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Regional News: http://web1.nypost.com/news/news.htm NYERS CHIME IN: 'LET HIM ROT IN HELL': http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20512.htm By HASANI GITTENS, URI DAN and STEPHANIE GASKELL New Yorkers yesterday said goodbye � and most said good riddance � to Yasser Arafat. NJ TRANSIT RUN$ OVER RIDERS WITH 15% HIKE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20494.htm By CLEMENTE LISI Commuters who ride NJ Transit buses and trains are facing a whopping 15 percent fare hike next year as part of a plan to close the agency's $65 million budget gap. TRUMP JR. IS THE CHEAPEST GAZILLIONAIRE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20531.htm By ORLA HEALY Donald Trump Jr. obviously learned the art of the deal from his billionaire father. CLASH WITH GOP NEARLY NIXED MIKE'S SPEECH: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20528.htm By DAVID SEIFMAN After doing everything he possibly could to land the Republican National Convention, Mayor Bloomberg almost didn't deliver the opening-day speech after a senior GOP operative demanded he drop two lines referring to homeland-security funding, sources said yesterday. MAHER WARS: EX SLAPS HOST WITH $9M SUIT: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20502.htm Loud-mouthed TV host Bill Maher has been slapped with a $9 million palimony suit by an ex-lover who says the comedian reneged on his promise to marry her, have his children and set her up for life in a Beverly Hills mansion. DEATH SOUGHT FOR MOB BOSS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20504.htm By KATI CORNELL SMITH The feds want to rub out a Mafia boss. Prosecutors are set to announce today they'll seek the death penalty for Bonanno family head Joseph Massino if he's convicted of a 1999 mob murder, sources close to the case told The Post. 'HE TALKS TO TREES': http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20521.htm By ALEX GINSBERG, IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON and ANGELINA CAPPIELLO A homeless former security guard was hallucinating and "talking to the trees" when he allegedly shot and killed a kindhearted father of three under a Queens overpass this week, his lawyer said yesterday. VETERANS PARADE AMERICAN VALUES: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20500.htm By STEPHANIE GASKELL and JOHN DOYLE Proud veterans marched up Fifth Avenue yesterday to honor the American heroes who have kept this nation free � especially the New Yorkers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. GIFFIE TO TACKLE JET ARENA BID: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20497.htm By FRANKIE EDOZIEN City Council Speaker Gifford Miller next week may finally say whether or not he supports the Jets stadium on the West Side. OLYMPIC POLL VAULT: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20501.htm By TOM TOPOUSIS By a 2-to-1 margin, city voters are enthusiastic about holding a Big Apple Olympics in 2012, according to a poll released yesterday. 2012 EFFORT GETS OFF & RUNNING: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20509.htm Thousands of New Yorkers, including immigrant schoolchildren from 60 nations, lined the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday as Gov. Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg held an elaborate sendoff for the city's official bid to host the 2012 Olympics. SHOVER SOUGHT IN DEATH OF VILLAGE BEGGAR: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20503.htm By MURRAY WEISS and NEIL GRAVES Police are looking for a man who clashed with a Greenwich Village panhandler � apparently causing his death. HS JOCKS SLAPPED IN 'SEX' RAP: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20507.htm By DAN MANGAN Five New Jersey high-school soccer players have been busted over a locker-room attack on two 16-year-old teammates that authorities said included molestation. TIME CAN'T EASE RAGE: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20517.htm By DAN KADISON and DOUGLAS MONTERO As mourners braced for the emotional third anniversary today of the tragic American Airlines flight that crashed in the Rockaways killing 265 people, controversy still raged over where a permanent memorial should be erected. CELEBS HAVE A STAR IN THEIR 'BUYS': http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20522.htm By TODD VENEZIA and JENNIFER FERMINO Star Jones' freebie-filled wedding weekend, which is being brought to you by Continental Airlines, kicked off yesterday in a temple of consumption, Saks Fifth Avenue. TICKET TREATS FOR ARENA-PLAN FANS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20506.htm By PATRICK GALLAHUE It apparently pays to support a professional-basketball arena in Brooklyn. D.C. DEMS PLEAD WITH CHUCK: $TAY: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20526.htm WASHINGTON � Democrats are leaning heavily on Sen. Charles Schumer to stay in D.C. to raise money for fellow senators � even if it means forgoing a run for New York governor in 2006. PATAKI RIPS OWN GURU FOR ANTI-W. REMARKS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20527.htm By FREDRIC U. DICKER and STEPHANIE GASKELL Gov. Pataki rebuked his longtime political adviser Arthur Finkelstein yesterday for saying President Bush had allowed the "Christian right" to take over the Republican Party. 'OXY' MORONS: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20508.htm By WAYNE PARRY New Jersey pharmacists, street gang members, mobsters and college students joined forces to flood the Boston area with the powerful painkiller OxyContin, prosecutors charged yesterday. TRIBUTE TODAY TO SLAIN HERO COP: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20513.htm A plaque dedication ceremony will be held today at the 24th Precinct on the Upper West Side to memorialize slain Police Officer Christopher Hoban, a 26-year- old narcotics officer gunned down during a buy-and-bust operation on Oct. 18, 1988. JACKO ATTACKO VS. EMINEM: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20516.htm Michael Jackson's angry, high-pitched voice echoed in Times Square yesterday, blasting rapper Eminem for ridiculing him in a new video and demanding MTV to stop airing it. COPS TAKE OUT CHINESE GANG: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20510.htm By MURRAY WEISS New York's most powerful Chinese organized-crime operation was smashed early yesterday when federal agents and local cops fanned out throughout the city and arrested more than two dozen reputed members, The Post has learned. BLIND GRANNY THANKS FIRE HERO: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20514.htm "I thank God for you." With those simple words, a 75-year-old blind Bronx woman gave her heartfelt thanks to a firefighter who rescued her from certain death in a smoky apartment. POTHEAD TEEN JAILED FOR FATAL DWI: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20488.htm An upstate teenager who admitted smoking marijuana before an accident that killed his two friends was sentenced Wednesday to up to four years in state prison. SEX DOC IN RISE AND FALL: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20493.htm By KENNETH LOVETT ALBANY � A Manhattan doctor who treats patients for sexual dysfunction got a stiff rebuke from the state yesterday for professional misconduct, The Post has learned. BEING MERRY CAREFUL: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20511.htm It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree � a 71-foot-high, 40-foot wide Norway spruce � was hoisted into place yesetrday among oohs and aahs of onlookers. UPSTATE COLLEGE FLAP OVER URBAN-TERRORIST TEACHER: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/20499.htm By LARRY CELONA An upstate police chief yesterday angrily weighed in on a controversy brewing over Hamilton College's move to hire a former radical who had been linked to the 1981 Brinks armored-car robbery, which left two Nyack cops and a guard dead. National News: http://web1.nypost.com/news/news.htm DUBYA SALUTES 'HIDDEN HEROES': http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/20519.htm ARLINGTON, Va. � President Bush paused on Veterans Day to honor the "hidden heroes" in America's military who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan during his presidency and in wars past. SILENCING 'PVT. RYAN': http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/20525.htm By MICHAEL STARR and ILAN KAYATSKY A group of ABC stations refused to air last night's Veterans Day broadcast of the gritty World War II flick "Saving Private Ryan" � fearful of incurring indecency fines from the newly hyperactive FCC for the movie's profanity- laced dialogue and graphic bat tle scenes. YULE LOGJAM WILL SOCK TOY SHOPPERS: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/20515.htm Want to keep the kids happy this Christmas? Do your toy shopping early. $350,000 'STOLEN' FROM DEMS' FUND: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/20489.htm WASHINGTON � The FBI and U.S. attorney's office are investigating the apparent theft of about $350,000 in checks from a Democratic campaign committee, federal law-enforcement and party officials said yesterday. AUTHOR CHANG TAKES OWN LIFE: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/20496.htm LOS GATOS, Calif. � Iris Chang, a best-selling author who chronicled the Japanese occupation of China and the history of Chinese immigrants in the United States, was found dead in her car of a self-inflicted gunshot, authorities said. She was 36. World News: http://web1.nypost.com/news/news.htm HE CHECKS OUT, SUHA CASHES IN: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/20505.htm By URI DAN and ANDY SOLTIS Suha Arafat, who jealously guarded her husband's bedside during his final hours, brought his body home from France yesterday for burial � after sealing a deal that will make her a very rich widow. INSIDE FIENDS' DEATH HOUSES: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/20529.htm By NILES LATHEM WASHINGTON � U.S. troops made gruesome discoveries at abandoned terrorist hideouts in Fallujah yesterday � as commanders launched the powerful second phase of Operation Dawn, aimed at delivering the final blow to rebel forces. MINOR MOURNER IS A 'DISS' OF DEATH: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/20518.htm The Bush administration is sending a low-profile veteran diplomat to today's funeral of Yasser Arafat � while other countries are sending their heads of state or senior officials. NEW TERROR TAPE SHOWS U.S. CIVILIAN CAPTIVE: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/20520.htm BAGHDAD � Al-Jazeera television aired a videotape yesterday showing what the station said was an American contractor of Lebanese origin held hostage in Iraq. RADICALS PROBED IN VAN GOGH KILLING: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/20492.htm AMSTERDAM � The Dutch government said yesterday it was investigating a radical Muslim group it suspects has links to the man accused of killing a filmmaker critical of Islam and to bombings in Casablanca last year. ROYAL GETS A FRIGHT IN FLIGHT: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/20523.htm LONDON � An aircraft carrying Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth II's only daughter, was involved in a near-miss with a British fighter plane being tested over northern England yesterday. ARCTIC MELTDOWN 'SPILLS' TROUBLE: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/20487.htm REYKJAVIK, Iceland � An accelerating thaw of the Arctic may open vast regions for oil exploration, but it brings worries of spills in the fragile environment, experts said yesterday. All Horoscopes: http://web1.nypost.com/cgi-bin/horoscope.pl ARIES There is a real chance that you will come into money today, or at the very least come up with a plan that will make you money at some stage in the future. The only potential problem is that you are not the kind of person who can wait patiently for your investments to grow - that's something, it seems, you still have to learn. 1-900-990-7810* TAURUS A new moon in your opposite sign of Scorpio means you must rely more than you would like on other people today. Your plans are less likely to go wrong if you keep your doubts to yourself, because if you don't, your negative thinking will encourage bad things to happen. Be assertive but not aggressive in 1-to-1 negotiations. 1-900-990-7811* GEMINI It does not matter if other people think that what you are doing is wrong - the only thing that matters is that you think you are right. Self-confidence is the key to success, today more than most days, so believe in what you are doing and believe that sooner or later your efforts will be rewarded. It might happen sooner than you think. 1-900-990-7812* CANCER Today's new moon in Scorpio will give your confidence a much-needed boost. It will also inspire you to carry on with a creative or artistic endeavor that you may have been thinking of giving up on completely. You don't seem to realize how close you are to some sort of breakthrough. If you give up now, you may never forgive yourself. 1-900-990-7813* LEO Your domestic situation seems to be at the center of so much of what is currently taking place in your life, and not all of it is to your liking. Having said that, today's new moon will help you to convince family and relatives that although you might get a bit impatient at times, it is only because you want what is best for them 1-900-990-7814* VIRGO You do not care what others think about your opinions and beliefs: If they agree, fine; if they disagree, that's fine as well. It's not like you to be so laid-back about things, but today's new moon will in some way convince you that most of the disputes that take place in the world are not worth the hassle. If only more could think that way. 1-900-990-7815* LIBRA There are times when it all comes together, when everything goes right and you get your deserved reward. Such a time is now. A new moon in the money angle of your chart means Lady Luck will smile on you today and will carry on smiling right through the weekend. Proof, if proof were needed, that nice guys don't always finish last. 1-900-990-7816* SCORPIO A new moon in your sign marks the start of a brand new cycle, one that will influence you for the next six months at least. You don't have to wait until the end of the year to make your resolutions - in fact, it would be better if you made them right now. Make sure you set yourself grand targets. Expect great things of yourself. 1-900-990-7817* SAGITTARIUS Solar, lunar and planetary activity in the most sensitive area of your chart may at times make it seem as if you are moving backward rather than forward, but that simply is not true. What you learn over the next 24 hours, about yourself and about the world you inhabit, will help you tremendously when the sun enters your sign on the 21st. 1-900-990-7818* CAPRICORN Friendships and social activities will go very well indeed today, and if you make an effort to get out and about and meet new people, there is no telling what you might learn. Today's new moon suggests that the more things you do with others, the more you will enjoy yourself and the more of an effect your actions will have on the world. 1-900-990-7819* AQUARIUS As Mars, planet of ambition but also of anger, is moving through the career angle of your chart, you may at times be a bit too blunt for your own good. However, today's new moon will help you to tone down the more aggressive side of your act while remaining focused on your No. 1 aim. Employers and other influential people are sure to be suitably impressed. 1-900-990-7808* PISCES Something you see or hear today will broaden your horizons and make you realize there is a lot more going on than you were previously aware of. You will also come to the conclusion that in spite of all the bad things that happen in the world, there is still room for optimism. Make it your business to encourage others to feel that way, too. 1-900-990-7809* Sports News: http://web1.nypost.com/sports/sports.shtml PAY THE PRIZE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/33958.htm By MARK HALE KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. � At exactly 12:01 this morning, checkbooks opened around the league, as teams were officially allowed to start talking dollars with any free agent. And already there are signs of a potential Mets-Yankees bidding war involving the biggest free agent of all. IT'S TIME FOR TIKI TO MAKE JINTS HIS OWN: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/33934.htm IT is Tiki Barber's team now, because Michael Strahan can't play. Barber is the face of the Giants now on the field, and the legs, and the heart and soul. More than anyone, he is the caretaker of the season now, and no one, least of all Tom Coughlin, expects him to fumble it. CARTER BETTER THAN MANY BACKUP QBS: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/33942.htm QUINCY Carter is not Chad Pennington � no-brainer there. No huge problem, either, for a few weeks, as long as the sub quarterback uses his brain to grasp the essential truth: He is out there to keep the Jets from beating themselves. ARTEST'S 'CRIME' NOT WORTH TIME: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33959.htm ANYBODY with a child or who once was one surely is familiar with the book, "Henry & The Ant." A guy's cooking a nice dinner, spots the little creature crawling in his kitchen and completely busts up the place in an effort to get rid of it. RED SOX MAKE VETS DAY SPECIAL: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33936.htm PROVIDENCE, R.I. � After they played a World Series no one in New England will ever forget, the Red Sox remembered yesterday. FISHING IS A BREEZE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33929.htm THEY call it the hawk in Chicago, but here the wind is a pain in the rear when you are trying to go fishing and you know the fish are there. Fishing for blackfish, sea bass and striper has been hot during these cold autumn days; it's just a matter of getting to them. RIGHT THIS WAY ROLLS HOME: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33931.htm By ED FOUNTAINE Right This Way, trained by Barclay Tagg with Edgar Prado riding, rallied to win yesterday's feature, the $60,000 Soaring Softly on turf for 3-year-old fillies that hadn't won a stakes this year, by three-quarters of a length over Humoristic to pay $7. H.S. COACH: THAT'S NOT ARTEST I KNOW: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33940.htm By DAN MARTIN Bill Aberer last saw Ron Artest in September at the Five-Star Basketball Camp in Pennsylvania and didn't see anything that indicated the Pacers star's passion for the game had waned. In fact, just the opposite. U.S. DAVIS CUP TEAM STICKS TO ITS BIG GUNS: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33939.htm By NICK PARISH The cast hasn't changed, but the U.S. Davis Cup contenders are heading to the finals against a much tougher crowd. RAHMAN'S SEEKING REVERSAL OF FORTUNE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33952.htm By BRIAN LEWIS Boxing isn't a swimsuit contest, but you can tell a lot about a fighter by looking. And listening. And at yesterday's weigh-in for tomorrow's heavyweight bonanza at the Garden, Hasim Rahman showed and said the right things. IT'S UNANIMOUS: CY TO SANTANA: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33930.htm By RONALD BLUM Johan Santana of the Twins was a unanimous choice for the American League Cy Young Award yesterday, rewarded for a stellar second half that helped his team win its third straight division title. 'WILLY-NILLY' STORM NEED RESPECTABILITY: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33951.htm By LENN ROBBINS St. John's coach Norm Roberts has used one of his favorite sayings at least once a day in practice. CARDINAL RULE: GO WITH 'ZONA: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33946.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 stands at 259-199 (56.6 percent) against the spread. TRADE WINDS HIT BOOTH: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33928.htm By ANDREW MARCHAND A trade between Yankee radio and TV is in the works. Suzyn Waldman could be headed to the radio side to be John Sterling's analyst, while Charley Steiner would move to YES to be its new studio host, according to sources. MARCHANDS MATCHUP OF THE WEEK SHANNON SHARPE VS. DEION SANDERS (WHO IS A BETTER ANALYST?): http://www.nypost.com/sports/33927.htm CBS' Shannon Sharpe isn't as showy as the man he replaced, Deion Sanders. With suits flashier than a Canon camera, Sanders definitely put pizzazz in his presentation, proving to be the lightning rod that made the NFL Today go. 5 QUESTIONS FOR JILL ARRINGTON: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33926.htm T his week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with ESPN's Jill Arrington. The 32-year-old Arrington is in her first year with the network. GO FOR THE GREEN: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33949.htm BY DAVE BLEZOW OF all the numbers one can look at regarding the Jets and Ravens, this is the most important � 11/2 � as in the spread. If there's something that will fire up the Jets more than any Herm Edwards speech, it's being 4-0 at home and pegged as underdogs against team with NFL's worst-ranked offense. THE FAN'S CORNER: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33943.htm By TIM KERRIGAN Donald Perkins endeared himself to our selection committee with a lengthy poem about his love of The Fan's Corner. THE ODD COUPLE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33944.htm Think the Giants and Jets had a bad week? We bring you the strange and sometimes baffling case of The Odd Couple (Dick Klayman & Peter Tocco), who had put together an incredible two-week run of 21-7 against the spread to catapult from the basement to serious contention . . . until last week's 4-10 debacle dropped them back under the coveted .500 mark and in serious need of a serious turnaround. So let's begin it with: O/U RICO!: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33941.htm Rico stopped the freefall last week, going 7-7 (1-1 best bets) on the over/unders, bringing the season record to 59-69-2 (11-16). The selections for Week 10: MS. CHARLEEN: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33945.htm Ms. Charleen, the Nicole Kidman of pigskin pickers, spent Hours on Cold Mountain last week after her 6-8 showing against the spread. From Far and Away, here are this week's picks To Die For: BATTMAN TRIES TO STOP HIS SLUMP: http://www.nypost.com/sports/33950.htm ONLY Dave Wannstedt had a rougher time with the NFL than Battman last week. He'll try to do better with these selections: JORGE: PEDRO NO PROBLEM: http://www.nypost.com/sports/yankees/33956.htm By GEORGE KING If George Steinbrenner wants to sign Pedro Martinez, Jorge Posada has no problem with The Boss bringing the Yankees' biggest villain/favorite son to The Bronx. CASH: NO ACES IN DECK: http://www.nypost.com/sports/yankees/33955.htm By MICHAEL MORRISSEY KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. � Brian Cashman doesn't think the Yankees need a true No. 1 starter. SOSA MAY STILL GET TO MEET THE METS: http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/33957.htm By MARK HALE KEY BISCAYNE, FLA. � Although they are not embroiled in serious discussions just yet, the Mets again talked to the Cubs about a deal involving Sammy Sosa yesterday. STICKING WITH IT: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/33932.htm By PAUL SCHWARTZ If he hasn't broken the bad habit by now, will he ever? That's the lingering question swirling around Kurt Warner, who admits he needs plenty of work on securing the football. The evidence is mounting that after almost daily reminders and constant repetition designed to improve this malady, Warner does not appear to be getting any better. CONCUSSION A BLOW FOR BIG BLUE, PETITGOUT: http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/33933.htm By PAUL SCHWARTZ With all the focus and concern centered on their injury-riddled defensive line, the Giants are preparing for the possibility that their most valuable offensive lineman might not be able to play Sunday against the Cardinals in Arizona. JETS STARRING IN 'SURVIVOR': http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/33911.htm By ANDREW MARCHAND With Quincy Carter filling in for the injured Chad Pennington, the Jets' season is far from over. Just listen to the TV football experts. MARTIN NEARS MARK: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/33935.htm By JOSEPH BARRACATO NFL Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett has been keeping his eye on Curtis Martin since the day Martin put on a University of Pittsburgh jersey. And within the next few weeks, Dorsett, another former Panther, will watch as the Jets running back prepares to leapfrog him on the all-time rushing list. JETS TARGET RAVENS' CAN'T-MISS ROOKIE: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/33938.htm By MARK CANNIZZARO If there's a punt in the air, B.J. Sams is going to field it, whether it's going to land in the middle of the Giants Stadium field or in the middle of traffic headed for the Lincoln Tunnel. HENDERSON REVVED UP FOR RAVENS: http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/33937.htm By MARK CANNIZZARO Donnie Henderson is a volcano on 24-hour alert for eruption. That's in a normal week. AGUIRRE NOT AWAITING HEAD-COACHING CALL: http://www.nypost.com/sports/knicks/33953.htm By MARC BERMAN It has been speculated that Knicks assistant coach Mark Aguirre could be Lenny Wilkens' successor as head coach because of his childhood friendship with Isiah Thomas. But Aguirre said while he expects to be a head coach one day, he thinks it's unlikely it will be in New York. EX-BULL ROBINSON INKS KNICKS DEAL: http://www.nypost.com/sports/knicks/33954.htm By MARC BERMAN Knicks president Isiah Thomas flew to his hometown of Chicago yesterday to bring back another athletic piece for the club's ever-changing puzzle. DOCTOR: H2O KEY FOR ALONZO: http://www.nypost.com/sports/nets/33948.htm By FRED KERBER The minutes are higher than expected, higher than anyone realistically could have desired. But Alonzo Mourning is running no medical risk toward his transplanted kidney playing unexpectedly heavy minutes � as long as he stays properly hydrated, his doctor said yesterday. NETS TO SIGN ARMSTRONG AS MERCER REPLACEMENT: http://www.nypost.com/sports/nets/33947.htm By FRED KERBER A familiar face should be re-joining the Nets today. Guard Brandon Armstrong, the third first-round pick from the 2001 draft night trade that also netted Richard Jefferson and Jason Collins, is expected to be signed today to fill the vacancy created by the absence of Ron Mercer, who's headed for arthroscopic knee surgery. In three seasons, Armstrong totaled 108 games for the Nets, averaging 2.2 points on .352 shooting. Golden State recently waived Armstrong. Gossip: http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/gossip.htm : http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm DESIGNER CALLED A QUOCK-POT By Richard Johnson SWIMSUIT model Audrey Quock is in the midst of a vicious battle with her ex-boyfriend, Yellow Fever designer Jamison Ernest, over an East Village apartment. : http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/cindy.htm OUGHTA BE A LAW TO PROTECT THE FAMOUS By Cindy Adams ABOUT this latest assault on Liza Minnelli. I love Liza. Like the song says, "I've seen good times . . . I've seen bad times . . . But I'm still here." And, thank the Lord, so's she. Still standing after everyone around her has tried to knock her down. : http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/liz.htm MAKING WHOOPI ON BROADWAY By Liz Smith 'I WOULD have liked to have hung out with me and talked with me!" said the genial and genuine Whoopi Goldberg when I congratulated her on a recent interview piece we did together for Good Housekeeping. 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 Special EventManhattan 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/20466.htm MIRAMAX SEARCH By TIM ARANGO Walt Disney is in hot pursuit of an executive to oversee its Miramax unit - a sign that the departure of the Weinstein brothers may be imminent, The Post has learned. Disney has lately been making the rounds of Hollywood reaching out to candidates, and the leading contender to emerge is former 20th Century Fox chief Bill Mechanic, according to several sources familiar with the matter. MARTHA CONFIDANTE BUMPED OFF AT MSO: http://www.nypost.com/business/20479.htm By PAUL THARP While Martha Stewart sits in prison, a mystery deepened yesterday over a shakeup under way inside her battered company. DREAMWORKS GETS $50M FOR MUSIC-PUBLISHING UNIT: http://www.nypost.com/business/20471.htm By TIM ARANGO New York-based venture capital firm Dimensional Associates inked a deal yesterday to acquire DreamWorks Music Publishing for roughly $50 million. CIRCULATION SCANDALS LEAD ABC TO MULL TIGHTENING RULES: http://www.nypost.com/business/20485.htm By HOLLY M. SANDERS A spate of circulation scandals could lead to tougher rules for the entire newspaper industry in the coming weeks. COKE'S AD POP: $400M: http://www.nypost.com/business/20467.htm By HOLLY M. SANDERS Coca-Cola Co. is aiming to put the fizz back into its marketing as a key part of its turnaround strategy. BIG LOSE-DAY: http://www.nypost.com/business/kelly.htm By KEITH J. KELLY Newsday's bloodbath will chop staff by 100 people in the latest response to the Long Island daily's circulation scandal. S&P CLOSES AT 3-YR. HIGH: http://www.nypost.com/business/20474.htm Stocks climbed yesterday as oil prices resumed their retreat, pushing the S&P 500 up 10.57 points to 1,173.48, a three-year high. EXCHANGES HIT: http://www.nypost.com/business/20480.htm By RICHARD WILNER Top executives at the American Stock Exchange, under fire for 17 months for not policing its trading floor and handing out fat contracts to its bosses, are facing a possible lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission. LAW FIRM IS MOVING DOWNTOWN: http://www.nypost.com/business/20468.htm By STEVE CUOZZO Fast-growing law firm McKee Nelson is leaving Times Square for much larger quarters downtown, the latest in a boomlet of Midtown companies moving to Lower Manhattan. HARTFORD FIRES TWO UNDER FIRE: http://www.nypost.com/business/20472.htm Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., one of four insurers accused by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of price collusion with brokers, fired two employees for failing to cooperate with his investigation. DELTA PILOTS ENDORSE CONTRACT, GIVEBACKS: http://www.nypost.com/business/20473.htm Delta Air Lines Inc. pilots voted to approve a contract with $1 billion in annual concessions to help the company avoid a bankruptcy filing. STREET WONDERS AT JONES' BARNEYS BUY: http://www.nypost.com/business/20482.htm By SUZANNE KAPNER and ERICA COPULSKY Peter Boneparth, chief executive of Jones Apparel Group, has earned the reputation as a master dealmaker, but even he acknowledged yesterday that it would take some work to convince people that his acquisition of Barneys New York makes sense. ALCAN BIDS WEIGHED: http://www.nypost.com/business/20486.htm Apollo Management, Thomas H. Lee Partners and Canada's Onex Corp. are among the handful of buyout firms jockeying to buy Alcan Inc.'s rolled-products business, The Post has learned. Real Estate: http://web1.nypost.com/realestate/index.htm RUDINS SELL LAND AT 2 5TH: http://www.nypost.com/realestate/33724.htm By LOIS WEISS Twenty years after co-oping its luxury residential building at 2 Fifth Ave., the Rudin family has agreed to sell the land to the shareholders for $29.25 million. AT ELAD, MORE $$ FLOWING INTO NYC: http://www.nypost.com/realestate/33721.htm By STEVE CUOZZO Since Miki Naftali's Elad Properties snatched up the Plaza Hotel for $675 million last summer, property circles have buzzed over where the opportunistic, Manhattan-based acquisition and development company would strike next. NYT'S LANDMARK HQ FETCHES $175M: http://www.nypost.com/realestate/33722.htm By LOIS WEISS Tishman Speyer Properties has agreed to buy the New York Times' landmarked headquarters at 229 W. 43rd St. for $175 million. Entertainment: http://web1.nypost.com/entertainment/entertainment.htm IT HAD TO BE JEW: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20483.htm BY MICHAEL RIEDEL IT'S official: Anatevka has a new Tevye and this time he really is Jewish. 'BRIEF MOMENTS' ALL WET: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20469.htm By CLIVE BARNES AS part of a citywide festival of modern Mexican art and culture, Delfos Danza Contemporanea, a 14-year-old company based in the seaside town of Mazatlan, made its New York debut at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday night. A BIG MOVIES OPENING: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20477.htm By MARY HUHN MIDNIGHT Movies combines droning guitars, keyboards and the ethereal vocals of Gena Olivier, to create dark, haunting space rock, which can disintegrate in early Sonic Youth-ish hypnotic chaos or lift up to an airy Cocteau Twins atmosphere. TRUMP AXES BRIDAL FIASCO: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20478.htm By DON KAPLAN IT helps to have a ringer on your team, as the candidates on "The Apprentice 2" found out last night. 'CSI' GETS SECOND SHOT: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20481.htm By MICHAEL STARR CBS will re-air Wednes day's episode of "CSI: NY" tonight � after the episode's dramatic finish was interrupted when CBS News broke in with news of Yasser Arafat's death. MOVIE OF ROBERT BLAKE'S WIFE: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20484.htm AS the murder trial of actor Robert Blake proceeds, a made-for-television movie is in the works about Bonny Lee Bakley's life. WEATHER CH. BLOWS OFF AD: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20459.htm THE Weather Channel has banned a CBS ad promoting the network's new fictional miniseries, "Category 6: Day of Destruction." TWISTED FUN: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20464.htm By ADAM BUCKMAN CANADIAN actors were the obvious beneficia ries of the decision to film this Chicago disaster movie in Winnipeg. THE STARR REPORT: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20454.htm By MICHAEL STARR Ch. 7's Bill Ritter will emcee this year's Strolling Supper Benefit for Joan's Legacy, a foundation raising money for lung cancer re search. Bill's mom died of lung cancer, so he's very com mitted to the cause named for Joan Scarangello, a former NBC News writer and non- smoker who died three years ago at the age of 47. Movie Reviews: http://web1.nypost.com/movies/movies.htm DEPP CHARGE: http://www.nypost.com/movies/20530.htm By LOU LUMENICK FINDING NEVERLAND PORTRAYING "Peter Pan" creator J.M. Barrie in Marc Foster's movingly lyrical "Finding Neverland," Johnny Depp adds yet another indelible, Oscar-worthy portrait to his gallery of memorable characters. FILE ISLE CAPER UNDER SCENIC BUT PREDICTABLE: http://www.nypost.com/movies/20457.htm By LOU LUMENICK AFTER THE SUNSETBAHAMAS scenery, Woody Harrelson's pratfalls and Salma Hayek's itsy-bitsy bikini are the main attractions in "After the Sunset," a slick if hyper-predictable comic caper from one-man hit squad Brett Ratner ("Rush Hour"). SPACEY 'JONES': http://www.nypost.com/movies/20455.htm By LOU LUMENICK BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON'BRIDGET Jones: The Edge of Reason" doesn't have nearly enough Hugh Grant and is a little short on laughs, but it gets by on Ren�e Zellweger's charms as everyone's favorite neurotic, clumsy and chubby � at least by Hollywood standards � singleton. NEESON TO BELIEVE: http://www.nypost.com/movies/20460.htm By LOU LUMENICK KINSEYTHOUGH it's perhaps the least salacious major movie ever made about sex, the biopic "Kinsey" is hardly clinical � it's as purely entertaining as it is thought-provoking and timely. YULE CRINGE AT 'NOEL': http://www.nypost.com/movies/20458.htm By LOU LUMENICK NOELTHE excruciatingly maudlin "Noel" is even harder to sit through than "Sur viving Christmas." NO, IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT BAMBI: http://www.nypost.com/movies/20461.htm By V.A. MUSETTO WHO KILLED BAMBI?FRENCH director Gilles Marchand's "Who Killed Bambi?" is a mystery with a difference: We know from the start who the bad guy is; the suspense involves finding out when he'll get caught. Lifestyle: http://web1.nypost.com/living/living.htm CITY EATERIES AFFLICTED BY SEVERE SERVER SHORTAGE: http://www.nypost.com/living/33864.htm By MAUREEN CALLAHAN IF you've spent too many nights waiting for a waiter, you're not alone: The city's in the grip of a massive waiter shortage. LUCK BE A LADY: http://www.nypost.com/living/33849.htm By DAN MANGAN FOUR other Post staffers and I are playing no-limit Texas Hold'em against Annie Duke, arguably the greatest woman poker player in the world, and I peek at the two face- down cards she deals me. ANNIE SEZ . . .: http://www.nypost.com/living/33852.htm 1. Don't "slop the pot." It's bad etiquette to toss your poker chips haphazardly into the pot, making it difficult for players to see if the bet matches what you say it is. Place your chips in a neat stack in front of you when placing your bet. Lottery Results: http://web1.nypost.com/lottery/lottery.htm NEW YORK Midday Numbers Thu.: 474 Midday Win-4 Thu.: 1392 Evening Numbers Thu.: 212 Evening Win-4 Thu.: 7305 Pick-10 Thu.: 2, 7, 10, 11, 14, 18, 26, 45, 49, 50, 53, 54, 56, 57, 61, 64, 70, 71, 74, 77 Take-5 Thu.: 6, 9, 25, 34, 37 NEW JERSEY Pick-3 Thu.: 326; Pick-4 Thu.: 0333 OAS_AD('Middle'); //--> Cash-5 Thu.: 7, 11, 16, 35, 40 Pick-6 Thu.: 15, 16, 17, 23, 33, 45 CONNECTICUT Play-3 Thu.: 218; Play-4 Thu.: 4294 Cash-5 Thu.: 11, 13, 18, 22, 32 Opinion: http://web1.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/opedcolumnists.htm FREE FROM ARAFAT: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/20449.htm By ABBY WISSE TO the Palestinian people: In the wake of Yasser Ar afat's death, you face a mo mentous and historic choice. Now that the evil terrorist is no more, you can � you must � declare your independence. THE FUTURE BECKONS: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/20451.htm By AMIR TAHERI SPEAKING in front of TV cameras the other day, the Palestinian envoy to Paris, Leila Shahid, was almost in tears. THE IRAQ 'IFS': http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/20448.htm By GEORGE F. WILL BY following the move ments, updated every eight minutes, of blue icons on a screen here displaying a satellite photograph of Fallujah's streets, a four-star general could monitor, in real time, the movements of a squad through an intersection in that city. He could, but Gen. John Abizaid does not, having many more worries. 'BROKEN' NEW YORK: THE RIGHT REPAIRS: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/20452.htm By ROBERT B. WARD NEW York state is broke. This year's financial plan is out of balance, and next year will bring a budget gap of $5 billion or more. But the political chatter is focused on a different problem: The state government, we're told, is broken � "dysfunctional" is the term observers and elected leaders themselves use over and over again. Scholars at New York University have proclaimed the Legislature the "most dysfunctional" in the nation. Celebrity Photos: http://web1.nypost.com/gossip/celebp/index.htm : http://www.nypost.com/gossip/celebp/11092004/photo01.htm November 9th:The Glamour Women of The Year Awards & Stella By Starlight..: http://www.nypost.com/gossip/celebp/11092004/photo01.htm Movie News: http://web1.nypost.com/entertainment/movies/news/news.htm News, Nov. 10: Hilton's Marriage Annulled, Zellweger To Take a Break, Minnelli Sues Former Chauffeur, More... Guylaine Cadorette -- Hollywood.com Staff Nicky Hilton's marriage to Todd Meister annulled To think they had appeared so happy. Hotel heiress Nicky Hilton's flash-in-the-pan marriage is officially over--after less than three months. 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