April 23, 2005
BIGGIE HAVAS INVESTOR SEEKS SEATS
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amEscalating a power struggle over global ad giant Havas, French corporate raider Vincent Bollore will seek four seats on the company's board at a crucial shareholder meeting. Bollore said yesterday...
NASDAQ HITS BACK - INSTINET BUY WILL FACE OFF AGAINST NYSE-ARCHIPELAGO
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe battle for stock market supremacy has been joined. Nasdaq said yesterday it would buy Instinet's INET, the No. 2 electronic market, to protect its position as the leading electronic...
QWEST MAKES 'FINAL' MCI BID
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amDespite its meager $3-range stock price, Qwest wants MCI to make a quick decision today to marry Qwest instead of its richer suitor Verizon. The MCI board has already turned...
HE'LL "FIGER" NEXT MOVE
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amTOMMY HILFIGER wanted to set the record straight, after we reported that his deal to buy a $25 million Bridgehampton mansion fell through. The fashion guru says that it wasn't...
MY NEW HOME
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amIT sounds like the script for a sitcom: two families and two houses, side by side. But one house was a fixer-upper, and one in just-renovated shape. In this market,...
GNOME SALES
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe New York Botanical Garden Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road, The Bronx (718) 817-8700 Sale: April 29-May 1 Open: Fri., 11 a.m.-8 p.m./Sat., Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Annual sale...
WASH AND SPIN DOCTORS - TODAY'S LAUNDRY TECHNOLOGY HAS COMPUTER BRAINS - AND NEW COLORS
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amOK, so the newest high-tech laundry systems are pricier than the old ones (the KitchenAid system costs $7,000, and it won't even drive you to work). But the new systems...
CBS ROLLS TO VICTORY
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amCBS continued its Thursday-night domination this past week, with "Survivor" and "CSI" leading the way. "Survivor: Palau" snared nearly 19 million viewers from 8 to 9 p.m., leading into a...
LAUGH 'TIL IT HURTS - RITTER'S 'TRUE STORY' HAS TRAGIC ENDING
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amIT seemed pretty astounding to me that five seconds after John Ritter prematurely died from an undetected tear in his aorta, he was practically being put up for sainthood. And...
LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULDN'T
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amLENNY Kravitz's soul train rode the rails into New York, but didn't have enough coal to make the grade Thursday at the Beacon Theatre. Loathed by the music press for...
HOG WILD - MISS PIGGY SETS THE TRIBECA FEST ON FIRE; THE BIG PIG-TURE
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Tribeca Film Festival is back in town, so we reached out to its biggest star. Sorry, Mr. De Niro - we mean Miss Piggy. The porcine beauty is starring...
ROYAL FLUSHED
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amSOMEBODY slipped the ubiquitous second-banana Anthony Anderson a banana peel for his first starring vehicle, the vile "King's Ransom." So embarrassing that New Line Cinema (which screened even "Son of...
SWING INTO RECESS
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amGet out! At least, that's what kids are supposed to do when spring recess rolls around. But the funny thing about spring is, you never know what the weather has...
REST OF THE FEST
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amTHE work for this year's Tribeca Film Festival began last September, when a handful of pre-screeners and programmers began watching films - about 3,000 in all, including 75 familyfriendly ones...
LATE-NIGHT HOSP DRAMAKEEPS TRAGIC BX. BOY ON LIFE SUPPORT
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amA midnight visit by a judge to the bedside of a brain-dead Bronx teen helped forge an agreement between the boy's family and hosptial officials that will keep the child...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe alligator wasn't even teed off when Harold Parris' ball landed on its tail as it sunbathed near the green on the Robber's Row golf course in Hilton Head, S.C....
ELECTION-YEAR RENT BREAK IN THE WORKS
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amLandlords' operating costs last year came in lower than expected, officials revealed yesterday - giving the Bloomberg administration an opportunity to impose lower rent hikes in an election year. The...
DON'T EGGSPECT HAWK CHICKS
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amHawk huggers fear the city's most famous lovebirds may not become parents this year. Pale Male's chicks are at least one week past due, but no fuzzy heads have appeared...
TAXPAYERS GRILL FREDDY ON HIS STOCK-LEVY PLAN
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amSome "savvy" Brooklyn parents gave Fernando Ferrer all he could handle yesterday over his proposed stock-transfer tax, grilling him on why city taxpayers should be expected to pick up part...
NEW TV $$ BLITZ ON STADIUM
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amCablevision will double its TV ad campaign next week in a nearly $350,000 blitz to throw Mayor Bloomberg's proposed West Side stadium for a loss, sources said. The Jets will...
'COUNTED' OUT - ADVOCATES RIP HOMELESS 'UNDERESTIMATE'
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amThere are about 4,395 homeless people regularly sleeping in the streets and on the subways, according to the city's recent count. Advocates for the homeless immediately dismissed the city's figure...
MIKE A SEX-TEACHER SOFTIE: WEINER
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amAccusing Mayor Bloomberg of being soft on sexual predator teachers, Democratic challenger Rep. Anthony Weiner yesterday ripped into the mayor for dubbing teacher-student sex as "business as usual." "If this...
'93 WTC TRIAL CHAOS - JUDGE QUITS AT LAST SEC
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge has delayed the 1993 World Trade Center bombing litigation for the last time. Stanley Sklar, the Manhattan Supreme Court justice who for an astonishing 12 years has...
JEWS OBSERVE PASSOVER TODAY IN SUNDOWN
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amPassover begins at sundown tonight and Jews will gather with family and friends at seder meals to ponder the traditional query: "Why is this night different from all other nights?"...
JEALOUS KERRY FUMES AS DEM BOOSTS HILL
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A fuming John Kerry had "daggers in his eyes" after a fellow Democrat promoted Hillary Rodham Clinton for president - suggesting the 2004 loser is green with envy...
PANEL TO PROBE FOSTER KIDS' HIV-DRUG TRIALS
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe city has asked an independent group to determine whether proper procedures were followed when 465 HIV-positive children in foster care were put in clinical drug trials from 1988 to...
RABID RACCOON PUTS THE BITE ON BX. WOMEN
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amA rabid raccoon bit two women in The Bronx, the first confirmed cases in which a sickened animal has bitten a human in the Big Apple in almost five years,...
A BRONX TALE TO MAKE A CITY SICK WITH SHAME
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amTHIS much we know: Taran Francis of The Bronx - poor, on Medicaid, 13 years old - went into a hospital on Monday complaining of a headache. On Thursday, he...
JOB-TRAINING TEACHERS GET KICK IN THE CAREER
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amVocational teachers in city public schools beware - you're being put on notice. Hundreds of veteran teachers with licenses in obsolete subjects such as stenography, typing and jewelry-making are being...
HILL: MY $$ MAN 'WILL BE CLEARED'
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday stood behind her indicted former fund-raiser after prosecutors said Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law taped him making "incriminating" statements about her Senate campaign's Hollywood gala....
KID SURVIVES FALL FROM SCHOOL ROOF
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amA 7-year-old boy told his teacher he was going to the bathroom but instead managed to get up on the school roof and plunged three stories to the ground -...
DRAMA STUDENTS ACT OUT AGAINST KERREY
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amStudents at the prestigious Actors Studio demanded answers from New School president Bob Kerrey yesterday about the future relationship between the acting school and the university. Chanting "Hey, Hey, B.K.,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * They're both Outlaws - but only one of them was arrested yesterday. That's because Ricky Outlaw, 19, allegedly stabbed his 18-year-old brother Kevin, in the right shoulder...
A CRASHING BLOW - KIN CRY OVER LIGHT SENTENCE FOR S.I. FERRY BOSS' SLAY PLEA
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amStaten Island Ferry boss Patrick Ryan copped a plea to seaman's manslaughter for the horrific crash that led to 11 passengers' deaths, but he'll likely serve less than a year...
HOSP DRAMA AS BX. JUDGE HALTS BID TO TAKE KID OFF LIFE SUPPORT
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx judge issued an injunction yesterday barring doctors at Montefiore Medical Center from removing a 13-year-old boy from life support as his bewildered family tries to figure out why...
EMS BOSS QUITS AMID TRIP PROBE
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe FDNY official in charge of the Emergency Medical Service quit suddenly yesterday amid an investigation into free trips he accepted from a city vendor, The Post has learned. The...
LOVELORN COP KILLER'S PAROLE BID KO'D
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amA convicted cop killer who advertised for a wife on the Internet had his dreams of conjugal bliss dashed when the state Parole Board rejected his bid for freedom. Bruce...
JUDGE QUITS '93 WTC BOMB TRIAL AT LAST SEC
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge has delayed the 1993 World Trade Center bombing litigation for the last time. Stanley Sklar, the Manhattan Supreme Court justice who for an astonishing 12 years has...
JEWS OBSERVE PASSOVER TODAY AT SUNDOWN
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amPassover begins at sundown tonight and Jews will gather with family and friends at seder meals to ponder the traditional query: "Why is this night different from all other nights?"...
OH, ROWE IS ME - JACKO EX TO TESTIFY FOR DA
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amIn another twist in the Michael Jackson case, Debbie Rowe - the pop star's ex-wife and mother of two of his three kids - will testify for the prosecution next...
BEAU BUSTED IN PREGNANT GAL-PAL SLAY
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amA sanitation worker whose pregnant girlfriend was found floating in the Hudson River with a bullet in her head has been indicted for second-degree murder, police said yesterday. Roscoe Glinton...
SKULLS FOUND OUTSIDE BX. APT.
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amA garbage bag stuffed with human-looking skulls was found yesterday in a Bronx building, police said. Cops said a resident at 1955 Grand Concourse opened a white garbage bag left...
'SOPRANOS' BAD BOY IN NEW MESS
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amThree years to the day after "Sopranos" bad boy Robert Iler copped a plea in a mugging case, the actor finds himself in a new imbroglio involving an assault on...
UNBORN BABY'S FATHER BUSTED IN GAL-PAL SLAY
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amA sanitation worker whose pregnant girlfriend was found floating in the Hudson River with a bullet in her head has been indicted for second-degree murder, police said yesterday. Roscoe Glinton...
MEET A NEW SUPER STAR - YOUNG HUNK SUITS UP AS MAN OF STEEL
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amLook! But not up in the sky! Here's a first glimpse of square-jawed Brandon Routh now that the hunky newcomer has stepped into Superman's legendary tights. The 6-foot-2 former soap...
MIKE A SEX-TEACH SOFTIE: WEINER
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amAccusing Mayor Bloomberg of being soft on sexual predator teachers, Democratic challenger Rep. Anthony Weiner yesterday ripped into the mayor for dubbing teacher-student sex as "business as usual." "If this...
SETTLERS MARK PASSOVER WITH NEW EXODUS
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - To night, as millions of Jews celebrate Passover, the shadow of a modern Jewish exodus falls across Israel - the evacuation this summer of settlers from the Gaza...
EMS BOSS QUITS AS FREE-TRIP SCANDAL EXPOSED
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe Fire Department official in charge of the Emergency Medical Service quit suddenly yesterday amid an investigation into free trips he accepted from a city vendor, The Post has learned....
METROS SEEK STAR POWER
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amTo put the star in the Metro- Stars, Jersey boy Bob Bradley had to cross the Atlantic. The arrival of Youri Djorkaeff is clearly the biggest upgrade for the Metros,...
JINTS CONTENT TO STAY AT 43
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe calls are infrequent, especially compared with a year ago at this time, and usually not long in duration. Other teams ask Giants GM Ernie Accorsi if he wants to...
RJ READY TO GO; SHAQ UNCERTAIN
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amNET NOTES Richard Jefferson will be the "X" factor in the opening round of the playoffs, unquestionably. And yesterday, for the first time since Jan. 8, Jefferson, returning from surgery...
ISIAH: STEPH'S NOT UNTOUCHABLE
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amIt appears no coincidence that at the same time Knicks president Isiah Thomas said Thursday he was pursuing Phil Jackson, he let it out that Stephon Marbury could be available...
IT'S A GUESSING GAME - NINERS WON'T SAY WHO'LL BE THE ONE
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amSix of the top players who will be chosen in today's NFL Draft stood on the corner of 34th Street and 8th Avenue yesterday morning attempting to toss a football...
'ROCKY' IS READY FOR LEXINGTON
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amRemember Mr. Bill from "Saturday Night Live," the little clay figure who suffered misfortune at every turn? Today, in the Grade 2, $325,000 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland, horseracing's version of...
FALL POINT PEN - YANKS HOPE SOLID SHOWING SPELLS RELIEF
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe way the Yankee bullpen had stunk this season, it was improbable that it could hold Thursday night's one-run lead from the sixth inning on. So one of the most...
JETS LOOK UPWARD
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amIf you think the Jets are done dealing, think again. Don't be a bit surprised to see the Jets, fresh off their trade for tight end Doug Jolley this week,...
FEELING THE STRAIN: ISHII LANDS ON DL
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets rotation, already without starting pitchers Steve Trachsel (herniated disc) and Kris Benson (strained pectoral muscle), took another blow yesterday when an MRI on Kaz Ishii's sore...
'TALK' RETURNS IN FORT MARCY
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amBetter Talk Now, upset winner of last year's Breeders' Cup Turf, makes first start of year today in Grade 3, $100,000 Fort Marcy Handicap over Aqueduct's turf course, assuming rain...
NO. 8 WITH A BULLET - HEALTHY KIDD HAS NETS HEATING UP
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amLast year, Jason Kidd entered the playoffs - more like limped into them - dragging an ailing knee. This year, Kidd is healthy, playing at a level virtually equal to...
WILD EAST HAS PLENTY TO LOVE
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amSOME Eastern Conference playoff observations: HEAT vs. NETS: Only someone more cynical than myself would dare to suggest the league gave Miami an extra day to begin this series in...
JUICY BOOT - EX-MET ROBERTS FAILS TEST
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe black cloud of baseball's steroids controversy found its way to Queens yesterday when it was revealed former Mets pitcher Grant Roberts failed a steroids test during spring training. Roberts,...
SIERRA TO MISS UP TO 6 WEEKS
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The good news is that Ruben Sierra doesn't need surgery right now, but the Yankees don't expect him back soon anytime soon, either. An MRI yesterday revealed a...
STAR SEARCH: MORE TALENT
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amFire 1 - MetroStars 0 With Youri Djorkaeff the lone bright spot in the MetroStars' winless start, coach Bob Bradley plans to talk tomorrow to another former French star, Laurent...
ACHING ISHII LANDS ON 15-DAY DL
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Already with starting pitchers Steve Trachsel (back) and Kris Benson (pectoral strain) out with injuries, the Met rotation took another shot to the gut yesterday when an MRI...
KEVIN AND HELL - RANGERS - AND BX. BOOBIRDS - BATTER BROWN
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amTwo batters - and two hits - into last night's game, Kevin Brown already heard the boos. They were deserved. For those who weren't kept away by the mist, the...
HOME STRETCH - METS' SHEA DOMINANCE CONTINUES AS GLAVINE STOPS NATS
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amMets 3 - Nationals 1 Last night, the Washington Nationals were a new team in name only. To Tom Glavine, they were the same old Expos. The Expos are now...
HOME STRETCH - GLAVINE. METS SIZZLE AT SHEA
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amMets 3 - Nationals 1 Last night, the Washington Nationals were a new team in name only. To Tom Glavine, they were the same old Expos. The Expos are now...
DIGGING DOUG - METS' SECOND CHOICE SHINING AT FIRST BASE
April 23, 2005 | 4:00amIt generally doesn't happen, but these are the New Mets, and through the first two weeks of the season it appears they got lucky. Doug Mientkiewicz was a secondary option...