The head of the state Democratic Party -- a key ally of Gov. Paterson -- conceded for the first time yesterday that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is "prepared" to run for governor next year....
Tomorrow's special leg islative session will be an all but certain flop because nervous Democrats, eyeing last Tuesday's suburban voter revolt, are refusing to back Gov. Paterson's plan to slash...
GOV. PATERSON broke ranks with the White House and Mayor Bloomberg in criticizing the decision to hold 9/11 terror trials in New York. He shouldn't have to stand alone. Whatever his motive and...
Take the iconic "I Love New York" poster and plunge a dagger into its heart. That's what the Obama administration is doing by bringing the mastermind of 9/11 and other terror freaks here for trial....
LET'S be clear about a few things. When anxious white cops kill their black colleagues in the line of duty without ever losing so much as a day's pay, that is a serious racial problem. When...
WHEN the roar rose up over Harlem Tues day night at the news of Barack Obama's monumental victory, I immediately thought of my mother - who didn't live long enough to see this wonderful day. I...
WASHINGTON -- With a pained face and a voice laced with somber reverence, President Obama yesterday properly mourned the dead and wounded at Fort Hood. And, wisely, the commander-in-chief...
Saturday's vote to create a massive government-run health-insurance program is to Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats what the Battle of Gettysburg was to the South. It will be remembered as the high...
TRY as we might, we just can't look away. Her face is our own. When Oprah took the veil off the hideously damaged visage of Charla Nash, the stark view was worse than anyone feared. Charla's...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Eliot Spitzer just wants to be loved by someone he's not paying. Smiling, waving and talking as fast as he could, the former Luv Gov came to Harvard yesterday to motormouth a...
WITH the election over, the biggest guessing game at City Hall these days is: Who leaves and who stays for Mayor Bloomberg's third term? Insiders are betting that the first out the door will be...
It doesn't make any sense. Mayor Bloomberg's campaign crew's excuses for his shockingly close 4.6 percentage-point win over Bill Thompson go something like this: * No matter that we...
When the World Health Organization did a survey in 2005, China ranked 136th in medical-care spending for its citizens. That was much worse than such where-the-hell-are-they nations like Tongo, Togo...
Dear John: You have suggested that the government allow people to access their own 401(k) funds without the 10 percent early withdrawal penalty. Is anyone in Washington listening to you on this? J.K....
Defying conventional wisdom that the leasing market is mortally hobbled by a sublease overload, deals have just closed on a breathtaking 260,000 square feet of prime office space at 1166 Sixth Ave.,...
Tishman Speyer can blame itself for getting creamed by the state Court of Appeals yesterday. Not because it thought it was violating the law -- far from it, based on its common-sense reading of the...
It turns out that giving back is hard to do -- especially, it seems, if you are Goldman Sachs. In a week during which Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein was roundly ridiculed for bragging that...
If anyone's reputation sur vived the financial meltdown of the past two years, it has been Warren Buffett's. So it's no surprise that this week when Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway made its biggest...
The biggest magazines in the Time Inc. empire — People, Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Money — should find out today how many volunteers have stepped forward to accept buyout packages. Time...
TIME Inc. is battling the News paper Guild over union claims that the company is exploiting writers in People's crucially important Los Angeles office. The Guild claims that People Managing...
An investment company controlled by the government of Abu Dhabi has given Gary Barnett's Extell Development a fistful of dollars to kick-start the construction of a 72-story tower opposite Carnegie...
George Comfort & Sons is in "active negotiations" for 1.5 million feet of potential leases to fill the 700,000-foot hole at the bottom of Worldwide Plaza at Eighth Avenue and 50th Street. Comfort...
John Tortorella wants the Rangers to grind, but the head coach simply doesn't have enough grinders in his lineup. Last night, though, featured the return of Sean Avery to the grinding persona that...
Ever since John Tor torella came to New York late last February, the Rangers' head coach has responded to questions about Sean Avery by saying, "It's not about Sean Avery." Which has been...
LeBron James has already played his only game at the Garden this season, and it's a long way to Jan. 22 and Kobe Bryant. So it was good of Alexander Ovechkin, coming off an upper-body injury, to...
The Jets dug down, got lower than even were their voices in the aftermath, plowing beneath Maurice Jones-Drew, undercutting those strong legs on a 5-foot-7 frame, actually being the defense it is...
Chasing a dream is what baseball is all about. The years go by, the body and the work place change, but the mind remains focused on the dream. Edgardo Alfonzo turned 36 this past week. He is three...
I’m in depths of a silent Yankee Stadium, standing by the hole where they dug up that David Ortiz “curse jersey” from out of the cement in April 2008, only 35 steps from the visiting clubhouse. The...
ARCADIA, Calif. -- Zenyatta's memorable swoop down the lane to capture the Breeders' Cup Classic may have been one of the great moments in the turf year, but it has thrown Horse of the Year voters...
ARCADIA, Calif. -- She did it! Zenyatta, the big, beautiful ornament of American racing rocked southern California like an earthquake yesterday, when she came from dead last to storm her way...
Now that Chris Christie is the governor of New Jersey, it should be interesting to see where he goes with the black bear problem in the state. PETA already is trying to court the newly elected...
For whatever good it may do, a lawsuit has been filed against the federal government over the closure of the black sea bass fishery. The Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA) and others in the...
CBS didn't duck it. Not exactly. In the open to Tennessee-Ole Miss, play-by-player Craig Bolerjack said, "[Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin] was stunned by the arrest of three freshmen Thursday." And...
The problem with being no worse than the rest is that few choose to be any better than the rest. CBS has long chosen the raunchiest moments from its sitcoms for promos, but the one from "Two And A...
FLORIDA at SOUTH CAROLINA 3:30 p.m., CBS LINE: Florida –171⁄2 • O/U: 421⁄2 EYES ON: Florida LB Brandon Spikes; South Carolina LB Eric Norwood ANGLE: Now that Alabama and Florida (9-0, 7-0 SEC)...
CONNECTICUT at CINCINNATI 8 p.m., ABC LINE: Cincinnati –17 • O/U: 511⁄2 EYES ON: Connecticut DE Lindsey Witten; Cincinnati WR Mardy Gilyard ANGLE: No program in the nation has endured what the...
Rex Ryan may cry us a river between now and Sunday’s game against Bill Belichick’s Patriots, but Buddy Ryan is certain that his emotional son will soon be swimming — not sinking — in it, and the...
THE men who play for Rex Ryan should be ashamed of themselves. Maybe if all of them cared as much as their rookie head coach does, had as much pride and passion as he does, they wouldn't be The Team...
The GM Meetings lasted just one whole day and parts of two others in a Chicago airport hotel that had all the charm of Eric Mangini. “By the time you unpacked, you were packing again,” one general...
CLOSERS as a genre tend to be flaky and wild. But even for the species, John Wetteland was different. He drank coffee obsessively, roller-bladed maniacally in the bowels of the old Yankee...
The Jets didn't just lose yesterday. They didn't just turn themselves into Irrelevant Team Walking with seven full weeks of football season left. No, we saw something else from the Jets yesterday,...
There are droughts. And then there are Droughts, with the capital D. And then there are DROUGHTS, where you lock the all-caps key and you keep it locked. And if you want to add to the effect, you...
From what we have witnessed lately, no fabled franchise is sacred, safe or sound anymore. What's more, there's a peasant's revolt afoot throughout the NBA. In other words, serf's up, dude....
By now, I guess we should be used to Camp Cablevision knowing no shame. Still ... Minutes after an openly despondent Knicks coach concluded Friday night’s press conference, offering no explanations...
LAS VEGAS — The fact Manny Pacquiao is favored to defeat Miguel Cotto tonight when the two meet for Cotto’s WBO welterweight championship is amazing in itself when you consider Pacquiao began his...
LAS VEGAS -- The last time Miguel Cotto fought in Las Vegas, he left the MGM Grand Garden Arena in an ambulance headed for a Las Vegas hospital. He had endured a beating from the fists of Antonio...
Elton John 's annual AIDS fund- raiser is a special night. Cocktails, dinner, auction, celebs, entertain ment. His big stardom and big heart bring out big money ($2 mil) and big names. Like our...
We've had the Stone Age, Ice Age, Jet Age -- comes now the Palin Age. If you haven't OD'd on Miss Sarah before, you might now. Comes now ABC-TV's multipart marathon. Daughter Willow, 15, who looks...
Vespa-loving thespians Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts are zipping around the city, on the lookout for another downtown pad. When we last checked in with the doting parents of two tots this past April...
If James Bond star Daniel Craig wanted a respite from the intrigue and mayhem that surrounds his captivating film character, he picked the wrong building. There’s a real international man of mystery...
She's 16, morbidly obese and illiterate. She lives in 1987 Harlem with her abusive, welfare-scamming, couch-potato mother. Oh, and she's already pregnant for the second time -- by her AIDS-afflicted...
Hal Holbrook didn't win the Oscar for which he was nominated ("Into the Wild"), but the veteran actor, known for roles as disparate as Mark Twain and Deep Throat ("All the President's Men"), gets an...
The sprawling war movie "Red Cliff" represents John Woo's return to film making in Asia. But the epic (out Wednesday) was shot on mainland China, not in Hong Kong, where Woo first made a name for...
'Dare" is a high school coming-of-age film that dares to push the envelope. It doesn't always succeed, but that's not for lack of trying. Directed by Adam Salky and written by David Brind, "Dare...
What do Keith Olbermann and Sean Hannity have in common? Everything! No fooling, do you think that lefty blow-harder Olbermann and righty blow-harder Sean Hannity ever stop to consider how much...
IT STILL seems as if our local TV newscasts primarily target the dopiest folks in town, those who think that Jerry Springer is the news. And it continues to seem as if local news anchors have been...
'OLEANNA," David Mamet's play about radical feminism and polit ical correctness run rampant on campus, is closing Jan. 3 at a loss of more than $2 million. That's too bad. This is a solid...
Here's to the ladies who punch. Two Broadway legends -- and, some say, legendary rivals -- will square off next year in revues featuring the songs of Stephen Sondheim. As The Post first...
British playwright Matt Wilkinson seems fixated on the metaphorical aspects of the sun. His last work here was titled "Sun Is Shining." In "Red Sea Fish," the first entry in this season's "Brits...
THOUGH she performs seated, script in hand, so transfixing an actress is Lynn Redgrave that we barely notice. Even so, "Nightingale," the one-woman show that opened this week at Manhattan...
What is it with guys and “Fight Club”? Do you really need to ask, you mewling little sissy? It’s basically “The Brotherhood of the Traveling Fists,” “The Joy Luck Club” with testosterone instead of...
Bad is good. Quagmire is progress. And jobs destroyed are jobs “created or saved,” says the Obama administration. A political columnist points out that “one ought to recognize that the present...
Jacko is coming to cable in another example of MTV getting back to its music roots. The cable network has secured the exclusive US TV rights to "Michael Jackson's This Is It," the documentary...
ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" continues to lead all network shows in picking up extra viewers via DVR. For the season (through Nov. 1), each "Grey's" episode has averaged an additional 2.9 million...
ON November 26, 2008, 10 uneducated, brutally poor young Pakistani men in T-shirts and baseball caps carrying backpacks filled with grenades, machine guns and bombs, managed to hijack a boat, kill...
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939) Sunday, 2:15 p.m., TCM Emily Bronte’s tale of Cathy and Heathcliff (Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier), a gentleman farmer’s daughter and the orphan boy he takes in. The two...
Tarell Alvin McCraney is a lucky guy. His "Brother/ Sister" trilogy is served by such a dynamic staging and ace cast that you almost forget how uneven the material is. And there's a lot of it, too:...
Set in the very early years of the 20th century, the sprawl ing, wildly ambitious 1998 musical "Ragtime" could be subtitled "The Making of Americans." It's about nothing less than the forces that...
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