August 30, 2004
ANOTHER BLACK EYE - NEW ALLEGATIONS EXPECTED IN COURT FILING TODAY
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amA long-awaited report on the alleged financial shenanigans at newspaper giant Hollinger under former chief executive officer Conrad Black is expected to be filed in a Chicago courthouse today, The...
GAME SHOW TORTURE
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amWHAT a concept - torture as a game show! With images of Iraqi prisoner abuse still fresh in our minds, Comedy Central is trying out a game show called "Distraction"...
NEXT TIME - ON DEMAND OLYMPICS IN THE WORKS
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Olympics will be broadcast in five languages by 2010 and available on demand to watch whenever you want - even sooner, NBC's Olympic guru predicted yesterday. "I would be...
RAISING ]]MCCAIN - TV FLICK ON MAVERICK POL'S LIFE
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amJUST as Sen. John McCain takes the national stage to speak tonight at the Republican National Convention, word comes that his life story is being made into a TV movie....
'PRIDE' IS A DEADLY SIN, TOO
August 30, 2004 | 4:00am"Father of the Pride" [*] (One star) Tuesday night at 9:30 on NBC/Ch. 4 IT'S the same old sitcom vulgarity, only now it's a cartoon. Welcome to "Father of the...
TIPS FROM A SHOPAHOLIC - HOW TO GET THE MOST BANG FOR YOUR TAX-FREE BUCK
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amDURING tax-free week, you have a VIP discount at every store in the city. But that doesn't mean you should slap down the credit cards everywhere. Here are some spending...
FANCY FOOTWORK - SHOP ON A SHOESTRING DURING TAX-FREE WEEK
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amJIMMY Choo and Manolo Blahnik devotees, rejoice. Copycat designers are offering up fabulous temptations for fall: a smashing selection of sexy heels and pretty flats at surprisingly pain-free prices. Better...
JAILED SHEIK HAS YEN FOR GEISHA GIRLS
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amThe blind terror sheik serving life in prison for plotting to blow up city landmarks has a thing for geisha girls. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman joked about the Japanese geisha...
'08 AUDITIONS FOR RUDY & PATAKI
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amIT'LL be Pataki vs. Giuli ani this week at the GOP convention, as party leaders from across America size up the former arch rivals as potential candidates for president. "Is...
ALL-OUT HUNT FOR OSAMA'S NEW DEPUTY
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An unassuming Libyan man has emerged in recent weeks as the most-wanted terrorist in the world - after Osama bin Laden. His name is Abu Faraj al-Libi. He...
SIC LAW ON '527S': MCCAIN
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amWar hero Sen. John McCain said it will take an act of Congress or the courts to muzzle the anti-John Kerry veterans who have rocked the presidential campaign. "I'm not...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amMatthew Goff was relaxing by a Florida pond when he looked up to see his dog, Sugar - trapped in the jaws of a alligator. Goff, 29, of Gainesville, wrestled...
RUDY: KERRY SHIFT-Y - RIPS DEM'S FLIP-FLOPS
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amAs he revved up for his speech to the Republican convention tonight, Rudy Giuliani said Democrat John Kerry shifts with the wind - and that's "very bad" for a leader...
9/11 FLAG TRIBUTE SNUBBED
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amOne of the most moving tributes to the victims of Sept. 11 has never been seen in public - a 30-foot flag emblazoned with images of the victims. But until...
SECURITY BATTENS DOWN HATCHES ALL OVER CITY
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amAs politicians and protesters descend on the Big Apple - and with the specter of terror a constant, unwelcome companion - New York has become Security City, U.S.A. Tucked away...
GENERATION 'GOP' WON'T DIVIDE DELS
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amMore than 70 years, 2,000 miles and a lifetime of experiences may separate them, but the youngest and eldest delegates to the Republican National Convention have traveled to New York...
BIRTHDAY PARTY ON 'GUNBOAT'
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amA birthday bash for a 52-year-old yacht captain turned into a real bust in New York Harbor early yesterday after authorities discovered a cache of weapons - including an AK-47...
'HERO' RESCUES THE BOX OFFICE
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amHollywood needed a hero in the dog days of August, and it's got one: an action-packed, chop-socky flick called "Hero," which rocketed to the top of the box office over...
MODEST SEN. SPEAKS OF OTHER HEROES
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amTONIGHT at Madison Square Garden, Sen. John McCain will not be talking about Vietnam. But sit with him over a beer or a cup of coffee and he will tell...
U.S. MEETS WITH MOOKIE'S MEN
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amU.S. military officials and representatives of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks yesterday aimed at reducing violence in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City, where clashes killed 10 people...
MEDIA MOANS - WALLOWING IN DISMAY
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE'S a lot of argle-bargle about how this election will be about who has the best plan for the future. You'll hear President Bush on Thursday lay out a detailed...
HAMPTONS DIARY
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amRECLUSIVE Edie Brickell charmed a packed room at the Guild Hall Saturday night after being asked to join a double-bill lineup by her pal, former "Saturday Night Live" bandleader G.E....
W. 'STEELS' LABOR VOTES
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amWHEELING, W.Va. - President Bush yesterday launched a central theme of his convention - courting Democrats and independents - at a raucous rally with Democratic union steelworkers. Bush hugged shop...
KABUL CARNAGE - 2 YANKS AMONG 7 KILLED BY BOMB
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amA powerful car bomb triggered by remote control ripped through the office of an American security contractor in an upscale area of Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday, killing seven people, including two...
'DWI' KID CRASH - DITCHES PALS AFTER PLOWING BMW INTO HOME: COPS
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amA drunken 15-year-old boy lost control of a BMW, slammed into a one-story house on Long Island and ran from the horror scene leaving two injured friends behind in the...
EACH CARRIES OWN BURDEN
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amTHE woman marching in scorching heat had a burden greater than the sign she carried with a photo of her son, Lt. Seth Dvorkin - dead in Iraq. "My name...
BUSH BLASTED ON BILLY PULPIT
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amWith a jampacked Upper West Side church serving as a backdrop, Bill Clinton yesterday invoked the teachings of Jesus and the Bible to deliver a searing, wide-ranging attack against Republicans....
BAKERY PERVERT A LOVER OF BUNS
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amLong Island cops were looking for a pervert with a taste for buns yesterday after a woman reported being sexually assaulted in the bakery section of a Massapequa Park grocery....
UNNATURAL 'ACT' - GOV FUMES OVER AIDE'S PLAY WITH LESBIAN 'HILL'
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amA top campaign aide to Gov. Pataki has publicly disassociated himself from a new play that not only trashes Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry, but also portrays Sen. Hillary Rodham...
TENET WARNED OF ISRAELI SPY: REPORT
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Before resigning as America's spy chief, former CIA director George Tenet made several allegations that Israel had a mole in the U.S. government, officials said. The charge was...
GALA OPENING - VEEP KICKS OFF GOP'S NATIONAL CONVENTION
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amWhile tens of thousands of anti-Bush demonstrators marched in Manhattan, Vice President Dick Cheney and a band of New York Republicans kicked off convention week yesterday with a rally at...
IGNORANCE ON THE MARCH
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amRACHEL SAMMIS is 14. The child from New Hampshire spent her first grown-up protest march carrying a huge picture of the president of the United States - decorated with a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * Police said a crook who robbed a Subway sandwich shop last week had less luck a few days later when he tried to pull the same caper...
RUNNING SCARED - MAD PRIEST JUMPS LEAD MARATHONER AT THE OLYMPICS
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS, Greece - A defrocked Irish priest, notorious for public high jinks, leaped out of the crowd during the Olympic marathon yesterday and tackled the lead runner just three miles...
WOMAN KILLED IN QNS. HIT-RUN
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amCops in Queens were searching for the driver of a white van which failed to stop after striking and killing a 78-year-old woman in Flushing yesterday. The accident occurred shortly...
BUSH BASHERS HIT THE STREETS -THOUSANDS OF DEMONSTRATORS STORM THE CITY
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amProtesters flooded Manhattan on the eve of the Republican National Convention yesterday to loudly voice opposition to Bush administration policies. "I'm marching to get out a lousy president," said 97-year-old...
DRIVE-BY SHOOTERS BLAST TEEN
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amA teen was critically wounded outside a Brooklyn shelter yesterday in a drive-by attack possibly sparked by a feud, cops and relatives said. Tyrrey Willerm, 19, of East New York,...
PARTY STARS OUTSHINE MTV - YACHTS OF FUN IN MIAMI
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amNew York may be hosting the GOP, but the nation's hottest party was in Miami last night as a Who's Who of pop, rock and rap superstars wowed the MTV...
LATEST 'CANE COULD BE NEW CHARLEY
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amHurricane Frances gained strength yesterday as it muscled closer to Florida, sparking fears it could become as dangerous as Hurricane Charley, which killed 25 people and caused $7.4 billion in...
CHURCH HOT-LINE FUROR
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amParishioners calling a new Brooklyn Diocese hotline to report pervert priests will now talk to a lawyer instead of a well-regarded therapist who once took such calls. Abuse victims are...
MCCAIN SALUTES DUBYA
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amSen. John McCain will salute President Bush tonight for making "this world a better, safer, freer place" in the wake of the 9/11 attacks "that shook us from our complacency."...
X-RAY SCARE ON EAST SIDE
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amA minor radiation leak in the basement of an East Side post office last night sparked a brief street closing and a major response by emergency workers. The 6:30 p.m....
BUSH BASHERS HIT THE STREETS - THOUSANDS OF DEMONSTRATORS STORM THE CITY
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amProtesters flooded Manhattan on the eve of the Republican National Convention yesterday, marching in the tens of thousands and shouting their opposition to Bush administration policies. "I'm marching to get...
HOT LOOKS & SWEATY STARS ON RED CARPET
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amMIAMI - Music's top stars gathered last night at the steamy MTV Music Video Awards - and everyone from Ashanti to Usher struggled with how to generate sartorial heat while...
RUNNING SCARED - MAD PRIEST JUMPS GAMES MARATHONER
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS, Greece - A defrocked Irish priest, notorious for public high jinks, leaped out of the crowd during the Olympic marathon yesterday and tackled the lead runner just three miles...
A GENTLER, TOUGHER TOWN - PROTESTERS, DELEGATES AND THE NEW NEW YORK CITY
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amNEW York is changed, changed utterly since 9/11 - but the beauty born out of suffering and renewal is not the "terrible" brand William Butler Yeats immortalized in "Easter 1916,"...
VICTIM'S KIN KOS 'KILLER' - 'I JUST NEVER GAVE UP'
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amThey combed through the victim's computer files. They interviewed his friends and associates. And then they zeroed in on the killer. Sound like the work of detectives? In the case...
MTV USHERS IN A NEW ERA - CROONER WINS HIS FIRST TOP PRIZES
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amThe gawdy, bawdy MTV Video Music Awards spread the wealth at last night's celeb-studded fest in Miami, raucously handing out trophies to top stars like Usher, Jay-Z and Outkast. The...
2 DIE IN L.I. COPTER CRASH
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amTwo people were killed when a small helicopter plummeted into the water off a Long Island beach last night, police said. The chopper, carrying only the unidentified victims, crashed at...
OUTKAST IS TOPS IN KLASS - RAP DUO KOPS 4 MTV PRIZES
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amGrammy-heavy supergroup OutKast continued to reign at last night's gawdy, bawdy MTV Video Music Awards - copping four top prizes, including the coveted Best Video of the Year. "There's only...
COUGHLIN DECISION IS LAUDED
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants wasted no time rallying around new starting quarterback Kurt Warner yesterday. Tiki Barber: "I think it's good that we made a decision now, we can start...
NBA HAS LEARNED NOTHING
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amWE went through this two years ago. Remember? A team of NBA All-Stars, at the FIBA World Championships in Indianapolis, finished sixth. It lost to Spain, Argentina and Yugoslavia. And...
KURT GETS CALL - COUGHLIN TABS WARNER TO START OPENER
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amThe suspense is over. The future is now for Kurt Warner, starting quarterback, New York Giants, and successor to Kerry Collins. Eli Manning is the Quarterback of the Future. "The...
BIRDSTONE'S NEXT GOAL: BC CLASSIC
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Birdstone, who followed his upset score in the June 5 Belmont Stakes with a 2 1/2-length romp in Saturday's Travers, will now be pointed for the Oct....
BACKUP STATUS BOTHERS JORDAN
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amLaMont Jordan's summer of discontent continues. Where this season of misery will end up is anyone's guess, but for the moment, Jordan remains the Jets' primary backup running back to...
METS GET SLAMMED AGAIN - VENTURA GRANNY KEYS DODGER ROUT
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amDodgers 10 - Mets 2 Robin Ventura gave the Shea Stadium fans a much-needed trip down memory lane yesterday - at the expense of the poseurs currently wearing Mets threads....
RUNNING IN FULL CIRCLE
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - It is right to end things here, on the last day of the Athens Olympics, because this is where it all began 108 years ago. Panathinaiko Stadium was...
WARD CLAIMS REWARD IN GAMES' FINAL GOLD
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - As he sat on the interview podium, a bag of ice pressed against his closing right eye and a smile on his face, Andre Ward was the face...
BRENES HONES SKILLS IN ATHENS
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amPablo Brenes has been persona non grata in the Metro- Stars lineup, used sparingly and noticed even less. But after Brenes blossomed in Athens - leading upset-minded Costa Rica past...
SCOUT: DEALING KAZMIR WAS GROUP DECISION
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Last Tuesday, Met pitching coach Rick Peterson repeatedly stressed the glowing reports of scouts Al Goldis and Bill Livesey were a critical element behind the controversial Victor Zambrano/Scott...
TORRE NOT PLANNING ON GIAMBI
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amTORONTO - Even though Jason Giambi is making progress working out in Tampa - and might even shift his workouts to The Bronx this week - Joe Torre still isn't...
SHEFFIELD SITS TO REST TWISTED ANKLE
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - If Joe Torre had wanted to play Gary Sheffield yesterday, Sheffield said his twisted left ankle was willing. However, the combination of Sheffield rolling over his...
EAGER PIAZZA WILL RETURN TONIGHT
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amMike Piazza returned to town yesterday after playing two games for Class-A St. Lucie, and the team cornerstone will be activated before tonight's opener of a four-game series with the...
GREEK THEATER - 'GREAT' GAMES COME TO END
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - On March 26, the Greek Olympic Organizing Committee announced there would be no roof on the Olympic Aquatics Centre because construction had fallen so far behind. The world...
ROBIN'S ROCKIN' AT SHEA
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amThere aren't many sure things in baseball, but Robin Ventura with the bases loaded is close. So when Ventura came up with the bases loaded in the fifth inning yesterday,...
FLOYD'S A FLOP ON FIELD
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amIf Cliff Floyd were sitting in the Shea stands during the fourth inning yesterday with a beer and a friend, he probably would have turned to his buddy and asked:...
IT'S FLAG DAY FOR MIA
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amOlympic Notebook ATHENS - Mia Hamm has been the cover girl for women's soccer for some 17 years. Last night she was the face of the U.S. Olympic team. Hamm,...
ROGER'S READY - LOOKING TO END JINX IN FLUSHING
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amRoger Federer says he's ready to erase the image as being too soft to win in New York. The world's No. 1 player from Switzerland has played three U.S. Opens...
LOOK OUT, HERE COME THE SAWX - LOSS TO JAYS SLICES YANKS' AL EAST LEAD
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amBlue Jays 6 - Yankees 4 TORONTO - A fire at a nearby electrical sub station sent SkyDome into darkness and forced the start of yesterday's Yankees-Blue Jays game to...
BUSH VISIT MAY SNAG OPEN
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amU.S. OPEN NOTEBOOK Former President George Bush is confirmed to show up tonight for the U.S. Open's first night card. It's possible, given the Bush family's tennis history, that his...
WHAT TO WEAR - CROWN WOULD LOOK GOOD ON SERENA
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amIt's hard for Serena Williams not to consider herself the U.S. Open's defending champion. That honor is held by Justine Henin-Hardenne, who captured the Open crown last September when the...
CREW'S DRAWING CLOSER TO METROS
August 30, 2004 | 4:00amMetroStars 1 - Crew 1 Whatever intensity was building over the MetroStars' ever-tightening Eastern Conference playoff race with Columbus or whatever rancor was festering over the Danny Szetela trade talks,...