August 4, 2003
MERRILL'S O'NEAL WEIGHING MAJOR SHAKE-UP
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amMerrill Lynch & Co. Chief Executive Stan O'Neal is discussing a plan to shake up the firm's top ranks to consolidate his power within the nation's biggest brokerage firm. In...
MALONE BACKS OFF: VIVENDI AUCTION FOCUS SEEMS TO SHIFT TO NBC
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amJohn Malone is backing away from bidding for Vivendi Universal Entertainment, The Post has learned. While Malone is not expected to announce he has dropped out of the auction, he...
BROOKLYN SON ELECTS TO MAKE HIS MARK IN JAPAN
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amTHERE'S a very old Japanese expression that warns, "The nail that stands up gets hammered down." That may be true, but there's a slightly less-old Brooklyn adage that warns, "You...
STARR REPORT
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amHolly's wacky 'Experiment' Jamie Kennedy has recruited WB stab lemate Holly Robinson Peete for an up coming episode of "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment." In the segment, Peete - who's starring...
THE SEARCH FOR $1-BIL. CHIMP ; CAN HE TAKE PRESSURE OF LIVE SPECIAL?
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amLET'S try not to call this "Simian Idol" - but the hunt for a chattering Chimpanzee who may award some lucky winner a $1 billion prize next month is now...
A ROXIE WITH MOXIE ; MELANIE CAN'T SING, DANCE OR ACT, BUT SHE'S A STAR
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amCHICAGO (3 stars) At the Ambassador Theater, 219 W. 49th St., (212) 239-6200. REMEMBER that legendary verdict on Fred Astaire's first screen test? "Can't sing. Can't act. Can dance a...
LINDA GAVE ME HOW MANY STARS? ; ROSEANNE COOKS UP LATEST COMEBACK
August 4, 2003 | 4:00am"The Real Roseanne Show" Wednesday night at 9 on ABC (one star) REALITY television is becoming a big pain in the rear, or should I say a big rear in...
TREASURE HUNT: FALL FASHION ITEMS SO HOT THERE ARE WAITING LISTS
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amIT may be August, but it's never too early to start on your autumn wardrobe. As fall 2003 shipments wend their way to boutiques around the country, some of next...
DRESSED FOR SEX : MEN RATE FALL FASHIONS FOR SIZZLE FACTOR
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amWANNA have a lot of sex this fall? Avoid blue tights and opt for a pretty dress. That's the consensus of a poll conducted last week by The Post, in...
MARTHA 'FIB' FLUB; PROBER SAYS HER LIES SPURRED RAP
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amNew York's top FBI agent says Martha Stewart could have avoided criminal charges if she had only told the truth. "Had it been that she [Stewart] came forward, she probably...
RAW DEAL FOR N.Y. - WE GET 85ó FOR EVERY $1 SENT TO D.C.
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amNew York state is getting ripped off big-time by Uncle Sam - and New Jersey and Connecticut get the worst financial deals in the 50 states, a new study shows....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amThieves not only stole items from B.J. Miller's house - they stole the whole home. Miller's prefabricated vacation home in Placerville, Calif., was deconstructed and carted off in trucks over...
HIGH-RISK DRIVERS GET $LAMMED
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Auto-insurance rates for the more than 360,000 drivers in the state's already costly high-risk pool are set to skyrocket next week by 20 percent, The Post has learned....
VETS RAGE AT HILL SNUB
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amIF SEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton runs for the presidency in 2004, 2008 or the year 3000, she will do so with a bunch of Queens veterans angrier than a pit...
GIFF VOWS 100G FOR DAVIS VISION
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amCouncil Speaker Gifford Miller is vowing to find $100,000 in next year's city budget to fund the anti-violence cause of his slain colleague, James Davis - possibly for a nonviolence...
DEAN HAS DEM RIVALS 'COVERED'
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amDemocratic 2004 presidential wannabe Howard Dean made the cover of both Newsweek and Time this week and tops a public poll in Iowa for the first time - confirming the...
WACKY RAP-SLAY SCHEME
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amA hulking Philly man packing an unloaded gun walked up to a New York City police officer in Times Square and asked the cop if he had some bullets so...
AL QAEDA BIG VOWS TO MAKE U.S. 'PAY'
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amA voice claiming to be Osama bin Laden's top deputy vows to make America "pay dearly" if any al Qaeda prisoners are sentenced to death at the U.S. military base...
FIRST-TIME TOURIST MUGGED ON UPPER E. SIDE
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amA Canadian tourist on her first trip to New York City was attacked by a deranged bottle-slinging man while she was out for an after-dinner walk on the Upper East...
GIANT FANS E-LATED - PALS CAN NOW SHARE THEIR PRECIOUS TICKETS ONLINE
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amJust how long is the wait to purchase season tickets to see the New York Giants? If you put your name on the waiting list back in 1979, you're likely...
CALIF. DEMS URGE DAVIS TO DROP OUT
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amAs California voters wait for Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision on whether he'll run for governor, Democratic unity is fracturing as more and more party members turn against Gov. Gray Davis, who...
CITY POLS PIG OUT - YOUR $$ BUYS COUNCIL DVDS, OTHER GOODIES
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amThe city's cash crunch hasn't stopped some City Council members from making some eye-catching purchases for everything from consultants to electronic gizmos. An examination of members' spending over the last...
HIP-HOP FUN TURNS DEADLY
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island man who went to a Medford bar to listen to hip-hop music and hang out with friends was killed in a brawl that began inside the bar...
PICNIC RECORD IN THE BASKET
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amSo many people showed up in Bryant Park for the world's biggest picnic yesterday, there was hardly any room for ants. More than 1,300 people - many of whom had...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * An innocent jostle turned violent in the West Village yesterday. Timothy Mayo, 22, was walking on Grove St. at 2:45 a.m. when he bumped into a young man,...
MAYOR MIGUEL BLOOMBERG
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amAfter salsa-dancing in the Dominican Republic on Friday, Mayor Bloomberg was back in the city yesterday - still marching to a Latin beat. Hizzoner first headed to Queens, where he...
RED, WHITE & 'WELCOME HOME!'
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amSome 300 Marine reservists yesterday returned to Long Island from Iraq amid a carnival of red, white and blue and a heroes' welcome from more than 1,000 friends and relatives....
'WRONG MAN' SUES; SEEKS $50M FOR 17-YR. JAIL HORROR
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn-born carpenter who spent nearly half his life in prison for a murder he didn't commit says New York state owes him $50 million. "I'm angry about what they...
A TRULY GREAT DAY IN HARLEM
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amIt was party time for thousands of revelers yesterday at the 29th annual Great Day in Harlem Festival, where gospel, R&B, jazz and Bahamian music came together under overcast skies....
WOBBLE, WOBBLE: JEN & BEN'S 'GIGLI' FALLS FLAT AT BOX OFFICE
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amStick a fork in Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's first movie - that turkey's done. "Gigli," the endlessly annoying lovebirds' first film together, has been declared the stinker of the...
ONE DEAD IN L.I. SUV ROLLOVER
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amOne person was killed and another seriously injured yesterday morning when an SUV rolled over on the Southern State Parkway on Long Island. Seven passengers and an infant were inside...
YOUNG 'HARRY POTTER' STARS FACING AN AGE-OLD PROBLEM
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amPresto, change-o! The cute little kids from the Harry Potter movies have really grown up. As these photos from the set of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" reveal,...
TRAGEDY OF N.Y.'S CAVIAR KINGPINS: BIZ EMPIRE'S STRUGGLES END IN 2 SUICIDES
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amEric and Bruce Sobol had more in common than kinship and their upscale Caviarteria shops - they both had inner demons that drove them to suicide. The brothers ran their...
ACCUSER CRIED RAPE TO BELLHOP JUST AFTER INCIDENT
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amThe woman accusing Kobe Bryant of rape tearfully told a bellhop minutes after the alleged attack that that she had just been "forced to have sex" with the NBA superstar,...
LA COZY NOSTRA: JAIL BANS ATT'Y FOR HANKY-PANKY WITH MOBSTER
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amA lawyer representing Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano's brother-in-law has been banned from a city lockup for allegedly using jailhouse meetings to secretly carry on a romance with another reputed Gambino...
HONORABLE MANSION: LIBERTY HEROES TO BE HAILED AT GRACIE
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amThe winners of the Post's second annual Liberty Medals, the ordinary heroes who make New York so extraordinary, will be honored at the people's house - Gracie Mansion. The reception...
KIBO$H ON KOBE - NUTELLA AND SPRITE KO ENDORSEMENTS
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amNutella is ending its sweet deal with Kobe Bryant, whose recent indictment on a sexual-assault charge threatens to unravel his lucrative endorsement career. The maker of the hazelnut spread has...
$PONGERS H2-OWE MILLIONS TO APPLE
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amDeadbeats have stiffed the city's Water Board for $200 million to $300 million over the years, and many of the older bills may never be collected. The Brooklyn Navy Yard...
CALIF. GOV BIDS TO STALL RECALL VOTE
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amLawyers for embattled Gov. Gray Davis are going to court today to try to get the recall election to oust him postponed from Oct. 7 to March - and put...
MOM, KIDS AMBUSHED IN ISRAEL
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amA young Israeli family was ambushed by gun-toting Palestinian thugs outside Jerusalem yesterday - the most serious terror attack since militants called a tenuous truce a month ago. The assault...
DONNA MARRIES HER HS FLAME
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amDonna Hanover - former New York City first lady and former Mrs. Rudy Giuliani - married her high-school sweetheart, Ed Oster, yesterday before celebrity well-wishers and even a few of...
MOM AND KIDS HURT IN TERROR AMBUSH
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amA young Israeli family was ambushed by gun-toting Palestinian thugs outside Jerusalem yesterday - the most serious terror attack since militants called a tenuous truce a month ago. The bloody...
ADS DUMP KOBE
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amNutella is ending its sweet deal with Kobe Bryant, whose recent indictment on a sexual-assault charge threatens to unravel his lucrative endorsement career. The maker of the hazelnut spread has...
MAYOR MARCHES FOR LATINOS DOUBLE-TIME
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amAfter salsa dancing in the Dominican Republic on Friday, Mayor Bloomberg was back in the city yesterday - still marching to a Latin beat. Hizzoner headed first to Queens, where...
MORE BUTCHER BUDDIES BAGGED
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amU.S. soldiers intensified the hunt for Saddam Hussein yesterday, raiding homes and rounding up dozens of his suspected henchmen in the hostile "Sunni triangle" outside Baghdad. Acting on an avalanche...
SUICIDE SCIENTIST 'BOMBSHELL'
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amThe British scientist at the center of a flap over Iraqi weapons had evidence that Saddam Hussein built and tested a "dirty bomb" that could be used to spread radioactive...
GIFF VOWS 100G TO KEEP DAVIS DREAM ALIVE
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amCouncil Speaker Gifford Miller is vowing to find $100,000 in next year's city budget to fund the anti-violence cause of his slain colleague, James Davis - possibly for a nonviolence...
USUAL SUSPECTS, USUAL FAILURES
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amJUST another week during which people in important positions are also revealed to be people who don't get it. Consider that this past winter, Phil Mickelson created an instant furor...
DEWAYNE 'OK' IN DEBUT
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES Dewayne Robertson said after the Jets' preseason opener, which also happened to be his NFL debut, that he couldn't wait to get back home to watch the films...
MAYBE TIGER'S THE PROBLEM
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amIt finally happened. A greenside TV golf commentator had the guts to hint at something that on-site golf commentators have only said off the air and off the record: Tiger...
ALL EYES ON HALL OF FAME
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame will induct four new members this morning: the late Hubert "Sonny" Hine, trainer of Skip Away; jockey Mike Smith;...
JETS FIXIN' TO MAKE ; PROGRESS ; BACK FROM JAPAN, LOOKING TO LEARN FROM MISTAKES
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amWhat does the Jets' sloppy 30-14 loss to the Buccaneers in Saturday's American Bowl at the Tokyo Dome mean? It means the Jets are 0-1 this preseason. That's about it....
HOLDOUT'S AGENT FINALLY RINGS UP ACCORSI
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - After three days of no conversation with the Giants, the agent for William Joseph finally dialed up the team yesterday and discussions were held in an...
TYREE WANTS TO BE MORE THAN SPECIAL
August 4, 2003 | 4:00am"When I had the opportunity to make a play I feel like I made the play."DAVID TYREE ALBANY - The truth may hurt, but that discomfort can also provide motivation,...
GLAVINE PLANNING ON FRIDAY
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES If Tom Glavine feels as good tomorrow as he felt yesterday, you can mark him down to start on Friday. Glavine, battling a strained rib cage, played catch...
HENSON'S CLOSE TO SHEDDING PINSTRIPES
August 4, 2003 | 4:00am"I want to be somewhere where I'm wanted, and if that's not here, then that's fine."DREW HENSON OAKLAND - Because he has struggled with the Columbus Clippers the past two...
YOUNG GUN GIVES METS SHOT IN ARM
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amMets 13Cardinals 5 You look for signs with the Mets, indications that there's some kind of hope for the future. You look for signs like Jeremy Griffiths. Tom Glavine's strained...
'EMPIRE' FALLS IN SPA'S DANDY
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The sharp crack of thunder that rolled over the Old Spa late yesterday afternoon was really the sound of the Travers balloon bursting. Within a 20-minute span,...
CYCLONES PAY TRIBUTE TO JACKIE
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amThe year was 1987, and Hector Berrios relished his role as a mentor for his fellow minor-league Dominican pitchers in Fayetteville, N.C. On a stroll through the clubhouse one summer...
MOVE MIKE, NOW! ; FIRST-RATE CHANCE TO GET PIAZZA OUT FROM PLATE
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amBY a certain logic - for lack of a better term let's call it Mets' logic - Jeff Kent is just nine homers away from being the greatest offensive second...
NOTHING 'FUNNY' ABOUT IT
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amOCEANPORT, N.J. - What a bust! Funny Cide runs the worst race of his career to dribble home third in the Haskell here at Monmouth Park just minutes after Empire...
STREETBALL IS NOT JUST FOR RESPECT ANYMORE
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amJust a couple of years ago, before the sneaker companies discovered the city blacktops were paved in urban gold, this was basketball in the raw. There was no free-flowing Moet...
BENCH BUOYS LIBS
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amLiberty 60Rockers 48 The Liberty veterans were tired. They were fatigued from playing a game nearly every other night; they were tired from travel; and they were really sick and...
NEW JOCKEY FOR VOLPONI?
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - 2002 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Volponi, who finished a troubled second to Medaglia d'Oro in the Grade 1 Whitney and second in all four of his starts...
JUVE SAVORS SWEET REVENGE ; BOPS ARCHRIVAL A.C. MILAN
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amJuventus had been here before, a sinking feeling of deja vu in its desperate penalty-kick battle with archrival A.C. Milan. This time the stakes were lower, but the result sweeter:...
POP IN PHILLIPS' BAT IS WELCOME ARRIVAL
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amStill sporting his Clark Kent black-rimmed athletic glasses, Mets rookie Jason Phillips just kept smiling as he talked about what was going on in his life. Yesterday, Phillips had three...
TEJADA TRUMPS MO ; YANKS LOSE AS BLOWN SAVE WASTES PETTITTE GEM
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amA's 2Yankees 1 OAKLAND - There was no choice for Joe Torre. As soon as Andy Pettitte walked Mark Ellis leading off the ninth yesterday, Mariano Rivera was in the...
SORIANO MOVING BACK UP
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Don't write it in ink, but all signs indicate Alfonso Soriano will return to his leadoff perch tomorrow night against the Rangers at Yankee Stadium. "I...
SIERRA LEFT OUT IN RIGHT
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - On Saturday, Joe Torre told Ruben Sierra he would play right field for two games since the A's were starting lefties Barry Zito and Mark Mulder....
TEJADA SPANKS YANKS: PETTITTE GEM WASTED AS MIGUEL BESTS MO
August 4, 2003 | 4:00amA's 2 Yankees 1 OAKLAND - A gem by Andy Pettitte went to waste yesterday when Mariano Rivera failed to finish off the A's in the ninth. Pettitte allowed one...