December 21, 2008
O'Neill likens Brad Friedel to Schmeichel, all-time greats
By BRIAN LEWISCollecting effusing accolades and gushing praise is nothing new for Brad Friedel. But Martin O'Neill was the latest to rave over the U.S. keeper, after he lifted Aston...
QUEENS CONGRESSMAN COMPARES KENNEDY TO PALIN
The same Queens Democrat who said Caroline Kennedy is no more qualified to be senator than Jennifer Lopez today compared her to Sarah Palin and questioned whether she has "the...
Today's Inactives
Rookie linebacker Vernon Gholston is back in the lineup today. The No. 6 pick was inactive last week against Buffalo, but he's back up today. The surprising Jet on the...
Box Office: Grim Tidings
Poor weather, scathing reviews and a dubious denouement added up to box office king Will Smith's worst wide opening since "Ali'' (2001) as Sony's "Seven Pounds'' opened in second place...
10-man United wins Club World Cup
By BRIAN LEWISManchester United laid further claim to the title of World's Best Team with a 1-0 victory over Liga de Quinto in the Club World Cup final. England striker...
Snowy in Seattle
Greetings from snowy Seattle. A monster storm hit this city yesterday, and this certainly isn't the Northeast. They're reacting like they've never seen snow. If the Seahawks are as thrown...
Miss at your own risk: 'Christmas Story'
Highlights for the week of Dec. 22'Soup' fillerIf you're in withdrawal because of "The Soup's" holiday break -- it returns next week with part two of its year-end Clipdown --...
SCENTSATIONAL
DEAR DR. FOX: I use bleach to clean litter boxes. I am told that bleach is dangerous, but Lysol is bad for cats, too. What cleaner and disinfectant should I...
LOVE UNLEASHED
'TIS THE SEASON for movies that celebrate dogs, but the undisputed leader of the holiday pack is "Marley & Me," which opens Christmas Day. With "Marley & Me," director David...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS MARY SCHAPIRO FINRA boss nominated to be the next head of the SEC. TERRY LUNDGREN Macy's CEO sees shares surge after early Christmas present of being able to renegotiate...
THE 5-YEAR MARQ-UEE
BY 2003, once-hot clubs such as Lotus and Pangaea were showing signs of fatigue, while the odds of an average clubgoer being admitted to Bungalow 8 hardly justified hauling to...
GAJJAR, 33, AND KHETRAPAL, 36
Nov. 29 - Kavita Gajjar was flying high - literally - after Saurabh Khetrapal proposed in Africa. Khetrapal, a filmmaker, popped the question in a hot air balloon. But not...
STERRANTINO, 23, AND SMITH, 29
Oct. 25 - Something was brewing at Kaitlyn Sterrantino and Robin Smith's wedding. For their vintage-inspired nuptials, the Brooklyn duo decided to have their reception at the Greenpoint Coffee House....
GONZALEZ, 29, AND BANKS, 32
Sept. 6 - Meeting at a barbecue in Austin, Texas, in 2001 was a recipe for success for Sonia Gonzalez and Bradley Banks. After hitting it off over hamburgers, the...
SUH, 25, AND WANG, 25
Sept. 20 - John Suh knows that the perfect proposal takes a lot of planning - especially when you're overseas. After being deployed to Iraq in 2007, Suh corresponded with...
SHOW CATS JUST WHO IS KING OF THE JUNGLE
YOU are the New York Giants. The defending world champion New York Giants. Oh, how you love hearing that. It brings back all those memories from a magical season no...
POLAR-OPPOSITE PAIR
Lance, a 31-year-old equity analyst, was intrigued by Beth's love of sports. But when he met the 24-year-old business planner for dinner at Asian spot Kurve in the East Village,...
CLASH WITH CAROLINA FOR NFC'S NO. 1 SEED
There's no sense calling what takes place tonight at cold and wet and wintry Giants Stadium a playoff-type game, because both the Giants and Panthers will live for another day....
MEET MARKET
After living in China for the past five years, Susan, a 27-year-old writer and editor, is ready to take on NYC men. So what type is she lookin' for? Someone...
FAVRE'S JOB WELL DONE, BUT NOT FINISHED
SEATTLE - OK, first things first: The Jets have been a better football team this year with Brett Favre as their quarterback than they ever would have been with Chad...
NEED TO HAMMER 3-11 HAWKS ON SEATTLE TUNDRA
SEATTLE - A month ago, it looked as if the Jets were going to coast into the playoffs. Instead, they've made it interesting, losing two of their last three games....
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH... KEVIN BOSS
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Giants' 24-year-old starting tight end.Q: How often have you watched your 45-yard Super Bowl catch?A: I still haven't sat down and watched the...
YULETIDE TUNES FOR THE NEW YORK SPORTS FAN
YES, Virginia, there are reasons aplenty to lift your voices to the sky this holiday season and rejoice. So without further ado . . ."Do You See What I See?"(As...
BELOVED MIDTOWN CHURCH AILS
The legendary Holy Cross Roman Catholic church - a refuge for saints and sinners in the shadow of the Port Authority Bus Terminal - needs your help this holiday season....
VAC'S WHACKS
Remind me, again, about the part where Eli was supposed to be the better Manning brother now . . .? * I haven't consulted with my man Hondo, who is...
$HEA'S REVENGE
Old ballpark rallies at it rots Shea Stadium got very little respect this past year in the shadow of Yankee Stadium's final season. Not a single publisher would take a...
BYE COULD BE HAD BEFORE THE KICKOFF
The Giants already might have clinched a first-round playoff bye before they step on the field tonight. All they need to claim that prize is for the Falcons to beat...
HOLMGREN GLAD TO SEE BRETT AT SEATTLE FINALE
SEATTLE - Mike Holmgren plans to take a lap around Qwest Field today after his final home game as Seahawks coach. The only question is, will it be a victory...
SUTTER COACHING UP A STORM
They not only survived, the Devils prospered, their plague of injuries becoming a plague on their opponents. And they're all the stronger for it. The players are the biggest heroes,...
ROAD-RUNNING SANTA REIGNS
A svelte Santa Claus was among the droves of hearty New Yorkers who flocked to Central Park yesterday for the New York Road Runners Club 15-K race, undeterred by icy...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens An airport baggage handler was busted after cops linked him to a stolen credit card used to buy groceries at a Cambria Heights supermarket, police said. A 27-year-old Brooklyn...
HIGH-TECH HANGUPS
Precisely 11:48 a.m. on Christmas Day is the time on average that people give up on trying to make their new electronic gadgets work, a new survey finds. And 15...
SUBWAY BOOTH BANDIT
A Brooklyn subway station agent was robbed early yesterday morning by a sticky-fingered sneak who crept into his booth and grabbed a handful of cash, police said. The unnamed MTA...
GAL DIES IN JUMP FROM CAR
A panicked passenger died after jumping from a SUV going 50 mph in Queens - because she thought the driver was drunk, police said yesterday. The victim, Judy Bucherri, 41,...
HIDEOUS FIGHT OVER TROLLS
A war of the trolls has broken out, just in time for Christmas. The Danish maker of Good Luck Trolls, cute, cuddly dolls known for fuzzy, brightly colored hair that...
CAROLINE 'POL'ICIES
Caroline Kennedy offered a first glimpse of her policy beliefs yesterday, revealing she differs with Barack Obama on same-sex marriage and the status of Jerusalem - but she declined to...
O TAPS SCIENCE TEAM
Pledging to "once again put science at the top of our agenda," President-elect Barack Obama yesterday named four leading experts in climate change and scientific research as his latest White...
QNS. POL A GLASS ACT: KIN
Although he's accused of stabbing his girlfriend in the face with broken glass, state Senator-elect Hiram Monserrate is really a "nice person" who did nothing wrong, a cousin of the...
HOW I ROBBED 80 BANKS
Eric Manson says he never uses a gun when he robs a bank. He says he doesn't need one. Sometimes he doesn't even raise his voice. With icy calmness, he...
'LOJACK' FOR HOLIDAY DISPLAYS
Santa isn't the only one tracking who's naughty and nice this year. New York religious institutions have gone high-tech to track hooligans who steal holiday displays, slapping global-positioning systems on...
MONEY, NOT APPLE AVERSION, SENT SUNDIN TO CANUCKS
LISTEN, I never once suggested Mats Sun din is greedy, or that he ran a scam on the Rangers. There's no evidence he is, no hint he did. It's just...
SCOUT: MANNY WOULD BE GREAT BACK IN BRONX
The first person in professional baseball to believe in Manny Ramirez was Cleveland Indians scout Joe Delucca, who first saw Ramirez as a 10th grader at Brooklyn's Prospect Park playing...
DWYANE NETS 43 TO DROP JERSEY IN FOURTH
The Nets went into the fourth quarter down three. But Dwyane Wade was resting on the Miami bench. This was the time to make a move. They didn't have to...
ANOTHER FINE METS MESS
* I wonder if Mets owners Fred and Jeff Wilpon did more due diligence before recklessly signing Kaz Matsui, trading for Victor Zambrano or investing with Bernard Madoff. It was...
A LIST OF WHO'S BEEN NAUGHTY, NICE
LOS ANGELES - The good news regarding six head coaches being fired before Christmas is it still gives those teams plenty of time to ax the interims. No truth whatsoever...
KNICKS LOOK TO UPSET 25-2 CELTICS
Paul Pierce said yesterday that he dislikes no man in the NBA. "You know, we're all brothers," he said. Maybe that Christmas card to Quentin Richardson still is in the...
A.J. MUST PROVE HE'S A-OK IN NY
J.P Ricciardi moved through several subjects about A.J. Burnett, his former pitcher who left Toronto for The Bronx and $82.5 million of the Steinbrenner family's iron. Ricciardi talked about Burnett...
BIG BLUE WILL CONQUER CATS, CLINCH TOP SEED
GIANTS (-3) over Panthers: Win here buys Big Blue three weeks of pressure-free living, with the NFC home-field advantage in the pocket. Isn't it interesting that New Yorkers lost their...
FIND GIFTS 'UNDER' THE TREE IN KC
Including the 1997-2007 seasons in The Post, Cat's 13-year record in print stands at 354-295 (54.5 percent) against the spread. TODAY Dolphins/CHIEFS Under 40: It'll be a little windier and...
LEBRON MAY STAY WITH CAVS
The Knicks may not get a chance to put their LeBron James plan into effect. The Knicks shedded salary last month by dealing away Zach Randolph and Jamal Crawford to...
YI HAS AN AGE-OLD PROBLEM
Whether or not there is a problem with Yi Jianlian's age, the Nets don't seem to care. A report in China that surfaced on the Internet yesterday claimed to have...
WITH SAWX STEPPING ASIDE, BOMBERS MAKE SMART PLAY
NOW that the Red Sox have frozen their Mark Teixeira assets in the high- stakes poker game with super-agent Scott Boras, it creates an opening for the Yankees. The Yankees...
SPORTS SHORTS
BOXING: Valuev upends Holyfield In Zurich, Switzerland, Nikolai Valuev ended any hope of Evander Holyfield winning a fifth heavyweight title, narrowly defending his WBA title by majority decision yesterday. The...
ITALIAN-AMERICANS STILL FAIR GAME FOR CHEAP LAUGHS
IN 2008 America, time-dishonored negative stereotypes, as main stream media utterances, are rare. Those who suffer physical and mental afflictions, all religions, all races and ethnicities are sensitively and nobly...
FISHING PROGRAM FOR THE SURVIVORS OF BREAST CANCER
FOR MORE than a dec ade, Casting for Re covery has helped breast cancer survivors in retreats that provide emotional and medical support and teach new skills of catch-and-release fly...
NO. 6 BLUE DEVILS PUT UP THEIR DUKES
The NCAA tournament is still a long way off, but that's what was on Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski's mind when he scheduled yesterday's neutral site game against Xavier. If Duke's...
JOHNNIES ROUT MARIST IN HOLIDAY FEST
When Marist coach Chuck Martin looks at this year's St. John's team, the first thing he notices is the Red Storm's tenacity. "Those guys are tough," Martin said after his...
IT'S CURTAIN$
FACING "Black Tuesday" - when the first six of 13 shows slated to close go dark on Jan. 6 - Broadway has been hit with a final indignity: a 4...
ACCOUNTANT 'TAKEN,' TOO
An accountant under fire for signing off on Bernard Madoff's books lost a bundle himself in the Ponzi scheme and has only enough saved for two months, a friend said....
TAX REBATES IN MAIL TOMORROW
Your homeowner rebate check is in the mail - almost. The Finance Department will begin mailing out rebate checks to city homeowners as early as tomorrow, a spokesman told The...
'SEX CHIP' SET TO FLIP OUR SWITCH
The Orgasmatron lives. Scientists at Oxford University - perhaps taking a cue from the device featured in Woody Allen's 1973 comedy "Sleeper" - have developed a "sex chip" that can...
MORE THAN 'FRIENDS'
Lovey-dovey duo Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer heat things up on the frigid streets of the Big Apple. The couple made their feelings for each other clear during a touchy-feely...
IMAGINE A LOOPED LENNON
Maybe he should have sung "99 Bottles of Beer." A never publicly heard outtake recording of a very intoxicated John Lennon singing a debauched version of Lloyd Price's "Just Because"...
SUITS PUT A $403M HURT ON CITY
The city shelled out $403 million in personal-injury lawsuits this year - a 6 percent spike in payouts over last year, according to Law Department stats. The top settlement in...
WALL STREET WISE MEN
'TIS the season for re flection, and what a bounty of events we have to ponder this year - a year that we now know had the economy in recession...
KIDNEY OP GAVE HER LIFE, BUT TOOK HER LOVE
ShellyAnn King was resting in her hospital bed at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn on Oct. 27, dreaming of a new future. In a bed beside her was her...
SHOULD MADOFF MEAN MORE REGULATION?
YES: Much more regulation of hedge funds is needed - and fast. Midsized broker-dealers like my company, Hold Brothers, for example, with 1,200 traders but less than $20 million in...
SYNAGOGUE OF $UFFERERS
Members of a posh Upper East Side synagogue suffered a $2 billion bloodbath in Bernie Madoff's epic Ponzi scheme. The Fifth Avenue Synagogue ranks with the decimated rolls of the...
$2M LOSER PARIS STILL $PARKLING
A day after $2 million worth of gems were swiped from her mansion, Paris Hilton gave the rest of us a license to steal. The hotel heiress didn't let the...
HEY MADOFF! SHOW ME THE MONEY
Dear John: I'd like to ask you about this mess with Bernie Madoff. In all the coverage of this case, nobody is saying where the $50 billion went. Where is...
SAVING THE SUBWAY FARE
WITH the MTA vot ing through a 23 percent fare hike, Gov. Paterson unable to help because he is looking to plug a $15 billion hole in the state budget...
THE DEAD RINGER
Manhattan defense attorney Marian Seltzer always gets her husband's voicemail. But she doesn't mind leaving messages - he's been dead for three years. When he passed away from pancreatic cancer,...
MISSING STEVE, ALREADY
Steve Jobs is pulling out before things get messy. The tech messiah shocked analysts and fanboys alike this week by announcing Apple is pulling out of January's Macworld Expo -...
EX-MET DYKSTRA NAILED ON LAWSUIT
Yet another brush back pitch was fired at former Mets star Lenny Dykstra last week - this time by a former assistant. Samantha Kulchar became the office manager/assistant for the...
'GROSS' NEGLIGENCE: FOOD COPS FAIL TO CHECK EATERIES
That might actually be a fly in your soup. Thousands of the Big Apple's 25,500 eateries haven't been checked by city food inspectors in more than 18 months, despite Health...
FIENDISH FRIEND
Bernie Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme hoodwinked tens of billions of dollars from deep-pocketed banks and hedge funds - but the 70-year-old Wall Street icon appears to have saved his most...
ELEX BOARD 'DRUGGIE'
A FORMER city Board of Elections official says he informed higher-ups of suspected heroin dealing inside the agency's Bronx office two years ago, but was never taken seriously. A top...
HURRICANE MADOFF TEARS UP TONY TOWN
The tiny, tony south Florida enclave of Palm Beach may never be the same now that Hurricane Madoff has blown through. Doug Kass, a hedge-fund manager and resident of the...
BRIDGES BURNED WITH MADOFF CLAN
Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff's family is coming apart at the seams, with his two sons refusing to talk to their parents and one getting hit with divorce papers the day...
BILL'S DUBIOUS DONORS
In addition to soliciting donations from oil-rich Arab charities and foreign governments, former president Bill Clinton's $500 million charity, the William J. Clinton Foundation, has collected loot from several companies...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Never give up on Hope - the three-legged cat, that is. Hope went missing from her owner's Cincinnati home almost two months ago, and Norma Meece was so desperate to...
PR STUNT!
"Get Your Shovels Ready, New York" discriminates against women, white-collar, older or inner-city workers. It's just a PR stunt to garner some FDR glow and Depression nostalgia. Just how does...
TO PIE FOR
After a lifetime of pie-induced pleasure, I feel it's time somebody stood up for my perfect dessert. Pie is moist where cake is too often arid; it's complex where cake...
LA TO NYC: DROP DEAD
All I want to see every Christmas is New York getting walloped at the movies. It's an important contrarian indicator. Filmmakers are kind of like the French: they're okay with...
THE ICEMAN MELTETH
* A grotesque cartoon snowman was found in a 1380-illuminated manuscript in the Royal Library at The Hague alongside a solemn passage about Jesus Christ. It is, to date, the...
THE RELIEF OF BAGHDAD
About $117 billion has been spent so far on the reconstruction of Iraq, including $50 billion in US taxpayer money, according to a report appearing in February from a federal...
NOBODY HOME
It's become a status symbol in New York to know someone who lost everything, as we now say, with Bernard Madoff, and to provide the details with a tone of...
BLOG WATCH
Bush and the Jews "Within the United States, a high percentage of Jews, who are overwhelmingly Democrats, have been opposed to the policies of the Bush administration and bear an...
MERIT COUNTS MOST
Gays may be barred from serving openly in the US military - but that's no reason for President-elect Barack Obama not to choose a gay man as the next secretary...
SQUEEZING NYERS
Gov. Paterson is touting 137 new taxes and fees, the MTA wants to jack up fares 23% - and the City Council and Mayor Bloomberg just passed a 7% property-tax...
INCONVENIENT
Four to five inches of snow in Las Vegas and snow in Mailbu? Where is Al Gore when you need him? Maybe chasing global warming into the tropics. Judith Walsh,...
SLAY OUTRAGE
What a disgrace this holiday season ("Shock in Cop's Slay," Dec. 18). Officer Russel Timoshenko will not be here with us, his family is devastated and a dirt-bag gets off...
BILL'S DONORS
The word "ethics" should never be mentioned in the same sentence with the Clintons ("Clinton Names Donors," Dec. 18). Jane Isabella, Johnstown
APOLOGIES
The Page Six article on my comments at the Republican State Committee meeting in New York City on Dec. 12 did not mention my reference to the program in Philadelphia...
CAN WE BUILD IT?
Per "Get Your Shovels Ready, New York" (Ed Ott & Kathryn Wylde, PostOpinion, Dec. 17) about the need to move quickly on the modernization and construction of New York's infrastructure,...
(D)UNCES
Go, Democrats! Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich refuses to step down, Barack Obama chafes at questions regarding Rahm Emanuel, an inexperienced Caroline Kennedy will undoubtedly replace an inexperienced Sen. Hillary Rodham...
IN MY LIBRARY: KERI RUSSELL
Keri Russell says she was a big reader, BC - Before Child. "When you're single, you read a lot of books," says the curly-haired star, now the mother of an...
PEREZ HILTON: QUEEN OF MEAN
Since his online debut four years ago, scandalous gossip columnist Perez Hilton (ne Mario Lavandiera) has worked 7 days a week, 16 hours a day, cultivating friends, enemies, and ancillary...
'IDOL'-INFLUENCED 'GLEE' CLUB SERIES TO BOW
The disastrous performance of the Rosie O'Donnell variety show has not deterred programmers from wanting to try again to launch another musical program. This time, though, a star won't headline...
PRIMETIME
Tonight's top story: Wooo! The pathetic, co-opted, surrendered state of local TV news not only continues, it worsens. Last Sunday night, after the NBC NFL postgame show that followed the...
PSYCHIC FRIEND
Simon Baker might be the handsomest leading man on TV, but that's not the only reason why "The Mentalist" is this season's biggest success story. The show is the only...
UNDERDOG NO LONGER
While flailing NBC is surrendering 10 p.m. to Jay Leno five nights week, TNT seems to have cracked the dramatic code, forging its own identity as steady supplier of dramatic...
REEL GOOD
JUNO (2007) Sunday, 9:30 a.m., Cinemax A wonderful, totally unexpected tale by first-time screenwriter and former stripper Diablo Cody. Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) is an articulate teenager from Minnesota who...
IN AND OUT LIST
TALK SHOWSIn: John McCain He lost the White House but he's the guest to get. Just don't ask him about the campaign.Out: Sarah Palin The media's infatuation with the Alaska...
DON'T MISS LIST
REALITY INTERVENTION Monday, 9 p.m., A&E Starving to Death- One of the more unusual challenges unfolds this week on "Intervention." Meet Nicole. After being molested as a child, she was...
SEND IN THE CLAWS
"Cat Dancers," an extraordinary HBO documentary, tells a tale so touching, heartbreaking and complex that it took eight years to tell. Ron and Joy Holiday were childhood friends in Maine...
THEY WERE GREAT IN '08
THIS is the season for critics to turn out lists of the best mov ies of the year. Un fortunately, many consist of highly publicized, big-budget movies that opened between...
BRIDGE
I SAT down to watch a Chicago game and found Cy the Cynic, a shameless chauvinist, and Wendy, my club's feminist, arguing heartily about whether Santa Claus was a man...
OLD GRUMPY MAN
THEY'VE become the odd couple of interna tional chess: 77-year-old Viktor Korchnoi and 16-year-old Fabiano Caruana. It's unique when two grandmasters separated by 61 years of age meet over the...
AGENDA
This week: Grab your "gin-and-tonica," we've rounded up the hippest, hottest events for each of Hanukkah's eight crazy nights! 1) Dreidels be spinnin'! Fontana's, 105 Eldridge St.; 212-334-6740, majorleaguedreidel.com Think...
BRAD'S BROMANCE
You'd be forgiven for thinking love is dead in Hollywood. After all, it's a town where every romance seems to end in one of two ways: with a leaked porn...
UNSINKABLE KATE & LEO
CUE the Celine Dion: Kate and Leo are back, and we're feeling surprisingly sentimental. It's been too long since Winslet and DiCaprio were seen blue-facedly declaring their love as the...
BACKSTREET BUNCO
BEFORE Bernard Madoff allegedly made off with $50 billion, Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC Svengali Lou Pearlman was the biggest Ponzi schemer in US history. The newly unearthed story of the...
HEARTBREAK MAKES AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT ITUNES FAVE
Indie band the Airborne Toxic Event shocked the music industry when major LA radio stations began playing the song "Sometime Around Midnight," which the band had hastily recorded and distributed...
Q&A WITH JASON MRAZ
NEXT time you're in a java joint, don't be in such a rush to grab your mocha latte and run - Jason Mraz may be strumming his guitar a few...
TECHNOLOGY
Sitting prettyHerman Miller Embody Chair $1,600; Embody. Herman Miller.com If you spend your days on your feet, $1,600 might sound like a lot to spend on an office chair, but...
TODAY'S TEN: MOST VIEWED NYPOST.COM PHOTO GALLERIES OF 2008
Sometimes a story is only as good as the pictures that accompany it. NYPost.com had many interesting stories and photos in 2008, from celebs hitting the beach to jilted lovers...
JUST WIND, BABY
It stands proudly in East Rutherford, bounded by Route 120, the Meadowlands Arena and the New Jersey Turnpike on the east, Route 3 on the south, Berry's Creek and Route...
GIANTS: BETWEEN THE HASHMARKS
A look back at the Giants 34-28 overtime victory over the Panthers PLAY OF THE GAME: A punt as the play of the game? Yup. Eli Manning was sacked by...
LEBRON MAY STAY WITH CAVS
The Knicks may not get a chance to put their LeBron James plan into effect. The Knicks shedded salary last month by dealing away Zach Randolph and Jamal Crawford to...
BIG WEEK AHEAD
With the Red Sox putting a hold on Mark Teixeira for the time being and their negotiations with Scott Boras, the Yankees will have a little more time to decide...
CAROLINE 'POL'ICIES
Caroline Kennedy offered a first glimpse of her policy beliefs today, revealing she differs with Barack Obama on same-sex marriage and the status of Jerusalem - but she declined to...
SCOUT: MANNY WOULD BE GREAT BACK IN BRONX
The first person in professional baseball to believe in Manny Ramirez was Cleveland Indians scout Joe Delucca, who first saw Ramirez as a 10th grader at Brooklyn's Prospect Park playing...
Miracle in Boston? Nah
By MARC BERMANBOSTON - It's snowing outside in Beantown, but the defending world champions are sizzling. The Knicks probably look like a big, delicious lobstah to the Celtics, who are...
MAN ROBS BROOKLYN SUBWAY STATION BOOTH
A Brooklyn subway station agent was robbed early this morning by a sticky-fingered sneak who crept into his booth and grabbed a handful of cash, police said. The unnamed MTA...
HOW I ROBBED 80 BANKS
Eric Manson says he never uses a gun when he robs a bank. He says he doesn't need one. Sometimes he doesn't even raise his voice. With icy calmness, he...