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Regional News: http://web1.nypost.com/news/news.htm HAWK-STALK BUST: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32795.htm By TATIANA DELIGIANNAKIS and MURRAY WEISS A hawk-hugging protester has been busted for terrifying the two young sons of CNN anchor Paula Zahn and stalking the celebrity mom and her hubby, authorities said yesterday. $UIT RIPS STAR: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32782.htm By DAREH GREGORIAN The best things in Star Jones' life are free, but a Manhattan gardener says she can give that to the birds and bees � he wants money. COPS NAB FDR-TOSS ROCK-HEADS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32774.htm By JOE McGURK and MURRAY WEISS A pair of mischievous Manhattan teens said they were as dumb as the rocks they threw from an East Side overpass, after cops busted them yesterday for causing a scary weekend pileup on the FDR Drive. PATAKI 'THINKING' ABOUT RUNNING FOR FOURTH TERM: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32761.htm By FREDRIC U. DICKER and KENNETH LOVETT ALBANY � Gov. Pataki, who just fired his top political advisers and is sinking in the polls, said yesterday he's "thinking" about running for a fourth term. MASS TEACHER SICK-OUT CLOSES CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32767.htm By DAVID ANDREATTA Catholic high schools shut their doors early yesterday after teachers staged a massive sick-out to protest stalled contract talks with the Archdiocese of New York. FUR FLIES IN WAR OVER CITY APARTMENT PETS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32779.htm By STEPHANIE GASKELL A bill to let tenants replace dead pets � even if they live in buildings that prohibit animals � is being held up in the City Council as landlords lobby Speaker Gifford Miller to kill it, sources told The Post. CARJACK DRAMA IN QNS.: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32787.htm Cops arrested a man yesterday after gunfire erupted on a Queens street in what witnesses said was an attempted carjacking. MTA $$ PANEL KEEPS HIKES ON FAST TRACK: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32788.htm A fare and toll hike remains on track after a committee that oversees the MTA's budget yesterday recommended that the cash-strapped agency approve the increases. MACABRE SLAY EVIDENCE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32794.htm By KIERAN CROWLEY, IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON and MARSHA KRANES No Tiffany money clip for multimillionaire Ted Ammon � the night he was killed he had a wad of nearly $1,000 held together by a metal binder clip, worth about 10 cents. PERV DOC SUSPENDED BY STATE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32772.htm By KENNETH LOVETT ALBANY � A lecherous Queens doctor, accused of fondling patients, has been hit by the state with a $10,000 fine and a four- month license suspension, The Post has learned. FINES PUT LANDLORDS IN HOT WATER: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32769.htm Landlords who fail to provide heat and hot water to tenants will soon be hit with fines starting at $500 a day. BAILED FOOD BIGGIE ROASTS CUISINE DE CLINK: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32786.htm By LAURA ITALIANO and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN The ex-president of the James Beard Foundation � indicted for allegedly cooking the books for up to $1 million � was sprung on bail yesterday and promptly dished out a review of the food in the stir. 'AVIATOR' TAKES OFF IN NEW YORK: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32792.htm By GERSH KUNTZMAN The stars "The Aviator" were flying high at last night's New York premiere. TEACHERS' PLEA OVER HS BRAWL: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32776.htm Spurred by a brawl at their Midtown school, teachers at Norman Thomas HS are demanding that it be declared an "impact school" to garner better police protection. JUSTICE DELAYED: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32777.htm By LAURA ITALIANO Call it "The Princess and the Plea" � almost. Fake princess Antoinette Millard is on the brink of copping a no-jail deal in a wacky insurance scam in which she allegedly pretended to be Saudi royalty � and then claimed she'd been mugged out of $260,000 in jewelry on Madison Avenue. SCHOOL FAT CATS' $$ VICTORY: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32784.htm By TODD VENEZIA A battle between school districts over a tract of Westchester County mansions ended this week when a judge ruled the millionaire mansion-dwellers can send their kids to the tony public school of their dreams. DINER DEAL ENDS PAY PROBE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32760.htm ALBANY � Owners of a Staten Island diner have agreed to pay $76,000 to end an investigation into whether they failed to pay workers the minimum wage and overtime. BOSS CHARGED IN HARD-HAT FATAL FALL: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32785.htm By KATI CORNELL SMITH The feds have hit a construction-company owner with criminal charges for the death of a worker who plunged 35 feet when a balcony on a job site collapsed in May. GRISLY SUBWAY DEATH: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32793.htm By HASANI GITTENS and LORENA MONGELLI A transit worker was decapitated yesterday by a train that slammed into him as he walked along tracks in Brooklyn, officials said. SHE FEASTED AS A BOY DIED: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32764.htm By DENISE BUFFA A heartless Brooklyn woman who scarfed down a bowl of spaghetti while her boyfriend tortured a 13-year-old boy to death was convicted yesterday of aiding in the savage slaying. FEDS WANTED ME AS PAID FINK: SHEIK: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32766.htm By KATI CORNELL SMITH A Yemeni sheik set to go on trial for allegedly financing terrorists claimed in a bizarre outburst yesterday that the feds offered to make him a millionaire if he would become an informant. CITY COPS TO DROP FANCY CRIME-BUSTING FLOP: SOURCES: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32768.htm By MURRAY WEISS Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is pulling the plug on a 9-year-old, much-ballyhooed experiment that failed in its primary goal: cutting crime, The Post has learned. DRIVE-BY KILLER GETS 25 TO LIFE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32775.htm A Sikh man convicted last month a coldblooded drive-by shooting in Queens loudly proclaimed his innocence yesterday in court as a judge sent him away for 25 years to life. 2 LOUIMA COPS FIGHT FOR BADGES: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32780.htm By ERIKA MARTINEZ Two ex-cops acquitted in the horrific Abner Louima brutality case made their last appearance in front of an NYPD judge yesterday in their bids to get their jobs back. CORRECTION: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32796.htm A photo caption accompanying an article about Crumbs Bake Shop suing CremaLita stores for allegedly knocking off their cupcakes misidentified which cupcakes were which in some editions of yesterday's Post. COP SHOOTER GETS 25 TO LIFE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32798.htm A Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 25 years to life behind bars for trying to kill a cop. NEW OPS FOR SEPARATED TWINS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32800.htm Despite some "nickel and dime" problems, the formerly conjoined twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre are doing well enough for doctors to begin reconstructing their skulls, their Bronx medical team said yesterday. MOB SCENE MARS GREAT HARLEM HS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32801.htm By DAVID ANDREATTA A school known as the Stuyvesant of Harlem has been ruined by severe overcrowding, say outraged parents. BOWLING SHOOTING MAY BE PAYBACK: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32803.htm By PHILIP MESSING Detectives are probing whether the shooting of a 17-year-old youth inside a Queens bowling alley yesterday was revenge for the victim's participation in another shooting last April, sources said. TOW WAY, MAN: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32805.htm By JOHN DOYLE A squabble between an NYPD ticket agent and a disgruntled motorist turned into a full-blown spectacle in Brooklyn yesterday when the driver locked himself inside his car while it was hitched to the back of an NYPD tow truck. GOTTI'S RANT: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32810.htm By CARL CAMPANILE The Dapper Don was a rage in the cage � angrily trashing his wife, his brothers, his lawyer and mob turncoat Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano in expletive, hate-filled tirades while in prison. CON ED SAFETY ZAPPED: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32806.htm By BILL SANDERSON "Serious" lapses in safety procedures contributed to the deaths of two Con Ed workers in a manhole explosion last summer, federal investigators have charged. RATNER'S REBORN FOR A DAY: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32808.htm By JENNIFER FERMINO and GERSH KUNTZMAN This wasn't a 100th anniversary party, it was a wake. Ratner's, the venerable Lower East Side kosher restaurant that served mayors, governors, Borscht Belt comics and gangsters during its heyday, celebrated its 100th birthday yesterday � more than two years after it closed for good. National News: http://web1.nypost.com/news/news.htm KERIK'S LAST-MINUTE SCRAMBLE TO FILE NANNY PAPERS: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32762.htm By DEBORAH ORIN WASHINGTON � Former NYPD top cop Bernard Kerik didn't file any paperwork or pay any taxes for his family's Mexican nanny until shortly before he was tapped to be President Bush's homeland-security chief, The Post has learned. 'PROUD OF VERDICT': http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32783.htm By RICHELLE NICE I WAS Juror No. 7 in the Scott Peter son murder trial, a struggling, 34-year-old mom of four boys from Palo Alto, Calif. � and here's why I am proud to say I helped send the sleazy fertilizer salesman to death row. BUSH HONORS DEFENSE TRIO: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32778.htm WASHINGTON � President Bush yesterday awarded America's highest civilian honor to three key players from his Iraq team: ex-CIA chief George Tenet, former Iraq chief L. Paul Bremer and Gen. Tommy Franks. BAN JUICED PLAYERS: FANS: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32804.htm Baseball players who use steroids should be banned from the game just like Pete Rose, according to a new poll of fans. ROD'S KICK NETS DOUBLE TROUBLE: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32789.htm LOS ANGELES � A soccer ball kicked by Rod Stewart at a concert has not only spurred a lawsuit by the guy who got hit, but from the man's spouse. ANNA MARRIES HER LATIN LOVER: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32771.htm Russian tennis beauty Anna Kournikova has finally tied the knot with Spanish pop heartthrob Enrique Iglesias, it was reported yesterday. TWINS BORN TO TWINS ON SAME DAY: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32759.htm ATLANTA � Two twin sisters are seeing double � or make that quadruple � after delivering two sets of twin boys yesterday. JACKO'S OLD 'SEX OFFENSES': http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32790.htm LOS ANGELES � Prosecutors want to admit evidence of Michael Jackson's "prior sexual offenses" in his trial for child molestation, but the nature of the material was kept secret by the judge. WHOLE LOTTO TROUBLE: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32797.htm By ALY SUJO The mortified wife of the biggest lottery jackpot winner in U.S. history says her drunken, rowdy husband's $314 million Christmas Day win two years ago has become a nightmare. World News: http://web1.nypost.com/news/news.htm TYCO LINK IN U.N. SCANDAL: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/32770.htm By NILES LATHEM WASHINGTON � Tyco International � the controversial conglomerate whose former CEO became a poster boy for corporate greed � has been linked to the U.N. oil-for-food investigation. KOJO RIPS 'WITCH HUNT': http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/32791.htm By NILES LATHEM WASHINGTON � The son of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan unleashed a bitter counterattack on investigators of the U.N. oil-for-food program last night, calling probes of the scandal a "witch hunt" that is part of a "broader Republican political agenda." ABBAS PEACE BID: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/32773.htm By URI DAN JERUSALEM � In a stunning declaration, the Palestinian leader virtually certain to succeed Yasser Arafat said yesterday that the 4-year-old armed uprising against Israel was a mistake and must end. JEWISH AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS FLOCK TO ISRAEL: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/32763.htm JERUSALEM � After years of stagnation, American Jewish immigration to Israel is on the rise again, with the number of people arriving this year expected to approach a 20-year-high, officials said yesterday. GEORGE SLAPS BACK AT ELTON: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/32765.htm Singer George Michael has issued a stinging reply to uncomplimentary remarks made by Elton John in a British celeb magazine. All Horoscopes: http://web1.nypost.com/cgi-bin/horoscope.pl ARIES If knowledge is power, then you are about to find out something about a partner or colleague that increases your hold over him. Not that you would ever abuse it, of course, but it is nice to know you have something in reserve, something you can use as a trump card if the going gets tough. Don't let anyone else in on the secret. 1-900-990-7810* TAURUS You seem to be of two minds about whether to push ahead with a project that means a lot to you or to wait a bit and see which way the wind takes you. On balance, the latter course is probably the sensible one, especially because many things will change in your favor when the sun enters your fellow earth sign of Capricorn on the 21st. 1-900-990-7811* GEMINI Focus on relationships today and make sure that your nearest and dearest know how much you care for them. Because you are an air sign and because you have so many things on the fire all at one time, you sometimes neglect more personal matters such as family issues and affairs of the heart. You may have a bit of making up to do today. 1-900-990-7812* CANCER Some tasks are important and need to be dealt with immediately and some tasks can safely be left until another day, week, month or maybe even another year. If you don't know the difference already, you must learn it today because your time is precious and the last thing you want is to waste it on issues that simply do not matter. 1-900-990-7813* LEO You have always been an eager beaver, but just lately you have been so wildly enthusiastic that some people have begun to wonder if there might be a chemical imbalance in your brain. On the contrary, you have never been more sane or more in tune with your inner self. It's just that so much is possible and there is so little time. 1-900-990-7814* VIRGO It is important that you keep your troubles in perspective over the next few days because one of the best times of the year is about to begin and the last thing you want is to be in a depressed state of mind. Whatever is worrying you, the time has come to deal with it once and for all - then you can move on and have fun. 1-900-990-7815* LIBRA Simple problems always have simple solutions, so why are you making things difficult for yourself? No matter what is confusing you, there is sure to be an obvious explanation, so focus on the facts and don't be distracted by those who say it is too complicated for any one person to deal with. That may be true of them, but it isn't true of you. 1-900-990-7816* SCORPIO Money worries of one kind or another have been rather too prominent for your liking in recent weeks, but soon they will be a thing of the past, so don't waste too much time trying to balance your accounts. When all is said and done, money and possessions are not that important when compared with more personal things like love and friendship. 1-900-990-7817* SAGITTARIUS A positive attitude is a must today because with it you will get so much more done. It does not matter how hard a certain task may be. The planets indicate that you have what it takes to win through, so believe in yourself and believe that it is your destiny to accomplish great things. And never feel sorry for yourself - you've nothing to be sorry about. 1-900-990-7818* CAPRICORN So many of the things you have been worrying about are phantoms of your mind and will fade away like morning mist when the sun enters your birth sign on the 21st. Something else you must realize is that there is absolutely no need to regret anything you said or did over the past 12 months. Accept everything in your life just the way it is. 1-900-990-7819* AQUARIUS You will work better and accomplish more on the work front today if you have some kind of incentive, so promise yourself that if you do a good job on your current assignment you will reward yourself with either a night on the town or a romantic night in with that one special person - and no, that does not mean yourself! 1-900-990-7808* PISCES Try to stay on good terms with colleagues and employers today because no matter how much of a pain in the neck they may have been in recent weeks, their attitude will improve considerably over the next 48 hours. That won't be of much use to you if you have already said or done something they find impossible to forgive. 1-900-990-7809* Sports News: http://web1.nypost.com/sports/sports.shtml PEDRO'S PACKING HIS BAGS FOR SHEA: http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/36509.htm By MICHAEL MORRISSEY Yesterday the Mets were stone silent regarding Pedro Martinez. Fernando Cuza, Martinez' agent, preferred not to comment on the sensitive final details of the bombshell agreement between the two parties. But according to the man himself, it's a done deal. All that's left is Martinez passing a physical � though whether that physical includes an MRI on Martinez' shoulder still was a matter of debate. ALL FLUSHING NEEDS IS BELTRAN IN LINEUP: http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/36510.htm FOR this to truly make sense, for it to be anything other than naked pandering to those of us who live for the back page of the newspaper, then there has to be a follow-up. Pedro Martinez has to be the warm-up. He is a fun hire, and he'll make Shea Stadium more interesting. We know that. CARRUMBA! AMAZIN'S COMING UP ACES: http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/36508.htm THE signing of "Fragile" Pedro Martinez works wonders for the Mets on many levels. It really does. IT'S NO CONTEST UNTIL KIDD'S OKAY: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36506.htm DOCTORS' orders, 20 minutes are all Lawrence Frank gets. It was a reach to call the Nets an NBA team when Jason Kidd was out, so now the coach is just happy to stretch his star guard's impact in the time he is allowed. BETTMAN DESERVES AX: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36504.htm TORONTO � Gary Bettman wouldn't make it through the first round in the boardroom with Donald Trump if he applied for the position of apprentice presenting the same type of documentation he handed to the NHLPA here yesterday in the NHL's latest and newest confirmation of its intention to pursue impasse, implementation and 2005-06 scab hockey. DON'T BAIL ON CHAD JUST YET: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/36500.htm IT didn't take long. Almost as soon as Chad Pennington's 14th and final incompletion landed harmlessly on the chewed-up turf at Heinz Field Sunday evening, the Monday morning critics began surfacing like tenement cockroaches at nightfall. IT'S NOT ALL TIKI'S FAULT: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/36501.htm By PAUL SCHWARTZ WE interrupt the frenzied Eli Manning bashing to allow the Giants' best player this season to vent. Not at Manning, but at himself. TYSON STOPS BY BROOKLYN: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36503.htm By GEORGE WILLIS There is a picture in the office of Gleason's Gym of a young Mike Tyson standing over Vinny Ferguson, one of his early knockout victims. Tyson's biceps are bulging, his washboard stomach is tight and he's wearing a wide grin of satisfaction. It was nothing like the Mike Tyson that showed up yesterday in Brooklyn. 'MECHANIC' HAS ALL THE TOOLS: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36499.htm By JOSEPH BARRACATO NABA welterweight champion Chris "The Mechanic" Smith has earned his nickname over the past five years by patiently taking his opponents apart piece by piece. But when he faces David Estrada on Jan. 21 at Mohegan Sun, Smith may find himself on the defensive. COLUMBIA HAPPY WITH FESTIVAL BID: http://www.nypost.com/sports/36498.htm By DAN MARTIN Columbia is 6-1 this season and no longer the doormat of the Ivy League. The progress the Lions have made under second-year head coach Joe Jones could continue when they face North Carolina State on Dec. 28 in the ECAC Holiday Festival at the Garden. YANKS, D'BACKS RESUME BIG UNIT TALKS: http://www.nypost.com/sports/yankees/36512.htm By GEORGE KING There was a time when the Diamondbacks would have greatly benefited from the Mets getting Pedro Martinez. A day when George Steinbrenner would have ordered his people to surrender the farm in order to top the Mets by trading for Randy Johnson. INSURANCE MIGHT NOT COVER PEDRO: http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/36511.htm By MICHAEL MORRISSEY Last season, while Mo Vaughn was in parts unknown doing who-knows-what, the Mets were only paying 25 cents on the dollar of his $15 million salary. Insurance picked up the rest of the tab. DT SET TO GIVE BLUE A HAND: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/36502.htm By PAUL SCHWARTZ GIANT NOTES This is a game made for a massive defensive tackle who gets paid to stop opposing running backs. That's why Norman Hand is so eager to come back from the groin injury that's kept him out of the past two games in time to face the Steelers Saturday at Giants Stadium. KNICKS, DOG TAKE BITE OUT OF NETS: http://www.nypost.com/sports/knicks/36505.htm By BRIAN LEWIS The shift was about as blatant as an elbow to the head ... or a forearm to the neck. Even without Jason Kidd on the floor, the Nets were taking it to the Knicks and seizing command of last night's game. GROIN PULL KOS BEST: http://www.nypost.com/sports/knicks/36507.htm By FRED KERBER KNICK-NET NOTEBOOK One point guard has come back. So another now has gone down. With the Nets working through the issue of spacing out Jason Kidd's minutes � he's supposed to play 20 per and likely won't be increased until next month � the Nets lost backup Travis Best to a strained right groin with just :03.2 left in the half. And it hurt. KNICKS D-LIVER VICTORY: http://www.nypost.com/sports/nets/36496.htm By FRED KERBER All was going as planned for the Nets. Jason Kidd, with his limited minutes after knee surgery, started, as planned. He got the Nets going strong, as planned. GROIN PULL KOS BEST: http://www.nypost.com/sports/nets/36497.htm By FRED KERBER KNICK-NET NOTEBOOK One point guard has come back. So another now has gone down. With the Nets working through the issue of spacing out Jason Kidd's minutes � he's supposed to play 20 per and likely won't be increased until next month � the Nets lost backup Travis Best to a strained right groin with just :03.2 left in the half. And it hurt. Gossip: http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/gossip.htm : http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm STARS FLEE RESTAURANT RUMBLE By Richard Johnson A GLASS-shattering brawl erupted between a hip restaurateur and a miffed model at Lafayette Street hot spot Butter, sending Lindsay Lohan and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen scrambling for safety. : http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/cindy.htm PRINCE CHARLES' CHRISTMAS CHEER By Cindy Adams LEST there be some of you who didn't get His Royal Highness Prince Charles' personal Christmas card, let me explain what HRH is shipping out to the masses. A black-and-white shot of him and the boys. Outdoors. Sitting on a wall. In open-necked white shirts. Britain's king-in-waiting sports neat trousers. The kids, jeans. Harry is featuring beaded bracelets. The all-over tone, gray. The print greeting, red. Charles' signature, black ink. Imagine, like the majority of the masses, Brittania's future maybe some day King also sends out a Christmas mailing so pals don't forget him. : http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/liz.htm 'FACTORY' WHIRL By Liz Smith 'I hope you all can't see my underwear through this dress!" exclaimed "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria Sunday from the podium at Hollywood Life's fourth annual Breakthrough Awards. 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 HeadlineNassau County Overnight Construction on LIE EB btwn Exit 32 & Exit 40; 11PM-6AMThere is overnight construction closing all lanes on the eastbound Long Island Expressway/I-495 between Exit 32 - Little Neck Parkway and Exit 40 - Jericho Turnpike from 11PM to 6AM Manhattan 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 shoppin g 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 30 mph on SSP-WB: 29 to 28AUnder 30 mph on Southern State Parkway westbound Exit 29 to Exit 28A New Jersey LT TO MAN 15 min delaysLincoln Tunnel to Manhattan has 15 min delays New Jersey GWB TO MAN 10 min delaysGeorge Washington Bridge to Manhattan has 10 min delays New Jersey HT TO MAN 10 min delaysHolland Tunnel to Manhattan has 10 min delays 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/32739.htm NEWS BUYOUTS By KEITH J. KELLY The ax man cometh to the Daily News. Mort Zuckerman, the owner of the Daily News, plans to reveal a major buyout program to the beleaguered newsroom � perhaps as early as today, according to a source familiar with the situation. Zuckerman is seeking to make "substantial cuts" to the newsroom similar in size to the recently concluded cutbacks at Newsday, the source said. A Daily News spokeswoman declined to comment. A NEW 'DADDY' FOR HISPANIC MARKET: http://www.nypost.com/business/32737.htm By HOLLY M. SANDERS Pedro Martinez may not stay with the World Champion Boston Red Sox, but signing with the Mets will put him in place to win big with advertisers looking to reach New York's huge Hispanic population. IPOD BLOCKS REALNETWORKS: http://www.nypost.com/business/32729.htm RealNetworks Inc., which sells songs on the Web, said Apple Computer Inc. has altered the software for some of its market-leading iPod digital music players so that music purchased from RealNetworks won't play. WENNER'S EARLY DAZE: http://www.nypost.com/business/32733.htm By KEITH J. KELLY ROLLING Stone founder Jann Wenner is finally going to tell his life story. MPAA SUES SERVERS THAT DOWNLOAD FILMS: http://www.nypost.com/business/32741.htm The major Hollywood movie studios, as part of the industry's latest legal action to battle piracy, sued the operators of server computers they say help people find and download millions of illegally copied movies. TRUMP'S SCRAWL IS SCRIPT OF MANY SECRETS: EXPERT: http://www.nypost.com/business/32726.htm By PAUL THARP Donald Trump has a secret life. No, it's not a mistress or an alias identity. It's his handwriting, says a leading analyst of penmanship. "Although Trump tends to be straightforward in business, his illegible signature shows he's evasive and secretive about himself," says Shelia Kurtz, the chief graphology officer of writing pen giant Pilot Pen and author of four textbooks on handwriting. STOCKS NOT HURT BY RATE HIKE: http://www.nypost.com/business/32727.htm By SUZANNE McGEE Not even another jump in interest rates could distract financial markets from their holiday cheer. KERIK QUIT L.I. FIRM IN A HURRY: http://www.nypost.com/business/32731.htm By CHRISTOPHER BYRON Bernard Kerik's sudden and unexplained resignation six weeks ago from the advisory board of a Long Island company is raising new questions about the former New York City Police Commissioner's private-sector dealings. NASDAQ TO OFFER $100M IN SHARES: http://www.nypost.com/business/32732.htm By PAUL THARP The Nasdaq is jumping into the gold rush to sell shares of itself to the public, getting a head start over its rival, the New York Stock Exchange. BUFFETT BOARD NAMES GATES: http://www.nypost.com/business/32740.htm Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the investment company run by billionaire Warren Buffett, named another billionaire, Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates, as a director. UAL PILOTS UNION TO VOTE ON GIVEBACKS: http://www.nypost.com/business/32730.htm United Airlines, seeking cost cuts to help exit bankruptcy, reached a tentative agreement with its pilots union, the first labor accord on additional concessions the carrier proposed last month. VORNADO HITS SOHO: http://www.nypost.com/business/32738.htm By LOIS WEISS THE end of year is creat ing a flurry of buys, sells, comings and goings, along with lots of puzzles. Real Estate: http://web1.nypost.com/realestate/index.htm NEW SCHOOL SEES FIFTH AVE. GROWTH: http://www.nypost.com/realestate/36415.htm By STEVE CUOZZO ONE of the year's larg est office building leases was just signed not by a law firm or bank, but by New School University, which took a whopping 194,300 square feet at 79 Fifth Ave. for offices and classrooms. Entertainment: http://web1.nypost.com/entertainment/entertainment.htm TRIBUTE A BIT SPACEY: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/32742.htm By DAN AQUILANTE BOBBY DARIN may be dead, but Kevin Spacey isn't letting him rest in peace. FANGS FOR NOTHING, FRANK: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/32752.htm By MICHAEL RIEDEL THE bad guy in "Dracula" these days is not its blood- sucking title character but its penny-pinching com poser, Frank Wildhorn. DADDY'S GIRL � OR IS SHE?: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/32744.htm FOX is turning a grown adopted child's search for her father into a reality/game show called "Who's Your Daddy." FCC: NINE OLY GRIPES: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/32749.htm By DON KAPLAN JUST nine complaints of indecency to the FCC have sparked the federal investigation into NBC's telecast of the 2004 Summer Olympics. THREE NEW MTVS FOR ASIAN-U.S. TEENS: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/32751.htm By DON KAPLAN MTV is turning into a melting pot � start ing three new channels specifically for young Indian, Korean and Chinese ethnic populations in the U.S. TRASH U.: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/32746.htm By LINDA STASI BMOC may stand for Big Man On Campus at every other college in the world, but after seeing the WB's "BMOC," I can only assume it stands for Big Morons of Central (Florida University at Orlando!), the college where the latest in reality TV mindlessness takes place. THE STARR REPORT: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/32743.htm By MICHAEL STARR Matt's all, folks You can scratch Matt Lauer out of the "Who'll re place Dan Rather?" sweep stakes. The "Today" show co- host told last night's "Access Hollywood" that he won't be jumping to CBS once Rather retires in March. CANDIDO CAMERA: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/32754.htm By ERNESTO LECHNER Candido Camero, one of the most illustrious and prolific congueros in history, pioneered the simultaneous use of two and even three congas in Afro-Caribbean music. SEASON'S EATINGS: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/32755.htm HALLACASThis exotic Colombian dish is also a staple in Venezuelan Christmas-time cuisine. Like tamales - corn flour puffs filled with beef or chicken, hallacas, also spelled hayacas (ah-yah-kahs), can be served as an appetizer or entre. HOT PICKS: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/32756.htm MAGIC GARDEN Carlos Arroyo, the pure-shooting point guard for the Utah Jazz, seriously inflated his fan base during this year's Summer Olympics when he led his Puerto Rican team past a U.S. superstar squad - a lineup that consisted of Stephon Marbury, Tim Duncan and Lebron James. Movie Reviews: http://web1.nypost.com/movies/movies.htm LORD OF THE RING: http://www.nypost.com/movies/32758.htm By LOU LUMENICK MILLION DOLLAR BABYCLINT Eastwood scores a knockout as an actor and director with "Million Dollar Baby," a spare, exquisitely realized masterpiece about faith, redemption and boxing that beautifully illustrates his longtime philosophy that "less is more." CALL THEM JOHNNY ANGEL: http://www.nypost.com/movies/32745.htm By V.A. MUSETTO SANTA SMOKES WHO says you need a big crew and tons of money to make an enjoyable movie? Certainly not Till Schauder (a k a Terror Till), the co-writer, co-director, co-producer, editor and star of "Santa Smokes." Lifestyle: http://web1.nypost.com/living/living.htm PERFECT GIFTS: http://www.nypost.com/living/36186.htm By JULIA SZABO When selecting holiday gifts for Fido and Fluffy, try to think of what your pet wants most. Hint: costumes, jingle-bell collars, and reindeer antlers won't cut it. ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX: http://www.nypost.com/living/36217.htm DEAR DR. FOX: I've heard that peanuts can be poisonous to squirrels. However, there are peanuts in the birdseed that I put out in my yard, and squirrels (in addition to my two dogs) sometimes eat them. Please advise. -D.L., Flint, Mich. PUT THROUGH THE 'RING'-ER: http://www.nypost.com/living/36243.htm By MICHAEL KANE "We forgot the taste of bread, the sound of trees, the softness of the wind . . . we even forgot our own name." Lottery Results: http://web1.nypost.com/lottery/lottery.htm NEW YORK Midday Numbers Tue.: 533 Midday Win-4 Tue.: 7659 Evening Numbers Tue.: 528 Evening Win-4 Tue.: 4106 Pick-10 Tue.: 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 17, 24, 30, 31, 34, 36, 37, 42, 51, 52, 53, 68, 73, 76, 79 Take-5 Tue.: 7, 9, 13, 14, 24 Mega Millions Tue: 14, 27, 32, 34, 40; Mega Ball: 2 NEW JERSEY OAS_AD('Middle'); //--> Pick-3 Tue.: 022; Pick-4 Tue.: 1811 Cash-5 Tue.: 4, 27, 35, 37, 39 CONNECTICUT Play-3 Tue.: 011; Play-4 Tue.: 1102 Cash-5 Tue.: 7, 16, 26, 31, 33 Lotto Tue.: 3, 12, 28, 32, 35, 43 Opinion: http://web1.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/opedcolumnists.htm SAFETY'S NOT NO. 1: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/32725.htm By HEATHER MAC DONALD NOW that the Bernard Kerik nomination has crashed and burned, President Bush should ask the next candidate for Department of Homeland Security chief the most important question for the job: Will you enforce the law against border trespassers? HIP HOP'S SHAME: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/32728.htm By MARK GOLDBLATT HEMMED in by holi day crowds, I'd been walking behind an elderly black woman for half a block down Fifth Avenue when we passed a pair of 30-something men in expensive suits talking loudly at the edge of the curb. 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. 13: L.A. Critics Turn ''Sideways,'' ''The Aviator'' Tops AFI Picks, Pamela Anderson Gets Fox Sitcom, More� Kit Bowen -- Hollywood.com Staff L.A. Critics go Sideways The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named Sideways, about two men searching for love in California's wine country, as the year's best film and Clint Eastwood's female boxing movie Million Dollar Baby as the runner-up, Reuters reports. Style: http://web1.nypost.com/style/style.htm RINGS & WREATHS DON'T MIX: http://www.nypost.com/style/36377.htm Now through Valentine's Day is the most popular time for men to propose. But the relationship experts we talked to said Christmas Day can be a terrible time to pop the question. 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
