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February 10, 2005

REEBOK GETS STELLAR IMAGE BOOST

Reebok is launching its largest global ad campaign in more than a decade to sharpen its image as a hipper, edgier brand with youth appeal. The celebrity-driven campaign will span...

CISCO BLUES, RATE WOES SCARE STOCKS

A sluggish forecast by technology stalwart Cisco and fresh worries about interest rate hikes combined to rattled stocks yesterday. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 34.13, or 1.6 percent, to...

BRAWL AT WGA OVER $500K

One of the three major entertainment guilds is on the verge of tearing itself apart. The East and West Coast branches of the Writers Guild of America - which represents...

BERNIE FANNED FRAUD FLAMES

Bernard Ebbers couldn't take slow for an answer. The disgraced former CEO of WorldCom ignored continued warnings to rein in his pie-in-the-sky growth projections and, in fact, poured fuel on...

$UNY'S SULLIVAN TIES

Scott Sullivan's world was collapsing in around him in June 2002, but that didn't stop him from donating to his alma mater - SUNY Oswego. WorldCom's CFO was fired as...

SONY DUMPS $50M-$100M Y&R ACCOUNT

Madison Ave. stalwart Y&R suffered another setback yesterday after Sony Electronics dismissed the ad agency from its account, sources told The Post. The account, estimated to have billings of $50...

FIORINA FLOPS; H-P CHIEF'S OUSTED AMID COMPAQ DEAL BACKLASH

Carly Fiorina, one of America's most powerful female executives, is out as the chief of Hewlett-Packard for stubbornly walking the wrong path. The brainy ex-schoolteacher was ousted yesterday after most...

FIELD THRIVES AFTER 'SEX'

"Sex and the City" stylist Patricia Field turned brands from Manolo Blahnik to Fendi into household names, and now she is on her way to becoming one herself. Field is...

AMI BOSS AVOIDS ENQUERIES ON MOVE

American Media boss David Pecker yesterday dodged questions on whether he was going to uproot the National Enquirer from its home in southern Florida and move it to New York...

CARLY'S GOLDEN KISS GOODBYE

Although Carly Fiorina knew months ago she might be fired, she unloaded only a small chunk of her stock around Christmas for pocket change of just $16,413. But her quickest...

CISCO BLUES & RATE WOES SCARE STOCKS

A sluggish forecast by technology stalwart Cisco and fresh worries about in- terest rate hikes combined to rattled stocks yesterday. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 34.13, or 1.6 percent,to...

SHE'S 42 AND SINGLE ; BUT NOT GAY, SAYS 'HOUSEWIVES' STAR

'DESPERATE Housewives" star Marcia Cross said yesterday she's not gay - squelching rumors that she was about to "come out" in a major magazine. Cross, appearing as a guest host...

JACKO ACTOR TAPPED

E! and British Sky Broad casting have found their Michael Jackson - or a reasonable facsimile thereof. Jacko impersonator Edward Moss has been hired to portray The Gloved One in...

ABC'S BONUS BABES

ABC has thanked the leads of its hit series "Desperate Housewives" by doling out huge cash bonuses. Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria and Felicity Huffman, who log the most...

WHAT LOOK MAKES YOU SEXY? HOW MEN RATE YOUR 'HOTTEST' OUTFIT

HEATHER says her red dress makes her feel like Marilyn Monroe. Ali says she feels sexy in clingy layers. Which look do men prefer? To probe the perennial mystery of...

OUR GOLDEN 'GATES' - MARRIED 'WRAP' STARS TRUE NYERS

ONE thing you should know about the character behind "The Gates" - the art project consuming Central Park: "The name of the artist is not Christo!" a tiny woman with...

CHRI$TO ALMIGHTY WITH ART OF THE DEAL

"Gates" artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude don't stand to benefit directly from the project that will be unveiled this weekend - there's no admission price, and all profits from merchandise sold...

PARIS IN A BOTTLE

PARIS Hilton plays "I Dream of Jeannie" star Barbara Eden in the March 16 episode of "American Dreams" - which is thisclose to being canceled if its numbers don't perk...

CARY-ED AWAY - DONALD TRUMP WISHES THAT GRANT COULD PLAY HIM IN NEW TV BIO MOVIE

HEY, Mr. Trump, who do you think should play you in an upcoming TV movie? The answer: No one alive today. That's the word from Donald Trump himself, who was...

DORA A BIG SIS

NICK Jr.'s Dora is getting ready to explore the joys and pitfalls of big sisterhood. The little-kids cable network is keeping the details a deep, dark secret, but the 7-year-old...

STARR REPORT

A: What is Cingular? Ken Jennings fanatics who can't wait until the end of the ongoing "Tournament of Champions" on "Jeopardy!" to see their hero will get that chance tonight...

FT. BRAGG 'KILLER' ; B'KLYN MAN BUSTED FOR SHOOTING GI & GAL

A Brooklyn man was arrested yesterday for the murder of a soldier and the GI's girlfriend - both childhood friends of the alleged killer - near Fort Bragg, N.C., last...

HILL CLIMBS HIGH IN POLL; SOARS OVER GOV, RUDY

ALBANY - Sen. Hillary Clinton enjoys a record-high approval rating and would beat Gov. Pataki or former Mayor Giuliani in a race for Senate next year, a new poll yesterday...

DUKE LIGHTS UP TOBACCO ROAD

Duke 71N. Carolina 70 DURHAM, N.C. - Officially, it goes down as an upset. But we know better. Duke knew better. Duke could be playing the original Dream Team, well,...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Residents of the Maine town of Frenchville say they're being held hostage - by chicken manure! Strong northern winds have blanketed the community of 1,200 with the overpowering stench from...

ROSE PEDDLES HOT NEW LINE ; WHIMSY IS THE STAR OF LELA'S LATEST

Designer Lela Rose made it easy for the audience at her runway show to get her fall/ winter 2005 collection. The quote embroidered on one ofher dresses - "I used...

FINGERED 'HIT MAN' HITS THE ROAD

A reputed Mafia hit man - likened by mob leaders to a loyal enforcer from "The Godfather" - has gone on the lam after godfather-turned-canary Joseph Massino fingered him for...

MIKE DOGGONE SENTIMENTAL

Cuddling an adorable puppy called Columbus, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that the city had won the largest animal-care grant ever awarded - $15.5 million - to launch a 10-year program...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

BROOKLYN *** A man was arrested for shooting a woman during a robbery in a Flatbush apartment building last month, authorities said yesterday. Police sources said Kimarlte Gordon, 24, followed...

BROOKLYN DIOCESE TO SHUT 26 SCHOOLS

Twenty-six Catholic elementary schools in Brooklyn and Queens will close after the school year - forcing more than 4,100 youngsters to find new schools before September, the Diocese of Brooklyn...

COUNCIL LOOKING FOR BIZ LINKS TO SLAVERY

City lawmakers said yesterday that they are intensifying a push to force companies that do business with the city to disclose whether they profited from slavery. Hearings will begin next...

COLORFUL NYER DEAD AT 107

One of the oldest New Yorkers - a rag-trade veteran and card-carrying communist who loved stogies and drank a bottle of whisky a week - died at home yesterday at...

CONDI UPS THE STAKES; TO ATTEND SECOND MIDEAST SUMMIT

JERUSALEM - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice next month will attend another Mideast summit in an effort to keep the Israeli-Palestinian truce on track, officials said yesterday. British Prime Minister...

W'CHESTER 24/7 CRACK RING BUSTED

Eleven members of a gang of Westchester crack dealers - whose motorized "drug-catering" service was known as "The Track" and delivered around the clock - were behind bars yesterday after...

HYPOCRITES ; CHEAP SHOTS AT W. SIDE PROJECT

THE New York Times is evidently unafraid to make an ass of itself if it can add even incrementally to the growing hysteria against the West Side stadium project. The...

KID LEFT TO BURN ON SCHOOL RADIATOR SUES

A student who collapsed onto a radiator during an epileptic seizure lay unattended while his face "burned off," the boy's lawyer said yesterday. Christopher Flores, 16, and his mother, Margaret,...

HOARDERS CAN'T BEAT METROCARD INCREASE

Hoarding unlimited MetroCards before the price of discount passes goes up at the end of the month won't do anything to save you money. The Transit Authority said straphangers who...

DRIVER IN ROAD-RAGE SHOOT-UP

An aggressive driver who had cut off another motorist on the Belt Parkway yesterday fired three shots into the man's car after a high-speed chase, police said. Richard Overloon, 20,...

DA WANTS LIFE FOR 'GEM KILLER'

A Long Island prosecutor said yesterday he wants Christopher DiMeo - charged with killing a Glen Head jeweler - to spend the rest of his life in prison. DiMeo, 23,...

BRUNO IN NO HURRY FOR STADIUM VOTE

ALBANY - In a blow to Mayor Bloomberg, state Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno yesterday said he does not believe a vote is needed on the West Side stadium proposal...

'ROBBER' TO DO TIME FOR A 'SPELL'

A Long Island bank robber, who investigators say played dumb by deliberately misspelling his heist notes, has now written his ticket to jail, cops said. Bart Thomas, 43, is charged...

U.N.'S BORO HAUL ; EYES B'KLYN & QNS.

The United Nations is looking at the outer boroughs for a controversial new building to house its interim headquarters, The Post has learned. Downtown Brooklyn and Queens are being considered...

BUSH SEEKS TSUNAMI-AID HIKE

WASHINGTON - President Bush is asking Congress to boost U.S. tsunami relief aid to a whopping $950 million - nearly tripling an earlier pledge he made to help Asian nations...

EX-COP GUILTY ON KID-PERV RAP

An ex-NYPD detective snared by an Internet sex sting pleaded guilty yesterday to sending obscene messages and images from a computer to a person he believed was a 14-year-old boy....

CANCER BOY RECEIVES POPE'S ASH BLESSING

Pope John Paul II marked Ash Wednesday in his hospital room yesterday by greeting an unexpected visitor - a young boy being treated for cancer. The pope's secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw...

MOB BIG CAVES TO THREAT BY RATS

A reputed Gambino captain pleaded guilty yesterday to racketeering and loan-sharking charges - including shaking down a Fort Lee, N.J., nightclub. Vincent "Vinnie Butch" Corrao, 38, took the plea in...

KLEIN NOD FOR UFT SCHOOL

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, embroiled in hostile contract talks with the United Federation of Teachers, yesterday endorsed the union's bid for a charter school as "a terrific idea." Union delegates...

PAMPERED PUP HAS THE POOP

SHOW BUZZ SOCIALITE Celerie Kemble, sometime muse to Lela Rose, favorite designer of First Daughters Jenna and Barbara Bush, brought her dog, a Jack Russell, to Rose's show yesterday -...

CITY FOR SALE: N.Y. TO PITCH BRAND NAME

For those who can't get enough of New York, good news is on the way in the form of a global marketing quest to emblazon the Big Apple's trademarks on...

KARATE KID-NAP ; MAN TRIED TO ABDUCTGIRL: COPS

A 50-year-old Brooklyn man stalked a 10-year-old karate student and tried to abduct her after he failed to lure her into his car, cops said yesterday. The girl said the...

AMERICAN BODES WELL

IN this country, where athletes get more notoriety for the things they do off the field than on, we have an athlete who may be the best there ever was...

BIAS SUIT VS. 5TH AVE. CO-OP

A wealthy Mexican banker who has a child with Down syndrome slapped the board of a posh Fifth Avenue co-op with a housing-discrimination suit after it rejected his bid to...

COS IN 'HUSH-UP' OFFER: ACCUSER

Bill Cosby offered to pay off a woman who accused him of drugging and molesting her, a bombshell report claims. Cosby, the comedian who became a household name for his...

PUT UP YOUR NUKES, IRAN ; RICE GIVES MULLAHS A CHALLENGE

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday showed the steel under the smile on her whirlwind world tour as she warned Iran that talks to end its nuclear program can't go...

6 PLACED ON ZONGO SLAY JURY

Three woman and three men were chosen as the first jurors yesterday in the manslaughter trial of a white cop who killed an unarmed West African artisan in a Chelsea...

BANK-ROB KID WAS FORCED BY ABUSE: COURT

A Harlem woman abused her 12-year-old son when she forced him to rob a bank, an appeals court has found. Tamara Rivers, 35, pleaded guilty to getting her son to...

E. END GOE$ NORTH; HAMPTONS HOME PRICES MORE THAN DOUBLE

The cost of homes on Long Island's East End keeps surging. New figures show that prices in some of the towns - including East Hampton and Southampton - have more...

ORPHAN'S TRAGIC BURDEN ; SLAIN INESSA'S SON TAKES ON GRIM TASK

With a crisp military uniform on his young man's frame and sorrow behind his heavy-lidded eyes, Nikolai Ivanov yesterday faced the heartbreak of planning his slain mother's funeral - and...

FT. BRAGG 'KILLER'; B'KLYN MAN BUSTED FOR SHOOTING GI & GAL

A Brooklyn man was arrested yesterday for the murder of a soldier and the GI's girlfriend - both childhood friends of the alleged killer - near Fort Bragg, N.C., last...

WOMAN'S CORPSE IN WATER TANK

Divers found the body of a New Jersey water-treatment chemist at the bottom of a gigantic underground tank last night, and investigators are looking into the possibility of foul play....

KARATE KID-NAP ; MAN TRIED TO ABDUCT GIRL: COPS

A 50-year-old Brooklyn man who stalked a 10-year-old karate student for eight months tried to abduct her after he failed to lure her into his car, cops said yesterday. The...

DOOMSDAY AT HAND ; BETTMAN: SUNDAY IS DEAL DEADLINE

This, then, becomes the NHL's Lost Weekend, when Gary Bettman cancels the season - barring a miracle deal. What looms next is even gloomier. "The deal can only get worse,...

SIS REPORTED 'ABUSE' MA

A Bronx mother who allegedly beat her two young kids for a year was turned in by her sister, it was revealed yesterday. Everlene Whitick told authorities she beat her...

RED-HOT MAMA STEALS SHOW ; OH, BABY! ROWLEY WOWS'EM AT TENTS

New mom Cynthia Rowley didn't waste any time getting back to work. Fifteen days after the birth of daughter Gigi, the designer staged a stellar show under the tents in...

MORRIS HELPS JUDGES RULE

BOYSCardozo 76C. Magnet 63 GIRLSF. Lewis 69Cardozo 37 Vic Morris spent much of the borough championships last year on the bench for Cardozo, punishment for going on the senior class...

COPS MAKE STINK OVER TEEN TALE

Police yesterday disputed an allegation that officers use stink bombs to control students in the city's toughest schools - and said a teenager who told the City Council about the...

OWNERS ARE STILL UP TO DIRTY TRICKS

THE only collective bar gaining link worth discussing is the pattern of deceptive behavior practiced by the Never Hockey League in its relentless propaganda campaign designed to initiate outside pressure...

'I WANTED TO WALK IN THE SAME STEPS HE WALKED'

WITH heavy heart and tear-filled eyes, Jeanette Meyran slowly walked up 70 steps to the fourth floor of 236 E. 178th St. in The Bronx yesterday to relive the last...

JACKSON TO SKIP EVENT AT GARDEN

The Knicks are expected to get turned down by Phil Jackson, The Post has learned. Relax. It's not for their soon-to-be-vacant head-coaching job. But it looks like Jackson won't grace...

DEATH LEAP FOILED

Three quick-acting Midtown cops yesterday stopped a suicidal man from plunging four stories into the atrium of the Time Warner Center. Shoppers inside the upscale mall at 10 Columbus Circle...

BUSH SEEKING TSUNAMI-$ HIKE

WASHINGTON - President Bush is asking Congress to boost U.S. tsunami relief aid to a whopping $950 million - nearly tripling an earlier pledge he made to help Asian nations...

GANG KID IN SCHOOL GUN BUST

A 15-year-old Bronx high-school student who is a member of the Bloods street gang was arrested yesterday for bringing a loaded gun to school, police sources said. The teen, whose...

A BLESSING EVENT - CANCER KID'S ASH VISIT TO POPE

Pope John Paul II, still recovering from the flu, marked Ash Wednesday in his hospital room yesterday by greeting an unexpected visitor - a young boy being treated for cancer....

CITY FOR SALE - N.Y. PITCHES ITS NAME ON EARMUFFS, TOYS & MORE

For those who can't get enough of New York, good news is on the way in the form of a global marketing quest to emblazon the Big Apple's trademarks on...

ORPHAN'S TRAGIC BURDEN - SLAIN INESSA'S SON [[CD3]]TAKES ON GRIM TASK

With a crisp military uniform on his young man's frame and sorrow behind his heavy-lidded eyes, Nikolai Ivanov yesterday faced the heartbreak of planning his slain mother's funeral - and...

DIVING INTO JACKO JURY POOL

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers in Michael Jackson's child-molestation trial will pick jurors from a pool comprised mainly of women, homeowners, married people and parents, court records unsealed yesterday show. A...

BRITNEY PLAYS TRESS-UP - WIG BID TO HIDE FROM LENS

Britney Spears has flipped her wig! The usually blond pop tart donned a short brunette wig when she went out recently in California in an apparent attempt to hide from...

CLASSROOM EXTRA - FIVE DAYS OF TERROR

The Civil War draft sparked one of the worst riots in history. Read about five days of violence that terrorized New York's African-American citizens. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went...

L.A. KOS N.J. IN OT ; NETS BLOW LATE LEAD TO LAKERS

OVERTIMELakers 104Nets 103 All losses hurt. Some hurt more than others. Then there was the Nets' overtime defeat against the Lakers at the Meadowlands last night. OK, Vince Carter was...

PENN-CILED FOR CAMP ; DESPITE REPORTS, JETS PROJECT CHAD HEALTHY BY SUMMER

Despite two reports saying the extent of Chad Pennington's right shoulder surgery was more involved than it was originally believed to be, Jets' officials yesterday insisted that's not the case...

JORDAN: BETTER TO STAY IN SCHOOL

Andray Blatche is the only one out of 18 high schoolers scheduled to play in the Jordan Classic on April 16 who already has said he will head directly to...

DAZZLIN' DEBUT ; PEDRO MAKES EYES POP IN 1ST MET MOUND STINT

PORT ST. LUCIE -The talk all winter was about what Pedro Martinez brings to the Mets. In the end, though, it was just that - talk. Stand 60 feet, 6...

HEAT'S WADE A RISING STAR

There was one All-Star guard at the Garden last night and his name wasn't Stephon Marbury. The self-proclaimed best point guard in the NBA was not added to the Feb....

UNBEATEN YURI FINDS RING FOE

Everything in Yuri Foreman's life reminds him of boxing. Every day, he runs, lifts weights and spars to prepare for boxing. Or he promotes his next match, as he was...

THREE CHEERS FOR ELLIOTT

On a day when speed was king, Stewart Elliott had first three-bagger since moving back to New York for winter, all gate-to-wire, including April True in second race for good...

NYRA TO BEGIN 'MILKSHAKE' TESTING

Starting next Wednesday, the New York Racing Association will begin testing to determine if any horses have been given illegal "milkshakes" before a race. A "milkshake" is the administration, through...

HE'S STILL GOT AIR ABOUT HIM

THERE WAS something about seeing Michael Jordan wearing an expensive pinstriped suit and elegant silver tie that made you yearn for the days when looking like an NBA professional and...

JUST CAN'T KEEP COACH K DOWN

DURHAM, N.C. - Once he had been helped to his feet from the floor that bears his name, Mike Krzyzewski immediately reassured Duke fans that his fainting spell was nothing...

MERCY, MERCER'S KNEE - NETS' GUARD WILL BERE-EXAMINED TODAY

Ron Mercer waited three months because of knee surgery to get back on the court. So one extra day to determine the strength of his knee wasn't much. But in...

SCALABRINE'S RETURN HINGES ON SURGERY

NET NOTES Three weeks. Or two months. Those are the absence options Net forward Brian Scalabrine faces as he undergoes surgery this morning. If the doctors go in and only...

WITHOUT KOBE, LAKERS KEEP STRUGGLING

The Lakers have been in a free fall - not a Knick-level spiral, mind you, but a marked stumble nonetheless. It started with Vince Carter's dazzling finger-roll, and seemingly won't...

ISIAH NOT GIVING UP ON HERB

First Shaquille O'Neal gave an endorsement of Knick interim coach Herb Williams, then came Isiah Thomas right behind last night. Thomas, in pouring water on the notion he will finish...

HEAT WON BY LOSING

THE Big Luggage, nee Big Shakespeare, nee Big Aristotle, and now Big Reason not to buy Knicks tickets except the twice a year he comes to town, dropped by the...

PATRIOTS EARN LENGTHY LAYOFF

F. Lewis 69Cardozo 37 Mike Eisenberg doesn't know what to do with his team now that it has won the PSAL Queens Borough Championship and likely will be seeded second...

WON'T MOVE FORWARD ; PHIL TO SKIP KNICKS EVENT

The Knicks are expected to get turned down by Phil Jackson, The Post has learned. Relax. It's not for their soon-to-be-vacant head coaching job. But it looks like Jackson won't...

LAKERS' KOBE-LESS SKID COMES FULL CIRCLE

It seemed like a fitting place for the Lakers to break their slide, and a fitting player for them to break it against. They'd been in a free fall since...

DIESEL NOT SO HOT IN FIRST NY VISIT WITH HEAT KNICK NOTES/P. 64

Aside from the fact that standing next to each other, Shaquille O'Neal looks like he could fold up Nazr Mohammed and stuff him in his back pocket like a dollar...

MIAMI SHOWS HOW TO WIN BY LOSING

THE BIG SHAKESPEARE, nee Big Aristotle, and now a Big Reason not to buy Knicks tickets except for the twice a year he comes to town, came to the Garden...

L.A. KOS N.J. IN OT - NETS BLOW LATE LEAD TO LAKERS

OVERTIMELakers 104Nets 103 Some losses just hurt more than others. And then there was the Nets' overtime defeat against the Lakers at the Meadowlands last night. OK, Vince Carter was...

DUNSTON BURIES BONNIES

COLLEGE ROUNDUPFordham 84St. Bona. 62 Last night's Fordham-St. Bonaventure matchup used to be considered a rivalry. It used to be that there were tons of similarities between the two teams:...

KNICKS WILT IN HEAT; BEATEN IN OT AFTER COMEBACK

OVERTIMEHeat 116Knicks 110 Isiah Thomas must have been ecstatic by this recent "L" last night, as his Knicks fought. After coming back from an exhaustive 10-day Western trip, the Knicks...

TRUTH OR DODGE? TAINTED SLUGGER MUST SPILL HIS GUTS TO SAVE HIS CAREER

THERE is an opportunity here for Jason Giambi to earn his way back into a position of viability as a Yankee. He'd better take advantage of that. He'd better have...

YANKS SEND JASON INTO STEROID FIRESTORM TODAY

With his body overhauled, Jason Giambi's first steps toward rebuilding an extremely soiled image due to steroids will be taken today at Yankee Stadium. Where the journey ends is pure...