November 12, 2006
TOO MANY HOLES IN UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amDear John: I think the Bureau of Labor Statistics is misrepresenting the nation's job figures, and reports released on the eve of an election raise questions. What do you think?...
VIDEO VENOM - POPULAR POSTERS REVOLT AGAINST YOUTUBE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe backlash will be televised - or at least it will appear on broadband video. On its path to video world domination, YouTube appears to have upset the one segment...
READ WITH ENVY; INK-STAINEDRICHES ALLTHE RAGE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amThis holiday season newspapers are the hot new billionaire bling. From Jack Welch's overtures toward the Boston Globe to the attempts to acquire the Los Angeles Times by David Geffen...
HEART THROB - GREY'S ANATOMY'S KATHERINE HEIGL ON SEX, LOVE AND CUPCAKES
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amKATHERINE HEIGL wants to know when she's going to get some action on "Grey's Anatomy." After seeing the hit show's other characters ride a perpetual merry-go-round of hookups, breakups and...
'PRIME SUSPECT' - HELEN MIRREN TACKLES JANE TENNISON'S LAST CASE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amTO say it's very good to be Helen Mirren these days is a massive understatement. The vivacious British actress has won global adulation for her tartly commanding performance as Queen...
'PRICE' SURVIVES AS FABULOUS TIME CAPSULE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amSINCE television is a business, no incentive exists to establish a sort of TV landmarks commission empowered to preserve "historic" TV shows on the basis of their longevity or importance....
THE DON'T MISS LIST
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amDRAMA Drunk driving doozy AN inebriated woman is hospitalized after losing control of her car, and is later murdered in her room after coming out of a coma on "CSI:...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amDR. STRANGELOVE (1964) Sunday,4 p.m.,TCM Peter Sellers and George C. Scott are brilliant in Stanley Kubrick's satire about a a nuclear crisis. What played like a spoof then could pass...
NBC'S WRIGHT TWO-FACED ON CENSORSHIP
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHERE'S nerve, and then there's gall. And then there's colossal gall. Robert Wright, chairman and CEO of NBC, authored a lengthy commentary that appeared in Nov. 3rd's Wall Street Journal,...
MEXICO, 'SI' -BUT TOURNEY, 'NO'
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amMEXICO has had one great player, Carlos Torre (1905-1978), and no great chess tradition - until now. Last month, Mexico broke its own Guinness World Record with a spectacular simultaneous...
LOLITA, JAPANESE STYLE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHE nice people at the Japan Society could have called their new series "Films From the 1980s," but that would not have been as sexy as the title they actually...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
November 12, 2006 | 5:00am1 Multiple personalities Nike's getting its money's worth from LeBron James. The hoops star revives his acting skillz in the second series of "The LeBrons" ads, playing a crotchety grandpa,...
JOKERS WILD - WHEN COMICS HIT THE ROAD, THE TALL TALES ARE TERRIFIC
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amVETERAN comedians Ritch Shydner and Mark Schiff learned a great many things about their peers while compiling the laugh-out-loud funny "I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top...
MONSTER IN A BOX - ON THURSDAY, SONY'S DO-IT-ALL PLAYSTATION 3 ARRIVES. ITS MISSION: TO TAKE OVER YOUR FAMILY
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amFor two years, Sony's fabled PlayStation 3 lurked in the shadows of the gaming world. Constantly changing its capabilities, appearance and price tag, the machine took on a mythical quality....
BOND AMBITION - DANIEL CRAIG TAKES 007 BACK TO HIS ROOTS
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amCRAIG'S LIST - HOW WELL DOES THE NEWEST JAMES BOND FIT THE ROLE? WE COUNT THE WAYS YOU KNOW THE DRILL: This new guy is James Bond like you've never...
WAITS' SALOON SINGER SOUL
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amTom Waits "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards" (four stars) Anti- TOM Waits was born old and artistically cantankerous, but he's never compromised his music and, like rust gobbling steel, he's...
DANCE FEVER - OK GO'S TWO-STEP ON THE TREADMILL
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amIf you've ever seen the band OK Go, you may have mistaken them for workout fanatics. They're the group that filmed themselves doing an acrobatic dance on a eight treadmills...
'FAST FOOD' FOLLY
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amIf you thought "Super Size Me" was damning for the burger biz, wait'll you get a taste of "Fast Food Nation." Eric Schlosser's 2002 book about the ugly side of...
THE WII: TINY BUT TERRIFIC
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amLong considered third in the great gaming race - behind Sony and Microsoft - the House that Mario Built finally has a fighting chance. With next Sunday's debut of its...
WHO'S THE BEST BOND?
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amWhich actor epitomized 007 in film? We asked Post readers to weigh in and the results were overwhelming. Sean Connery crushed the competition - no surprise there, with apologies to...
TRAVEL BUDDY - AIRLINE AIMS TO MAKE SKIES PET FRIENDLY
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amI LOVE traveling, but I'm one of the millions of dog owners who stay grounded year after year - and apparently I'm not the only one. Most pet owners take...
LAWYER'S 'LIES' SENT ME TO BAD PA; COMPLAINT VS. KIDS' CHARITY
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA 16-year-old Manhattan student says a court-appointed lawyer badly botched her parents' custody case, convincing a judge to send her to an abusive father by falsely testifying about how she...
'KILLER'S' UNDERWORLD ; 'ACTRESS SLAY' ILLEGAL LIVED IN BASEMENT DEN
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amDiego Pillco, the teen accused of killing indie-film actress Adrienne Shelly for fear he would be deported, lived in hiding with his illegal-immigrant relatives in a basement boiler-room hovel owned...
BAT BAN OFF BASE: SCHOOLS
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe city's Catholic high schools are taking a swing against a City Council bill that would ban aluminum bats. The Catholic High Schools' Athletic Association sent a letter to all...
GEM STAR IN BANGLE WRANGLE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe beleaguered bling king Jacob the Jeweler is calling in a few outstanding debts - the legal way. The jeweler to the stars, who was indicted by the feds this...
NAVY JOINS INTREPID TRY; AID FOR TOW WOE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe Navy never leaves one of its own behind. So it's coming on board efforts to rescue the mighty USS Intrepid from its mud-caked confines on the Hudson River and...
PARKING SPAT TAKES FATAL TURN
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens man was shot dead and another slashed in the face outside a 24-hour Brooklyn diner early yesterday in a fight apparently over a parking spot, cops and witnesses...
SHE SEDUCED & HARASSED MALE STAFFERS, SUITS SAY
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA hot Grand Central hospitality supervisor bedded her male underlings at the office - and then retaliated against them after they cut off the relationships, according to court papers. In...
JEWS AND GAYS HIT AS BIAS CRIME SOARS
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe number of hate crimes in the city is up almost 8 percent from last year, with attacks on Jews and gays spiking the most, according to NYPD stats. There...
GOP BOSS FALLS ON SWORD
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Just days after his party's worst defeat in modern times, state Republican Chair man Stephen Minarik (left) told key party leaders he will resign as soon as the...
VET DAY DANCE FOR A SWINGING GATES ; BUSH PAYS TRIBUTE TO HEROES
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe president's nominee for secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, took a festive approach to Veterans Day yesterday, dancing his way into his new position as the civilian leader of the...
DEMS' AGENDA IS ON A POLL ROLL
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA large majority of Americans support the new Democratic-controlled Congress in its effort to lower drug prices for seniors, increase the minimum wage and investigate government contracts in Iraq, according...
'08 HATE TURNS UNITY DREAM TO NIGHTMARE; PARTIES' OUTREACH 'WON'T LAST LONG'
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Congress' new spirit of bipartisan cooperation will soon evaporate and morph into harsh political warfare over the 2008 presidential election, experts in both parties predict. Despite the firm...
LEGIONNAIRES' EYED IN BRONX
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amCity health officials are investigating a possible outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in The Bronx. A spokeswoman for the city Health Department confirmed the agency is looking at more than one...
DEADLY B'KLYN CHASE; TRAPPED COP KILLS DRIVER
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA plainclothes cop shot two men - killing one - in Brooklyn yesterday following a car chase. The wild ride ended when the officer tried to pull the men from...
BROOKLYN THUGS STAB IRAQ VETS
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amThugs attacked a pair of Iraq vets outside a Brooklyn bar on Veterans Day, leaving one Army reservist - a survivor of combat - in critical condition. Army reservist Ryan...
FOTOG'S FINAL FRAME; WHITE HOUSE PRESS VETERAN SACHS DIES
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amAward-winning photographer Arnie Sachs, who covered 11 presidents during his 56-year career as a Washington photojournalist - snapping the memorable picture of a young Bill Clinton shaking hands with President...
PUTTIN' ON EL RITZ; APPLE BIGS' JUNKET TO SAN JUAN'S $WANKIEST
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amFive city Housing Authority officials who jetted down to San Juan for a legislative conference are staying at the swankiest hotel in the city on the taxpayer's dime, The Post...
'ABUSE' ENVOY FREED; HE BEAT SON: COPS
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA Kenyan diplomat was busted yesterday and charged with beating his young son bloody - but the dad was quickly let go because he has diplomatic immunity, authorities said. Fred...
BRIT'S BEA PLANNING STAR TREK
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amBritain's Princess Beatrice plans to take a small step that could turn her into Princess Leia. The 18-year-old is set to become the first member of the royal family to...
IRAQ: A MESS, BUT SO WHAT?
November 12, 2006 | 5:00am'MANY Americans," President Bush said Wednesday, voted "to register their displeasure with the lack of progress" in Iraq. So did he - by dumping Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. But what...
FED-EX'S PRENUP A BRIT-CH; LEAVES HIM WITH ONLY 300G
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amKevin Federline may have to hand over the keys to his Harley-Davidson and his Ferrari when his divorce from Britney Spears is final. Hopefully, Fed-Ex can go far on the...
SLAY GRILL FOR WIFE IN 'STATUE SLUGGING'
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amThis pachyderm packs a punch. A jealous Harlem husband died yesterday after he was pummeled with a ceramic elephant by his wife, police said. His wife, who was charged with...
POLITICIANS' HOLIDAYS ARE NUMBERED
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHE party's about to end for some politicians. Fewer elected officials are going to be invited to holiday parties because of the confusion surrounding tough new lobbying rules that kick...
TEEN SLAIN AT BURGER KING
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA beef at a Burger King left a teenager shot dead yesterday, after a 45-year-old employee served up some hot lead outside the restaurant, police sources said. The 16-year-old victim,...
MEDIC SUICIDE MYSTERY IN QNS.
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA city medic walked out of a training session, slit his wrists in a parking lot and bled to death in his car. The longtime member of Battalion 50 in...
SEDUCED, BULLIED STAFF: SUITS
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA hot Grand Central hospitality supervisor bedded her male underlings at the office - and then retaliated against them after they cut off the relationships, according to court papers. In...
THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T LISTEN ; THE FAILURE OF DON RUMSFELD
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amAT the climax of "Barton Fink" - the best film ever made about a writer - the protagonist's world literally goes up in flames. Bewildered, the self-absorbed playwright asks a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amBROOKLYN *** Police are looking for the thug who assaulted and knifed a teen in an anti-gay bias attack in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The 19-year-old victim was walking down the street with...
DEADLY CHASE; PINNED COP GUNS DOWN SUSPECT AFTER WILD RIDE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA plainclothes cop shot two men - killing one - in Brooklyn yesterday following a car chase. The wild ride ended when the officer tried to pull the men from...
REMEMBERING OUR TROOPS' TRIUMPHS; BUSH ORATES AS GATES CELEBRATES
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amWith his hand over his heart, President Bush stood among rows of white tombstones in Arlington National Cemetery yesterday to honor "the 24 million Americans who strengthen our nation with...
HE'LL STAY CITY COMPTROLLER
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amCity Comptroller William Thompson - who's on the list of possible replacements for scandal-hit state Comptroller Alan Hevesi - doesn't want the job, The Post has learned. "Should any opening...
'STATUE-SLUG' WIFE QUIZZED IN KILLING
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA jealous Harlem husband died yesterday after he was stabbed and pummeled with a ceramic elephant - but his battered wife admitted only to beating him with the heavy figurine....
POLL BOOSTS POLS' AGENDA
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA large majority of Americans support the new Democratic-controlled Congress in its effort to lower drug prices for seniors, increase the minimum wage and investigate government contracts in Iraq, according...
DEMS RIDE NEW HIGH - COUNT ON A LOT OF HATE FOR 2008
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Congress' new spirit of bipartisan cooperation will soon evaporate and morph into harsh political warfare over the 2008 presidential election, experts in both parties predict. Despite the firm...
UPPER-GLASS BATTLE - NEW FUROR OVER MAD. AVE. TOWER
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amIn an unlikely turf war on the Upper East Side, it's the upper crust vs. the highminded - all over a proposed 30-story glass tower addition to the elegant Park-Bernet...
WHERE RUMMY WENT SO WRONG
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amDonald Rumsfeld's resignation last week was met with relief by many Americans who felt the defense secretary had mishandled Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Post asked three experts to weigh in...
PUTTING ON THE RITZ - APPLE BIGS' JUNKET TO SAN JUAN'S $WANKIEST
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amFive city Housing Authority officials jetted down to a legislative conference in San Juan and are staying at the swankiest hotel in the city on the taxpayer dime, The Post...
GRAND CENTRAL IS VIXEN'S 'SERVICE STATION' - SEDUCED, BULLIED STAFF: SUITS
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA hot Grand Central hospitality supervisor bedded her male underlings at the office - and then retaliated against them after they cut off the relationships, according to court papers. In...
LEGIONAIRES' EYED IN BRONX
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amCity health officials are investigating a possible outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease in The Bronx, examining several cases of the potentially fatal illness. A spokeswoman for the city Health Department confirmed...
HOW HUNTERS CAN FEED THE HUNGRY
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amFALL is the season of the harvest, but it also is the season for giving. Hunters each year continue to give on many levels, including feeding the hungry. As part...
THEY'RE STRINGIN' US ALONG
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amIT DIDN'T take much. Anyone with even a sis ter-in-law's grasp on football knew it was a big moment. Thursday night, undefeated Rutgers was in peril of being blown out....
COACHES MISFIRE WITH SHOOTOUT CHOICE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - It must have been the great Montreal coach, Hector "Forrest" Blake, who famously said, "Stupid is as stupid does," because what other explanation is there for the outright...
WLAD IN SEVEN - KLITSCHKO KEEPS TITLE WITH MSG KNOCKOUT
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amWladimir Klitschko wants to be considered the best heavyweight in the world. Few will argue the point after he scored a devastating seventh-round knockout over Calvin Brock last night at...
RJ WON'T RUSH BACK
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amIf you really want to make Richard Jefferson's day, talk to him about his injuries. Yeah, right. He enjoys discussing injuries as much as pouring lemon juice on paper cuts...
METS SCOUT KERR DIES
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amJohn "Buddy" Kerr, a former all-star shortstop for the New York Giants and a longtime Mets scout, died Tuesday after battling a short illness. He was 84. Kerr is best...
SAN STORM ; DUNCAN IS NO FAN OF ISIAH IRE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amSpurs 100Knicks 92 SAN ANTONIO - Sensing his tired Knicks were ready to give up, Isiah Thomas took the fight into his own hands against the Spurs' Bruce Bowen in...
JARED MAY BE DEALT
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amAccording to a Yankees source, there is a "slightly better than 50/50 chance" the team will trade starter Jaret Wright to Baltimore by today. The Yankees can opt out of...
QUENTIN'S MAGIC MAKES T-MAC VANISH
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SAN ANTONIO - Quentin Richardson will need to be the LeBron James stopper tomorrow vs. Cleveland at the Garden, but he's already figured out Tracy McGrady. "Tracy's the...
4-GET ABOUT IT! RANGER ROAD STREAK DIES IN DC
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amCapitals 3Rangers 1 WASHINGTON - It was one thing for the Rangers to have begun last night's game without their legs after dispatching the Thrashers a night earlier in Atlanta...
SAN STORM ; ISIAH IRE NOT ENOUGH TO LIFT KNICKS
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amSpurs 100Knicks 92 SAN ANTONIO - Isiah Thomas was going to try anything to get in Bruce Bowen's head last night and spark his tired Knicks. Bowen's alleged dirty undercut...
HILL SPARKS ST. JOHN'S
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amSt. John's 72Navy 49 Daryll Hill has been forced to give up a lot since coming to St. John's with expectations of being the next great point guard. Hill followed...
MORE POWER TO 'EM
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amDevils 4Panthers 2 Finally, the Devils actually looked like a team on a roll. Pieces began coming together in last night's 4-2 triumph over the Panthers at the Meadowlands. In...
GONZALEZ WINS HALL OPENER
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amSeton Hall 91Caldwell 52 There will be more difficult days for Seton Hall first-year coach Bobby Gonzalez. More hectic, more frustrating, more exhilarating, you name it. But there won't be...
ISIAH MASTER OF MUMBO JUMBO
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amISIAH Thomas has some explaining to do. As usual! I know it's asking a lot of Thomas to actually make some sense out of what he has done to the...
MALIK IN NO MOOD FOR ISIAH'S ROSE-Y OUTLOOK
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SAN ANTONIO - While Isiah Thomas was content with the 1-2 road trip through Denver and Texas, Malik Rose was not. Rose, the former Spurs' champion who received...
MOUNT CLIMBS INTO FINAL
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amH.S. FOOTBALLMt. St. Michael 24Iona Prep 7 Vincent Natal is well aware of the history of Mount St. Michael football. "These last couple of years have been hard," the senior...
BLUE BATTLE CRY: YO, ADRIAN!
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amGIANTS NOTES To the rescue, Adrian Awasom? That's what it has to be for the Giants, who tonight must play without their two Pro Bowl defensive ends, Michael Strahan (foot)...
RESERVE CLAWS MUST BE SHARP - BANGED-UP JINTS NEED BACKUPS TO STEP UP
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amIt is impossible for the Giants to exist in blissful ignorance and ignore the carnage going on within their ranks. They see teammates falling by the wayside and younger replacements...
FOES, YES, BUT RIVALS? NOT EXACTLY
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amAT some point, there will have to come a time when the football squares with the fable, when the artificial hype surrounding these biannual Jets-Patriots games dissipates and some genuine...
MEADOWLANDS MELEE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHE MATCHUPS Any mention of Giants vs. Bears conjures up thoughts of dirt and grime and smash-mouth yards coming in inches. Tonight, Giants vs. Bears means one team takes hold...
IT CAN BE DONE - SIX LEFT FROM LAST JETS WIN OVER PATRIOTS
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amFOXBORO - The date was Dec. 22, 2002. The place was Foxboro, Mass. That's the last time the Jets beat the Patriots. That was seven losses ago to their AFC...
TUNA LOBOTOMY - PARCELLS WE KNEW WOULDN'T TAKE T.O.'S GARBAGE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHEIRS has been one of the most consistent of friendships mostly because theirs are the most copasetic of personalities. It was almost 40 years ago when a young linebackers coach...
ISIAH IRE NOT ENOUGH TO LIFT KNICKS
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amSPURS 100 KNICKS 92 SAN ANTONIO - Isiah Thomas was going to try anything to get in Bruce Bowen's head last night and spark his tired Knicks. Bowen's alleged dirty...
TWIST OF FAITH - ISIAH'S OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK HAS SOME KNICKS TALKING TITLE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amSAN ANTONIO - The new era of positive thinking has extended to the locker room, where Nate Robinson was talking about a championship following the Knicks' loss in Houston Friday...
AS DEFENDING CHAMPS, GATORS' STOCK STILL HIGH
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amFlorida coach Billy Donovan was luckier than he knew. Most of us learn one lesson at a time. We try, we succeed, we fail, we try again, we watch others...
PATTERSON BIG SHOT IN DEBUT FOR ST. JOHN'S
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amPhone home, Avery Patterson, Jr. The least you can do is call the man who began working with you on your game when you were 5 years old, the man...
FOR THE LOVE OF MAGGIE - TWINBILL A TRIBUTE TO SPECIAL COACH AND SISTER
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHE toughest time is late at night when Jamie Dixon is driving home from a game or practice. That's when he instinctively reaches for his cell phone to call his...
BRIGG-ER & BETTER - BROOKLYN HEAVYWEIGHT EYES UNIFIED TITLE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amShannon Briggs and Larry Holmes were making a television appearance recently when Briggs told the 57-year-old former heavyweight champion, "Don't you make no comeback." Briggs wasn't totally joking. He has...
KENSETH STALKS FROM SECOND
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amA lot of people blamed Matt Kenseth for NASCAR implementing the Chase for the Nextel Cup in 2004. Kenseth, though winner of just one race the previous year, dominated the...
ELIAS LOST AT 'C'
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amIt was an admission of Patrik Elias' struggles, with the added burden of the captaincy and his position atop the Devils' payroll further weighing him down. When Elias asked to...
MADNESS BEGINS - PRESEASON TOP 25
November 12, 2006 | 5:00am89 New York Post, Sunday, November 12, 2006 nypost.com R R MADNESS BEGINS POST COLLEGE 2007 HOOPS PREVIEW PRESEASON 1. FLORIDA 33-6, beat UCLA for NCAA title Coach: Billy Donovan...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 12, 2006 | 5:00amThis lawman's a real pizza party-pooper. Sheriff David Smith of Columbiana County, Ohio, is fuming about plans for an inmate pizza party during the Ohio State-Michigan football game, but said...