April 28, 2003
$1.4B SETTLEMENT SEEKS TO CHANGE WALL STREET'S WAYS
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amA $1.4 billion global research settlement expected to be released today will change the way Wall Street does business. The result of months of haggling between a dozen banks and...
ADIDAS TO SPIKE 18% GROWTH AS SNEAKER MAKERS TAKE OFF
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amAdidas-Salomon is poised this week to report a surge in first-quarter profit, completing a hat-trick of sorts for a group of athletic equipment manufacturers that have seen earnings soar despite...
DIVA-INE; CAN TOMMY MOTTOLA TEACH TALENT TO BE DIFFICULT? YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT
April 28, 2003 | 4:00am"Born to Diva" Tonight at 10 on VH1 ½ WHAT would a talent show (and let's call it what it is, instead of "reality show," please!) be if you didn't...
JUST HOLD IT!
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amIf you're going to see Woody Allen's "Writer's Block," you might want to go first - to the bathroom, that is. The Atlantic Theater Company, where Allen's double bill of...
BLOOP 'SPACES'
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amTLC's wildly popular home remodeling program "Trading Spaces" - 15 million viewers per week - has hammered together a "Best of Trading Spaces" DVD (available now). Highlights from fan favorite...
THE ALL-REALITY CHANNEL! DON'T SAY YOU'RE SURPRISED
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amA group of reality-show stars are among the investors in a new cable channel that will be all about reality TV. The new Los Angeles-based network, called Reality Central, will...
WILL AL ROKER CHANGE HIS NAME TO AL JAZEERA NOW?
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amTHE five hours of nightly U.S. news programming that began airing in Iraq last week is merely a prelude to a much larger U.S. government-sponsored TV blitz in the Middle...
STARR REPORT
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amAnswer: Who are stars having fun? "Celebrity Jeopardy!" kicks off tonight (7 p.m./Ch. 7) with Julie Bowen, Hal Sparks and Paige Davis, followed tomorrow by Wayne Brady, Vivica A. Fox...
BOFFO BUFFY: TV ICON SLAYS 'EM WITH STYLE
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amVAMPIRES have never been known as style icons - what with those cumbersome cloaks and all - but for a vampire slayer, Buffy Summers had one serious wardrobe. Whether it...
TAXES MAY SOUR APPLE BUSH BASH
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amTOP New York Republi- cans fear that huge pending state and city tax hikes will prove "a major embarrassment" to President Bush next year. The Republicans worry the record-high tax...
N.J. TERROR WIDOWS' SUIT OPENS
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amTwo New Jersey widows will relive the horror of their husbands' slaying by an Egyptian terrorist when a Manhattan trial opens today, nearly 10 years after the attack. Robert Guidi...
LEAPING LIZARDS, WHAT A PROBLEM
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amThe Long Island Reptile Museum has a problem - too many reptiles. The museum has become a dumping ground for every unwanted iguana, snake and turtle on the island. Last...
DWI-RAP JUDGE RIPS BX. COPS' CRASH CLAIM
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge charged with drunken driving in The Bronx last year is attacking police claims that she boozily steered a Rolls Royce into a cop's personal car, her lawyer...
HAMPTON BARGAINS; 'LOW' RENTS MAKE SUMMERTIME LIVING EA$IER ON E. END
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amSummer renters, rejoice - coveted Hamptons properties are significantly cheaper than in years past, and landlords are more willing to negotiate, real-estate experts are reporting. "I don't think anyone listing...
RIDERS IN A JAM; BUSES PACKED AS SERVICE LAGS
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amGood luck trying to get a seat on a city bus. While ridership has skyrocketed since the start of free MetroCard transfers in 1997, bus service has not been increased...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amA college student has been crowned Milwaukee's "Queen of Parking Tickets" after racking up 131 violations in four years. Sally Everson, who attends the University of Wisconsin, now owes $4,799...
BUTCHER'S SPIES MET QAEDA: FILE
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amDocuments discovered in the bombed-out headquarters of Saddam Hussein's intelligence service show that an envoy of Osama bin Laden was secretly sent to Baghdad in 1998 to establish relations between...
CASH AND HARRY: ROWLING WORTH $446M
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amThe creator of Harry Potter is now worth an astounding $446 million - making J.K. Rowling even richer than the Queen of England. The 37-year-old author - once so poor...
$30B BUG SOCKS AILING ECONOMY ; PANIC SPURS FINANCIAL TAILSPIN AS TOLL TOPS 300
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amAs SARS fatalities topped 300 worldwide and economists said the global fallout has reached $30 billion, China's capital city was paralyzed by fear of the mysterious and deadly disease and...
COUNCIL DEMANDS A VETO ON RENT-HIKE BOARD MEMBERS
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amA new law proposed yesterday would force landlords to open their books and give the City Council veto power over appointments to the board that determines how much they can...
FOWL PLAY IN BRONX; COPS RAID COCKFIGHT & BREEDING BASEMENT
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amThe cruel sport of cockfighting took a double blow yesterday when cops and animal-welfare officers busted a secret bird-breeding "hotel" in The Bronx, shortly after raiding a major cockfight in...
SEN. JOE'S STAY MARRED BY FIRE
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amA minor fire broke out early yesterday in an Upper West Side hotel where Sen. Joseph Lieberman was staying. The fire broke out in Room 222 of On the Ave...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amBronx An off-duty rookie was stabbed in the back in the South Bronx early yesterday when he got into a fight with four men, police said. The violence occurred at...
MIKE SEES VICTORY IN ALBANY CASH BATTLE
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg predicted yesterday he'll win his fight for more money from Albany, saying again that he's confident the "doomsday" plan for $1 billion in budget cuts will not happen....
CHINATOWN SHOPS HIT HARD BY FEARS
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amChinatown is suffering severely from SARS fears, according to a local business group set today to release details of a survey of neighborhood merchants. "Every place" in Chinatown is hurting...
WEASELS LEAKED U.S. WAR PLANS TO SADDAM ; BUSH-CHIRAC FILES FOUND IN BAGHDAD WRECKAGE
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amFrance not only opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, but Paris went so far as to give Saddam Hussein's regime regular briefings about U.S. plans on the eve of the...
GOV'S CRONY TO GET FED JUDGE NOD
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amIn a boost for Gov. Pataki, President Bush is about to nominate Latina Dora Irizarry - who ran on Pataki's ticket last fall for state attorney general and got clobbered...
MY 'TOUR' DE FORCE
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amIF THE economy keeps going sour, at least there's one job I can get. I don't mean to brag, but I just got an 86 percent score on the city's...
'HOOKY' TEACHERS WORSE THAN KIDS
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amKnow why some students aren't learning? Their teachers are playing hooky. Thousands of city students face educational neglect because teachers are no-shows up to 18 days of their 10-month work...
J.LO'S LOVE NEST; FIRST PEEK AT $16M MANSION
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amThis is the stunning Georgia plantation that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez will soon call home. The lovebirds shelled out $16 million for the 83-acre, waterfront spread on ritzy Hampton...
COPS FIRST FOUND LACI LAST MONTH
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amAuthorities had located the remains of eight-months pregnant Laci Peterson - possibly wrapped in plastic and weighted down - on the ocean floor weeks before she and her baby washed...
MODEL BEGGED PASTOR TO HELP
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amTragic actress-model Lyric Benson cried out for help to her Brooklyn church pastor because she feared the ex-fiancé, who was stalking her, could kill her at any time, parishioners recalled...
N.Y.'S STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: DEM SPITZER BACKS GOP VS. CIVIL SUITS
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is staunchly supporting a Republican-backed plan to stop award-happy juries from hearing liability cases against the city. Spitzer is the first major Democrat...
WATERS SCOURED FOR CITY ISLAND BODIES
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amThe NYPD's Harbor Unit has spent most of the past two days searching for the bodies of the remaining three missing teenagers who drowned off City Island in January, following...
COPS SEEK 'WITNESS' TO DOUBLE SLAYING
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman clung to life yesterday as cops hunted for the gunman who shot and killed her son and one of his friends in a brutal execution-style attack. Police...
COUNCIL MAY GET VETO ON RENT-HIKE BOARD
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amA new law proposed yesterday would force landlords to open their books and give the City Council veto power over appointments to the board that determines how much they can...
MIKE VOWS VICTORY IN CASH WAR
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg predicted yesterday he'll win his fight for more money from Albany, saying again he's confident the doomsday plan for $1 billion in budget cuts will not happen. The...
BARREL FOUND BY GIS TESTS POSITIVE FOR SARIN
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amU.S. troops in northern Iraq found a 55-gallon barrel that tested positive for the deadly nerve agent sarin, officials said yesterday. The discovery comes as the Iraqi exile who may...
SADDAM SPIES PLAYED HOST TO OSAMA ENVOY: SECRET FILES BARE '98 BAGHDAD HUDDLE WITH QAEDA
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amDocuments discovered in the bombed-out headquarters of Saddam Hussein's intelligence service show that an envoy of Osama bin Laden was secretly sent to Baghdad in 1998 to establish relations between...
CANADA BOTCHED CHANCE
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amToronto medical workers, while treating a SARS patient last month, may have missed a crucial chance to prevent the disease from infecting many more people there, according to a new...
ALL PINSTRIPES, ALL THE TIME? YES!
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amALTHOUGH the YES Network is only 13 months old, it's high time that it grew up. It's impossible that anyone with the ability to stare straight ahead has not yet...
D. WAYNE EXPECTING LONGSHOT TO 'SHINE'
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The great magician of the turf, trainer D. Wayne Lukas, is hatching a scheme to win the Kentucky Derby Saturday with the biggest upset in the 129-year history...
LUKAS GIVES BOREL, CORNELIO A LEG UP
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Hall-of-Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas has won the Kentucky Derby four times, with horses ridden by veteran reinsmen Gary Stevens (Winning Colors, Thunder Gulch), Jerry Bailey (Grindstone) and...
KHABIBULIN NO SAVIOR
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amUntil Lightning center Vincent Lecavalier can match the muscle of the Devils' John Madden and Scott Stevens, Tampa Bay has no shot. No shot at all. And if goalie Nikolai...
NETS NOT PANICKING
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amThey regained the home-court advantage, but the Nets wanted more from their sojourn to Milwaukee. Tied 2-2 with Game 5 tomorrow, they face basically a best-of-three series that could re-shape...
PITCHING FLAK AT CONNORS
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amWELL before Joe Torre and George Steinbrenner engaged in a public spat last week - with Yankee "pitching guru" Billy Connors as an off-stage instigating force - Connors was the...
SHEA BOO-BIRDS SERENADE MO
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES The questions are already starting. After another poor showing from Mo Vaughn, at one point will there be a change at first base? "I don't think we're even...
DEVS GEAR UP FOR TAMPA'S BEST SHOT
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amThe Devils go for the jugular this week as this best-of-seven Eastern semifinals turns back to Tampa for the next two games. They won the first two games of the...
NO GLAMOUR THIS TIME FROM BLUE MACHINE
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amIN meticulous fashion, the Giants, from the moment they trudged off the field after a dispiriting playoff collapse, formulated a gameplan to prevent such an atrocity from ever happening again....
'EMPIRE': NO SWEAT
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - It's an annual rite of spring at Churchill Downs. One morning early in Kentucky Derby week, the favorite leaves his barn and heads to the racetrack for his...
'ATS' GETS ATTENTION FOLLOWING QUICK DRILL
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - When it comes to "now" horses for Saturday's Kentucky Derby, a lot of people are talking about Atswhatimtalknbout, especially after the big colt drilled a sharp five furlongs...
THE BOOK ON HOWE
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 2 D'backs 7Mets 3IN his new book, "Money ball, The Art of Winning an Unfair Game," Michael Lewis portrays A's GM Billy Beane as George Steinbrenner with a great...
DOUBLE DISASTER ; METS MAKE 8 ERRORS, K RECORD 27 TIMES IN SWEEP
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 1D'backs 6Mets 1 So you didn't get to see yesterday's Mets-Diamondbacks doubleheader at Shea? No problem. Here's what you missed: * Mo Vaughn dropping a throw - not a...
NO PIZZAZZ IN THE SWAMP
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amTAMPA - The CBA has nothing whatsoever to do with the thousands of empty seats throughout the Meadowlands for not only the first two games of this second-round series against...
BANGED-UP JASON GETS A DAY OFF - SORT OF
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ARLINGTON - A bruised left middle finger, a tender hamstring and a sore left knee combined to convince Joe Torre that Jason Giambi needed a day off yesterday...
A-ROD REELS IN YANKS : POWERS RANGERS WITH SIX RBIS
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amARLINGTON - Joe Torre's choices weren't good. With Alex Rodriguez at the plate, the bases loaded and Rafael Palmeiro on deck, Torre had two ways to go. He could stay...
BOO-BIRDS FIRE BARBS AT VAUGHN
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amDespite Mo Vaughn struggling and popular backup Tony Clark surging, manager Art Howe insists he's still a long way from making a switch at first base. That begs the question:...
DOUBLE DISASTER: METS K RECORD 27 TIMES, MAKE 8 ERRORS IN SWEEP
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amGame 1 D'backs 6 Mets 1 So you didn't see yesterday's Mets-Diamondbacks doubleheader at Shea? No problem. Here's what you missed: * Mo Vaughn dropping a throw - not a...
BATTLE WITH BIRDS OF PREY ALREADY UNDERWAY
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The wait is until Oct. 19. That's when the Giants finally square off against the Eagles in an NFC East battle that already had some added juice to...
YANKS LOSE SNORER: A-ROD'S SIX-RBI DAY POWERS RANGERS
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amRangers 10 Yankees 7 ARLINGTON - No wonder America's youth is flocking to soccer, basketball, football and other sports that don't require three outs an inning. Outside of Alex Rodriguez's...
IOWA'S PAGEL READY FOR CITY LIVING
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES Derek Pagel, the Jets' first of two fifth-round picks yesterday, hardly sounded intimidated about coming to New York for the first time, which is impressive for a young...
JETS COME OUT FIGHTING:BOLD GANG GREEN SELECT THEIR GUYS
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amTHE DARKENING storm clouds that had been hovering ominously over the Jets for much of this offseason as their roster was fleeced of quality players finally cleared over Weeb Ewbank...
PROUD PAPA KLECKO GIVES SON PAT ON BACK
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amDan Klecko watched Shrek and Big Saturday when the NFL Draft began, but wanted to get back from church quickly yesterday because he knew his prayers would soon be answered....
BUMBLIN' METS SET K RECORD
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Half the Mets' outs yesterday came without even putting the ball into play. Records are made to be broken, and the Mets dutifully complied at Shea. They fanned...
ZONA ROOKIE STEALS SHOW WITH A GEM
April 28, 2003 | 4:00amWith Tom Glavine starting the first game of yesterday's doubleheader for the Mets and Arizona's Randy Johnson pitching the second, the fans at Shea were expecting to see a dominant...