September 29, 2006

LIVEBLOG - Sailing on the Queen Mary

Interested in sailing? The last transatlantic crossing of the season--from Southampton to Fort Lauderdale leaves England on November 18. Fares begin at $1,299 per person, based on advance booking.For more...

LIVEBLOG - Day 6, Friday

It's the last day. Everyone seems a little bummed. And also antsy. The elevators are full, dining rooms are overflowing, everyone's just milling around, trying to take it all in...

NHL ICES A DEAL FOR FIRST STORE

The National Hockey League will soon plant its puck in Midtown with plans to open its first-ever retail store on Sixth Avenue at 47th Street, The Post has learned. The...

FBI'S SECRET SOURCE - STOCK PRO WORKED FOR FEDS V. FAIRFAX

A forensic accountant sued by embattled Fairfax Financial Holdings for being part of a short-selling cabal attacking the firm was actually working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Post...

NEWS CORP. ADDS WEEKLIES

News Corp. completed the purchase of two weekly newspaper chains in Brooklyn and Queens that between them publish more than 30 titles. Executives said the company is still eyeing additional...

ZUCKER PUNCH - NBC'S NO. 2 BECOMES HEIR APPARENTLY-NOT

Jeff Immelt wants to see other people - including a casual encounter with Tom Freston - before he makes a commitment to Jeff Zucker. The NBC Universal wunderkind, who rose...

STAFF WALKS THE PLANK AT LISTING PIRATE CAPITAL

There's blood aplenty on the decks of Pirate Capital, a $1.7 billion hedge fund that saw nearly half its investment staff depart this week. Norwalk, Conn.-based Pirate has garnered attention...

BW CUTTING STAFFERS- NEW EDITOR CLEANS HOUSE; 14 WRITERS, EDITORS AXED

BUSINESS WEEK'S new Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler is slashing and burning. In its second round of cutbacks in less than a year, the McGraw-Hill flagship lowered the boom on 12 editorial...

H-P CIRCUS HITS CAPITOL

WASHINGTON - It's not surprising that Hewlett-Packard has become the laughingstock of corporate America. That often happens when a group of people are consumed by paranoia and behave like idiots....

COMIC RELIEF

COMEDY Central is making a star-studded charity benefit its first-ever live event next month. The telecast, called "Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Benefit for Autism Education," will feature...

CHARLIE ON THE CHEAP - NO MORE $1-MILLION-A-WEEK TV STARS

"ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SEE HOW MANY FEWER VIEWERS ARE WATCHING BROADCAST TV. THAT HAS AN IMPACT ON SALARIES." BEING TV's highest-paid sitcom star ain't what it used...

YEAH, IT'S THAT BAD! - REMEMBER THE LAST TIME KEVIN COSTNER MADE A WATER MOVIE?; COSTNER, KUTCHER ALL WET

THE men who make the Coast Guard in "The Guardian" strive to be the best of the best. The men who made "The Guardian" strive to be the averagest of...

21ST FARM AID PLOWS INTO N.J.

IN what has become one of music's longest-running annual benefit concerts, Farm Aid celebrates its 21st anniversary tomorrow with its show in Camden, N.J. Tickets are still available for the...

THE 3 FACES OF HANK III

THE volatile and talented Hank Williams III (along with a band that includes mesmerizing and manic bass player Joe Buck) tunes up three ways at Northsix (66 N. Sixth St.,...

DEFROSTING TRICKY DICK

LONDON - Nicole Kidman and Kevin Spacey have been raving to friends about his performance. Judi Dench and Ian McKellen have feted him at dinner. And Harold Pinter says he...

MEMORIES OF MEAN QUEENS CREATE VIVID TALE

DITO Montiel's "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints," an autobiographical coming-of-age film, won the directing award at Sundance - but it's not at all the sort of art-house snoozer that...

FLUNKED FILM CLASS

'SCHOOL for Scoundrels" teaches one important lesson: Avoid anything carrying the banner of The Weinstein Co., which is to the multiplex what bagged spinach is to the produce aisle. Les...

GOOD WORD OF (NO) MOUTH

VENTRILOQUISM isn't for everyone. Most people who want to throw their voices can go ahead and throw them and, for all I care, leave them in the cloakroom, uncollected. But...

SIMON SCOFFS AT FEAT OF CLAY

'AMERICAN Idol" judge Simon Cowell labeled Clay Aiken an "idiot" for whining about his panic attacks. In an interview with Diane Sawyer last week, Aiken admitted to taking the anti-depressant...

MARY'S HOT PICK

SICILIAN singer/songwriter and acoustic guitarist Carmen Consoli's latest CD, "Eva Contro Eva," made its debut at No. 1 on the Italian charts, but she doesn't have a chance of usurping...

CASINO BEAT

NEW JERSEY * Soul diva PATTI LABELLE performs Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Hilton Grand Theater. Tickets: $60; hiltonac.com, (609) 340-7160. * D-list celebrity KATHY GRIFFIN performs Saturday at...

STARR REPORT

"Law & Order," which will feature Chevy Chase playing a hate-filled Mel Gibsontype character, has now set its sights on the late Patsy Ramsey - with Liza Minnelli in the...

FOOT FOR THOUGHT - 'DEXTER' KILLS ONLY KILLERS

FORTUNATELY for the citizens of Miami, there are plenty of serial killers in their midst. While that might not seem advantageous at first glance - especially for the victims of...

AL-LEY CATTIN' A GUY THING: POL

It's just what men do. That's what state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., who introduced Jeanine Pirro to the New York Hispanic Clergy Organization yesterday, said about Al Pirro amid new...

QAEDA NUT CLAIMS 4K WAR DEAD

WASHINGTON - The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq yesterday revealed that more than 4,000 foreign fanatics have been killed in the Iraq war, as he urged Muslims to turn...

LIEBERMAN'S MOJOE RISING VS. LAMONT

Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman has a 10-point lead over Democratic rival Ned Lamont, with the upstart anti-war candidate having a tough time bringing independent and GOP voters into his corner,...

EVEN HEROES GET TIRED

FT. KNOX, KY. THEY keep gold here, and in more ways than one. Everybody knows about the Ft. Knox national gold repository - anybody who's ever seen the James Bond...

ATTORNEY'S LAWSUIT VS. HYNES TOSSED

A federal judge has tossed out a Brooklyn lawyer's suit alleging that DA Charles Hynes prosecuted her as payback for challenging him in the 2001 primary. Judge William Pauley dismissed...

COP A 'GHOUL THIEF' - CORPSE-CREDIT BUST

An NYPD cop has been busted for allegedly stealing credit cards - from corpses. Officer Eduardo Saillant, 38, of the 60th Precinct in Brooklyn allegedly took the cards while taking...

$5M ECSTASY RING SMASHED

The feds yesterday arrested 25 members of an ecstasy ring believed responsible for smuggling more than $5 million in pills into the United States from Canada - and then marketing...

NYERS GET PEEK AT TOURIST SPACESHIP

Billionaire businessman Richard Branson offered space fanatics a glimpse into the future yesterday - a cutaway of the interior of the VirginGalactic SpaceShip2 he expects will soon be taking tourists...

T.O. PILL CRISIS AFTER BREAKUP - TRAINER BARES OWENS WOES OVER 2 GALS

DALLAS - Brash football star Terrell Owens was aching from a busted hand and a broken heart when rescuers saved him from an apparent suicide bid, it was reported yesterday....

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

MANHATTAN * The NYPD yesterday released a photo (above) of a thief who attempted to rob a Murray Hill bank. The unidentified bandit, sporting a goatee and carrying a knapsack,...

SUBWAY STATION TO COST $2.1 BIL - CITY TO SHELL OUT IN W. SIDE DEAL

The city will pay $2.1 billion to build a single subway stop on the No. 7 train extension as part of its deal with the MTA to share a role...

HILL HITS SPEED STUMP

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is hitting the heartland to stump for Democratic congressional candidates down the stretch - and hobnob with voters in advance of a likely 2008...

PARTY IN RUINS - WHY PIRRO IS THE BEST THE GOP CAN DO

SO now it has come to this: The only Republican candidate for a statewide office with any star power at all this year finds herself enmeshed in a perplexing scandal...

A GOOD 'READ' - CHARTER KIDS OUTPERFORM OTHERS

Students in city charter schools are more likely to be reading at or above grade level than their counterparts in traditional public schools in the same neighborhood, a new analysis...

FERRY SUIT IS SETTLED

The husband of the last victim to die from injuries sustained in the Staten Island ferry disaster settled his lawsuit with the city yesterday. Bill Castro's wife, Debra, died two...

MY SIS MADE UP 'MARRIAGE TO PA' TALE - 'SICK' BID TO EXTORT FUND MOGUL

The woman at the center of a twisted incest tale is a lying gold-digger trying to extort money from her multimillionaire hedge-fund dad, her stepsister charged yesterday. Linda McMahan's sexual...

GANG-RAPE VICTIM SET TO TESTIFY

The four girlfriends drove from New Jersey one Saturday night to drink blue Hawaiians in an Inwood hot spot. By dawn, one, weighing a mere 100 pounds, had been tricked...

QUEASY DOES IT - DE NIRO GIVES MIKE UNAPPETIZING LOOK WHEN MENTIONING TRANS-FAT BAN PLAN

Looks like something Mayor Bloomberg said left a bad taste in Robert De Niro's mouth. The actor gave Hizzoner his trademark "You talkin' to me?" expression yesterday at a press...

JEANINE'S FEAR OF 'OTHER LADY' - TOLD PALS THE WOMAN WAS WIFE OF AL'S LAWYER

Jeanine Pirro confided to friends that she feared her scandal-plagued husband was having an affair with his lawyer's wife, Lisa Santangelo - a stunning brunette 20 years her junior, sources...

PAL BOXING PROGRAM IS COUNTED OUT

The Parks Department knocked out a longtime boxing program yesterday in Brooklyn - angering the police officers who formed the league more than 20 years ago. The Police Athletic League...

WHY FEMALE POLS WILL LIVE WITH A LOUSE

IT'S the million-dollar question on everyone's mind: Why the hell does Jeanine Pirro, the wounded Republican candidate for state attorney general, stay with her cheating, speeding, ex-con louse of a...

CLUBS SEEK WILD WEST SIDE 'SHERIFF' - SUMMITEERS TALK OF CITY NIGHTLIFE OFFICE

Participants in yesterday's first-ever "nightlife summit" agreed that police must help nightclub owners keep the peace and that there must be better regulation of the $10 billion-a-year industry - possibly...

DEAD S&M GUY A BEGGAR

The leather-masked mystery man, who was found hanging from a chain link fence in the West Village decked from head to toe in S&M gear, was drunk and asking for...

'PERV' PLAYS MOTHER CARD

A married Manhattan tax attorney, charged with repeatedly paying for sex with two underage sisters in his Midtown pied-a-terror, plans to call an unlikely witness to testify on his behalf...

GIRL-MOLEST PERV CAGED

An elderly former screenwriter was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday for a horrific crime - sexually violating a 5-year-old girl in her Lower East Side bedroom as the...

GRANNY FALLS IN LIRR GAP

An 82-year-old passenger slipped and fell between a Long Island Rail Road station's platform and the train she was exiting yesterday in Lawrence, hitting her head and injuring her left...

GIRL-MOLEST FIEND CAGED

An elderly former screenwriter was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday for sexually violating a 5-year-old girl in her Lower East Side bedroom last year as her transsexual dad,...

'MICKEY MOUSE' ROBBER

A female bank robber, carrying a distinctive bag with pictures of cartoon characters, including Mickey Mouse, has committed at least two bank robberies on Long Island, cops said. Her latest...

T.O. PILL CRISIS AFTER BREAKUP - TRAINER REVEALS NFL STAR'S GAL WOE

DALLAS - Brash football star Terrell Owens was aching from a busted hand and a broken heart when rescuers saved him from an "accidental overdose," it was reported yesterday. Owens'...

IT'S THE LADY IN BLUE - LIGHTS UP FOR ]]ANNIVERSARY

The Statue of Liberty usually wears green - but last night she stood tall in blue. Lady Liberty was given a temporary color makeover to celebrate the forthcoming 120th anniversary...

ANTI-W. $OROS: I QUIT POLITICS

Billionaire liberal financier George Soros, who spent millions of his fortune trying to oust President Bush in 2004, yesterday said he hopes to stay out of politics from now on....

BOMB SCARE SHAKES JFK

A bomb scare at Kennedy Airport last night caused flights to be delayed and the partial shutdown of the AirTrain, authorities said. A black duffel bag, found unattended at 8...

BROOKLYN COP SAVES BABY'S LIFE

A quick-thinking Brooklyn cop was hailed as a hero last night after she used her instincts as a former EMT to save a baby's life, police said. Sgt. Barbara Fischer,...

WOMAN FALLS INTO LIRR GAP

An 82-year-old passenger fell between a Long Island Rail Road station's platform and the train she was exiting yesterday in Lawrence, hitting her head and injuring her left ankle. The...

CHESS KING WAGES WAR OVER 'THRONE'

A $1 million chess match is about to blow up because a world champion accuses his Russian opponent of cheating - in the bathroom. The match began with a shock...

NYPD AVENGER - HAUNTS DUO WHO KILLED HIS GRANDPA

A rookie cop who wears the same badge as his murdered NYPD grandfather will appear at a hearing today to demand that two killers convicted for the 1980 slaying be...

CHESS KING 'CHEATS' ON THE THRONE

A $1 million chess match is about to blow up because a world champion accuses his Russian opponent of cheating - in the bathroom. The match, the biggest to chess...

'PIANO MAN'-SION FOR SALE

Billy Joel is movin' out - but only if someone ponies up the $37.5 million he's asking for his Long Island mansion. The singer/songwriter has just listed his renovated 14-acre...

NEW JERSEY - THE GARDEN STATE

With more than 150 varieties of fruits and vegetables grown in the state, New Jersey earned its nickname. On Dec. 18, 1787, it became the third state to ratify the...

STAND BACK! GREAT BALL OF FIRE

A roaring fire swept through a second-floor apartment in a Brooklyn building late yesterday, authorities said. More than 60 firefighters from six units responded to the blaze, which broke out...

A GOOD 'READ' - CHARTER-SCHOOL KIDS OUTPERFORM OTHERS

Students in city charter schools are more likely to be reading at or above grade level than their counterparts in traditional public schools in the same neighborhood, a new analysis...

LIEBERMAN MOJOE RISING VS. LAMONT

Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman has a 10-point lead over Democratic rival Ned Lamont, with the upstart anti-war candidate having a tough time bringing independent and GOP voters into his corner,...

'PARTY' GAL HILL HITS SPEED STUMP

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is hitting the heartland to stump for Democratic congressional candidates down the stretch - and hobnob with voters in advance of a likely 2008...

ROSTER'S LIGHT ON PITCHERS

YANKEE NOTES The Yankees won't finalize their postseason roster until Sunday, but Joe Torre said it will likely contain 14 players and only 11 pitchers. He acknowledged the roster will...

RUDY (1993)

The miraculous victory that Notre Dame pulled off this past weekend might remind viewers of another extraordinary story from the Fighting Irish's past. The movie is based on the real...

NETS GIVE WILLIAMS 2ND SHOT

Jay Williams just wants to prove people wrong. Again. The former second overall pick, whose career seemed doomed by a devastating motorcycle accident, signed a non-guaranteed, make-good contract with the...

TEEL'S BEEN A SILENT KNIGHT

He's undefeated this season. He quarterbacks the No. 23-ranked team in the nation. And he's been a principal piece in Rutgers' football rebirth. But sophomore Mike Teel hasn't truly won...

DEARTH CONTROL - BIG BLUE FIXING PROBLEMS BEFORE THEY MULTIPLY

Four days spent in self-analysis, not on the couch but on the field and the meeting room, concluded yesterday with the Giants parting ways for a three-day weekend corresponding to...

CATCHING FIRE - COLES EXCELS BY SHEER WILL

Pete Kendall was a relative newcomer to the Jets when they reacquired Laveranues Coles in a March, 2005 trade with the Redskins for Santana Moss. Kendall knew, however, before Coles...

RANGERS CONTINUE TO GEAR UP

The Rangers will enter the final weekend of the preseason with their lineup two players lighter. Defenseman Daniel Girardi and rookie forward Greg Moore were both cut from the NHL...

NEW FULLBACK MAY GET TO OPEN HOLES

JET NOTES Don't be surprised to see fullback James Hodgins in the Jets' lineup on Sunday even though the newcomer has been with the team for only a few days....

BROWN AND KNICKS ON COLLISION COURSE

Knicks brass doesn't believe Larry Brown gave it his all to win games last season. But it's clear Brown is hell-bent on winning today, treating his meeting with the Knicks...

FEW MORE CUTS TO GO FOR ISLES

Tryouts will go a week longer than expected. The Islanders will make not-so-final cuts this weekend after the exhibition finale against the Devils. But thanks to NHL schedule-makers, one player...

GORDON: ROLLINS OVER JETER

Former Yankee Tom Gordon claimed Wednesday that present teammate and Philadelphia star Jimmy Rollins is a better player than Derek Jeter. And while the Bombers were tactful - a sign...

SHUG'S SIGHTSEEING PAYS OFF

Track was fast, turf firm; John Velazquez took off mounts again because of bum ankle. SECOND RACE: Shug McGaughey's Sightseeing, Phipps homebred 2-year-old Pulpit colt who ran second last out...

DEVILS NIP FLYERS IN SHOOTOUT

Sergei Brylin scored the only goal of the shootout to give the Devils a comeback 5-4 preseason victory over the Flyers last night at the Meadowlands. Trailing by three in...

CABRERAA ONE-HITWONDER

Orioles 7Yankees 1 With one out in the ninth last night at the Stadium, Robinson Cano broke up the Orioles' Daniel Cabrera's no-hit bid with a slicing single to left....

EX-YANK GORDON: ROLLINS TOPS JETER

Former Yankee Tom Gordon claimed Wednesday that present teammate and Philadelphia star Jimmy Rollins is a better player than Derek Jeter. And while the Bombers were tactful - a sign...

1-HIT WONDER - CABRERA'S NEAR NO-NO STOPS BOMBERS

Orioles 7 - Yankees 1 With one out in the ninth last night at the Stadium, Robinson Cano broke up the Orioles' Daniel Cabrera's no-hit bid with a slicing single...

POHLAD'S DOLLARS CAN'T BUY SENSE

CARL POHLAD may be the 78th wealthiest person in America with a 2005 net worth of $2.8 billion as gauged by Forbes Magazine, but the owner of the Twins sure...

A PERFECT STUDY

COLLEGE NOTES Contenders? Pretenders? Offenders? As we head into the second third of the season, there are 18 undefeated teams remaining after TCU lost its first game last night. Some...

SAINTS' SUPERDOME SHINDIG SATURATED BY ESPN

GIVEN the daily reminders delivered by ESPN about ESPN - a network that sells and oversells everything it owns until we retch - what should we make of ESPN's soulful,...

FALL SIGNALS START OF BLACKFISH SEASON

THE fall marathon is on with lots of action along the North and South Shores. The fall run of stripers is in full swing especially around the South Fork and...

DUDDY FACES TOUGH VET

John Duddy's story is a familiar one to past generations of Irish-Americans who fled their homeland in search of a better life. Like them he settled in the city, driven...

THESE JETS CAN ROAR - ERIC-CHAD COMBO COULD MAKE NOISE VERSUS COLTS

BS' Randy Cross knows the Patriots about as well as anyone on television does. So when Cross starts to see a lot of New England in Hempstead, it means something....

TURNER CALLS CAL - RIPKEN EYED FOR NEW MLB PACKAGE

Perhaps the most revered retired baseball player, Cal Ripken Jr., has had talks with TBS about joining its new Major League Baseball package that begins next season, sources have told...

5 QUESTIONS FOR RON DARLING

This week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with SportsNet NY's Ron Darling. Darling, 46, is in his first season on Met games. Darling will work SNY's pre- and post-game...

MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK - JOE TORRE VS. WILLIE RANDOLPH (WHO'S BETTER WITH THE MEDIA?)

When Willie Randolph meets with the media before games, he has that "I can't wait till this is over'' look. During the sessions, Randolph is at best guarded and at...

BETTOR'S GUIDE: WEEK 4 - INDY IN FOR A FIGHT

OK, so you expect the Colts to wipe the field with the Jets Sunday. Well, here are a couple of reasons to grab the hefty nine-point spread: * Peyton Manning...

HONDO ON ROAD TO GREATNESS

What's truly odd about the Odd Couple is that they're in first place. You don't have to be Nostradamus to know that's not going to last. Meanwhile, Hondo remained a...

ROSTER LIGHT ON PITCHERS

YANKEE NOTES Joe Torre said the Yankees won't finalize their postseason roster until Sunday, but did say it will likely contain only 11 pitchers. "In all likelihood we're going to...

MET FANS, IT'S NOT AS BAD AS IT SEEMS

THERE is something you really should ponder if you are a Mets fan, if your teeth are chattering, if your knees are clattering, if you're convinced - in the time-honored...

FLOYD GETS A SHOT

MET NOTES ATLANTA - Cliff Floyd's ailing left Achilles was getting a cortisone shot yesterday. The Mets said their left fielder was back in New York, with his left ankle...

TORN TENDON IN CALF SHELVES MARTINEZ

METS 7 BRAVES 4 ATLANTA - The season is over for Pedro Martinez. According to GM Omar Minaya, the Mets' ace learned via an MRI exam yesterday that he has...

PSST ...HEY, CARL, YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS

CARL Pohlad may be the 78th wealthiest man in America with a 2005 net worth of $2.8 billion as gauged by Forbes Magazine, but it sure seems as if the...

EL DUQUE, GLAVINE - NOT PEDRO - READY TO ROLL

ATLANTA - Game 1 and Game 2 next week have been assigned. Willie Randolph announced his starters for the opening two games of next week's NLDS yesterday, handing the opening...

TRENDSETTERS - THE TOP PLAYS

Cardinals (+7) at Falcons 1 p.m. The Monday Night loser from the previous week - Washington, Oakland, Pittsburgh - is 03 this season. The Falcons could be next. Arizona is...

AMAZIN'S HOPE SHOT BOOSTS FLOYD

MET NOTES ATLANTA - Cliff Floyd's ailing left Achilles was getting a cortisone shot yesterday. The Mets said their left fielder was back in New York yesterday, with his left...

PLAYOFF POSSIBILITIES

ATLANTA - If the playoffs began today for the Mets, they would be going against the Dodgers. The Dodgers, however, may not ultimately be the Mets opponent, as things continue...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

There'll be no more wet T-shirt contests at the Silhouette Showbar strip club in Coopersburg, Pa. - officials have turned off the water. Why? It's simple - the club didn't...

LIVEBLOG - Day 5, Thursday, Part II

Clanging dishes, rattling carts, a sommelier who can't pronounce the names of the wines only he is allowed to serve and a waitress with a full-blown cold.Is this the same...

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