January 4, 2004
APPLE BITES BACK ; KING OF DIGITAL MUSIC GIVES WAR PLAN AT MACWORLD
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amTwenty years after it changed the world of personal computing, Apple is getting another bite at the . . . er, apple. It wasn't long ago that Apple was considered...
BULL'S EYE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amPARTING WAYS Domenico De Sole's wife, Eleanor, has told friends that the couple plan to retire to their home in Hilton Head, S.C., once De Sole leaves his post as...
HAVE DOGS, WILL TRAVEL (ANYWAY); KENNEL CULTURE GETS A MUCH-NEEDED FACELIFT
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amMiniature dogs can travel in the cabin of an airplane, but airlines decree that bigger pooches must travel in the cargo hold - a risky proposition pet lovers do their...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER ... 'DIAL M FOR MURDER' IN 3D AT FILM FORUM
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amYou may have seen "Dial M for Murder" - but have you seen it in 3D? Grace Kelly stars in Alfred Hitchcock's classic, now shown in its original, dual-projector form...
THE SHU FITS
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amYOU'VE come a long way, baby.Shu Qi, the sensual, full-lipped Taiwanese-born actress, started her career as a nude model, posing for magazines and videos to gain attention. It was just...
NY'S MOST WANTED: HEY GUYS - HERE'S YOUR TIP SHEET TO MANHATTAN'S HIGHLY ELIGIBLE, A-LIST BACHELORETTES
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amIn a city full of beautiful, ambitious, wealthy single women, it's nearly impossible to narrow down a category like this one. But through many long hours of grueling research, we've...
BOTTOMS UP! HOW TO PLAY THE 'SEX AND THE CITY' DRINKING GAME
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amGot HBO? Got alcohol? Then you've got the makings for "Drinks in the City," a new Sunday night drinking game inspired by the Cosmo-loving chicks of "Sex and the City."...
FIND YOUR OWN CHEAP FRILLS: THE FIVE BIG SATC LOOKS SARAH JESSICA PARKER SETS THIS SEASON - AND HOW TO GET THEM
January 4, 2004 | 5:00am"Sex and the City" is a show that's launched a thousand fashion trends. From nameplate necklaces to oversize flower pins to an unprecedented widespread desire for stilettos, the comely quartet...
TIGHTEN UP: LOVELY LADIES IN LOUD LEGWEAR
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amColored and printed tights seem like they would be easy to wear. They're not. If you wear the same color hose with a similarly shaded skirt or shoes, your legs...
GAME ON! LOW-TECH IS THE NEW HIGH-TECH
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amGen-X and Xbox just don't mix. For those old enough to have seen the dawn of the video game era, retro is winning out over realistic graphics. Or so it...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN FASHION GURU JILL FAIRCHILD PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amFour years ago, Jill Fairchild had a brainstorm. She "woke up in the middle of the night," she says, struck with the idea that New York City shoppers had no...
ENERGY BUILDER JUICE$ UP STATE GOP
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amAn energy company that got $400 million in government-issued Liberty Bonds last month to build a controversial new power plant in Queens kicked in tens of thousands of dollars in...
CROC-ED HUNTER ESCAPES LAW'S JAWS
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amCrocodile-hunter Steve Irwin may not be nominated for parent of the year anytime soon, but he also won't be criminally charged for dangling his infant son mere feet from a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amResidents of a tiny Wisconsin town were flushed with pride as they celebrated 2004. People in Hustisford rang in the new year with the 39th annual Hustisford Toilet Bowl Parade....
FLOWER POWER: NYERS REVVING UP FOR SUPER SPORTS CAR
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amAmerica, start your engines! Sizzling sports car maker Lotus is zooming back into the U.S market after 14 years with a souped-up version of its hot-selling and super-fast Elise two-seater....
BRITNEY'S BRIDE-ING HER TIME
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amPop princess Britney Spears' swinging single days have come to an end - for now. The music megastar tied the knot to childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander early yesterday under...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amSTATEN ISLAND An off-duty cop wounded himself yesterday while unloading his gun, police said yesterday. The incident occurred at 1 p.m. inside a private residence in Tompkins Circle in the...
TRUMP'S TV TWIN: HOW 'SURVIVOR' BIG SNARED DONALD AS 'REALITY' PARTNER
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amIt was roughly 20 years ago, while hawking T-shirts along the sun-baked boardwalk of Venice Beach, Calif., that "Survivor" mastermind Mark Burnett first found his true calling. "On a slow...
BESOTTED BEYONCÉ DIVING INTO LOVE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amHer love's got her looking so crazy right now. While vacationing with boyfriend Jay-Z, singer Beyoncé Knowles jumped from a private yacht and splashed down into the Caribbean off the...
PROBE EYES RED WALL OF SILENCE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amThe NYPD is looking to bring criminal charges against FDNY personnel who tried to cover up the brutal firefighter-on-firefighter attack in a Staten Island station, sources told The Post. Charges...
METS, LOOPER CLOSE DEAL
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amLast seen in New York as part of the Marlins' world championship celebration, Braden Looper will come back to the city in April as the Mets' closer. Team sources told...
WEIRD PLOT OF WOMB BOMBER ; AIMED TO BLOW UP D.C. JET WITH TNT IN BODY
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amA she-bomber planned to blow up British Airways Flight 223 over Washington with plastic explosives hidden inside her body, a chilling new report says. U.S. security services told Scotland Yard...
DRUG DEALERS MADE SICK BOAST: COPS
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amThe two alleged cocaine dealers caught in a narcotics sting along with a Staten Island high school math teacher smugly boasted they "should have shot the cops" who collared them,...
BUSH PUTS CAP ON '05 BUDGET
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Bush administration will cap the increase in discretionary spending at 3 percent for the 2005 budget, according to the federal Office of Management and Budget. The White...
BRITS FINALLY OPEN DI DEATH INQUEST
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amIn a move many say is too little too late, on Tuesday the British government will finally open its first official inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and her...
GRUESOME JET-CRASH AFTERMATH IN RED SEA
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amA scene of horror greeted would-be rescuers yesterday in the Red Sea Egyptian plane crash that killed 148. "It was like someone had put people and their luggage together in...
COMMISH SEEKS $1B REBOOT
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amClaiming the NYPD is "way behind the power curve" because of its outdated computers and technology, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly wants $1 billion to fix the problems. "A lot of...
DEADLY CLASHES ROCK W. BANK
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli soldiers, on the hunt for Islamic Jihad and Hamas militants in the West Bank town of Nablus, were involved in a series of bloody clashes yesterday that...
CHEM FEAR SPARKS EVAC OF CAPITOL
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amThe U.S. Capitol was evacuated for a few hours yesterday after mysterious fumes were detected by sensors in the basement, officials said. "There were a few tour groups in there,...
A LINE ON SCAMMERS; PHONE TIPS SPUR CITY TO PROBE 200 FRAUD CLAIMS
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amAfter receiving hundreds of tips from New Yorkers on its new fraud hot line, the Comptroller's Office is investigating 200 cases where swindlers have allegedly scammed the city. About six...
THOMPSON LIKELY WON'T SWALLOW DEAL IN SNAPPLE GRAPPLE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amCITY Comptroller Bill Thompson will almost certainly refuse to register a $166 million contract negotiated by the Bloomberg administration to make Snapple the city's official drink. "All signs are that...
NEW NICOLE ROLE $MELLS LIKE A HIT
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amA sultry new perfume ad is putting Nicole Kidman atop a cold mountain of cash. The screen siren, one of Hollywood's hottest commodities, has inked a nearly $4 million contract...
SCISSOR BABE WAVED THROUGH NEWARK AIRPORT SECURITY
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amA woman's looks may have trumped airline security at Newark Liberty Airport last week when a federal Transportation Safety Administration supervisor let her sashay through his checkpoint knowing she carried...
PICKING A PERFECT DIET ; AUTHOR-DOC SIZING UP IDEAL REGIMENS
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amIT'S A brand new year, and if you've resolved to drop a couple of dress or suit sizes, chew on this: When it comes to diets, one size does not...
NYPD TECH WRECK; AGING COMPUTERS, DATA WOES FRUSTRATE FIGHT VS. CRIME
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amWhile investigating the stabbing murder of a cigarette vendor in downtown Brooklyn six weeks ago, cops hit a sudden roadblock: Their computer crashed. Detectives at the 84th Precinct wanted to...
MIRACLE GRANNY: 97-YEAR-OLD SURVIVES 8 DAYS UNDER RUBBLE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amAfter surviving eight horrifying days under the rubble of Bam, Iran, Shahrbanou Mazandarani wanted to do only two things - thank God and drink a cup of tea. The 97-year-old...
GUNFIRE KILLS QUEENS TEEN
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amA "wild shootout" in Queens left one teen shot dead last night and two other teens fighting for their lives, police and witnesses said. The gunplay, which took place just...
THAT'S THE SPIRIT! ROVER LANDING LATEST CHAPTER IN MARTIAN CHRONICLES
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amThe answer to humankind's age-old question - are we alone in the universe? - may be closer than ever today. A NASA spacecraft containing the unmanned rover Spirit landed on...
DEADLY TORCHING: QNS. MAN KILLED, SON BADLY BURNED
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amInvestigators say a swift-spreading fire that ravaged a house in Queens - killing a father and critically injuring his teenage son early yesterday - was deliberately set. Fire officials said...
RUDY'S 'ILLEGAL' ELEX $$ A MINOR ERROR: SOURCE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amThe leftover funds from Rudy Giuliani's aborted 2000 Senate campaign being eyed by the Federal Election Commission are the result of a "bureaucratic error" and add up to no more...
GRANT'S ONE BLAZING DEVIL
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amNASHVILLE - One of last spring's surprises, the sort a team needs to win a Stanley Cup, Grant Marshall hopes he has rediscovered that previously-unsuspected goal-scoring knack. The 30-year-old right...
OWNERS' CLAIMS ARE HOT AIR
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - So now it's 1997. Now it's the Rangers' Group II offer sheet to Joe Sakic and the Bruins' entry-level deal with Joe Thornton over the summer of 1997...
INDY'S DAY OF RECKONING ; PEYTON, DUNGY CAN'T AFFORD ANOTHER PLAYOFF FAILURE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The obvious storyline heading into today's wild-card playoff game between the Broncos and Colts is the postseason futility of quarterback Peyton Manning, head coach Tony Dungy and a...
PECA, DIPIETRO HOPE TO HELP DEPLETED ISLES
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amBOSTON - In addition to captain Michael Peca, the Islanders welcomed goalie Rick DiPietro back to the lineup last night after he spent the better part of the week in...
ANTONIO MCDOWN ON HIMSELF ; STRUGGLING DYESS 'MENTALLY DISCOURAGED' ABOUT KNEE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amSomething is wrong with Antonio McDyess; something is very wrong. Don Chaney is so alarmed, not knowing if it's mental or physical, that he arranged a meeting with the former...
PACK TO THE FUTURE ; FAVRE'S READY FOR HOLMGREN'S VISIT TO LAMBEAU FIELD
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amGREEN BAY - Five seasons after their separation, neither Brett Favre nor Mike Holmgren has won another Super Bowl. Today, they may need each other as much as ever. Favre,...
SMARTY JONES ANSWERS LOTS OF QUESTIONS
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amPhiladelphia Park shipper Smarty Jones passed the first big test of his nascent career yesterday at the Big A, coming from just off the pace to win the $75,000 Count...
EXTRA TIME IS JUST FINE WITH DEKE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES With Dikembe Mutombo, it's always about the minutes. Mutombo, who played the entire second half in Friday's loss to the Bulls, posted his first double-double since Nov. 29...
NET-KNICK RIVALRY NEVER QUITE LIVES UP TO POTENTIAL
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amTHIS should have been circled on your calendar long ago, because this should be one of those nights that light up Madison Square Garden like no other. And yet it...
IT'S OFFICIALLY A SLUMP
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amPredators 3 Devils 2 NASHVILLE - The Devils are coming home, as well as back to earth. They hope one fixes the other. Their road odyssey finally finished after playing...
NO 'RASH' JUDGMENT ; BLAZERS BACK OFF WALLACE TRADE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amSHORTLY before Isiah Thomas replaced Scott Layden, I'm informed, the Knicks had made advances on Rasheed Wallace and the Blazers were receptive to the preliminary/primary piece, Kurt Thomas. Filling in...
BYRON'S ABOUT-FACE TURNS NETS INTO FUN BUNCH
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amMaybe Byron Scott learned a little too well from the master, Pat Riley. Scott admits he had become too regimented, too set in his practice ways this season. Practices were...
ROSE MUST MEAN IT
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amTHIS isn't about what Pete Rose is about to admit, publicly and profitably, in his forthcoming book. Rose has looked America in the eye and lied from the moment he...
GETTING AWAY WITH ONE ; RANGERS SLOPPY AGAINST LOWLY PENS
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amRangers 4Penguins 1 PITTSBURGH - On Thursday morning, Anson Carter was talking about how over the course of the season a team invariably loses games it deserves to win and...
CALL FOR A PLAYOFF ; BCS IS SO BROKEN, THERE'S JUST NO FIXING IT
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - From the floor of the Super Dome, Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione pulled out his cell phone Friday evening and tried to make the call that every college...
NOTHING COULD BE FINER FOR CAROLINA: PANTHERS END TEAM TUNA'S PLAYOFF DREAM
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amNFC WILD CARD Panthers 29 Cowboys 10 CHARLOTTE - One after another, the Panthers exited from their joyous locker room to party some more, returning to the field at Ericsson...
'BOY CB TOASTED BY SMITH
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE - Steve Smith is a third-year receiver who last night played in his first playoff game for the Panthers. Terence Newman is a heralded rookie cornerback who last night...
VLAD TO THE METS . . . AND OTHER BASEBALL PROPHECIES FOR 2004
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amVladimir Guerrero will be a Met. Did that get your attention? More important, did it get the Mets' attention? At present, they only admit "monitoring" the second biggest non-event of...
CLONING OF DEER, N.J. BEAR HUNT HIGHLIGHTED '03
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amTHERE were quite a few twists and turns in the great outdoors this past year, some we should worry about, some we should think about, while others deserve a laugh....
IT'S ISIAH VS. BIRD FOR SMITH
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES New Knick boss Isiah Thomas is battling Larry Bird again. While the Knicks still expect to land troubled CBA star Leon Smith tomorrow when 10-day contracts can be...
DEFENSIVE DOUBLES ; SUGAR FOES OKLAHOMA, LSU MIRROR EACH OTHER
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - The difference is not in the numbers, or the personnel, or even the style of play. Oklahoma and LSU, the teams that will determine one-half of the...
TITAN-IC EFFORT ; TENNESSEE BOOTS THE BLOWHARDS FROM BALTIMORE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amAFC WILD CARD Titans 20 Ravens 17 BALTIMORE - The arrogance emanating out of Baltimore had been seeping its way down to Tennessee for days and the Titans, quite simply,...
STORM'S ONE-TWO PUNCH ; INGRAM-HILL COMBO TOO MUCH FOR NIAGARA
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amSt. John's 72 Niagara 65 Elijah Ingram was beating players off the dribble, penetrating at will. Darryll "Showtime" Hill was running the point and managing the game. And best of...
ISLES HAPPY THAT THEY MADE THEIR POINT
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amIsles 3 Bruins 3 BOSTON - Even when they do not win, the Islanders still manage to impress with their unwavering work ethic and an uncanny ability to claw themselves...
FOX SHINES IN REMATCH WITH TUNA
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amNFC NOTES CHARLOTTE - Much had been made leading into last night's game about the coaching matchup of John Fox (in his first playoff game as a head coach) vs....
CALL FOR A PLAYOFF: BCS IS SO BROKEN, THERE'S JUST NO FIXING IT
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - From the floor of the Super Dome, Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione pulled out his cell phone Friday evening and tried to make the call that every college...
TERRIERS ENJOY MSG MATINEE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amSt. Francis 74 Quinnipiac 69 Marist 59 Holy Cross 55 On a weekend dominated by football, the Garden tried to carve out a little space for roundball. Dreyfus Big Saturday...
WOLVERINES GO STAG AT GARDEN
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amCOLLEGE HOOPS Michigan 66 Fairfield 43 When the Garden put together yesterday's quadruple-header, a date against Michigan was obviously going to be circled on Fairfield's schedule. But who knew it...
FASSEL MEETS WITH CARDS; BUFFALO'S THE NEXT STOP
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amThe Jim Fassel interview express rolled on yesterday, with Fassel meeting with the Cardinals' top brass in Tempe, Ariz. According to Steve Rosner, one of Fassel's agents, the meeting was...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amMATCH POINT American tennis pro and Kournikova wannabe Ashley Harkleroad, dubbed "The American Anna," seems to have met her version of Sergei Fedorov. The 18-year-old blonde baseliner from Flintstone, Ga....
FOX PLAYS IT SLY LOOKING AT PLAYOFF PICTURE
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE - John Fox, the Panthers' ultra-successful second-year head coach, didn't see much difference between his club and the Cowboys, the two opponents that squared off last night at Ericsson...
RAVIN' ABOUT WRIGHT: BALTIMORE BELIEVES IN ITS QB
January 4, 2004 | 5:00amBALTIMORE - If you're a bettor and were analyzing yesterday's AFC wild-card game between the Ravens and Titans, the natural inclination was surely to look at the two quarterbacks and...