July 29, 2003
THEY'RE CASHING IN - LEHMAN EXECS DUMP MORE STOCK THAN RIVALS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amLehman Brothers' top executives have been dumping stock at a furious pace compared with investment banking rivals on Wall Street. Since the beginning of 2001, Lehman CEO Richard Fuld has...
WHY YOU SHOULDN'T BELIEVE THE NEW JOBLESS STATS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amON Friday the government will report the latest employment figures for the nation. And while I won't - because I can't - predict whether the numbers will continue to show...
RIAA'S PICK: MUSIC ROOKIE, D.C. EXPERT
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe music industry yesterday named a Republican Beltway insider with no music experience to be its chief lobbyist. Mitch Bainwol, the former chief of staff for Senate Majority Leader Bill...
DOUBLE DEAL ON 8TH - WEB FIRM RELOCATES, MAKES ROOM FOR AP
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amINTERNET marketer DoubleClick, resurgent after a prolonged retrenchment, has a new lease on life - and this fall will have a new home, too. DoubleClick is moving from remote Tenth...
DIALING UP A LAWSUIT : TELEMARKETERS TRY TO HANG UP NEW 'DO NOT CALL' RULES
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amA "do not call" list to block telemarketers from ringing you this fall could get frozen in legal limbo. A group representing the $660 billion telemarketing industry yesterday petitioned a...
LEHMAN GETS MORGAN TRADER
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amPatrick Whalen, Morgan Stanley's head of North American trading, is jumping ship to run Lehman Brothers' global trading operations. Whalen, a 12-year Morgan veteran, announced his resignation Friday. Rohit D'Souza,...
FEDS ANNOUNCE $230B BOND BUMMER
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe stage was set yesterday for a make-or-break showdown over the White House's handling of the economy. The U.S. Treasury said it would try to pull off its biggest ever...
EX-TIMES SCRIBE CANBY FILES BY FINAL DEADLINE
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amDead men tell no tales - except at the New York Times. The obituary of comedian Bob Hope, who died Sunday, carried the byline of Vincent Canby - a Times...
LOST AT SEA - BRAXTON'S SWIMMING UPSTREAM IN 'AIDA'
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amAIDA [] The Palace Theatre, Broadway at 47th Street; (212) 307-4747. ---- THANK heavens for Toni Braxton and her new crew - although when you're in a shipwreck, it doesn't...
UNTAMED 'SHREW' IS INSANE
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amTAMING OF THE SHREW: EXTREME At Theodore Roosevelt County Park, Route 27, Montauk, L.I.; through Aug. 15. At Agawam Park, Southampton; from Aug. 20-24. Call (631) 267-0105 for information. -----...
PICKER PERFECT
July 29, 2003 | 4:00am* EARL SCRUGGS, DOC WATSON and RICKY SKAGGS "The Three Pickers" [] Rounder Records Artistic perfection takes many forms: the little black dress, the '63 Corvette. In terms of red,...
SUPERGRASS TOURS SOLAR SYSTEM ON 'OTHER PLANETS'
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amWATCHING Supergrass perform recently, one Brooklyn bass player said the band makes good music for listening to while sailing on a boat. What he meant was the British pop trio's...
IT'S O.J.-VU ALL OVER AGAIN KOBE ON OR IN COURT, MAKES TV EXECS DRIBBLE FOR JOY
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amFor all-news cable TV, Kobe is O.J.FOR cable news, a judge's ruling last week allowing TV cameras into an August 6 hearing for NBA star Kobe Bryant is like Christmas...
GAY-DAR PUT TO TEST TV'S FIRST ALL-BOY DATING SHOW HAS A CATCH - THEY'RE NOT ALL GAY
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amBoy Meets Boy Tonight at 9 p.m., Bravo 1/2 BRAVO, which foisted "Queer Eye," upon us, somewhat redeems itself with yet another gay "reality" show, "Boy Meets Boy." As much...
APES OF WRATH
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amRENOWNED chimp expert Dr. Jane Goodall wants to save Precious, the baby orangutan character in NBC's weird soap, "Passions," from a life of misery. Goodall has demanded that NBC chief...
THE STARR REPORT
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amTad early - a first peek at 'Date' flick Here's your first look at NBC's Josh Duhamel (formerly of "All My Children") and Kate Bosworth in the just- wrapped movie,...
A REAL TROOPER: FOR THE SOLDIERS, HE WAS THE ULTIMATE COMEDIAN
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amWHERE there were troops, there was Hope. No showbiz personality ever traveled so far and so often to entertain so many as Bob Hope. For five decades, from World War...
LEGACY OF LAUGHTER
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amBOB Hope, America's favorite entertainer, wisecracked, tap-danced and sang his way from the final days of vaudeville to the golden ages of radio, Hollywood movies and TV. He died Sunday,...
BOB'S BOMBSHELL
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amLET me tell you about the time we saved Bob Hope's job. It was May 1993 and as Bob prepared to celebrate his 90th birthday with a prime-time special on...
BOB AT HIS BEST
July 29, 2003 | 4:00am* The "Road" movies: Any of the six teamings with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour * "The Big Broadcast of 1938": Hope's first feature. * "They Got Me Covered" (1943):...
THE ENTERTAINER
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amBob Hope appeared in more than 60 movies over half a century - but the most fondly remembered are undoubtedly the wacky "Road" comedies he made with singer Bing Crosby...
GIS SNARE SADDAM BODYGUARD, 2 PALS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amAmerican soldiers captured one of Saddam Hussein's bodyguards, as well as two associates, in pre-dawn raids today in the former dictator's hometown of Tikrit, the U.S. military said. "We got...
THE OTHER HOPE - THE GENIUS YOU DIDN'T SEE
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amIT'S hard for those of us who grew up with the elderly Bob Hope - the one who starred on the increasingly painful TV comedy specials and in increasingly awful...
HELP FIND MISSING BROOKLYN SISTERS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amPolice are seeking the public's help in finding a Brooklyn teen and her 2-year-old sister, who've been missing since Sunday night. Tarsha Mason, 16, and her sister Kendria Hamilton, were...
FULL OF SISTERLY LOVE - NUN GIVES 'FAMILY SPIRIT' TO HOMES FOR DISABLED
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amSister Kay Crumlish - Leadership Medal nominee --- A trip to Amsterdam 20 years ago to escort a wheelchair-bound young woman who wanted with all her heart to see the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amHow do bikers ride in the nude? Very carefully! That's the word from the North American Nude Bikers Club, which held its annual rally in Murfreesboro, Tenn., over the weekend....
DA SEEKS DEATH IN MOTHER-SON SLAYS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn district attorney is seeking the death penalty for a man who allegedly strangled his pregnant girlfriend and drowned her 6-year-old son in a fight over bath bubbles. Smith,...
MY LATE UNCLE HUEY DOUGHERTY WAS AS GAY AS A NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY....
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amMY LATE uncle Huey Dougherty was as gay as a New Year's Eve party. He was the toast of postwar Europe with the blockbuster play he wrote, "Seagulls Over Sorrento."...
KERRY & ANDY IN SPLIT-UP SITDOWN
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Andrew Cuomo and Kerry Kennedy Cuomo have sat down together for tense divorce talks for the first time since their marriage disintegrated last month amidst an allegation of...
POL'S PORN EXCUSE - PINS KIDDIE WEB SURFING ON GAY SHAME
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amFormer city official Russell Harding, who faces up to 20 years in prison on child pornography charges, was drawn to the seedy underworld of Internet sex chat rooms because he...
BUSH PUSHES A TAX CUT FOR POOR
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amPresident Bush, speaking yesterday to a prominent African-American group in Pittsburgh, urged Congress to pass a tax cut for the working poor "as a matter of fairness." Some Republican leaders...
MOONLIGHTING COKE-DEALER COP GETS JAIL
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amAn ex-cop was taken out of Brooklyn Criminal Court in handcuffs yesterday to begin serving a 90-day sentence for selling cocaine to his undercover brothers in blue. The disgraced veteran...
AIDS ON RISE AGAIN - STATS SHOW 1ST U.S. SURGE IN 10 YEARS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amGay men are becoming more promiscuous and practicing safe sex less frequently - leading to the first AIDS increase nationwide in a decade, federal officials said yesterday. "A new generation...
TOO MUCH SON FOR SEPT. 11 'CON MAN'
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe prosecutorial pile-on continued yesterday against an accused Queens con man charged with inventing a son, then scamming $160,000 in charity loot by pretending the son died in the World...
BRINGING HIS DREAMS TO LIFE WOULD BE TRUE TRIBUTE
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amTHE stench of political hypocrisy hung over City Hall yesterday like flies over a dead body. The odor was created by a handful of politicians who think the best way...
SERIAL KILLER EYED IN L.I. SLAY
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amPolice investigating the grisly discovery of a headless, handless woman in Suffolk County believe the murder could be the work of a serial killer - because a similarly mutilated body...
GOV PAYS BACK JUST 4G
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki, who spent more than $45 million for his re-election bid last year, repaid the state a "token" amount of less than $4,000 for use of the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A 28-year-old man was bumped by a subway train yesterday after he got into a shoving match on a platform in the Union Square station, police said. The...
SMILING 'TIL THE VERY END - BOB HOPE DIES IN 'AMAZING SENDOFF'
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amBob Hope, the master of one-line quips, died Sunday night "with a smile on his face," his daughter said yesterday. Hope's wife and children were at the bedside of his...
GI SLAIN, 3 HURT IN BAGHDAD GRENADE ATTACK
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Another U.S. soldier was killed and three were injured yesterday in a brazen daylight grenade attack in downtown Baghdad as the battle for who wins the uneasy peace...
SLAY PLOTTER GETS 22 YEARS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amA man convicted of murder for ordering the execution-style slaying of a Queens woman in 1992 was sentenced to 22 years to life in prison yesterday. "An innocent young woman...
TURKISH COLA WITH A 'CHASE'R
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amChevy Chase - the former "Saturday Night Live" funnyman - is hawking a new Turkish cola that's gunning to take the fizz out of Pepsi and Coke. The TV ads...
MOURNING AT CITY HALL - DAVIS LIES IN STATE AS THOUSANDS PAY RESPECTS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amCouncilman James Davis' body was returned yesterday to City Hall - the site of his murder - to lie in state as 7,000 New Yorkers filed through to pay their...
GIRL, 9, IS RAPED IN 'ROOF' HORROR
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amA 9-year-old Harlem girl was raped and sodomized by a stranger who threatened to throw her off the roof of her 17-story building if she resisted, police said yesterday. The...
GAY IT AIN'T SO: UNION - OPEN HIGH SCHOOL TO ALL KIDS: PRINCIPALS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe principals union said yesterday that a new high school for gay students "should be open to any student" - not just to those who are homosexual, bisexual or transgender....
ARNIE: DON'T COUNT ME OUT JUST YET
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Amid new reports that he's terminated plans to run for California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday insisted he still hasn't made up his mind. A spokesman for the...
HAMAS READYING MISSILES: SHARON
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to tell President Bush today that the Hamas terror group is re-arming itself with homemade missiles during the cease-fire and that Israel...
SIMMONS FIGHTS PROBE IN FED COURT
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amHip-hop pioneer Russell Simmons yesterday took his beef with the state Lobbying Commission to federal court, saying his constitutional right to protest tough Rockefeller-era drug laws was being trampled. Simmons,...
HANGED TOT'S KIN UNITED IN TRAGEDY
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amHeartbroken relatives of Juan Batista, the father who allegedly hanged his 22-month-old son, Omar, in a Queens motel room four days ago, met with the murdered boy's mother and her...
KATE'S WILL SPREADS HER RICHES
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amIn death, legendary actress Katharine Hepburn is sharing her life. In her last will and testament, the "African Queen" star left her four Academy Awards, movie costumes, film scripts and...
SCAMMER TO THE STARS A FREE MAN
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amDisgraced financier Dana Giacchetto, jailed for plundering millions from investors, including a Who's Who of Hollywood stars, clung to his girlfriend yesterday as he strolled through SoHo on his first...
HAMPTONS DIARY
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amBUS-TED! That was the fate of four Brooklyn men after they allegedly stole a charter bus in the Town of Southampton and promptly crashed it. Charged with unauthorized use of...
THE BANKER AND THE 'BOMB': TERRIF[[U1;U1]]YING DRAMA ON FIFTH AVE.
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amA terrified bank manager - handcuffed to a briefcase that a sicko robber warned him contained a bomb - ran out of his Midtown branch yesterday screaming, "I've only got...
RUDY UNITES TERROR VICTIMS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amA group of 25 young Israeli victims of terror met yesterday with the families of Sept. 11 victims and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani at a Manhattan reception. Giuliani said at...
ANOTHER U.S. SOLDIER DIES
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amAnother U.S. soldier was killed and three were injured yesterday in a brazen daylight grenade attack in downtown Baghdad. U.S. Central Command said the latest casualties came when "an unknown...
THE BANKER AND THE 'BOMB' - TERRIFYING DRAMA ON FIFTH AVE.
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amA terrified bank manager - handcuffed to a briefcase that a sicko robber warned him contained a bomb - ran out of his Midtown branch yesterday, screaming, "I've only got...
MAN SHOT ON UPPER W. SIDE
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amA man walking along a busy Upper West Side street last night was shot by a thug who suddenly pulled up in a dark-colored van, jumped out and pulled the...
GOV PAID JUST 4G FOR PLANE TRIPS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki, who spent more than $45 million for his re-election bid last year, repaid the state a "token" amount of less than $4,000 for use of the...
RATTY DIVORCE: L.I. WOMAN BLAMES HUBBY FOR RODENT HORDES
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amCall it War of the Rats. A Long Island mother says her soon-to-be ex-husband is trying to terrorize her and her young daughters out of their $3.5 million home -...
OFFENSE HAS TO TAKE HIT FOR YANKEE WOES
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amON Saturday, it was simple to fixate on Armando Benitez's failures because they were such an easy, attractive storyline. Easy and attractive enough to obscure that the Yankees had gone...
'CIDE', 'MAKER' BACK ON TRACK
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Funny Cide, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, and Empire Maker, who foiled his Triple Crown bid in the Belmont Stakes, take their first steps toward...
YANKEES' PEN NEEDS AN ANGEL
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amNOW you understand why it was said over and over again here that the Yankees needed to sign Ugueth Urbina this past winter or trade for him before the Marlins...
NOTHING'S EASY ; FOR NUTTEN
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amTom Nutten considers the right guard spot on the Jets' offensive line his "to lose." Head coach Herm Edwards doesn't see it as quite as sure a thing. In fact,...
WHITE AGREES TO DEVIL DEAL
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe Devils' most potentially contentious negotiation is complete. The Post has learned that big four defenseman Colin White has agreed to a two-year deal, ensuring that he doesn't sit out...
MCGRAW IN SAFETY SPOTLIGHT
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES Herm Edwards expected a new Jon McGraw this season, since the free safety has a year under his belt and was expected to move into the starter's role...
JOSEPH'S ABSENCE POINTLESS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - What is a bit silly about the absence of first-round pick William Joseph from Giants training camp is that his first NFL contract will not be...
VAN HORN: WINNING WILL QUIET CRITICS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amJust win, baby. Keith Van Horn knows that's all it will take to diminish the outrage Knick fans feel from last week's Latrell Sprewell blockbuster trade. "I'm going to bring...
TIME'S ON HIS SIDE ; NEW GIANT COACH COOL UNDER PRESSURE
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Everything on the flight from Jacksonville to Alameda, Calif., was routine until the pilot of the Navy helicopter saw that the transmission temperature went "redline," tilting into the...
TOOMER'S TALENT CAN'T BE HIDDEN
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - True, Amani Toomer's Pro Bowl-voting peers last year somehow managed to misplace his career-high 82 catches and 1,343 yards. The Colts lost him during a flea-flicker for 82...
SHEA WELCOMES DAVEY FIRST VISIT IN AGES WILL HONOR CARTER
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amWhen Davey Johnson returns to Shea Stadium tonight as part of Gary Carter Night, it will be the first time the former Met manager sets foot in Flushing as part...
METS SHIP OUT LLOYD; REY MAY BE NEXT
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mets reliever Graeme Lloyd was sent packing yesterday, and he might not be the last one off the boat. Interim general manager Jim Duquette indicated that he was...
ZIM MAY GO ELSEWHERE NEXT YEAR
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM - Don Zimmer wants to coach next year, whether or not the Yankees ask him to return for a ninth season. "If I feel as good as...
BOSS-TON BASHER ; STEINBRENNER PUTS GIDDY SOX IN THEIR PLACE
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Are we to believe that George Steinbrenner is maturing late? If ever there was a time for The Boss to fire up his Yankees, yesterday was it after...
NETS GET LUCIOUS IN FOLD
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amOne more piece to the Nets' overall 2003-04 puzzle moved into place yesterday when the team reached an agreement on a two-year deal to re-sign shooting guard Lucious Harris, the...
KEITH: WINS WILL GET FANS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amJust win, baby. Keith Van Horn knows that's all it will take to diminish the outrage Knick fans feel from last week's Latrell Sprewell blockbuster trade. "I'm going to bring...
WHITE INKS NEW DEAL WITH DEVILS
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe Devils' most potentially contentious negotiation is complete. The Post has learned that big-four defenseman Colin White has agreed to a two-year deal, ensuring that he won't sit out training...
PHILLIPS, WIFE PUT BIRTH ON FAST TRACK
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amIt took him six years to get here. Jason Phillips doesn't want to lose any more time. The Met first baseman's wife, Kelly, is due to give birth to Jason...
MILLWOOD ON METS' WISH LIST
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES When Tom Glavine ate lunch with former Atlanta teammate Kevin Millwood recently, the two pitchers talked about the adjustment period for working in new cities. Soon, they could...
'PEN WRITES LOSING TALE FOR AMAZIN'S
July 29, 2003 | 4:00amBrewers 4Mets 2 David Weathers and John Franco are veterans expected to provide stability and leadership to a young team. But last night, both relievers were as lousy as their...