May 3, 2004
PAULSON CALL KEPT GOLDMAN OFF GOOGLE
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amGoldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson made a critical mistake in trying to win the right to manage Google's insanely anticipated initial public offering: He schmoozed. During the heated competition leading...
JACK COMES BACK - RETIRED LEGEND WELCH ITCHING FOR A NEW TOP SPOT
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amJack Welch wants back in the game. Welch, the widely revered former chief executive of General Electric, is itching to run a major company again and could start fielding offers,...
SHORT 'CHANGE' - HOT CAST CANNOT FIX CHILLY MUSICAL
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amCAROLINE, OR CHANGE [ 1/2] (One and one-half stars)Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 230 W. 49th Street. (212) 239-6200. ---- THERE is a tricky indecisiveness about the title of Tony Kushner's "Caroline,...
COMEDY TAKES A WALK ON THE WILDE SIDE
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amENGAGEDAt the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher St. Through May 16. ---- WE know W.S. Gilbert as one- half of the team that gave us the wittily immortal "Gondoliers" and...
STARR REPORT
May 3, 2004 | 4:00am'Air' gets bookin' The reports of "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" having trouble booking guests are, as they say, "greatly exaggerated." To whit: with May sweeps upon us, "On Air"...
BUFFY'S BACK...WELL, SORT OF - BACK OF HER HEAD? WHY EVEN BOTHER?
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amTHE only bit of Buffy the vampire slayer anyone is going to get to see for a long time is the back of her head. For months, speculation and hopes...
SMARTY DIDN'T HORSE AROUND
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amSMARTY Jones' win in the Kentucky Derby produced a big early rating, the highest since 1992. On average, the rating for NBC's broadcast of Saturday's race was up 8 percent...
BOY MEETS GIRL: THE HOW-TO OF TWO SEX-CHANGE OPS - BET YOU CAN'T GUESS WHICH OF THESE TWO PEOPLE IS REALLY A GIRL
May 3, 2004 | 4:00am"The Opposite Sex" [***] (three stars) Tonight at 9 on Showtime --- I'll never figure out why one man got a sex change operation to become a woman to become...
BIG 'SPRINGER' BABY OFFENDS
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amJERRY Springer's usual chaos is headed to Broadway, but it's not the usual assortment of racist, transsexual, love- triangle trash. Christian fundamentalist groups say they will attempt to halt the...
CUNY LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD BLACK MEN
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amTroubled by the meager presence of black men on its campuses, the City University of New York is launching a campaign to better recruit and retain African-American and Caribbean-American male...
SPITZER PROBE PREYS ON PATAKI PAY 'N' PRAY
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amSTATE Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has ordered a probe of Gov. Pataki's prayer-breakfast "trust fund" - which is sponsoring an upcoming event with First Lady Laura Bush - to see...
PREZ: BILL DIDN'T WARN OF OSAMA
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In testifying to the 9/11 commission, President Bush contradicted former President Bill Clinton's claim that he'd warned Bush that Osama bin Laden would be his No. 1 problem...
LET THESE GUYS HAVE THEIR ROAD TO RICHES
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amDRIVING around comedians like Red Skelton, Red Buttons and Jackie Gleason was a barrel full of laughs. "Always joking, always very friendly and great tippers," Vinny Sapone was saying of...
POKER-WHIZ COLLEGE KID DEALS HIMSELF 707G SCORE IN VEGAS
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amHow do you put yourself through Yale and Sarah Lawrence and have enough money left over to buy a luxury condo in Brooklyn? If you're Matt Matros, you simply cash...
PENTAGON ALLY GAVE SECRETS TO IRAN: MAG
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. spy agencies claim Iraqi leader Ahmed Chalabi, who has close Pentagon ties, may have given Iran's ayatollahs some top-secret tips on U.S. actions in Iraq and that...
U.N. BIG EYED IN COVER-UP
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In a new shocker in the United Nations' oil-for-food scandal, a letter written just two weeks ago suggests the U.N. official who led the program may be engaged...
'PAPER' MILLS CUTS SCHUMER
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amThe Senate race branched off in an unexpected direction yesterday. GOP Assemblyman Howard Mills, who is hoping to unseat Sen. Charles Schumer, said he'll plant 25 trees "to make up...
I'M PIGGING OUT ON JUNK, PREGNANT PALTROW ADMITS
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amGwyneth Paltrow says she's packed on so much weight during her pregnancy that "I feel like I'm something off the Discovery Channel." It's a topsy-turvy life for the sexy blond...
BOUNCER KNIFED IN MIDTOWN
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amA 41-year-old bouncer at the Copacabana club in Midtown was stabbed in the stomach by a drunken patron who had been scuffling with two other security guards as he was...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amAn Idaho doctor used a $300 power drill from the tool shed to save a man's life. Ben King, 29, fell down a flight of stairs in Ketchum and his...
TEEN'S DEATH DASH - L.I. ROAD TRAGEDY
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amA budding romance turned tragic on Long Island, when an unsuspecting motorist ran down two daredevil teens - killing one - as they dashed across a six-lane highway from a...
REBELS KILL 11 YANKS IN IRAQ
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amEleven U.S. service people were killed in Iraq yesterday, six of them in a mortar attack on a military base near the western city of Ramadi. Thirty servicemen were wounded...
'HANDFUL' OF ABUSERS: GENERAL
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amThe nation's top general categorically denied yesterday there has been widespread abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops, insisting the actions of "just a handful" at a Baghdad prison have...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Pipe-wielding thugs beat a man into a coma on an East Flatbush street, police said yesterday. About 10 unidentified men, brandishing metal pipes, accosted Robert Gresner at Rogers...
'MEAN' IS BOX-OFFICE QUEEN
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amWomen ruled the box office over the weekend as "Mean Girls" rocketed to No. 1, tripping up Denzel Washington's "Man on Fire." The edgy high-school satire starring Lindsay Lohan and...
'LOT' OF TROUBLE - PARKING CONS TAKE DRIVERS FOR A RIDE
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amParking pirates are ripping off drivers at a downtown municipal lot where they con weekend motorists into feeding money to them instead of the meters. The space cowboys set up...
2 BIKE-TOUR CYCLISTS DIE - RIDE-ATHON TURNS TRAGIC
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amHeart attacks killed two cyclists participating in yesterday's five-borough Bike New York tour. Wei Yeh, 29, collapsed on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near Hamilton Avenue shortly before 1 p.m. Relatives and...
ARIEL TO CONTINUE PULLOUT PLAN DESPITE LIKUD DEFEAT
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday defiantly vowed to continue pushing ahead with plans for a Gaza Strip pullout - just hours after being handed a major defeat...
AMERICAN WINS FREEDOM DASH - CIVILIAN CAPTIVE OK AFTER 2ND ESCAPE
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amHis first escape attempt failed - but courageous Thomas Hamill refused to give up. Hearing a U.S. patrol approaching early yesterday, Hamill pried open a door of the Tikrit home...
LOTS OF 'VROOM' IN JAIL - DRAG-STRIP CRACKDOWN
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amDozens of undercover cops posing as racing fans slammed the brakes on two wildly popular but highly illegal drag-racing strips in Brooklyn and The Bronx - busting drivers and seizing...
DRUG THUGS BUSTED - UNHOLY 'GODBODIES'
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amEleven members of the notorious Godbodies, a murderous gang of drug dealers that operated a major crack-cocaine business from a Brooklyn tenement, were busted in a joint task-force probe, law-enforcement...
SHE'S CITY 'CANCEL' WOMAN
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amIf 80 percent of success is just showing up, then Councilwoman Sara Gonzalez is a failure. She only shows up for work 61 percent of the time. A Post review...
GAZA BABY KILLERS - PALESTINIANS SLAY PREGNANT MOM & KIDS
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian fiends mercilessly gunned down a pregnant Jewish settler and her four terrified little girls in their station wagon yesterday as the family headed to protest Israel's planned...
PENTAGON PAL GAVE IRAN SECRETS: MAG
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. spy agencies claim Iraqi leader Ahmed Chalabi, who has close Pentagon ties, may have given Iran's ayatollahs some top-secret tips on U.S. actions in Iraq and that...
ONLY 'HANDFUL' ABUSED POWS: GENERAL
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amThe nation's top general categorically denied yesterday there has been widespread abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops, insisting the actions of "just a handful" at a Baghdad prison have...
RESTAURANT PORTER ADMITS KILLING HIS BOSS: COPS
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amA porter at celebrity restaurant Pop confessed after hours of interrogation to killing his boss, Tim Moore, during a robbery, cops said yesterday. Cops said Lerome Hilson, 29, of Bristow...
LUCK BE A LADY . . . DETECTIVE
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amIf Detective Ann Marie Moloney has your number, it could be the luckiest day of your life. The 15-year NYPD veteran moonlights by announcing the winning numbers for the New...
TAXIS $OAR TODAY - RIDERS HIT WITH ONE HACK OF A FARE HIKE
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amGet ready to dig deeper for a taxi ride today. When you catch a yellow cab, you'll be paying 26 percent more than yesterday. It's the first fare hike in...
CITY 'PAVING' WAY FOR GOP
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amIt'll be smooth going for Republicans gathered at Madison Square Garden this summer - the city is paving every road in Midtown in time for the presidential convention. The city...
TOMB-ROB HORROR - N.J. CULT USED REMAINS IN RITUALS: DA
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amFive generations of Roseanne Perna's family are interred at a stately mausoleum, but the New Jersey woman doubts that any of them are resting in peace. Others left to mourn...
WAR DECLARED ON KILLER TREE BEETLE
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amFederal investigators want to break up the beetles. Since their invasion of New York in 1996, Asian longhorned beetles have devastated trees in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. So, starting this...
I SURVIVED MOUNTAIN LION'S JAWS
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amA former Marine rescued from the jaws of a California mountain lion says the big cat pounced on her with such ferocious power, "it felt like 10 guys attacking me...
LITERACY PUSH TO TARGET POOR
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg wants to supply the city's 345 public-housing projects with children's books and libraries as part of a new literacy campaign to teach toddlers how to read before entering...
2 DIE ON BIKE TOUR - CITY RIDE-ATHON TURNS TRAGIC
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amHeart attacks killed two cyclists participating in yesterday's fiveborough Bike New York tour. Wei Yeh, 29, collapsed on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near Hamilton Avenue shortly before 1 p.m. Family members...
YOU GO, 'GIRL$' - TEEN COMEDY IS BOX-OFFICE QUEEN
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amWomen ruled the box office over the weekend as "Mean Girls" rocketed to No. 1, tripping up Denzel Washington's "Man on Fire." The edgy high-school satire starring Lindsay Lohan and...
THREE CRITICAL IN BRONX SHOOT
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amThree men were shot and critically wounded on a Bronx street last night, police said. A 26-year-old man was listed in very critical condition at St. Barnabas Hospital after the...
I SURVIVED LION'S JAWS
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amA former Marine rescued from the jaws of a California mountain lion says the big cat pounced on her with such ferocious power that "it felt like 10 guys attacking...
PREZ CONTRADICTS BILL ON OSAMA WARNING
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In testifying to the 9/11 commission, President Bush contradicted former President Bill Clinton's claim that he'd warned Bush that Osama bin Laden would be his No. 1 problem...
'PAPER' MILLS CUTS CHUCK
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amThe Senate race branched off in an unexpected direction yesterday. GOP Assemblyman Howard Mills, who is hoping to unseat Sen. Charles Schumer, said he'll plant 25 trees "to make up...
THE STARK REALITY: SHE'S NO JOURNALIST
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amWHY, we've often asked ourselves, are so many sports TV interviewers - professionals - in the habit of asking questions, the answers to which they ignore? Are they not listening...
SMARTY FASTEST OF VERY SLOW CROP
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - If Saturday's Kentucky Derby offered one startling revelation, it is that this year's crop of three-year-olds may be the slowest bunch to step on the track in a...
UNDEFEATED 'SMARTY' IS NO FLUKE
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - It was cold and drizzly yesterday at Churchill Downs, the morning after Smarty Jones' soggy yet rousing victory in the 130th Run for the Roses. A gaggle of...
PISTONS' DEFENSE SETTING NET TRAP
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES AUBURN HILLS - The Nets know what's coming. The Pistons want to make them shoot jumpers. Lots and lots of jumpers. Go ahead and try, say the Nets....
HEALTHY BILLUPS ON POINT
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amPISTON NOTES AUBURN HILLS - The Pistons' Chauncey Billups put up a brave front across last spring's humiliating sweep by the Nets, not wanting to blame his sprained left ankle....
A PREAKNESS REMATCH
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Smarty Jones - who cashed a world-record single-day payday of $5,854,800 for winning the Kentucky Derby, including a $5 million bonus from Oaklawn Park - has his sights...
YANKEES: PEDRO IS WELCOME - SIGNING WOULDN'T SURPRISE PLAYERS
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amPedro Martinez this weekend halted contract negotiations with the Red Sox and says that he'll test the market as a free agent following this season. So you all know what...
MATSUI MACHINE RUNNING SMOOTH
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amHideki Matsui arrived here a year ago with a reputation of being a masher, a home run machine with the nickname "Godzilla" for the way he launched baseballs out of...
LOFTON'S BACK, SO BUBBA'S SENT OUT
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Kenny Lofton's return yesterday meant Bubba Crosby's exit, and the 27-year-old rookie didn't try to mask his disappointment. Lofton (strained right quad) was reinstated from the 15-day disabled...
CURTIS EYES QUICK START
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amThere's a plan in place for the Jets to run Curtis Martin more in preseason games to get him in rhythm so he hits the regular season already in form,...
JETS' JORDAN AT CROSSROADS
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amIt's been a restless offseason for LaMont Jordan. The Jets' backup running back, who's been sitting behind Curtis Martin for his first three NFL seasons, has churned on the inside...
YANKEES DELIGHT IN THE JOY OF SIX - GUTSY MUSSINA HELPS SWEEP ROYALS AWAY
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 4 - Royals 2 Yesterday morning, Joe Torre argued that Mike Mussina was throwing well this season. The numbers - one win in six starts and a 6.55 ERA...
GLAVINE, SHANE PUNCH OUT PODS
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amMets 6 - Padres 2 SAN DIEGO - Before yesterday's game, Mike Cameron strolled around the visitors' clubhouse at Petco Park, wearing a white bandana on his head adorned with...
RILED-UP RASHEED'S ALL READY TO RUMBLE
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Rasheed Wallace stepped onto the court to greet reporters after yesterday's practice without a shirt, his tattoos running down his muscled shoulders, arms and back, The 6-11...
METS FILE A PROTEST ON PADRE RELIEVER
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - The Mets officially lodged their protest yesterday over Saturday's 3-1 loss to the Padres, and the decision is now in the hands of the commissioner's...
NETS WON'T DOG IT - KIDD & CO. READY FOR MOTOWN BATTLE
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - There was an ever-so slight smirk on Jason Kidd's face as he mouthed the words no one within earshot believed he meant yesterday. "They had the better...
PISTONS NOT BETTER TEAM
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The funny part is how cool the Pistons have been the past few weeks, how detached. For a team that hasn't won a thing in 14 years...
MATSUI RUNNING SMOOTH
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amHideki Matsui arrived here a year ago with a reputation of being a masher, a home run machine with the nickname "Godzilla" for the way he launched baseballs out of...
YANKS CAN REST GOING WEST
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amA WEEK ago today, the Yankees were between the Sox and a hard place. They had just endured a three-game sweep by Boston at home and were facing three games...
GLAVINE & METS PUNCH OUT PODS
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Strolling through the clubhouse door yesterday, Tom Glavine spotted Joe McEwing at his locker. "Biggest game of the year, buddy," Glavine said, grinning. He was kidding, of...
AMAZIN'S CRY FOUL ON HURLER
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - The Mets officially lodged their protest yesterday over Saturday's 3-1 loss to the Padres, and the decision is now in the hands of the commissioner's...
INSIDE THE MATCHUPS
May 3, 2004 | 4:00amThe immovable object against the unstoppable force. Detroit's defense against the Nets' running game. There's the nutshell version of the Eastern Conference semis starting tonight at Detroit. But there is...