May 4, 2003
BULL'S EYE
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amGrowth industry With the New York City job market still in the doldrums, qualified financial types may want to read up on The Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The act, passed by Congress...
APPLE HITS A CHORD WITH NEW MUSIC SERVICE
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amA week after its launch, Apple's new online music store is a hit. "It's fantastic," said David Gerlach, 27, a Manhattan writer. "It's really a breakthrough," agreed A.K.M. Adam, a...
WOES FOR DUBYA: A WEAK ECONOMY COULD BUSHWHACK PREZ
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amIf history is a lesson, President Bush's re-election bid has already been ambushed by rising unemployment, weak economic growth and the bear market. "Unless the economy stages some sort of...
SUNSHINE THERAPY - BRING IT ON
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amThank God the sun has come out. It seems like the whole city is on tenterhooks, waiting for summer to begin. Gray days, the war, the smoking ban and the...
THE WARM FUZZIES: ONCE A FABRIC ONLY FIT FOR GYM CLASS, TERRY CLOTH MAKES A COMEBACK
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amIt's raining terry cloth. Juicy Couture started the trend with the towel-like cloth a few years ago, and now stores like Express and Bloomingdale's are picking up on it in...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN DESIGNER CHARLOTTE RONSON PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amCharlotte Ronson - stepdaughter of Foreigner's Mick Jones, daughter of socialite Ann Ronson, sister of deejays Mark and Samantha - likes to say she has "expensive taste." Whether she's joking...
THE CITY'S WILD KINGDOM
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amThe mayor's budget cuts mean that two of New York's beloved zoo facilities, in Queens and Prospect Park, Brooklyn, could soon shut down. The cuts will also impact other city...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amIndie babe: Playboy.com's new contest (www.playboy.com/sex/features/indierock) has readers rate women "slumming in the underground scene" who are "easy on your eyes and your MP3 player." Candidates include local lipsynchers W.I.T....
THE BIG DIPPERS ; CELEBRATE CINCO DE MAYO WITH THE BEST GUAC IN TOWN
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amTomorrow is the annual celebration of Mexico's victory over the French in the 1862 Battle of Puebla. (Yes, France was ticking people off even then.) In honor of Cinco de...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER...SEEING A MOVIE AT THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amThe Tribeca Film Institute's Second Annual film festival is under way through May 11. Between the screenings and panel discussions, you should check out one of these nearby spots for...
HOW DIANA DRESSES THE PART
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amDiana Taylor may tower over boyfriend Mayor Bloomberg, but the "First Girlfriend" always looks elegant and refined. For big galas, the 48-year-old financial whiz opts for black. At the recent...
TALKING TURKEY
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amIt takes more than a war to keep Cine File from the movies. So when the 22nd International Istanbul Film Festival invited him to drop in for five days, he...
STARR REPORT
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amShtick shift: Stand-ups unite at Caroline's Caroline Rhea, Aisha Tyler, Sue Murphy and Judy Gold will headline "Lunashtick," a night of women's comedy benefitting The Breast Cancer Fund, May 19...
BACK TO THE CLUB BABALU
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amAs a subject for a TV movie, few entertainers are as sure-fire as Lucille Ball. She's the undisputed, never-to-be-equalled queen of TV comedian - still universally beloved today, though she...
'THE ANTIQUES ROADSHOW' - EXPOSED!
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amALLOW me, after 30 years at The Post - the last 27 writing sports and mostly sports TV/radio columns - to introduce myself. I've got two children - both daughters...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amAn Indianapolis cop faces a possible one-day suspension after he fatally shot a goose that pecked his K-9 partner while the pooch relieved itself. Officer Mitch Waters opened fire after...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amManhattan A hit-and-run driver killed a pedestrian from Tennessee as the victim tried to cross a street in a busy area of the Lower East Side, cops said. The 28-year-old...
INCENSED OVER 50-CENT RISE
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amOn the eve of the MTA's 33 percent fare hike, East New York straphangers rallied together near the entrance to the Livonia Street stop on the L line to protest...
'HEARST CASTLE' IN HAMPTONS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amAs controversy grows over billionaire Ira Rennert's $100 million vacation mansion in the Hamptons, so too does the work force hired to finish the six-building complex. Neighbors say the dozens...
BRUCE ROCKS STONE PONY BEFORE HE GOES DUTCH
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amBefore jetting to the Netherlands today for the European leg of his latest tour, Bruce Springsteen and his wife Patti popped on stage at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park,...
9 MORE DIE IN CHINA
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amSARS continued its rampage across China yesterday with nine more deaths and 181 new infections. Hong Kong, meanwhile, reported its lowest daily total since March 17 - 10 new cases...
POWELL IN SYRIA PEACE PUSH
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amSecretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday the political landscape of the Middle East had changed since the fall of Saddam Hussein and called on Syria to back U.S. plans...
PARENTS PRAY ILL. GIRL IS LOST KID
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amParents of little Sabrina Aisenberg are desperately hoping their daughter, missing for five years, has surfaced in Illinois as a bubbly kindergartner with a mysterious past. DNA samples, ready in...
3 NATIONS TAKE BIG PIECES OF SECURITY PIE
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amIn an attempt to curb lawlessness and help stabilize and rebuild Iraq, the war-torn country will be divided into three sectors patrolled by troops led by the United States, Britain...
EDUCATORS DEMAND: NO $KIMPING ON SCHOOLS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - In what organizers called the biggest rally ever at the Capitol, up to 40,000 educators and parents rallied for Gov. Pataki not to veto the Legislature's just-passed $93...
CIG COPS TO PACK IT IN AT 11 P.M.
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amThe dozen health inspectors who patrol bars and restaurants at night for smoking violations will call it a day at 11 p.m., a top city health official told The Post...
DRIVER OK IN BX. RIVER ROLL
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amA woman cheated death yesterday when she suffered only a broken leg after her car careened across a highway, flipped several times and landed in the Bronx River, authorities said....
BAGHDAD-STYLE LOOTERS AT U.N.
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amA crazed mob of diplomats and workers tore through U.N. cafeterias Friday, making off with thousands of dollars worth of food and booze - even silverware. Well-known diplomats were spotted...
1-ARMED CLIMBER EAGER TO GO AGAIN
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amThe pinned mountain climber who had to slice off his dead arm to survive has been upgraded to fair condition in a Colorado hospital - and his family says he...
MIRACLE KID LIVES ; BULLET BOUNCES OFF BRONX BOY'S SKULL
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amA tough 11-year-old Bronx boy is lucky to be alive after a stray bullet that could have killed him miraculously bounced off his skull. "I think his hair stopped the...
BLACK COPS STAND BY OFFICERS IN SHOOTINGS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amA group of African-American cops said yesterday that three recent Brooklyn shootings involving police officers - cases which prosecutors said they were looking into - all appear to have been...
BAGHDAD-STYLE LOOTING AT U.N. EATERIES
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amA crazed mob of diplomats angry at being made to wait for lunch because of striking restaurant workers rioted in U.N. cafeterias Friday and looted them of thousands of dollars...
KIDS STILL REACH FOR THE STARS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amSpace travel is still a magnet for dreaming kids - despite the Columbia tragedy three months ago. Heading into the final frontier is an optimum wish for 81 percent of...
GOV HITS THE PHONES TO REIN IN GOP RENEGADES
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amA determined Gov. Pataki began calling renegade Republican senators yesterday in his first personal effort on behalf of his promised veto of the largest tax-and-spend budget in state history. Pataki,...
PIECES OF THE TRAGIC PUZZLE ; SAD HUNT FOR SHUTTLE CLUES IN FLA. HANGAR
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - It has the feel of a mortuary, a sense of mass grieving and loss that New Yorkers know only too well. But there's also a sense...
AZIZ THE LYIN' KING: BUSH ; BASHES IRAQ STOOGE AND HAILS STAUNCH AUSSIE ALLY
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday came out swinging against captured Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz - one of Saddam Hussein's closest confidants - saying Aziz isn't being truthful about the Butcher of...
SERVICES FOR RT. REV. MOORE
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amNew York's pioneering and outspoken bishop Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, who led the city's Episcopalian Church for 17 years, will be laid to rest at the Cathedral of St. John...
N.H. FACES LIFE MINUS 'OLD MAN'
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amHe lived free, and died. New Hampshire awoke yesterday to find its granite symbol of independence, the Old Man of the Mountain, had collapsed. The famous 40-foot-tall rock outcropping fell...
OFFICE-TOWER SECURITY LOOSENS UP WITH WAR'S END
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amKeeping out terrorists isn't always the only hot-button issue when security experts assess the level of protection offered at some Manhattan office buildings, The Post has learned. Twenty months after...
COPS FEAR RAPIST STRIKES AGAIN
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amPolice are hunting for a man who raped and sodomized a 23-year-old woman in a Chelsea building Friday, in an attack similar to the method of a serial rapist who...
OVERDRESSED PREZ MUST HAVE BEEN A BOY SCOUT
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amOn Thursday, President Bush, wearing more gear than Inspector Gadget, landed by jet on the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego after an exhausting 30-mile, 30- minute...
U.S. ASTROS LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amIn a jittery return to Earth in the wake of the Columbia tragedy, two U.S. astronauts landed in Central Asia in a cramped Russian space capsule yesterday - the first...
9 DEMS ARGUE WAR, PEACE & TAX CUTS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amThe nine Democrats vying for the presidential nomination slugged it out in a early debate last night - battling over the war in Iraq, Bush's tax cuts and how to...
RAILING AGAINST $2 FARE
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amAs subway fares jumped to $2 per ride at 12 a.m. this morning, the unprecedented hike was jeered by straphangers. "This is bull- - - -," said Dave Nichols, 25,...
HARPING ON ABSURDITY
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amPoor Elizabeth Smart went from being the unwilling captive of two religious zealots to becoming the frightened-looking media darling daughter of two savvy and er, smart, media hounds. Last week,...
A RACE TO THE END
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amWhile the media is always hungry for younger, younger, younger, last week, two er, seasoned NYC pols, who together add up to 153 years old (or about 700 in dog-eat-dog...
YOU'VE GOT EMAIL . . .
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amFrom Barb91855: "When I read Sen. Santorum's comment that he "has trouble with homosexual acts," my first thought was, "Well, maybe he's doing them wrong." . . . From jckyannuzzi:...
WARD-ING OFF THE BUG ; 2 CITY HOSPS TAPPED AS FRONT-LINE DEFENSES
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amTwo public hospitals - Bellevue and Elmhurst - have been tapped by the city to treat sick tourists and airline passengers who may have SARS, The Post has learned. Dr....
CANCER CLASS OF 90210 ; B'KLYN ALUM EYES TOXINS IN BEVERLY HILLS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amIt's one of the most famous schools in Los Angeles, but some former students say toxins from an oil-gas operation under the school playing fields may have turned it into...
FINAL BID TO DERAIL FARE HIKE
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amIt may cost $2 to ride a bus or subway starting today - but taking the 6 train to Manhattan Supreme Court this coming Friday could be money well-spent when...
DEVILS HAVE TIME TO SAVOR TRIUMPH
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amThere isn't even a plaque, let alone a trophy for it, and if they want a banner for the rafters, they must buy it themselves. So the expressway route to...
THEY'LL NEVER LEARN ; RANGERS' PRESEASON TRIP MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amWHILE the Devils are busy as usual in the postseason, the Rangers will go about business as usual in the preseason. Who are we to suggest there might be a...
A GOLF STORE GROWS ; IN BROOKLYN
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amLOCAL GOLF Duke Johnson is a Brooklyn guy who loves golf just as much as he loves Brooklyn. A native of Bay Ridge, his idea of a perfect day might...
TYREE BRINGS SPECIAL TALENT
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amOf the 11 players the Giants added last weekend, they rated one of them as the very best at his specialty. Not the best on his team, the best in...
CHAD CONFIDENT THEY'RE ON TRACK
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amIT'S Thursday evening at Houston's, and a young man in a Jets cap stops on his way out to blitz Chad Pennington. "Curtis Conway, whaddya think?" he asks. "Replace [Laveranues]...
NO FREE PASS FOR SPURS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Life, as the Colangelos and the Van Arsdales know it, was not sucked out of their Suns' season until late in the final quarter of Game 6...
JETS' CALL: ALL HANDS ON DECK ; CONWAY, CHREBET, MOSS KEY TO PLANS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amCurtis Conway is catching on. There was life after Keyshawn Johnson, and now the Jets insist there will be life after Laveranues Coles. No single player will replace Coles. Three...
GIAMBI'S SHOT WORTH THE WAIT
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amTHE Yankees came into yesterday 23-6 with Jason Giambi hitting .189 with 16 RBIs. If necessary, they can wait for him all year. Even in the world of George Steinbrenner,...
WALKER ON RILED SIDE ; CELTICS STAR SAYS: 'AIN'T WORRIED ABOUT KENYON'
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amAntoine Walker has an All-Star Game appearance over Kenyon Martin, and a bigger mouth. But that's about it. In firing the first salvo of the upcoming Nets-Celtics second-round playoff series,...
ROGERS SAW CELTS SPLIT UP BY OWNER
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES Former Celtic Rodney Rogers yesterday took a shot at former Celtics owner Paul Gaston, blaming him for his summer departure to the Nets as a free agent. "I...
CHAVEZ ONE-UPS HIS HERO
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amEric Chavez looks up to and respects Jason Giambi so much that when his buddy and former teammate hit his game-tying, two-run homer in the ninth inning yesterday Chavez actually...
DEUCE TRUMPS 'ACE' ; 2-RUN SHOT SPELLS DOOM FOR YANKS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00am10 INNINGSA's 5Yankees 3 When the game moved into the 10th inning yesterday, there was more than just renewed hope at Yankee Stadium. There was expectation. Why not? The Yankees...
'FUN' FOR THE ROSES ; BIG APPLE CIDE-R MAKES DERBY HISTORY
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE -Bring on the world! A New York-bred gelding, bought for a song by a bunch of Saratoga dreamers and trained by an old steeplechase jockey, turned the turf world...
BIG BOBBY STAKES HIS CLAIM EARLY
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amDERBY NOTEBOOK LOUISVILLE - Early last week, trainer Bobby Frankel discussed the fact that, besides Empire Maker in the Derby, he'd have the favorites in four other stakes races on...
HATTEBERG: 'CY YOUNG VS. CY OLD'
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES He said it with a smile on his face. But Oakland first baseman Scott Hatteberg yesterday may have unintentionally stoked Roger Clemens' fires. In today's series finale, 40-year-old...
THAT'S REALLY 'FUNNY' ; NY-BRED 'CIDE' CAPTURES ROSES
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Start spreading the news! They were singing "New York, New York" in Kentucky yesterday when the Empire State-bred gelding Funny Cide, a 12-1 outsider, turned back a challenge...
REVENGE VS. MOTA A HOT TOPIC
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES MILWAUKEE - Manager Art Howe said he wouldn't address his players about the Mike Piazza/Guillermo Mota situation before the Mets play the Dodgers on Tuesday, but a clubhouse...
BRAVE NEW FACE CAN'T CHANGE OLD SITUATION
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - On the television late Friday night, Rafael Furcal was slapping the ball the other way, causing a little more mayhem for the Atlanta Braves, and one of the...
DOUBLE DOWNER: VAUGHN DISABLED AS METS FALL AGAIN
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amBrewers 3 Mets 2 MILWAUKEE - It wasn't enough that the Mets lost another excruciating game along the Road to Perdition, but Mo Vaughn was placed on the disabled list...
OSCAR TAKES CARE OF BUSINESS : KEEPS CROWNS IN EASY TUNE-UP
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - Oscar De La Hoya got was he was looking for last night at Mandalay Bay: a big pay day and a good workout in preparation for his...
CHAVEZ: HOWE NOT THE GUY TO SAVE METS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amWhile A's All-Star third baseman Eric Chavez truly likes Art Howe, the image Chavez presents of his ex-manager might make Met fans cringe. It doesn't sound as if Howe is...
MO TIME ON BENCH FOR VAUGHN
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES MILWAUKEE - As expected, Mo Vaughn was not in the starting lineup last night due to a sore left knee. Vaughn, who had fluid drained from the knee...
AILING CLIFF ON MET LIFE: 'IT STINKS'
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - When Cliff Floyd was pondering a move to New York, his mother had a bit of interesting advice for him: Be careful what you wish for. Floyd went...
THE WRIGLEY WRIPOFF: CUB EXEC 'SCALPING' $45 TIX FOR $1,500
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amFROM the moment that Bud Selig disingenuously introduced interleague play as a post-strike "gift to fans," team owners, with Selig's approval, have made pigs of themselves. And every year a...
AMAZIN' MAKEOVER: FIVE BOLD TRADES THAT WOULD REBUILD METS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amThe Mets can't wait until they hire a GM such as Paul DePodesta, Gerry Hunsicker, Omar Minaya or Brian Sabean after the season. Whether it is lameduck Steve Phillips, future...
DE LA HOYA WILL MISS THE BUCKS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - Oscar De La Hoya is talking of retirement, a notion that seems hollow considering the easy money he will have to walk away from if he intends...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amBAVARO'S A HALL OF A TIGHT END We recently caught up with the John Wayne of the NFL, Mark Bavaro and officially are kicking off our Bavaro For Hall of...
YOUR BEST BETS FOR BITES
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amYET another reminder that the wicked winter of 2003 is behind us was yesterday's opening of the walleye, northern pike, pickerel and tiger muskellunge season in New York State. Walleye,...
LAFAYETTE GETS BACK ON THE FIELD
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amBrian Moran has been coaching junior varsity baseball for over two months. Last week, he watched many of his players struggle to play catch with each other. Eventually, he stepped...
BURDEN IS STILL ON MATHIS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amAfter Clint Mathis' injuries, struggles, and past spats with MetroStar brass, new coach Bob Bradley has taken pains to forge a much-needed relationship with his star. With striker Jaime Moreno...
SPORTS SHORTS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amCOLLEGE: Price fired at Alabama Mike Price was fired as Alabama's football coach yesterday because of his conduct on a trip to Florida that included a visit to a topless...
ZIADIE'S FIRST GOAL LEADS STARS
May 4, 2003 | 4:00amMetroStars 2 Colorado 1 With forward Jaime Moreno out for a month and trailing at home to the worst team in MLS, the MetroStars were having a horrible first half....