August 23, 2004
WEB DARLING GETS BAD GOVERNANCE MARKS
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amGoogle, fresh from its massive initial public offering, has the worst corporate governance of any company in the S&P 500 index, an influential proxy advisory service said yesterday. Institutional Shareholder...
QUEEN MARY TURNS UP IN GOOGLE IPO
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amMary Meeker - who saw her star dim when Internet stocks crashed in 2000 - helped Morgan Stanley win a key role in bringing Google shares to the public. Meeker,...
GOOGLE MAY SPARK IPOS TO GO DUTCH
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amWall Street may have to kiss its favorite fee - a whopping 7 percent for initial public offerings - goodbye. Google's successful debut as a massive technology company, which came...
ESPRIT DE RETRO - ONE-TIME TEEN BRAND DRAWS BEAD ON U.S. MEN
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amEsprit, the once-quintessential American brand that has been plotting a comeback, is planning to launch a men's line this fall, The Post has learned. The new line marks the first...
WHEN DISNEY IS YOUR DEITY
August 23, 2004 | 4:00am"Totally Obsessed" [] (Three stars) Tonight at 11 on VH1 IF you've ever dreamed of turning yourself into a cat or been unsuccessful in your quest to gain 600 pounds...
'HARDBALL' ACCUSED OF GOING SOFT
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amREPUBLICAN insiders are giving cable-TV political host Chris Matthews the cold shoulder - believing that he has gone over to the Kerry camp - according to a published report. U.S....
PHILLY CHEESE - FIRST LOOK AT GEEZER 'REAL WORLD 15' CAST
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHEY don't call it the City of Brotherly Love for nothing. The cast for the 15th season of "The Real World," set in the Old City in Philadelphia, includes not...
USHER-ING IN A CLASSY GESTURE
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amUSHER/ KANYE WESTUsher tour (with West) plays Madison Square Garden Oct. 13. USHER proved to be a very special performer Saturday. Not because of his R&B skills but because of...
STARR REPORT
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amHugh, on the record Hugh Downs says that Regis Philbin "richly deserves" his Guinness World Records citation for having logged nearly 15,200 hours on television over his 46-year career encompassing...
JEWISH GROUP SLAMS ALI G.
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amHBO's hottest comic, Sacha Baron Cohen - best known as the goofy rapper Ali G. - is in hot water for a gag-song he sang on TV that groups are...
THE $1,000 WARDROBE - THE SMART GIRL'S GUIDE TO SHOPPING FOR FALL; A NEW WARDROBE FOR UNDER $1,000
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amPULLING together a fun, up-to-date fall wardrobe doesn't necessarily require credit card abuse. Because so many of the strong trends for fall - ladylike prim, pretty and flirty, equestrian sporty...
BOGUS PROF'S $2M LIE - LED COLLEGE TO RUIN
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amNearly half of the $4.8 million a bankrupt business school owes the state in student financial aid is the result of a lone teacher's deceit, officials said. While auditors say...
HILL TO HEAD KERRY 'TRUTH SQUAD'
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amJOHN KERRY'S presidential campaign, which slighted Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during the Democratic convention last month, now wants the former first lady to lead its "truth squad" at next week's...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Two teens were arrested yesterday after they spewed anti-gay slurs at a man and stole his wallet on the Upper East Side, police said. Orlando Rodriguez, 18, and...
RADICALS PLOT BAD WEATHER
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amA number of extremists with ties to the 1970s radical Weather Underground have recently been released from prison and are in New York preparing to wreak havoc during the Republican...
VIDEO WAR GAME - MARINES' REAL-LIFE SIMULATOR A PLAYTHING
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amA high-tech program being developed for the Marines will soon be available to the public as a video game. The Tactical Decision-making Simulation is expected to be ready for military...
'FINGER FOOD' FREAKOUT AS DINER BITES HAND THAT FEEDS HER
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan woman has filed a $3 million suit against a Midtown restaurant after she ordered a salad that was finger-licking bad. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Marina...
CHINATOWN 'CURES' ARE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amA bizarre menagerie of illegal wild-animal body parts is for sale in Chinatown - from tiger bones to bear bile to sea-lion penises. Many of the products are ancient remedies...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amShe's a claws celebre. Skinny Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Va., won $500 after eating 38 lobsters in 12 minutes to win the World Lobster Eating Contest in Kennebunk, Maine. "I...
JOHN A VIET CON: DOLE - DEMANDS KERRY APOLOGIZE TO VETS
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Disabled World War II hero and former presidential candidate Bob Dole demanded yesterday that John Kerry apologize for insulting Vietnam vets - and ripped him because he collected...
DIVA'S REEL STORY - MARTHA EX-AIDE'S FLICK PORTRAYS 'WICKED WITCH'
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amA former producer for Martha Stewart's television show is whipping up a tart tale based on the domestic diva - a movie whose lead character is a nasty blond boss....
PATAKI EYEING PREZ BID IN 2008
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amGov. Pataki, who will introduce President Bush at the Republican National Convention next week, may run for president himself in 2008, sources said yesterday. One source quoted William Plunkett, a...
PAKISTANI RAID FOILS BLOODBATH
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amPakistan yesterday said the arrest of a band of al Qaeda terrorists had stopped a plot to kill hundreds in simultaneous suicide attacks on government leaders and the U.S. Embassy....
CRASH KILLS MOM - HIT AFTER BEING THROWN FROM SUV
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn mother was hurled out an SUV window and killed Saturday night when her allegedly drunk boyfriend flipped over his Ford Explorer on the Belt Parkway in Queens, police...
MCD'S, STARBUCKS BRACE FOR CHAOS
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amStarbucks and McDonald's managers are shoring up defenses against anarchist attacks during the Republican convention and plan to stay open behind phalanxes of police and heightened store security. Employees of...
TEACHER OFFERS KIDS COMIC RELIEF
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amA mild-mannered educator who made literacy an after-school action-adventure for thousands of public-school students by having them create comic books is a teaching superhero. "It's the power of the arts...
DEM ADS MISSING THE MARK, STUDY SAYS
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amDemocrat John Kerry's first TV ad defending himself against attacks from fellow Vietnam vets wasn't very effective, an independent nonpartisan advertising study has found. But it also found that a...
CHUCK URGES STORE GUN BAN
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amSen. Charles Schumer is urging Wal-Mart and Kmart department stores not to sell assault weapons, even though a federal ban will expire next month. "You hear a lot about corporate...
HAMPTONS DIARY
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amHUNDREDS of well-heeled guests found themselves traipsing through mud to get to John Kerry's $1,000-a-head fund-raiser at the home of venture capitalist Alan Patricof Saturday night, after the event was...
U.S. TIGHTENS NOOSE ON NAJAF FIGHTERS
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amU.S. warplanes and helicopter gunships pounded Shiite militiamen in the holy city of Najaf last night as tanks rumbled to within 800 yards of a shrine the fighters have used...
RX-DRUG H2WOE - ANTIBIOTICS, PAINKILLERS SEEP INTO CITY WATER
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amHeart medicine, painkillers and antibiotics are seeping from upstate sewer plants into New York City's drinking-water supply, The Post has learned. Atenolol, a blood-pressure and heart medicine, was the most...
POL: 'COMMUTE' $ENTENCE
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amWith the GOP convention only a week away, a local lawmaker yesterday called on President Bush not to go through with a plan that could slash the city's transportation funding...
CORZINE 'SUGGESTS' MCGREEVEY QUIT SOON
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amNew Jersey Sen. Jon Corzine yesterday left open a future run for governor - and suggested he would like to see Jim McGreevey step down now so a special election...
THUGS STAB 2 AT B'KLYN WED BASH
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amA late-night wedding celebration in Brooklyn turned bloody after four party crashers tried to swipe a bottle of cognac from the bar, police said. The bash, in a Nostrand Avenue...
MICAH SIS IS SAVIOR - HER CALL SWAYS SADR TO SPRING N.Y. FILMMAKER
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan-based journalist was freed by his Iraqi captors yesterday - thanks to his younger sister. A spokesman for rebel Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said it was only after Eva...
LUCKLESS DOG IS SURVIVOR
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amFirst he suffered a broken heart after being abandoned. Then, a friendly old pooch was shot in the abdomen and left overnight to die. But he lived through that, too,...
SCHOOL GAZE - CITY GIVES 3RD-GRADERS EYE CARE
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amNearly 3,000 third-graders who attended summer school because they couldn't pass basic math and English exams are now being evaluated for possible vision problems. Fulfilling a promise made by Mayor...
KINKY CONDO SCION SUED
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe son of a billionaire printing-company mogul who was found to be running a secret S&M sex club for gay men from his penthouse apartment is now being sued by...
SCARED KIDS FLEE SCHOOLS
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amMore than 2,500 city students fled their public schools last year out of fear for their safety, The Post has learned. The Department of Education approved "safety transfers" for 2,540...
WALKER HAS CORNER ON TALKING TRASH
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - No contest. A competition Eli Manning can't possibly win. A battle the rookie shouldn't even enter. The quarterback derby with Kurt Warner? Of course not. Manning is handling...
U.S. WOMEN BOOTERS IN GERMAN SHOWDOWN
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amOlympic Notebook ATHENS - This is only fitting. Ever since Germany handed the U.S. women's soccer team a crushing 3-0 loss in a World Cup semifinal game last year, the...
LINE TAKES OFFENSE TO THEISMANN'S HIT
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - If the Giants' offensive linemen go out to a nice dinner, chances are Joe Theismann won't be an invited guest. The former Redskins quarterback and current...
TOUGH TO ENJOY THIS COVERAGE
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amWE wish we could enjoy the Olympics the way they want us to. You know, like two of those Seven Dwarves, Happy and Stupid. * Gymnast Paul Hamm blew both...
TAYLOR'S NEXT FIGHT MAY BE IN COURT
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amJERMAIN Taylor could fight for the world middleweight championship next year, but by then he might be working for a manager he didn't hire and a promoter he's trying to...
FALLING FAST IN THE BRONX - WRETCHED WEEK ERASES YANKS' DIVISION CUSHION
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amYou won't hear it from inside the Yankee clubhouse, but now it's time to start being concerned. Kevin Brown, brought to New York to be a stopper, did a Jon...
HURDLE NAILS DEVERS
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amTRACK ROUNDUP ATHENS - It is a scene we've seen too many times in her wonderfully triumphant and tragic career. There was Gail Devers - the woman who almost lost...
DEREK DEFENDS DECISION
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Derek Jeter is selfless to a fault, but a third-inning decision to sacrifice yesterday loomed large in the wake of a 4-3 loss to Anaheim. Jeter, one of...
THIS OFFENSIVE DISPLAY PUTTING SEASON IN PERIL
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Yankees' final seven at-bats yesterday defined their current state. Gary Sheffield homered and was followed by six meek outs in 11 pitches. M-V-P followed by M-I-A. How bad was...
SHEFF SERVING HITS ON OWN
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amMoments before the sellout crowd of 53,885 booed Alex Rodriguez in the eighth inning yesterday, they deliriously celebrated Gary Sheffield. A-Rod arrived in The Bronx with more hype, but Sheffield...
PHELPS: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - Michael Phelps has exactly what he came looking for in these Olympics. It was not the eight medals, six of which are gold. What Phelps really wanted, and...
GINTER SURVIVES ROUGH FIRST
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Four batters into yesterday's game, Matt Ginter had given up three runs on two homers. In other words, it was time for Dan Wheeler to...
WOMEN TAKE WRESTLING SERIOUSLY
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - If you think women's freestyle wrestling isn't to be taken seriously, don't share those sentiments with the men. For the first time in history, women's wrestling is an...
DAD ONE-MAN SCREAM TEAM
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - As the blur of bodies sped toward the finish line, Willie Gatlin suddenly heard a blood-curdling, eardrum-splitting scream, and it wasn't until later that he realized the voice...
MOORE REFUSES TO BE BEATEN
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amWhen it's typed up and aligned just so and stuck in the PGA Tour media guide someday, Ryan Moore's resume may rank among the best in the book. His 2-up...
FORGET ABOUT IT - NOT YOUR FATHER'S U.S. HOOPS SQUAD
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - Ah, Angola. Ah, the memories. Do you remember? Fourteen years ago, as he eased himself for one of the most pleasurable coaching rides any coach has ever enjoyed,...
BONDS AWAY - BARRY'S 693RD HOMER BEATS THE METS
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amGiants 3 - Mets 1 SAN FRANCISCO - Take a look around SBC Park and you see very quickly this is Barry Bonds' house. Bonds' presence is all over the...
FROM GROUND ZERO TO THE GOLD MEDAL
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - It never fails. You can rehearse the moment in your imagination a thousand times, but your emotions never follow the script quite the way you expect them to....
HAMM STANDS TALL IN MEDAL MUDDLE
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - Good for Paul Hamm, for sticking by what he believes in, for not caving to the knee-jerk pleas of pie-eyed dreamers who scream now that they want him...
GYMNAST WON'T GIVE UP HIS GOLD
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - Paul Hamm isn't giving an inch in the controversy surrounding his men's all-around gymnastics gold medal. So far, nobody is making him, although the South Koreans, who feel...
HERMAN: LAMONT'S ROLE VITAL
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES Herman Edwards yesterday responded with little alarm about unsettling comments made by LaMont Jordan after Saturday's preseason game in Indianapolis. Jordan, who for the second consecutive game was...
UNDER SCRUTINY - JETS' DE ABRAHAM TESTED ON, OFF FIELD
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amIt's been quite a few days for John Abraham. The Post learned exclusively that the Jets' defensive end was accused - via a recent random drug test he's subject to...
'EVENING' FALLS ON FUNNY CIDE
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The conditions were ideal for a successful Saratoga debut for its native son Funny Cide, but the Spa's reputation as the Graveyard of Favorites prevailed again. The...
NOBODY WANTS LOAIZA
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES A baseball executive has confirmed what Yankee fans realized on Saturday: Esteban Loaiza's trade value is virtually zilch. The executive said a proposed deal between the Rangers and...
THE REAL DREAM TEAM
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - If USA Basketball would like to find a role model to help drag itself out of its present morass, there is no need to look any further than...
GATLIN'S GLORY - B'KLYN NATIVE CAPTURES GOLD IN 100 METERS
August 23, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - He would hurdle the fire hydrants on the streets of Brooklyn with such ease they might as well have been cracks in the sidewalk. He would bounce off...