March 23, 2008
Randolph names most of rotation
PORT ST. LUCIE â- There were few surprises when Willie Randolph revealed four-fifths of his starting rotation today.Randolph announced that Johan Santana will start Opening Day in Miami against the...
Cards drub El Duque, Pelfrey
PORT ST. LUCIE -â Donât pencil in Orlando Hernandez as the Metsâ No. 5 starter just yet.El Duque was awful this afternoon in his first Grapefruit League start, giving up...
PETTITTE STILL HURTIN'
Andy Pettitte did not play catch today, his back is still ailing.âI was really feeling pretty good last night and feeling good about what today was going to bring,'' Pettitte...
Sanchez throws but still unsure
PORT ST. LUCIE -- The Opening Day availability of Duaner Sanchez remains a question mark, even though the Mets' reliever threw an inning here today. Along with a handful of...
Civil Rights jerseys on display
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Fresh from the Mets' clubhouse this morning, here's a peek at the jerseys they will wear next Saturday on ESPN against the White Sox in the...
Easter Morning Shoot-Out
Today in The Post, I interview Oscar winner Estelle Parsons about the groundbreaking "Bonnie and Clyde,'' which is being released in a splendid (if slightly belated) 40th anniversary collector's edition...
ANTI-TERROR VAULT
The NYPD will soon have top-secret federal counterterrorism info at their fingertips. The department recently got approval from the FBI for its own high-tech, classified-information vault, which will operate out...
SMALL-TIME BUSTS YIELD BIG RESULTS
The city's crime reductions last year were fueled by cops locking up thousands more misdemeanor offenders. The total number of arrests surged from 303,414 in 2006 to 334,082 last year...
KAMIKAZE PIC PROMPTS FRIENDSHIP
A World War II photo of a kamikaze attack has brought two heroes together, giving one a new lease on life and the other much-needed inspiration. Anthony Paolicelli, 82, who...
SIERRA CLUB MAKES WAVES
A top environmental group says it is prepared to sue the state to stop controversial wave-calming systems and floating walkways from being installed along five piers at the planned Brooklyn...
EGG-CELLENT TIME WAS HAD BY ALL
Easter festivities were in full swing across New York yesterday, including Brooklyn Bridge Park, where kids were treated to a massive Easter hunt for 15,000 eggs. Among the little hunters...
KISSEL CHAUFFEUR 'DID IT'
Two men have been nabbed in the sensational murder of philandering and crooked Connecticut real-estate mogul Andrew Kissel - and one is his former driver, cops said yesterday. Carlos Trujillo,...
CALENDAR'S FIRE BABES GET HOSED
Officials in one Long Island town are seeing red over the sexy use of city resources. A spicy pin-up calendar released by the Long Beach volunteer fire department has been...
DARN DORM RUMORS!
Columbia University's student council has voted to ban from the campus' computer server a scandalous Web site with the slogan "Always anonymous . . . always juicy." The site -...
EX-GOV PENSION BONUS
Eliot Spitzer's shortened term as governor will earn him an extra $4,578 a year in a state pension. The disgraced governor's pension will total about $24,800 annually, a figure based...
STUDLY DAVE SAYS IT WITH 5G WORTH OF FLOWERS
Add hopeless romantic to Gov. Paterson's fast-growing résumé. The new governor, who has admitted using campaign dollars to pay for suits, furniture and possibly hotel stays with an ex-lover, has...
NO SPITZER NAME-DROP
Eliot Spitzer may be gone, but his name will live on for months to come on thousands of state documents. The Department of Motor Vehicles is spending $5,000 to change...
MADAM LANDS SOME BARE-ALL BIDS
Brazilian madam Andreia Schwartz high-tailed it back to her homeland yesterday, as offers poured in for her to pen a tell-all and pose for Playboy. Schwartz, who was escorted onto...
SPITZER TIPSTER A GOP 'SWINGER'
Four months before a hooker scandal brought down Eliot Spitzer, controversial Republican operative Roger Stone tipped the FBI to the governor's penchant for prostitutes. The information Stone provided was very...
SHORT-CITED DUO
Two inspectors assigned to check the crane that killed seven when it collapsed last week were far less likely than their colleagues to cite contractors for breaking city rules, a...
HARE-Y RESCUE
It was a Hoppy Easter in New Jersey. The Atlantic County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals removed 57 rabbits yesterday from a house in - of all...
CRUCIAL DEFECTS IN REJECTED PARTS
Crucial parts of several cranes bought by the company whose tower crane collapsed on the East Side were riddled with manufacturing defects and returned to the factory, an industry insider...
DUNKIN' COFFEE 'CLA$H'
A coffeehouse controversy is brewing at Dunkin' Donuts. Furious franchise owners claim the caffeine kings are aggressively going after them for minor infractions in an effort to take over the...
CITY HOSPS ARE TOTAL 'LOSERS' WITH PATIENT PROPERTY
Patients at New York City's public hospitals often lose more than their dignity when they trade street clothes for hospital gowns. Dentures, pendants and even panties were among the items...
BX. TAILS' HAPPY ENDING
A Bronx landlord turned out have more bark than bite - so he rescinded a threat to evict tenants who had refused to kick their beloved pets to the curb....
SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS...
A Long Island dad whose son was killed in a racially charged incident in 2006 paraded his longtime black friend in front of reporters yesterday while slamming the shooter and...
RICH WIDOW'S 'SLAY BROKER'
Barbara Kogan gave 23 of the best years of her life to her real-estate tycoon husband, George. And after he was gunned down in broad daylight on the Upper East...
GUTSY FIRE HEROES SAVE 2 GALS
An elderly woman and her home health aide were recovering from injuries yesterday after being rescued from a fire that raced through a Lower East Side building. The women were...
IN-FLIGHT CELL CHAT TAKES OFF
Well, there's one fewer place to avoid others' annoying chitchat - Emirates Airline now allows cellphones on flights. The carrier, the first to green-light such calls, has fitted an Airbus...
TYRA BANKS 'STALKER' GETS FREE PASS
Talk-show host Tyra Banks is living in fear of a hulking stalker who's been terrorizing her for months and was set free by a judge last week. Cops finally busted...
HILL'S KEYSTONE
PHILADELPHIA - Germaine Crawford doesn't care that he's the odd man out when his neighbors start talking politics. "I am one of those rare African-Americans who is supporting Hillary Clinton,"...
VOTE-SWITCH GOPERS CRASH A NEW PARTY
While John McCain waits in the wings, Republicans are bolting his party in droves to join in the historic clash between Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama....
ON THE COUCH
Shrinks are now labeling sex with their patients an "occupational hazard." On the heels of the popular HBO series "In Treatment," in which a handsome 50-year-old psychologist played by Gabriel...
'BLACK' SHEEP SON IS BUSTED
Days after disgraced media baron Conrad Black began doing time in a Florida prison, his scofflaw son has been busted for a hit-and-run crash that could land him behind bars....
JACKO CLAN IN A DEEP FUNK
STIFFED by their superstar brother Michael and plagued by decades of bad fiscal decisions, the once-mighty Jackson family is barely scraping by, with one brother stocking groceries, another repairing cars...
I'M NOT A MONSTER: 'POOR' MILLS
After taking a beating in the press over her sensational divorce from Paul McCartney, Heather Mills wants the full transcripts of the hearings released - to prove to the public...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Police are asking for the public's assistance in finding the elderly man pictured above who disappeared from his assisted-living home in Bay Ridge. William Barry, 74, was last seen...
CONGEST-DEBATE ROAD SIGN
THE number of vehicles coming into Manhat tan from New Jersey dropped slightly after bridge and tunnel tolls were increased earlier this month, sparking a debate between supporters and opponents...
PATERSON TELLS HIS NOT-SO-WISE MAN: THANKS FOR NOTHING
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson is angrily blaming former Deputy Mayor and long time Democratic operative Bill Lynch for the "disastrous advice" that led him to disclose his extramarital affairs, The...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 936; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 8864; Lucky Sum: 26 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 776; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 3651;...
DANGER-ICE
IT DOESN'T matter what tortured explana tion the NHL office in Toronto offers to justify its lack of action in response to Torrey Mitchell's hit from behind on Kurtis Foster...
TITANS CLIP WINGS
Put one in the revenge column for the Titans. New York's entry in the National Lacrosse League beat the division-leading Philadelphia Wings 20-13 in Trenton last night for the fifth...
A SHAD DEAL FOR ANGLERS
THE American shad has been on the decline in the Hudson for years, and their numbers have gotten so low that New York is implementing emergency fishing restrictions. Effective immediately,...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL:Tigers to extend Cabrera Miguel Cabrera and the Tigers reached a preliminary agreement yesterday on an eight-year, $153.3 million contract extension, a source close to Cabrera told ESPNdeportes.com on condition...
THE RUMBLE
New York minute Martin's chats save Knick telecasts The most entertaining part of Knicks' telecasts nowadays is their halftime reports with Jill Martin. Cadillac just signed on to sponsor Martin's...
TIGER'S WORLD
MIAMI - Marveling at what Tiger Woods is in the midst of accomplishing has become as much a spectator sport as actually watching him hit golf shots many of us...
RAIN SUSPENSION GIVES STRUGGLING WOODS REPRIEVE
MIAMI - Tiger Woods' karma is seemingly in such ideal alignment that even the golf gods are looking upon him with care. On a day when Woods appeared to be...
POINT A & POINT B
'AT best," Mark Jackson ap praises, no disre spect intended, "Steve Nash is the NBA's third best point guard." Deron Williams and Chris Paul, drafted Nos. 3 and 4 in...
CBS'S SELECTION IS ANTI-AMERICAN
OH, SO you think you can do better? Well, yeah, I do. Not a lot better, just enough to notice the improvement. For example, Friday, with 15-seed American U. leading...
WALSH IN NO HURRY FOR TALKS
MINNEAPOLIS - Slow down on that Donnie Walsh press conference. A source close to Walsh told The Post yesterday the Pacer exec wants discussions about his future to occur after...
STREAK & DESTROY
THE Rockets did sports fans everywhere a huge favor over the past few weeks, as we watched their winning streak grow, from five to 10, from 15 to 18 to...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the coach of the top-seeded Memphis Tigers about the NCAA tournament, his turbulent times with the Nets, and a few of his favorite things....
SIBLING REVELRY FOR STATEN ISLAND BROTHERS
RALEIGH, N.C. - While most of the nation's college basketball fans were glued to the TV yesterday, Pat and Steve Rossiter of Staten Island were on a 14-hour road trip...
DAVIDSON VS. GOLIATH
RALEIGH, N.C. - I've decided to re turn to college. Not any college. Just Davidson. First, there's the free laundry. Every student, not just the jocks, but every student, gets...
SOONERS NO DOGS AS 'DOGS
Each day during the Big Dance, Tim Sullivan offers his best bets: IT'S easy to forget about Ok lahoma these days. When people talk about the Big 12, the overall...
SAINTS & WINNERS
TAMPA - Fran McCaffery was driving to his office one day in 2005 before his first season as Siena basketball coach, listening to sports talk radio. The host began discussing...
BIG-CITY BADGER
OMAHA, Neb. - There is still enough P.S. 138 in him, still enough of the old neighborhood in him, that his teammates never had to guess where Trevon Hughes was...
JAYHAWKS ROUT REBELS
OMAHA, Neb. - They don't scare easily, and they are not about to leave this season quietly. Not after 33 wins, not after a Big 12 championship, not carrying the...
PURDUE OVERHEATS VS. XAVIER
WASHINGTON - When C.J. Anderson decided to leave Manhattan, when he chose to transfer and ended up at Xavier, he wanted to play big games in March, wanted to be...
DEVILS OUTDUKED
WASHINGTON - West Virginia's Joe Alexander heaved the ball high in the Verizon Center air, and clasped Joe Mazzulla in an embrace. It was fitting, because it was the former's...
'SWEET' WIN FOR COUGARS
DENVER - The ball left the hands of Kyle McAlarney, and while it was in the air, on the way to the bottom of the basket, Luke Harangody thrust both...
THE PITT-ER END
DENVER - The Pittsburgh Pan thers looked in the mirror and did not like what they saw: a team every bit as mentally and physically tough, every bit as resilient,...
IGLOO MELTDOWN
PITTSBURGH - Their prestige battered, their confidence shaken, and their conference and division leads gone, the Devils' scoring famine is wrecking their season with only seven games left before the...
TELFAIR: I'D LOVE NY GIG
MINNEAPOLIS - Sebastian Telfair as the Knick point guard next year? It's not so farfetched. Telfair, a free agent July 1, harbored the same dreams as his older cousin Stephon...
50 LOSSES & COUNTING
MINNEAPOLIS - The Knicks ended "Tank-a-thon Weekend" last night with their 50th defeat - on the despicable path to the franchise's first 60-loss season. On a mission to drop to...
PLEADING THE 5TH
PORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets haven't said anything to Mike Pelfrey about his chances of winning their fifth-starter job. They don't have to. "All I know is what I...
OLLIE TAKEN DOWNTOWN BY INDIANS
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - Oliver Perez looked more like the Pirates castoff he was two years ago than a big arbitration winner yesterday. In a worrisome outing for the young...
NETS DROP FURTHER INTO ABYSS DESPITE BETTER D
PHILADELPHIA -Finally, the Nets found some defense. They checked the Sixers to sub-40 percent shooting. They kept them under 100 points, which had sort of been the starting mark for...
RANGERS GET GOOD BRUISE ON GOMEZ'S RIBS
It's prognosis positive on Scott Gomez, or at least as positive as it can be when dealing with a rib injury that likely is to sideline the center for at...
LEY-ED LOW?
* The same people who had conniptions over Billy Crystal's relatively innocuous at-bat for the Yankees now ought to strenuously object to red-light-running, drunk-driving-killer Jim Leyritz having been welcomed into...
'PEN DOOR OPEN
JOBA Chamberlain is going to be a starter this season. Yankees officials still are privately saying that this is the plan, to make the transition during the 2008 season, not...
YANKS WON'T BE HIT BY MANY LEFT HOOKS
The Yankees decided not to re-sign Doug Mientkiewicz because they did not want to make an already left-leaning lineup any more so. But should they really be worried about such...
RAGGEDY ANDY
TAMPA - Andy Pettitte's rocky spring hit another pothole yesterday when he was scratched from a start for the second time in 10 days. And while the veteran pitcher and...
UNLIKE TORRE, GIRARDI FEELING THE BEAT IN CLUBHOUSE
TAMPA - Now here is a real difference between Joe Torre and Joe Girardi. The perception is that Girardi's camp is different than Torre's. However, bench coach Rob Thomson ran...
FOR PETTITTE, A SPRING OF DISCONTENT
TAMPA - For much of the spring, the Yankees have been living the dream. There have been no significant injuries, nothing to worry about. The Yankees were telling us again...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
That's got to be the most valuable piece of breakfast ever. Two Virginia sisters sold a cornflake shaped like Illinois on eBay Friday night for $1,350. Melissa and Emily McIntire...
MAKING THE SCENE... SHOOLBRED'S
197 Second Ave.; (212) 529-0340 When five-time Tony-winning costume designer William Ivey Long ("The Producers, "Hairspray," "Young Frankenstein," etc.) decided to partner with Robert Morgan of Uncle Ming's club in...
MY NEW YORK: FAT JOE
"What people don't really, really, really realize is how much this city is better than any other city in the world. I've traveled the world and could tell you this...
MARCH 23 - 29
This week: Mix it up for those seeking jobs and fashion help; bald men deserve to be loved, too; the Rutles hit the stage yet again; 'Friends' star gets behind...
Q&A: HARVEY FIERSTEIN
Former 'Hairspray' diva dishes on alien Scientologists, why sex beats marriage and his quilt-making hobby SHOULD his acting, writing and producing gigs ever dry up, Harvey Fierstein can always write...
WEB SLINGER
HoneyShed honeyshed.com Home shopping on TV is for the housebound and elderly. Home shopping on the Internet, however, is for hipsters and tastemakers - or so it seems on HoneyShed,...
WELCOME TO THE MACHINE
Supersonic gaming system; B&O bling for less; a screen with a twist; looking cool, sounding great; and instant messaging Area-51 Quad Core Starting at $2,099; alienware.com Already the bomb when...
THE HIPPEST HOP
FOR clever New Yorkers who run successful businesses from home, pets often play a key role - and that's exactly the case for Kevin Dresser and Kate Johnson of Brooklyn,...
ADOPT ME
Avi is a gentle giant. He sports a very distinguished silvery grey coat and a soft and friendly personality. Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane...
BOBBY MEMORIALS HELD IN RECORD TIME
CHESSIN an extraordinary trib ute, three international tournaments were held this month in honor of Bobby Fischer, who died in January. The Reykjavik Open, in the Icelandic city where Fischer...
B-50-SOMETHINGS
THE B-52's new CD, "Funplex," which hits stores on Tuesday, is the group's first new recording in 16 years. Listening to its breezy, quirky sounds, it's shocking to recall that...
UNCOMPLICATED
OVERPRICED beer and a killer set list are great concert aids for musicians. But if you really want people to leave your show and download your entire catalog, you have...
MAKING THE SCENE... SHOOLBRED'S
197 Second Ave.; (212) 529-0340 When five-time Tony-winning costume designer William Ivey Long ("The Producers, "Hairspray," "Young Frankenstein," etc.) decided to partner with Robert Morgan of Uncle Ming's club in...
DEAL BREAKERS
YOU can leave the disguises, the tunneling and the elaborate capers to George Clooney and his "Ocean's" gang. Jeff Ma and his crew robbed Vegas blind by walking right through...
IRAQ VETS PUT 'STOP' ON FILM
Four years ago, director Kimberly Peirce was interviewing Iraq vets. One soldier, she says, asked her a question: "You want to hear something f - - - ed up?" "I...
FILM BYTES
"Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi is in talks with Paramount to helm a new Jack Ryan movie, reports DarkHorizons.com. The film would feature a younger version of Ryan - which, the...
HOOD ORNAMENTS
The first groundbreaking movie of the 1970s actually arrived in August 1967 with "Bonnie and Clyde," which combined graphic violence, sex and comedy in ways no one had ever seen...
NEW RELEASES
The Kite Runner Movie: 2 ½ STARS Extras: 1 ½ STARS (Dreamworks, $29.99) A visually stunning film hampered by a weak leading man (Khalid Abdalla), the movie adaptation of "The...
WALK THE LINE: THE EXTENDED CUT 17 NEW MINUTES MORE THAN A CASH-IN
A film earns critical praise, five Oscar nominations (with one win), and almost $120 million at the box office. Two DVD versions are released, including a two-disc set with loads...
PROOF POSITIVE
It's a family affair out in Prosser, Wash., where the Mercer and Hogue families have combined generations of farming and winemaking into the new venture that is Mercer Estates. The...
FINE WINE-ING
Terroir 413 E. 12th St.; no phone Ever wonder about the difference between a sauvignon blanc from the Loire Valley and one from New Zealand? Or a pinot noir from...
WILBUR, 22, AND WEISS, 22
March 2 - Yonina Weiss and Benjamin Wilbur went the distance to make their relationship work. Weiss, an account coordinator at the New York Post, and Wilbur, an investigator at...
WAINSTEIN, 36, AND FORREST, 27
March 9 - "I knew from the very first day I saw that head full of pomade he was the one!" says Julianne Himiko Forrest. She reunited with Michael Wainstein...
HIRSCH, 30, AND KOLTVEIT, 31
Feb. 29 - For Caroline Hirsch and Clint Koltveit, it was love at first sound. "I was at a University of Miami party back in 1995 when I heard him...
KHABELASHVILI, 35, AND WHITE,50
Feb. 29 - John White and Manana Khabelashvili both cared for a mutual friend, then ended up falling for each other, too! "It was December 2001, and he lived in...
SPELLINGS' STANDARDS
Is President Bush preparing to pull the plug on one of his administration's most notable achievements - the No Child Left Behind law? We hope not - but there are...
TYPICAL OBAMA?
Who knew that Jesse Jackson was "a typical white person"? Well, he is - if one accepts Barack Obama's definition. Thursday, the Democratic White House hopeful addressed a lingering controversy...
THE AUDACITY OF COPA
"His name was Rico. He wore a diamond." Thirty years ago this winter, with those simple words, an improbable American experiment about a corny balladeer who wanted to reinvent himself...
SPRING BREAK; BROKEN GIRLS
In news of the "no duh" variety, the American Medical Assn. released figures about sex and alcohol use during rowdy spring break vacations. The poll, which surveyed female college students...
THE SOUND AND THE FURY
At last year's Gadgetoff convention in New York, the Department of Homeland Security's undersecretary of science and technology showed off the latest and greatest in nonlethal weapons: a puke gun....
REBELS ARE REBORN
It was March 1988. Tibetan monks howled and shouted, battered at the door, gouged out the mud-baked roof and bayed for the blood of a top ethnic Tibetan official of...
THE POPE MAKEOVER
As plain Joseph Ratzinger he was the Pope's ruthless doctrinal enforcer, described in hushed tones in the Vatican's corridors of power as "God's rottweiler" and "the Panzerkardinal." As Pope Benedict...
BLOG WATCH
Sadr days behind Ed Morrissey at hotair.com notes another success of the surge: "When Moqtada al-Sadr extended his cease-fire in Iraq last month, many wondered what he had in mind....
GOV. BRUNO
Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno had better get ready to be governor. Jerome Levenberg, Cedarhurst
SEX-Y & THE CITY
Bravo to Sarah Jessica Parker for responding to the moniker of "unsexiest woman alive" ("'Unsexy' & the Snitty," March 20). While she does not fall into the Hollywood cupcake genre,...
UM, BOTH?
Which is worse - a governor who pays for sex with his own money or a governor who pays for sex with a high-paying government job? Marie Shilds, Nanuet
LUCK O' THE IRISH
The St. Patrick's Day parade was so much better without politicians. Emma O'Hara, Manhattan
FASO'S LAMENT
It is apropos for John Faso to be the first individual to throw his hat in the ring for the 2010 gubernatorial campaign ("Enabling Eliot's Illusion," March 17). In the...
COLD PIZZA
With all the problems that the city school system is weighed down with, the pizza-pie political police had to be called in to make sure that kids don't eat anything...
IN MY LIBRARY: DAVID HYPE PIERCE
If life imitated art, then David Hyde Pierce would be up to his neck in Mickey Spillane novels and Playbills. But Pierce - formerly and forever known as the finicky...
THE 'CAIN MUTINY
For those of us who have been writing critically about John McCain over the years, keeping tabs on the 2008 presidential campaign through the media is a bit like getting...
DOH!SCRIMINATING
For its first decade, there was a fair case to be made that "The Simpsons" was the best television show ever. Smart, funny, irreverent and far more original and groundbreaking...
REQUIRED READING
The Open Road The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer (Knopf) Given current events in Tibet, the release of this personal look at the Dalai Lama...
BEAR MAY HAVE LIVED
Bear Stearns didn't have to die. Christopher Cox, one of the architects of the euthanasia of Wall Street's No. 5 investment bank, says the firm was financially very healthy even...
EYES ON THE TIGER
After 13 years on the PGA Tour and 278 tournaments, Tiger Woods' ability to draw eyeballs to the tube is, amazingly, growing. The "Tiger Factor" drew in an extra 2...
A FATE MARTS CAN'T BEAR
It's hard to imagine the total meltdown of the country's No. 5 broker, the likely loss of 7,000 jobs and the fact that $18 billion in market capitalization went POOF!...
EA LOOKING TO REV ENGINE
With sales of its flagship Madden football video flattening out, Electronic Arts is looking to open up its offense. CEO John Riccitiello, who rejoined the company last spring, has extended...
NONE OVER PARR
NO one on Wall Street is busier during the current subprime mortgage meltdown than Gary Parr, the deputy chairman of Lazard, the investment bank hired by China Investment Corporation; China...
SMELTING FOR DOUGH
The sudden turnaround in commodity prices last week - including an 8 percent drop in the price of gold from its record $1,020 an ounce level on March 17 -...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS WARREN SPECTOR Ousted No. 2 man at Bear Stearns gets the last laugh, by keeping his $382M going away package. JOE SAUNDERS Chairman of credit card processor Visa sees...
LEGAL EAGLES PLUCKED
As Melvyn Weiss and five other top plaintiffs' lawyers face years behind bars for rigging some of their historic class-action cases, other legal eagles are looking over their shoulders to...
WHY AM I PAYING FOR BEAR'S TERRIBLE BETS?
Dear John: I live in upstate New York outside of Albany and am an avid reader of The Post online. I've opted to live within my means like many other...
MEET MARKET
From traveling abroad to sky diving, Morgan, a 24-year-old assistant editor, is serious about checking off her "to-do" list of lifetime adventures. So if a guy can make her laugh...
TOP 5 WORST PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION
According to true romantics at Mug Bar & Lounge "A couple having sex in a bathroom stall. One of them said, 'Please, just one more minute?'" - Gary "I was...
FRIENDS WITHOUT BENEFITS
MARK, an outgoing 22-year-old finance guy, is looking for a confident gal who can command a room. He found all that and more in Rebecca, a 25-year-old editor. The perky...
THE TRUTH SHALL INDEED SET THE LOVE-TORN FREE
THE HOT YOUNG Thing is devastated. After spending a romantic weekend with a potential Mr. Perfect in Las Vegas, this busty bombshell fell hard for the young real-estate mogul she...
'BRITNEY' BONANZA
We're not sure if this is exactly a comeback for tabloid fixture Britney Spears, but apparently when she's not out partying, she's at home digging a harmless little sitcom on...
DEPARTING LENO STILL NO. 1 IN LATE-NIGHT
He's the most popular personality in late-night TV and arguably NBC's biggest star. And yet, the network sees Jay Leno as a problem. So, under a plan that would seem...
'HIGH SCHOOL' HEARTBREAK
It'ss a miracle that Jessi survived high school. A self-described "outcast," she was a freshman at a suburban Kansas City public school who ate lunch alone almost every day. Undiagnosed...
HEAR NO 'IDOL'
Like Rodney Dangerfield, Simon Cowell can't get no respect on "American Idol" this season - and Mr. Nasty is obviously over it. In his seventh season as the all-influentual "final...
INDULGE OUR APPETITLE FOR TV NOSTALGIA AT HULA.COM
OLD TV SHOWS NEVER DIE. Fans can watch entire seasons of them on DVD or snippets on YouTube. Now NBC and Fox have partnered on hulu.com, a Web site that...
DON'T MISS LIST
Category: REALITY As the "Apprentice" finalists Trace Adkins and Piers Morgan prepare for a charity auction and concert, one fears the entertainers will refuse to go on stage. Another decides...
SLEEPLESS IN NY
The personnel behind the scenes at "Make Me A Supermodel" aren't ready for their close-ups. "We all have bags under our eyes," says Andy Cohen, Bravo's senior vice-president of production...
REEL GOOD
MILDRED PIERCE (1945) Sunday, 9:30 p.m., TCM Joan Crawford is Mildred, a long-suffering yet smoldering waitress who makes good as a chicken entrepreneur, only to have her miserable tramp of...
OBAMA IN BLACK & WHITE
"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of...
AN ANNOTATED LOOK AT OBAMA'S SPEECH
"Yes, 'words on a parchment' are never enough, nor are speeches made in a presidential campaign. That is true of all the candidates, for people in political office have not...
Happy 50th, Isiah
By MARC BERMANMINNEAPOLIS - The Knicks fell behind 42-24 after one quarter, with the Wolves converting 17 of 23 shots for a 73.9 percentage in setting their franchise high for...