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Regional News: http://web1.nypost.com/news/news.htm S.I. FIREBOMB VICTIM IN MOB PROBE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34301.htm By MURRAY WEISS EXCLUSIVE A man whose home was firebombed twice � and who was the victim of a brutal assault � is being probed for reputed ties to the Colombo crime family, The Post has learned. MEDIC ROCKS WITH DOCS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34309.htm By ERIKA MARTINEZ Legendary Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth has stopped "runnin' with the devil" to do God's work - riding ambulances in gritty neighborhoods throughout the city to become a paramedic. NEW STATE GOP BOSS TALKS TOUGH: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34276.htm By KENNETH LOVETT ALBANY � The new head of the state Republican Party yesterday promised a more aggressive approach in the wake of GOP election losses and complaints the party has lost its focus. GOV NIXES PROPOSAL FOR BUDGET REFORM: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34271.htm By FREDRIC U. DICKER ALBANY � Gov. Pataki yesterday vetoed the Legislature's plan to end 20 years of late state budgets, claiming the lawmakers' "reform" proposal would just make matters worse. TIME RUNNING OUT FOR FREE BIRD GUY: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34277.htm By STEPHANIE GASKELL Will he or won't he? Today is the deadline for former state Sen. Guy Velella to make a final plea to stop a city panel from sending him back to Rikers Island. CITY: MSG PLOT TO KILL OLYMPICS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34279.htm By TOM TOPOUSIS Madison Square Garden is trying to destroy the city's chances of hosting the 2012 Olympics through a high-stakes campaign to block a West Side stadium, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff fumed yesterday. NYC'S SECRET GUIDE ON FIRING TEACHERS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34286.htm By DAVID ANDREATTA EXCLUSIVEIt's the secret manual the city Department of Education wants no teacher to see � a 61-page blueprint for how to keep New York's Brightest in line without violating union rules. DEATH LEAP IN MIDTOWN: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34302.htm A man fell 26 floors to his death down a shaft at a Midtown office building yesterday, in what police believe was a suicide. 30 YRS. FOR CAMPUS GUNMAN: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34278.htm By ALEX GINSBERG A former St. John's linebacker paralyzed from the waist down after a 2001 shooting in a campus parking lot lashed out at his attacker yesterday as a Queens judge sent the convicted triggerman away for 30 years. POL'S NIECE DIES FROM INJURIES IN BETHPAGE CAR CRASH: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34283.htm By DEVIN SMITH and BRIDGET HARRISON Taken off life support. The teenage niece of a Long Island politician died yesterday of injuries from a crash in Bethpage which killed the driver of the car. NYERS SAVING PETS' LIVES: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34287.htm By HEIDI SINGER EXCLUSIVEThousands of loveable pooches and kitties avoided death this year after the city doubled adoptions from its shelters � resulting in the lowest number of animals killed at any time in the Big Apple's history, officials said. SLAY TRIAL GRIEF: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34298.htm By LAURA ITALIANO Choking sobs filled a courtroom yesterday when Manhattan prosecutors relayed the last words of an innocent young man who plummeted to his death last year in a lovers' triangle. ST. JOHN'S HAZING PUT PLEDGE IN HOSPITAL: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34296.htm By ALEX GINSBERG Three fraternity brothers told their St. John's pledges to "assume the position" in a Queens park, then brutally beat one to the point of kidney failure as part of a violent hazing ritual, prosecutors said yesterday. WITNESS RELIVES HORROR OF B'KLYN TRIPLE MURDER: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34297.htm By DENISE BUFFA A witness to a bloody Brooklyn rampage testified yesterday that he watched as a gunman mercilessly killed two young men and one of their mothers � allegedly after a dispute over loud music and a leaky toilet. MTA'S 'BEAT' COPS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34272.htm By CLEMENTE LISI Assaults on cops working in the subway have skyrocketed 60 percent this year because of the NYPD's massive crackdown on "swipers" who are caught illegally selling trips to riders, officials said yesterday. DANNY'S 'PHONE-Y' EXCUSES UNDER FIRE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34285.htm By KIERAN CROWLEY Danny Pelosi's cellphone records on the morning of Ted Ammon's murder prove he had seven hours in which to kill the Long Island multimillionaire, the prosecutor charged yesterday. TRUCK RUNS DOWN NUN: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34289.htm By PERRY CHIARAMONTE and BRAD HAMILTON An 80-year-old Roman Catholic nun died tragically yesterday when she was run over by a 221/2-ton flatbed truck while walking with her cane across a busy Manhattan intersection, cops said. SECRET PAIN OF VICTIM'S GIRL: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34292.htm The teenage daughter of a Queens dad brutally gunned down on a highway by a homeless man he befriended revealed yesterday her secret heartache over the slaying. 3 HURT IN RUSH-HOUR SUBWAY STABBING: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34304.htm By JAMIE SCHRAM Three men were stabbed after arguing with three others in a Brooklyn subway station during the evening rush last night, police said. RENT BREAK WAS 'DEAD' WRONG: CITY: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34307.htm By DAVID SEIFMAN A subway worker hit the jackpot four years ago by landing a one-bedroom apartment in The Bronx for an unheard-of $170 a month. QUEENS FUNERAL FOR MARINE HERO: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34275.htm A young Marine's widow � mother of a 3-month-old girl � clutched a photo of her hero husband yesterday as his flag-draped casket was carried past her. A HACK OF A GUY: CABBY TURNS IN 6G: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34261.htm By JAMIE SCHRAM An honest cabby yesterday turned in more than $6,500 that two passengers had left in the back seat of his taxi. NUMBER'S UP FOR ID THIEVES: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34264.htm By LARRY CELONA EXCLUSIVE Identity theft is on the rise, and the NYPD is creating a squad to hunt the bandits. IT'S OFFICIAL: MCG IS HISTORY: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34295.htm TRENTON � Gov. Jim McGreevey yesterday submitted his letter of resignation, effective at 12:01 a.m. today, ending a tenure doomed since his shocking summer disclosure that he had engaged in a gay, extramarital affair. GOTTI B'DAY D-DAY: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34288.htm By CARL CAMPANILE Peter Gotti marked his 65th birthday on the day his conspiracy trial began yesterday, but it was federal prosecutors who celebrated the chance to put the reputed Gambino mob boss away for life. QNS. RESTAURANT RAIDERS GRAB 6G: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34291.htm Five armed bandits entered a restaurant in Queens early yesterday, handcuffed its owner to a chair and made off with about $6,000. VID BAGS SUSPECT IN WOLFPACK SLAY: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/34300.htm By MURRAY WEISS and LORENA MONGELLI A security camera outside a sprawling Queens apartment complex yesterday led to the arrest of a 16-year-old suspected of being part of a gang of toughs who killed a hard-working Russian immigrant heading home from his late-night electrician job. National News: http://web1.nypost.com/news/news.htm FEWER 'BABIES' HAVING BABIES: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/34266.htm The birth rate among American girls ages 10 to 14 has fallen to its lowest level since 1946, the government reported yesterday. TOP SPIES QUIT AMID TURMOIL: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/34274.htm WASHINGTON � The top two officials at the CIA's clandestine unit resigned yesterday in a revolt over the management of the agency at a time when it is fighting terrorism and aiding the U.S. war in Iraq. W. PICKS CONDI TO TAKE OVER FOR COLIN: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/34293.htm By IAN BISHOP WASHINGTON � White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice � one of President Bush's most trusted advisers � will become the nation's new chief diplomat, officials said yesterday. MEET THE NEW BOSS - NOT LIKE OLD BOSS: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/34294.htm By IAN BISHOP ANALYSIS WASHINGTON � For the first time since taking office, President Bush will have his global vision championed by a diplomat who sees the world through the same lens. GOV BID CHUCKED: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/34269.htm By VINCENT MORRIS WASHINGTON � Sen. Chuck Schumer announced yesterday that he won't run for governor in 2006, after Democratic leaders made him an offer he couldn't refuse. AWARD-SHOW STABBING: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/34262.htm By GERSH KUNTZMAN and PAULA FROELICH Pandemonium broke out during the taping of Vibe magazine's award show last night, when a man was stabbed during the ceremony, sending stars fleeing from the mayhem in their limos. MANAGER'S BOMBSHELL: OL' DIRTY PAID FOR 7 KIDS: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/34306.htm By HASANI GITTENS and BRIDGET HARRISON Rapper ODB's manager yesterday disputed his widow's claims that he fathered only three children � insisting the philandering pop star was paying child support for at least seven. BLAZE AS JET LANDS IN BOSTON: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/34308.htm BOSTON � A fire was discovered aboard a British Airways flight shortly after it landed at Logan International Airport last night, and five firefighters were injured battling the blaze, officials said. FDA WANTS VIAGRA ADS YANKED: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/34267.htm WASHINGTON � Pfizer Inc. has been asked to pull two television advertisements for its Viagra impotence drug by U.S. officials who say the "wild thing" ads make unsubstantiated claims about a return of sexual desire. STARVE-DAD COMA: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/34270.htm By LEONARD GREENE and BILL HOFFMANN The strange case of the New Jersey couple accused of starving their four adopted sons took a bizarre twist when the embattled dad suffered a "massive stroke" as a sensational magazine piece about the family hit newsstands. World News: http://web1.nypost.com/news/news.htm SADDAM BAGGED $21B IN OIL SCAM: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/34280.htm By NILES LATHEM WASHINGTON � Saddam Hussein illegally pocketed a staggering $21 billion from the scandal-scarred U.N. oil-for-food program � more than twice the previous estimate, congressional investigators said yesterday. GIANT SHARK KILLS WOMAN: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/34265.htm CAPE TOWN, South Africa � A great white shark "bigger than a helicopter" killed an elderly South African woman yesterday off a beach near Cape Town, officials said. BLAIR TO EU: EASE UP ON W.: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/34281.htm LONDON � Britain's Tony Blair urged Europe and the United States yesterday to bury differences over Iraq and focus their energies on global challenges such as lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. HOLDOUT REBELS IN FALLUJAH BOMBED: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/34290.htm FALLUJAH, Iraq � U.S. warplanes bombarded hard-core rebel areas of Fallujah yesterday as troops hunted guerrillas house-to-house in the city already devastated by the seven-day onslaught. All Horoscopes: http://web1.nypost.com/cgi-bin/horoscope.pl ARIES If you start something new today, it may not work out as well as you had hoped, so think about it a bit more and maybe wait until the sun moves into your fellow fire sign of Sagittarius next weekend before pushing ahead with it. Do you really need to start it now? Will a few more days make much of a difference? 1-900-990-7810* TAURUS Make the effort to do what partners and colleagues want you to do today, even though your heart may not be in it. By this time next week, you will need their assistance in things that are important to you, so be smart and get in their good graces now. Life won't be so tough if you are in a position to call in a few favors. 1-900-990-7811* GEMINI Do everything by the book today and don't be tempted to go off at a tangent or start making waves. That applies to all areas of your life, but especially to your working environment, where others will not take kindly to you disrupting their methods and routines. It will only be boring if you think it will be boring. 1-900-990-7812* CANCER If others want to fight over their differences, whether they are real or imagined, that is their business - but there is no reason you should get involved. Make the most of the sun's last few days in the most creative area of your chart to bring what you are working on to a successful conclusion. It won't be so easy come this time next week. 1-900-990-7813* LEO Anyone who thinks he is tough enough to take you on will soon regret he got ideas above his station. You are in no mood today to treat those who challenge you with gentleness or generosity - on the contrary, you will want to make an example of them. Those who know you well will stay out of your way. Others won't be so lucky. 1-900-990-7814* VIRGO Make the most of the sun in the most outgoing area of your chart to meet lots of people and make new friends. Some of the contacts you make over the next few days will come in handy later when you need to build support for what you are doing. No matter how busy you are at the moment, make time to be sociable - it's good business. 1-900-990-7815* LIBRA Use your intuition rather than your intellect today, especially where business issues are concerned. No matter what the facts and figures might say, if your sixth sense tells you something is not right, you would be a fool not to listen. You would also be a fool not to act if it turns out someone has been cheating you. Don't be too forgiving. 1-900-990-7816* SCORPIO The sun leaves your birth sign next weekend and when it does, you will have to get a bit more serious about where you are going and how much it is all going to cost you. Before then, there is still just enough time to bring something you started earlier in the year to a successful conclusion. Do it well, but do it quickly. 1-900-990-7817* SAGITTARIUS You are now just days away from the start of a new solar year - the moment when the sun moves into your birth sign - and what you do between now and the weekend will to a large extent determine what kind of year it is going to be. If there are any loose ends that need tying, get on to them now. The effort will be worth it. 1-900-990-7818* CAPRICORN Have the confidence, and the courage, to try something today that you have no way of knowing will turn out for the best. This is one of those occasions when logic can't help you much - you just have to choose whether or not to take some kind of risk. You will either win big or lose big; there will be no in-between. 1-900-990-7819* AQUARIUS When the going gets tough, the tough get going, and you will certainly impress a few people today by your willingness to take it on the chin and come back for more. On the work front, especially, you have no intention of letting those you consider inferior or less qualified take the applause and rewards that you believe should be yours. 1-900-990-7808* PISCES A quick decision is not always a good decision, but according to the planets, you need to make up your mind soon about where you intend to be six months or so from now. Within a matter of days, a new opportunity will knock at your door, but if you are not ready to make a commitment, it will pass to someone else - and may not come again. 1-900-990-7809* Sports News: http://web1.nypost.com/sports/sports.shtml ELI'S IN COMMAND: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/20583.htm By EVAN GROSSMAN The Eli Manning Era officially began yesterday. Giants coach Tom Coughlin made the monumental decision to remove Kurt Warner as the team's starting quarterback and insert Manning, the No. 1 draft pick of royal football lineage, this week against the Falcons. Manning has been handed the keys, the lifeboat and the electric paddles, tasked with the duty of saving the Giants' season. TIME IS RIGHT FOR KID TO PUT HIS HELMET ON: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/20588.htm ELI Manning's quicker release is at least worth a shot before the 2004 Giants are taken out and shot, not that the next six defenses the Giants face will need their increasingly ample help. HERMING & HAWING: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/20590.htm IT WAS nice of Herman Edwards to reach beneath the bus and drag Quincy Carter out from under. Nice of the Jets coach to go back a second time and grab Paul Hackett out from there, too, especially since on Sunday it was Edwards who had thrown them there, while assessing blame and damage for the 20-17 overtime debacle of a loss to the Ravens. SONICS MAKING NOISE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/20599.htm WITH one quarter left in Sunday's game I was all set to diss Danny (The Flagrant Vagrant) Fortson, Seattle's solo paint presence, for drawing a one-game suspension and sullying the Sonic boom. But somehow Nate McMillan's minions exhumed themselves from a 16-point fourth-quarter crater and beat the Grizzlies for their sixth consecutive victory after opening the season on a decisive downer. VITALI'S FOE ROCKETING TO FAME: http://www.nypost.com/sports/20584.htm By GEORGE WILLIS Thanks to his knockout victory over Mike Tyson last July, Danny Williams has gone from being a virtual unknown to fighting Vitali Klitschko for the WBC heavyweight title Dec. 11 in Las Vegas, an unforeseen turn of events that illustrates the best and worst about boxing, especially the heavyweight division. BONDS' MVP OLD HAT: http://www.nypost.com/sports/20586.htm By MARK HALE It was less an announcement than simply a confirmation of an already-existing fact. GOING, GOING, GHANA: AHAMED'S LONG ROAD TO MLK SOCCER TITLE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/20582.htm By DAN MARTIN As Mohammed Ahamed helped his team to the PSAL soccer title on Sunday night on the pristine field at St. John's, he couldn't help but recall the places where he learned the sport. MILTON STORY PURE FICTION: http://www.nypost.com/sports/yankees/20594.htm By MICHAEL MORRISSEY Former Yankee prospect Eric Milton still sports an "NY" tattoo on his back, but don't brand him a member of the 2005 Bombers just yet. METS NIX LEITER'S OPTION: http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/20593.htm By MARK HALE At exactly midnight last night, Al Leiter became a free man. Yesterday was the Mets' deadline to decide whether to exercise Leiter's $10 million option for 2005, and in the early evening, they announced they would not pick it up. Instead, the Mets bought out Leiter for $2 million, making him a free agent and allowing him to speak to any other team. ALFONSO NOT KEEN ON SWITCH TO RF: http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/20579.htm One of the juicier rumors on baseball's hot-stove circuit has Alfonso Soriano returning to New York. ELI'S COMING; SO IS ARCHIE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/20585.htm By STEVE SERBY Archie Manning had already heard the news that the Eli Manning Era had started in New York. So when his youngest boy returned his call yesterday afternoon, Archie Manning had some simple fatherly advice: "Do your best." TOM SAYS LINE SHARES BLAME: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/20589.htm By EVAN GROSSMAN Tom Coughlin took away Kurt Warner's starting job yesterday and handed it to rookie Eli Manning because it's easier to replace one man instead of all 11 on the offensive side of the ball. DESERT DOLDRUMS: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/20580.htm By PAUL SCHWARTZ QUARTERBACKS The numbers (19 of 30, 193 yards, 1 TD) look better than the performance by Kurt Warner, who did not turn the ball over, threw it away as instructed and still took a beating. Can't or won't throw downfield. MANNING SET TO GET HIS PHIL: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/20597.htm By ANDREW MARCHAND A quarter-century ago, a 23-year-old rookie named Phil Simms received his first start for an 0-5 Giants team. Facing the undefeated Buccaneers, Simms was just 6-for-12 for 37 yards, but the Giants upset Tampa Bay, 17-14, at the Meadowlands on Oct. 7, 1979. JINTS' 'O': WE'RE TO BLAME: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/20587.htm By EVAN GROSSMAN In Eli they trust. The Giants don't have any other choice, as Eli Manning was named the team's starting quarterback yesterday by head coach Tom Coughlin. But for the most part, the Giants, to a man, realize there should be far more position changes made and the offense, as a whole, is responsible for Kurt Warner's ouster from under center. This one is on all of them. THE BLAME GAME: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/20591.htm By MARK CANNIZZARO Herman Edwards did the only thing he could do yesterday to quell the fallout from the calamity that was the Jets' inexplicable 20-17 overtime giveaway loss to the Ravens on Sunday. CHAD STILL NOT READY TO THROW: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/20598.htm By MARK CANNIZZARO There's no indication as of yesterday that Chad Pennington will be returning to the lineup any sooner than the two-to-four-week prognosis initially given for his strained right rotator cuff. JETS QB NOT ABLE TO BEAT THE CLOCK: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/20592.htm By MARK CANNIZZARO What should the Jets have done in that end-game situation they bungled so badly during Sunday's 20-17 overtime loss to the Ravens? Here's a look at what they did in the final minute, trailing 17-14; what they should have done; and Herman Edwards' explanation as to why each move was made: ONE THAT GOT AWAY: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/20581.htm By MARK CANNIZZARO QUARTERBACKS Quincy Carter (13-of-22, 175 yards, 84.5 rating) played well enough to win, especially in the first half. But he has to take some blame for the end-game clock man agement debacle. KURT TARGETS DUNCAN: http://www.nypost.com/sports/knicks/20595.htm By MARC BERMAN SAN ANTONIO � Tonight, it's the Knicks who plan to be a pain in someone's neck � Tim Duncan's. STEPHON 'BIG SHOT' IN TEXAS: http://www.nypost.com/sports/knicks/20596.htm By MARC BERMAN SAN ANTONIO � Knick fans pray Stephon Marbury will have many more important playoff buckets in coming years. But when the Knicks face the Spurs tonight at SBC Center, Marbury will play on the court where he made his most significant basket as a professional. SWAMP STENCH: http://www.nypost.com/sports/nets/20602.htm By FRED KERBER The Nets scored the game�s first 11 points.If you�re waiting for any other highlights, don�t bother.Because after that 11-0 opening, the Nets were hammered by a 30-6 Rocket run, which, considering the way the rest of the night went, may actually have qualified as a Net highlight. MERCER OUT 6-8 WEEKS: http://www.nypost.com/sports/nets/20600.htm By FRED KERBER Ron Mercer could be out twice as long as the Nets feared. And that was good news. MUTOMBO GETS PHYSICAL VERSUS OLD BUDDY 'ZO: http://www.nypost.com/sports/nets/20601.htm By BRIAN LEWIS Dikembe Mutombo and Patrick Ewing � both of whom had volunteered to give Alonzo Mourning a kidney � advised their longtime friend against attempting an NBA comeback. They advised, they asked, they practically begged their buddy to rest his transplanted kidney from the safety of retirement. He didn't listen. Gossip: http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/gossip.htm : http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm TWO GOTTI SONS BEATEN AT MALL By Richard Johnson VICTORIA Gotti's sons Carmine, 18, and John, 17, took a beating last weekend after they allegedly harassed a 15-year-old girl at a Long Island mall. : http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/cindy.htm UMA & BEAU EYE AN UPSTATE ESTATE By Cindy Adams UMA Thurman, having divested her self of husband Ethan Hawke, and hotelier Andre Balazs are closer than a little boy and his dog. Not only wining, dining and romancing, but playing house together, and this actual house could be the one Penthouse owner, Bob Guccione, owned. : http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/liz.htm OSCAR BUZZ FOR 'PHANTOM' By Liz Smith 'HE WHO believes he can't be de stroyed, destroys himself," writes Bernie Brillstein, Hollywood en trepreneur, in his new book "The Little Stuff Matters Most." You can be sure Michael Ovitz never read this book, but if you aspire to a career in showbiz, you should read it. 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Expect some extra traffic on the NJ Turnpike, Route 3, Route 17, and Route 120, starting about 2 hours before, and again after the game.*Please try to arrive early due to new security checks. Opponents, dates and times of games are:Dallas Mavericks, Nov. 13, 1PMHouston Rockets, Nov.15, 7:30PMSeattle Sonics, Nov.17, 7:30PMWashington Wizards, Nov.20,8PMCharlotte Bobocats, Nov.30, 7:30PM Manhattan All Access Tour @ Madison Square GardenMadison Square Garden�s� All Access Tour allows fans to get an insider�s view of the inner-workings of The World�s Most Famous Arena�, providing them with little-known information and rarely seen viewpoints on the legendary showplace. Visitors taking part in the �All Access� one hour tour become a part of one of the busiest and most exciting sports and entertainment facilities in the world and are treated to a host of unique experiences. Visit the Knicks, Rangers and Liberty locker rooms; tour backstage of the Theater at Madison Square Garden; go inside the Star dressing rooms; learn how a basketball court becomes a sheet of ice; witness all the seldom seen build-up to a live event � players practicing, performers in production, casts in rehearsal or crews staging events! You�ll never know what you�ll see on the All Access Tour. Expect some extra traffic on 7th Ave., 8th Ave., and in the west 30s Business News: http://web1.nypost.com/business/business.htm : http://www.nypost.com/business/34231.htm FRIEND IN NEED By HOLLY M. SANDERS Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner said former company president Michael Ovitz was overstating the case when he described the two men as "best friends." Eisner testified that Ovitz, a former Hollywood talent broker and his second-in-command, has exaggerated the extent of their friendship. "Michael Ovitz has a lot of best friends," Eisner testified yesterday in a Delaware courtroom. OIL SLIDES TO $46.85 A BARREL, A 2-MO. LOW: http://www.nypost.com/business/34220.htm By SUZANNE McGEE Crude oil prices continued down their slippery slope yesterday, hitting a two-month low after Iran's government took steps to dampen political tensions with the United States. FORMER PROSECUTOR SAYS FEDS FOCUS ON BIG GAME HUNTS: http://www.nypost.com/business/34207.htm By JOHN CRUDELE THE top government attorney who made the initial decision to prosecute Martha Stewart ended up getting a high-powered job at the Justice Department. And the lead prosecutor of Stewart just announced that she was joining a big-bucks Manhattan law firm. RED BULL PUTS JAG IN F-ONE: http://www.nypost.com/business/34215.htm By PAUL THARP High-octane energy drink Red Bull thinks it can go faster on the racetrack than Jaguar. THE GLOVES ARE OFF: HOME WARS GET UGLY: http://www.nypost.com/business/34224.htm By SUZANNE KAPNER Over three decades, Gracious Home has become a fixture of New York by catering to the needs of finicky shoppers in search of that ultra-soft bath towel or the perfect shower curtain. TIME OUT CALLED: http://www.nypost.com/business/34211.htm By TIM ARANGO The sale process for The Sporting News has been put on hold after the company found inaccuracies in the audience numbers at its radio business, The Post has learned. EXECS MAY LIFT YAHOO!: http://www.nypost.com/business/34219.htm By RICHARD WILNER Moves by Yahoo! to stockpile entertainment and news execs are likely aimed at bringing more original tie-in content, such as a cross-promotion with "The Apprentice" reality-television show, media consultants say. MEN'S FITNESS NAMES 3RD EDITOR IN 18 MOS.: http://www.nypost.com/business/34228.htm By KEITH J. KELLY American Media is shaking up Men's Fitness magazine, bouncing its publisher and its editor in chief � installing the third in 18 months � while chopping another half dozen staffers. TIMES' SAFIRE TO QUIT: http://www.nypost.com/business/34230.htm By PAUL THARP Thoughtful hair-splitter William Safire is giving up his political column at The New York Times after 31 years, saying it was time "to hang up his hatchet." SEC SEEKS BIZ BAR ON BLACK: http://www.nypost.com/business/34217.htm By TIM ARANGO The Securities and Exchange Commission filed fraud charges yesterday against disgraced newspaper baron Conrad Black and is asking a court to bar him from ever serving again as an officer of a public company. TRUMP BUYS FLORIDA MANSION: http://www.nypost.com/business/34221.htm By LOIS WEISS and BRADEN KEIL Billionaire Donald J. Trump has added a $41 million mansion to his Florida holdings. ABBOUD SIGNS NEW AGENCY FOR EDGIER ADS: http://www.nypost.com/business/34222.htm By HOLLY M. SANDERS Designer Joseph Abboud, seeking to skew to a younger clientele, is bringing a new, edgier marketing touch to the traditional men's label. Real Estate: http://web1.nypost.com/realestate/index.htm MONDAY MONIKER FOR MAX CAP: http://www.nypost.com/realestate/34214.htm By LOIS WEISS Anthony Westreich completed his $26 million buyout of Max Capital Management Corp. from former partner Adam Hochfelder and renamed the firm Monday Properties. DEAL AT 425 LEX. MAKES FULL HOUSE: http://www.nypost.com/realestate/34218.htm By STEVE CUOZZO IN a complex, three-way deal that reflects the vitality of the Midtown leasing market, a law firm and a financial giant have shuffled their decks at 425 Lexington Ave. near Grand Central, ensuring the Hines-managed tower will be fully occupied through 2018. Entertainment: http://web1.nypost.com/entertainment/entertainment.htm WEIGHTY MATTERS: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/34254.htm By CLIVE BARNES THERE were approximately 20 women to every man at the performance I at tended of Eve Ensler's "The Good Body," which opened last night at the Booth Theatre. And while that degree of gender separation might be acceptable in a harem, it's unusual in a theater. BE FUR WARNED!: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/34256.htm By DANICA LO THIS season, fur is a huge outerwear trend, so it was no surprise to see the crowd at Star Jones' wedding on Saturday looking like a class trip to the Museum of Natural History. BIG BARGAINS ON DESIGNER BRANDS: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/34257.htm By CHRISTINA TAM Looking for a good deal? Here are some of the week's best sales and bargains. FCC 'MARRIED' COMPLAINTS OVERSTATED: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/34216.htm A blogger has discovered that only three people were responsible for the FCC complaints that sparked the commission's whopping $1.2 million fine against Fox. WHO LET ANNA NICOLE GO ON TV LIKE THAT?: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/34223.htm By DON KAPLAN A day after the Anna Nicole Smith disaster, no one in volved on Sunday's "American Music Awards," was talking. FOUR STAR SHOW IN DA 'HOUSE': http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/34259.htm By LINDA STASI What would you get if you combined the brains behind "The Usual Suspects" and "The X-Men" with the writer of "Quiz Show" and "Homicide: Life On the Streets"? Aside from a lotta smarts, you'd get "House," the best new show since "Lost." ANOTHER 'APPRENTICE' AT CNN: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/34212.htm FIRED by Donald Trump, hired by . . . CNN. Kwame Jackson, the runner-up from the first season of "The Apprentice," has been offered a job as the host of a new CNN show about business that's being touted as "an 'Inside the Actor's Studio' for CEOs," according to Broadcasting and Cable. 'WIVES' CREEPS UP ON NO. 1: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/34260.htm By ADAM BUCKMAN 'Desperate Housewives" is the most talked-about new show of the season, but can it overtake "CSI" as TV's highest-rated show? THE STARR REPORT: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/34206.htm By MICHAEL STARR The last time the cast of "CSI: NY" was here was a memorable one, since there was a torrential downpour while filming was underway. Movie Reviews: http://web1.nypost.com/movies/movies.htm DEPP CHARGE: http://www.nypost.com/movies/20530.htm By LOU LUMENICK FINDING NEVERLAND PORTRAYING "Peter Pan" creator J.M. Barrie in Marc Foster's movingly lyrical "Finding Neverland," Johnny Depp adds yet another indelible, Oscar-worthy portrait to his gallery of memorable characters. FILE ISLE CAPER UNDER SCENIC BUT PREDICTABLE: http://www.nypost.com/movies/20457.htm By LOU LUMENICK AFTER THE SUNSETBAHAMAS scenery, Woody Harrelson's pratfalls and Salma Hayek's itsy-bitsy bikini are the main attractions in "After the Sunset," a slick if hyper-predictable comic caper from one-man hit squad Brett Ratner ("Rush Hour"). SPACEY 'JONES': http://www.nypost.com/movies/20455.htm By LOU LUMENICK BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON'BRIDGET Jones: The Edge of Reason" doesn't have nearly enough Hugh Grant and is a little short on laughs, but it gets by on Ren�e Zellweger's charms as everyone's favorite neurotic, clumsy and chubby � at least by Hollywood standards � singleton. NEESON TO BELIEVE: http://www.nypost.com/movies/20460.htm By LOU LUMENICK KINSEYTHOUGH it's perhaps the least salacious major movie ever made about sex, the biopic "Kinsey" is hardly clinical � it's as purely entertaining as it is thought-provoking and timely. YULE CRINGE AT 'NOEL': http://www.nypost.com/movies/20458.htm By LOU LUMENICK NOELTHE excruciatingly maudlin "Noel" is even harder to sit through than "Sur viving Christmas." NO, IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT BAMBI: http://www.nypost.com/movies/20461.htm By V.A. MUSETTO WHO KILLED BAMBI?FRENCH director Gilles Marchand's "Who Killed Bambi?" is a mystery with a difference: We know from the start who the bad guy is; the suspense involves finding out when he'll get caught. A 'LILI' BLUSTER: http://www.nypost.com/movies/20531.htm By V.A. MUSETTO FRENCH tart Ludivine Sagnier isn't shy about showing off her God-given body on-screen. (Remember "Swimming Pool" and "Water Drops on Burning Rocks"?) MASTER OF THE GAME: http://www.nypost.com/movies/20532.htm By V.A. MUSETTO THE psychological thriller "Master of the Game" starts when four Jews being taken by truck to a concentration camp in 1944 escape after the vehicle becomes stuck in mud during a driving rain. Lifestyle: http://web1.nypost.com/living/living.htm ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX: http://www.nypost.com/living/34008.htm DEAR DR. FOX: I'm writing in regard to a recent column of yours on PetsMart and the beta fish in tiny containers. A BREED APART: http://www.nypost.com/living/34009.htm By JULIA SZABO A recent cover story called "The Perfect Dog?" in the newly re launched Life magazine has touched off an alarming new trend: "designer" dogs. Lottery Results: http://web1.nypost.com/lottery/lottery.htm NEW YORK Midday Numbers Mon.: 125 Midday Win-4 Mon.: 6943 Evening Numbers Mon.: 118 Evening Win-4 Mon.: 8025 Pick-10 Mon.: 3, 4, 5, 13, 18, 22, 23, 27, 29, 37, 41, 43, 46, 61, 66, 68, 74, 77, 79, 80 Take-5 Mon.: 3, 15, 29, 30, 31 OAS_AD('Middle'); //--> NEW JERSEY Pick-3 Mon.: 108 Pick-4 Mon.: 0643 Cash-5 Mon.: 11, 12, 30, 31, 32 Pick-6 Mon.: 17, 18, 23, 27, 33, 45 CONNECTICUT Play-3 Mon.: 063 Play-4 Mon.: 6002 Cash-5 Mon.: 5, 16, 20, 22, 23 Travel: http://web1.nypost.com/travel/travel.htm DOING MICKEY RIGHT: http://www.nypost.com/travel/34246.htm YES, there are parents who would rather stand in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles than visit Orlando, home of Disney World. And who can blame them: Do it wrong, and it becomes the most expensive (and aggravating) domestic vacation around. DISNEY DONT'S: http://www.nypost.com/travel/34247.htm Avoid these 10 common mistakes and you won't be left feeling goofy. DISNEY FREEBIES: http://www.nypost.com/travel/34248.htm SOME things in life are free. Here are 10 ways to have a blast without dropping a bill. CHECKING IN: http://www.nypost.com/travel/34249.htm UNTIL we checked in here, it hadn't occurred to us how important flowers are to a hotel. For if this elegant, hard-to-fault hotel has an x factor, it's florist Jeff Leatham's creations, made from 15,000 stems flown in from Dutch hot houses and placed throughout the 245 rooms. AFFORDABLE FEAST: http://www.nypost.com/travel/34250.htm MUCH like New York, one of Paris' shameful truths is that many of its less-expensive restaurants serve mediocre food. Just try finding decent roasted chicken near the Gare du Nord train station and you'll know what I mean. EXPRESS CHECK-IN: http://www.nypost.com/travel/34252.htm DIANE Kruger - otherwise known as Helen of Troy, in "Troy" - is not risking any Fat Actress-like tranformations. Contributor Gretchen Kelly reveals that the svelte Kruger, while filming the soon-to-be-released National Treasure in Philadelphia, overdid it merely by eating a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich. Opinion: http://web1.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/opedcolumnists.htm BUYER'S REMORSE ON BUSH: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/34208.htm By RYAN SAGER IS all the attention being paid to the religious right making you nervous about having voted for President Bush? Here's some advice for moderate and libertarian-leaning Republicans: Don't jump ship quite yet . . . but keep your life vest ready. WHAT ASHCROFT DID FOR YOU, N.Y.: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/34225.htm By DEROY MURDOCK AS Attorney General John Ashcroft concludes his du ties, Americans should applaud him for using the Patriot Act to charge 372 suspected terrorists and convict 194 of them since 9/11. A FINE LEGACY: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/brookes.htm By PETER BROOKES THE rumormongers are wrong. Secretary of State Colin Pow ell didn't tender his resignation yesterday because Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld wouldn't play nicely in the foreign-policy sandbox. Celebrity Photos: http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/celebp/index.htm : http://www.nypost.com/gossip/celebp/2004ama/photo01.htm November 15th:The 2004 American Music Awards...: http://www.nypost.com/gossip/celebp/2004ama/photo01.htm Movie News: http://web1.nypost.com/entertainment/movies/news/news.htm News, Nov. 12: Michael Moore Announces ''Fahrenheit'' Sequel, Hugh Grant Tired of Acting, Fans Line Up for Madonna Book Signing, Guylaine Cadorette -- Hollywood.com Staff Moore announces Fahrenheit 9/11 sequel It was bound to happen. 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