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Regional News: http://web1.nypost.com/news/news.htm FAREWELL TO A TRUE PATRIOT: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21286.htm By MICHAEL WARNER, JENNIFER FERMINO and ANDY GELLER Thousands of his comrades lined the streets and packed a Bronx church yesterday to say a tearful goodbye to Chris Engeldrum � soldier, firefighter, cop and "the true definition of a hero." IT'S WHORE-IBLE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21282.htm By LAURA ITALIANO An angry judge blasted prosecutors yesterday for demanding a whopping half-million dollars bail for the accused madam of an $1,000-an-hour Upper East Side brothel � hinting he didn't think the case rose to the level of a felony. UNION DEAL JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21255.htm By DAVID SEIFMAN A deal announced yesterday between the city and its unionized municipal doctors sent a not-so-subtle message to thousands of teachers, cops and firefighters who also want raises: They'll get them in return for higher productivity. 'CAM' COPS ON GUARD: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21265.htm By LARRY CELONA and BILL SANDERSON Crook-catching cameras are scanning a busy Bronx thoroughfare in a new police anti-crime program, The Post has learned. SPITZER BASH ADDS $2.5M TO WAR CHEST: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21262.htm By STEPHANIE GASKELL State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer raised more than $2.5 million yesterday at his first fund-raiser since announcing he'll run for governor in 2006. CITY CLERK GUILTY IN $7M ID FRAUD: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21289.htm A city welfare-agency worker was convicted yesterday of selling the personal identities of 16,000 residents to scammers who used the names to file phony tax returns and get refunds. GOTTI SNITCH: 'THEY SHOULD HAVE KILLED ME': http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21285.htm By CARL CAMPANILE Mob turncoat Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo said yesterday that Gambino boss Peter Gotti should have killed him instead of demoting him and taking away his money. SANIT MAN COLLARED ON BET CHARGE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21270.htm By JAMIE SCHRAM and PATRICK GALLAHUE A city sanitation man with high-rolling Vegas ambitions has been busted for picking up bets along with the garbage on his route on Staten Island. BLOOD-SOAKED STAB CONFESSION: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21280.htm A 44-year-old man was stabbed to death in the Highbridge section of The Bronx early yesterday by a man who immediately confessed, sources said. POULTRY 'IN MOTION': http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21279.htm By MARK BULLIET, BRADEN KEIL and HEIDI SINGER A homeless hawk evicted from his posh nest at a Fifth Avenue co-op was spotted checking out even more expensive real-estate yesterday � as government officials and conservation groups tried to mediate the flap. UPSTATE 'TERROR' TEEN INDICTED: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21288.htm An upstate teenager has been indicted on charges he offered to buy night-vision goggles and bulletproof vests for a Somali terror group. PALE MALE DEALT A NESTY BLOW: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21271.htm By Dr. KEITH L. BILDSTEIN What happens when a red-tailed hawk loses its nest? Pale Male, New York's most famous hawk, has returned to the same nest for the past decade � an unusual move for his breed, which normally likes to move its home every couple of years. The fact that he nested in the same nest for so long speaks volumes of this location's importance to him. GARDEN VARIETY BOYCOTT: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21268.htm By DAVID SEIFMAN Season-ticket holder Mayor Bloomberg disclosed yesterday that he has stopped attending Knick basketball games at Madison Square Garden, the fallout of his ongoing feud with the arena's owners over a proposed West Side stadium. DOZENS INJURED IN QNS. BLAZE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21256.htm By JOHN DOYLE A careless smoker is to blame for an early-morning blaze which swept through a high-rise Queens co-op building yesterday, injuring more than two dozen people including 19 firefighters, authorities said. SACKED BAKER IN $13M SUIT: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21277.htm A baker with AIDS claims his former firm fired him solely for his disability. L.I. SEX BIZ 'RUBBED' OUT: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21283.htm Three Long Island hookers were behind bars and five of their alleged johns were in the doghouse after cops raided a Huntington Village "massage parlor" that doubled as a brothel, officials said yesterday. OTHER CITY XXX-CORTS RUN FOR COVER: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21284.htm By JEANE MacINTOSH and RITA DELFINER Some of the busiest escort services in the city turned a disappearing trick yesterday. B'KLYN COPS BURGLAR-ALARMED: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21278.htm By PHILIP MESSING A paroled burglar is up to his old tricks � he's suspected of breaking into five Brooklyn residences since September, police said yesterday. SCHOOL GRINCH STEALS CHRISTMAS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21272.htm Christmas may be canceled at the poorest Catholic elementary school in the city after a heartless grinch swiped $11,000 in tuition payments from the principal's office, school and church officials said. LOHAN'S DAD SENT TO REHAB: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21275.htm By MICHAEL WHITE Starlet Lindsay Lohan's father is headed to an upstate mental-health rehab facility for 28 days after pleading guilty to a slew of family-related offenses, including attempted assault and harassment, officials said yesterday. TURKEY PAIR RATS OUT PALS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21276.htm A pair of repentant members of a gang of teen turkey-tossers who nearly killed a Long Island woman may have ratted on four of their friends to avoid prosecution, one of their lawyers said after the quartet was indicted yesterday. TRAGIC MOM'S SHOCK: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21290.htm By DOUGLAS MONTERO, ERIKA MARTINEZ and BILL HOFFMANN A Bronx mom returned home yesterday after 10 days away to make a horrifying discovery � the decomposing bodies of her boyfriend and their 3-month-old baby. NYERS BACK APPLE ED. BOO$T: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21260.htm ALBANY � Voters throughout the state say overwhelmingly that city schools are entitled to the $5.6 billion a year in additional state aid recommended last week by a court-appointed panel, according to a poll released yesterday. PIZZA MAN NOW SLICE OF HEAVEN: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21269.htm By HASANI GITTENS and GERSH KUNTZMAN Joel Cimineri has run out of dough for the last time. Brooklyn's legendary pizza man � who manned the oven at Totonno's in Coney Island and famously closed for the day if he ran out of dough � died this week from diabetes. He was 59. B'KLYN COPS HUNT 'KILLER': http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21287.htm Police believe this is the gunman who killed a teen on a Crown Heights street. N.Y. BIZ PANEL SALUTES POST: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21293.htm By PERRY CHIARAMONTE New York's oldest newspaper, The Post, became the latest recipient of the 100 Year Association's Gold Medal Award last night. COPS IN MARITAL MELEE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21281.htm By DENISE BUFFA A police captain has been busted for allegedly assaulting his newlywed wife � a high-ranking deputy inspector in the NYPD � by punching her in the face after she accused him of seeing his ex, sources said. National News: http://web1.nypost.com/news/news.htm JUDGMENT DAY: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/21266.htm By HOWARD BREUER REDWOOD CITY, Calif. � Scott Peterson is a fraud and the worst kind of monster undeserving of your sympathy, a prosecutor told jurors who began deliberating yesterday whether he deserves life or death for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci. RUMMY AMBUSH FROM FORT 'BRAG': http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/21267.htm By IAN BISHOP WASHINGTON � A Tennessee reporter embedded with U.S. troops is boasting that he coached the soldier who publicly chewed out Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld over inadequate armor, it was revealed yesterday. PREZ: I WON'T RAISE SOC. SEC. TAX: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/21263.htm WASHINGTON � President Bush yesterday ruled out hiking payroll taxes to keep Social Security solvent, but aides hedged on whether he's willing to raise the income level on which the tax is applied. JULIA'S BABE FACED SCARE: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/21264.htm Julia Roberts is back home with her newborn twins following a health scare for one of them, it was revealed yesterday. CLARK'S NOT DOWN FOR THE COUNT: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/21257.htm Strike up the Bandstand � Dick Clark is on the fast track to recovery. LOTTERY CHAMP'S GRANDKID MISSING: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/21295.htm CHARLESTON, W.Va. � Record Powerball winner Jack Whittaker has reported his 17-year-old granddaughter missing, police said yesterday. CABINET FILLING UP: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/21274.htm By DEBORAH ORIN WASHINGTON � President Bush yesterday neared completion of his quiet but huge Cabinet shakeup by asking four more secretaries to stay � making a total of six holdovers while a record nine Cabinet secretaries are exiting. WHY THE 'METAL' GUNMAN CRACKED: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/21292.htm By TODD VENEZIA AN OHIO heavy-metal concert turned into a bloodbath when a crazed man jumped on stage, fatally shot the former guitarist of the legendary rock band Pantera and killed three others before being shot dead by a quick-thinking cop, police said yesterday. World News: http://web1.nypost.com/news/news.htm 'KIDNAPPED' GI NOW 'DESERTER': http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/21294.htm A Marine who was reported abducted in Iraq and later turned up in his native Lebanon was charged yesterday with desertion. VOTE BOOSTS ARIEL'S GOV'T: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/21291.htm By URI DAN JERUSALEM � Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon easily won a key party vote yesterday that allows him to rebuild his shaky government and carry out his controversial plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip. All Horoscopes: http://web1.nypost.com/cgi-bin/horoscope.pl ARIES You will go out of your way to be different today. You will go out of your way to prove that you are not the kind to follow the crowd. Just don't go so far that you do something that might count against you later in the month when those in positions of authority consider you for a promotion. They want someone who is efficient, not mad. 1-900-990-7810* TAURUS Money matters and business issues will take center stage today and that's good because you desperately need to get the financial side of your life sorted out. Fortunately, you will see with perfect clarity what has to be done, but seeing alone is not enough - you will have to make changes that may be quite painful. Better now than later. 1-900-990-7811* GEMINI As Mercury, your ruler, teams up with the sun in your opposite sign of Sagittarius today, you will find it much easier to let partners and loved ones know how you feel. There are a lot of things you wish you had said, but for one reason or another never quite got around to. There are also some things you did say that you must now make amends for. 1-900-990-7812* CANCER You must make an effort not to focus on trivial things today because they will deflect you from the more important issues that need to be dealt with. Sometimes you can be a bit too pedantic, a bit too picky, and such a time is now. On the work front, especially, you must be open to new ideas and new ways of doing things. Don't get left behind. 1-900-990-7813* LEO You will be exceptionally creative today - some of the ideas you come up with over the next 24 hours will be touched by genius. The really important thing, however, is that you follow up on them, because ideas are only useful when they are applied in some way. Think of this, too: If you don't make money from them, someone else will. 1-900-990-7814* VIRGO Try not to say anything that might be taken the wrong way by partners and loved ones today because the last thing you want now is those whose support you need going off in a huff. Not everyone is as forthright in his opinions as you, so make allowances and make an effort to steer clear of issues that, to some, might be upsetting. 1-900-990-7815* LIBRA You need to do something different. You need to do something that others are not expecting. What that something turns out to be is for you alone to decide, but you must break out of your rut and you must let those you live and work with know that you can no longer be taken for granted. Most of all, you must mean it. 1-900-990-7816* SCORPIO You have to get serious about your money situation today. Yes, you've been doing your best to earn more and spend less, but there is still a long way to go. Today's sun-Mercury union will help you to identify areas where major savings can be made and the sooner you start making them, the better off - or rather, the less worse off - you will be. 1-900-990-7817* SAGITTARIUS This is potentially one of the best days of the year for you as the sun and Mercury joins forces in your birth sign. If nothing else, you will no longer be confused about which route you should take: You will see with the utmost clarity what needs to be done - then, it is simply a mater of applying yourself and enjoying the rewards. 1-900-990-7818* CAPRICORN The most important thing now is that you take time out of your busy schedule to think about the events of the past few months so you can make positive decisions about your future. The more you get your head together now, the more likely it is you will hit the ground running when the sun enters your sign on the 21st. 1-900-990-7819* AQUARIUS It is always important that you practice what you preach, but never more so than now. If you say one thing but do another today, someone will make an issue of it and it could be embarrassing - worse, it could harm your status and standing. There are certain people whose support and approval mean a lot to you - don't turn them against you. 1-900-990-7808* PISCES If you have to make a decision concerning your work or career, now is the best time to make it. You may not have all the facts and figures at your fingertips but you really don't need them - that little voice inside your heart is telling you that now is the time to make your big play. It's simply a question of finding the courage. 1-900-990-7809* Sports News: http://web1.nypost.com/sports/sports.shtml TORRE TALKS TOUGH: http://www.nypost.com/sports/yankees/36110.htm By KEVIN KERNAN "I think we have to have some teeth in this next agreement . . . I think we have to make sure people can trust this game."JOE TORRE On a day he came to celebrate the affordable purity of minor league baseball and the new-look Newark Bears, Joe Torre called for a fast-track new drug policy between the Players Association and Major League Baseball as the Yankees appeared to put more distance between themselves and admitted juicer Jason Giambi. GANG GREEN WANTS WAR WITH MEN OF STEEL: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/36094.htm THE STEELERS will hit the Jets in the mouth Sunday. And after too many years when the Jets let the bully have his way, they will hit the Steelers back. KOBE'S MAILMAN DISS NO SURPRISE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36106.htm YOU realize, of course, Kobe Bryant knew exactly what he was doing when he made himself available for an interview on Mychal Thompson's LA radio show earlier this week, an abnormality and a half since Eagle, Colo., got itself on the map. MAKING HYPOCRISY O-KAY: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36089.htm JUST when you think the flood has crested, perhaps is even about to subside, someone steps up to dump another bucket of crazy into the river. THERE'S HOPE AFTER NHLPA'S PROPOSAL: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36113.htm By LARRY BROOKS TORONTO � Now, for the first time, there is some hope that the NHL season will not be cancelled. WILLIAMS WANTS IT ALL: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36096.htm By GEORGE WILLIS LAS VEGAS � When Danny Williams was 8 years old, his father ordered him to go to a boxing gym and learn the sport. It wasn't something the young Williams fully appreciated at the time. STONY BROOK STAR SUFFERS BAD BREAK: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36105.htm By DAN MARTIN It's proving to be a tough week for players associated with Christ the King basketball. MULLIGAN HITS 35 AS JASPERS ROMP: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36112.htm By NICK PARISH Manhattan coach Bobby Gonzalez got exactly what he was looking for from his upperclassmen last night at Draddy Gymnasium. MR. AMANO WINS ROUGH RACE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36091.htm By ED FOUNTAINE Steve Duncker and Peter Karches, currently serving as co-chief operating officers for the New York Racing Assn., yesterday were elected co-chairmen of the NYRA board, effective Jan. 1, 2005, when current chair Barry Schwartz steps down. YES WON'T JUGGLE LINEUP: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36100.htm By ANDREW MARCHAND Ken Singleton and Bobby Murcer are both expected to return to the Yankee broadcast booth, NYP TV Sports has learned. MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS VS. THIS WEEK IN FOOTBALL (WHICH SHOW IS BETTER?): http://www.nypost.com/sports/36101.htm The unique aspect of MSG's Unnecessary Roughness is how loose most of the Jets and Giants are on the show. With the relaxed setting, host Jay Glazer asks rapid-fire questions about professional and personal items. 5 QUESTIONS FOR TOM TOLBERT: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36102.htm This week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with ESPN's Tom Tolbert. ABC has announced that the 39-year-old Tolbert has been replaced on its NBA pregame by Bill Walton and Steve Jones. Tolbert could still work as ABC's analyst on its doubleheader games. JETS PUMPIN' IRON: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36095.htm BY DAVE BLEZOW FOR the last two months or so, the Jets have heard that each week's game was a must-win because they had certain losses to the Steelers and Patriots ahead in December. Well, they won the must-wins, but now the question is, why is this Steeler game a certain loss? GIANTS IN DECEMBER? NEVERMORE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36092.htm Over the past nine years, The Wildcat's published pigskin forecasts have made a deep impression on the sporting world. Including the 1997-2003 seasons in The Post, Cat's record in print for the period stands at 259-199 (56.6 percent) against the spread. O/U RICO!: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36086.htm Rico slipped a little last week, going 7-9 (1-3 Best Bets) on the over/unders, bringing the season record to 93-97-2 (19-22). The selections for Week 14: THE ODD COUPLE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36085.htm The express rolls on! Following up on its 11-5 mauling of the spread of two weeks ago, The Odd Couple (Dick Klayman and Peter Tocco) moved to within a mere three games of the top by going 10-5-1 for an astounding three-week run of 31-15-2. And, if you ignore one down week from a month ago, The Couple has a not-to-be-believed five-week total of 52-22-2. MS. CHARLEEN: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36084.htm What exactly did an 8-7-1 week against the spread do for Ms. Charleen? It moved her to within one game of the coveted .500 mark and, because she went 2-1 on Best Bets, she moved into a second-place tie in that MVP of categories. BEST-BET BATTMAN WANTS IT ALL: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36088.htm Like Maria Menounos, Battman likes dogs, which is why he's going with Raiders over Falcons on Sunday. Wireimage.com THE FAN'S CORNER: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36090.htm By MIKE FORDE Dr. Tracey Toback, a podiatrist of 17 years, has put his work into his football-watching. YANKS: NO BIG BUCKS TO D-BACKS: http://www.nypost.com/sports/yankees/36111.htm By GEORGE KING ANAHEIM � When the Diamondbacks resume talks with the Yankees about trading Randy Johnson, they are going to find the Yankees unwilling to include a boatload of cash in the deal. PUSH FOR PEDRO: http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/36109.htm By MARK HALE ANAHEIM � In the 21/2 months that Omar Minaya has been the Mets GM, he's seemingly been in touch with half the teams and half the agents for half the players in the game. FOLLOW THE LEADER: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/36087.htm By DAN MARTIN During Eli Manning's senior year at Mississippi � not so long ago � there was no question who the leader of the offense was. In fact, the whole team tended to revolve around the quarterback because of the success he had at the school. REED ALL ABOUT IT: ELI MUST BE CAREFUL: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/36107.htm By DAN MARTIN As if Eli Manning hasn't had a difficult enough time adjusting to life in the NFL, he gets to go up against one of the fiercest defenses in the league Sunday when the Giants visit the Ravens. CAN'T DEWAYNE ON HIS PARADE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/36093.htm By MARK CANNIZZARO The signs were there long before the regular season began, but it didn't take long for the outside inquiries to start filing in on Dewayne Robertson. ABRAHAM SAYS HE'LL RETURN THIS SEASON: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/36108.htm By MARK CANNIZZARO Jets defensive end John Abraham said yesterday he fully expects to return this season from his sprained right knee, though he set no timetable. IT'S D-LIGHTFUL, IT'S D-LICIOUS: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/36099.htm BY ANDREW MARCHAND When CBS' Phil Simms looks at these Jets, he's reminded of the mid- to late-1980s Giants. HOU GOTTA BELIEVE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/knicks/36103.htm By MARC BERMAN WASHINGTON � The Knicks' world will hold its collective breath and cross its fingers today at 7 p.m., as Allan Houston, arthritic knees and all, steps on the hardwood for real, for the first time in 81/2 months. ISIAH NEEDS NEW CARTER CHIP: http://www.nypost.com/sports/knicks/36104.htm By MARC BERMAN Whether it's Allan Houston, Tim Thomas, Penny Hardaway or Toronto fan favorite Jerome Williams, every package Isiah Thomas has thrown out there for Vince Carter has been rejected by Raptors GM Rob Babcock. BACK IN NEW JERSEY, BYRON'S MOVING ON: http://www.nypost.com/sports/nets/36097.htm By FRED KERBER The players swear it wasn't them, the team president swears it was him, and the returning ex-coach swears he doesn't care. TIRED MOURNING NEEDS SOME REST: http://www.nypost.com/sports/nets/36098.htm By FRED KERBER Alonzo Mourning came back to the NBA after a kidney transplant and essentially two years off. Now the Nets center is feeling the effects of his remarkable comeback. So Mourning admitted, while not related to his transplant, he needs time off, perhaps even a stay on the injury list. Gossip: http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/gossip.htm : http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm ADVENTURES ON THE RED CARPET By Richard Johnson BRITNEY Spears was so snockered on sake Tuesday night in Las Vegas that she had to be helped out of Nobu in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, sources say. : http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/cindy.htm LOSER'S WHOLE NEW MEANING By Cindy Adams THERE currently exists a glut of reality show losers, most of whom are turn ing to be winners. All have agents, p.r. reps, managers, moxie and chutzpah up the kazoo. Not one is humble, quiet, modest, unassuming or afraid of the spotlight. Each wants to be a star. The entertainment ethos will soon be peopled by more reality types than real types. : http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/liz.htm JULIA'S GREATEST ROLE YET: MAMA By Liz Smith 'THE SCRIPT WILL have to blow me away. My babies will be a great factor, like anything that makes your life more interesting and enjoyable. Scripts will have to compete with the quality of my life." Weather: http://weather.nypost.com NEW YORK , NY Get the extended forcast here from the New York Post.: http://weather.nypost.com Traffic: http://traffic.nypost.com/ metrocommute HeadlineManhattan 2004 Holiday Season - Traffic Adivsory Due to the upcoming 2004 Holiday Season there will be heavy congestion in Midtown Manhattan caused by shopping and festivities that will be taking place. It is advised for people to use mass transit as much as possible therefore helping traffic to move along smoothly. So please plan ahead for early travel and leave at least 20 minutes before schedule. There is also a 10 Day Gridlock Alert Day designated for the Holiday Traffic. These Days are as follows:Friday, November. 19: The Friday before Thanksgiving.Wednesday, November. 24: The day before Thanksgiving. Matinee day at Broadway theaters adds to traffic congestion in the midtown theater district.Tuesday, November. 30: Tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center.Friday, December. 10: A popular shopping day.Wednesday, December. 15: Matinee day at Broadway theaters and a popular shopping day.Thursday, December. 16: A popular shopping day.Friday, December. 17: A popular shopping day.Wednesday, December. 22: Matinee day at Broadway theaters and a popular shopping day.Thursday, December. 23: The day before Christmas Eve. metrocommute DelayNassau County Under 20 mph on SSP-EB: 21 to 22Under 20 mph on Southern State Parkway eastbound Exit 21S/N to Exit 22S/N metrocommute Special EventManhattan Knicks @ Madison Square Garden thru November & DecemberThe Knicks host at the Madison Square Garden in the months of November & December. Expect some extra traffic on 7th Ave., 8th Ave., and in the west 30s, 2 hours before the game, after the game.*Please arrive early due to new security checks*Opponents, dates and times of games are:Atlanta Hawks, Nov. 23, 7:30 PMToronto Raptors, Nov. 27, 1:00 PMMemphis Grizzlies, Dec. 01, 7:30 PMOrlando Magic, Dec. 03, 7:30 PMDenver Nuggets, Dec. 12, 12:00 PMDetroit Pistons, Dec. 15, 8PMUtah Jazz, Dec. 19, 3PMDallas Mavericks, Dec. 21, 7:30PMCharlotte Bobcats, Dec. 26, 1PM Manhattan Radio City Christmas Spectacular @ Radio City Music Hall; November 23 thru January 2The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, starring the world-famous Rockettes, returns to Radio City Music Hall, November 23, 2004 thru January 2, 2005 Be a part of this American tradition and enjoy such show-stopping scenes as the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers", and the majestic "Living Nativity." Also, witness Santa's return to the Music Hall through an exciting 3-D sleigh ride. Expect delays on 5th, 6th and 7th Avenue between 48th Street and 51st Street and on Broadway starting around 2 hours before and after the show. Please arrive early due to new security measures and for parking. Visit thegarden.com site for information on showtimes.: http://www.thegarden.com 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/21236.htm TELECOM TITAN By ERICA COPULSKY and RICHARD WILNER U.S. wireless telecommunications giants Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications are in talks to merge, people familiar with the situation say. If successful, the merger would create a $70 billion company with nearly 32 million customers, which would closely compete as the No. 3 wireless company behind industry leaders Verizon and Cingular. BLOW TO GRASSO; CASE STAYS IN NY COURT: http://www.nypost.com/business/21235.htm By PAUL THARP Just as Eliot Spitzer was launching his run for governor yesterday, Dick Grasso suffered a legal setback in his fight against Spitzer to keep all his contested $190 million pay. US AIR NEEDS HELP TO EXIT BANKRUPTCY: http://www.nypost.com/business/21230.htm ALEXANDRIA, Va. � US Airways Group probably will need more cost cuts or a boost in revenue to attract the $250 million it says it will require to exit bankruptcy next year, the airline's officials said yesterday. BUYOUTS DENIED AT NEWSDAY: http://www.nypost.com/business/21237.htm By KEITH J. KELLY In the end, they stampeded for the exits at Newsday. Newsday reached its goal of 100 job cuts and Publisher Tim Knight said yesterday there will be no forced job cuts. ATHLETE'S FOOT FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY: http://www.nypost.com/business/21227.htm The Athlete's Foot Stores LLC, which sells sneakers in New York and other states, filed for bankruptcy protection to liquidate its inventory after it lost access to a $20 million loan. OVITZ A 'CANCER': http://www.nypost.com/business/21232.htm By HOLLY M. SANDERS Former Walt Disney director Thomas Murphy called Michael Ovitz a "cancer" that had to be cut from the company, during testimony in a shareholder suit over Ovitz's firing. FLIGHT TAX TO GO UP: http://www.nypost.com/business/21233.htm The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to raise passenger facility charges � a tax on tickets for departing flights � by 50 percent to $4.50 next year, which will increase the cost of flying out of LaGuardia, Newark Liberty International and John F. Kennedy International airports. FIRMS GO 'PHISHING' FOR FRAUD: http://www.nypost.com/business/21234.htm By RICHARD WILNER A host of Internet companies, banks and federal law-enforcement agencies are teaming up to help combat one of the worst kinds of online scam artists to surface in the past year: phishers. DOLLAR UP, BUT TRADERS LACK FAITH IN RALLY: http://www.nypost.com/business/21226.htm The U.S. dollar edged slightly higher again yesterday, but the fledgling rally may be on the verge of sputtering to a halt, currency traders warn. NIKE KOWTOWS OVER LEBRON AD IN CHINA: http://www.nypost.com/business/21231.htm By PAUL THARP Nike has apologized to China for running a "blasphemous" TV ad showing its superjock pitchman LeBron James trashing the culture by beating up a kung fu master, two Chinese women and a pair of hallowed dragons. Real Estate: http://web1.nypost.com/realestate/index.htm 57TH ST. IS LOOKING EMPTIER: http://www.nypost.com/realestate/35873.htm By STEVE CUOZZO EVEN in the retail won derland of Midtown, prime store sites sometimes fall empty. The exit of snooty jeweler David Webb Inc. from 445 Park Ave. has left a third prime corner of 57th Street embarrassingly vacant. Entertainment: http://web1.nypost.com/entertainment/entertainment.htm BARD'S IN A TWO-STEP: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/21242.htm By FRANK SCHECK IF you're heading to the John Houseman Theater, get there early. For there, be fore "Lone Star Love" even begins, fully costumed cast members beckon the audience onstage to sample chili, potato salad, corn bread and pink lemonade. STILL A GAY OL' TIME: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/21243.htm By CLIVE BARNES JUST like Dolly, it's nice to see "La Cage aux Folles" back where it belongs � on Broadway. STAR LITE EXPRESS: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/21249.htm By MICHAEL RIEDEL THE Tobey Maguire-"Glass Menag erie" audition fiasco, still being gos siped about along the Rialto raises a tricky issue confronting producers and directors: How do you make sure a big movie star with scant stage experience who wants to do your play won't be a complete embarrassment on stage? HAYSEED CLAY DECKS GARDEN WITH BOUGHS OF 'GOLLY!': http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/21250.htm By DAN AQUILANTE CLAY AIKEN is right. At the singer's gig last night at The Theater in Madison Square Garden, he showed what he meant when he said in his autobiography: "I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I have oversized ears. I'm a geek." DON'T WANT TO GET RITTER HIM: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/21246.htm By MARY HUHN TONIGHT The Bowery Ball room (6 Delancey St.; [212] 533-2111) fills its hallowed halls with folk-pop-gospel music to sweeten a cold December evening. 'HILLBILLIES' SONGSTER DIES: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/21239.htm JERRY Scoggins, who sang "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" that introduced the comical Clampett clan on "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died. He was 93. 'PARDY OVER WITHOUT KENJEN: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/21245.htm THE answer: Ratings for "Jeopardy!" The question: What's fallen over a cliff since since phenom Ken Jennings lost last week? FIRST DAY 'LAW' STUDENT: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/21247.htm 'LAW & Order" newbie Annie Parisse showed up for her first day on the set yesterday � a day after Elisabeth Rohm departed the long-running NBC series after four years. TRUMP ROAST: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/21248.htm By DON KAPLAN IT will be battlin' brainy blonde Jennifer Massey vs. military man Kelly Perdew for all the marbles next week on the finale of "The Apprentice 2." THE STARR REPORT: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/21244.htm By MICHAEL STARR So who needs "20/20"? Barbara Walters, who left her regular Friday-night perch on the ABC newsmaga zine in September, snared a hefty 16.3 million viewers Wednesday for her "10 Most Fascinating People of 2004" special. That's up 3.3 million viewers from last year's "Most Fascinating" special � and was up an additional 32 percent in adults 18-49 and 27 percent in adults 25-54. Movie Reviews: http://web1.nypost.com/movies/movies.htm FLIRTY DOZEN: http://www.nypost.com/movies/21252.htm By LOU LUMENICK OCEAN'S TWELVE FORGET the plot of "Ocean's Twelve" - you will by the time you leave the theater, if not sooner. This slickly entertaining sequel is all about savoring eye candy - whether it's the 100-megawatt smiles of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and "Ocean's" newcomer Catherine Zeta-Jones or the eye-popping European locations. LOVE MEANS NEVER GETTING TO SAY SAYONARA: http://www.nypost.com/movies/21241.htm By V.A. MUSETTO DOLLS IN Japan, his homeland, Takeshi Kitano is a major star best know as a standup comic who goes under the name Beat Takeshi and appears in five TV shows a week. GONE FISHIN': http://www.nypost.com/movies/21240.htm By LOU LUMENICK THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU WES Anderson's "Rush more" boosted his career as well as Bill Murray's, so Anderson wrote a juicy lead part in the in termittently brilliant, intermittently hilarious � and occasionally tedious � "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou." SHWAAS: http://www.nypost.com/movies/21297.htm By V.A. MUSETTO 'SHWAAS," India's entry for the 2004 foreign-language Oscar, is a tearjerker about a 7-year-old farm boy with a rare eye cancer. Surgery can save his life, but it will leave him sightless. STRAIGHT-JACKET: http://www.nypost.com/movies/21238.htm By V.A. MUSETTO IF Rock Hudson wasn't long dead, "Straight-Jacket" might do the trick. CRUISING ALONG, PRETTY AS A 'PICTURE': http://www.nypost.com/movies/21296.htm By V.A. MUSETTO A TALKING PICTURE TOMORROW is Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oli veira's 96th (yes, 96th) birthday, but it's his fans who are getting a gift. Lifestyle: http://web1.nypost.com/living/living.htm Lottery Results: http://web1.nypost.com/lottery/lottery.htm NEW YORK Midday Numbers Thu.: 505 Midday Win-4 Thu.: 5577 Evening Numbers Thu.: 980 Evening Win-4 Thu.: 1097 Pick-10 Thu.: 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 15, 18, 26, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 41, 47, 48, 54, 67, 74, 75 Take-5 Thu.: 10, 24, 26, 30, 32 NEW JERSEY Pick-3 Thu.: 493; Pick-4 Thu.: 5610 OAS_AD('Middle'); //--> Cash-5 Thu.: 5, 6, 19, 27, 35 Pick-6 Thu.: 2, 6, 12, 23, 40, 43 CONNECTICUT Play-3 Thu.: 299; Play-4 Thu.: 3019 Cash-5 Thu.: 6, 15, 18, 20, 31 Opinion: http://web1.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/opedcolumnists.htm U.N. POWER PLAY: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/21223.htm By JOHN O'SULLIVAN WHICH of the fol lowing recent news stories is the odd one out: (a) United Nations accused of cover-up of sexual harassment by senior official. TROOPS PHONE HOME: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/21218.htm AMERICANS looking for a way to support the troops in Iraq and Af ghanistan this holiday season might want to consider the USO's Operation Phone Home � a program to give pre-paid phone cards to those serving in forward-deployed locations. DRUG-HYSTERIA RX: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/21219.htm By MARC K. SIEGEL FROM heavy publicity over the with drawl of the arthritis treatment Vioxx to word of deaths from the aborta cient RU-486, the safety of FDA-approved drugs is now in question. It is clear there needs to be some changes, but in the meantime, we should not panic. U.S. DEMOCRACY: A JOY TO BEHOLD: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/21222.htm By JOHN PODHORETZ ONLY 38 days ago, the most passion ately contested presidential election in modern history was finally conducted. And yet, doesn't it seem that a very, very long time has passed since Nov. 2? Celebrity Photos: http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/celebp/index.htm : http://www.nypost.com/gossip/celebp/12052004/photo01.htm December 6th:'Million Dollar Baby Premiere...: http://www.nypost.com/gossip/celebp/12052004/photo01.htm Movie News: http://web1.nypost.com/entertainment/movies/news/news.htm News, Dec. 9: Usher Tops Billboard Awards, Dick Clark Suffers Mild Stroke, Martha Stewart Back on TV, More... Kit Bowen -- Hollywood.com Staff Usher tops 2004 Billboard Awards Crooner Usher, whose single ''Yeah!'' featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris was named the Hot 100 single of the year, picked up 11 awards at the 2004 Billboard Music Awards Wednesday night as the MGM Grand hotel-casino in Las Vegas, including artist of the year and best Style: http://web1.nypost.com/style/style.htm To modify your account settings go to: http://www.nypost.com/useradmin/useradmin.htm To unsubscribe, go to: http://www.nypost.com/newsletter/unsubscribe.htm
