December 13, 2003
MICROSOFT PULLS NAZI SYMBOL FROM OFFICE SOFTWARE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amMicrosoft scrambled yesterday to remove a font from its new Office 2003 that includes two swastikas. The icon is part of "Bookshelf Symbol 7," which includes a number of Asian...
TIME RUNNING OUT ; BUYERS NOT BITING AS FAO SCHWARZ DEADLINE LOOMS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amA handful of investors circling the collapsed FAO Schwarz toy empire plan to let its bankruptcy clock run out so they can grab cheap fire-sale deals. The twice-bankrupted chain faces...
AND THE REST ...
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amFor many, full-time hotel living is the ultimate luxury fantasy. Just imagine having your every whim catered to like Eloise, the precocious 6-year-old who lived it up ordering room service...
A WAK-SALE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amGIMME SHELTER The property portfolio of incarcerated former ImClone chief executive Sam Waksal has nearly shrunk to a mere 5-by-7-foot cell, now that he's sold his spacious SoHo loft. Sources...
FIND US A HOME!
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amTheodora Anema and her 9-month-old daughter, Jasmina, live in a "very large" one-bedroom apartment just west of Union Square. Anema, the vice president of design at Spiegel and Newport News,...
DAVE GETS OPRAH INVITE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amNOW Oprah wants Dave. Oprah Winfrey has asked David Letterman to guest on her show, after he all-but-begged her to be a guest on his show, Letterman revealed on last...
JIMGLE BOMB: RADIO DAZE BRINGS ON THE ZZZZZZZZZ
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amJINGLE BALL NEW York's annual sleigh ride through the pop music year, the Jingle Ball, is one of the most anticipated gang-band musical variety shows in town. Unfortunately, the 2003...
PINUP ART: PLAYBOY TREASURES ARE ON DISPLAY AT CHRISTIE'S
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amGuys who have always insisted they look at Playboy for the articles now have a chance to put their money where their mouths are. Original manuscripts from many of those...
THESE DRAWINGS AREN'T "FISH" WRAP
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amNow that Tim Burton's latest movie, "Big Fish," is in theaters, it's the perfect time to see the American Museum of the Moving Image's exhibit of drawings by the fanciful...
ROCK THE HALLS: YOU'LL HAVE A BLUE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT THESE MUSICAL HOLIDAY SHOWS.
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amForget all that Rockefeller Center tree-lighting stuff - this year, put a little rock 'n' roll in your Christmas. Here's your guide to the city's rocking-est holiday shows, from irreverent...
HE'S OUR GUY! VOTE OF TAJI
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amWant to give a kid $10,000? That's how much scholarship money Manhattan's Taji Ameen might win in YM's latest contest, "Last Boy Standing." Starting with the January issue, now on...
SPECIAL TOYS FOR SPECIAL KIDS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amToys can do more than entertain, especially for kids with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and other disabilities. Toys "R" Us offers a "Toy Guide for Differently-Abled Kids" that lists all...
NO FLIES ON THIS KID
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amAre you recovering from the Rockettes or do you simply need a break from "The Nutcracker"? Consider "Seven in One Blow, or the Brave Little Kid." Now in its second...
BLOOMBERG EYES ENDING PROPERTY-TAX HIKE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg dared city homeowners to dream yesterday, saying he's hopeful that the recent property-tax increase could be completely eliminated over the next two years. But at least one financial...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amIt was a chance encounter of historic proportions. Two women who found themselves sharing a room in a nursing home in Seattle discovered they had ancestors with a shared past....
L.I. BOATER CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amA Long Island man who last summer killed a father of two in a boating incident has been charged with manslaughter because he was speeding too close to the victim's...
SLAIN FED ATTORNEY FOUGHT FOR LIFE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Investigators believe they found the blood of a second person in the car of slain assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Luna, suggesting the popular Bronx-born prosecutor put up a...
OIL'S WELL OVER $$ FLAP ; W. VOWS TO PROBE 'INFLATED' IRAQ BILLS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said Halliburton, the oil-services giant that Vice President Dick Cheney once ran, should repay Uncle Sam for any over-billing in Iraq. "If there's an overcharge,...
FUNERAL FOR ABANDONED BABY
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amA funeral Mass is being held today for a newborn girl found dead in a Christmas shopping bag on the steps of a Brooklyn church on the Sunday of Thanksgiving...
BAGHDAD GUERRILLAS SHELL KEY U.S. COMPOUND
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amIraqi insurgents yesterday bombarded the heavily fortified headquarters of U.S. forces in Baghdad, wounding two GIs. Also yesterday, one soldier was killed and two others injured when an explosion rocked...
OFF-DUTY COP KILLS HIMSELF
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amAn off-duty police officer committed suicide late last night by shooting himself in the head as he sat in a car in midtown, law enforcement sources said. The officer, who...
GOON GETS A BREAK; HIT DRIVER MAY DO LESS TIME
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amA mob associate jailed for taking part in a gangland shooting of a Brooklyn mom could have three years wiped off his 10-year sentence after an appeals court cast doubt...
KENNEDY BOATS BURNED
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amCalling it a "piece of history burned," the Kennedy clan was reeling yesterday after two of its beloved boats were among about 50 destroyed after fire swept through the sheds...
GEPHARDT SLAMS DEAN ENRON DEAL
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) yesterday blasted Howard Dean as a hypocrite for giving a tax break to an Enron subsidiary while he was Vermont governor. "Gov. Dean has...
JEWS SHOT ON W. BANK EXCURSION
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian gunmen yesterday wounded seven Hasidic Jews who had defied Israeli checkpoints to worship at a West Bank shrine. A van carrying 15 Hasidim slipped past roadblocks to...
MIKE AND GIFFIE GET HUFFY IN ELEX-$$ WAR
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amThe war of words between Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Gifford Miller over the campaign-finance system exploded yesterday, with both men using strong language about one another and the...
PARKING-TIX GIFT WILL UN-RAP YOU
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amIf you're slapped with a parking ticket during the NYPD's annual Christmas blitz, now you'll have help fighting it. The Web site parkingticket.com - which specializes in helping motorists get...
PHONE MYSTERY IN DUMPSTER SLAY
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amA terrified Queens woman said yesterday she believes a badly burned body discovered in a neighborhood Dumpster is her missing sister - and the death is linked to a phone...
CAR-INSURE RACKETS GET BLOODIER
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amAs law enforcement cracks down on car-insurance fraud plaguing the city, violence among the scammer thugs is getting worse, sources told The Post. Schemes to stage fake accidents - or...
STOOLIES SOCKED AT SENTENCING
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amA federal judge threw Mafia probers for a loop yesterday when he dished out hefty sentences for two mob canaries who provided devastating evidence against a top Bonanno wiseguy, a...
MEXICANS MARK GUADALUPE FETE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amWith prayers, flowers, food, drink and song, Mexicans in the city and around the world yesterday celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The annual Mexican holiday marks the...
TWO SHOT DEAD IN DRUG RUBOUT
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amTwo men - including one with a tattoo that read "Drugs 'R' Us" - were rubbed out in a brazen drug-related shooting on a Brooklyn street yesterday afternoon, police sources...
QNS. GIRL KIDNAPPED AND RAPED: COPS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amA 15-year-old girl was grabbed off a Queens street, forced into a car and raped by a man who claimed had a knife, police said yesterday. The terrified teen told...
GOP RIPS SPITZER'S FUND FETE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - The head of the state Republican Party yesterday accused Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of "hypocrisy" for accepting fund-raising help from two ex-cons and called on him to return...
NICE SHOES,SIR MICK; ROCKER KNIGHTED IN $55 SNEAKERS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amPleased to meet you, won't you guess my name? It's Sir Mick to you. Toffee-nosed, 60-year-old Rolling Stone Michael Philip Jagger - once the scourge of the British establishment -...
SEARCH WAS WORTH A SHOT
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amSorry, Zeke. I had to do it. After two days of writing about my failed efforts to obtain a flu shot for my 6-month-old son, I received a welcome e-mail...
STUDENTS CRY: BANISH BAD KIDS ; BLOOMBERG ADMITS SCHOOL-SAFETY WOES
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amHundreds of students, parents and teachers rallied outside Washington Irving High School yesterday to decry years of weapon attacks, sex offenses, beatings and gang-related incidents at their violence-plagued school and...
TUGBOAT CO.'S SUIT 'FERRY' UNFAIR: MIKE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amA tugboat company is blowin' in the wind if it thinks it can get $6 million from the city for helping stabilize the crashed Staten Island ferryboat, Mayor Bloomberg said...
COPS HUNT REST OF PET SHOP GANG
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amTwo suspects are still being sought in connection with the bungled heist at a Brooklyn pet shop where the owner turned the tables on a pair of robbers and killed...
N.Y. PUT ON 'HARD HIT' LIST FOR FLU
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amNew York officially became a hard-hit flu state yesterday as city officials grappled with mounting confusion among frustrated Big Apple residents hunting for the coveted but increasingly limited supply of...
'SLUGGER' VS. PITCHER; YANKEE HURLER INSISTS TO COURT: FENWAY WORKER ATTACKED ME FIRST
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amYankees relief pitcher Jeff Nelson stood in a Massachusetts court yesterday and blamed a Fenway Park groundskeeper of starting a bullpen brawl by lunging at him during last October's playoff...
CH. 7 IS TOAST AFTER MORNING FIRE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amWABC/Channel 7 went off the air for 20 minutes early yesterday after an electrical fire began in the basement of the broadcaster's local television outlet, officials told The Post yesterday....
MCDYESS MIGHT MISS CAMBY CLASH
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amMarcus Camby and Antonio McDyess might finally be on the court at the same time tonight, almost 18 months after they were traded for each other. "That's crazy," Camby told...
TRYING TO ID BURIED WEST SIDE WOMAN
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amBefore they can track down the person who killed her and left her buried in cement for 20 years or more, cops need figure out one very important detail: Who...
L.I. SLAY LADY FOUND IN HOME
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amAn elderly woman was found dead in her Long Island home last night, the victim of an apparent homicide, police said. Shortly before 5 p.m. police were called to the...
GEPHARDT RAPS DEAN'S ENRON DEAL
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) yesterday blasted Howard Dean as a hypocrite for giving a tax break to an Enron subsidiary while he was Vermont governor. "Gov. Dean has...
VACCINE ELUSIVE AS FLU ROMPS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amNew York officially became a hard-hit flu state yesterday as city officials grappled with mounting confusion among frustrated Big Apple residents hunting for the coveted but increasingly limited supply of...
B'KLYN FUNERAL FOR ABANDONED BABY
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amA funeral Mass is being held today for a newborn girl found dead in a Christmas shopping bag on the steps of a Brooklyn church on the Sunday of Thanksgiving...
MAHEM, MELEES SWEEP CITY: TEACHERS, CHILDREN ATTACKED IN WAVE OF THUGGERY
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amFour violent incidents slammed city schools yesterday, underscoring how difficult it's become to police the hallways, classrooms and playgrounds. In one incident, a Queens school safety officer was pummeled by...
IT'S KNOT OVER YET DEVS & FLYERS TIE, BRACE FOR ENCORE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 3Flyers 3 Even the annual catastrophe in the Flyer net wasn't enough for the Devils, who needed victory most. They need it even more tonight in that Philadelphia pit...
AMAZIN'S & A'S IN DUEL FOR CAMERON
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - The Mets are rooting hard for the A's. Both the Mets and Oakland are pursuing free-agent center fielder Mike Cameron. But the low-budget A's are also trying...
THERE'S LOTS OF SNOW IN STIRLING'S FORECAST
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amThe most important position for the Islanders right now is between the pipes, for the goaltender can steady the ship - just like he did last season. Garth Snow guided...
HEISMAN HOPES ; FITZGERALD, WHITE FRONT-RUNNERS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amLarry Fitzgerald, Eli Manning, Chris Perry and Jason White will sit four abreast in the front row of the Yale Club tonight. One of them will hear his name called...
'EVENING' HAS SPOTLIGHT AT BIG A
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amIt's been well over a year since stretch-running Evening Attire scored his last stakes victory, taking the Red Smith at Aqueduct in November of '02, and the tough-as-nails gelding won't...
DEVS PLAY IT SAFE MADDEN SITS OUT FLYER SHOWDOWN
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amThe hope John Madden held out was only that. The Devils' most-used and arguably most valuable forward was not expected to be in the lineup at the Meadowlands last night...
MCDYESS A QUESTION FOR TONIGHT
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amAntonio McDyess didn't scrimmage with his teammates and couldn't run full court in practice. Yet he insists his surgically repaired left knee is responding well despite the latest soreness, and...
YANKS' TEXAS TWO-STEP ; CLEMENS COULD JOIN PETTITTE IN HOUSTON
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - Pandora's Pitching Box has been opened by George Steinbrenner. It's bad enough the Yankees let Andy Pettitte walk away - a huge mistake - but they now...
KING DEALS RING FANS ELITE CARD
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY - Don King is hoping this week will end better than it began. Tonight, he will stage his blockbuster boxing card, featuring eight championship fights at Boardwalk Hall....
BERNIE WILL FIGHT FOR CF JOB
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amThe Yanks were near a deal with Kenny Lofton with the intention of making him the regular center fielder. But agent Scott Boras said his client, Bernie Williams, would not...
GARRETT GETS GIANT BOOST ; BUT JESSE NO. 1 FOR BIG BLUE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amJim Fassel has promised not to have a quick hook with quarterback Jesse Palmer, who tomorrow night will make his first NFL start. If it's obvious Palmer is overmatched, however,...
VAZQUEZ DEAL HIT BUMP BUT EXPOS NOW CONVINCED NICK'S HAND IS OK
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - The Yankees habitually are slow to announce finalization of player acquisitions. But the delay in officially completing the deal that would bring Javier Vazquez was due to...
JERSEY JUMPS ON TRACY BANDWAGON
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amORLANDO - Not that they didn't know it before, but this past summer helped re-enforce a simple fact of NBA life for the nucleus of the Nets' team. Orlando's Tracy...
SATHER KEEPS JUGGLING ; RANGER COACH FLOPS HOLIK, LINDROS SPOTS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amBUFFALO - Glen Sather rearranged the furniture for last night's game here against the Sabres. It was anyone's guess for how long the remodeling would last. Bobby Holik, clearly the...
VLAD NEWS FOR YANKS SET TO CHASE GUERRERO, JETTISON SHEFF
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amGary Sheffield gave them an opening, and George Steinbrenner's inner circle is taking advantage of it. Steinbrenner hasn't listened to many people lately, but his lieutenants are telling him the...
NICK'S HAND WORRIED EXPOS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - The Yankees habitually are slow to announce finalization of player acquisitions. But the delay in officially completing the deal that would bring Javier Vazquez was not about...
BROWN TRADE STILL ON TRACK
December 13, 2003 | 5:00am"[Yank GM Brian] Cashman and I have talked . . . and the Yankees have no problems."AGENT SCOTT BORAS NEW ORLEANS - Agent Scott Boras completed what he described as...
BETHEL'S 17 LEAD RAVENS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amSt. Ray's 65 CTK 44 This was supposed to be Gavin Grant's and Brian Laing's team. But junior Chris Bethel showed last night that the St. Raymond's boys' basketball team...
KITTLES CARRIES ON ; BIG TREYS POWER NET WIN
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amNets 99Magic 95 ORLANDO - This was one of those nights when, for a long time, it was hard to tell which was the team that made two trips to...
STERN: RASHEED WORDS 'HATEFUL'
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amORLANDO - Rebuttal, Mr. Stern. NBA Commissioner David Stern yesterday fired back at the "hateful diatribe" unleashed by Portland's Rasheed Wallace by calling the Trail Blazer star's allegations "ignorant and...
UGLY WIN FOR RANGERS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amRangers 3Sabres 1 BUFFALO - There are no additional bonus points awarded for style in this man's NHL. A win, no matter ugly, is a win, worth two points in...
WILLIS SAYS NBA IS NOT RACIST
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amWillis Reed thinks highly of Rasheed Wallace's talent. But the former Knick great laughed off Wallace's contention that the NBA is racist. Yesterday, Reed shot cannonballs through Wallace's theory that...
PLANINIC IS IN NETS' DOGHOUSE
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amORLANDO - Suffice to say the original plan to get Jason Kidd rest - using Zoran Planinic as his backup - is not going as anticipated. Three days after he...
GLENN GETTING 'EXCITED' OVER JET START
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amUndersized and overlooked, Jason Glenn is set to make the first start of his career tomorrow against Pittsburgh. With weakside linebacker Sam Cowart sidelined, Glenn will go from being the...
WILLIS LAUGHS OFF RASHEED REMARKS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amWillis Reed thinks highly of Rasheed Wallace's talent. But the former Knick great laughed off Wallace's contention that the NBA is racist. Yesterday, Reed shot cannonballs through Wallace's theory that...
FLYER RALLY TIES LONGSHOT DEVS
December 13, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 3 Flyers 3 Even the annual catastrophe in the Flyer net wasn't enough for the Devils, who needed victory most. They need it even more tonight in that Philadelphia...