April 5, 2004
THE POST IS NAMED 'BEST IN BUSINESS' AGAIN
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amFor the second consecutive year, The Post's business section has been named one of the nation's five best business sections among major newspapers. The Society of American Business Editors and...
$PECIAL PROBLEM - STRAPPED VAN DER MOOLEN GIVES SEC AN IOU
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amDutch trading firm Van der Moolen, charged by regulators last week with trading violations, is in such dire straits that it had to ask the Securities and Exchange Commission for...
BIGGER IS BETTER - JUST YOU WEIGHT! OPERA STAR NOT WORRIED
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amDEBORAH Voigt - dropped by London's Royal Opera because she was deemed too big for their production's little black dress - has this to say about the slender soprano who...
JOHN'S SPEAK-EASY - 'TONIGHT' A BREAK FOR STERN'S LACKEY
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amIS this guy lucky or what? Stuttering John Melendez was once this shaggy-haired freak who made his bones on Howard Stern's radio and TV shows by asking celebrities the most...
Correction Date: 04/06/2004
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amCorrection: Because of incorrect data provided by the state, yesterday's Post reported that the six-year graduation rate at Queens College was 27.6 percent. In fact, the rate was 49.4 percent.COLLEGE...
U.N. 'FOOD' GRILLING - OIL PROBERS TO PUT HEAT ON HONCHOS THIS WEEK
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Congressional investigators will interview top U.N. officials this week about shady Iraq oil-for-food dealings, as the probe into the massive bribery and kickback scandal intensifies. Aides to House...
-KINGS OF THE CARTS - FAMILY'S FOOD BIZ A PRETZEL TWIST ON CLASSIC N.Y. SUCCESS STORY (M)-RICHES A LA CART - FAMILY'S FOOD BIZ A PRETZEL TWIST ON CLASSIC N.Y. SUCCESS STORY (S, LCF)
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amThey're the pushcart kings - a family of Greek immigrants that pays the city $3 million a year to sell soft drinks, pretzels and franks on park property. Over the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amDallas residents say their city is full of crap - and who can blame them? Politicians there are calling the metropolis' pooper-scooper law a colossal failure - and with temperatures...
'HELLBOY' BEDEVILS RIVALS
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe box office has gone to hell - "Hellboy," that is. The action-packed, effects-filled flick about a wisecracking demon who investigates the paranormal grabbed $23.5 million over the weekend, debuting...
COLLEGE DROPOUTS COST STATE $300M
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amCollege students and their schools have squandered more than $300 million in state money over the past five years because the students either flunked out or dropped out without obtaining...
APPLE'S OLYMPIC GOLD - $1.4B STADIUM WOULD BE WORLD'S COSTLIEST
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amNew York City's bid for the 2012 Olympics includes what would be the most expensive Olympic Stadium in the world. The proposed Olympic Stadium on the West Side of Manhattan,...
CITY BIGS QUIZZED IN PARKS 'BIAS' SUIT
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amCity officials and Parks Department employees are being grilled as part of a federal probe into allegations former Parks Commissioner Henry Stern failed to hire and promote minorities. Several city...
TV TOTS TUNE OUT - VIEWING CAN LEAD TO ATTENTION DEFICIT
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe more little Tommy and Tina are parked in front of the TV before age 3, the greater risk they have of developing Attention Deficit Disorder, according to a startling...
JUROR'S BIZARRE SWITCH - TYCO GRANNY FLIPPED
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amInfamous Tyco holdout granny Ruth Jordan suddenly dropped her staunch support of the defendants over just one weekend, leading stunned fellow jurors to again question her motives, one panelist says....
TRAVELERS FACE LONG AIR DELAYS
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amNew Yorkers will find the skies much less friendly this summer - when they will face the worst airport and air-traffic delays since before the Sept. 11 attacks, it was...
DEAN TURNS HIS WRATH ON NADER
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who campaigned last year as an angry political outsider, is now warning Americans to avoid third-party candidate Ralph Nader. Dean says he told...
REP WANTS QUIZ INTO LIBERTY FUND
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amDid the National Park Service turn the city's most famous landmark into a lady in waiting? That's what one congressman wants to know after learning that the government had access...
SICKO ADMITS TO HORRIBLE '87 SLAYING
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amOn May 2, 1987, an attractive young hairdresser stormed out of a gin mill in upstate Niagara Falls after an argument with her fiancé - and then vanished without a...
BRAWLING 101 - POLICE SEAL OFF JERSEY CAMPUS AFTER DANCE ENDS IN BLOODY MELEE
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amA brawl early yesterday at a small New Jersey university led to one student being shot, several people being stabbed and a campus lockdown yesterday as cops searched for perpetrators....
SECRET GUN IN TOT-SLAY CADDIE
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amCops have discovered a loaded 9mm gun in a hidden compartment in the car where a 2-year-old boy was shot to death last week in Brooklyn, The Post has learned....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * Two men were arrested on assault charges yesterday for stabbing four people during an argument in Bedford Park, police said. Alexander Peralta, 20, and Julio Guerrero, 19,...
APRIL MAY SPRING FORWARD, BUT WINTER'S FALLING BACK
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amT.S. Eliot was right, April really is the cruelest month! Although it's spring and Daylight Savings Time arrived over the weekend, Old Man Winter has refused to leave. In fact,...
10 GIS SLAIN IN DAY OF HORROR - * FANATICS KILL 7 IN BAGHDAD SLUM * BLOODY UPRISING HITS 6 IRAQ CITIES
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amFrenzied followers of an anti-American Shiite cleric rioted across Iraqi yesterday killing 10 GIs - including seven in a fierce firefight in a teeming Baghdad slum. It was the worst...
INVALID DIES IN BROOKLYN STEAM HORROR
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amA 57-year-old home-bound Brooklyn woman was found dead yesterday - possibly killed by a faulty pipe that created a deadly steam bath and sent temperatures in her apartment soaring to...
SINGER GETS ALL FIRED UP OVER CIG BAN
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amJoe Jackson is speakin' out against Mayor Bloomberg's smoking ban. The singer has written a song bashing the ban that was enacted a year ago, and he'll perform it for...
WIND BLOWS DEBRIS OFF TW TOWER
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amStreets around Columbus Circle were closed yesterday afternoon when high winds blew insulation, sheet metal and steel molding off the mammoth AOL Time Warner Center. No one was injured in...
NO NUDES IS GOOD NEWS - FILMS WITHOUT SEX MAKE MORE MONEY: STUDY
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amHey, Hollywood, cover up those breasts and hide those bare bottoms - sex no longer sells. A new study reveals that movies containing explicit sex or nudity do much worse...
TEENS IN FIERY DEATH CRASH
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amOne teen was killed and four others injured last night when their car crashed and burst into flames in Staten Island as they fled a group of youths who had...
SUBWAY JUMPER SURVIVES
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amA mystery woman in a blond wig threw herself in front of a Brooklyn subway train in an apparent suicide attempt, but narrowly avoided being hit when she apparently changed...
B'KLYN STEAM HORROR - HEAT KILLS INVALID
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amA 57-year-old home-bound Brooklyn woman was found dead yesterday - apparently killed by a faulty pipe that created a deadly steam bath and sent temperatures in her apartment soaring to...
QUEENS FIRE KILLS SURVIVOR OF HOLOCAUST
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amAn 82-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed early yesterday morning when a fire tore through his Queens home. Family and friends buried Samuel Rotter hours later, remembering the constant smiles and...
HOU$ES ON FIRE - TOWN-HOME PRICES GO THROUGH THE ROOF
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amWhat's hotter than Manhattan apartments? Try Manhattan town houses. An astounding new residential report obtained by The Post reveals that the average price of a Manhattan town house has doubled...
9/11 TOUR FUROR - FIRE MARSHALS PROBE GROUND ZERO EXHIBIT
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amA New York charity that runs a traveling exhibit of Ground Zero "artifacts" - including part of a plane, pieces of destroyed buildings and earrings, shoes and eyeglasses belonging to...
SUMMER FLIGHT DELAYS - LONG WAITS IN STORE
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amNew Yorkers will find the skies much less friendly this summer - when they will face the worst airport and air-traffic delays since before the Sept. 11 attacks, it was...
PROBERS EYEING HOTELS' 'LOBBIES'
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amTHE state Lobbying Commission has is sued a subpoena for the names of all New York lawmakers who received discounted rooms - or other favors - at casinos run by...
DEBRIS BLOWS OFF TIME WARNER HQ
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amStreets around Columbus Circle were closed yesterday afternoon when high winds blew insulation, sheet metal and steel molding off the mammoth AOL Time Warner Center building onto the ground below....
TRAGIC TOT GUN TWIST - SECRET PISTOL FOUND IN DEATH CAR
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amCops have discovered a loaded 9mm gun in a hidden compartment in the car where a 2-year-old boy was shot to death last week in Brooklyn, The Post has learned....
GENO & DIANA ON SAME PAGE
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amNEW ORLEANS - Considering the alternative, there are advantages to dealing with a star player who is never wrong, one of them being that it is never wrong for Geno...
METS WEREN'T WILLING TO ROLL DICE FOR BRADLEY
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets lost the Milton Bradley game. But according to team ownership, a deal would not have been allowed anyway. Mets COO Jeff Wilpon told The...
METS TO SMILE ... OR SCOWL
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Will the Mets scrape and claw their way to play "meaningful" games, or will their fans once again be scraping their tears off the sidewalks of...
JAE NOT SEO-SEO ON TIDES
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amExpos 11 - Mets 3 PORT ST. LUCIE - Breaking his silence yesterday, Jae Seo sounded off for the first time on his demotion to Triple-A Norfolk. And safe to...
DEVS LET TITLE SLIP AWAY
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amBruins 3 - Devils 1 All they had to do to talk a better game than they played was mumble. It didn't take the Devils long to turn their attention...
KNICKS NOT QUITE ON SAME PAGE
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amIn a couple of weeks, the Garden will be buzzing and the A-list celebrities will be filling Spike Lee Row for what likely will be the Knicks' first playoff game...
PLANINIC GETTING JOB DONE
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe Nets were in Washington last week, treating the basketball as if it were a cross between a vial of the Ebola virus and an item from a 99-cent store....
NO FLING IN SPRING - METS EAGER TO PLAY FOR REAL
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - As Tyler Yates got dressed after surrendering seven runs in four innings yesterday, he talked about getting a tough day out of his system. "Yeah, dog,"...
SLATS VOWS CHANGES
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amAnd so there's a need for a head coach; a No. 1 goaltender; a first-line center, and some capable veteran forwards and defensemen to supplement the plethora of young people...
COLLINS HAS A TOE-HOLD ON TOUGHNESS
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amJason Collins is wincing again. From climbing stairs in his home yesterday morning to pivoting past Hawks center Jason Collier last night at Meadowlands Arena, Collins, the Nets' starting big...
DOHERTY, WELSH ON STORM RADAR
April 5, 2004 | 4:00am"We're going to take our time. Obviously with the timing of the coaching change it allows us to really focus in on what's important to us going forward and take...
HUSKIES READY TO JOIN COLLEGE HOOP ROYALTY
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The last time, they were still clinging to the crowded muddle of schools that want, wait, suffer and bleed for glory. Twenty times the Connecticut Huskies had...
ON CENTER STAGE - TECH'S SCHENSCHER AN AUSSIE SENSATION
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Remember the Alamodome for the night the college basketball championship of America centered around the 6-foot-9 son of Nigerian immigrants (Emeka Okafor) and the 7-foot-1 Aussie (Luke...
K-MART REPORTS PROGRESS
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amKenyon Martin wants to run up and down the court before making any decision on his return. Martin, who sat for the eighth time in nine games last night because...
MET PAIR TRIPS ON NO-NAME
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amTHE weekend's most notable - and hilarious - moments were products of an event that was barely worth our attention: Saturday's Mets-Marlins spring training game, heard on WFAN. With the...
JOE JUGGLING BERNIE, LOFTON
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Bernie Williams and Kenny Lofton will be in the lineup tomorrow night when the Yankees resume their season against the Devil Rays at Tropicana Field. However,...
-N.Y. ROOTS COLOR HEWITT'S COACHING STYLE (M)-HEWITT'S COACHING STYLE HAS ROOTS IN N.Y. (S, LCF)
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Red Holzman is looking down on this Georgia Tech team and smiling. He sees a team that plays much like his great Knicks teams of the late-Sixties...
TELFAIR GETS HIS GAME ON
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The big reputation hasn't always been a blessing for Sebastian Telfair. People preconceive his game, think they have him pegged. A point guard protege? From New York...
GORDON'S FOCUSED ON TITLE GAME
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - He is The Kid from Mount Vernon who proudly calls himself Madison Square Gordon, and tonight he tries to bring home a national championship for UConn in...
UCONN CAN RULE NCAAS
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amFINAL FOUR NOTEBOOK SAN ANTONIO - The University of Connecticut is poised to go where no school has gone before. The men's and women's basketball teams could become the first...
FORTY MINUTES FROM HISTORY - UCONN, TECH SET TO ROCK THE ALAMODOME
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Back in 1979, two players who were referred to with the reverence usually reserved for soccer stars saved college basketball and went on to breathe new life...
LESSON LEARNED - APPRECIATIVE GIAMBI GIVES DONNIE AN 'A'
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amTAMPA - From the first workout to the last, Jason Giambi has bought into Don Mattingly's approach to hitting. Now, Giambi is ready to forget last year's .250. It's the...
UCONN & TENN. TO DO IT AGAIN
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amNEW ORLEANS - Their brains back in gear, their emotions up again after a long and difficult season at the opportunity to win a third straight national championship, the UConn...
KNICKS AREN'T ON SAME PAGE
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amIn a couple of weeks, the Garden will be buzzing and the A-list celebrities will be filling Spike Lee Row for what likely will be the Knicks' first playoff game...
NOW, ON TO THE REAL STUFF
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amIslanders 3 - Flyers 3 Next stop, Tampa Bay. The Islanders wrapped up their 82-game regular season yesterday with a 3-3 tie with the Flyers in the last meaningless hockey...
A MATTER OF PRIDE - NETS ROUT HAWKS; STILL HOPE TO CATCH PISTONS
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amNets 106 - Hawks 89 The division is clinched, the playoffs assured, the playoff positioning virtually guaranteed. What is there to play for down the stretch for the Nets? Well,...
NO. 1 LADY VOLS SURVIVE IN SEMI
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amTennessee 52 - LSU 50 "They have low blood pressure and my blood pressure right now, you would not even want to check it." -TENNESSE COACH PAT SUMMITT ---- NEW...
PAIN NOT SLOWING COLLINS
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amFor the first 11 minutes last night, Nets center Jason Collins dominated the Hawks He took four shots and made them all. He grabbed six rebounds, five defensive. He fed...
RJ PLAYS LIKE KIDD WITH DOZEN ASSISTS
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES Richard Jefferson insists he's not Jason Kidd. Last night's numbers said otherwise: He unleashed a career-high 12 assists in the 106-89 victory over Atlanta last night at Meadowlands....
UCONN, VOLS GET TO PLAY IT AGAIN
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amUConn 67 - Minnesota 58 NEW ORLEANS - Their brains back in gear, their emotions up with the opportunity to win a third straight national championship, the UConn women are...
GA.TECH VS. UCONN
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amUConn's Josh Boone vs. Ga. Tech's Anthony McHenry As a freshman, Boone automatically qualifies as one of coach Jim Calhoun's favorite targets. Instead of wilting, Boone rose up to grab...
ANOTHER WACKY WEEKEND
April 5, 2004 | 4:00amA madcap pattern has emerged in the major Kentucky Derby prep races, with longshots winning and favorites finishing up the track. Friends Lake won the Florida Derby at 37-1, with...