September 19, 2005
NOW TRUMP'S GOT YOUR WIRELESS NUMBER
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe Donald is going wireless. Donald Trump and Warner Music Group have reached a wide-ranging deal to launch Trump Mobile - a suite of products that includes ringtones, video ringtones...
PRETTY PENNEY - STORES PUSH FASHION FROM RUNWAY TO REALITY
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amNew York Fashion Week wrapped up on Friday, but for those who set the style agenda at some of the nation's largest retailers, the work is just beginning. For David...
GREAT (CASH) EXPECTATIONS - WANT MORE MONEY? YOU'LL HAVE TO ASK FOR IT
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE are few things in life more daunting than strutting into your boss' office and asking for a raise. It's official - many people would sooner schedule a series of...
OOH, THAT SMELL! - STEP AWAY FROM THE HEAVY PERFUME; YOUR COWORKERS WILL THANK YOU
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S pretty obvious that looking the part can speed an ascent up the corporate ladder - but smelling the part certainly doesn't hurt, either. "The way you smell sends a...
UP IN SMOKE - AT SOME OFFICES, THE REAL BUSINESS IS HAPPENING OUTSIDE - WITH A FEW BUTTS
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amGETTING face time with your boss can be really tough. More often than not, they've got an office full of people competing for their attention - and it can be...
OFFICE READS
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amHAVE you ever had an anxiety fit during a business dinner, wondering which fork to use? What about insulting an international client and not realizing it until it was too...
TOP TEN
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amIT might still be hot outside, but the summer's over. With it go the days of the relaxed office dress code, where - depending on where you work - flip-flops...
PAGING DR. DARE - 'SURVIVOR' M.D.: GUATEMALA'S 'BRUTAL'
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amDR. Adrian Cohen, who's worked behind-the-scenes on every "Survivor" as the show's primary on-site doctor, says "Survivor Guatemala: The Maya Empire," which premiered last Thursday, is the most medically challenging...
A 'NICE' LIFE - JON BON JOVI GIVES BACK
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S Jon Bon Jovi's world, we just live in it. At least that's the way it seems this week for the Jersey boy made good, as he plays the first...
STARR REPORT
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amMore 'B&B' soon? The Post recently broke the news that this will be the final season for "King of the Hill." Here are some other nuggets from my interview with...
WITH 'FRIENDS' LIKE THEM
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amIf you've ever heard your parents tell the story of how they met, you can pretty much skip this show. If not, you might like to know that CBS' new...
DREAM TEAM - FASHION WEEK HITS YOU'LL REALLY WANT; FIVE EASY PIECES - PUT THESE FASHION WEEK HITS ON YOUR SHOPPING LIST FOR SPRING AND SUMMER
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amBETWEEN the trailer-park-trash collection previewed by Tara Subkoff and Chris Aire's diamond dress, there were plenty of moments during Fashion Week, which wrapped Friday night, when we wondered if designers...
BLAKE HEART SET ON REALITY TV
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amBURBANK, Calif. - Don't tell Robert Blake his TV career's over. The pint-size tough guy, now better known as a murder suspect than as an actor, wants a reality-TV show....
MOB ATT'Y FLEES - FIRST LAWYER IN WITNESS PROTECTION
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amA Bonanno legal eagle who carried out hits for the mob has turned turtle - and is now the first lawyer in witness protection, The Post has learned. Thomas Lee,...
DEMS' BACKER$ NOT READY FOR FREDDY
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amDEMOCRATIC unity can get you only so far when you're running against someone like Mayor Bloomberg, who could spend $100 million to get re-elected. Hours after Fernando Ferrer was endorsed...
TRIAL AT LAST IN '93 WTC-BLAST LAWSUITS
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amIt was one of the most terrifying moments in the city's history - a massive car bombing that ripped through an underground garage, killing six and injuring over a thousand....
SADDAM TRIED TO RUN WAR ON LAM
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amEven while on the run, Saddam Hussein reportedly was attempting to direct Iraq's defenses by communicating with his handpicked confederates via letters. Most of the deposed despot's directives were of...
'CANE A DRAIN ON BIG APPLE CHARITIES
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amCharity doesn't begin at home here. City nonprofits say New Yorkers are neglecting local charities in favor of appeals to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Food Bank and other...
S.I. AND QNS. NABES LEAD CITY BUILD BOOM
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amConstruction is booming all across the city, and judging by where new building permits are being issued, New York's hottest neighborhoods are a long way from Manhattan's bright lights. Staten...
MOB WHISPERS DOG SAN GENNARO
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amLittle Italy's famed Feast of San Gennaro is in full swing under new leadership that has vowed to rub out Mafia influence - but new allegations of mob activity continue...
LASER 'LOUSE' - GAL: I WAS NEARLY BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amA New Jersey woman claims she was "almost blinded" by a top celebrity lasik doctor, just weeks after his insurer was ordered to pay out a massive malpractice settlement to...
MEMORIES OF DAPPER DON - MA GOTTI AWAITS JUNIOR'S VERDICT
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amToday is the seventh day of deliberations by a jury weighing John "Junior" Gotti's fate. In the cafeteria on the eighth floor of Manhattan federal court, Victoria Gotti sits for...
CELEB MONEY ORDER - WHO MAKES WHAT
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amOne of the country's top TV stars has made less this year than a Village panhandler - at least, according to a report by New York magazine. Funnyman Dave Chappelle...
IRAQ CHARTER SET FOR VOTE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amIraq's parliament yesterday finally approved a draft constitution and the nation now has just four weeks before the document is put to a national referendum. The drafting of the constitution,...
POINT OF N.O. RETURN - MAYOR TOLD: SLOW DOWN
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amNew Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is backing off his ambitious plan to allow 180,000 residents to return to the city this week, after federal officials ripped the move as too...
'HEAVEN' $ENT TO BOOST BOX OFFICE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amHeaven trumped hell over the weekend, as the romantic comedy "Just Like Heaven" beat supernatural shocker "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" to become America's top movie. The Reese Witherspoon vehicle...
SHOT BOY'S BULLET POSES RIDDLE FOR DOCS
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe stricken family of a 9-year-old boy shot in the face in The Bronx said yesterday that doctors still haven't decided how to remove the bullet. Kevin Whitfield was in...
KINDNESS OF STRANGERS - BIG EASY FAMILY IS WELCOMED IN B'KLYN
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amA Big Easy family with Brooklyn roots is finding refuge in one man's unbelievable offer - six months' free rent in a borough pad while they re-establish themselves in the...
FUNNY MEETING YOU HERE, JERRY - FAMILY OUTING IN CENT. PK.
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amJerry Seinfeld showed he's master of an ever-expanding domain as he relaxed in Central Park yesterday (right) with his wife, Jessica, and two of their three kids - daughter Sascha,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN (s, lcf) * A Queens man was gunned down in front of his pals on a Williamsburg street yesterday after he got into an argument with several men after...
ARIEL-ABBAS TALKS SET
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced fresh talks with the Palestinian leader yesterday after appealing to the U.N. and world leaders to press Mahmoud Abbas to ban Hamas from upcoming...
CITY IN 181G DEPOSIT BATTLE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amAnyone who's lived in New York has heard of - or had a run-in with - a landlord who wouldn't return the security deposit. Add to that list the New...
INDEPENDENCE PARTY PANEL GIVES FULANI THE HEAVE-HO
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Accused anti-Semite Lenora Fulani, one of Mayor Bloomberg's most controversial backers, was booted yesterday from the executive committee of the state Independence Party. As it was announced that...
QNS. TOT IN 10-FOOT FALL OFF BALCONY
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amAn 18-month-old baby survived a 10-foot plunge from her parent's Queens home yesterday after she slipped through the bars of a balcony while playing unattended and fell onto a dirt...
SUDDEN-DEATH WARNING - COPS: DAD THREATENS GRID COACH
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amAn irate New Jersey dad won't be allowed on any local high-school football fields because authorities said he threatened to kill his son's coach - for benching the rule-breaking kid....
BILL TO HILL: DON'T MAKE PREZ PLEDGE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amPresident Bill Clinton said his wife shouldn't make a pledge not to run for president in 2008. "She's got to go through a big campaign," he said on NBC's "Meet...
MAYOR IN QUID PRO NO - NIXES UNION DEAL
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amHigher-ups at powerhouse health-care union Local 1199 offered Mayor Bloomberg their politically invaluable endorsement if he would put 25,000 private home health-care aides on the city payroll, sources told The...
APT. BLAZE KILLS B'KLYN FAMILY MAN
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amA Homeland Security customs agent yesterday was killed after a raging fire broke out in the Brooklyn apartment he shared with his wife and young son, police and neighbors said....
BLOOMY IN RANGEL WRANGLE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg isn't concerned if people endorse his rival Fernando Ferrer, because "in his heart" he believes they are going to vote for him anyway. When asked by reporters if...
LIL' KIM'S MOVING TO THE BIG HOUSE - NEW PHILLY CRIB
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amSuperstar rapper Lil' Kim will don an orange jumpsuit at a drab and "degrading" federal jail in Philadelphia today to begin serving her year-and-a-day criminal sentence for perjury, The Post...
BOOKIE RAP FOR ROBBER - $1.2B 'HEIST' IN '87
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amA man charged with running a $4 million-a-year international sports-betting ring out of a Long Island bar once came close to pulling off the biggest robbery in U.S. history -...
DELAYED SUCCESS - REPUBLICANS' SPENDING ADDICTION
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amDID House Majority Leader Tom DeLay hear the rumor about the educators who wanted to replace "failure" on report cards with the sunnier "delayed success"? It would explain his declaration...
$250M MEGA WINNER LYING LOW
September 19, 2005 | 4:00am"Big winner, where are you?" That's the sign outside the New Jersey newsstand that sold the only winning ticket to Friday night's $250 million Mega Millions jackpot, a king's ransom...
PIER INTO FUTURE - HISTORIC B'KLYN WATERFRONT PARK PLAN
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amA new vision for the Brooklyn waterfront will be unveiled today when officials reveal the latest plans for the first major park in the borough in more than a century....
BILL TELLS HILL: NO PREZ PLEDGES
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amFormer President Bill Clinton said yesterday his wife shouldn't promise not to run for president in 2008. "She's got to go through a big campaign," he said on NBC's "Meet...
TV'S VETS TAKE HOME THE GOLD - GARRETT, SHATNER WIN EARLY NODS
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amTV's brash newcomers were no match for some old favorites last night at the 57th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Brad Garrett, who played big brother to Ray Romano...
MIKE'S QUID PRO NO - REJECTS UNION'S OK OFFER
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amHigher-ups at powerhouse health-care union Local 1199 offered Mayor Bloomberg their politically potent endorsement if he would put 25,000 private home health-care aides on the city payroll, sources told The...
FERRER HITS 40% TO AVERT RUNOFF
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amFernando Ferrer won the Democratic primary after all - saving the city $12 million. After the Board of Elections finished counting over 32,000 absentee and paper ballots yesterday, sources said...
MEMORIES OF DAPPER DON - MA GOTTI GETS NOSTALGIC AWAITING JUNIOR'S VERDICT
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amToday is the seventh day of deliberations by a jury weighing John "Junior" Gotti's fate. In the cafeteria on the eighth floor of Manhattan federal court, Victoria Gotti sits for...
BIG NIGHT'S FASHION SALUTE IS ALL ABOUT EVA
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amHOLLYWOOD'S most competitive sport - red-carpet dressing - hit new, super-stylish heights last night as small-screen sirens struck a colorful pose in the high-stakes battle to score a best-dressed nod....
DESPERATE TIMES FOR 'HOUSEWIVES' - LOSES OUT AS GOLDEN OLDIES SHINE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00am"Desperate Housewives" was shockingly desperate for a win last night, as the smash-hit show that helped redefine television lost out to old standby "Everybody Loves Raymond" at the Emmys. In...
DENNIS A MENACE - FEDS SEEK HARD TIME VS. TYCO DUO TODAY
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amWhen two former Tyco bosses are sentenced today, the judge should consider the "enormous negative impact" they've had on investor confidence, the SEC says. Former CEO Dennis Kozlowski and CFO...
WHAT N.Y. COULD GIVE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amSOME folks in Montana have come up with a great idea. As The Wall Street Journal noted last week, citizens in Bozeman have petitioned their City Council to give the...
GIZMO WILL DETECT STRAY VOLTAGE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amCon Edison has developed new equipment to detect deadly live current in its street-level electric boxes - but the family of a woman electrocuted by a street box two winters...
MCCAIN BESTS RUDY VS. HILL
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republicans Rudy Giuliani and John McCain are close rivals for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, but McCain holds a bigger lead over Hillary Clinton, a new poll shows....
BOSTON BREWIN'S - WELD'S MASS. TEAM FAMED FOR BOOZY SEXCAPADES: AIDE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Former Mass. Gov. William Weld ran a hard-drinking "libertine" administration in which some senior aides regularly bedded each other - and even had a 4 a.m. ménage-a-trois in...
BUMBLING PIRRO HITS A $TUMBLING BLOCK
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amREPUBLICAN superstar Jeanine Pirro's month-old campaign for Senate election has stumbled badly, has failed to catch on with voters and is having difficulty raising cash, GOP insiders contend. The Westchester...
TAKE NOTE OF THIS
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amYou're sitting in class and the teacher is explaining the lesson. You can't catch it all at once - and there's a quiz on Friday. You don't have a private...
MOB WHISPERS STILL DOG SAN GENNARO
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amLittle Italy's famed Feast of San Gennaro is in full swing under new leadership that has vowed to rub out Mafia influence - but new allegations of mob activity continue...
POINT OF N.O RETURN - MAYOR TOLD: SLOW DOWN
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amNew Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is backing off his ambitious plan to allow 180,000 residents to return to the city this week, after federal officials ripped the move as too...
CON ED GIZMO WILL DETECT STRAY VOLTAGE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amCon Edison has developed new equipment to detect deadly live current in its street-level electric boxes - but the family of a woman electrocuted by a street box two winters...
JACOBS TAKES JAB FROM TOM
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES While stretching the other day, Brandon Jacobs glanced up and saw coach Tom Coughlin standing over him. "He passed by me and said, 'Hey, you didn't get a...
LONG ROAD BECKONS FOR SAINTS
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Saints quarterback Aaron Brooks looked around his team's locker room in the Alamodome last week. He saw the large number of reporters there to chronicle the Saints'...
GLAVINE A BALL - DOMINATES BRAVES FOR WIN NO. 273
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amMets 4 - Braves 1 Tom Glavine was in a reflective mood yesterday. After dominating the Braves in a 4-1 Mets win, the veteran left-hander spoke candidly about his future,...
EJECTING ALL GOOD SENSE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S one of those perverse ironies that we're just supposed to live with. The people who spend the most time reminding the world that the Yanks are unsurpassed for big-time,...
MOOSE'S BAD BULL SESSION
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Mike Mussina didn't label yesterday's bullpen session a setback but he was disappointed his command wasn't better. "I couldn't throw the ball where I wanted," he...
SEAVER RECALLS DONN
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES The way the late Donn Clendenon approached his job stood out to Tom Seaver. "He was a complete professional," said Seaver before yesterday's 4-1 Mets win over the...
GIANTS KNOW THE FEELING
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amFOUR years ago, the Giants were the Saints. That's why they know they're playing the most dangerous team in the NFL tonight. For starters, there is no home-field advantage for...
LEWIS, JONES FOREVER GREEN
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe Jets honored linebackers Mo Lewis and Marvin Jones - who both retired after the 2003 season - at halftime of yesterday's game with the Dolphins. Lewis has no regrets...
CERTIFIABLY CRAZY WINS COLE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amRebounding from third-place finish as favorite in West Point Handicap on turf at Spa after going very wide first turn, Certifiably Crazy, recently transferred to Rich Schosberg barn, took command...
ABRAHAM FALLS IN LINE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES It has been a long road for Jets defensive end John Abraham, who stayed away from training camp in a contract dispute that had no chance of being...
DEVILS ARE SINGIN' SALARY-CAP BLUES
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amTacitly threatened with an opening-night forfeit, the Devils face a situation of gravity. Veterans who go down probably won't come back up. Enforcement isn't exactly spelled out in the new...
SOPH JINX NO WORRY FOR HUNTER
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amYARMOUTH, Nova Scotia - The Islanders don't have to worry about a sophomore slump out of Trent Hunter for two reasons. First, his sophomore year was wiped out by the...
WITHIN REASON - JETS FANS LOOK FOR ANSWER TO WEAK WEEK 1
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amHALF the people want to believe that Week 1 was an aberration. Half the people want to believe Week 1 was the beginning of some kind of 2-14 death march....
JETS DINE ON FILET O' FISH - GANG GREEN REBOUNDS TO DUMP DOLPHINS
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amJets 17 - Dolphins 7 The message was obviously well received. Herman Edwards, sick to his stomach at what he'd seen out of his team a week ago, demanded poise,...
BLUESHIRTS TAKING GOOD LOOK AT HOLT
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe Rangers made another round of cuts yesterday at their practice facility in Tarrytown, trimming their roster to 37 players. The Rangers started with 66 prospective players vying for roster...
TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amFor the first time in years, it appears as if a Giants game at Giants Stadium will not be sold out. As of yesterday afternoon, approximately 13,000 tickets remained for...
WINNING UGLY - FANS LEFT COLD BY 'BLUE-COLLAR' GREEN
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amIT was a curious sight at the Meadowlands last night, just after 7 o'clock, as the final gun crackled in Giants Stadium and the Jets' 17-7 win over the Dolphins...
ABRAHAM GOOD AT PLAYING BAD GUY
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amJohn Abraham not only provides the fierce pass-rush the Jets' cover-two defense needs to work, but he also provides the only bad-boy image the vanilla team has. And he's perfectly...
JETS SELL JINTS TICKETS
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES One day after The Post forced the Jets to agree to advertise that tickets were available for tonight's Giants-Saints game at Giants Stadium, the Jets did, indeed, make...
COLES ONE TOUGH PLAYER
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amDuring the sweaty-palm moments of a 17-7 defensive struggle with Miami yesterday, Laveranues Coles scored the Jets' first touchdown and set up their second. But no pressure the Gang Green...
BITTER DOLPHINS DISS JETS & CHAD
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amWith the Jets feeling quite good about themselves following their 17-7 win over the Dolphins, over in the losing Miami locker room there were some players trying to pour saltwater...
PROBLEMS APLENTY IN THE ROAD-TRIP FINALE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amTORONTO - Gary Sheffield dismissed the possibility of playing right field again this season before yesterday's finale against the Blue Jays. Jaret Wright and Jason Giambi needed to be removed...
SHEFF TO DH REST OF WAY
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amTORONTO - Gary Sheffield says his days as a right fielder this year are over. "I am done doing that," said Sheffield, who has been limited to DH duty for...
YANKEES CAN'T GET IT WRIGHT - JARET INJURED AS BOMBERS LOSE GROUND TO TRIBE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amBlue Jays 6 - Yankees 5 TORONTO - The Yankees' six-game winning streak simply didn't end yesterday at Rogers Centre against the Blue Jays. It crashed into the artificial surface...
SPECIAL TEAMS - NATION TURNS TO SAINTS, AS IT DID FOR 2001 GIANTS
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amJason Whittle can't forget what he felt like back on September 23, 2001, when the Giants charged out of the visitors locker room at Arrowhead Stadium. A reserve offensive lineman,...
THE POST'S TOP 25
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amRank (prev) TEAM RESULT NEXT 1 Texas (3-0) Beat Rice, 51-10 Idle (1) The backup running back rushed for 189 yards and three touchdowns. 2 USC (2-0) Beat Arkansas, 70-17...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 19, 2005 | 4:00amA driver who was pulled over for speeding had a unique way of trying to stop a drug-sniffing police pooch from finding his stash - he tossed dog biscuits from...