May 17, 2004
RIVALS APPEAL TO CONGRESS ON NYSE TRADE-THROUGH FIGHT
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amA new coalition of archrivals is taking on the New York Stock Exchange on Capitol Hill. Today, a group that includes the Nasdaq, Instinet, the National Stock Exchange, Ameritrade and...
MEL, SUMNER SPLIT - ARGUE OVER WHETHER TO MAKE 'MAJOR' PURCHASE
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amAs executives at Viacom continue to fret about the company's faltering stock price, the media giant's board has asked director Robert Walter to review growth strategies - including the possibility...
IF KARMAZIN GOES HE'LL BE RICH
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amIf Viacom president Mel Karmazin leaves the company - as many speculate could happen imminently - he would walk away a very rich man. Under Karmazin's unusual employment contract, which...
TOTES-ISOTONER GOING ON BLOCK
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amUmbrella maker Totes-Isotoner is hoping to cash in on a rainy day. Totes-Isotoner Corp.'s owner, Swander Pace Capital, has put the well-known maker of umbrellas, gloves and galoshes on the...
GAME OF CHANCE - REAL 'CASINO' DRAMA
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amREALITY guru Mark Burnett has tackled the leafy jungle ("Survivor") and the corporate jungle ("The Apprentice") - and now he's going into the real belly of the beast. A Las...
TEXAS HUBBY KILLER CAST
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amELIZABETH Peña, who starred in the hit movie "Rush Hour," will play a Texas woman who gained national fame when she ran over and killed her cheating husband with a...
'BACHELOR' HUNT HEATS UP
May 17, 2004 | 4:00am'THE Bachelor" wants a fireman to star in its next series. "We are looking for a great single firefighter or first responder," says an ad on Firehouse.com, a Web site...
GREAT SCOT IS MUSIC TO CITY BALLET'S EARS
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amNEW YORK CITY BALLETAt New York State Theater, Lincoln Center; (212) 870-5570. Season runs through June 27. THIRTY-one-year-old Christopher Wheeldon, the New York City Ballet's resident choreographer, is classic ballet's...
'WICKED' IS DRAMA DESK BIG WINNER
May 17, 2004 | 4:00am'WICKED," the $14 million musical about the witches of Oz, won six Drama Desk Awards last night, including Best Musical. The award for Best Play went to "I Am My...
RAY RETURNS
May 17, 2004 | 4:00am'Everybody Loves Raymond" will return for a final, 16-episode season, according to Variety.com. After weeks of ironing out details, CBS announced yesterday that a deal has been reached to bring...
NETS FAIL TO NAIL IT DOWN - PISTONS FORCE FINAL SHOWDOWN
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amThere were times when the Nets would have given anything to have a Game 7 in these Eastern Conference semifinals against Detroit. But last night was not one of them....
BACK TO REALITY FOR THE SUMMER
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amCALL it the summer of the reality show. No less than a dozen new reality shows are set to air this summer. The war horses of reality's earlier days (like,...
STARR REPORT
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amRoz, Ernie gaining Local news ratings (hopefully) receive a ratings bump during sweeps (that's the whole point) - but Ch. 2's 5 p.m. newscast, anchored by Roz Abrams and Ernie...
GOING 'WILD' - MTV KEEPS SPIRIT OF 'JACKASS' ALIVE
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amMTV'S controversial "Jackass" made the cast household names and got their network in more than a little trouble. No matter how many warnings the show carried about not trying this...
'SWAN' CUTS BOTH WAYS - DRASTIC REALITY-TV MAKEOVERS NOT ALWAYS A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amMEET Kelly, a 25-year-old retail worker. Above, she's pictured before entering "The Swan," Fox's extreme makeover/beauty pageant show. On the right is Kelly now - after a brow lift, cheek...
JUSTICE FOR SIBS STIFFED BY RICH BRO
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amDecades after two sisters learned their brother had hidden their father's will from them and hoarded his belongings, a Bronx judge has opened the way for the pair to get...
TRAGEDY OF KIDS WITH DEATH WISH
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amHER big smile dazzled like a burst of sunhine after a week of rain. Kristina Hebner proudly gave me her card. "I bet you haven't met many 17-year-olds who have...
MUD PIT TO SAND TRAPS - N.J. MARSH BECOMING DREAMLAND FOR DUFFERS
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amA big swath of ugly land in New Jersey's Meadowlands is set to be transformed from garbage to grand - with new golf courses, housing, offices and hotels that have...
SECOND BANKER FRIGHT - FAINTED AT 'BOOT CAMP'
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe controversial management "boot camp" at which a Chase banker hanged himself nearly claimed another victim, The Post has learned. JP Morgan Chase bank employees feared the worst when Ismael...
SAMARITAN RETURNS CASHED-STUFF WALLET
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amShawn Shirazi, new in town from California, found out that New Yorkers are the best - when his lost wallet, bulging with $700, was returned without a bill missing. Shirazi...
MICHAEL MOORE: GOPRE$$URE ON MEL
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amCANNES, France - Leftist filmmaker Michael Moore - whose new documentary attacking President Bush premieres here today - claims the White House pressured Mel Gibson to withdraw his financial sponsorship...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amAn Ohio woman whose "shocking" stolen kiss in a long-gone era kept her out of the National Honor Society will finally be inducted - 51 years late. Catherine Peters Wagner,...
COLIN POWELL WAS FORCED TO SEIZE COMMAND OF A TV INTERVIEW ...
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amSecretary of State Colin Powell was forced to seize command of a TV interview from an overeager press aide yesterday after she tried to cut off his chat with Tim...
MCCAIN BACKS BUSH - 'CATEGORICALLY' DENIES DEM VEEP RUMORS
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amPopular Republican Sen. John McCain yesterday "categorically, categorically" rejected the latest Democratic bid to get him to be Democrat John Kerry's running mate - and said he'll campaign to re-elect...
STUDY: W. SIDE STADIUM IS BE$T
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amIf the city builds a new stadium in Queens it will lose at least $8 million a year in revenue, according to a study commissioned by the company that wants...
SEX SICKOS' WIRELESS 'HOOKUPS'
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe sleazy subculture of sex addicts has found a new way to use wireless technology to enable anonymous encounters with strangers. "Toothing" - which has been linking European strangers for...
THE 'FOURS' ARE WITH THEM
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amVanessa and Roderick Geoghan of Levittown once thought they might never be able to have a family of their own. Now three years later, with the help of fertility pills,...
POWELL BLASTS ARABS - RIPS SILENCE ON BERG
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amSecretary of State Colin Powell yesterday demanded to know why there isn't more Arab outrage over the terrorist beheading of American Nick Berg, saying there is "no excuse for any...
FOOTBALL'S FINEST BEST THE BRAVEST
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe NYPD's football team has Big Apple bragging rights after beating the city firefighters' team, 16-3, in their annual matchup. More than 7,000 people turned out Saturday for the 32nd...
APPLE'S GAMES HURDLE - OLYMPIC TEST TOMORROW
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe Big Apple's quest to host the 2012 Olympics faces it first international hurdle tomorrow when a list of nine cities vying to stage the summer games will be pared...
MERCEDES MECHANIC 'SWIPED' MY SUV
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amA businessman blew a gasket when he found out a Mercedes dealership mechanic allegedly took his $80,000 SUV on an unauthorized road trip. Fred Asher, 30, told The Post yesterday...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A 29-year-old man was critically injured by an assailant who stabbed him on an East Harlem street, police said yesterday. The victim was stabbed in the chest by...
CITY STAGES GRIM SUBWAY 'TERROR' DRILL
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe city's emergency responders this week will begin sifting through lessons learned from a disaster drill involving more than 1,000 participants conducted early yesterday, but officials said that their initial...
BIDDER DEFEAT FOR BUSH - KERRY FETCHES MORE AT MOYNIHAN AUCTION
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amIt was John Kerry by a nose when it came to auctioning Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's memorabilia yesterday. About 160 lots of Moynihan political mementos went under the gavel at...
GAY MAN 'BASHED' BY BOUNCER
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amA gay man who mistakenly went to a Chelsea club on a "straight night" was tossed out and brutally attacked by two men - one of them a security guard,...
BUSH, BLAIR EYE FASTER PULLOUT
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are drawing up plans to speed up a withdrawal from Iraq by handing over control of its security forces as soon as...
ISRAELIS FOIL PLOT TO BOMB KIBBUTZ
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli troops fatally shot a trio of bomb-toting Palestinian terrorists trying to infiltrate a kibbutz inside Israel last night, just before the army fired missiles at an office...
SLAIN BRIDE FURY - KIN CRY OUT FOR REVENGE
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe grief-stricken brother of a dead Bronx bride-to-be yesterday said he wants to "rip apart" her fiancé, who's suspected of nearly severing her head in a bloody attack on the...
DROPPED GUN KILLS MAN
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amA 62-year-old Brooklyn man died yesterday when he accidentally shot himself with his friend's gun, police said. Lorenzo Deer was handling the weapon, which belonged to his pal, Gustavo Acosta,...
ADS VEER TO QUEER
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amAdvertisers are cashing in on the latest hot demographic: gay and lesbian consumers. No longer in the closet about courting the gay community for its highly disposable income, companies such...
GAYS WILL TIE MASS. IN KNOTS
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amThey're here, they're queer and they're legal! Thousands of gay and lesbian couples, for the first time ever, will legally exchange wedding vows today in Massachusetts the only state in...
CITY PLANS TERROR DRILLS IN ADVANCE OF CONVENTION
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amCity officials plan to conduct mock-emergency drills to test their agencies' preparedness for a disaster or terror attack at the upcoming Republican National Convention. "There will be exercises," said Police...
BRAD PITT HIT'S A HOMER - 'TROY' TROUNCES 'VAN HELSING'
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amCheeky glimpses of Brad Pitt's partially bare butt turned out to be a stake through the heart of "Van Helsing," as the sweeping sword-and-sandal epic "Troy" blew the big-budget monster...
CRASH LEAVES COP CRITICAL
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amAn off-duty police officer was clinging to life last night after he was involved in a car accident in Brooklyn, cops said. The officer, whose name was not released, was...
LAWSUIT: GIVE ME 'SUMO' THAT $$
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island woman is looking to body-slam an amusement provider to the tune of $2 million for back injuries she says she suffered playing a mock sumo-wrestling game. Iris...
ASSEMBLYMAN'S SON BUSTED IN UPPER EAST SIDE ATTACK ON PROM TEEN
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe son of a Manhattan state Assemblyman has been arrested for beating a teen returning from his high-school prom, police sources said yesterday. Terrence Grannis, 18, the son of Alexander...
WEST SIDE HIGHWAY DEATH CRASH
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island college student was killed yesterday in a horrific car crash on the West Side Highway after a night of partying at a Manhattan nightclub, cops and relatives...
FINEST DEFEAT BRAVEST
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe NYPD's football team has regained Big Apple bragging rights after besting the city firefighters' team 16-3 in their annual matchup. More than 7,000 people turned out Saturday to watch...
COP-FDNY SPARKS FLY FOR REAL IN MOCK DRILL
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amA cop yesterday hurled a firefighter to the ground during a lower Manhattan drill designed to test how well emergency agencies work with one another responding to a terror attack,...
800G FOR COUPLE IN FOSTER BOTCH
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amA couple has received an $800,000 award from a Queens jury that found the city wrongfully placed their 9-year-old son in foster care, it was reported yesterday. The Administration for...
LIRR SLOWDOWN - TRACK WORK WILL SNAG SUMMER COMMUTE
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amLong Island Rail Road riders will face a series of commuter headaches starting next month because of a $34 million project aimed at overhauling a set of tracks and signals...
CAPITOL IS A HORN(Y) OF PLENTY
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amTHE college-intern sex scandal rock ing the Legislature is just one example of the runaway, morally loose "pleasure palace" culture afflicting state government, insiders in Albany agree. It's an open...
APPLE OF THEIR EYE - GWYNETH'S BABY MAKES HER DEBUT
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amHey, everybody - here she is! Beaming parents Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin proudly introduced the world to their golden delicious Apple yesterday. The overjoyed actress and her ecstatic rocker...
GIVE ME 'SUMO' THAT $$ - L.I. GAL'S 'SLAM' SUIT
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island woman is looking to body-slam an amusement provider to the tune of $2million for back injuries she says she suffered playing a mock sumowrestling game. Iris Mintz,...
WHEELY MAD OVER JOYRIDE
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island businessman blew a gasket when he found out a Mercedes dealership mechanic allegedly took his $80,000 SUV on an unauthorized road trip. Fred Asher, 30, told The...
REBELS KILL 3 WOMEN HELPING U.S.
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amGunmen in Baghdad killed three Iraqi women working for the coalition yesterday, while fighters for a radical cleric staged a third day of attacks on Italian troops in the southern...
RJ: CAN'T DWELL ON THIS ONE
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amHe sat in his locker with sandals on his feet, a towel in his lap and reassurance on his lips. Richard Jefferson had spent the last three hours trying to...
JONES BLAMES BOREDOM
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - It was a scene as stunning as it was once inconceivable: Roy Jones flat on his back, staring at the roof of the Mandalay Bay Events Center...
JETER CAN'T SHAKE SLUMP
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe Yankees played Game No. 37 on the schedule yesterday afternoon at the Stadium. If you failed the math portion of the SAT, that means the season is roughly a...
MARION: I'LL SUE USADA IF BARRED
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amMarion Jones is considered to be the world's fastest women. Yesterday she was the most defiant. Jones, who won gold in the 2000 Olympics in the 100 and 200 meter...
SICK OF THE BRICKS - PISTONS SINK 'EM WHEN THEY NEED TO
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amBRICK by brick, the Pistons seemed to have hit the wall. "I'm confident we'll react in a positive way, it's a great opportunity," Larry Brown said yesterday morning while Rasheed...
FLAHERTY FINDS THE SPOTLIGHT
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amJohn Flaherty wore a smile on his face and an Ace bandage on his left ankle yesterday while he talked about hitting his first home run of the season. "This...
GIAMBI'S BACK IS BARKIN'
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Jason Giambi didn't report to the clubhouse by the mandatory time of 11:45 a.m. yesterday, but he had a doctor's note. Giambi was at Beth Israel Hospital yesterday...
PRINCE BEING ROYALLY OUTPLAYED
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amStop us if this sounds familiar. A long, lean wingman, a young guy who can run and rebound and on occasion rock the rim, lifts a talented playoff team into...
MIKE FINALLY GETS THE LAST LAUGH
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Revenge comes in many ways. Mike Piazza proved that yesterday against Roger Clemens, but not until Clemens left the game. Any revenge is sweet revenge. Mr. Cy Young...
YANKEES' RECIPE: BROWN 'N SERVE - ACE WINS FIFTH
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 2 - Mariners 1 Kevin Brown sees himself as the opposite of what he is: the Yankees' savior. As his teammates have been waylaid by everything from a thrown...
GETTING THE POINT - PISTONS BACKUP JAMES PREPARING FOR POST-NBA LIFE
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Mike James comes off the practice court, the former Amityville High star is engulfed by a swarm of Detroit media. It's a strange scene, considering James is the Pistons'...
'SMARTY' MAY BE INVINCIBLE
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Circle June 5 on your calendar and plan a trip to Belmont Park, where a record crowd of 120,000 or more will, after 26 years of broken promises...
DRINKING IN THE AIR OF VICTORY
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES A three overtime win took a lot out of the Nets. So they started drinking heavily. No, not that kind of drinking. They imbibed water and nutrient replenishing...
GINTER KEEPS AMAZIN'S IN IT
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES HOUSTON - When Roger Clemens' name was announced in pregame, his fans roared wildly. When Matt Ginter's name was announced in pregame, his accompanying photo wasn't available. No,...
DETROIT: BRICK CITY - CAN'T SCORE WITH RASHEED HOBBLED
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amBRICK by brick, the Pistons have hit the wall. Once Rasheed Wallace's Game 3 performance was limited by fouls, then his plantar fasciitis flared, Detroit was ready to go in...
PIAZZA RUINS ROCKET'S DAY - DRAMATIC HR IN 9TH DENIES ROG 8TH WIN
May 17, 2004 | 4:00am13 INNINGS: Mets 3 - Astros 2 HOUSTON - There was no real reason to believe anything like this would happen. Not with the way Roger Clemens had dismantled the...
HISTORY LESSON ON NETS' MINDS - LOOK BACK LET KIDD & CO. MOVE AHEAD TO GAME 6
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amYesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery. So worry about today. That has been a Net motto. But yesterday they looked back - just a bit - for a reminder about how...
HOWE EJECTED OVER BOTCHED CALL
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Mike Piazza's enormous game-tying homer yesterday should have been a game-winning one. Perhaps if there were a different umpiring crew, it would have. In the sixth inning of...
RASHEED REFUSES TO SURRENDER
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amAfter Rasheed Wallace blocked his fourth shot of the night, with 1:48 left, stopping Kenyon Martin's jumper, the Pistons' 6-11 power forward crashed to the court, his face twisted in...
UNLUCKY ROLL LEADS TO UNWANTED GAME 7
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amTHEY have never been here, not once in 28 years of NBA membership. The Nets have seen a lot of things in that time. They have been to two NBA...
NETS GET BATTERED ON BOARDS
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES Larry Brown always loves strong rebounding games. Needless to say, the Pistons coach loved last night. After his team was outrebounded in four straight games following a Game...
PISTONS: DIFFERENCE STARTS WITH 'D'
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe script was going to form. The Pistons were back at the Meadowlands, getting blown out again, just like last spring, just like last week. They trailed, 13-2, missing eight...
PISTONS' BACK-UP STEPS UP
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Mike James comes off the practice court, the former Amityville High School star is engulfed by a swarm of Detroit media. It's an unusual scene, considering James is the...
WALLACE DUO WON'T LET DETROIT DIE
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amLarry Brown was asked before the game - prematurely as it turned out - if the season would be a failure if the Pistons were eliminated in the second round....
NETS FAIL TO NAIL IT DOWN - PISTONS FORCE GAME 7
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 6: Pistons 81 - Nets >75 There was a time when the Nets would have given anything for a Game 7 in these Eastern Conference semifinals against Detroit. But...
PARTY ON HOLD AS DETROIT REWRITES SCRIPT
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amTHEY have come to expect nothing but superlatives from the Nets in these moments of important playoff games, and so as the seconds melted away late in the fourth quarter,...
NO BRICKS THIS TIME - PISTONS SINK 'EM WHEN THEY NEED TO
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amBRICK by brick, the Pistons seemed to have hit the wall. Once Rasheed Wallace's Game 3 performance was limited by fouls, then his plantar fasciitis, Detroit - spotted two games...
KENYON FAILS TO LIFT NETS
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES Kenyon Martin had a good game. In Game 4 against the Knicks, if you listen to him. That was the last time the Nets' power forward walked off...
RJ SOARS, SPUTTERS IN LOSS
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amIn one quarter, Richard Jefferson sprints to catch the ball along the right baseline and never hesitates. He takes one dribble, rises, and faster than you can say "Olympian," he's...
ROTATION SPINS ITS WHEELS
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amTANYON STURTZE joined the Yankees' $185 million roster yesterday, which is like having aluminum siding on Trump Tower. About the only positive about Sturtze is he's not Donovan Osborne, and...
FRANK-LY SPEAKING, EDGE GOES TO JERSEY'S LARRY
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amSomehow, he remains the calmest voice in the room, the most even temperament in the building, even when everything screams that he should be at his breaking point. Lawrence Frank...
SUPER, OR BEST OF BAD LOT?
May 17, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - With two thirds of the 2004 Triple Crown safari completed, the saga can be summed up in six words: Smarty Jones first, the rest nowhere. Smarty's superiority, demonstrated...