November 15, 2004
PLASTIC SURGERY - FEDERATED MAY CUT OUT ITS CREDIT-CARD BIZ
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amFederated Department Stores may be getting rid of its plastic, The Post has learned. Federated, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based owner of Macy's and Bloomingdale's, has decided to explore a possible sale...
EMI ADDS EMINEM 'ENCORE'
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amRap superstar Eminem has inked a multi-million dollar publishing deal with U.K. music giant EMI. A formal announcement is expected today. Eminem - who only signs publishing deals for each...
PRIMEDIA'S ROGERS GETS TELEGLOBE CHAIR
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amFormer Primedia chief Tom Rogers has been tapped to be chairman of Teleglobe, the largest international provider of phone service over the Internet. Rogers will continue in his positions as...
DOW JONES NEAR MARKETWATCH DEAL
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amDow Jones & Co. was nearing a deal to acquire MarketWatch, the owner of a leading Internet financial news site, sources said. Initially considered the front-runner, Dow Jones had lost...
TRIMARAN MAKES A MOVE ON FORTUNOFF
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amTrimaran Capital Partners, a New York private equity firm, is in advanced talks to buy a controlling interest in the famed family-owned retailer Fortunoff for more than $250 million. The...
'RYAN' DRAWS FCC COMPLAINTS
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amTHE Federal Communications Commission says it has received a raft of complaints about ABC's airing of "Saving Private Ryan" - which included repeated use of the "F-word." The FCC declined...
STOP, MEREDITH, STOP
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amSO where was Meredith Vieira when the girls of "The View" tossed Star Jones her final, on-air bachelorette party last Friday? Seems that she had to be at home to...
'NIGHT' BLINDNESS
November 15, 2004 | 5:00am'NIGHT, MOTHER[] (Two stars)Royale Theatre, 242 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. THE curtain has been up hardly more than a minute on Marsha Norman's " 'night, Mother," which opened last...
FINDING PITY FOR A 'MONSTER'
November 15, 2004 | 5:00am"Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer" [*** 1/2] (Three and one-half stars) Tonight at 10 on HBO Lesbian prostitute Aileen Wuornos - the first and most famous female...
WHAT'S YOUR 'BOILING POINT'?
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amDON'T blow your top at a stranger anytime soon - it just might cost you $100. "Boiling Points," MTV's hit hidden-camera show that shoots mostly around New York City, awards...
STARR REPORT
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amHe's no average Joe It's a busy time for Joe Piscopo. Not only is he guest-starring on Wednesday's "Law & Order," but he and wife Kimberly are expecting another child...
DRESS UP IN STYLE WITH A FESTIVE, FRILLY CAMISOLE TOP; CAMI AND GET THEM
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amIT'S time to retire that reliable (read: dated) little black dress to the back of your closet. The hot-ticket item for the upcoming party season is a festive, flirty camisole...
CHUCK AND SPITZER NIX PEACE BID
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amHUSH-HUSH attempts to broker a "summit meeting" between U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in hopes of avoiding a potentially divisive primary for governor have failed, The...
DATE WITH DEATH - EX ON TRIAL FOR MURDER OF CO-ED'S BEAU
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amChristopher Mariconi thought he was in for a night of laughter and billiards when he left his Yonkers home for Manhattan on a first date with a pretty college co-ed...
PALS SEE MCG AS GAY LEADER
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amTRENTON, N.J. - Although scandal-scarred New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey spent his final days of office out of the spotlight, friends and political allies predict he will eventually re-emerge as...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amCarol Windham was mystified as to why her van suddenly zoomed forward when she pressed the brake and nearly caused a head-on collision, until she lifted the hood. The Ardmore,...
CITY'S 'BANK' SHOT - HEISTS PLUMMET 20%
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amAfter a record-shattering rise, bank robberies have plunged 20 percent this year in the wake of a blistering campaign by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to force security improvements at branches...
'SOPRANO' MOBSTER LANDS IN 'LEAK' SOUP
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amReputed real-life "Sopranos" mobster Anthony "Marshmallow" Mannarino is toast - he was sentenced to 57 months in the slammer for obstructing justice by tipping off gangster buddies about a federal...
CROSS-DRESS 'KILLER' CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amHoward Goldstein admits beating his elderly roommate to death with a baseball bat, but the cross-dressing Hasidic Jew insists he was acting in self-defense. Speaking out for the first time...
'EXPRESS' DERAILED - FILM TAKES INCREDIBLE BEATING
November 15, 2004 | 5:00am"The Incredibles" proved to be just that again, as the flick remained No. 1 across North America - knocking "The Polar Express" off-track and stealing the thunder from Pierce Brosnan's...
MCCAIN HITS 'ROGUE' CIA BUNGLING
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Arizona Sen. John McCain yesterday slammed the CIA as a quasi "rogue agency" that bungled prewar intelligence and is in desperate need of the high-level purging believed to...
IRAQ RESISTANCE SURPRISES BLAIR
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday said the biggest surprise in the war in Iraq has been the ability of a ragtag group of terrorists to coordinate attacks...
MOMS PUSH FOR DWI LAW - AIMING TO CLOSE LOOPHOLE
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amNearly 10,000 signatures and letters in support of tougher DWI laws will be given to state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver tomorrow by two Queens mothers whose kids recently were mowed...
MAYOR GETS OTBASHED
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amIf Mayor Bloomberg ran his media empire the way he runs the city's Off-Track Betting operation, it would go bankrupt. So says Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn, Queens) - who is...
REBELS GUN FOR ABBAS
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amYasser Arafat's temporary successor, Mahmoud Abbas, escaped injury yesterday when Palestinian militants sparked a chaotic Gaza City gunfight in which two of his security guards were killed and six other...
ARAFAT GOT PAID AT THE PUMP
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amYasser Arafat reportedly skimmed $2 million a month from the gasoline trade in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. The skimming was uncovered by U.S. accountants after international donors forced...
'SUPREME' BATTLE LOOMS
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Schumer yesterday warned that a Clarence Thomas nomination for Supreme Court chief justice would "evoke a fight" from Democrats. Schumer said Democrats have given the OK...
COPS NAB LOVE-TRIANGLE 'KILLER'
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amPolice yesterday captured the jealous ex-lover who allegedly made good on an a deadly threat. Cops say Omar Pickins stabbed to death the beau of his estranged girlfriend at her...
VERIZON BREAKS CITY CONNECTION
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amVerizon decided to move its headquarters from Manhattan to New Jersey or Virginia after three years of fruitless negotiations with city officials, who tried to convince the telephone giant to...
NEW REBEL ONSLAUGHT IN MOSUL
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amRebels were turning up the heat yesterday in Mosul, where U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces retook a police station that was recently overrun by rebels. Analysts said Mosul, which...
CONEY IS. HERO 'BRINGING PEACE'
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amSoon after the buzz of gunfire faded from his ears, Army Spc. Frederick Ofori, who just minutes earlier earned hero status in Fallujah, called his mom in Coney Island and...
OL' DADDY BASTARD - WIDOW RAPS TALE OF HIS '13' KIDS
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amRapper ODB's stricken wife yesterday appeared braced for a possible all-out war over his hip-hop estate - by scoffing at claims that he fathered more than a dozen kids. "For...
GRISLY FALLUJAH FIND - MUTILATED FEMALE CORPSE MIGHT BE WESTERN HOSTAGE
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amMarines searching for holdout guerrillas in Fallujah yesterday discovered the mutilated body of a blond woman lying in the street under a blood-soaked cloth - and officials believe it could...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amQUEENS * A man was shot dead in an apparent robbery on a Corona street, police said yesterday. Police responded to the Horace Harding Expressway near 99th Street at the...
GLOVES COME OFF IN STADIUM ROW
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amCity taxpayers should be allowed to vote on whether they want to fund a West Side stadium, Madison Square Garden officials said yesterday. Mayor Bloomberg wants to use $600 million...
HIV TEST TO BE ROUTINE
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amRoutine testing for HIV is expected to be part of a new strategy by the Bloomberg administration to stop the spread of the virus in New York City, The Post...
CORRUPT JANITORS CLEAN UP - BACK IN CITY JOBS
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amA handful of school custodians who pleaded guilty to violations stemming from one of the largest education scandals in the city's history have quietly moved back into their old positions,...
HIGH LIFE IN B'KLYN TOWER
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amBrooklyn's tallest building is set to become a luxury residential tower, The Post has learned. The Williamsburg Bank Building, whose gold-topped clock tower crowns the borough's skyline, is in contract...
WORTH WEDDING FOR - STAR NUPS A DELIGHT FOR STYLE MAVENS
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe Star formerly known as Ms. Jones looked like a million bucks when she officially became Mrs. Al Reynolds on Saturday night. In a dramatic change of pace for the...
PUTTING THE O.T. IN D.O.T. - CITY DEPT. PAYS BIG
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amMore than half of the city's top 50 overtime earners work for the Transportation Department, The Post has learned. One of those employees is Ralph McKenzie, a chief marine engineer...
GRACIE GETS ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amSpunky little Gracie Harpham is leaving Brooklyn tomorrow for North Carolina to begin a month of preparatory procedures leading up to a lifesaving bone-marrow transplant. "She's got a fighting spirit...
WORKER ELECTROCUTED AT L.I. HOME
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amA construction worker fixing the siding on a Long Island home was electrocuted, and a colleague critically injured, when they accidentally hoisted a piece of scaffolding into a live power...
I'VE FOUND ATLANTIS: EXPLORER
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amAtlantis has surfaced, an American scientist claimed yesterday. Deep-sea explorer Robert Sarmast said his team discovered the famed lost continent earlier this month in mile-deep Mediterranean waters between Cyprus and...
MEXICO LINK IN QAEDA NUKE PLOT
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In a diabolical plot, al Qaeda operatives may be trying to smuggle nuclear weapons into Mexico for an eventual strike against the United States, Time magazine reports. Sharif...
'BANK' SHOT: CITY HEISTS DOWN 20%
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amAfter a record-shattering rise, bank robberies have plunged 20 percent this year in the wake of a blistering campaign by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to force security improvements at branches...
CROSS-DRESS KILLER CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amHoward Goldstein admits beating his elderly roommate to death with a baseball bat, but the cross-dressing Hasidic Jew insists he was acting in self-defense. Speaking out for the first time...
BEEP 'BOOZE' BOMBSHELL - EX-DRIVER ACCUSES BROOKLYN'S MARKOWITZ
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amBrooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is a heavy drinker who would often use his official vehicle for personal chores - lights, sirens and all, one of his former drivers charges....
DEATH CRASH - MAN KILLED, TEENS HURT ON 'BOOBY TRAP' L.I. ROAD
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amA young Long Island man was killed and his three teen pals badly injured last night when his car slammed into a utility pole - in nearly the same spot...
CRIME REIGNS AT 16 SCHOOLS
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amAnd you thought city high schools were tough. Sixteen elementary and middle schools accounted for nearly 15 percent of serious crimes reported in the lower grades during the past school...
DEV DIE-HARDS LOSING HOPE FOR A SEASON
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amEven the most optimistic are losing hope, and time is probably shorter than they think. There was a gaggle of Devils who came to New Jersey in late summer, ready,...
KNICKS WARY OF TEXAS TORMENT - SWING COULD BE RECORD-KILLER
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amSAN ANTONIO - Proud Texan Kurt Thomas is looking forward to this week. He's the only one in the Knick universe who is. The Texas Triangle is upon them and...
HEAVYWEIGHTS NEED GOLOTA-VITALI BOUT
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amMan, was there some action in the Garden Saturday night! Tempers flared, fists flew and the crowd of 12,777 rose to get a better view of the action. Unfortunately little...
NEW DOCTOR MAKES MONEY-SAVING CALL
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SAN ANTONIO - Before training camp, the Knicks hired a new team doctor, Lisa Callahan, quietly replacing Norman Scott. Isiah Thomas made Dr. Callahan the club's No. 1...
KIDD CLOSE TO RETURN - NETS STAR AIMS AT NEXT MONTH
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amFor every step the Nets take forward, they take 10 steps back. Yesterday, while Jason Kidd sounded optimistic about his injured left knee and even pointed to a possible return...
THIS COLLAPSE IS ON COACHES
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amLAMONT Jordan was the one who stood up when it was over, who asked the world to blame him for this mess. He was the one who said what a...
INJURIES FORCE JINTS TO SHUFFLE UP D-LINE
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES TEMPE - So just how did the Giants compensate for the absence of Michael Strahan yesterday as they faced the Cardinals at Sun Devil Stadium? Not easily. Lance...
RAVES FOR SUPER BOLLER
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe big joke this week was that the Jets' second-stringer, Quincy Carter, was probably better than the Baltimore starter behind center. But nobody's laughing anymore after Kyle Boller led the...
KURT-AINS FOR BIG BLUE MESS - QB CHANGE LOOMS AFTER DESERT DISASTER
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amCardinals 17 - Giants 14 TEMPE - After another loss, with the specter of a long, laborious and losing second half of the season stretching before them, the Giants certainly...
CURTIS RUNS INTO RECORD BOOK
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amJET NOTES Out of a devastatingly negative loss came more positive news about Curtis Martin, the Jets' forever-young running back who rushed for another 119 yards yesterday. Martin now needs...
IN CRUNCH TIME, JETS GET CLOCKED - MISMANAGEMENT LETS RAVENS PREVAIL
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amOVERTIME: Ravens 20 - Jets 17"You play to win the game." Those carefully-measured, dramatically-delivered words have become so much a part of Herman Edwards' mantra that he wrote a book...
JETS SPREAD BRAINLOCK ALL AROUND
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amAT ALL cost, Herman Edwards was determined not to let Quincy Carter lose this game for the Jets. Instead, the head coach and offensive coordinator Paul Hackett took care of...
JETS MUST PASS ON HB OPTION
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amYears from now, long after Herman Edwards has retired to golf and relaxation on the Monterey Peninsula, future Jets coaches will review tapes of big games past for this organization...
RAVENS SNIFFED OUT JORDAN PASS
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe Ravens were ready and waiting. And because they stuck to their defensive assignments and read the LaMont Jordan halfback option pass from the moment the ball was snapped, the...
CION POWERS FRIARS
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amCHSFL AAA: St. Anthony's 30 - Chaminade 3 CHSFL AA: Holy Cross 28 - Iona Prep 20 The day after leading rusher Kevin Hahn left St. Anthony's because of a...
TIME FOR TOM TO CALL ON ELI
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amTEMPE - It isn't only the quarterback's fault, of course. Kurt Warner didn't do anything disastrous yesterday. He didn't do anything spectacular either. He hasn't done anything spectacular in a...
KURT-AINS FOR BIG BLUE MESS - DESERT DISASTER RAISES SOME GIANT QUESTIONS
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amTEMPE - If the problem were only the quarterback, Giants coach Tom Coughlin would make the change and be done with it. But it is so much more. "I'd be...
ST. JOHN'S PREVIEWS NEW LOOK
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amRodney Epperson snagged his own rebound along the left baseline. With his eyes still on the rim, he whipped an eye-high pass to Dexter Gray, who dropped in a layup....
TIKI: PUT LOSS ON THE OFFENSE
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amTEMPE - Tiki Barber pointed the finger yesterday - at himself and the 10 men he plays with on offense. "I don't know if guys are . . . are...
INJURIES FORCE D-LINE SHUFFLE
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES TEMPE - So just how did the Giants compensate for the absence of Michael Strahan yesterday as they faced the Cardinals at Sun Devil Stadium? Not easily. And...
FAKE PUNT'S A BIG MISFIRE
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amTEMPE - Every day, Jeff Feagles said, the Giants practice the fake punt and every day, Feagles said, he completes the pass. But yesterday he and the Giants misfired every...
SOSA & GUILLEN ON METS' RADAR
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amJust before Omar Minaya left the GM meetings Friday, he mentioned how the Mets would have a baseball operations meeting today. "We'll review everything from the GM meetings," Minaya said,...
MLK BOOTERS WEAR 5TH STRAIGHT TITLE
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe school may barely be in existence anymore because of Department of Education rearranging, but Martin Luther King, Jr. still has perhaps the most dominant team of any sport in...
THE POST'S TOP 25
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amRank (prev) TEAM RESULT NEXT 1 USC (9-0) beat Arizona 49-9 Idle (1) Have this funny feeling that every non-stop from L.A. to Miami is sold out. 2 Oklahoma (9-0)...
CLASSIC MOMENTS IN NEW YORK SPORTS HISTORY - VOLUME 1
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amROGER MARIS SURPASSES THE BABE 61 in '61 CHEERS TO YOU, ROG The myth has become codified as reality by a legion of revisionist historians such as film-maker Billy (Asterisk)...
CLASSIC MOMENTS IN NEW YORK SPORTS HISTORY
November 15, 2004 | 5:00amISLANDERS WIN 19 CONSECUTIVE PLAYOFF SERIES The forgotten dynasty It had never been done before in the history of professional sports and now that we have entered en era of...