July 14, 2003
TIMES IN BUSINESS OF CORRECTIONS
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amNow the Business section is getting the most space in the Times' correction column. In a much anticipated - and very lengthy - correction in today's editions, The New York...
SPITZER, GALVIN TO MOVE AGAINST MORGAN STANLEY
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amEliot Spitzer is fighting back. Spitzer, the New York State attorney General, is joining with Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin and U.S. Congressman Barney Frank today to announce a...
MERRILL'S VUE BET - MAY PONY UP $500M TO AID BRONFMAN BID
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amMerrill Lynch & Co. is prepared to shell out big bucks for a ticket to ride with Edgar Bronfman Jr. in the Vivendi derby, The Post has learned. Merrill, the...
HILLARY'S TOP SPOT MAY BE 'HISTORY'
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton may have sold more than one million copies of her book - a record fast start for a bestseller - but with 600,000 copies still in...
HILLARY BOOK'S TOP SPOT JUST MIGHT BE 'HISTORY'
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton may have sold more than one million copies of her book - a record fast start for a bestseller - but with 600,000 more copies still...
FORMER PHOTOG SAYS WE NEED BETTER PORNO
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amJIM Graham knows why you don't like porn. It's not your fault - it's just that most pornography stinks. But Graham - the city's most-vocal pornangelist - wants to change...
STARR REPORT
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amCybergavel falls on Actors' Fund auction I'm not sure just what "an experience with the cast of 'Queer As Folk' " means, but it's part-and-parcel of The Actors' Fund of...
LOOK WHO DADDY'S KISSING NOW
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amIT'S not everyday that you get to view videotape of your own father passionately tongue-kissing one or more women. Fortunately, the number of times I've had to endure that experience...
WATCHING THE 'DETECTIVES' - THESE HISTORY LESSONS ROCK
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amIF "Trading Spaces," married "Antiques Roadshow," their baby would definitely come out looking like PBS's newest outing, "History Detectives." It's got elements of both shows with a history lesson thrown...
COUTURE CLUB: WHAT'S HAUTE FROM THE PARIS CATWALKS
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amFEW of us can afford the clothes on the runways at last week's haute couture shows in Paris, where the painstakingly hand-made - and incredibly outlandish - suits and dresses...
STITCH UP: SHARP-TONGUED BRIT FASHION DUO MAKES THE MOST (OR LEAST) OF YOU
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amDON'T ever ask Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine, "Do I look fat in this?" Unlike an anxious-to-please boyfriend, the blunt blond duo behind "What Not to Wear" - the hit...
GREEN ACRES
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amTHE moment Central Park first opened its gates in 1858, New Yorkers from every stratum of society became rich beyond imagination. For there lay a tranquil expanse of fields and...
DIVORCE A 'PLUS' FOR DANDY ANDY: CHUM
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amANDREW CUOMO will emerge personally and politically stronger from his high-profile breakup with wife Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, one of his oldest friends predicted yesterday. The friend, Philadelphia Stock Exchange President...
$4.5M AWARD FOR HARDHAT'S HORROR
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amA construction worker whose life has been agony since a nightmare accident in 1999 has been awarded $4.5 million. Manuel Caamano, who was foreman of a Queens construction site, was...
DR. DRE FIGHTING NEW RIP-OFF RAP
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amHas Dr. Dre got something to hide? The rap godfather is fighting in Manhattan federal court to stop a French jazz musician from digging up previous legal suits against him...
STATE'S O.T. A '$OAR' POINT
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Overtime costs paid by the state jumped a whopping 32 percent over the past four years, The Post has learned. In 1999-00, the state paid a total of...
CASE OF THE CHIHUAHUAS FROM HELL
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amLANCASTER, Calif. - The fate of more than 150 cute - but vicious - Chihuahuas rests in the hands of a California judge, who'll be asked to sentence the little...
TERROR CHECK SINKS N.Y.-FRANCE ROWBOAT BID
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amTEDDY REZVOY'S romance with conquering the Atlantic in a rowboat has sadly ended back where it started: on the East Coast of the United States. It has also left him...
FUROR OVER BAD-CHECK FEES
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amUnsuspecting New Yorkers pay bigger fines for depositing bad checks than the people who bounced them, according to a survey released yesterday. The fees for people who unwittingly cash a...
DEATH-DEFYING HERO - CHARGES INTO FATAL INFERNO TO RESCUE 3
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amA teenager was killed in a raging predawn Bronx blaze yesterday, but a heroic relative risked his life - climbing up the outside of the burning building - to save...
RATS BITE CHEATS - BURNING UP HOT LINE TO REPORT BOGUS SUITS
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amFrauds, beware. Snitches have flooded a new hot line to report bogus claims against the city - and now about 100 cases are under investigation. Last month, city Comptroller William...
DA IN ROAD RAGE OVER CAR KILLER
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn DA Charles Hynes vowed yesterday to have the man who fatally struck two young girls with his Porsche sent back to prison after The Post found him driving in...
SUBWAY VICTIM STILL CRITICAL
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amA 31-year-old man who miraculously survived being hit by a subway train remained in critical but stable condition at St. Vincent's Medical Center yesterday. José Maldonado suffered a broken back...
BURGERS ARE AS ADDICTIVE AS HEROIN: STUDY
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amA hamburger and fries can be just as addictive as cigarettes and even hard drugs, a surprising new study claims. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin say high doses of...
'PIRATES' PLUNDER BOX-OFFICE GOLD
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amDisney had every other Hollywood movie walking the plank over the weekend as "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" plundered $46.4 million to grab the No....
NYPD BEEFS UP GUN UNIT
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amThe Police Department has added 20 cops to an elite unit that was tasked with getting illegal guns off the street after two of its undercover detectives were gunned down,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amThe town of Phoenixville, Pa., celebrated its little part in movie history over the weekend - as the place where "The Blob" was filmed. The fourth annual BlobFest featured scores...
SUV KNOCKS BABY FROM MOM'S ARMS
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amA 32-day-old baby who was hurled across Eighth Avenue by a stolen SUV was undergoing brain scans at St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday, but was in a stable condition, nurses said....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A man was murdered in his Washington Heights apartment building Saturday night, police said yesterday. Cops responded at 10:30 p.m. to a 911 call on 164th Street and...
ISRAEL NAILS IRA BIG - BOMBMAKER TRAINS PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS: OFFICIALS
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amLONDON - Israel yesterday nabbed an alleged expert IRA bombmaker suspected of training Palestinian terror thugs in the West Bank. The 40-year-old militant - described as one of the world's...
MIDEAST VICTORY - OUR WAR'S POSITIVE RESULTS
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amLOOKING for a little peace and quiet this summer? Check out the notorious "Arab Street." Remember how, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom, every strategic genius with a word...
COP CRUISER FLIPS IN B'KLYN CADDY COLLISION
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amTwo policewomen who raced to break up a knife fight were battling broken bones in Kings County Hospital yesterday after their car (above) smashed into another and turned over at...
HAMPTONS DIARY
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amTHE James Beard Founda- tion Chefs & Champagne food festival, usually a low-key affair for hardcore foodies, got a lot spicier this year. Event chairwoman, socialite Nina Griscom, had gums...
RAIDERS HIT BACK AT IRAQ GOONS
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amU.S. forces in central Iraq have launched a stepped-up nighttime push to hunt down die-hard Saddam Hussein loyalists responsible for a series of bloody attacks on American troops. Soldiers participating...
PAINFUL LABOR OF LOVE - SMITTEN PROF'S PROJECT BACKFIRES
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amNEXT time, try a sensible singles bar. A year ago, Dr. Robert Epstein, Harvard-bred editor of Psychology Today, attempted to force a shotgun wedding between two reluctant partners - love...
EMBATTLED TIMES STAYS IN-HOUSE FOR NEW TOP EDITOR
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amThe scandal-tarred New York Times will promote managing editor Bill Keller to the paper's top job this morning, sources said. The executive-editor position was famously vacated last month when Howell...
HOOKY STICKS IT TO CITY - KEY REASON FOR SHOCKING FLUNK RATE
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amAttendance woes and failing students have turned some of the city's public high schools into teenage wastelands, data obtained by The Post shows. A staggering 40 percent of the city's...
HYPERPOWER FOR GOOD
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amIRAQ is not Vietnam. Hell, maybe Vietnam is not Vietnam - not in the hopelessly quagmired, doomed-to-defeat sense now informing much of the post-Operation Iraqi Freedom debate. History likely will...
KIDDIE GUT CHECK - CITYWIDE WORKOUT PLAN AIMS AT FAT TOTS
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amPump it up, little man. The Children's Aid Society has come up with an experimental diet and exercise program for chubby 2- to 4-year-olds following a shocking Health Department survey...
SUBWAY COPS GET GAS MASKS
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amCall it "Top Gun" meets the NYPD. Cops who respond to subway terror threats have been equipped with military-style gas masks so they can withstand a possible chemical or biological...
CAMELOT FOR SALE JFK & JACKIE'S UNDIES UP FOR AUCTION
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amIf you ever wanted to walk in Jackie Kennedy's shoes or slip into a pair of JFK's boxer shorts, here's your chance. An amazingly intimate collection of personal items once...
LOBBYING PANEL CALLS ON CUOMO
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Former gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo is the latest to be summoned to testify before the state Lobbying Commission, The Post has learned. The commission is looking into whether...
IMAM AND DAD IN 650G SMUGGLE TRIAL
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amAn Egyptian-born imam and his father are set to go on trial today for allegedly trying to smuggle overseas more than $650,000 hidden in household products. The feds uncovered the...
APRICOT RX MAN ON TRIAL
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens cancer survivor who claims daily doses of cyanide-laden apricot seeds saved his life is set to go on trial today for allegedly hawking and promoting the toxic "cure"...
PANEL PROBES BLOCKBUSTER 9/11 CLAIM
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The chairman of the 9/11 commission said he plans to investigate a claim by an al Qaeda investigator that Osama Bin Laden's operations chief chaired the first Sept....
KIDS FACING SUMMER BUMMER OVER TOUGHER STANDARDS
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amMore than 110,000 failing high-school students are attending the summer session this year - but they face an uphill battle to graduate with stricter requirements kicking in. Students set to...
WHY IT'S HARDER FOR WOMEN TO QUIT SMOKING
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amWomen find it more difficult to quit smoking than men because they tend to use cigarettes as an emotional crutch, a new report has revealed. "Women are more likely to...
RUMSFELD: MORE LOSSES LOOM
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Ex-prisoners, non-Iraqi fighters and Ba'ath Party loyalists are likely to step up their campaign against Americans this summer and kill more soldiers before peace is established in Iraq,...
FATHER KNOWS BEST FOR YOUNG CYCLONE - NEOPHYTE HAS POP IN HIS BAT
July 14, 2003 | 4:00am"When Shawn's in the game I don't worry about third base." -TIM TEUFEL, Cyclones manager ----- AS he tells the story that's made his family local legends in suburban Vancouver,...
BEST BE-WEAVE IT! - JEFF JUST MASTERFUL AS YANKS JOLT JAYS
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - We will find out what the Yankees are made of in the second half after they make their yearly trade and acquire a big name or two. Yesterday...
AMAZIN' KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amAfter the Mets' 4-3 win over Philadelphia yesterday at Shea, Jason Phillips said he and his fellow rookies are responsible for all sorts of chores, carrying all kinds of things...
SCOTT WANTS CLEAN-AIR ACT - BYRON WILL CHAT WITH KIDD SOON
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES The talk will come. It just hasn't come yet. Byron Scott fully intends to chat with Jason Kidd and clear any stifling air that may exist after a...
JASON GETS GOOD BREAK - HALFWAY HOME & FINALLY HEALTHY
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Blue Jays 2 TORONTO - His knee barked and his wrist screamed. Then he couldn't see thanks to an eye infection that led to a calcium deposit...
BIG EAST HOOPS PLAY SURVIVOR
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amThere have been some off-the-chart spikes in the history of Big East blood pressure. Remember when the cuff popped in Syracuse when Georgetown coach John Thompson declared Manley Field House...
IT'S SHOW TIME IN BEANTOWN - SUMMER LEAGUE STRUT FOR KNICKS' ROOKIES
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Sweetney, Lampe, & Vranes. It's not a Manhattan law firm but a trio of young big men ready to show court evidence GM Scott Layden finally got it...
AGENT COULD BE KEY TO BOMBERS GETTING GONZO
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Right field was a question for the Yankees before Raul Mondesi hurt his left wrist Friday night and was forced to miss the last two games....
BELIEVING IN THE FUTURE
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amTAKE it from Cleon Jones, who survived many seasons like this one to play in two World Series for the Mets. You gotta bereave the first half the Mets ended...
CHANEY SAYS KNICKS NEVER WANTED FORD
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - When T.J. Ford squares off against Knicks point guard Frank Williams today at noon at UMass-Boston, it won't be a case of what might have been. Ford was...
OLD METS, NEW FINISH - PHILLIPS WINNER SAVES BENITEZ, CEDENO
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amMets 4 - Phillies 3 These days, even when the Mets win, it's only after they've done almost everything possible to lose. Take yesterday at Shea. The Mets beat Philadelphia,...
STARS BEING 'HOUNDED'
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amCHICAGO - They call it the Magnificent Mile and yesterday Michigan Ave. lived up to its nickname. On a perfect day, the beautiful people were everywhere. So were the life-sized...
GLAVINE'S OFFER PAYS OFF
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Tom Glavine made the Mets an offer and they didn't refuse. Good thing for both parties. Glavine delivered on his proposal to start on short rest for the...
ROOK SWEETNEY'S HIGH ON MOURNING'S RETURN
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amMike Sweetney believes his Georgetown buddy Alonzo Mourning will prove everyone wrong. Sweetney, the Knicks' first-round pick, worked out often against Mourning last summer, playing against him in pickup games...
LEBRON'S SET FOR BEANTOWN
July 14, 2003 | 4:00amThere will be a LeBron sighting in Beantown this week. LeBron James is expected to suit up for Cleveland tonight when the Boston summer league opens today at U-Mass, Boston...