June 8, 2008
Podolski Scores Twice for Germany
APA Polish-born German was the difference maker at the European Championship.Lukas Podolski scored both goals Sunday to give three-time champion Germany a strong start with a 2-0 win over his...
LIBERTY NEED 'MOORE' HELP
The Liberty continue to maintain that point guard Loree Moore's back injury is day-to-day; that she'll be ready for Wednesday night's game in Atlanta. But anyone who has had a...
Strawberry signing DVDs
We're passing this along for all you Straw fans and/or autograph hunters: Mets great Darryl Strawberry will be available in Manhattan from 6-7 p.m. Tuesday to autograph copies of the...
Randolph no fan of pitch counts
Willie Randolph made it clear here in San Diego this week that he is done babying Mike Pelfrey (pictured) and the rest of his young pitchers. The Mets entered today's...
WORK IN PROGRESS
The glass is either half empty or half full, and not because of evaporation on a 95-degree day at Yankee Stadium. In other words, Joba Chamberlain's second major league start...
FAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER BEING HIT BY FOUL BALL
A female fan at today's Yankees-Royals' game had to be sent to Lincoln Hospital for a catscan after getting hit by a bullet line drive off the bat of Kansas...
Box Office: First Predictions for 'The Happening' Are Less Than Stellar
"Friday the Thirteenth will not be lucky for" Manoj Night Shyamalan, predicts Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls. Saying that "advance word [is] absolutely God-awful'' and the tracking isn't much better,...
DVD Extra: Milking 'High Noon'
Speaking of Gary Cooper, I wish I could more highly recommend Lionsgate's "2-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition'' of "High Noon,'' which is nothing of the sort, though it's a comparative bargain...
Tardy Castro is yanked, fined
Backup catcher Ramon Castro was scheduled to start today's game against the Padres but was pulled an hour before the first pitch because he had yet to arrive at the...
DVD Extra: Pre-Father's Day Roundup, Early Wayne to Late Coop
Wayne's inexperience as an actor still shows, but the widescreen version shows off Walsh's lavish location shooting (just before the stock market crash) to such great effect that it's almost...
Orders set for Padres finale
After three consecutive 2-1 losses for the first time in club history, the Mets are hoping Pedro Martinez (pictured) can stop the bleeding here today at Petco Park against the...
Croatia Beats Co-Hosts Austria
APLuka Modric scored from the penalty spot, then Croatia struggled to hold on against a desperate Austrian team in Vienna.Modric put his team ahead in the fourth minute of the...
DVD Extra: Clint Meets Dr. Cyclops
The ringer is Paramount's fondly remembered Dr. Cyclops'' (1940), which has far superior little-people effects (in eye-popping early Technicolor) supervised by Farciot Edouart, the studio's undisputed master of rear-screen projection....
"MEAT: A LOVE STORY "
My foray into vegetarianism lasted nearly a decade, with only a couple of lapses early on for a particularly attractive salami. And this one week when I repeatedly dreamed about...
Miss at your own risk: Space cases
Highlights for the week of June 8Intergalactic coupling. EarthboundWho would've predicted at the beginning of the re-imagined "Battlestar Galactica" that the great romance would be between two of the oldest...
Coverage in today's Post
The Willie Watch could be in full swing again if the Mets keep this up. For the first time in team history and just the sixth time in major-league history,...
PLAY CATCH WITH YOUR SONS
Sometimes we donât recognize the best moments in life. Next Sunday is Fatherâs Day. Go out and have a catch. Youâll be better for it and so will your kid.Harold...
ZEN OF THE CATCH
SOMETIMES we don't recognize the best moments in life. Next Sunday is Father's Day. Go out and have a catch. You will be better for it, and so will your...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 925; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 9380; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 016; Lucky Sum: 7 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 6063;...
FIX OF THE TRADES
THE YANKEES are trapped between objectives. They are the $200 million-plus team that is playing for tomorrow. They are doing on-the-job training - and restraining - of young pitchers while...
ROYALS' GUILLEN COULD BE TRADE BAIT
Jose Guillen showed yesterday why he has played for nine teams during his 12 major-league seasons. The outfielder, who was relegated to signing with the lowly Royals last winter due...
25 BEST MOMENTS AT YANKEE STADIUM: NO. 16
As both New York baseball stadiums prepare to close, The Post looks back at the 25 most memorable moments in the history of Yankee Stadium. This week, No. 16.Oct. 31,...
PHIL'S MASTER OF HIS DOMAIN
BOSTON - Phil Jackson couldn't always afford to be unconventional, yet he maintained his nonconformity at a high cost anyway. His reluctance to compromise this inherent distinctiveness (strangeness may be...
TIME TO STEP UP, KOBE
BOSTON - It may not matter if Paul Pierce is 100 percent or not tonight in Game 2 if a certain MVP superstar with three rings doesn't show up again...
25 BEST MOMENTS AT SHEA: NO. 16
As both New York baseball stadiums prepare to close, The Post looks back at the 25 most memorable moments in the history of Shea. This week, No. 16.Aug. 21, 1977...
BELL RUNG, CHURCH OUT TWO DAYS
SAN DIEGO -- The Mets sat Ryan Church last night and will do so again today due to lingering effects from the concussion he suffered May 20 in Atlanta --...
Euro '08: Day Two
Day Two of the European Championship will feature a pair of classic encounters.In the today's first match, co-hosts Austria play Croatia in a Group B encounter at 11:50 a.m. ET,...
BULLYING DOT BIG IN 'FAKE COP' RAP
Deputy Chief Engineer Albert Novak - who is retiring this week after nearly 20 years with the city - was arrested for criminal impersonation of a public servant on March...
IT'S NO DEBATE
THERE are, at last count, 43,792 different and compelling reasons why baseball is the greatest game ever invented, a list that is all but impossible to put on paper because...
TRIPLE CROWN JINX STILL ALIVE AND WELL
HEARTBREAK lane! The long, terrifying stretch of Belmont Park racetrack that has broken the hearts of some of the best horses of the past century and all the people around...
'BIG BOMBER' A BELMONT BUST
Oh no, not again! It's back to the drawing board as Big Brown, the heavy favorite to sweep the Triple Crown in yesterday's Belmont Stakes, suddenly spit the bit around...
ZITO STUNS AGAIN WITH LONGSHOT
The race that was to turn the racing world upside down never took place. Instead of Big Brown wearing the white carnation blanket after yesterday's 140th Belmont Stakes, Da' Tara...
LOOKING UP FROM THE REAR
Jockeys of some of the losing horses have their say about the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes: Robby Albarado (2nd, Denis of Cork): "He ran awesome and this was...
VENTURA'S GOT 'GAME'
The old Brooklyn bomber saddled longshot Ventura to whip a field of smart fillies and mares over a mile on the turf in the Grade 1, $400,000 Just A Game...
A 'BIG' LETDOWN
THEY had waited for this mo ment for 30 years, this eclectic gathering of fancy hats and dirty T-shirts, Savile Row suits and flea market cutoffs, all of them here...
SEA BASS QUOTAS MAY BE REDUCED
THE last two years our focus has been on fluke, but we can be facing similar problems with black sea bass. We already have seen our 2008 sea bass quotas...
HEALTH NOT AN ISSUE IN TOUGH LOSS
WHEN they turned for home in the Belmont, we knew something was not right. At the five-eighths pole, you can see Big Brown isn't coming to the leaders. I didn't...
FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS
THE pain of David Ortiz's wrist injury reaches much far ther than the Boston metro area. It also has the heads throbbing of fantasy owners across the land. How do...
SAVES OF ANOTHER KIND
This is who Billy Wagner lived with growing up: his father, his grandmother, his mother, his other grandmother, his mother again, his father, the first grandmother again, his father, then...
$1.5M FIGHT FOR GRAMPS
Two women are fighting over a 96-year-old man - and his $1.5 million. The Brooklyn district attorney is investigating a bitter battle over the assets of Larry Berman, who suffers...
TIME TO STEP UP, KOBE
BOSTON - It may not matter if Paul Pierce is 100 percent or not tonight in Game 2 if a certain MVP superstar with three rings doesn't show up again...
PHIL'S MASTER OF HIS DOMAIN
BOSTON - Phil Jackson couldn't always afford to be unconventional, yet he maintained his nonconformity at a high cost anyway. His reluctance to compromise this inherent distinctiveness (strangeness may be...
A 'BIG' BULLY
* Congrats to Phil Mushnick for bringing to light what most people don't want to talk about for fear of ruining the feel-good story of a Triple Crown winner: Trainer...
BROWN'S DOWN AT BELMONT
In the end, Big Brown failed to deliver. A pall of stunned disappointment fell over Belmont Park yesterday as Big Brown's dance with history ended in failure when the heavy...
BELL RUNG, CHURCH OUT TWO DAYS
SAN DIEGO -- The Mets sat Ryan Church last night and will do so again today due to lingering effects from the concussion he suffered May 20 in Atlanta --...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn * Cops are on the hunt for the killer of a 22-year-old man gunned down in Coney Island early yesterday, said cops. Akeem Blyden, 22, was found shortly before...
PUERTO RICAN DAY PARADE CALIENTE
Today's the day to put on your salsa shoes and party at the 51st Puerto Rican Day Parade along Fifth Avenue. The parade runs from 43rd Street to 86th Street,...
ART PARIAH'S BOOTY ON BLOCK
Everything must go! Hundreds of pieces from the disgraced Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, which filed for bankruptcy under a cloud of corruption, were auctioned off at a small upstate gallery yesterday. The...
SPIDEY 2: NO FEAR AT ALL TIMES
Just four days after Brooklyn's own Spider-Man stunned the city in his death-defying feat to scale the New York Times Building, Renaldo Clarke said he never once feared he'd be...
ELEX INFLUENCE EVEN $WIFT-ER THAN IN 2004
Loosely regulated conservative political groups plotting to influence the 2008 elections have already raised twice the amount they had in 2004 - when the famous 527 Swift Boat ad assault...
SEPT. 11 LOVE AND A TRAGIC DIVIDE
When firefighter Kevin Prior lost his life in the north tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, he left behind a heartbroken fiancée, a lifelong best friend...
2 HELD IN TOT DEATH
A Brooklyn couple was charged yesterday in the torture of a 3-year-old boy who died from his injuries, officials said. Nymeen Cheatham, 30, the boy's guardian, and her boyfriend, Lemar...
DAY-CARE KIDS IMPERILED
City day-care centers, including some of the priciest preschools, are failing to do criminal background checks on workers, admitting non-immunized children and hiring unqualified teachers. Health inspectors have slapped the...
'LICENSE' TO CHEAT
The city's top crane inspector made "house calls" to help construction workers cheat on the city's licensing exam, driving up to work sites with the answers in hand, sources told...
'MISFIRE' IN ARSON BID
A dimwitted arsonist's plan to torch his neighbor's home backfired yesterday as the blaze spread to five other houses - including his own, authorities said. Stephen Uduari, 26, set fire...
THE 'TAT' IN TATUM
Tatum O'Neal has a reminder to stay clean and sober permanently inked on her arms in black block letters. The actress, who was busted on drug-possession charges on the Lower...
'MOBILE' HOME OF HAM
It may be a Burr in the side of historians, but the 206-year-old house of founding father Alexander Hamilton was hauled to a new uptown address yesterday. The yellow, wood-framed...
A STUNNING TURN: COPS TOTE TASERS
Cops will now have an alternative to deadly force, toting around stun guns along with their service weapons on patrol, officials said yesterday. Starting Wednesday, thousands of NYPD sergeants will...
UMA NUT'S TRIP TO NYC ILLEGAL
The freaky fanatic convicted of stalking actress Uma Thurman claimed he came to Manhattan Friday to take a drug test - but probation officials insisted yesterday that Jack Jordan didn't...
NY IS #1 IN CHARITY CEO PAY
New York's nonprofits pay their CEOs more than any other city in the country - but don't raise the most money, a study shows. The median salary for running a...
'BEING A VANDERBILT IS A LICENSE TO KILL'
When Whitney Tower Jr. - heir to the Vanderbilt and Whitney fortunes - attended his beloved cousin's funeral two decades ago at St. Jams Episcopal Church on the Upper East...
'BUS'TING TERROR
Authorities can now put the brakes on terrorists who hijack New York buses. Like something out of the movie "Speed," a new GPS device enables authorities to remotely control a...
HOSP-CARE'DOUBLE STANDARD'
New York's top hospitals operate "separate and unequal" systems of care - one for poor and uninsured patients, and one for those with private insurance, a health-care watchdog group charges....
HEALTH DEPT. WHISTLEBLOWER GETS THE AX
A MANAGER at the Health Department was fired soon after he reported numerous instances of alleged chicanery in the TB control unit, The Post has learned. The whistleblower, who asked...
POSADA'S HR BOOSTS BOMBERS
When Jorge Posada was asked how yesterday's win measured up to others in his tenure, the Yankees' All-Star catcher didn't really specify. "It's tough to really go back so far,"...
JOHNNY'S DA MAN IN RALLY BIG WIN
If you want pretty, go watch the scenery in Central Park. The Yankees are playing ugly baseball, perhaps a tribute to the dead caterpillar growing above Jason Giambi's upper lip....
JOBA GUNS FOR HIGH-FIVE IN SECOND MAJOR LEAGUE START
Joba Chamberlain will get to throw 75-80 pitches today, and the Yankees hope that will be enough bullets for the right-hander to survive five innings against the Royals. "It's exciting...
COX MAY FILL JOBA'S OLD ROLE
With Joba Chamberlain's well-documented conversion from setup man to starter, there has been much debate about who the Yankees will find to replace him in the eighth inning. Like Chamberlain...
CAN'T COUNT ON STARTS LIKE THIS
AS Andy Pettitte might have said after allowing 10 runs in 62/3 innings yesterday to the Royals if he were Randy Johnson: "I gave my team a chance to win."...
CHARLIE GETS BETTER GRIP ON IRISH BY LETTING GO
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - The public perception of Charlie Weis is that he's embattled, under excruciating pressure to win now or else. After all, his Notre Dame Fighting Irish finished...
POWER-FUL WORDS
JEREMY Shockey broke his post-Super Bowl silence yesterday. "Everybody said that I agreed to get traded and that I would welcome a trade or that I'm unhappy. . . ....
FIX OF THE TRADES
THE Yankees are trapped between objectives. They are the $200 million-plus team that is playing or tomorrow. They are doing onthe- job training - and restraining - of young pitchers...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
Golfing legend Arnold Palmer, The King, squeezed in a Q&A with Steve Serby between commemorating the opening of the newly renovated Callaway Performance Center and the grand re-opening ceremony of...
A TELEVISION ICON LOST
TELEVISION, as we recognize it, was born in the early afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, when Walter Cronkite stared at an off-camera clock, removed his eyeglasses, and announced the death...
SCHOOL IN SESSION FOR U.S. BOOTERS
U.S. soccer coach Bob Bradley says his squad's matches against some of the world's elite teams - including tonight's against Argentina at Giants Stadium - are key to the Americans'...
HONDO HAS AN ANGE
Hondo, who seems cursed by the cursed Cubs (it could be a double-curse with a reverse), failed again yesterday with the Small Bears as well as with Macho Again, which...
DRAMA VS. D'BACKS
For the first time, we had November baseball and it turned out to be stranger than anyone imagined as the Yankees pulled out two improbable victories against the Diamondbacks in...
THE RUMBLE
Pro pointers A baserunning clinic from Jose Reyes, a pitching lesson from Johan Santana and fielding advice from David Wright are up for grabs for Mets fans who attend tomorrow...
BIG TORREY STORY
SAN DIEGO - In a perfect golfing universe, the other 142 players in the U.S. Open field this week would step aside while Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson did battle...
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
FAMED golf architect Rees Jones coined the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage the "People's Open" because it was the first Open played on a true public course. With "The People's...
RANGERS SEARCH FOR OFFSEASON BLUE CHIPS
ALL RIGHT. Let's get this offseason started. The Red Wings won the Stanley Cup because of their skilled forwards; because of their structure; because Chris Osgood - the most successful...
IT'S SAME 'O' STORY
SAN DIEGO -- Petco Park isn't this much of pitcher's park, is it? The Mets were kicking themselves with that very question last night after their lumber slumber here reached...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Cops caught a pair of butthead bandits who used thongs to hide their faces. The thin disguises barely covered the men's mouths and noses but it didn't stop them from...
JUNE 8 - 15
This week: Shop with a chef; rock out with Les Paul on his birthday; throw back to America's pastime; take in a Friday night fright-fest; and watch movers and shakers...
FLORENT MORELLET
His pride intact, landmark restaurateur prepares to exit his 'district' without kicking and screaming And another one bites the dust. The shuttering of beloved landmarks has been a part of...
BRIDGE
"YOU know," Unlucky Louie told me, "today in the penny Chicago game, I thought my luck was finally changing. I actually won two finesses in a row." "You've thought the...
BABY'S BREATH
NOW here's a statistic that really bites: 85 percent of dogs and 75 percent of cats get oral disease by age 2. For years, people figured that "dog breath" was...
WEB SLINGER
Worst Music Video Ever Spike.com/video How not to win back the love of your life: Wear a Batman mask, drink a 40, wander around an industrial cityscape and record a...
SO SKINNY IT'S PHAT
The world's thinnest flat-panel TV; USB perfume; low-tech security; teeny tiny video; and an alarming iPod Touch. Sony XEL-1 OLED TV $2,499; sonystyle.com With HDTV prices hitting all-time lows, it's...
DON'T DISS THE SWISS
ONE of chess' enduring myths is that the only proper format for a major tournament is a round-robin, in which each player is paired with every other player. Anything else...
LED MANDOLIN
If the PAIRInG of bluegrass singer Alison Krauss and Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant seems odd to fans of both, rest assured that it felt just as strange to the...
SINGIN' THE BLUES
THE CABBIES drive like suicidal maniacs and the bike messengers seem to have a genuine death wish. Subway announcements are impossible to hear; city buses never arrive, and when they...
LA DOLCE 'VIDA'
Coldplay has never been an easily accessible band. You can't just switch on "X&Y" and say, "Oh, that's great." It's a band that requires time, and in that regard the...
PORTRAYING 'JOHN ADAMS'
Achievement is most satisfying when the stakes are high. For the cast and creators of HBO's "John Adams," the miniseries version of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, coming to DVD...
IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN
Just five years after his last incarnation, the Hulk is back on the big screen with bigger stars and bigger problems Guns can't hurt him. Tanks can't slow him down....
FILM BYTES
Seth Rogan ready to go 'green' HE might be the guy you'd vote least likely to don spandex for a role, but Entertainment Weekly reports Seth Rogen has signed on...
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
The Bucket List (Warner, $29.98) Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman celebrate the last stage of life. The extras even tell you how to write your own bucket list.Funny Games (Warner,...
BE SQUARED
Flavorful cocktails and Asian-American dishes; plus, farm-to-table fare in the VillageSheridan Square 138 Seventh Ave. South; (212) 352-2237 When cocktails like the Rhubarb Daiquiri (spiced rhubarb puree, dark rum and...
MAKING THE SCENE...
ARLO & ESME 42 E. 1st St.; (212) 777-5617 In the 125 years since this building operated as a private school for girls, it's gone through multiple incarnations, with the...
PROOF POSITIVE
Plymouth sloe gin Most people under 50 have never tried sloe gin, and if they have it's been terrible, like sweet cough syrup. That's because good-quality sloe gin - made...
TRIBBLE, 53, AND BOND, 51
May 29 - Sheila Bond and Kelly Tribble got a second chance at love. They dated 33 years ago but lost touch after Tribble went to Korea with the US...
DEANGELIS, 33 AND CAPRARO, 28
March 29 - What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas - unless you fall in love and take your romance to the Big Apple! Long Island native Liza DeAngelis, who...
MEDNIK, 26, AND MARTINEZ, 26
May 4 - Life's a beach for newlyweds Irina Mednik and Etienne Martinez. "We both love the tropics and thought about having a destination wedding, but we wanted to make...
REDULA, 27, AND CLARK, 30
April 26 - Sheila Redula never expected a part-time job to lead to lifelong love. Redula, a property manager for a real estate firm in Manhattan, met Eric Clark, also...
PUFF PIECE
Why do smokers have to pay more and more for their addiction ("Cigs Soar to $12/Pack," June 4)? Taxing them more is not going to get them to quit. If...
THAT'S RICH
J.D. Foster's article, "Soak the Rich, We All Get Wet," (PostScript, June 1) brought back bad memories of the Luxury Tax debacle of 1990. The idea was to make owners...
WAR IS HELP
Bravo to Abe Greenwald ("What We Owe Iraq War (and Warriors)," PostOpinion, June 2). Future students of history will look back at this time - the war in Iraq and...
BILL CLINTON LUCKS OUT AGAIN
It's often been said that Bill Clinton is one lucky bastard. No ordinary candidate could recover from Gennifer Flowers' revelation of an adulterous affair just before the New Hampshire primary....
OIL: SHELL'S SHALE GAMBLE
With gasoline at four dollars, and diesel near five, your typical service station is as glum as a morgue. Motorists aren't in the mood for friendly banter when they are...
OBAMA'S FEELING PUNCHY
Call it a sign of love. A knuckle tap of solidarity. Punch of cool. Just don't call Barack and Michelle Obama's nomination victory moment a "fist bump." "It's so funny...
OIL: LOOK TO MONTANA
The Bakken formation in eastern Montana and western North Dakota has been a minor producer of crude oil for more than a half century. But with the arrival of technologies...
RFK, MLK ... OHB
Politics is history in the present tense - perhaps never more than at this moment.Barack Obama captured the Democratic nomination almost 40 years to the day after Robert F. Kennedy's...
OIL: OPEN UP FEDERAL LANDS
The more we look for oil and natural gas in the United States, the more we find. If only we were allowed to go and get it. According to the...
GOOD WILL HUNTING
So George Will has turned 67 and published another volume of collected journalism. The evidence of the book, "One Man's America," suggests that he will continue to be dogged by...
SYMPATHY FOR THE GREAT SATAN
On a recent afternoon, while riding a rickety bus down Vali Asr Avenue, Tehran's main thoroughfare, I overheard two women discussing the grim state of Iranian politics. One of them...
TAKING THE HANDOFF
Arafat, 29, is a patrolman in charge of the checkpoint at Shembawat, a village in southeastern Afghanistan. A lanky, tousle-haired father of four earning about $100 a month, Arafat wears...
"AMERICAN SON"
Boxers condition themselves to finish strong, so perhaps it's fitting the most captivating part of Oscar De La Hoya's memoir "American Son" is reserved for its final pages. That's where...
"DISTRACTED"
The problem, according to Maggie Jackson, is that "we can tap into 50 million Web sites, 1.8 million books in print, 75 million blogs a but we increasingly seek knowledge...
"SNOOP"
A warning to the hosts and hostesses out there: Should you decide to throw a party anytime soon, it might be wise to rent a room. Otherwise, you might find...
"DEFENDING IDENTITY"
"Fundamentalist Islam seeks to wipe out Jewish identity and absorb Israel into a monolithic Muslim rule, headed by a caliphate. European post-nationalism rejects the separateness of Jewish identity and imagines...
"HAVANA NOCTURNE"
In 1949, legendary gangster Meyer Lansky sat down in his Central Park South apartment for an interview with New York City detectives, who asked him to describe himself. "Common gambler,...
"SAVE THE MALES"
Are men necessary? In 2005, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who authored a book by that title, said no. Women are soaring to new heights in education and the...
"OBSESSIVE BRANDING DISORDER"
American companies "obsess over their brand to the point of distraction," creating "a whirlwind of self-defeating corporate and consumer behavior" that has convinced leaders, and even individuals, that they should...
REQUIRED READING
Happy Family by Wendy Lee (Black Cat) In her moving debut novel, Lee looks at international adoption through the eyes of a Chinese immigrant, Hua Wu, who takes a restaurant...
IN MY LIBRARY: MARC ECKO
Marc Ecko finds inspiration from two very different wordsmiths. "There are two people that I quote all the time," Ecko says. "One is Lincoln, and the other is Yoda." Makes...
RATES RISING
One week after the yield on the 10-year note broke through 4 percent, fixed-rate mortgages tacked on six basis points to reach a national average price of 6.26 percent, according...
WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH MONTANA OIL?
Dear John: I read your article about oil in Montana. Why are we not hearing about this on TV or in other newspapers? Derek Dear John: I cannot understand for...
GIVING RIM THE BIZ
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is going to start doing some BlackBerry picking tomorrow - as in picking off some business from the No. 1 smart-phone brand in the country. The...
OIL SURGE PUTS $150 FEAR NEAR
Forget July 4, one more day like Friday and Americans could be staring at $150 per barrel oil by Fathers' Day. Investors are spending a nervous weekend worrying if oil...
CRUDE EXPERT PREDICTING UNEXPECTED BREAKDOWN
DESPITE the $11.33 a barrel surge in the price of oil on Friday - when it hit a record $139.12 before retreating a drop or two - America's leading auto...
HIGH FLYIN' SPECULATOR IS CONSUMERS' FRIEND
BAN the speculators! Ban the speculators! That's become the rallying cry of late in Congress where speculators have replaced Arab oil pashas as public enemy No. 1 with the US...
LEHMAN: LOSING STREET CRED
Richard Fuld, chief executive of Lehman Brothers, had been sitting pretty atop the investment banking hierarchy during the mounting subprime-induced credit crisis that began to take hold of Wall Street...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSCHRIS HOHN Head of activist hedge fund gets SEC backing in battle with CSX.CHARLES WIEGERT The St. Louis businessman fights MLB over the right to run his fantasy baseball league...
CORZINE STONEWALLS ON
Don't expect to see any of those e-mails between New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and his union boss ex-sweetie anytime soon - a court order notwithstanding. State Attorney General Anne...
BARACK'S BAD BUDS
If people are best judged by the company they keep, then Barack Obama has got some explaining to do. There's his long-term relationships with extremist preachers like Jeremiah Wright and...
FEELING FUNKY, IN THE BAD WAY
I became so paralyzed by depression last week that I couldn't breathe. I sent off an e-mail to three or four of my closest girlfriends. My fingers sluggishly typed: "I...
TOP 5 WORST MID-HOOK-UP OCCURENCES
According to diners at Yerba Buena in the East Village "I once got a nosebleed." - Evan "A guy once asked me how much I weighed!" - Mindy "A landslide....
MEET MARKET
Mayumi is a 31-year-old licensing manager who compares herself to a Toyota: reliable, great quality and made in Japan. Her preferred driver would be smart, responsible and well traveled, of...
GEEK LOVE
He said *** ½ "Erin and I had a great, whimsical conversation." She said *** ½ "He was very warm and engaging." It came as no surprise that Erin, a...
FIVE YANKEE TRADE PROPOSALS
In today's Post, I wrote a column about how I would handle the approaching trade market if I ran the Yankees. Space did not permit me to get into actual...
FIVE YANKEE TRADE PROPOSALS
In today's Post, I wrote a column about how I would handle the approaching trade market if I ran the Yankees. Space did not permit me to get into actual...
SHE STILL THINKS IT'S ABOUT HER
Washington -She was as gracious as she could be. I mean that literally. It was the closest she could come to grace. It was all about her - I, me,...
WEEDS HAS GONE THE WAY OF THE TOILET
I just watched the first two episodes of "Weeds" and am I pooped! And I mean that literally, but not in the sense of being exhausted. I mean "pooped" as...
LONG 'LOOK' BACK
How's this for a sad statement: TV Land network creates "She's Got The Look," a modeling contest celebrating older women, and one of the top 10 finalists, - an elegant...
DANA'S WORLD
Dana Carvey is 53, but still looks like the skinny, relative youngster he was when he shot to fame on "Saturday Night Live" in the late '80s and early '90s....
WORK DAY ON 'ICE'
Inuvik, Canada - At 40-below zero, water can be turned into a highway strong enough to support some of the heaviest trucks - some weighing as much as 100,000 lbs....
REEL GOOD
V FOR VENDETTA (2006) Monday, 10:45 p.m., HBO Based on the brilliantly subversive 1980's graphic novels by David Lloyd, this movie tells the story of "V" (Hugo Weaving), a masked...
DON'T MISS LIST
Bombs away One of the surprise hits of last summer, Lifetime's "Army Wives" returns to answer the question posed in its cliffhanger last year - who survived the bombing at...
THE FUGITIVE
It was 30 years ago that Academy Award-winning director Roman Polanski was arrested and indicted for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. Now, a new documentary recounts the controversial story...
The Last Of The Major-Ricans
THE DECLINE of African-Americans in the Major Leagues has been well documented in recent years, but there's another ethnic group slowly disappearing from baseball rosters around the country: Puerto Ricans.For...
Santana's shoulder much better
Johan Santana (pictured) was treated with a PolyMem patch today that reduced virtually all of the swelling in his left shoulder. The swelling stemmed from the Randy Wolf pitch that...