August 20, 2003
A SHRINKING HERD - 2 HIGH-PROFILE EXECS AT MERRILL JUMP SHIP
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amTwo high-ranking members of Merrill Lynch's private client business have abandoned the bull. Uber-broker Jack Schecter has left Merrill to join Smith Barney, while Mike Schweitzer, a manager and onetime...
A SHOT IN THE DARK PAYS OFF FOR KENNETH COLE
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amCall him clairvoyant. Designer Kenneth Cole displayed remarkable timing last week when he launched his new fragrance called Black - with the tag line, "It's better in the dark" -...
JONES LOSES 2 EXECS IN RESHUFFLING
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amJones Apparel has lost two more executives amid a reorganization under CEO Peter Boneparth, people familiar with the changes said. Diane Dunham, a longtime veteran of Jones, has left the...
FRANKS HAWKS A MEMOIR - GULF WAR II CHIEF SUMMONS PUBLISHING TROOPS TO D.C.
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amGEN. Tommy Franks, the retired commander of the U.S. forces in Iraq in Gulf War II, is shopping his life story. Publishers, who will be called to a meeting in...
INDUSTRY WANTS BLACKOUT ANSWERS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amTHE real estate industry has been warning for years that without significant infrastructure investment by utilities for both generation capacity and transmission lines, brownouts and blackouts were inevitable. "We're still...
GET A BUM'S RUSH
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amCATCHING OUT [] All aboard! Running time: 80 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At the Film Forum, Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue. ---- THERE'S a scene in Preston Sturges'...
JUSTIN'S INJUSTICE
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amJUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and CHRISTINA AGUILERA At Nassau Coliseum. They'll play the Meadowlands Arena tonight. ---- THE fans didn't know what they were missing - and, judging by his performance at...
NAKED LUNCH - THERE'S A GIRL IN MY SUSHI
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amTHERE'S nothing genteel about this finger food. Corporate bigwigs are forking over as much as $700 a head for dinner parties where guests are served sushi off a naked woman....
JEWEL TO DUEL WITH LOWE
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amSINGING sensation Jewel will star on three episodes of Rob Lowe's new NBC drama "Lyon's Den" this fall. The Alaskan-born songstress (who's real name is Jewel Kilcher) is set to...
RED MENACE - ATTACK OF KILLER TOMATO SAUCE IN EATERIES
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amTHE news that chef John Villa plans to turn his former three-star Portuguese restaurant, Pico, into an Italian- American place invites mixed emotions: alarm and dismay. Does TriBeCa really need...
FOR SUMMER COOL, IT'S VERMOUTH, FORSOOTH
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amMOST people think of vermouth as something in a bottle to be waved at a dry martini - not too close, mind you. But on hot, muggy summer nights, this...
'PRODUCERS' GOT 'EM AGAIN, BUT WON'T FLAUNT 'EM
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amTHE producers of "The Producers" have decided against raising ticket prices for Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick's return engagement early next year. The top ticket price will remain at $100...
WHEN MOVIES WERE GREAT ; INDIE FILM CHANNEL SERIES RECALLS THE '70S
August 20, 2003 | 4:00am"A Decade Under The Influence" Tonight at 8 on IFC (two stars) THERE are probably two great periods in American film - the year 1939 (when "Gone with the Wind,"...
WHAT A PARTY'S COOKING
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amTHE city's grandest party will also be a culinary summit when New York celebrates the 150th anniversary of Central Park on Sept. 15. The world's top chefs will serve at...
CRAM THESE TORPEDOES - FULL FEED AHEAD!
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amChipotle (3 stars) 150 E. 44th St. (between Lexington and Third avenues) (212) 682-9860 NOTHING pleases Cheap Eats more than wholesome, delicious grub for chump change, so Chipotle gratifies in...
GIRL, ERUPTED: SHOCING INDIE PORTRAYS THE SECRET LIVES OF TEENAGE GIRLS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amTHIRTEEN ½ (three and one half stars) Girls gone wild. Running time: 100 minutes. Rated R (drug use, self-destructive violence, language and sexuality - all involving young teens). At the...
THE STARR REPORT
August 20, 2003 | 4:00am'Everybody' back - except Garrett Peter Boyle, Doris Roberts, the catering guy, the guy who serves the coffee - and anyone else you can think of save for Brad Garrett...
N.Y. MOM AND INFANT SON AMONG THE DEAD
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amGrieving relatives of a Rockland County woman and her 5-month-old boy - slain in yesterday's homicide bombing in Jerusalem - headed to Israel last night to claim their bodies. Golde...
TEEN 'CATASTROPHE' - BOREDOM + STRESS + $ = DRUGS, CIGS AND BOOZE
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amTeens tend to smoke, booze and use drugs more frequently if they are stressed out, frequently bored or have lots of money to spend, a disturbing new study reveals. The...
THE BAGHDAD BOMBING: TERRORIST DESPAIR
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amTHE first strategy employed by Iraqi dead- enders and their terror- tourist allies failed miserably: They attacked U.S. forces head-on - and paid a bitter price. With their comrades killed,...
HAMPTONS DIARY
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amDON'T be surprised if you bump into Duran Duran vocalist Simon LeBon or keyboardist Nick Rhodes on the beach or at the clubs between now and Labor Day. They're dropping...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amFinal exams were extra stressful for college student Joy Conner - she went into labor as she took five of them in one day. Conner refused to give up, and...
PHISH'S BASSIST IN A JAM
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amA member of the multi-platinum "jam band" Phish has been accused of endangering the welfare of a minor after he was caught taking "art photos" of a Hells Angel's 9-year-old...
TEACHER BUSTED IN DRUG SLAY
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amA Catholic-school teacher with a craving for crack stabbed a woman to death in a bloody struggle after she threatened to report his drug use to his supervisors, authorities said....
MTA'S 338G FARE-ATTORNEY TAB
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amThe cash-strapped MTA shelled out a whopping $338,000 to a private law firm - which included the husband of the state's top judge - to successfully defend its fare and...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Police are asking for the public's help in finding a 66-year-old Frenchman who disappeared from the Empire State Building just before the blackout hit last Thursday. Andre Luu...
THE BAGHDAD BOMBING: THIS IS HOW THEY TEST US
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amTHIS is how they test us: with car bombs and truck bombs. That's how Muslim terrorists try to determine whether the citizens and governments of democracies are serious about confronting...
ICE CREAM PERV PLEADS GUILTY
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amA pervert who took child-friendly jobs - including ice cream man and camp counselor - to meet kids, admitted in court yesterday he sexually assaulted six Westchester girls. David Ohnmacht,...
'COWARDS' HURTING THEIR CAUSE: KERIK
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amFormer city top cop Bernard Kerik called yesterday's terrorist bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad a "cowardly and senseless" act that would turn more Iraqis against Saddam's supporters....
AIR QUALITY STINKS IN CITY: STUDY
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amThe quality of the air New Yorkers inhale is getting worse - and SUVs, car-happy commuters, keep-on-trucking pickups and a whole lot of diesel-fueled buses are to blame, a new...
STOCKS & BOMBS - SCHWAB IS TERROR TARGET
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amMarket maven Charles Schwab became the target of a mystery bomber yesterday when someone planted explosive briefcases filled with propane at the famed broker's Monterey, Calif., home and a nearby...
COUNCIL HONORS DAVIS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amThe City Council met yesterday in the chambers for the first time since colleague James Davis was shot dead as they scrambled for cover. Council members walked into the chambers...
2 FAMILIES UNITED IN TRAGEDY
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amIT'S a loving common bond between two families 12,000 miles apart. But it's a bond nobody envies: the death of a son. Carmel Cato, a big quiet man, put a...
U.S. LAWMAKERS IN IRAQ YESTERDAY SAID THE KILLING OF U.N. WORKERS WAS AN ACT OF TERRORISM..
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers in Iraq yesterday said the killing of U.N. workers was an act of terrorism that should not deter more work. A group of senators and House...
AL QAEDA HAS TEAMED WITH SADDAM HOLDOUTS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amThe bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad was most probably carried out by members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network who appear to have joined forces with Saddam's...
MAYOR SALUTES 29 BRAVE WORKERS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amEveryone has a story to tell about the blackout. But few are as compelling as that of Vicky Holman, who was part of a team that kept a premature 11-week-old...
LAWSUIT VS. UNION BOSS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amA group of dissidents filed a federal lawsuit in Manhattan yesterday against the head of the powerful janitors union, claiming he is using intimidation tactics to sway the outcome of...
SHOCK OVER BOY'S DEATH 'AT HANDS OF MOM'
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amA 14-year-old New Jersey boy who was allegedly beaten to death by his mother loved the Yankees, could recite any Joe DiMaggio statistic by heart and relished an ongoing baseball...
TEAM MIKE PAINTS A BUDGET DOOMSDAY IN BOND WAR
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration said yesterday the city would suffer "monumental" damage if a court approves Gov. Pataki's request for a preliminary injunction blocking a controversial bond sale. In court papers...
SCHOOL HIRE ALARM - CITY RUSHES TO FILL 1,000 TEACHER OPENINGS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amCity education officials are still scrambling to fill 1,000 vacant teaching positions just weeks before the opening of school. Brooklyn's Boys and Girls HS is still looking to fill vacancies...
B'KLYN VS. JERSEY - CORZINE'S NET BID HAS HOME-COURT ADVANTAGE
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amA nasty border war is brewing between New York and New Jersey now that a big-shot senator wants to buy the New Jersey Nets to stop the basketball team from...
DRUGGIE GUILTY IN FIRE DEATH
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amA 30-year-old crackhead accused of setting a Brooklyn blaze that killed the father of a hero city firefighter who responded to the scene pleaded guilty yesterday to second-degree manslaughter charges....
DELI MAN GUILTY OF $HADY TRANSFERS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amA Staten Island deli owner linked to an alleged Islamic terror-group member yesterday pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to running an unlicensed money-transfer business that sent funds, including drug-deal...
WHILE A CITIZEN DIRECTED TRAFFIC . . . FOOL WROTE TICKETS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amWhile some city workers struggled to protect New Yorkers in the midst of the blackout, a city traffic agent wrote summonses even as private citizens directed traffic at a busy...
MUSCLEMAN ARNIE NOT STRONG ON DETAILS IN TV AD
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his small-screen political debut today, airing an upbeat TV ad that's long on feel-good rhetoric but short on detailed plans. The 60-second...
DEE PLEADS FOR HELP IN IN-LAW SLAY
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amTwisted Sister's frontman Dee Snider made a passionate plea for help to find the killer of his wife's brother yesterday, a day after the 34-year-old construction worker was gunned down...
'ENEMIES,' BEWARE - W. PUTS KILLERS ON NOTICE
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday condemned the terror strikes that killed scores of people in Baghdad and Jerusalem - and he pointedly challenged the Iraqi people to help Americans resist...
FIRED OVER OSAMA TAUNTS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amAn Islamic woman is claiming she was fired from her Midtown job for complaining that a co-worker called her "Mrs. Osama bin Laden" and suggested she could be "a suicide...
NONPARTISAN VOTE TWIST
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amIt may be nonpartisan, but a new electoral system envisioned by Mayor Bloomberg's Charter Revision Commission would still allow candidates to list their party affiliations. By a 6-3 vote yesterday,...
BLOODBATH ON JERUSALEM BUS: BOMBER DISGUISED AS A JEW KILLS AT LEAST 18
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amA homicide bomber disguised as an Orthodox Jew blew himself up on a bus packed with young parents and kids coming home from prayers in Jerusalem last night, killing at...
WOMAN MISSING SINCE BLACKOUT
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amAn elderly foreign tourist missing since the blackout was located early today - but another is still missing, police officials said early today. Andre Luu - a 66-year-old Frenchman of...
BRONX GETTING CELIA CRUZ HS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amA new high school for music in The Bronx will be named after late Queen of Salsa Celia Cruz, officials said. Azucar! Mayor Bloomberg is expected to dedicate the school...
BLOODBATH ON JERUSALEM BUS - DISGUISED BOMBER KILLS 18, INCLUDING NYER
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amA homicide bomber, disguised as an Orthodox Jew, blew himself up on a bus packed with young parents and kids coming home from prayers in Jerusalem last night, killing at...
EDUCATORS WIN SPECIAL-ED FIGHT
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amAn arbitrator ruled yesterday that the city erred by not allowing "education evaluators" to work as teachers in the same schools after eliminating their jobs. The ruling means that evaluators...
BLOODBATH ON JERUSALEM BUS - BABIES' BODIES AT NIGHTMARE BLAST SCENE AS 20 DIE
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amA homicide bomber disguised as an Orthodox Jew blew himself up on a bus packed with parents and young kids coming home from prayers in Jerusalem last night, killing at...
DON'T COUNT ON CON ED PAYING YOU
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amForget about trying to get Con Ed to pay for the food spoiled in your fridge and freezer during the blackout. The utility says on its Web site that it...
TWO MISSING SINCE BLACKOUT
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amThe NYPD is looking for two elderly foreign visitors missing since last week's blackout. Maria Trela, 77, who arrived here from Poland in June, has been living with relatives in...
GOOFS CAN'T DERAIL YANKEE EXPRESS: RIP ROYALS TO GO 6 ½ UP ON BOSOX
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 6 Royals 3 Hours before the Yankees took on the Royals last night, Joe Torre sat in the dugout and praised his team's grit, in general, and Andy Pettitte,...
WEAVER'S WOBBLING IN ROTATION
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES When the Yankees make their fait accompli October run, Jeff Weaver won't be in the starting rotation. The question is whether he stays in the rotation - or...
AT LAST, MILLEDGE SIGNS 5-YEAR, $2M PACT
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Lastings Milledge's long summer ordeal is finally over. The Mets yesterday announced the signing of their first-round pick, ending weeks of speculation and controversy about the Florida...
VINNY WILL GET SOME WORK AGAINST JINTS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES Vinny Testaverde is an injury away from being the Jets' starting quarterback again, so it would make sense that he gets some playing time before the preseason is...
STRAHAN CUTS BAIT ; GUARANTEES VICTORY AS GIANTS PREPARE FOR FISHING CONTEST
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - The competition figures to be slow and methodical rather than fast and furious, but intense nonetheless. Already, there are those among the Giants who believe Michael Strahan is...
FASSEL: STOP FIGHTIN' - OR ELSE
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Clear blue skies, blazing sunshine and raging anger combined for another series of altercations yesterday afternoon at Giants training camp, which in turn prompted a stern...
HERM SEEKING FASTER START
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amThe indelible mark on last year's season was the image of Herm Edwards going up and down the Jets' sideline pointing in his players' faces when word spread through the...
'FUNNY' STUFF CONTINUES
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Suddenly, Saturday's 134th running of the Travers Stakes is brimming with more cloak-and-dagger intrigue than Rick's Cafe in "Casablanca" after Funny Cide rose like Lazarus yesterday morning...
RED SOX HARBOR WILD-EST DREAMS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - The grand slam plan has changed a bit. The reality of summer - and of being six games behind the Yankees in the loss column - now has...
AT LAST, MILLEDGE A MET: 5-TOOL PROSPECTGETS $2 MILLION]]AFTER CONTROVERSY
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Lastings Milledge's long summer ordeal is finally over. The Mets yesterday announced the signing of their first-round pick, ending weeks of speculation and controversy about the Florida...
DUNCAN RETURNS TO FILL IN FOR FLOYD
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - Newly signed draft pick Lastings Milledge might help in four years, but the Mets have an outfield opening now. And the club recalled Jeff Duncan...
WEAVER WOBBLING ; SHAKY JEFF COULD BE GONE WHEN CONTRERAS RETURNS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amWhen the Yankees make their fait accompli October run, Jeff Weaver won't be in the starting rotation. The question is whether he stays in the rotation - or on the...
K-MART ADDED TO U.S. SQUAD
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - Just call this Caribbean capital East Rutherford South. Kenyon Martin yesterday was added to the U.S. Olympic qualifying team, joining Nets teammates Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson...
ROG MAY BE GOING TO ATHENS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Could Roger Clemens add an Olympic gold medal to his two World Series rings, six Cy Youngs and 300-win resume? The Rocket could - and intends to -...
KARIM'S RIGHT MAN FOR JOB ; GARCIA SHOULD PLAY EVERY DAY
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amSPOTTING Reggie Jackson the other day, I asked about his readiness to play right field for the Yankees and Mr. October said, jokingly, "[Paul] O'Neill's here, also. It's him or...
U.S. TEAM EAGER TO FACE BRAZIL
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amUSA NOTES SAN JUAN - The United States has played three times against Puerto Rico. And about a zillion times against themselves. The U.S. Olympic qualifying team is ready to...
KARIM'S RISEN TO THE TOP OF BOMBER RFS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 6Royals 3IN LATE June, desperate for a veteran reliever, the Yankees settled on Dan Miceli, but didn't actually want to trade anything for him. So they offered to also...
S.F. MAKEUP VOTED DOWN BY PLAYERS
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - Major League Baseball asked the Mets to consider playing Monday in San Francisco. To a man, Mets players voted down the idea. As if a...
AT LAST, MILLEDGE SIGNS: 5-TOOL PROSPECT GETS $2 MILLION AFTER CONTROVERSY
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Lastings Milledge's long summer ordeal is finally over. The Mets announced the signing of their first-round pick last night, ending weeks of speculation and controversy about the...
GOOFS CAN'T DERAIL YANKEE EXPRESS: RIP ROYALS TO GO 6½ UP ON BOSOX
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amYesterday afternoon, hours before his Yankees took on Kansas City, Joe Torre sat in the dugout and praised his team's tenacity. He gushed over how his Bombers, even when they...
HERNANDEZ HOMER MAKES BOSOX BLUE
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amAthletics 3Red Sox 2 BOSTON - The plan has changed just a bit. The reality of summer - and residing seven games back of the Yankees in the loss column...
METS CAN'T CLOSE DEAL: BLAST OFF STANTON SNAPS WIN STREAK
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amPadres 3 Mets 2 SAN DIEGO - Even though the Mets had done some nice things during a recent six-game winning streak, they still hadn't figured out the one question...
METS CAN'T CLOSE DEAL BLAST OFF STANTON SNAPS WIN STREAK
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amPadres 3 Mets 2 SAN DIEGO - Even though the Mets had done some nice things during a recent six-game winning streak, they still hadn't figured out the one question...
REELIN', WRITIN' & 'RITHMETIC
August 20, 2003 | 4:00amCHILDREN may not have to play hooky to go fishing this coming school year, as schools in 20 states will receive grants to incorporate fishing and boating into physical education...