March 18, 2004
WEB SHORTCUT COULD THREATEN CONTENT SITES
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amIf Mohammed won't come to the metaverse, perhaps the metaverse will come to Mohammed. That's the theory behind RSS, or "really simple syndication," which collects headlines and stories from various...
PUZZLED BY JOB STATS? BLAME GDP INFLATION
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amECONOMISTS are puzzled. I know that because a headline in the Wall Street Journal last week read: "Slow Job Growth Puzzles Economists." You can tell that the Journal is also...
DILLER THE KILLER - VIVENDI MOVES TO END HIS VETO RIGHTS OVER NBC DEAL
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amBarry Diller is holding up Vivendi's plans to merge its entertainment assets with NBC. Vivendi said yesterday it has filed suit in Delaware Chancery Court seeking to have Diller's rights...
NEW SPRING IN NIKE STEP: COLE HAAN UNIT REBOUNDS
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amCole Haan has found its feet - and, increasingly, they are wearing stilettos. After struggling for years to reinvent itself, Cole Haan is shaking its reputation for boring loafers and...
JUDGES' VERDICT: MARTHA'S MAG AMONG TOP 5
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amIn a surprise boost for Martha Stewart, her lifestyle magazine, Martha Stewart Living, was nominated yesterday for the magazine industry's highest award. The coveted nomination for a National Magazine Award...
HOME STORE HITS SOHO
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amRoom & Board, a Minneapolis-based furniture retailer, leased a multi-story space for a Manhattan store in SoHo. The 37,500-square-foot space is at 105-111 Wooster St. between Prince and Spring streets,...
ATHLETIC SHOE GIANT KICKS STRUGGLING FOOTSTAR
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amNike has threatened to stop supplying sneakers and other athletic merchandise to Footstar, a move that could force the company to liquidate some operations, according to court documents. Footstar, which...
SEC SLAPS NASDAQ ON EXCLUSIVITY
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission is getting in the way of a Nasdaq regulation that would keep some of America's biggest companies from listing shares on more than one exchange....
WE'RE PAID UP, DUANE READE SAYS
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amDrugstore chain Duane Reade said yesterday it is current with rents and pays them on time to all its landlords in the area. The retailer made the statement following a...
DON THE TRUMP TEE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00am'THE Apprentice" is just a TV show anymore - it's a hit T-shirt too. Project E, an Atlanta sportswear company, has an overnight success in its "You're Fired!" T-shirts that...
NO 'REAL WORLD' IN PHILLY
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amTHE real world has put a damper on MTV's "The Real World." A dispute between labor unions and the producers of the long-running reality hit has put the kibosh on...
CHARMING PERSONALITIES SOUL OF 'HEART'
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amOPEN HEARTAt the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce St. Through April 25. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. ---- REMEMBER Robby Benson? He was the cute teen idol in such late '70s films...
JET FLIES SKY HIGH - SOARS OVER WILTED VINES
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amJETTHE VINES ---- IN a battle of the bands determining who makes the top rock from Down Under, Jet shot down their countrymen, the Vines, at the first of the...
CAR-AZY 'RIDE' - MTV'S WHEELY BIG MAKEOVER SHOW
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amLAST WEEK, "PIMP MY RIDE" WAS RANKED NO. 4 - BIGGER THAN HITS LIKE "AMERICAN CHOPPER" AND "CHAPPELLE'S SHOW." THE hottest new show on cable, "Pimp My Ride," wants to...
POP TEEN GETS BOOT
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amLittle Leah LaBelle was the first wannabe pop star to get the boot on the latest "American Idol." LaBelle, 17, from Seattle, cried when she was told viewers had voted...
PARTY POLITICS - HOW YOUNG DEMS & GOPERS MAKE THE SCENE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amYOUNG Democrats like to dance. Young Republicans like to drink. Republican get-togethers start early in the evening, while Democratic bashes finish early in the morning. Whatever your political affiliation, political...
BLOCK PARTY - FULTON STREET - GET YOUR FILL ON FULTON
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amIf you want to examine the process of gentrification up close, Brooklyn's Fulton Street would make a perfect case study. Until about a decade ago, ti section of Fulton Street...
CANDID DATES - WE SET UP CROSS-PARTY LIAISONS TO FIND RUNNING MATES
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amDEMOCRATS and Republicans may have thriving social scenes within their own camps, but - Mary Matalin and James Carville notwithstanding - couples don't seem to cross party lines when it...
STARR REPORT
March 18, 2004 | 5:00am'Idol' chatter . . . Tuesday's "American Idol" notched 26.7 million viewers - helping Fox notch its highest-rated Tuesday night in history in total viewers. That's remarkable, but is even...
BABS REMEMBERS 'THE WAY' FONDLY
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amWANT to see Barbra Streisand's face light up? Just mention Robert Redford. That's what happened when James Lipton brought up Streisand's handsome co-star from "The Way We Were" in an...
TEN-GALLON 'SOPRANOS'
March 18, 2004 | 5:00am"Deadwood" [**] (two stars) Sunday night at 10 on HBO ---- IT'S almost impossible to describe "Deadwood," HBO's new Sunday night drama. I mean, how do you describe a show...
CON ED FIRE SPURS B'KLYN EVACUATION
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amDozens of families had to be evacuated from their Brooklyn homes last night after a Con Edison manhole fire caused a potentially dangerous carbon-monoxide problem. It was the second manhole...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amPoliticians fed up with drunken hooligans tearing through Daytona Beach, Fla., during spring break placed signs on the city's trash cans that read, "It's all about respect." In a single...
SHOUT-OUTS REPLACE SHOOTOUTS AT THIS KELLY GANG REUNION
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amTHEY called him a "bushranger" in Australia, you know, like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, sort of a Robin Hood. His name was Ned Kelly, a horse thief who...
CITY'S MEDICAID DI$TRESS CALL
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amThe city will face "enormous difficulties" in balancing its budget in future years unless it contains Medicaid spending, a top fiscal watchdog warned yesterday. The state Financial Control Board devoted...
U.N. OIL BIZ HIRED KOFI SON
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan worked for a company the United Nations hired to police the notoriously corrupt Iraq oil-for-food program, raising new questions about the...
W. MADE A 'TARGET' OF TROOPS: FOE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry charged yesterday that U.S. troops are bogged down in Iraq with "the target . . . on their backs" because of President Bush's decision to...
NUDE NOT LEWD - FOTOG SUES HOSP ON MEDICAL PICS
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amA medical photographer fired from NYU Hospital for allegedly taking pornographic "total body" pictures of dermatology patients is suing his former bosses for more than $140 million - saying he...
SLIVER OF DOUBT FOR JAYSON
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amSOMERVILLE, N.J. - A small wood chip found inside Jayson Williams' shotgun could have stuck to its firing mechanism and made the weapon fire without the ex-NBA star pulling the...
APPLE TO PAUSE FOR RAIL VICTIMS
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg called for a moment of silence this morning at 7:39 a.m. - exactly one week after the first of 10 bombs ripped through four trains in Madrid. Bloomberg...
JEWS RIP 'CHURCH' PARKING PROPOSAL
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amObservant Jews whose beliefs bar them from driving to a synagogue are trying to put the brakes on a city councilman's proposal that would require many new houses of worship...
PIZZA PILL A SCHOOL PUZZLE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amA Brooklyn student discovered an unordered topping on her cafeteria pizza - a mystery pill - and a councilman yesterday demanded officials deliver an explanation. Taylor Casanova found the pill...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amQUEENS * Police yesterday released a photo of a 17-year-old who vanished from a Flushing church last month. On Feb. 15, Jessica Chen (above), 17, was attending morning service at...
THE KATE ESTATE - HEPBURN AUCTION COULD NET $1 MILLION
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amIt's a bidder-sweet ending for some of Katharine Hepburn's most prized possessions. The legendary star's jewelry, clothing, paintings, furniture and movie memorabilia will be sold off by her estate at...
ERIN GO BRRRRAGH - SPIRITS RAISED AS TEMPS FALL
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amGlimmers of green peeked out from under layers of heavy jackets yesterday as thousands of St. Patrick's Day revelers marched defiantly into the freezing wind and snow. Instead of his...
MIKE STILL CATERER'S CHECK MATE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg refused yesterday to intervene in a dispute between his caterer and her employees, who say their paychecks are routinely withheld for months. "The caterer does a good job...
GAY SLURS GET IRISH UP
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amCity paradegoers and marchers were split yesterday over controversial anti-gay comments made by the executive director of the city's St. Patrick's Day Parade. Jim Barker told the Dublin-based Irish Times...
CHENEY SLAMS 'WEAK' KERRY - CALLS FLIP-FLOP DEM AN INSULT TO ALLIES
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amVice President Dick Cheney yesterday ripped into Democratic nominee John Kerry as a weak waffler with lousy judgment who'd have left Saddam Hussein in power and is insulting steadfast allies...
'PERV MOM' JURY VISITS 'SEX' PAD
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amJurors yesterday visited the home of the Long Island mom accused of having sex with her teenage son's 15-year-old best friend. Marilu Fischetti, 43, sat awkwardly at her dining-room table...
MARTHA SEEKING PEN PALS - NOTE BLITZ FOR JUDGE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amMartha Stewart hopes to get off with a little help from her friends. The convicted good-living guru sent out a letter encouraging allies to lobby the judge in her case...
BOMB FIENDS HIT BAGHDAD - * 27 KILLED AS HOTEL CRUMBLES * CAR BLAST AIMS AT 'SOFT TARGET' * KILLERS 'WILL FAIL,' CHENEY VOWS
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amA devastating 1,000-pound car bomb destroyed a five-story hotel in the heart of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 27 people just days before the one-year anniversary of the start of...
B'KLYN GAL HACKS BEAU: COPS
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman viciously attacked her boyfriend with a machete yesterday, partially severing one of his fingers, police said. The attack happened at around 7:30 a.m. at 1801 Dorchester Road...
DNA NAILS THUG IN THREE RAPES
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amA Manhattan jury yesterday used DNA evidence to convict a Bronx man of sexually assaulting three women who were lured to abandoned offices and raped at knifepoint. Robert Cumberland, 37,...
RAGING DAD BROKE BABY'S RIB CAGE: COPS
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amA 3-month-old Queens boy was battling for his life yesterday after his teenage father allegedly flew into a rage and shook his son with such force he broke a dozen...
W. SIDE GAMES - MAYORAL OLYMPIC DREAMS VS. DOWNTOWN REBUILDING
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amIT was the Olympics all along. At least, the city's quest to lure the 2012 games sure looks like the culprit in Mayor Bloomberg's baffling opposition to rebuilding Downtown's lost...
QNS. TERROR SCARE A LOAD OF GARBAGE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amCity sanitation workers, spooked by the trash they found outside the home of a 46-year-old Pakistani man in Queens, sparked a terror scare that led to the brief evacuation of...
SHEDDING WINTER CHILL - PASSION FOR HOT FASHION
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amIt may be Siberia on the sidewalk, but it's California in the stores. As a kiss-off to a seemingly never-ending winter, the sunset oranges, meadow greens and candy pinks of...
DEBACLE IN HIGH SCHOOLS - 31% DROPOUT RATE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amMany city high schools are academic disaster zones, according to new report cards released by education officials yesterday. The data tracked the performance of students who were supposed to graduate...
JOHN IN STATE OF DEAN-IAL
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amDEMOCRAT John Kerry yesterday woke up and realized he was in danger of morphing himself into anti-war fanatic Howard Dean - so he began backpedaling as fast as he could....
HOT APPLE CHEFS LEADING BEARD NOMINEES
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amNew York is really cooking. Chefs and restaurants from the Big Apple dominate the nominations for the top three categories of the prestigious James Beard Awards. "New York has won...
FUROR OVER 9/11 RELIC
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amFour senators are calling on the FBI to return a Tiffany globe lifted from Ground Zero to the mother of the 9/11 victim it belonged to, The Post has learned....
WHAT A WAY TO GO WHEN YOU NEED RELIEF
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amThis is one set of lips you're never going to want to kiss goodbye. A urinal shaped like the puckered-up mouth of a woman waiting to be kissed is being...
THIEVING PTA MOM 'FESSES UP
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amA former Queens middle-school PTA president admitted yesterday that she filched school funds to spoil herself with manicures, hair care and trips to the tanning salon. Brenda Battaglia, 35, pleaded...
SHAKE BABY NEAR DEATH
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amA 3-month-old Queens boy was battling for his life yesterday after his teenage dad allegedly flew into a rage and shook him with such force he broke a dozen ribs....
BOMB FIENDS HIT BAGHDAD: 29 PERISH AS HOTEL CRUMBLES ; BLAST MARKS WAR 'ANNIVERSARY'; KILLERS 'WILL FAIL,' CHENEY VOWS
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amA devastating 1,000-pound car bomb destroyed a five-story hotel in the heart of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 29 people just days before the one-year anniversary of the start of...
2 COPS BADLY HURT IN QUEENS CRUISER CRASH
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amTwo cops were critically injured in Queens last night when their car crashed as they rushed to back up plainclothes officers chasing a suspect. The injured officers, both women, were...
SHOWOFF COURTNEY BARES UP FOR DAVE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amRocker Courtney Love bared her body, bared her feet and managed to bear the cold - all in the space of a couple of hours yesterday. She began her skinfest...
PELOSI AWAITS CHARGE TODAY
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amDanny Pelosi expects to be charged today in the murder of millionaire Ted Ammon, and plans to surrender when the indictment is handed up. Pelosi and his lawyers believe that...
BOMB FIENDS HIT BAGHDAD - * 29 PERISH AS HOTEL CRUMBLES * BLAST MARKS WAR 'ANNIVERSARY' * KILLERS 'WILL FAIL,' CHENEY VOWS
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amA devastating 1,000-pound car bomb destroyed a five-story hotel in the heart of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 29 people just days before the one-year anniversary of the start of...
2 COPS BADLY HURT IN CRASH
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amTwo Queens cops were critically injured last night when a station wagon smashed into their patrol car as they were racing to help other officers arrest a suspect, cops said....
CLASSROOM EXTRA: A WARRIOR WOMAN'S STORY
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amQueen Mother Moore dedicated her nearly century-long life to the civil rights of African-Americans. She was a warrior woman. Queen Mother Moore, as she was affectionately known, was born Audley...
CENSUS PREDICTS NEW COLOR SCHEME
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amAmerica's melting pot is getting more colorful, with non-Hispanic whites projected to be just 50.1 percent of the population in 2050, new Census Bureau data says. The national population is...
'PERV MA' JURY VISITS 'SEX' PAD
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amJurors yesterday visited the home of the Long Island mom accused of having sex with her teenage son's 15-year-old best friend. Marilu Fischetti, 43, sat awkwardly at her dining-room table...
NEW CON ED SCARE - MANHOLE FIRES FORCE EVACUATION IN B'KLYN
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amDozens of families had to be evacuated from their Brooklyn homes last night after a Con Edison manhole fire caused a potentially dangerous carbon monoxide problem. It was the second...
JWES RIP 'CHURCH' PARKING PROPOSAL
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amObservant Jews whose beliefs bar them from driving to a synagogue are trying to put the brakes on a city councilman's proposal that would require many new houses of worship...
'MAN' IN THE MIRROR - JASPERS, GATORS PLAY SAME UP-TEMPO STYLE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amRALEIGH, N.C. - The "Cinderella" label was thrown around here, along with other accolades, filling the Southern air with an unmistakable sense that Manhattan is a live underdog and potential...
FLORES FEARS FINAL GAME
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amRALEIGH, N.C. - Luis Flores wants to delay the inevitable as long as possible, but he's enough of a realist to know his days as a Manhattan basketball player are...
THE MORE, THE MERRIER
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amTHE snowstorm that had the city folks saying "oh no" and skiers giving a resounding "yes" dumped from 7 to 10 inches across the Catskills, Berkshires and Green Mountains. Old...
JAGR EXPECTS D.C. BACKLASH
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amWayne Gretzky was booed - Wayne Gretzky! - in St. Louis every time he touched the puck when he played in that city after leaving the Blues to come to...
JINTS CUT TO CHASE, RELEASE OT HATCH
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amAs expected, the Giants yesterday addressed the need for depth on the defensive line by signing Martin Chase. On the same day, the Giants also made a predictable move by...
MARTELLI ENTERS SMILING - PACKER FLAP A PUNCHLINE FOR COACH
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amBUFFALO NOTES BUFFALO - It didn't take long for the two stones in Phil Martelli's shoe to join him at the NCAA Tournament. As soon as he sat down, the...
PRINCETON PROVIDES CHANGE OF PACE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amDENVER NOTES DENVER - Don't rule out Princeton. The Ivy League champion Tigers (20-7) make their 24th NCAA tournament appearance in tonight's 7:20 game against Texas (23-7). Particularly with Texas...
'CUSE 'MELOS' OUT - ORANGE PREPARED TO DEFEND ITS TITLE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amDENVER - At virtually every road stop Syracuse made this season, the Orangemen heard sardonic chants of "Where's Carmelo?!" The point to the derisive verbiage was that Syracuse had no...
DEVS CAN'T CATCH BREAK X-RAYS CONFIRM RAFALSKI FRACTURE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amAttributing the coincidence to "just extremely bad luck," Devils defenseman Brian Rafalski says he still believes his fractured right fibula wasn't broken the first time reports said it was. "I'm...
ISLANDERS' SMURF ESTABLISHING TURF
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - The oldest Islander is also the smallest Islander, but with the lack of production from big guns such as Alexei Yashin, since his return last week, and...
METS FINALLY SEE DAYLIGHT IN BULLPEN
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amTigers 9 - Mets 1 PORT ST. LUCIE - You can have the hitting, the starting pitching, the defense and the speed. Fact is, you're still not going anywhere. "You're...
GLAVINE: KEEP DRUG POLICY AS IT IS
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - With reports circulating that Bud Selig wants to initiate a tougher drug policy that supersedes the collective bargaining agreement, Tom Glavine again stuck up...
FLASH! GORDON IS SIGH OF RELIEF
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amTAMPA - Here's the book on Tom Gordon: The curveball is back and Stephen King's "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" is still in circulation, just like the pitcher. "She's...
KNICKS ACCEPT ISIAH'S HARSH WORDS AS GOSPEL
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amThis is exactly what the Knicks' brass wanted. When James Dolan fired Scott Layden, he said he wanted a general manager who possessed leadership skills, not just someone who could...
HALL RIGHT NOW - SETON'S SETTLED AFTER TOUGH TRIP
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amRALEIGH, N.C. - They had to wait so long, a little while longer wasn't going to unnerve the Seton Hall Pirates. Scheduled to arrive here early Tuesday evening, the Pirates'...
BOMBERS HUDDLE UP WITH FEHR
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - The steroid issue took up most of the two-hour meeting Yankee players had with Players Association head Donald Fehr yesterday at Legends Field. For the most...
BERNIE'S GETTING BACK INTO SWING
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amTAMPA - The best lineup in baseball took a baby step toward being at full strength yesterday when Bernie Williams took live batting practice for the first time since undergoing...
BERGTRAUM GIRLS STRUGGLE ON WAY TO SIXTH IN A ROW
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amPSAL GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP: Murry Bergtraum 68 - Francis Lewis 55 Epiphany Prince missed seven of eight shots from the field to start last night's game and at halftime, the Bergtraum...
CONTRERAS LOOKS SHARP
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amTAMPA - When the forkball dips and the slider darts the way it did last night, the Yankees pat themselves on the back for giving Jose Contreras $32 million. Coming...
BERGTRAUM GIRLS WIN AMAZING 6TH IN ROW
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amEpiphany Prince missed seven of eight shots from the field to start last night's game, and at halftime, the Bergtraum sophomore was determined to change things. "I was nervous at...
CHAMPS! - LINCOLN BOYS COP 3RD STRAIGHT TITLE
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amSebastian Telfair walked off the court during the final seconds last night, soaking in the adulation of the 12,021 fans at the Garden. "That felt unbelievable," Telfair said after he...
DEVS FIND 2ND LINE - FRIESEN, KOZLOV FUEL ROUT OF PENS
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amDevils 6 - Penguins 1 Feasting on the flotsam, the Devils have long proven they can terrorize the terrible. That isn't a failing, those games are on the schedule. But...
ISLES' SHOT BARRAGE GOES FOR NAUGHT
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amPanthers >6 - Islanders 4 SUNRISE, Fla. - Just a reminder for the Islanders: the universal sign for choking is to raise your hands to your throat and wait for...
A REAL OKAFOR-CE: THERE'S NO STOPPING UCONN - IF EMEKA'S BACK HOLDS UP
March 18, 2004 | 5:00amBUFFALO - There is no one else like him anywhere in the country, no one with his skills, his height, his presence. Opposing coaches have spent three seasons trying to...