June 24, 2003
TRYING TO SORT THROUGH THE B.S. ON DICK GRASSO
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amTHE education information for Richard Grasso, the head of the New York Stock Exchange, was inaccurate for nearly 10 years in "Who's Who." His bio is missing altogether from the...
VIACOM OPTS OUT OF VUE BID WAR
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amMedia giant Viacom opted out of bidding in the first round of the auction for Vivendi's U.S. entertainment arm, sources close to the process said yesterday. Vivendi received five bids...
LEANER KOZ WEIGHS IN AT COURT
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amHe's the lean, mean, allegedly embezzling machine. Dennis Kozlowski - the former CEO of Tyco International - has been somewhat pudgy and rather ruddy when he turns up at Manhattan...
CNBC'S BOAT RISES WITH STOCK-MARKET TIDE
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amEveryone's watching the markets again - and CNBC. With the surge in stocks lately - despite yesterday's sell-off - the business news network has seen its ratings in key demographics...
FED WATCHERS: RATE CUT HURTS CONSUMERS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amAlan Greenspan could be wasting his remaining bullets. Many economists think the Federal Reserve chief's expected rate cut will do more to hurt consumers than to help businesses. Wall Street's...
UNSUSTAINA-BULL - SPRING MART RALLY HITS WALL; DOW FALLS 127.80
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amWall Street knows that if you try to cross a bull with a bear, you only get two confused beasts. The bullish spring rally has hit a brick wall of...
FIVE FIRMS LOOKING AT BID FOR FOUNDERING NAUTICA
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amNautica, the embattled apparel company, has held informal talks with five potential suitors over the past eight months, as it explores ways to revive its lagging brand, The Post has...
ALL SPELLED OUT - 'POTTER' NOT ENOUGH TO LIFT SCHOLASTIC CURSE
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amNot even the magic of Harry Potter will be able to cure all of Scholastic's ills. The children's educational market continues to slump, and Scholastic, Harry's U.S. publisher, is still...
BANK SIGNS ON AT THE BOW TIE
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amWACHOVIA Bank, expanding its consumer presence in the city, is taking its message to the "Crossroads of the World." Wachovia just signed a short-term lease for a jumbo sign high...
JONES HEIR SAYS LEE'S 'SPIKEFUL'
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amGet ready for "Spike Wars 2: Attack of the Other Spike." The son of legendary musician Spike Jones is joining forces with the would-be-operators of Spike TV in their court...
THE JAYHAWKS ARE SIMPLY ELECTRIC, AGAIN
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amLAST spring, the critically revered Minneapolis roots-rock band the Jayhawks toured the country - in a van - with only acoustic guitars and without a crew. Their new tour, which...
BRAT TO THE FUTURE
June 24, 2003 | 4:00am* DA BRAT "Limelite, Luv & Niteclubz" [ 1/2] So So Def/Arista With "Limelite, Luv & Niteclubz," Shawntae Harris, a.k.a. Da Brat, again proves herself one of the wittiest, most...
'SVU' CALLS IN ANOTHER LAWYER
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amDIANE Neal is set to become TV's new est legal eagle on "Law & Order: SVU." Neal, 26, has signed a deal to appear on the hit drama as a...
SURVIVOR: CENTERFOLD
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amNOT ready for prime time anymore, here are the sexy winner of "Survivor: Amazon" and her runner-up as they appear this week in Playboy. Jenna Morasca, the $1-million champ of...
A GENIUS LIKE ME - THAT'S WHO'LL WIN TRUMP TV SHOW SAYS, ER, THE DONALD
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amIT'LL take a type-A personality to qualify for Donald Trump's new reality show, "The Apprentice." "Obviously, the one ingredient that everybody is going to need to do well on this...
REMEMBER PAULA ZAHN? SHE'S BACK
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amCNN's missing $2-million anchor, Paula Zahn, finally made it back onto the air last night after nearly a seven-week absence. Zahn returned to CNN in a one-hour show in her...
SUNNY SUBWAY
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amTWO out of three ain't bad. The rain-soaked Mets/Yankees Subway Series scored strong ratings for the two games the teams managed to play between downpours Friday and Sunday. Saturday's game...
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE: 10 COMICS, NO CRAZIES
June 24, 2003 | 4:00am"Last Comic Standing" [* * *] Tonight at 9 on NBC/Ch. 4 ---- IF you've ever known any comedians, then you're aware that they're not the easiest people to get...
WHERE IS EVERYONE? HOW '28 DAY LATER' MADE A MILLION-DOLLAR SCENE FOR PENNIES
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amOne of the most arresting images of the summer occurs in a movie with an entire budget that is a mere fifth of Arnold Schwarzenegger's salary for "Terminator 3." Like...
TERROR HOAXER A COKEHEAD: FEDS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe terror fraudster who gave cops a bogus tip about an al Qaeda plot to bomb the Holland and Lincoln tunnels said he made up the scary tale because he'd...
MARTHA DROPS IN ON SAM'S PARENTS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amMartha Stewart isn't staying away from the Waksals - even though the friendship has led her to the brink of disaster. The troubled queen of good living put aside her...
FATHER NABBED IN BABY PLUNGE
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA Westchester man was charged with attempted murder yesterday for allegedly throwing his infant daughter out of a seventh-floor window in her mother's Peekskill apartment, police said. Ten-month-old Meana Williams...
WOUNDED BOYFRIEND BARES TALE OF GAL PAL'S '92 SLAY
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amAn innocent Queens woman was shot dead and her drug-dealer boyfriend wounded in their bedroom 11 years ago on the orders of a buyer who owed more than $30,000 for...
DRUG REHAB FOR FRAUD 'FIRE HERO'
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA phony fire hero who burned investors in a luxury-car scam was sentenced yesterday to 12 to 18 months in a city-funded drug-rehab program. Posing as an FDNY firefighter, Maurice...
EMBARRASSING ILLOGIC
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amLET'S try to get this straight: The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that universities can use race as a positive factor in admissions - meaning that a minority kid can get...
BYTE-ING CRITICISM - HEALTH DEPT. LIED OVER $9M COMPUTER BOTCH: AUDIT
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe city's Health Department bungled two major computer contracts worth $9.5 million and then lied to cover up its incompetence, Comptroller William Thompson charged yesterday. In a scathing report, Thompson...
ADAM'S WEDDING GIVES PAWS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amAdamSandler.comAdam Sandler tied the knot over the weekend and kept guests in stitches by dressing his bulldog, Meatball, in a traditional black tuxedo. The frisky pooch, who also wore a...
PRESIDENT CAN BANK ON WALL STREET HOT SHOTS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA Who's Who of Wall Street pledged to stuff President Bush's coffers last night at his record New York fund-raiser. Lehman Bros. CEO Richard Fuld Jr., KKR chief Henry Kravis...
NAPS TAPPED AS ENERGY BOOSTERS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA one-hour cat nap during the day may be as beneficial as a whole night in bed, new research reveals. Scientists at Harvard University compared the learning and memory skills...
U.S.: SADDAM WASN'T CONVOY-STRIKE TARGET
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. military forces were continuing DNA testing of suspected Iraqi regime figures killed in a Special Forces attack on a convoy fleeing to Syria yesterday - but Pentagon...
PERV PROF FUROR - WRIST-SLAP FOR 150,000 KID PIX
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe disgraced New York Law School professor caught with 150,000 child-porn pix - including nauseating images involving babies and dogs - got a wrist-slap sentence yesterday: He'll stay free until...
'LOBBYIST' SIMMONS PROBED ON ETHICS RAP
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons faces a subpoena and a possible $100,000 fine after failing to disclose how much money he spent trying to change the Rockefeller drug laws,...
ALAN HEVESI YESTERDAY SAID THE RECENTLY APPROVED STATE BUDGET IS BALANCED
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - State Comptroller Alan Hevesi yesterday said the recently approved state budget is balanced, but he warned of multibillion-dollar deficits in the years ahead. Hevesi disputed Gov. Pataki's contentions...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Police are asking for the public's help in finding two suspected burglars in the heist of about $500,000 in jewels from a Manhattan wholesaler. The men were captured...
STUDENTS WHO FAIL WILL KEEP MOVING UP
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein said yesterday he would maintain a policy that allows thousands of kids who flunk standardized math and English exams to be promoted to the next grade...
SICKENING LOGIC OF 'VICTIMLESS' BABY RAPE
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amTHE short man whose scraggly eyebrows frame a vacant expression rose to "explain" to a judge his fetishistic interest in watching baby rape. Edward Samuels, who taught law until his...
PROGRESS IN MIDEAST TALKS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Hopes rose yesterday - again - that a temporary Palestinian-Israeli truce was near. Talks between Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials showed "some progress" for the first time in...
VID PERVS BEWARE: NOW IT'S A FELONY
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amAs victim Stephanie Fuller looked on, Gov. Pataki yesterday signed into law a bill making video voyeurism a felony and mandating that offenders be listed in the state's registry of...
SPLIT SUPREMES OK AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amJUSTICE AND RACE WASHINGTON - In its most important ruling on race in decades, a sharply divided Supreme Court yesterday said colleges can give preference to applicants based on race,...
GOV GETS LAST CHANCE TO SAVE SUBWAY BOOTHS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA bill to keep subway station booths open for three years went to Gov. Pataki yesterday, after the Legislature quietly passed it last week during the session's final hours. If...
RECORD RAIN MEANS W. NILE SKEETERS WILL DRIVE US BUGGY
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amGnats! The buzz this summer is that the record rains that have drenched the Big Apple should produce a bumper crop of mosquitoes. And that should result in more West...
WHEELER-STEALER COPS PLEA
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amThey call him the Caddy King - but Dick Gidron won't be having much use for his fleet of El Dorados over the next three years. The owner of the...
THUG FACES COP-SHOOT 'RAP'
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA man accused of shooting a rookie cop at point-blank range after writing a rap lyric about wanting "to shoot a cop" went on trial for attempted murder in Brooklyn...
EQUAL TIME: NYERS HAIL EDUCATION 'VICTORY'
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amNew York education and elected officials yesterday applauded the Supreme Court's decision permitting colleges to consider race as part of their admission policies. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, who formerly...
DEM BIG $PONGED GREEN
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amEmbattled Brooklyn Democratic leader Clarence Norman wasn't satisfied with an enormous $245,000 payment to his political club by Mark Green's mayoral campaign and pressed for even more cash to mount...
MIKE: LET LEAD LAW LIE
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration yesterday came out against a proposal to beef up the city's lead-paint law, saying the current law was working and that changing it would be expensive and...
CHEERS TO BEST DRINKS AT COCKTAIL CONTEST
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amDrinkers seeking taste sensations should fill their glasses with A Sensuous Dream or Absolut Paradise - but run for cover if the bartender offers them a Monkeypox. That was the...
PEDDLING CHAOS - ALBANY LETS LIMITS ON MIDTOWN VENDORS EXPIRE
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amCity officials fear vending chaos in Midtown - and on Fifth Avenue and other posh streets - after state lawmakers failed to renew a law strictly regulating peddlers' locations, The...
SIS-SLAY CHARGE FOR WOMAN
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA mentally ill woman was charged yesterday with fatally stabbing her older sister, a Brooklyn church worker, during a furious argument last week, police said. Cops said Dawn Mitchell, 46,...
SUBTRACT MATH-TEST RESULTS: POL
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA powerful state lawmaker is demanding that the results of controversial Math Regents exam be tossed out so 3,000 high-school seniors who flunked have a chance to graduate. "It is...
PROTESTERS BLOW TOPS OVER TUITION
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amSome 250 students and teachers protested the 25 percent hike in city university undergraduate tuition at the CUNY board's year-end hearing - in a raucous display of anger that included...
'CHURCH SLAY' MAN'S WEIRD WITNESS PLOY
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe prosecution introduced four bullets, six shell casings and a death list into evidence in its murder case against an accused Long Island church gunman - and then the defendant...
APPLE $WEET TO BUSH - HIS MIDTOWN BASH EARNS RECORD $4M
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amDUBYA COMES TO TOWN A "loosened-up" President Bush, speaking just miles from Ground Zero, drew whoops and cheers last night as he hailed America's success in the war on terror...
STATE GOP BOASTS: GET SET FOR OUR UPSET IN '04
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amTop New York Republicans last night predicted they'll stun Democrats by delivering the state for President Bush in the 2004 election because of how he led the nation after Sept....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA bird that escaped from its cage caused a three-vehicle collision in Pennsylvania, killing a woman and injuring five other people. An elderly man was driving with a birdcage inside...
NOVELIST URIS DEAD AT 78
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amBest-selling author Leon Uris, who drew on his experiences as a Marine in World War II and as a war correspondent in the Middle East to produce several memorable war...
GARBAGE TRUCK KILLS WOMAN
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA young woman who dreamed of opening a Spanish restaurant was killed yesterday when the car she was riding in collided with a private sanitation truck in East Harlem. Aiesha...
FRAUDSTER 'HERO' SENTENCED TO REHAB
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA phony fire hero who burned investors in a luxury-car scam was sentenced yesterday to 12 to 18 months in a city-funded drug-rehab program. Posing as an FDNY firefighter, Maurice...
TEEN DROWNS IN ARTHUR KILL
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA 17-year-old boy drowned yesterday while swimming with a group of friends in the Arthur Kill between Perth Amboy, N.J., and Staten Island, officials said. The teen, whose name was...
MENTALLY ILL GAL IN FATAL SIS STAB
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA mentally ill woman was charged yesterday with fatally stabbing her older sister, a Brooklyn church worker, during a furious argument last week, police said. Cops said Dawn Mitchell, 46...
FEDS: TERROR HOAXER A COKEHEAD
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe terror fraudster who gave cops a bogus tip about an al Qaeda plot to bomb the Holland and Lincoln tunnels said he made up the scary tale because he'd...
MARTHA HOUSE CALL: STOPS BY WAKSAL FOLKS' HOME IN EAST HAMPTON
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amMartha Stewart isn't staying away from the Waksals - even though the friendship has led her to the brink of disaster. The troubled queen of good living put aside her...
DAD BUSTED AFTER 'TOSSED' BABY SURVIVES 80-FT. PLUNGE
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amA Westchester man was charged with attempted murder yesterday for allegedly throwing his infant daughter out of a seventh-floor window in her mother's Peekskill apartment, police said. Ten-month-old Meana Williams...
'NET TO GET ALL TOUCHY FEELY
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amOh, what a feeling! A new technology unveiled yesterday will allow people to feel as if they're actually touching through cyberspace when they perform anything from medical miracles to sexual...
CHEERS TO BEST DRINKS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amDrinkers seeking taste sensations should fill their glasses with A Sensuous Dream or Absolut Paradise - but run for cover if the bartender offers them a Monkeypox. That was the...
CYCLONE BLOW AWAY YANKS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe Mets and Yankees have their Subway Series, their Single-A farm clubs in Brooklyn and Staten Island have their Ferry Series. And at least for the moment, while all the...
HOOPS LOSES ONE OF ITS SAVIORS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amWhen a man the stature of Peter Carlesimo passes away, one reflects back over his remarkable life and wonders, "How did he have time to do it all?" How did...
UCLA'S WATLEY HONORED
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amUCLA softball player Natasha Watley capped off a remarkable four-year career yesterday when she won the 27th Honda-Broderick Cup as the Women's College Player of The Year. "Words cannot describe...
BELMONT GETS 2005 BREEDERS'
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amBelmont Park, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2005, will host the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championship races that year on Oct. 29, Breeders' Cup president D.G. Van Clief Jr....
CHANEY: SPREE COULD GO - SAYS LATRELL'S JOB NOT SAFE
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amSounds as if Don Chaney is hoping for another blockbuster. Breaking a two-month silence, the Knicks coach said his club needs plenty of immediate help. Chaney advanced the possibility of...
MCDYESS IS MAKING STRIDES
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe bad sign? Don Chaney has no idea if Antonio McDyess will be at training camp. The good signs? When he met with McDyess last week, he was in great...
IF HASEK COMES BACK, CUJO COULD BE RANGER
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amJaromir Jagr is yesterday's news. Or perhaps those who have been led to believe the Rangers are in serious negotiations with the Caps about acquiring No. 68 haven't heard that...
KIDD: K-MART, HARRIS KEY TO MY PLANS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe strategy has not been mapped out in full. But Jason Kidd admitted yesterday he has a list of questions that need answers before he decides whether to leaves the...
DEVILS PASS ON SMEHLIK 2.5M OPTION
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe Stanley Cup is barely re-settled in New Jersey and, already, moves are being made that change the champions. The Post has learned that GM Lou Lamoriello has elected not...
RIVALRY RESUMES IN B'KLYN
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amAnyone who questions how much of the Mets-Yanks rivalry has seeped into their minor leagues, or wonders how deeply baseball is ingrained in the fiber of Brooklyn should have seen...
BENITEZ' NEW PITCH: THE SPIN - ARMANDO THROWS MEDIA A HANGER
June 24, 2003 | 4:00am"We didn't say anything about pitching [Jason Giambi] away."VERN RUHLE --- Armando Benitez is as effective in trying to spin the media as he is in closing out good teams...
HOLD THE APPLAUSE, PAUL! - YEAH, LEBRON LISTENED TO YOUR ADVICE - BIG DEAL!
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amLeBRON James may be the greatest kid ever to grace the NBA, but I don't think anyone has to be grateful, above all Paul Silas, that the rising rookie is...
WEAVER'S LAST CHANCE - YANKEE FUTURE RESTS ON REGAINING FORM
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - It's time for Jeff Weaver to show Mel Stottlemyre, Joe Torre and his teammates that he has what it takes to help the Yankees every five days....
TORRE, CASHMAN LIKELY TO MEET WITH BOSS AND TAMPA ADVISERS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Joe Torre and Brian Cashman admitted last night that there is a likelihood of them joining George Steinbrenner and the Tampa arm of the Yankees'...
WEAVER GETTING ANOTHER CHANCE TO SHINE TONIGHT
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - It's time for Jeff Weaver to show Mel Stottlemyre, Joe Torre and his teammates that he has what it takes to help the Yankees every...
BERN-ING TO RETURN - BUT WILLIAMS UNSURE WHEN HE'LL BE BACK
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Bernie Williams would like to return to the Yankees immediately following the All-Star break but won't put a date on his comeback from left knee surgery. Asked...
METS: RADAR GUN WAS ON THE FRITZ
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amMets COO Jeff Wilpon said last night that the Shea Stadium radar gun was "absolutely not" shut off intentionally when Armando Benitez pitched in the ninth inning on Sunday night....
CYCLONES BLOW AWAY YANKS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amCyclones 7 - S.I. Yanks 4 Anyone who questions how much of the Mets-Yanks rivalry has seeped into their minor leagues, or wonders how deeply baseball is ingrained in the...
D-RAY ROLLS ROCKET - TAMPA 3B BLASTS TWO HRS TO SINK CLEMENS, YANKS
June 24, 2003 | 4:00amDevil Rays 4 - Yankees 2 ST. PETERSBURG - If you are going to have a career night, it might as well come against a Hall of Fame lock. And,...