February 22, 2005
FRIED FRANK STICKS WITH N.Y. PLAZA
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amAFTER a long search, law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has decided to remain at One New York Plaza and expand there, ending one of the city's most...
GAS HIKE TO $2.75 COMING
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amNew York drivers can expect gasoline to break another record this spring - soaring at the pump to as much as $2.75 a gallon for regular. It would be the...
BROKER'S BLAST - FORMER MONEY MAN CHALLENGES SPITZER COLLAR
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amAttorney General Eliot Spitzer will find out today how that Superman outfit holds up to some frank legal criticism. A former Bank of America stock broker will attack Spitzer's actions...
MICROSOFT'S EU CLASH MAY LAST INTO 2006
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe judge hearing Microsoft's drawn-out fight against a $648 million antitrust fine in Europe has a fitting name - Judge Hubert Legal. And the latest Legal word is that the...
WAL-MART'S 'PLASTIC' PUSH
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amWal-Mart is widening the focus of its massive financial-services operation. The country's No. 1 retailer is expected to roll out its much-anticipated Wal-Mart Discover card today - complete with a...
BLOOMBERG MESS - POWER SHORTAGE FOR 'DEADLY SINS' CEO FENWICK
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amBloomberg LP Chief Executive Officer Lex Fenwick, who has had the top job ever since Mayor Mike Bloomberg stepped away from the company to run for office four years ago,...
MOONSTRUCK - HAWKE-EYED 'HURLYBURLY' AUDIENCES LIKE ETHAN'S OTHER SIDE; 'HURLYBURLY': ALL IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amASIDE from the rave reviews and A-list cast, one thing really motivated 24-year-old Lindsay Moore to drop $50 on a ticket for the off-Broadway hit 'Hurlyburly." 'Ethan Hawke's butt," says...
SEASON 2 FOR 'RUNWAY' IN DOUBT
February 22, 2005 | 5:00am'PROJECT Runway" may get snipped from Bravo's lineup, despite becoming a hit this season. The second season of the popular cable show - which follows a group of designers competing...
FIXING UP MISS A - STALE PAGEANT COPIES REALITY SHOWS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amPLANS are afoot to transform the Miss America Pageant into a reality show - in hopes of jump-starting the sagging franchise. The pageant, dropped by ABC last year after historically...
BIG NEWS FOR YOGA FANS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amMEGAN Garcia has two heel marks on her bedroom door from practicing yoga hand stands every night. Even though the plus-size model has been teaching yoga for over a decade,...
SAM & RICKY
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amSAMUEL L. Jackson has agreed to guest-star in "The Office" creator Ricky Gervais' new series, "Extras" - fulfilling a wish Gervais first shared with The Post. "We desperately want Samuel...
OPRAH'S FRIGHT OF PASSAGE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amOPRAH Winfrey fussed like a little girl yesterday as she became the last woman in the world - presumably - to get her ears pierced. The piercing was done live...
STARR REPORT
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amABC, Dee Sandra Dee, who passed away Sunday at the age of 62, never headlined a TV series, but ABC certainly had her in mind when it morphed two of...
THE CAVALRY IS ON ITS WAY - 'FRONTLINE' IN IRAQ WORTH ALL FOUR LETTERS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amI'M shocked, shocked to hear U.S. soldiers in combat using four-letter words! It should come as news to no one that servicemen on the front lines are known to utter...
KWAME GETS OWN SHOW
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amKWAME Jackson, who came in second on the first "Apprentice," is "finalizing a deal" with CNN to host a weekend business show, according to reports. Broadcasting & Cable magazine characterized...
EXPRESS CHECK-IN - GOSSIP, HOT TOPICS AND OTHER NEWS YOU'LL USE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amEAT, ALREADY THE new hot spot for recovering anorexics isn't even in a fashion capital. Berlin, the kooky-cool center of curiously themed eateries - blind waiters serve you in the...
FRIENDS AND FOILS SALUTE THE LOUD-MOUTHED GENIUS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe famed writers he hung out with and the editors he warred with both joined yesterday in hailing on-the-road warrior Hunter S. Thompson as a journalistic "genius" - if a...
CONN. CO-ED FOUND DEAD IN QUEENS PAL'S APARTMENT
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amAn attractive blond college student from Connecticut was found dead yesterday in the Queens apartment of a friend she had been visiting for the weekend. Police sources told The Post...
CONN. CO-ED FOUND DEAD IN QNS. PAL'S APT.
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amA beautiful blond college student from Connecticut was found dead yesterday in the Queens apartment of a friend she had been visiting for the weekend. Police sources told The Post...
PENTAGON BLOCKS NUDIE GI PEEP SITE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Pentagon has blocked soldiers in Iraq from accessing a pornographic Web site that is posting scandalous nude pictures of their female comrades-in-arms, The Post has learned. Military...
TRIM WAIST POINTS TO HEALTHY HEART, STUDY SAYS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe best way to predict a healthy heart is to measure your waist, a new study says. It is a better indicator of heart-disease risks than the largely accepted body-mass...
OLYMPIC BID IS IN HER HANDS - ATHLETE HEADS PANEL
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe woman who holds the Big Apple's Olympic fate in her hands is a Moroccan track star who was educated in the United States and was effusive last week in...
CASINO GALS WEIGH IN WITH GRIPES
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY - Cocktail waitresses working at hotels and gaming halls here fear their bosses will follow the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa's lead and boot them if they become...
'NEW YORKIE' GAL BARKS: BEG, LIBBY
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Real New Yorkie's owner growled yesterday that Gov. Pataki's wife, Libby, won't apologize for using her dog's likeness as a character in a children's book. "I would have been...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * An NYPD traffic-enforcement agent was busted for stabbing his girlfriend in the neck inside their Brownsville home, police sources said yesterday. James Curry, 52, allegedly knifed the 38-year-old...
CITY BIDS TO TOSS 'STRIP-SEARCH' SUIT
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Bloomberg administration urged a judge to toss out a federal civil-rights lawsuit alleging the city is responsible for five boys being strip-searched by a school aide at a Bronx...
POLL: YANKS 'SLICK' AND TIRED OF U.N.
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe United Nations is paying a high price for such scandals as the oil-for-food mess, as 42 percent of Americans now have a negative view of the world body while...
MALCOLM IN MIND - TRAGIC-ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amMalcolm X's family and friends gathered last night at the site of his assassination to mark the 40th anniversary of his death. Three of his six daughters were at the...
HACKERS CAN HIT YOU, TOO: EXPERTS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Hilton Hacker was no novice, but that doesn't mean your Sidekicks, Palm Pilots and Blackberrys are safe. The Internet thief probably gained access to Paris Hilton's Sidekick II phone...
INSIDE THE SCARY TALE OF PARIS' PURLOINED PRIVACY
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amAn Internet rogue apparently hacked into T-Mobile's heavily used Web site to access Paris Hilton's cellphone data, enabling the thief to splash the heiress's racy phone snaps, celebrity numbers and...
FIVE HOCKEY KIDS BOOTED IN SCHOOL SEX SHOCK
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amFive members of the boys varsity hockey team at the elite Milton Academy in Massachusetts have been expelled for engaging in locker-room sex with a 15-year-old female student. The girl,...
IVY LEAGUE OUTRAGE - HARVARD SCANDAL SPREADS TO YALE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amAs Harvard's faculty debates its president and his controversial remarks about women today, more than 100 female scientists at Yale will present a petition to their president, urging him to...
SNOWY HORROR - SAMARITAN CO-ED KILLED IN LIE SMASHUP
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amA brilliant and beautiful pre-med student, who kindly stopped to help a car-crash victim on the Long Island Expressway, was struck and killed by another driver during yesterday's pounding snowstorm....
WRITING A WRONG - ED. BIGS TO APOLOGIZE TO GI HIT BY KIDS' RANTS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe city Department of Education, red-faced over Brooklyn sixth-graders who slammed a GI with demoralizing anti-Iraq-war letters as part of a school assignment, will send the 20-year-old private a letter...
CASINO GALS 'WEIGHT' ANXIOUSLY
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY - Cocktail waitresses working at hotels and gaming halls here fear their bosses will follow the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa's lead and boot them if they become...
THE SURVIVORS - INCREDIBLE BATTLE OF INJURED FIREFIGHTERS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amFIREFIGHTER Joey DiBernardo said with horrifying recall: "When I hit the ground, I felt my body was full of broken glass. "I knew I'd be banged up. But broken glass...
NEW $770M BID MADE ON W. SIDE SITE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amA company that has been fighting with the city to build a power plant in Brooklyn has made a $700 million offer to buy the West Side rail yards -...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amStudents at the University of California in San Diego turned on the campus TV station to find a classmate engaged in X-rated acts with an unidentified woman. "It's my effort...
DELAYS ON E, F LINES IN QUEENS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amStraphangers on Manhattan-bound E and F trains can expect longer waits and more crowded trains for six weeks starting today as crews work on the track in Queens, officials said....
CITY TO WRITE WRONG - APOLOGY TO GI DUE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe city Department of Education, red-faced over Brooklyn sixth-graders who slammed a GI with demoralizing anti-Iraq-war letters as part of a school assignment, will send the 20-year-old private a letter...
HAWAII TRIAL LEIS IN WAIT FOR PELOSI
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amConvicted killer Danny Pelosi may soon get a Hawaiian vacation. Long Island prosecutors intend to fly him to Maui to be tried on a 2004 assault charge, his lawyer said....
FEDS BLOCK NUDE GI GAL PEEP SITE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Pentagon has blocked soldiers in Iraq from accessing a pornographic Web site that is posting scandalous nude pictures of their female comrades-in-arms, The Post has learned. Military...
TAXPAYERS STIFFED WITH $21 MILLION SEX-RX TAB
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - State taxpayers shelled out $20 million in 2004 on Viagra and other love drugs covered under the state's generous Medicaid program, an amount that has risen sharply in...
CITY BIDS TO TOSS SCHOOL 'STRIP' SUIT
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Bloomberg administration urged a judge to toss out a federal civil-rights lawsuit alleging the city is responsible for five boys being strip-searched by a school aide at a Bronx...
ENVOY, VEY! ISRAEL PICKS REALITY CHAMP
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - A Brooklyn-born reporter has won an "Apprentice"-like Israeli TV contest to represent his country in the United States. Eytan Schwartz, 30, beat out 13 other contestants on "The...
POLL: AMERICANS 'SLICK' AND TIRED OF U.N.
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe United Nations is paying a high price for such scandals as the oil-for-food mess, as 42 percent of Americans now have a negative view of the world body while...
SHARON'S GIANT STEP - WEST BANK PULLOUT A NECESSITY
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amTHE weekend headlines reminded me of something Ariel Sharon told us when came by The Post for a visit almost eight years ago. Back then, he was yesterday's news. He...
DELIVERY-SLAY TRIAL NEARS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amA Queens teen will go on trial for the gory slaying of a Chinese-food deliveryman for $49 last year. Charles Bryant, 17, faces up to 25 years to life in...
PUP GAL: BEG, LIBBY! - DEMANDS APOLOGY FOR YORKIE 'RIP-OFF'
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Real New Yorkie's owner growled yesterday that Gov. Pataki's wife, Libby, won't apologize for using her dog's likeness as a character in a children's book. "I would have been...
TRIM WAIST POINTS TO HEALTHY HEART: STUDY
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe best way to predict a healthy heart is to measure your waist, a new study says. It is a better indicator of heart-disease risks than the largely accepted body-mass...
SITE-SEEKERS' VIEW OF CITY: A PLAZA SUITE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amGUESS what, Olympics fans. Next stop: Olive Garden! There comes news from the bunker inside The Plaza hotel, where the Olympic 13 - the team choosing a site for the...
SUBWAY HUBBY FREED - NO ID BY SLAY WITNESS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amA churchgoing husband suspected of blowing away his wife's lover in a Chelsea subway station was questioned by police and released yesterday after a witness failed to pick him out...
5 HOCKEY PLAYERS GET EXPELLED IN GANG BANG
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amFive members of the boys varsity hockey team at the elite Milton Academy in Massachusetts have been expelled for engaging in locker-room sex with a 15-year-old female student. The girl,...
BRAD, JEN SPLIT AGAIN - TUSSAUD'S BREAKS UP WAX STATUE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amArt is imitating life - Brad and Jennifer's wax figures have split. London's fabled Madame Tussaud's museum had to take apart a statue of the Hollywood duo in the wake...
PARIS AND STAR PALS EXPOSED ALL OVER THE WEB
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amParis Hilton is all over the Internet again - but this time, she's taken her friends down with her. Hackers have splurged the contents of Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick II on...
W. OPENS FRENCH DOORS - INVADES EUROPE IN CHARM OFFENSIVE
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amPresident Bush and one of his harshest critics on Iraq, French President Jacques Chirac, ended their big chill last night by breaking bread - and munching french fries - to...
MUGGERS USED GUN - AND PIT BULL
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amTwo thugs - one armed with a pistol, the other with a pit bull - are being held without bail for allegedly robbing four people on the Metro-North platform in...
HOCKEY KIDS IN SEX RAP - ELITE ACADEMY SHAKEN
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amFive members of the boys varsity hockey team at the elite Milton Academy in Massachusetts have been expelled for allegedly engaging in locker-room sex acts with a 15-year-old female student....
GOIN' UP - SEX PILLS SWELL N.Y. MEDICAID COSTS; TAXPAYERS STIFFED WITH $21 MILLION SEX-RX TAB
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - Taxpayers shelled out $20 million in 2004 on Viagra and other love drugs covered under the state's generous Medicaid program, an amount that has risen sharply in recent...
GAELS, PEACOCKS BOOST BYE BIDS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amCOLLEGE HOOPS The middle of the MAAC got messier after yesterday's doubleheader at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport. Iona's 92-88 victory over Marist in the opener put both...
VINCE PLAYS IT COOL ON RAPTOR 'REUNION'
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThere will be friends and memories. Lots of memories. Some bad, most good. But, Vince Carter insists, there will be no hard feelings in the Meadowlands tonight when he faces...
BOOZER, JAZZ IN TUNE - GM: FORWARD NOT BEING SHOPPED
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amDENVER - Without further ado, yesterday's late report that the Lakers and Jazz had consummated a deal involving Caron Butler, Vlade Divac and Devean George for Carlos Boozer was so...
LEBRON BOORING HIS FANS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amSome late All-Star Game thoughts: Poor Doug Collins didn't know whom to vote for with his MVP ballot. "I keep staring at the stat sheet hoping it will change," he...
AMY RIDES FIRST WINNER SINCE '80
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amGood things come to those who wait. Just ask Jose Amy. A quarter-century after Amy won his last race in New York, the 51-year-old jockey, who returned to the saddle...
STEVENS TALKS A GOOD FIGHT
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amCurtis Stevens says he has the boxing style of Mike Tyson and Marvin Hagler. But he has the mouth of a professional wrestler. When asked about his upcoming fight -...
TROT TURNS DOWN HEAT
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amFORT MYERS - Trot Nixon, the man who started all the A-Rips, arrived in camp yesterday after spending a few days at Disney World with his kids. It's a small...
SOX TO GET RINGS IN FRONT OF YANKS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amFORT MYERS - Bling, bling! If the Yankees don't want to see the Red Sox receive their World Series rings at Boston's home opener, it looks as if they're going...
MOVING WAS 'A' BIG BOOST FOR CRUSADERS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amH.S. NOTES Stephen Wood suffered through a 9-17 season last year, including a 1-12 mark in the CHSAA AA division. But when he found out from McClancy head coach Don...
STARS WELCOME YOURI
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe MetroStars officially introduced their prized acquisition, Youri Djorkaeff, yesterday at a Garden press conference. They can only hope he plays more like the star who won a World Cup...
BIG PAYOFF FOR ACEY DEUCEY
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amIn honor of George Washington's heroic stand at Valley Forge, Aqueduct was open on Presidents' Day despite overnight snowstorm. New track super John Passero had track fast by post time....
SHEFFIELD SHRUGS OFF SWING-ITIS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - The competitor in Gary Sheffield caused his surgically repaired left shoulder to bark last week. "He tried to take as many swings as [Derek] Jeter and got a...
IT'S BELTRAN'S TEAM
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - He tried to slip into town beneath a mask of humility and a shroud of self-deprecation, declaring himself merely one piece of a big orange-and-blue puzzle,...
GIAMBI DOWNPLAYS PARTY REP
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Jason Giambi said yesterday he does not need to change his nightlife behavior, which puts him in conflict with Yankee officials who claim they have a...
GIAMBI BEGINS THE 'ROID BACK - JASON SET FOR 'ROUGH DAYS'
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - With a body devoid of health problems and performance enhancing drugs, Jason Giambi is ready to make the long trek back from embarrassment to being one of the...
BOOZER, JAZZ MAKE UP - FORWARD'S NOT BEING SHOPPED
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amDENVER - Without further ado, yesterday's late report that the Lakers and Jazz had consummated a deal involving Caron Butler, Vlade Divac and Devean George for Carlos Boozer was so...
WAYNE: WE NEVER TALKED CAP
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe ultimate record-holder wants to set the record straight. Who among us has more of a right to do that than Wayne Gretzky? "People out there think I'm mad at...
THE TRUTH REALLY HURTS
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Jason Giambi once again referred to Jose Canseco as "delusional" yesterday, which only makes you wonder if the fallen slugger actually owns a mirror. Because no player lives...
YANK RING SALE LANDS JOSE 40G
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amJose Canseco bulked up his wallet yesterday by selling his 2000 Yankees World Series ring for $40,000. Canseco, the author of a controversial tell-all about steroid use in baseball, had...
KNICKS: NOT DEAD YET
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Knicks are in last place in the weak Atlantic Division. They played poorly under Lenny Wilkens and now Herb Williams and are running out of time to make the...
GAELS PUSH UP INTO BYE MIX
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amCOLLEGE HOOPS The middle of the MAAC got messier yesterday after Iona's 92-88 neutral-site win over Marist at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport. The victory pushed Iona (12-14,...
GOODEN KNOWS THE DRILL
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - If Dwight Gooden's nearly 18-year-old cautionary tale is any blueprint, Jason Giambi can expect a few unsettling things during his pivotal comeback season. Self-doubt. Anxiety surpassing that of...
HOUSTON: GETTING BETTER
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Allan Houston still believes he can return, but he knows that his next time on the court will almost certainly be his last chance of proving he's healthy...
NEW CAPTAIN? NOT YET
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - When the Mets lost John Franco, they lost more than their longest-tenured player. They also lost their captain. And Willie Randolph doesn't have any...
MIKE CAMERON ALREADY HAS PLENTY TO WORRY ABOUT ...
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Mike Cameron already has plenty to worry about, considering he's still recovering from wrist surgery and being forced to learn a new position. So it wasn't...
FRONT AND CENTER - CAMERON COMFORTABLE AT CARLOS' METS DEBUT
February 22, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - For six years, Carlos Beltran was the best player in Kansas City. Even so, he never had to deal with the kind of media contingent that...