 unique visitors and 1 million page views in its first day....
DEF JAMMIES
A new video game due out next month lets players pretend to be rap stars and dress like them, too. The latest fashions from Phat Farm, Adidas, Rocawear and other...
JUST BLUFFING
With the NBA's All-Star Game and related festivities headed for Las Vegas, this week, it's worth noting how the NBA's relationship with gambling has, shall we say, "evolved." In 1991,...
BUSTIN' OUT
PEBBLE BEACH - Phil Mickelson waited until late last year, when his clubs were collecting dust during a three-month break from golf, to reflect on a U.S. Open meltdown at...
NICHOLS AND DIMED
SYRACUSE - Chris Mullin. Lou Carnesecca. Ron Artest. That was St. John's. The Red Storm began this century by winning the Big East Conference Tournament title and reaffirming their status...
RICE REVERSAL
TRENTON - Lamont Jones had watched the final seconds of his first game at Rice many times and replayed them countless more. No matter how many times he saw the...
'BIZ' IS THE BUZZ
Here's a quote you'll hear again in the months leading up to the May 5 Kentucky Derby, delivered last November by trainer Barclay Tagg after his colt Nobiz Like Shobiz...
CORRECTION: "MAGNOLIA" REPEATS
It took an extra eight days, but Magnolia Jackson was finally able to defend her title in the $66,750 Correction Handicap. She was sent to the top by Alan Garcia,...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: T.O. gives Phillips supportTerrell Owens is on board with the new Wade Phillips regime in Dallas, telling the Dallas Morning News that he's "looking forward" to his first season...
BLANK LOOK
Not even John Madden's heroic slit-eyed return from what still may be a significant injury could overcome the Devils' latest vulnerability - post-shutout syndrome. For the fifth straight time -...
SHOWTIME! STEPH TALKS SHOP IN L.A.
LOS ANGELES - Stephon Marbury is making the most of his three days in Hollywood before the Knicks face the Lakers tomorrow. After today's Knicks' practice at UCLA, Marbury told...
LINEUP DANCING
LOS ANGELES - When this interrogator persisted in a line of questioning about the state of the rotation with all 14 Knicks finally healthy, Isiah Thomas ran away, literally. "We're...
WILLIE SET TO RING IN SEASON
With pitchers and catchers reporting on Thursday, Mets manager Willie Randolph sported his 1977 World Series ring yesterday, hoping that three decades after winning it with the Yankees, he can...
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - The sun was shining brilliantly yesterday on the row of bullpen mounds head groundskeeper Tommy Bowes and his crew have groomed to perfection here at...
ON THE MARCUS
Nets coach Lawrence Frank likes to joke with Marcus Williams about his laidback demeanor. Frank will kid the rookie point guard, checking to see if he's awake at practice, in...
SINGIN' SEAN'S PRAISES
When the Islanders acquired Butch Goring from the Kings with a dozen games to go in the 1979-80 sea son, that allowed Al Arbour to diversify a lineup that had...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A 7-month-old barn cat is expected to live after landing in a water trough and getting its tail trapped in three inches of ice. The cat, Droopy, is healing after...