August 18, 2003
REIT STYMIED IN N.Y. BID ACTION
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amBidding for top-flight city office buildings is so intense that one real estate group has been unable to drop $500 million set aside for purchases. Wells Real Estate Funds, a...
ANDREA GOES BACK TO DRAMA
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amFORMER CNN Headline News anchor Andrea Thompson is going back to acting. She has been hired to play a recurring on the hit suspense/action series "24" this season. According to...
SIMON WORTH $45M
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amFOR a guy who can't sing, dance or - for that mater - cook, "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell is hugely well paid. The King of Nasty Cuts was just...
CRUNCH TIME ... SHOWMAN EATS LIGHT BULBS
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amTO us, it's a light bulb. To Todd Robbins, even in a blackout, it's a light snack. "G.E.," he said. "Good Eating!" He bit off the base, spit it out,...
LUDDITE'S NEW TARGET: THE DAWN OF EVOLUTION
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amLAST week's power outage inconvenienced millions of people across a wide swath of eight states, but it made Kirkpatrick Sale's day. As the nation's foremost critic of technology - his...
MAKING SENSE OF THE '70S - THE MUSIC WAS DUMB, THE CLOTHES WERE DREADFUL AND SONNY & CHER HAD THE NO. 1 TV SHOW - SO WHY DO WE MISS THE 'ME DECADE' SO MUCH?
August 18, 2003 | 4:00am"I Love the '70s" [* * 1/2] Tonight through Friday night at 9 o'clock on VH1 ----- DO you really care what someone named Mo Rocca thinks about the 1970s?...
CHECK OUT TODDLER TV
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amTV producers worried about employment security will be downright terrified to learn that four-year-olds are being trained to do their jobs. An early learning center in Chicago called Créme de...
STARR REPORT
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amPBS taps Smiley for nighttime talk show Tavis Smiley, who's already established a beachhead on National Public Radio, is returning to TV as the host of "The Tavis Smiley Show,"...
SHOE-PER STAR - 'THE VIEW' OF JONES' NEW COLLECTION
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe gap between Prada and Payless is getting smaller - thanks in part to Star Jones. This fall, the former prosecutor and current co-host of ABC's "The View," will debut...
DESIGNER OR DISCOUNT? - MIXING HIGH-END STYLE WITH COOL FALL BARGAINS
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amDRESSING in head-to-toe designer clothes is a thing of the past. These days, it's not uncommon to see a New York woman wearing a $9.99 Old Navy dress with a...
SKATING FASHION IS ON A ROLL
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amBACKYARD pools, staircase handrails, benches, curbs - pretty much any surface with a dip and a swoop will satisfy a skateboarder. But they're extremely picky about their wardrobes - trucker...
DEM IN 'POWER' PLAY FOR SPECIAL LEGISLATURE SESSION
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amGOV. PATAKI yesterday was urged to call a special emergency session of the Legislature to approve new laws to build power plants and upgrade the state's electrical transmission lines. The...
ISLAND TAKES ITS JESTER TO COURT
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amA California magnet salesman - who doubles as the "official court jester" to the king of a tiny Pacific island - isn't making 'em laugh anymore. That's because Jesse Bogdonoff...
IGNORANCE - OUR REAL ENEMY IN IRAQ
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amWE'LL bag Saddam. We'll continue to break down the diehard support for the old regime. And we'll do our best to give the people of Iraq a chance at greater...
MORE POWER TO HEROES OF BLACKOUT
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amThere were many unsung heroes during the tumultuous Blackout of 2003 - and here's your chance to tap them for a New York Post Liberty Medal Award. The nominating process...
FURY AS SCHOOL LETS TOT, 3, WANDER OUT - TEACH SUSPENDED IN UPTOWN FIASCO
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amAn East Harlem pre-school teacher has been suspended indefinitely after a 3-year-old toddler walked out of her second-floor classroom and left the building without notice. The tot, Albert Carvajal Jr.,...
HAMPTONS DIARY
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amHEY, all you producers reading this, if you're looking for a funny guy for your next film, Chevy Chase is your man - and he wants you to know he's...
STITCH IN TIME SAVES POOCH
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amPuffy is the miracle dog of the blackout. The lovable chow had undergone surgery to have an ovarian tumor removed before the lights went out. But then her stitches popped,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amA Maryland college has stunned cash-strapped students by allowing them to pay the exact same tuition their grandparents shelled out when they attended. For Rebecca Dupont, 18, that means paying...
UNLUCKY E. SIDERS SPEND EXTRA DAY IN DARK
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amTenants of an Upper East Side high-rise - the last Manhattanites to emerge from the blackout - finally got their lights back yesterday afternoon. "It's wonderful," said Roberta Breitrose, one...
GEN. CLARK COY ON BID FOR PREZ
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amRetired Gen. Wesley Clark yesterday said he'll decide whether to become the 10th Democrat running for president "in the next two or three weeks," and revved up with a slashing...
CAPTURED QAEDA BIG'S PLANS MAY BE AFOOT
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amIntelligence officials now fear they may not have caught crazed al Qaeda kingpin Hambali in time to thwart a string of terror bombings planned around President Bush's visit to Bangkok...
IT AIN'T BEACHY KEEN
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amIt's not safe to go back in the water quite yet - except in the Rockaways. Most city beaches remained closed yesterday - frustrating thousands of overheated New Yorkers -...
BLOOMY WON'T BLAME BUCKEYES
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amDon't get mad at Ohio. That was the word from Mayor Bloomberg yesterday, who said even though Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. looks like the main culprit in the biggest blackout in...
HARLEM DAY IS A SOULFUL SUCCESS
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amThere was electricity in the air yesterday as New Yorkers and out-of-towners flocked to 135th Street to celebrate Harlem Day by listening to top rappers including Doug E. Fresh and...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * Two men were shot, one fatally, in the Eastchester Road section at 10:30 Saturday night, police said yesterday. Leroy Tutti, 22, was found dead at 3046 Eastchester...
SEAMAN TRAGEDY - CRASH KILLS B'KLYN TEEN
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amWhen Shanachie Caceres got a phone call from her future mother-in-law Saturday telling her to quickly come to the house, her heart skipped a beat. Caceres, 19, of Brooklyn, was...
ROAD-MAPPING ISRAEL THROWS IN 2 TOWNS
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel will start handing over control of two West Bank towns today after saying that the Palestinian Authority had made significant efforts to rein in terrorists, but threatened...
BROTHERLY LOVE LEADS TO SLAY
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amA heartbroken Queens grandfather says he's cursing the day he took pity on his freeloading, booze-addled brother and let him move in - because now his beloved wife is dead...
CAR-DRAG TEEN IN COMA ON L.I.
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amA 19-year-old Long Island man was in critical condition in a coma yesterday after being dragged 100 feet by a car during a dispute with the driver and his passenger,...
BLECH-OUT 2003 - FOOD POISONING SOARS AS GOODS GO BAD
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amAn unusually high number of food-poisoning cases reported by hospital emergency rooms has spurred the city Health Department to warn New Yorkers not to eat food that could have been...
BX. KIDNAP-RAPE NIGHTMARE
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amTwo thugs forced a 23-year-old woman to endure a horrifying rape-and-kidnapping ordeal - and also robbed her of $12,000 cash she'd gotten in a pyramid scheme, police said yesterday. A...
CITY GOING AFTER THE 20 WORST DEADBEAT PARENTS
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe city is finally cracking down on its most notorious deadbeat parents - slamming them with subpoenas and property liens, The Post has learned. The stepped-up action comes just weeks...
THAT GLAM SADDAM - GIS HANGING MOCK PIX TO TAUNT FIENDS
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amHere's a different side of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein - whose loyalists now can see him depicted as a "Hunka Burnin' Love," a busty Hollywood star, or as a...
GOOD 'SIGN' FROM ARNIE - AUTOGRAPH GIVES NEW YORK SHELTER KID HOPE
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amHANDSOME, young Carmelo Cintron is blessed with irresistible dimples and dreams of fighting fires. He also lives in a homeless shelter, where such goals often die. But Carmelo's parents see...
STUDENT ADMISSIONS SKYROCKET AT CUNY
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe number of students flocking to the City University of New York has shot up despite a 25 percent hike in tuition and tougher admission and graduation requirements, new data...
INSPECTION DOUGH RISES - CITY'S NEW REGS $OCK BATTERED EATERIES
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amRestaurants and bars are getting socked this year with a staggering 400 percent increase in Health Department inspection fines, according to city estimates - a move that will rake in...
PALMER ON VERGE OF FALLING BACK
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Jeremy Shockey becomes Casper Milquetoast. Ray Handley comes back. And now, soaring on the list of every Giant fan's nightmare: Kerry Collins goes down. It hasn't happened yet....
TIKI LIKES WHAT HE SEES
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amTiki Barber is flashing his megawatt smile, and talking about a career year, for himself and for his Giants. Barber has always been the songbird of optimism, the painter of...
'CIDE' LONGSHOT TO MAKE TRAVERS
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - After accepting congratulations yesterday morning for his 3-year-old filly Island Fashion's runaway victory in Saturday's rich, prestigious Alabama Stakes at the Old Spa, trainer Barclay Tagg continued...
STEVENS ON MEND
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Hall-of-Fame jockey Gary Stevens, co-star of the movie "Seabiscuit," miraculously escaped serious injury when his mount unseated him at the finish of Saturday's Arlington Million. He is...
TNT COVERAGE A MAJOR MESS - DREADFUL DECISIONS RUIN PGA
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amONCE again a network in the proud and loud possession of a significant sports event has done its best not to show it. Why did TNT for months encourage us...
THORPE HANGS ON AS GILDER CAN'T CONVERT
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amAfter a long, hot afternoon of wonderful golf warfare, the Champions Tour Long Island Classic came down to one putt. Bob Gilder, who came into the final round at Eisenhower...
GREEN HAMSTRUNG BY INJURY TO JONES
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets' injury-free preseason has come to a screeching halt with the news of Marvin Jones' right hamstring pull. Making Jones' injury even more exasperating is that it...
MOSS ACES CHEMISTRY - RECEIVER FORGES BOND WITH PENNINGTON
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amThere was a period in Saturday night's preseason game between the Jets and Saints that had to have Jets fans asking themselves, "Laveranues who?" Santana Moss' performance in the first...
METS STARTERS NEED MORE THAN GERITOL
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amIT is OK if you are a Met fan to watch your team's five-game winning streak and go giddy with possibilities. You are owed that considering, as Al Leiter explained,...
TIGER CRAWLS AWAY QUIETLY
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amPGA NOTES ROCHESTER - Tiger Woods birdied two of his final three holes yesterday, but by then he knew he would not win a major in 2003. Woods ended a...
SCUTARO'S 'STEAL' IS ALL HUSTLE
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES The most surprising and amusing play of the Mets' 6-4 win over Colorado yesterday was Marco Scutaro drawing a two-out, full-count walk in the fifth, and - with...
FLOYD GIVES 'EM HEEL - CLIFF GOES 4-FOR-4 AS METS WIN 5TH STRAIGHT
August 18, 2003 | 4:00am"I've been questioning myself a bit, but it's the right thing to do. I have to get myself right." -CLIFF FLOYD ---- Mets 6 - Rockies 4 When Cliff Floyd...
DUNCAN KNOWS ROLE WELL
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amUSA 101 - P. Rico 74 Maybe the U.S. will need Tracy McGrady to come up with a defensive stop. There will be times when Allen Iverson is expected to...
AARON'S BAT NOW BOON FOR BOMBERS
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - The immediate impression is that Aaron Boone's world suddenly came together Friday night when he hit a game-winning three-run homer and made his first contribution as...
ONE SWEET SWEEP - EAST LEAD AT 5 AS MASTERFUL MOOSE BLANKS BIRDS
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 8 - Orioles 0 BALTIMORE - Is a four-game sweep of the banged-up and deflated Orioles an indication the Yankees are about to separate themselves from the Red Sox...
RASPBERRIES FOR COLLISON
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amUSA NOTES Nick Collison swears he never dissed the Knicks, made fun of New York or alleged that Willis Reed was faking that Game 7 injury. No matter; he still...
MAJOR MICHEEL CLOSES THE DEAL - UNKNOWN BECOMES BIG SHOT
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amROCHESTER - There had never been a shot like this, not on the 72nd hole of a major championship. Not with the world watching. Shaun Micheel hit the ball clean...
YANKS RELEASE ZEILE
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Todd Zeile is out, Jorge De Paula is in for the time being and Juan Rivera is on the way. Welcome to the Yankees Roster Carousel, which was...
SURPRISE! PHIL FALLS SHORT AGAIN
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amROCHESTER - If he keeps wanting it bad enough, hoping for it hard enough, maybe it really will happen for Phil Mickelson one of these days. If the galleries that...
SHAUN OUTDUELS CAMPBELL TO CAPTURE PGA TITLE
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amROCHESTER - When Shaun Micheel swung at his ball with his seven-iron on the 18th hole at Oak Hill Country Club yesterday, he watched its flight as his caddie yelled:...
SHAUN OUTDUELS CAMPBELL TO CAPTURE PGA
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amROCHESTER - As Shaun Micheel watched the ballflight off his 7-iron sail toward the 18th green at Oak Hill Country Club yesterday, his caddie yelled: "Be Right!" It was better...
SURPRISE! PHIL FIZZLES AGAIN
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amROCHESTER - If he keeps wanting it bad enough, hoping for it hard enough, maybe it really will happen for Phil Mickelson one of these days. If the galleries that...
WOODS LEAVES QUIETLY
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amPGA NOTES ROCHESTER - Tiger Woods birdied two of his final three holes yesterday, but by then he knew he would not win a major in 2003. Woods ended a...
BIG SHOT WAS ONE FOR AGES
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amROCHESTER - They will add this one to the rotation of unforgettable moments at once, alongside Larry Mize's 140-foot chip shot at Augusta in 1986, next to Bob Tway's blast...
CHAD LEFT HANGING BY THREAD
August 18, 2003 | 4:00amROCHESTER - Want to know what Chad Campbell thought of his chances to win the PGA Championship before he got here? Well, it seems he had to all but sprint...