December 13, 2008
BRONX POL ADOLFO CARRION WILL HEAD URBAN POLICY
Barack Obama is expected to tap Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion to head the White House Office of Urban Policy as the new president's director of urban affairs, The Post...
OUTLAWING BOYHOOD
Girls have not just surpassed boys in the education system. They have trounced them. But a lot of things have changed for the better in America over recent decades. So...
Will Nate-Duhon backcourt work?
By MARC BERMANSACRAMENTO - Mike D'Antoni has the eight men he is ready to do battle with the rest of the season with tonight's return of Nate Robinson vs. Sacramento....
Christmas Death Watch, Updated
"Moviegoers will have to choose carefully if they want to avoid drama and death; three of the world's biggest stars play characters who kick the bucket,'' we quoted Pam McClintock...
SECRETS OF THE GODFATHER
Skip the horse heads in our beds - for "Godfather" fans (that is, pretty much every man in America), there's no way to refuse the offer of "The Godfather Family...
The world according to K-Rod
Newly acquired All-Star closer Francisco Rodriguez spoke this afternoon with Mets beat reporters (including yours truly) and talked at length about his velocity, the pressure of pitching in New York,...
'Duck' and Cover
Williard Huyck, Gloria Katz and George Lucas' notorious fantasy "Howard the Duck'' (1986), one of the legendary disasters of that era starring Lea Thompson and Tim Robbins, is finally coming...
The Ghosts of Affleck's Past
"Surviving Christmas'' turned up recently on Entertainment Weekly's list of worst holiday movies, along with John Frankenheimer's "Reindeer Games,'' also starring Affleck. This incoherent Miramax-Dimension heist movie also had a...
TRENDSETTERS: THE TOP PLAY
GIANTS (+3) AT COWBOYS (8:30) Big Blue has covered six straight following a loss, five straight following a non-cover and five of six in the division. They also have covered...
EXPECTED BARBER RETURN BOOSTS LINE ON DALLAS
HERE'S a look at how the ever-changing NFL spreads are faring so far this week, according to our favorite Vegas insiders:COWBOYS-GIANTS The Romos are 3-point favorites with Vegas expecting Marion...
HEISMAN RACE BOILS DOWN TO TOP QBS
Tim Sullivan's Winner - Tim Tebow I was one of the few out there who was going to vote for Tim Tebow win, lose or draw last Saturday. So I...
D'ANTONI'S FORMER TEAM BARELY RECOGNIZABLE
The Suns grew even more distant from the Mike D'Antoni era on Wednesday when the club traded the Knicks coach's favorite two Suns players not named Steve Nash. When D'Antoni...
VINCE PERFECTLY COMFORTABLE SHARING THE LEAD
Nets rookie Ryan Anderson didn't know what to expect from Vince Carter. But it wasn't this. Anderson expected something more along the lines of how seniors treat freshmen. You know,...
DUBINSKY ENDURING A SOPHOMORE LEARNING CURVE
BRANDON Dubinsky, a young man in a hurry, has hit a speed bump that might be accompanied by a traffic warning sign featuring the universal circle containing a diagonal line...
HOUSE CALL MAY HELP YOUNGER ISLANDERS
The Islanders are in last place, most of their better young players have battled injuries or ineffectiveness, and veterans such as Doug Weight and Bill Guerin lead the way in...
IT'S TOUGHER TO REACH 100 MARK THIS CENTURY
Brent Sutter may have to turn in his NHL alumni card. Unlike old-timers who walked two miles to school, uphill each way, the New Jersey coach says the feat of...
COLLAPSES HAVE DAVID READY TO EXPLODE IN '09
There's a cool new addition to David Wright's Flatiron District condo - a saltwater fish tank that David and his mom, Elisa, set up last weekend. There's also going to...
DAMON SEES BIG 'NETT GAIN
Johnny Damon and his Yankees teammates flailed hopelessly at A.J. Burnett's high-octane fastball and muscular curveball and wondered, "What if he was on our side?" The wondering is over. Burnett,...
JOBA GIVES DEALS SEAL OF APPROVAL
With the acquisitions of CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett, two of the top free-agent pitchers on the market, the Yankees significantly bolstered their rotation, and a pitcher in their 2008...
DEION CAN DO IT AGAIN
BIG WEEKS Deion Branch WR, Seahawks Looks healthy after two TDs last week. Should find little resistance from Rams defense. Jonathan Stewart RB, Panthers Despite the recent explosion of backfield...
RAJI DRAWS PRAISE FROM EAGLES COACH
YOU often can tell just how much a player means to a coach after a loss. Catch the leader of a program off a big win, and sure, the compliments...
ED FOUNTAINE'S STAKES SPOT PLAYS
A PREVOYANTE HANDICAPCalder, 8th race. Grade 2. Purse: $150,000. Mile-and-a-half, turf, fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up. Post: 3:30 p.m.LOWDOWN: Communique has a solid, consistent late kick and is a...
PACMAN CLEAR CHOICE FOR FIGHTER OF THE YEAR
THERE is no suspense over who will be voted the 2008 Fighter of the Year. Though voting by the Boxing Writers Association of America won't be concluded for a couple...
FANS CAN CHOSE FAVORITE EVENT OF YEAR
THE National Thoroughbred Racing Association has launched its annual contest for fans to vote for racing's "moment of the year" - the one race, horse or emotion that lit up...
INCENTIVE (AND BACKUP RBS) COULD DECIDE GIANTS-'BOYS
There's a school of thought in the NFL this time of year that when measuring incentive, always go with teams fighting to squeeze into the playoffs over teams already in...
METS SHIP SCHOENEWEIS TO DESERT
Mets fans won't have Scott Schoeneweis to kick around anymore. Continuing its offseason bullpen overhaul, the club traded the embattled left-hander and cash considerations to the Diamondbacks last night for...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Dallas downplays rift rumors Before a pivotal game tomorrow night against the Giants, the Cowboys fended off questions about secret meetings and an unhappy Terrell Owens. It began with...
A.J. YANKS' LATEST BIG-NAME SIGNING
A.J. Burnett has accepted a five-year, $82.5 million deal from the Yankees. A major league official with knowledge of Burnett's decision said the deal will become official when Burnett passes...
BOONE BACK IN BLOWOUT
Stromile Swift sat with a sprained right ankle for the Nets last night, so Josh Boone was back in the rotation as the backup center. Boone was inactive Wednesday when...
DEVILS OUTGUN RANGERS IN GOALFEST
The building said Prudential Center. Bobby Holik said otherwise. "Six Flags Adventure Park. And a little more adventure than any of us wanted to see," Holik said after the Devils...
MONEY A PROBLEM IN HUNT FOR SUNDIN
I DON'T like writing about money and never have. I don't like attaching a dollar tag to a player and never have. No player ever signs himself to a contract....
MAGGIE DIXON LEGACY CARRIES ON AT GARDEN
Every varsity athlete at Pittsburgh is certified in CPR and the use of a heart defibrillator - just a small part of the Maggie Dixon legacy, and what a beautiful...
HEISMAN RACE COMES DOWN TO WIRE
Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel had the time of his life during last year's Heisman Trophy weekend in the Big Apple.He tried his first slice of Italian pizza. He had his...
AROUND THE RING: MOSLEY PREPS TO BATTLE MARGARITO, BALCO GHOSTS
Will Shane Mosley be more like Bernard Hopkins or Oscar De La Hoya? The 37-year-old Mosley is scheduled to meet fierce welterweight champion Antonio Margarito on Jan. 24 at the...
SCAM-FIRM ASSOCIATES GET $TIFFED
Partners and associates of disgraced lawyer Marc Dreier can forget about collecting a paycheck or benefits from the decimated firm for the holidays, according to court papers. "It is very...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A teen boy was busted for throwing rocks onto the roadway of the Williamsburg Bridge, causing a two-car collision. Mitchell Wiggins, 16, was on the pedestrian walkway shortly after...
ELECTRONIC CAROL KING
THIS isn't your grandma's Christmas carol. When Phil Kline's "Unsilent Night" hits the streets again this year, he and his 1,000 or so "carolers" will be ringing in the holiday...
DISPLAY THINGS
IF ever your holiday-shopping dollars had to do double-duty, it's now - when the city's cultural institutions sure could use a lift. Not only do museum stores help keep the...
WHERE THE SANTAS ARE
FINDING Santa these days isn't as easy as it used to be - maybe it's the recession, but the big guy doesn't seem to be covering nearly as much ground...
WHAT'S UP?
TODAY JINGLE JAZZ: Seasonal standards swing at Jazz at Lincoln Center's "Red Hot Holiday Stomp" when host Wycliffe Gordon leads singers in a concert of carols, New Orleans style. 2...
WE'VE GOT GAME
ELMO Live may be the must-have toy of the season, but no kid's going to turn down a good, old-fashioned video game. The question is, which one? We've broken down...
A TRULY CORRUPT NATION: TO ILLINOIS AND BACK
Even though I consider The Post the best paper by far, your naivete shows in the two editorials that ran on Dec. 10. In "Beyond Blagojevich," you go through a...
'KOZY & HIS BEAUCOUP KOOKY CUTIES
PARIS - One is black, the other is Arab, both are beautiful - and they are wearing down Nicolas Sarkozy. The French are mesmerized by media coverage of the debonair...
PINUP QUEEN WHIPPED US INTO A FRENZY
BETTIE PAGE is gone, but she won't soon be forgotten. The New York secretary-turned-baroness of bondage died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital at age 85. Her agent, Mark Roesler,...
MEDIA MISTAKES ON DETROIT'S DIVE
Why is there no shame in helping sell Toyota's p.r. campaign? I'VE spent most of my 28 work ing years employed in or own ing a GM car dealership, and...
BEEMER BRUTE BUSTED IN BRONX TEEN STABBING
The knife-wielding madman who stabbed a Bronx teenager for resting a bag on his BMW was busted yesterday, police said. Kwame Ferguson, 35, was arrested in Brooklyn at his girlfriend's...
WHAT BLAGO TELLS US ABOUT OTHER POLS
WHEN Franklin Roosevelt was pounding on the evils of business at the height of the New Deal, the great economist John Maynard Keynes tried to pull him back: "It is...
HILL ALLY: CAROLINE IS NOT READY FOR SENATE
ALBANY - A powerful labor leader with strong ties to Sen. Hillary Clinton yesterday joined the growing ranks of Democrats bashing Caroline Kennedy as a possible successor to the former...
AUTO-UNION ROADBLOCK
WASHINGTON - The effort to bail out the Big Three automakers stalled, largely, over a battle over union members' sky-high benefits and wages - which are nearly double what nonunion...
STEERING RE$CUE TO BIG 3
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration reversed course and opened the door yesterday to acting on its own to aid struggling car companies - a day after the Senate failed to...
'THE SHAGGING DA' DUCKS JAIL TIME FOR LEAK
A former Brooklyn prosecutor who slipped sensitive witness information to her defense-lawyer fiance in order to give him an edge at trial got a tongue-lashing from a judge, who spared...
JEWISH CIRCUIT'S FAITH IS SHAKEN
BERNARD MADOFF is a member in good standing of the Palm Beach Country Club, the exclusive Jewish club on the north end of that island. When I would talk to...
HOLLYWOOD LENDING $TAR POWER TO INAUGURAL
WASHINGTON - Some of President-elect Barack Obama's most glamorous Hollywood supporters kicked in major money to bankroll his inauguration next month, it was revealed yesterday. Sharon Stone donated $50,000 to...
A LIFE BUILT ON 'BULL'
Five decades and $50 billion later, Bernie Madoff is right back where he started - broke. Before getting busted in what appears to be the largest Ponzi scheme ever devised,...
SCHOOL BUS KILLS WOMAN
A school bus with no kids on board fatally struck a Queens woman yesterday morning as she stepped off the sidewalk on the street where she lived, police said. Driver...
'OBAMA JOINT' SUIT ON A ROLL
The Bambu rolling-paper company is smoking mad at a Barack Obama-loving artist for using its iconic packaging on T-shirts that show the president-elect smoking a joint. Seamus McGovern and his...
9/11-HEALTH 'OUTSOURCE' SLAM
The feds plan to yank existing 9/11 health-monitoring and -treatment funds for Mt. Sinai Medical Center and the FDNY - and possibly replace it with a national medical contractor headquartered...
FIT DAD HITS COKE 'STING'
The father of an FIT coed who allegedly dealt drugs outside her Chelsea dorm admitted yesterday that his daughter made a "stupid mistake." But he insisted that she was the...
ACKMAN'S MALL GAMBLE PAYS MORE THAN DOUBLE
With just hours to spare before vaporizing, Bill Ackman's scary "bad news" bet paid off more than double - proof that even in a collapsing economy, smart money can stay...
CIT PULLS BON-TON FINANCING
Bon-Ton is getting clipped by the credit crisis, as a major lender has stopped insuring deliveries to the debt-laden department-store chain. The York, Pa.-based retailer - which operates 281 regional...
GET WELL, DAVE
Here's a warm Get Well Quick to former Mayor David Dinkins, now con valescing after heart surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill- Cornell Medical Center. Dinkins had a heart valve implanted...
BUSH'S BAILOUT BLINK
It seems President Bush is about to blink on an auto-industry bailout. "Given the current weakened state of the US economy," Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino said yesterday, "we will consider...
KEYSTONE KOP OF WALL ST.
Hey Eliot: You missed one! Bernard Madoff, a former Nasdaq chairman who may well be one of the biggest fraudsters in Wall Street history, was arrested Thursday for allegedly running...
'TOP CHEF' JUDGE IN A FRY PAN
"Top Chef" judge Tom Colicchio could find himself hauled in front of a real judge on charges he stiffed workers at his "Craft"-brand restaurants. A class-action lawsuit filed by former...
INVESTOR FUROR OVER '$50B SCAM'
Panicked investors scrambled desperately yesterday to determine whether their life savings had been wiped out after a Wall Street legend allegedly admitted blowing as much as $50 billion in what...
CHARITY TRUSTEE'S A BUSTEE
New York charities yesterday scrambled to cut ties with longtime trustee Bernard Madoff, and one nonprofit group that invested with him was forced to shut down. The Robert I. Lappin...
TIMES PINCHES STAFF SALARIES
New York Times Publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. yesterday said he is freezing salaries for all non-unionized employees through 2009. Separately, the company has sacked the three nighttime DJs at...
ALARM BELLS IN 1999 IGNORED
"Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme." That's was Harry Markopolos' conclusion in a 1999 letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission - an alarm that he sounded 10...
LOSSE$ TO PUSH DC REGS
The beaten-down hedge-fund industry is ruing the day it ever heard the name Bernard Madoff, whose far-reaching, $50 billion Ponzi scheme will only exacerbate what's been an already difficult year....
MADOFF'S STRATEGY WAS JUST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
Though it may take some time to understand the scope of the massive scam that Bernard Madoff is accused of pulling off, it's becoming clear that the investment strategy he...
NO PROFITS ON MADOFF'S SCAM
Call it one of the rare cases when having earned money is enough to keep you up at night. It's likely that lots of people who've made money over the...
FLA. ELITE LOSES ITS JUICE
A financial chill swept through the Sunshine State yesterday as it emerged that many potential victims of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history live in South Florida. "It was a...
OBAMA AIDE'S BLAGO CHATS
Top Barack Obama adviser Rahm Emanuel gave aides to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich a list of candidates he could appoint to the Senate who would be "acceptable" to the president-elect,...
TAINTED COMMISH QUITS
The city's long-serving commissioner of the Department for the Aging quit suddenly late yesterday afternoon under mysterious circumstances. Edwin Mendez-Santiago - the target of a sexual-harassment complaint made by his...
KEEPIN' VIGIL IN VILLAGE
The wild, wild West Village and Meatpacking District mugging spree has escalated to the point that City Council Speaker Christine Quinn sent out a flurry of e-mails warning constituents about...
JACOBS RULED OUT VS. 'BOYS
What was apparent all week became fact yesterday when coach Tom Coughlin officially declared running back Brandon Jacobs out for tomorrow night's game against the Cowboys at Texas Stadium. "He...
KNICKS LOOK TO BECOME KINGS OF THE ROAD
The Knicks are in the midst of five straight games on the road, having split the first two. Tonight they can establish the tone for the final three, says David...
GUARDIAN TO LITTLE BRO SET FOR JETS' DEBUT
By tomorrow, David Clowney could have a new role with the Jets. The 23-year-old receiver is likely to make his NFL debut against the Bills, in place of Brad Smith,...
RAPTORS SINK TEETH INTO CARTER & CO.
Vince Carter left the Meadowlands last night without comment. Or a field goal. This was a Toronto fan's wildest dream. Carter suffered through his worst shooting game as a pro:...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Looks like the dog didn't just eat the homework in Philadelphia, it ate most of the textbooks, too. That's the excuse, basically, that school officials have offered over thousands of...
LOAN WOLVES
The special explains to the rest of us how it happened. FOR those of us who are simplistic enough to know that you actually need money to make loans, History...
LARRY FINE IN 'CSI' DEBUT
LAURENCE Fishburne's debut on "CSI" was a resounding success. Fishburne, introduced on Thursday night's episode, helped "CSI" snare nearly 21 million viewers, its best showing since its Oct. 9 season...
Mets vs. Yankees ... Robertson vs. Robertson?
In the revelry most Mets fans must be feeling in the wake of Scott Schoeneweis being dealt from New York to Arizona, a lesser known fact has added yet another...
Carp, other minor leaguers in package to acquire Putz
Along with Aaron Heilman, Joe Smith and Endy Chavez, the Mets dealt several minor leaguers to the Mariners for closer J.J. Putz Wednesday, including Mike Carp, one of their better...
Schoeneweis dealt to D-backs
Mets fans won't have Scott Schoeneweis to kick around anymore. Continuing its offseason bullpen overhaul, the club traded the embattled left-handed reliever (and cash considerations) to the Diamondbacks tonight for...