February 3, 2005
WEBB REPORT: HOW DID THE NYSE MISS THIS STUFF?
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amWHY hasn't the New York Stock Exchange sued Dick Grasso? The long-awaited report compiled by lawyer Dan Webb was made public yesterday and it concluded what everyone expected: The undersized...
DISNEY BOARD SPLIT ON IGER
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amDisney's board of directors have become concerned that the company's CEO search is rigged in favor of president Bob Iger - so much so that Chairman George Mitchell has told...
NEWS 2Q NET UP BY 80%
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amNews Corp.'s quarterly profit surged on the back of robust DVD sales of the movie "Day After Tomorrow" and strong growth in advertising sales at the media giant's cable networks....
SCANDAL BARED - WEBB REPORT: GRASSO WAS OVERPAID $156.7M
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amDick Grasso was paid as much as $156.7 million too much during his eight years atop the New York Stock Exchange, an explosive confidential report concludes. Grasso, who controlled the...
COFFEE, BOSS? HELP'S GOOD WHEN YOU PAY 728.7G
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amDick Grasso, who deftly managed to become the New York Stock Exchange's quarter-billion dollar man, took care to see that those close to him didn't have any money worries. His...
FORD PULLS PRIESTLY BOWL SPOT
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amFord pulled a Super Bowl ad that depicts a clergyman ogling a pickup truck after a support group for victims sexually abused by priests complained. The carmaker reacted quickly after...
GUCCI RE-GROUP - WEINBERG IS LATEST HONCHO TO QUIT LUXE HOUSE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amPPR, the French company that transformed itself into a luxury conglomerate when it purchased the Gucci Group, said yesterday that its longtime chief executive, Serge Weinberg, would step aside to...
OUT OF THIS WORLD - GRASSO PAYCHECK BEATS HIS PEERS'
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amEven CEOs who earn billions of dollars each year for their companies don't come close to getting bloated paychecks like those of Dick Grasso. Experts use the word "obscene" when...
NYSE TO LOSE ITS S(EARS)
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amThe New York Stock Exchange got a slap in the face yesterday when one of its iconic members said it's leaving the Big Board after 95 years. Sears Roebuck &...
STARR REPORT
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amIt's boldly going . . . UPN has canned "Star Trek: Enterprise" after four seasons - an announcement I had initially boiled down to three lines in the "Last, but...
KEEPING DAN'S SEAT WARM
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amBOB Schieffer, CBS News' chief Washington correspondent, will temporarily anchor the network's daily "Evening News" telecast after Dan Rather steps down next month. Schieffer, a 30-year CBS News veteran, will...
YANKS & SOX ACES DEALT
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amMAYBE this time, when all the chips are on the table, the Yankees will beat the Red Sox. Fans of the Bronx Bombers will take on fans of the Boston...
HERE COMES BUMMER
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amBARNES,THEATERGOOD VIBRATIONS (one star)The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 230 W. 49th St.; (212) 239-6200. THE dark side of success is failure, at least in the theater. Someone hits the jackpot with...
DANZA TO BE GRANDFATHER
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amJUST call him "Grandpa" Danza. Tony Danza received the shock of his life yesterday when he learned he'll be a first-time grandfather - during a live cooking segment on "The...
COUNTRY COUNTRY
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amCOUNTRY creamed the competition this week on Billboard's Top Albums chart as Kenny Chesney rode to the No. 1 spot and LeAnn Rimes grabbed No. 3. Chesney's latest, "Be As...
LATTE NERVE! NEW 8-HOUR-A-DAY LAPTOP SQUATTERS CLOGGING CAFES
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amONE recent freezing afternoon, 29-year-old new mom Alexis Hopkins stopped by Starbucks on 16th Street and Ninth Avenue to warm up. She wanted to get a hot chocolate - but...
UNDER THEIR INFLUENCE - FASHION, MUSIC BIZ USE THESE YOUNG STEALTH TASTEMAKERS TO GET YOU
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amIN addition to working as the creative director for the Soho and Tribeca Grand hotels and being a self-described "tastemaker," 36-year-old Tommy Saleh advertises for Prada, Chanel, APC, Paul Smith...
COPA-CAB-ANA - EVERYONE GETS LUCKY IN THESE TAXIS
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amTaxicab Confessions: New York, New York Saturday night at 10:15 on HBO (two and a half stars) ONE of the original reality shows, "Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York," returns...
BEYOND 'IDOL' - SIMON MEANS BUSINESS WITH 5 NEW SHOWS
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amMR. Nasty is turning into Mr. Media Mogul. Simon Cowell, who's become famous for his frank and often insulting comments on "American Idol," says he has at least five new...
RIDERS: 'C' STANDS FOR CELEBRATE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amStraphangers saw the light at the end of the tunnel yesterday after C service was restored just 10 days after a fire crippled the Eighth Avenue line. "When I saw...
TEEN PERV FEAR - GIRL RUNS OFF WITH SEX-FIEND WEB PAL
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amPolice are searching for a Long Island teen who leaped out her bedroom window early Monday morning and may have sped off with a convicted sex offender she met in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amLooks as if the Lone Ranger is alive and well and living in Marshfield, Mass. That's where a mysterious "masked shoveler" showed up on Chandler Drive after last month's blizzard,...
CITY ALERTS GAYS TO NEW DISEASE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amThe city Health Department yesterday warned gay and bisexual men to be wary of a rare sexually transmitted disease. Lymphogranuloma venereum - or LGV - was recently found in two...
FEDS' PLEA TO SPARE THE DON
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amA disheveled Joseph Massino made his first court appearance in his new capacity as canary-don yesterday - where it was revealed the feds are trying to get him off the...
CITY TO GREET OLYMPIC PANEL WITH 'PICK US' AD BLITZ
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amIt will be hard for the International Olympic Committee to miss the Bloomberg administration's push for the 2012 Games. When the Olympics' 13-member evaluation team arrives here Feb. 20 for...
TOP N.Y. DEM KEEN ON DEAN
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - New York state Democratic Chairman Herman "Denny" Farrell yesterday endorsed Howard Dean as the nation's new top Democrat - after Dean already had the job all but locked...
EGYPT TO HOST MIDEAST SUMMIT
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet for the first time next week, at a summit backed by their Arab neighbors and the...
WHINY JENNINGS: I'M THE VICTIM IN HARASS PROBE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amDemanding that all charges against him be dismissed, embattled City Councilman Allan Jennings yesterday lashed out at his colleagues - and they fired right back at him. "This past year...
POPE ON THE MEND HE'LL LEAVE HOSP IN 'A FEW DAYS'
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amPope John Paul II's fragile health stabilized yesterday after his emergency hospitalization due to a breathing crisis drew a worldwide outpouring of concern. The 84-year-old pontiff will remain at a...
DOC 'RIGHT' TO CUT QNS. LUNG-LADY
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amA doctor who cut out half of a Queens woman's lung did nothing wrong in recommending surgery - even though the lung was later shown to be cancer-free, a top...
BILL WOULD GUARD TRANSIT VS. TERROR
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - In the wake of the track fire that closed the C line for more than a week, a Queens assemblyman says he will introduce legislation designed to better...
N.Y. HIRED MAID'S SON AS ATHLETIC SUPPORTER
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - The Pataki administration has given the son of Libby Pataki's GOP-funded personal house servant a state job, officials confirmed yesterday. Adam Larsen, 26, works as an "athletic activities...
SHE'S 'THE MARTHA' - DIVA TO HOST 'APPRENTICE'
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amMemorize those thread counts and fire up the bread oven - Martha Stewart will host her own version of "The Apprentice" for NBC. Once she's sprung from prison, of course....
CHEATIN' HEARTS GET SCAMMED
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amA pair of con artists has been shaking down wives who have illicit affairs in hot-sheet hotels around Brooklyn - threatening to tell their husbands unless they cough up thousands...
COUNCIL OKS TAX BREAKS FOR HOUSING
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amThe City Council yesterday unanimously approved a measure that would extend tax breaks for another 50 years to developers who stay in the Mitchell-Lama program. Recent state law authorizes localities...
PANEL TODAY FIRES 1ST SALVO AT OIL-FOOD SCAMMERS
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A report today by the commission investigating the Iraq oil-for-food scandal is expected to harshly criticize the United Nations' management and oversight of the giant humanitarian program, but...
LOOTING LOHAN - DAD SEEKS $3M 'ALIMONY' FROM STAR
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amMichael Lohan wants alimony - from his movie-star daughter. Teen queen Lindsay Lohan's estranged and trouble-prone dad is suing mom Dina for half her cut of the starlet's earnings -...
JETS' GLASS ACT - SEE-THROUGH WEST SIDE STADIUM
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amThe New York Jets unveiled a new game plan for the West Side yesterday. It's a striking redesign of a proposed stadium, sheathed in a glass veil that can dramatically...
'DYNO GYNO' EYES RELEASE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amDisgraced "Dyno Gyno" Niels Lauersen yesterday applied for an early pass out of prison. Lauersen, a former Upper East Side gynecologist with a celebrity-studded clientele, was convicted of bilking insurance...
GROUNDHOG FRAY: FORECASTS DIFFER
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amThose of you who take weather predictions from large rodents are in for a difficult winter. In a small town in Pennsylvania, famed weather prognosticator Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow...
STUDENT'S BRAVE BID TO SAVE WOMAN FROM TRAIN
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amA heroic Hunter College student tried to save a woman who jumped onto the subway tracks to retrieve her handbag - then watched helplessly as the woman was killed by...
LUXURY TENANT PAYS $8 A MONTH
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amA Manhattan woman is fighting to hold onto what may be the best real-estate deal in New York City - her $100-a-year Chelsea apartment. That's $100. A year. Patricia Becker,...
'KING OF POP' QUIZ FOR JACKSON JURORS
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Have you ever visited Neverland? Or, for that matter, how much do you know about 1993 child-molestation accusations against Michael Jackson? These were among 41 questions that...
CODE WORDS FOR 'TERROR'
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amBrooklyn jurors on the terror-financing case of a Yemeni sheik yesterday viewed secret tapes of him huddling with an assistant - allegedly to create code words for weapons and ammunition....
DEMOCRACY'S TRIUMPH BOOSTS POSITIVE PREZ OVER DISMAL DEMS
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amIRAQ'S dancing-in-the-streets election gave President Bush a surge of momentum, and last night he made clear that he means to make the most of it. Iraq's election shifted the political...
NEW NICOLE BUST - CHEERLEADER HELD IN SLAY
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amA high-school cheerleader was charged with murder yesterday for participating the Lower East Side street attack that killed aspiring actress Nicole duFresne last week, cops said. Ashley Evans, 18, allegedly...
VINTAGE JFK AUCTION WILL BE DIVINE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amKennedy fans can lift a glass just like a member of the clan, after a portion of late President John F. Kennedy's wine collection goes to auction next week. On...
SKIDDING JET IN H'WAY MAYHEM - * SLIDES OFF N.J. RUNWAY INTO TRAFFIC * ALL SURVIVE FIERY WAREHOUSE CRASH
February 3, 2005 | 5:00am"Look out! A plane is coming!" A car driver heard that shout from his terrified passenger seconds before a corporate jet sheared off the roof of their vehicle after skidding...
HOW SOC. SEC. OVERHAUL WOULD WORK
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's Social Security plan wouldn't touch benefits promised to workers 55 and older, but would give younger Americans the option of using private accounts to boost their...
IRAQ HERO'S WIDOW IS HILL'S GUEST
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sharon Engeldrum - widow of 9/11 hero firefighter Christian Engeldrum who died last November in Iraq - was invited to last night's State of the Union speech as...
QNS. WOMAN DIES IN APT. FIRE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amA Queens woman died when fire engulfed her apartment yesterday afternoon, firefighters said. Emily Borrero, who witnesses said was around 50 years old, was killed in her third-floor apartment in...
IRAQ FREEDOM ON THE MARCH - BUSH'S SCENARIO TO BRING TROOPS HOME
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush last night told the nation that Iraq "showed the world" by defying terrorists to vote last Sunday - and said that sets the stage for getting...
OIL-FOOD REPORT WILL ZERO IN ON PROGRAM'S CHIEF
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A report today by the commission investigating the Iraq oil-for-food scandal is expected to single out the U.N. program's director, Benon Sevan, for breaking rules and failing to...
6 TRAIN KILLS GAL TRYING TO SAVE BAG
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amA heroic Hunter College student tried to save a woman who jumped onto the subway tracks to retrieve her handbag - then watched helplessly as the woman was killed by...
PAPAL 'TERM LIMITS' - SECRET PLAN TO HAVE POPES RETIRE AT 80
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amFuture popes will be required to retire at a fixed age, according to secret plans being discussed because of the recurring health woes of John Paul II, it was reported...
OVERHAUL DUE ON SOC. SEC.
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's Social Security plan wouldn't touch benefits promised to workers 55 and older, but would give younger Americans the option of using private accounts to boost their...
INTOXICATING JFK WINE SALE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amKennedy fans can lift a glass just like a member of the clan, after a portion of late President John F. Kennedy's wine collection goes to auction next week. On...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amTHE BRONX * Police are looking for the public's assistance in finding this man (above), a murder suspect who allegedly gunned down a man in Fordham last month. David Cuellar,...
MAN RATS OUT BRO IN HIT-RUN SLAY
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amPolice yesterday arrested a man for the 2002 hit-and-run killing of a Queens teenager, thanks to a tip from an unlikely source - the suspect's older brother. Pierre Badette, 24,...
BLOOMY'S BIG BASH AT B.B.'S
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg obviously has warm memories of B.B. King's Blues Club in Times Square, site of his unexpected victory party in 2001, because he's rented it again for a massive...
SKIDDING JET IN H'WAY MIRACLE - * SLIDES OFF N.J. RUNWAY INTO TRAFFIC * ALL SURVIVE FIERY WAREHOUSE CRASH
February 3, 2005 | 5:00am"Look out! A plane is coming!" Frozen with fear, a New Jersey factory worker shouted that desperate warning to his driver pal yesterday, seconds before the roof of their car...
STATE OF THE UNION: - DON'T DOUBT DUBYA
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amONE of the foolish cavils against President Bush's focus on spreading liberty around the world is that he hasn't insisted on it everywhere and in all places. Well, last night,...
ISIAH STAYING - BUT JACKSON COULD RETURN TO L.A.
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO - Isiah Thomas was furious yesterday, and not just about the club's sinking ship. The losing has become so grotesque that the Knicks have left themselves open to reckless...
AN EMBRACE FOR FREEDOM - IRAQ VOTER HAILED BY BUSH HUGS TRAGIC MARINE'S MOM
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush last night told the nation that Iraq "showed the world" by voting despite the terrorists - and an Iraqi woman in the crowd wept as she...
'KING OF POP' QUIZ FOR JURORS
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Have you ever visited Neverland? Or, for that matter, how much do you know about 1993 child-molestation accusations against Michael Jackson? These were among 41 questions that...
EGYPT TO HOST ARIEL-ABBAS SUMMIT
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet for the first time next week, at a summit backed by their Arab neighbors and the...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - BLACK HISTORY EDITION
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amTHE LITTLE ROCK NINE The start of school is hard enough, but for the Little Rock Nine, it was downright dangerous. Thurgood Marshall's 1954 victory in the Brown vs. the...
HOT TO TROTTER ; LB SOARS IN RETURN TO EAGLES
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - It's not surprising a guy who plays linebacker like he's rescuing people from a burning house would get hot under the collar over a few million bucks, then...
FLA. JOCKEY RECOVERING FROM SPILL
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amJockey Gary Boulanger, critically injured in spill Sunday at Gulfstream Park, was upgraded to serious yesterday, continuing to recover from severe head trauma and surgery to remove spleen. "He's doing...
NORTHEAST SKIING IN FULL SWING FOR PRIMETIME DELIGHT
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amNORTHEAST ski areas are enjoying the best conditions of the season with lots of snow and sunshine that add up to primetime skiing, so now is the time to take...
MAGGLIO'S STILL ON METS' RADAR
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amAs reports surface that other teams have cooled on Magglio Ordonez, the Mets are still debating whether to make one of their trademark trips to see him. As of yesterday,...
A GIANT CHANGE - EAGLES' LEVENS GLAD TO BE OUT OF N.Y.
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - If there is a single yard, a tough yard, a decisive yard standing in the way of the Eagles and glory Sunday, it is quite likely that Dorsey...
DEVILS SIGN NEWARK LEASE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amPutting up their first $4 million of $100 million, the Devils yesterday signed the 30-year lease for the $310 million arena the city of Newark claims will open in 2007....
ISIAH SEETHES - DENIES HE'LL BOLT KNICK FIASCO
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO - Knick President Isiah Thomas was furious yesterday, and not just about his club's sinking ship. The losing has become so grotesque that the Knicks have left themselves open...
STRONG WILLED - THE BIGGER THE STAGE, THE BIGGER THE IMPACT FOR MCGINEST
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - Willie McGinest has a routine he quietly adheres to before every game he plays. During quiet moments or while watching film, the Patriots' veteran linebacker visualizes the havoc...
STICKING HIS NECKLACE OUT; CULPEPPER HELPS PUTS INJURED TEEN PLAYER ON ICE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amSUPER BOWL CONFIDENTIAL JACKSONVILLE - Sometimes it's the little things that make the biggest impact. "Wasn't nothing big to me," Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper told The Post yesterday, "but to...
PATRIOTS COACHES MOVING ON
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - One of the most remarkable coaching staffs in NFL history will splinter with key pieces falling their different ways by about 11 p.m. Sunday, which is right around...
MARBURY HEADED TO WING
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SACRAMENTO - Herb Williams plans to shift Stephon Marbury, the self-proclaimed best point guard in the league, to more of a shooting guard role in a desperate attempt...
ATLANTIC ANTIC FOR NETS
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amBOSTON - OK, get it all out of your system. The Atlantic Division is the worst ever. Teams there couldn't beat themselves. The Shallow Atlantic. But still, somebody has to...
'VEAL' MAY FACE KNIFE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - Gee, what a surprise. More bad medical news for the Nets: Brian ("Veal") Scalabrine might be facing surgery. Scalabrine is seeking a second opinion, but the...
IT'S TIME TO CLOSE NHL ; OWNERS JUST ITCHIN' FOR SCAB PRODUCT ; CIRCUS
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amLET'S get this out of the way as quickly as possible. The offer presented yesterday by the NHL to the NHLPA was so restrictive, so oppressive and so insulting, the...
'SPLITTERS RULE CONEY ISLAND ROOST
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amH.S. HOOPSLincoln 56Grady 52 Kevin White Jr. didn't play like he wanted to against his former team, but he wasn't that bothered by his lackluster performance. "It's a good way...
HOPE FOR SEASON DOWN TO LAST GASP OF NEGOTIATIONS
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amOptimists might draw hope. Realists view this as the last act of the script. The return of Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow to the bargaining table today - after lieutenants...
LOW TIDE GROUNDS RUTGERS
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amNot since former Net Micheal Ray Richardson uttered the words, "The ship be sinking," has a New Jersey basketball team been in such utter disarray. Which was not necessarily good...
STICKING HIS NECKLACE OUT ; CULPEPPER PUTS INJURED TEEN ON ICE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amSUPER BOWL CONFIDENTIAL JACKSONVILLE - Sometimes it's the little things that make the biggest impact. "Wasn't nothing big to me," Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper told The Post yesterday, "but to...
BLUE-CHIP GRIDDERS SIDESTEP RUTGERS
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amAs always, there was a bevy of local blue-chip football talent signing on national letter of intent day. Unfortunately for Rutgers, precious little of it signed with the Scarlet Knights,...
HAMILTON SAVES STORM
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amSt. John's 53Rutgers 52 Norm Roberts had seen enough. And he had said enough. Tuesday night, the St. John's coach tried another tact. Instead of telling his players what had...
BEANTOWN BUMMER - CELTS STOP NET WIN STREAK
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amCeltics 110Nets 89 BOSTON - Celtic coach Doc Rivers insisted beforehand that this was a big game: two Atlantic opponents within whispering distance of the top of the division. February...
LANDETA: PATS GET EDGE ON EXPOSURE
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amSean Landeta knows what Tom Brady 's going through right now.He also knows what Donovan McNabb is going through right now. He remembers the obligations,the parties,the hoopla.He remembers stomach-turning nerves...
MR. CONSTRUCTION VS. MR. DESTRUCTION - THOMASON DIGGIN' CHANCE TO HELP EAGLES WIN CROWN
February 3, 2005 | 5:00am"I'm out of the big game. The coaches may be calling you. Be ready for that." - Chad Lewis' Monday morning call to best friend Jeff Thomason PONTE VEDRA BEACH...
LAKER TAKERS - ISIAH COULD LOSE JACKSON TO L.A.
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO - Isiah Thomas was furious yesterday, and not just about the club's sinking ship. The losing has become so grotesque that the Knicks have left themselves open to reckless...
MAGGLIO MAY BE BACK ON METS' RADAR
February 3, 2005 | 5:00amAs reports surface that other teams have cooled on Magglio Ordonez, the Mets are still debating whether to make one of their trademark trips to see him. As of yesterday,...