September 29, 2008
PALIN PLAYS OLD JOKE ON BIDEN
Sarah Palin said today she's eager to debate Joe Biden, and revved up supporters with a zinger about the difference in their ages. "It's my turn now. I'm looking forward...
Coverage in today's Post
Unbelievably, history repeated itself once again for the Mets as they choked away the playoffs to the Marlins on the last day for the second year in a row. Colleague...
Deal of the Day-Shop Intuition
Wear your art on your sleeve (or at least your torso) with this Crew Neck Dress from Shop Intuition.Layer it over tights and a motorcycle jacket or under a belted...
RB Ware arrested in Georgia
Running back Danny Ware, 23, over the weekend was arrested and charged with pedestrian under the influence and pedestrian in the roadway infractions in Athens, Ga.Ware admitted he had been...
Media Day Musings
By MARC BERMANObservations from a Media Day that revolved around - who else - the lightning rod named Stephon Marbury.#Twenty reporters crowded around Stephon Marbury's table as the session began....
DOW DROPS RECORD 777 POINTS
The House today rejected a proposed $700 billion Band-Aid for the nation's hemorrhaging financial system - sending paralyzing fears from Washington to Wall Street to markets around the globe. The...
Bobby Vs. RJ
By FRED KERBERBobby Simmons knows he may be replacing the most popular Net, Richard Jefferson, from the end of last season's team that really didn't have a whole heckuva lot...
THE BIZ: We salute their optimism!
Worried about the state of the nation? Don't be! That's the travel industry's attitude. Here's just one out of the flood of business-as-usual news items that have come across our...
WHICH ONE WAS WORSE?
It happened again. Different season, different manager, different race, different opponent going past them in the season's final week - same result.VACCARO: LEGENDS OF THE 'FALL'PHOTOS: 2008 FINALE FLASHBACK: '07...
Mets continue to defy odds
From JONATHAN LEHMANAlthough Mets fans accustomed to September heartache and late-inning failures may have seen last night's gut-wrenching 9-6 loss to the Cubs coming, the defeat really was a longshot....
FLASHBACK: METS '07 COLLAPSE COMPLETE
IF THERE was any consolation at all plucked out of an other wise inconsolable day, it was this: The Mets died quickly at Shea Stadium yesterday. They didn't bleed any...
Isles claim Pock from Rangers
The Islanders have claimed defenseman Thomas Pock off waivers from the Rangers.Pock has played in 59 career NHL games and has scored seven goals with seven assists for 14 points....
INSURER WANTS TO AVOID PAYING HEATH LEDGER'S DAUGHTER
An insurance company is trying to get out of paying Heath Ledger's toddler daughter $10 million, claiming the actor's accidental overdose was a suicide, a lawyer for the "Dark Knight"...
NFL LIKELY WON'T PUNISH BURRESS
The temporary head of the NFL Players Association said today he does not believe Plaxico Burress will face further discipline stemming from two domestic abuse incidents during the summer. Burress,...
LEHMAN SELLING ASSET MANAGEMENT UNIT
Two private equity firms reached an agreement to buy Lehman Brothers' Neuberger Berman asset management unit for $2.15 billion. The deal to sell the unit to Bain Capital Partners and...
Fey as Palin Part II
Emmys sweeper Tina Fey pulled her hair up Saturday night to play Sarah Palin for an interview with Katie Couric, played by the always funny and very pregnant Amy Poehler....
Maybe It's Me
But my experience -- starting in the early 90's -- suggests that ad guys, on the whole, are pretty Junior Varsity when it comes to mixing business and pleasure on...
Oscar Watch: War of the Holocaust Movies
The deal to release "The Reader'' on Dec. 12 (see two posts below) may result in the possibly unprecedented happenstance of two Oscar-chasing Holocaust movies opening on the same day....
Starr Report: Scrubbing in
The fifth-season premiere of "Grey's" averaged a winning 18.5 million viewers (9-11 p.m.) on ABC and won in adults 18-49.On the downside, Thursday's episode also shed over 2 million viewers...
Pulse Sales-09/29
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MUSSINA ADDS TO HALL CREDENTIALS
FROM JOEL SHERMANMike Mussina and I were talking in spring training about his candidacy for the Hall of Fame and he said he didn't like that people were still judging...
The new Brooklyn Dodgers?
From JOEL SHERMANMets owner Fred Wilpon has longed to recreate his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers with his team. And just as his organization is poised to move into a new stadium...
ARE THE METS THE BROOKLYN DODGERS?
1. Mets owner Fred Wilpon has longed to recreate his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers with his team. And just as his organization is poised to move into a new stadium that...
DOCS DETAIL BARACK TIES TO RADICAL
CHICAGO - While Barack Obama has long downplayed his connection to Bill Ayers, a co-founder of the violent Weather Underground radical group, new documents show the two worked much more...
'OBAMA THE GREAT' GRATING ON BUBBA
WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton yesterday called John McCain a great man - but apparently couldn't bring himself to use the same term to describe Barack Obama. "Meet the Press" host...
BAM'S BANGLE BUNGLE
Barack Obama apparently broke his promise to the family of a fallen Wisconsin soldier when he mentioned the slain sergeant's name in his Friday debate with John McCain. Brian Jopek,...
DINING WITH THE DEVIL: A'JAD COMES TO NY
* After seeing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak at the United Nations, all I can say is that I didn't know there were so many Democrats in Iran ("Christians Who...
TAKING IT ONE TASER TOO FAR
* The man who plunged to his death was someone's son, brother, father or husband ("Cops in Nude Taser Slay," Sept. 25). Can you imagine a family member opening the...
HELP HOMEOWNERS
SO Westchester County has the heaviest property-tax burden in the nation, with Nassau County third and Rockland tied for sixth. The news from the US Census Bureau, reported in Tuesday's...
IRAQ'S LATEST MILESTONE
Iraqi lawmakers have achieved far more in the last two years than our own feckless Congress. LAST week, Iraq passed another milestone on the difficult road to political maturity: Its...
O'S DANGEROUS PALS
WHAT exactly does a "community organizer" do? Barack Obama's rise has left many Americans asking themselves that question. Here's a big part of the answer: Community organizers intimidate banks into...
TRAIN SUICIDE AMID $$ CRISIS
A millionaire London financier troubled by the pressures of dealing with the credit crunch apparently committed suicide - jumping in front of a 100-mph express train, it was reported yesterday....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 442; Lucky Sum: 10 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 2428; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 975; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 2330;...
STUDENTS' BITTER LESSON
Dozens of the country's biggest lenders have stopped doling out student loans to struggling college kids because of the economic upheaval - leaving scores of would-be scholars combing the want...
AMY SLIPS INTO STARDOM
It wasn't always red carpets and Oscar nominations for Amy Adams, who vamps it up Rita Hayworth-style in the new Vanity Fair (inset). The stunning "Enchanted" star vividly recalls doing...
HE CADIL-LACKS GOOD JUDGMENT
Rep. Charles Rangel's taxpayer-provided Cadillac DeVille is pulling double duty as his political campaign vehicle, The Post has learned. The dual use of the luxurious wheels for official and political...
LOCKLEAR DROVE DOPED UP: COPS
Actress Heather Locklear was busted and charged with driving under the influence, in her second troubling incident this year, California officials said yesterday. Heather Locklear Photo Gallery Locklear, 47, was...
SCARLETT IS 'KNOT' AVAILABLE
Men across the world have reason to cry. It's official: Scarlett Johansson is off the market. Scarlett Johansson & Ryan Reynolds Gallery The silver-screen beauty tied the knot with Canadian...
YOUR $700 BIL TO THE RESCUE
Americans, get ready to open up your wallets - big time. Congressional leaders and federal officials finally struck a deal on the $700 billion fiscal rescue plan yesterday, and the...
NEW TRIP: 'LSD LITE'
An herb you can buy on the Internet has become the hip, new hallucinogen dujour, tried by tens of thousands of 20-somethings and yuppies who've taken the drug for its...
"EAGLE EYE" SOARED TO THE TOP OF THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE WITH A $29.2 MILLION PREMIERE
"In a distant second to the Shia LaBeouf thriller was the middle-age romancer "Nights in Rodanthe," starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, with $13.6 million. In third was last week's...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN * A Bronx teen was arrested yesterday and charged with threatening to stab a 19-year-old man in the West Village, police sources said. Saul Alverez, 17, of Morrisania, accosted...
JERRY SAYS FAREWELL TO HIS 'FELD OF DREAMS
He's been a Met fan from the team's start - and almost from his own. Brooklyn-born, Long Island-raised Jerry Seinfeld was 8 when the Mets came to life in 1962....
MOST POLS MUM ON STATE CUTS
ALBANY - Even as Wall Street's woes drag Albany into a sea of red ink, four out of five state lawmakers refuse to say whether they favor tax increases or...
CONE OF SILENCE
The last days of the original Carvel ice cream store are melting away. The first-ever Carvel, in the Westchester town of Hartsdale, has about a week left before it shuts...
TEACHER'S LIFE LESSONS
Patricia Lockhart likes to make science come alive for her students at Staten Island's PS 57 - which explains the trout eggs in her classroom. "We raise the eggs into...
BLOODY BRAWL AT CLUB
Outraged residents living near a rowdy new club that has invaded a quiet Queens enclave called for its closure yesterday after five teens were stabbed in the wake of a...
COPS: LI HORSES ABUSED
Five starving horses that a neighbor said had been rescued from one hellhole only to wind up in another were rescued yesterday from a filthy stable behind a Central Islip...
DEAD CATS IN HOUSING FEUD
A Brooklyn landlord who had been harassing his tenants left a bag of dead cats in a vacant first-floor unit in an ongoing effort to force lessees out of the...
A BX. TALE OF TEARS
Forget that alleged cop killer Lillo Brancato co-starred in the 1993 movie "A Bronx Tale" with Robert De Niro. As jury selection begins this week for Brancato's co-defendant in the...
STREET FAIRS FOUL, SAYS MIKE
Many New Yorkers have become fed up with the city's bland, traffic- clogging street fairs, and now they've got an ally in a high place: Mayor Bloomberg. The mayor delivered...
MIKE'S GRIPE HAMSTRINGS 9/11 HEALTH-CARE BILL
Congress has shelved a $10.9 billion bill that would have provided health care to sick Ground Zero workers - and a big reason is that city officials objected to how...
'TASER' LIEUTENANT PROTECTED HIS OWN
The police lieutenant who gave the order to fire a Taser at a disturbed Brooklyn man, causing him to tumble to his death from a 10-foot ledge, isn't trying to...
MENINGITIS IN MATERNITY WARD
Two mothers who were in the maternity ward at Staten Island University Hospital North at the same time have contracted meningitis, a hospital spokeswoman said yesterday. The women gave birth...
BRONX DEMS A HOUSE DIVIDED
Two factions of the Bronx County Democratic Committee elected rival party leaders last night. Assemblyman José Rivera was re-elected as chairman of the county executive committee at the outset of...
SUIT OVER BOOTY GALL
A full-figured nurse's assistant was the butt of a bad joke at Lutheran Hospital, where co-workers got their kicks slapping her rear-end, a $6 million federal lawsuit alleges. Tamiqua Hunt-Frelow,...
IT'S MURDER OUT THERE
Murders, rapes and robberies have shot up in the Big Apple this year, despite a drop in overall crime, police statistics show. Homicides jumped nearly 10 percent, to 377, compared...
BASE BAWL AT SHEA
Thanks for the misery. The sun officially set on Shea Stadium yesterday after fans endured a torturous, rain-delayed, scoreboard-watching choke in the last-ever game at the old ballpark. Mets Game...
CHARGES DROPPED VS. VET 'BEATEN' BY COPS
Criminal charges have been quietly dropped against an Iraq War veteran who said cops beat him while he was handcuffed - the second time in recent weeks that an alleged...
'HOME' WORK: CITY BIDS FOR ONLINE HIGH SCHOOLS
The city is working to clear the way for students to be able to earn credits toward high-school graduation online. Department of Education officials said they're working with the state...
PIER FIRE DOCKS SHIP
Fire broke out under a West Side pier yesterday, startling passengers aboard a cruise ship who were preparing to disembark, officials said. The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship was docked along...
'DOUBLE FAULT' HUBBY
What a racket. The husband of a Westchester County state senator acknowledged he had a handicapped-parking permit in his car that he didn't need after he was spotted vigorously playing...
RANGEL UN-MOVED
Three months after Rep. Charlie Rangel admitted he improperly converted a rent-stabilized apartment into his political campaign office - and promised to give it up - the embattled pol still...
MONEY FOR NOTHING
Mayor Bloomberg's call to dismantle the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. would save nearly $5 million a year now spent on an agency that has few remaining tasks after allocating virtually...
GET OUTTA TOWN!
With the financial world - heck, the whole world - seemingly about to collapse on itself and terrifying headlines now commonplace, it sure would be nice to get away. You...
NEW YORK SUN IS SETTING
Hope was fading last night that a white knight would materialize to bail out the struggling New York Sun, meaning today's issue may be its last. The 61/2-year-old paper, known...
A LENDER BENDER
While the government rescue of the financial sector will likely do much to soothe frayed nerves on Wall Street, the experts say it probably won't make it easier - or...
BIG SQUEEZE ON NYC HOUSING
New York's affordable-housing developments could become the next victims of the credit crisis, according to some real estate sources. As the mortgage crisis escalates, at least 580 buildings containing 40,000...
CITI & WELLS FARGO DUELING FOR WACHOVIA
A bidding war for Wachovia emerged yesterday, with rivals Citigroup and Wells Fargo vying to take over the hobbled banking giant on the cheap. While a deal isn't expected today,...
TAKE THE MONEY, DAVE
Wondering if a budget-busting finan cial crisis will finally compel Gov. Paterson to crack down on rampant illegal buttlegging on New York's Indian reservations? It's not likely. Turns out that...
THE MELTDOWN'S ACORN
As Congress slogged toward an appar ent financial-market rescue bill over the weekend, the time arrived for a closer look at the roots of the crisis. Who were the culprits?...
NY GOES FROM BAD TO WOR$E
GOV. PATERSON'S original estimate that the Wall Street meltdown will add $1 billion to New York's projected deficit has just grown by 30 percent, The Post has learned. Paterson's budget...
DESPICABLE DC POLS' MOST OUTRAGEOUS DEMAND YET
MEMPHIS - Here's why Americans are revolting over the Wall Street rescue plan. It's not that taxpayers refuse to dig deeper to avoid an even bigger catastrophe. It's that they're...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
When customs officers at the Sao Paulo, Brazil, airport asked a Portuguese man, "Hey, what's in the bag?" they got a surprise - about 200 birds. About 65 of the...
GO TO GREG
I work in the financial services sector, and everyone I know is looking for a new job in anticipation of layoffs. Some are changing industries, but most are just looking...
WALL ST. DEAD END
It's two o'clock on a weekday afternoon, and Sal Bertuglia tries not to get his hopes up when the phone rings. The laid-off Wall Street manager, who's used to working...
60 SECONDS WITH M. PATRICIA SMITH, COMMISSIONER OF THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Over the next 12 months, what job losses are you expecting in the finance industry? Our economists have estimated that we're going to see 40,000 direct job losses in the...
SUPER MAN
George Brennan is not your father's superintendent. After 35 years working luxury buildings on the Upper East Side, he's more of a corporate supervisor than a garbage-slinging handyman. And he...
PARTY LIKE IT'S 1973
'MAD Men" has ruined olde New York for new Holly wood. By olde, I mean the 1960's and '70's. And by ruined, I mean that Hollywood writers can no longer...
NEAR MRS.
WHEN she was covering foreign affairs in Washington, NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell never had a problem with her love life. But now that all news stories lead to the mess...
NOW OMAROSA'S IN 'LOVE'
OMAROSA is going to star in an "I Love New York"-type dating show for VH1, according to reports over the weekend. The lightning-rod for controversy will move into a house...
BABY BORROWERS
'FRIDAY Night Lights" used to rely on shoulder pads as useful equipment. Now it needs a satellite dish, too. The critically acclaimed but minimally watched high school football drama returns...
STARR REPORT
The "Grey's Anatomy" doctors are back - but fewer viewers scrubbed in to watch them Thursday night. The fifth-season premiere of "Grey's" averaged a win ning 18.5 million viewers (9-11...
NEW YORK DOLLS
WANNA be a rocknrolla? Whether you're belting one out at karaoke, wailing on Guitar Hero III or club hopping, get metalled up. Fall has a rock edge with an all-star...
MODERN GOLDEN AGE OF OPERA IS UPON US
THERE was once some thing called the Golden Age of Opera. I missed it. When I started my opera-going, it was mostly a landscape of distinguished rather than great singing,...
JETS, CARDS COLLIDE IN SCARY MOMENT
A frightening moment marred the end of the Jets' victory over the Cardinals yesterday when Arizona receiver Anquan Boldin suffered what initially appeared to be a serious injury after a...
JETS RING UP 56 POINTS IN ROMP OVER CARDINALS
Order has been restored. The Jets, who truly believe they're contenders, looked a lot more like pretenders in their last game, a sloppy 19-point loss Monday night in San Diego,...
COLES 'HAPPY' WITH BRETT
After catching his third touchdown of the second quarter yesterday - the exclamation point in the Jets' 56-35 statement against Arizona - Laveranues Coles went to Brett Favre and gave...
FAVRE HASN'T LOST THE MAGIC TOUCH
IN the locker room now, before the postgame shower, after Brett Favre had thrown a career-high six touchdowns and became the first Jets quarterback to throw six touchdown passes since...
DEVILS KEEP BRODEUR ON ICE
Brent Sutter said yesterday that Kevin Weekes would get the start tonight in goal when the Devils host the Capitals, meaning Martin Brodeur will have to wait to play his...
MUSSINA HITS MILESTONE FOR FIRST TIME IN CAREER
BOSTON - There are teammates and Yankees staff members who strongly believe Mike Mussina will take his initial 20-win season and vanish. Yankees Photo Gallery After the Yankees' 6-2 win...
GIRARDI, YANKS LOOKING AT PLAYOFFS IN 2009
BOSTON - So, it ends with a whimper for all of New York. The Red Sox are heading to Anaheim this afternoon for the first round of the playoffs. Up...
JOBA'S '09 ROLE UP IN AIR
BOSTON - The debate that will not die was on the table in manager Joe Girardi's office yesterday while the Yankees and Red Sox waited for the sky to stop...
WILD CARD STILL OFF THE MARK
FOX'S Mark Grace is another Ball Street analyst to applaud those sub-prime mortgages MLB keeps handing out. During Saturday's Cubs-Brewers game, he testified that at first he didn't like the...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Hochuli call in question Referee Ed Hochuli was at the center of another questionable call yesterday, flagging Julius Peppers for a roughing-the-passer penalty that wiped out Carolina's interception return...
HONDO'S RAVIN'
Hondo yesterday closed out another regular sea son of baseball excellence despite a minor setback with the Tribe that cut the earnings to a still beefy 700 scioscias as he...
KNICKS NEED CHEER
With no New York baseball left, the Knicks introduce themselves today on media day. Don't expect them to cheer you up. New coach Mike D'Antoni has a good sense of...
MANUEL'S JOB LIKELY IS SAFE
All indications last night were the Mets intend to keep Jerry Manuel as their manager. According to a baseball executive briefed on the issue, it's just a matter of the...
MARLINS' LO DUCA FEELS FOR EX-MATES
Paul Lo Duca was sad for his former teammates, but proud of the manner in which he and the Marlins scrapped to end the Mets' season yesterday. "I feel for...
THESE LOSERS CANNOT FINISH - AGAIN
THEY are losers. That is how the Mets walk out of one stadium and into another. The Shames of Shea will march into the new Citi Field with the old...
METS FIZZLE, MISS PLAYOFFS
The Mets sent Shea Stadium out with a whimper. The much-maligned site of so many memorable moments in Mets history held its last act yesterday afternoon, and the final scene...
LEGENDS OF THE FREE-FALL NEED FIX
THE final tease and the final indig nity collided at the same time, at 5:05 in the afternoon, when an old Mets farmhand named Matt Lindstrom threw a fastball that...
MARTINEZ LIKELY TO PITCH NEXT SEASON
Pedro Martinez is leaning toward pitching again next season, though it's highly doubtful he will do so with the Mets. Martinez's four-year, $53 million contract with the Mets expired this...
CLOSING CEREMONY EASES AMAZIN' PAIN
Bring on the wrecking ball. In the grand scheme of things, the Mets hoped the last event at Shea Stadium would be a wild celebration following a World Series game....
WILLIAMS FACES NETS' CHALLENGE
Sean Williams could get a complex. The Nets' 2007 first-round pick probably planned on quality time this season. So the Nets traded for Yi Jianlian, drafted Ryan Anderson, signed Eduardo...
Will Donnie's patience pay off?
By MARC BERMANOne description of Donnie Walsh you hear constantly is "patient.'' He's proven that so far in his six months on the job.When explaining why he didn't make a...
Collapse City
BOSTON -- If Yanks win tonight in the second game of the doubleheader here at Fenway, they become the New York team with the most wins.Mets finish with 89 wins,...