June 15, 2004
LAWYERS VS. LIARS: WHO'LL GO TO JAIL FIRST IN MARTHA CASE?
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amDURING a break in the testimony of Secret Service Special Agent Larry Stewart last February, a lawyer for Peter Bacanovic went over to prosecutor William Burck and whispered, "I can't...
MUSIC FOR A SONG - WARNER BUYS MADONNA OUT OF MAVERICK FOR $10M
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe ugly legal battle between Madonna and Warner Music ended with a whimper yesterday, as Warner agreed to buy out the Material Girl's stake in Maverick Records for a relatively...
CUNY'S REBUILD DELAY SLAMMED; CRITICS BLAST CUNY REBUILDING DELAY
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amREAL estate players and downtown advocates are livid over the logjam that's holding up the repair or reconstruction of Fiterman Hall, the college building damaged on 9/11, which is still...
LEVIN OUT AS ANCIER TOPS WB
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amWarner Bros. said yesterday that it gave Garth Ancier sole oversight of the WB Network. Ancier and Jordan Levin had been sharing duties over the network since last September, having...
UPSTART DISSES DILLER AS WEB DATING WARS HEAT UP
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe battle over the online dating business got a lot more personal yesterday, when the chief executive of TrueBeginnings, an upstart site, accused much larger rival Match.com of using strong-arm...
THE KING OF VEGAS - EXTRA CASH SHOULD WIN MANDALAY FOR KIRK
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amAt 87, billionaire Kirk Kerkorian is letting cash do his talking, capturing the Mandalay casinos and building the world's biggest gaming empire. Kerkorian's MGM Mirage casino group yesterday said it...
KERKORIAN'S GIRLS TO USE FORTUNE FOR GOOD WORKS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe big plan behind Kirk Kerkorian's busy deal-making is to amass a $20 billion fortune for his two daughters to spend on bettering the world. Kerkorian, who turned 87 a...
MACK BACKTRACKS ON PAY - TO LURE BANKERS, CSFB RETURNS TO GUARANTEES
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amWhen he took the reins of Credit Suisse First Boston in July 2001, John Mack pledged not to award multi-year pay guarantees. Now, less than three years later, Mack appears...
SUPER SIZE PROMOS AIM AT CLUB KIDS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amBored with fuzzy toy giveaways, McDonald's is now launching edgy nightclub events to win over partygoers with a craving for late-night munchies. The restaurant chain is staging big blowouts this...
CA RESTATES AGAIN (FOR '04)
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amComputer Associates officially restated financial results for the first three quarters of this fiscal year, adding to a growing list of revisions as it tries to fix its past accounting...
CLINTON GIVES 1ST INTERVIEW ON 'LIFE' TO TIME
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amTime magazine is said to have snagged the first print interview with former President Bill Clinton in connection with his memoir, "My Life," sources said. CBS news show "60 Minutes"...
MARTS TANK ON INFLATION FEARS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amFears that the inflation rate may have doubled here in just one month helped trigger a global stock sell-off yesterday. Economists expect that today's consumer price report will show that...
ANSWER: THE LONGEST 'JEOPARDY!' WINNING STREAK
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amAND on the 10th night, Ken Jennings won - again. Jennings, a 29-year-old software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah, has now appeared on "Jeopardy!" for 10 consecutive nights -...
LEFT IN THE ROUGH - TV GIVES GOLF SHORT SHRIFT
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amTO LOSE SUDDEN DEATH GOLF TO A RE-RUN OF "AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS" MADE FOR A RATINGS-FIRST, BAD-FAITH CHOICE . . . IT'S A CALAMITY. ABC'S sudden, "Heidi Game"- like...
FOX WINS WITH REAGAN
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amFOX News Channel won the cable news ratings race regarding Ronald Reagan's funeral last Friday. FNC averaged over 2 million viewers (total day) and 5 million viewers in prime time,...
'RENT SCARE
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amRENT[] (three stars)At the Nederlander Theater, 208 W. 41st St.; (212) 921-8000. SO you're a former Spice Girl, but the spice has gone from your life and you didn't make...
FOUR SCOTS CHANGE ROCK A NOTE AT A TIME
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amWHO would name a band after the guy who started World War I? Four lads from Glasgow, who dubbed their rock outfit Franz Ferdinand - after the notorious Austro-Hungarian archduke...
STARR REPORT
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amKim: (Not) Possible Kim Cattrall (sort of) tells tonight's "ET" why she decided to nix a "Sex and the City" movie. "Life is really about beginnings and endings and this...
ON THE BALL
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amLEGGY "Good Morning America" co-host Diane Sawyer hugged a playground rubber ball and grinned yesterday during one of three quick games of extreme dodgeball in front of the morning show's...
DEVIL INSIDE - BURNETT'S 'ROCK STAR' SEARCHES FOR INXS 'IDOL'
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amTHAT '80s band, INXS, is hoping reality TV guru Mark Burnett will be able to find them a new singing sensation. A lead-singer gig with the band - whose former...
JESS' MESS - NICK KNOCKS WIFE OVER LESS SEX, NEW PAL
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amJESSICA Simpson and Nick Lachey's life used to look like wedded bliss. The pop-music couple seemed perfectly matched on the first two seasons of the MTV hit "Newlyweds: Nick &...
SUBWAY PERV GROPES MOM AND GIRL: COPS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was arrested yesterday for groping a 9-year-old and her mother on a subway platform at Grand Central Station, police said. José Carrión, 57, of East 102nd Street,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amA girl's outdoor birthday party was stopped cold when a man gushing blood from gunshot wounds staggered up to the young guests, screamed, "Help!" and collapsed. "We saw he had...
GUYS DON'T LISTEN TO CHICKS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amWhat women have always suspected is true - men just don't listen. That's the not-so-surprising conclusion of behavioral scientists following a study of male and female seabirds. The researchers discovered...
SON OF SAM WEB SITE PROBED
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday said his administration will review a Web site started on behalf of Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz - despite opinions from state prison officials...
I PLOTTED TO DELIVER ARIEL DEATH BOMB
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A Palestinian deliveryman confessed he planned to blow up Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office by remote control, Israeli police said yesterday. Hussam Nabulsi was arrested last month on...
STRAPHANGERS' PHOTO CONTEST A SNAPPY IDEA
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amA transit advocacy group that wants to kill a proposed ban on taking photos on buses and the subway encouraged riders yesterday to snap pictures for a contest it's running...
'SAMURAI' TEEN TOLD POLICE: I KILLED PAL
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens teen accused of slaying his friend with a samurai sword confessed to police less than an hour after the attack and even told cops where to find the...
GRIFTER MOM ORDERED L.A. MURDER: DA
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Notorious New York grifter Sante Kimes sent her "enforcer" - son Kenneth Kimes - to kill a Los Angeles businessman in cold blood so he wouldn't squeal...
COURTENEY CALLS HER KID COCO
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amFollowing in the footsteps of stars who give their kids weird names, Courteney Cox yesterday revealed she's calling her new baby girl Coco. The unusual moniker comes a month after...
ROADBLOCK TO MTA'S BUS LINES TAKEOVER
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amNon-union workers for four of the city's private bus services are trying to block the MTA's July 1 takeover of the companies in court. In a lawsuit filed in Queens...
U.N. STAFF OUTRAGE - WHISTLEBLOWERS FEAR REPRISALS: POLL
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Many U.N. employees fear reprisals from their bosses if they step forward with information on the Iraq oil-for-food scandal or report other allegations of corruption, according to a...
ABANDON SAUDI ARABIA: CAPTIVE'S SON
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe son of an American engineer kidnapped in Saudi Arabia said yesterday it's time for all U.S. civilians to leave the oil-rich kingdom. Paul Johnson III said his father, Paul...
TEEN'S MOM BLASTS LESBIAN TEACH
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens teacher who admitted to having a lesbian sex fling with an underage student was sentenced to three years probation yesterday, but not before she received a tongue-lashing from...
MIKE: CRACK DOWN ON CAMPAIGN $$
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amCampaign contributions from people who have business with the city would be so dramatically curtailed that even those contracting with quasi-city agencies, such as OTB and the hospital system, would...
HAMPTONS DIARY
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amEXCITEMENT over the U.S. Open golf tournament is already putt-putting along. Crowds jammed major East End roads yesterday to check out practice rounds for the Shinnecock Hills event, which starts...
S.I. HOMEOWNERS FIRED UP OVER FLAG DAY VANDALISM
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amFlag Day started on a sour note for two Staten Island homeowners yesterday morning - the American flags they proudly display every day had been burned. "I went outside the...
STATE PROBES DROWNING OF DISABLED MAN
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amState officials yesterday launched an investigation into Sunday's drowning of a mentally disabled man in Brooklyn's Prospect Park Lake. Lawrence Garfield, 32, went to the park shortly after noon on...
JUDGE BUMPED DOWN - LAURA PROBE LIKELY
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amQueens Supreme Court Justice Laura Blackburne was stripped of her Criminal Court responsibilities yesterday and reassigned to civil cases as she awaits a potential probe into allegations she helped a...
KOOKS ABOUND IN OUR CRAZY COURT SYSTEM
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amPAY careful attention, court- watchers, for this column will conclude with a multiple-choice exam on the following question: Who is the nuttiest human currently on display at Manhattan Supreme Court?...
OFFICER'S DWI DEATH SHATTERS KIN
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe retired NYPD cop, who battled against DWI as a Bronx highway officer only to be killed in a crash involving an alleged drunken driver, was looking forward to his...
MINORITY REPORT - ASIANS, LATINOS SURGING
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amAmerica's Hispanic and Asian populations have outpaced the rest of the nation's growth by roughly four times, according to a Census Bureau report released yesterday. Hispanics are the nation's largest...
SILVER FACES SUBPOENA ON VEGAS STAY
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver faces a state Lobbying Commission subpoena in connection with a specially discounted suite where he stayed at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel, The Post...
178 SEX-ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amEducation officials said yesterday there have been 178 sex abuse allegations in schools this year. "That is not to suggest that there weren't more that didn't come to the attention...
PLEAS, PLEAS, PLEAS - BROWN ADMITS HE HURT WIFE
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amJames Brown's latest "hit" earned him a fine but no jail time yesterday as the Godfather of Soul confessed to pushing his wife to the floor and threatening to kill...
JUDGE ORDERS QNS. NAZI, 80, DEPORTED
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amAn 80-year-old Queens man has been ordered out of the country based on evidence he worked as a guard at a Nazi camp where thousands of Jews were massacred, the...
QAEDA MALL BOMB PLOT
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amA Somali disciple of the al Qaeda terrorist who plotted to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge has been charged with planning to blow up a packed Ohio shopping mall. Nuradin Abdi...
'PENNED' IN BILL AT A LO$$
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Bill Clinton's literary career is costing him millions of dollars in lost speaking fees - but Hillary Rodham Clinton's own book is making up some of the difference....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * Cops in Morrisania came under fire from a man they were chasing early yesterday, authorities said. The two officers, assigned to the 42nd Precinct were on patrol...
KID 'THIEF'S' GAULING THANKS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amA fugitive French woman who spirited her American daughter away from her New York dad last year is holding a public rally in her hometown tonight to thank villagers for...
WITNESS MISSING IN SLAY TRIAL
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amAuthorities fear for the safety of a Brooklyn man who has disappeared just as he was to testify in the murder trial of a man accused of killing a witness...
BUSH NOW A BUBBA BOOSTER - PRAISES EX-PREZ AT PORTRAIT CEREMONY
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush, who campaigned with a vow to restore "dignity" to the presidency after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, yesterday had nothing but gushing praise for former President Bill...
FIGHT TO THE DEATH - BIRTHDAY TRAGEDY
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amA young Brooklyn man was fatally stabbed yesterday outside a Brighton Beach restaurant - where he was celebrating his birthday - after he confronted a stranger talking to his girlfriend,...
KLEIN BACKS DOOMED CHARTER
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amCiting a boost in recent test scores, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday urged Albany to keep open a Harlem charter school that it voted to close because of shoddy performance...
TRAIN THEFT WAS LOCO'S MOTIVE: DA
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amA compulsive subway and bus thief was trying to take a new Long Island Rail Road locomotive and train out of a Queens rail yard when he was busted after...
APPLE'S SHINING WITH 7% GROWTH
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe Big Apple is booming again. The city's economy grew at an impressive 7 percent in the first quarter of the year - the highest rate since the end of...
BLOOMBERG BOOST FOR SCHOOLS OF THE TRADE
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration will propose a network of new "vocational" high schools to prepare students for 21st century jobs. These new career and technical programs will provide Big Apple students...
GRAFT-BUSTER KNAPP DIES
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amWhitman Knapp, the longtime federal judge who headed the commission that attacked police graft in New York City, died yesterday at age 95. "He was an outstanding judge in both...
CLOCK TO STRIKE MIDNIGHT FOR SEPT. 11 TERROR-VICTIM PAYOUTS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amWith one day to go before the deadline, the fund set up to compensate victims of 9/11 has paid out close to $6 billion - more than $3 billion more...
I'M ONE VERY 'SEXY' SENIOR - STILL 'CHEEKY' AT 65, SAYS KERRY'S WIFE
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, touts herself as "sexy" and "cheeky" in an interview being broadcast tonight. "I'm cheeky, I'm sexy, whatever. You know, I've got a...
CITY'S 7% SOLUTION - ECON GROWTH RATE OUTPACES NATION'S
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe Big Apple is a boomtown again. The city's economy grew at an impressive 7 percent in the first quarter of the year - the highest rate since the end...
BX. BONUS FOR TOP TEACHERS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration will pay 36 star instructors an additional $10,000 to become "Lead Teachers" in South Bronx schools - spending half the day in the classroom and half training...
QAEDA PLANNED TO BOMB SHOPPING MALL IN OHIO
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amA Somali disciple of the al Qaeda terrorist who plotted to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge has been charged with planning to blow up a packed Ohio shopping mall. Nuradin Abdi...
MISSING WITNESS - FEAR FOR MAN SET TO TESTIFY IN MURDER TRIAL
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amAuthorities fear for the safety of a Brooklyn man who disappeared as he prepared to testify in the murder trial of a suspect accused of killing a witness to another...
MTA'S PRIVATE BUS PLAN HITS ROADBLOCK
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amNon-union workers for four of the city's private bus services are trying to block the MTA's July 1 takeover of the companies in court. In a lawsuit filed in Queens...
SOUP TO NUTS - CANNIBAL WANTED TO DINE ON JAIL AIDE
June 15, 2004 | 4:00am'I'd like to cut you up because you'd make the best rice and beans in town.' -Daniel Rakowitz to an aide The notorious "Butcher of Tompkins Square" - a longhaired...
BRONX 'BOMBER' - SHELL ON BUSY STREET SENDS NEIGHBORS INTO PANIC
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amSomebody dropped a real bombshell on The Bronx yesterday - a fearsome-looking, missile-shaped, military canister that left residents panicked and the police bomb squad flocking to the scene. "I was...
REAGAN MYTHS - THE LEFT SPINS AGAIN
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amSUDDENLY, and only upon the occasion of his death, some liberals have announced that - wow! - Ronald Reagan was not the demonic, crazed, Armageddon-hungry, tax-cutting fanatic we had been...
CLASSROOM EXTRA: WHAT A WILD RIDE!
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amRoller coasters entertain us- and scare us half to death. But we love it. Here's a history of how they got started. Who would think that this amusement-park favorite actually...
STATE TO PROBE SON OF SAM WEB SITE
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday said his administration will review a Web site started on behalf of Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz - despite opinions from state prison officials...
QUEENS NAZI GETS BOOT
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amAn 80-year-old Queens man has been ordered out of the country based on evidence he worked as a guard at a Nazi camp where thousands of Jews were massacred, the...
LOCO'S MOTIVE - TRANSIT KOOK WANTED SHINY NEW TRAIN: DA
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amA compulsive subway and bus thief was trying to take a new Long Island Rail Road locomotive and train out of a Queens rail yard when he was busted after...
TITO RETURNS TO SCENE OF LOSS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amOn October 2, Felix "Tito" Trinidad will attempt to resurrect his extraordinary boxing career in the same place it seemingly died. Trinidad, who has been officially retired since May 2002,...
LIBS' GOAL: PRESERVE SOME TIES
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amRichie Adubato needs some new ties, so fortunately for the Liberty coach famous for his rather loud neckwear, Father's Day is right around the corner. Unfortunately for the Liberty head...
IN THE HOT SEAT - CRUCIAL START TONIGHT FOR CONTRERAS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amFacts don't always tell the whole story. The fact is, when Jose Contreras takes the mound tonight in Arizona, it will be just another regular-season start, one of 162 games...
FOOT FAILING SHOCKEY - X-RAY CONCERNS GIANTS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe ominous description from Tom Coughlin contained just two words and might translate into a truly debilitating injury to perhaps the Giants' most disruptive player. The head coach yesterday said...
WARNER WAITING TO 'CLICK'
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Ever since he signed with the Giants, the sight of Kurt Warner shaking his head in disgust is a common one, a sight that again could be seen...
DESERT FLASHBACK - 2001 SERIES MEMORIES STILL HAUNT YANKS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The memories the Yankees took home from their last visit to Bank One Ballpark - Luis Gonzalez' bloop single and Mariano Rivera's blown save that gave Arizona the...
MAGIC NUMBER FOR BROWN IS 1
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - One more victory and Larry Brown will be real smart. The Piston coach, whose career path has criss-crossed the country, climbed up and down from the pros...
FOULIS FORGED L.I. LEGEND WITH VICTORY IN 1896
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amEVERYONE remembers 1986, the year Raymond Floyd tied a neat bow around a splendid career by conquering the quirky course by the sea, the year Greg Norman allowed a chatty...
RASHEED WAS INSTANT FIT IN MOTOWN
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES AUBURN HILLS - A player goes from one team to another and he needs time. Training-camp time to learn a system, preseason time to know his teammates, regular-season...
BAD TRIP CAN'T GET METS DOWN - DUQUETTE, HOWE LOOK ON BRIGHT SIDE
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amIt will take more than a 1-5 road trip to rattle Mets GM Jim Duquette and manager Art Howe. You can't blame Mets fans and neutral observers for being a...
IT WILL BE ROUGH ON BIG HITTERS
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amAs they trudged off the 18th green yesterday, many of them testing Shinnecock Hills Golf Club for the first time, most of the golfers who will compete in the 104th...
HAAS: LET ME EARN IT
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amJAY Haas had just fin ished grinding out an eighth-place tie at the Memorial two weeks ago when he looked up to see Hal Sutton offering a congratulatory handshake. A...
PISTONS POSE TALL ORDER FOR LAKERS - HISTORY'S WITH DETROIT DESPITE BRYANT'S VOW
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The favorites have been battered, beaten and outplayed. So when Kobe Bryant was quoted as saying, "We'll win Tuesday," it was turned into a guarantee of Laker...
CHAMPING AT THE BIT - FURYK TO 'GIVE IT A TRY'
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amHe didn't exactly stand up on the elevated first tee at Shinnecock Hills and declare to anyone who'll listen that he's ready and prepared to defend his U.S. Open title....
REST & REHABILITATION
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Although the Mets had last night off, Jose Reyes and Scott Erickson resumed their rehab schedules in the minors. Reyes returned to the lineup for Single-A St. Lucie....
FALLEN STAR DUVAL BACK
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amHis name is right there, on the first page of the U.S. Open pairing sheet. David Duval is scheduled to tee off at 7:40 a.m. Thursday with Phillip Price and...
PADRAIG'S MOVED ON
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES Padraig Harrington quickly departed Westchester Country Club Sunday night and headed for Shinnecock Hills, where he began practicing for the U.S. Open yesterday. Asked how he slept after...
LAKERS OUT OF MIRACLES - FACE IT: SHAQ, KOBE & CO. LOOK COOKED
June 15, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Let's think about this unemotionally for a moment; with utter disregard regarding the sheer domination you've witnessed so far (a sweep, had Larry Brown ordered his team...