August 15, 2005
BANCROFT BOOTY - YOUNG DOW JONES HEIRS PRESS SALE ON ELDERS
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amAfter burning through half the family fortune, built on owning the Wall Street Journal empire, the Bancroft clan is talking again about selling its golden goose to keep future generations...
PRIME WARP - HOT, DIRTY - AND LOUD!
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Vans Warped tour is unlike anything else - as much a cultural event as a concert. Mix 30,000 fans with 98 bands, on a 99-degree day, more than 10...
ST. JOHN - FLAW & ARDOR IN 'LENNON'
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amAFTER all the rumors, postponements, alarms and excursions the bio-musical caused, "Lennon" opened last night at the Broadhurst Theatre with that special note of unsurprise. It benefits from its nine-person...
'SWEET' SMELL OF EXCESS - SWEET 16 PARTY WAS NEVER THIS PRICEY BEFORE
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amTHEY are vicious; they are brutal; they are egomaniacal and they are power-mad. Are we talking dictators of third world countries? No, we're talking 16-year-old rich girls planning their Sweet...
STARR REPORT
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amJoss in 'Mars' orbit UPN's "Veronica Mars," now getting a summer run on sister network CBS, has landed a big fan - "Buffy"/ "Angel" creator Joss Whedon. Whedon, blogging on...
FALL FASHION FOR DUMMIES - THE ONLY GUIDE YOU NEED TO THIS SEASON'S STYLE MAGS!; THE FOUL AND THE FABULOUS
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amIT may be 90 degrees outside, but fall officially arrives this week when the September issues of the fashion glossies hit newsstands. Packed with lip-smacking layouts that showcase next season's...
GADGET WATCH - COMPUTERS, CALCULATORS AND CELLS TO KEEP STUDENTS PLUGGED IN THIS YEAR
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amGETTING wired is as important as what to wear on the first day of school. iPods and laptops are increasingly prevalent in this digital age - even high school students...
IT'S IN THE BAG - NEW TASTY LUNCH TREATS FOR SURVIVING THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amAlmost as old as the black market is the blacktop market - the playground industry where schoolkids wheel and deal away the contents of their lunchbags. The practice has been...
'BROTHERS' A KEEPER WHILE 'GIGOLO' FAILS TO PERFORM
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amMark Wahlberg's new revenge flick got even and then some at the box office over the weekend - easily topping its rivals, with an impressive score of $20.7 million. The...
CHARLES & CAMILLA TO VISIT U.S.: REPORT
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amPrince Charles and his bride, Camilla Parker Bowles, will reportedly tour the United States this fall - their first visit as a couple. Stops will include a visit to Ground...
TIMES SQUARE KISS-MET - V-J DAY SMOOCHERS REUNITED
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amThey didn't get half the charge they did the first time around, but Carl Muscarello and Edith Shain yesterday re-created the famous Times Square kiss that perfectly captured the nation's...
HIKIND ON HAND TO WITNESS 'GREATEST TRAGEDY'
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amAs Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip counted down their last hours until the historic Israeli-ordered pullout, one New York legislator touring the settlements called the withdrawal "the greatest tragedy...
STRIKE MAY SHUT OPEN TIX OPTIONS
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amTicket sellers for tennis' U.S. Open take a strike vote today in a contract dispute. The ticket sellers' union said the U.S. Tennis Association has broken off negotiations, leaving the...
POP GOES THE WEASEL AS AL PIRRO FINALLY TREATS LOVE CHILD RIGHT
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amCHARLESTON, W.Va. - As Westchester County DA Jeanine Pirro began prepping for her Senate run against Hillary Rodham Clinton, her controversial hubby got busy mending fences with a potential political...
MOM IN VIGIL FOR PLUNGE KID
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx teenager who fell four stories down an air shaft Friday night was fighting for his life last night, police said. Otis Cornish, 14, was visiting friends at 2029...
CODGER CANINE OK AFTER CARJACK ORDEAL
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amWho says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Max, a 16-year-old Maltese, learned to survive heat stroke after he was stolen in a carjacking Thursday and left to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A bystander was shot and wounded yesterday by a teen gunman who was chasing a man on a Lower East Side street, cops said. The 22-year-old woman was...
GET ON THE BUS, CITY WORKERS TOLD
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amWith gas prices soaring past $3 a gallon, Mayor Bloomberg is urging all city workers to drive less. "We're trying to cut back," the mayor said yesterday. ". . ....
COP CAPS 'DRUNK' ON BRUCKNER
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amAn off-duty housing cop with less than a month on the job shot and wounded a drunken driver during a furious struggle on the Bruckner Expressway in The Bronx yesterday,...
BABY-SIT HORROR - TOT COVERED IN BLOOD AS AUNT IS SLAIN
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man went on a booze-fueled, hammer-and-knife rampage yesterday, fatally slashing and beating a 21-year-old college student who was baby-sitting her 2-year-old niece, cops said. The attacker, Richard Thorne,...
MARCH OF THE ODD COUPLE - HIZZONER & REV. AL TOGETHER
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton marched alongside Mayor Bloomberg for the first time yesterday, at the Dominican Day Parade on Sixth Avenue. But don't expect him to endorse Hizzoner any time...
GAZA HITS THE FLASH POINT - ISRAEL SEALS STRIP IN PULLOUT'S FIRST STEP
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amTEL AVIV - Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip yesterday, setting in motion its controversial plan to withdraw all 8,500 Jewish settlers. "The state of Israel does not want to...
APPLE IS TAKEN BY STORM - BAKED AND SOAKED
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amA punishing thunderstorm ravaged the sweltering city yesterday - breaking the brutal summer heat wave while shooting lightning bolts across the metropolitan area. The Fire Department responded to a report...
GIRL TO SEEK $5.5M - BX. HS RAPE SUIT
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amA 15-year-old girl is set to slap the city with a $5.5 million lawsuit, charging an older student grabbed her in the basement of their Riverdale school and dragged her...
DISTRAUGHT MOM WEEPS FOR ROOF-PLUNGE KID
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx teenager who plummeted four stories down a building air shaft Friday night was fighting for his life last night, police said. Otis Cornish, 14, had been visiting with...
CITY'S MARSHAL$ ABOUT TO WIN BIG AT TIC-TAC-TOW
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amNew York City's 36 fat-cat marshals are about to get even fatter. The politically connected, mayorally appointed private businessmen will get the multimillion-dollar monopoly on towing parking scofflaws in Manhattan,...
TEEN TO SUE FOR $5.5M IN 'HS RAPE'
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amA 15-year-old girl is set to slap the city with a $5.5 million lawsuit, charging an older student grabbed her in the basement of their Riverdale school and dragged her...
BABY-SIT HORROR - BLOOD-SPLATTERED TOT WITNESSES SLAY
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amA drunk Brooklyn man stabbed and hammered to death a baby-sitting college student in front of her terrified 2-year-old niece yesterday, leaving the tot splattered in her young aunt's blood,...
A TRAGIC WASTE - 'STRAIGHT-ARROW' GIRLS OVERDOSE
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amTwo 18-year-old women described as bright and responsible college students were found unconscious in a Lower East Side apartment and later died of apparent drug overdoses, law-enforcement sources said yesterday....
QNS. TEEN MISSING OFF L.I. BEACH
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens teenager was swept away and presumed drowned in choppy waters off Long Beach yesterday, despite the desperate efforts of his older brother to save him, police said. The...
QUEENS KID, 14, FEARED DROWNED OFF L.I.
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens teenager was swept away and presumed drowned in choppy waters off Long Beach yesterday, despite the desperate efforts of his older brother to save him, police said. The...
PTA HAS ITS EYE ON CITY - MASSIVE MERGER BID
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amThe country's largest parents group is preparing to launch a massive effort to organize the more than 1,300 parent-teacher associations in New York City schools, The Post has learned. The...
ZAP-TRAGEDY SUIT - KIN BLAME CON ED, CITY FOR DUO'S DEATH
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amThe families of a young couple electrocuted as they stepped from their car during a massive summer thunderstorm in Queens a year ago are pointing the finger at the city...
CHECKING OUT POTTER MANIA - LIBRARIES' SUMMER HITS
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amHarry Potter has cast a spell over Queens and Brooklyn, but money talks in Manhattan. That's according to lists of the summer's most sought-after books by patrons of the city's...
'2ND CHANCE' CRUSADER - CANCER SURVIVOR ON MISSION
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amIt's been six years since Carlos Portes underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor so massive that "it was blocking the entire colon" "God granted me a second chance at...
JITTERY GOPERS SEEK ALTERNATIVE TO 'LIBERAL' JEANINE
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amJEANINE PIRRO'S gaffe-marred announcement and her emphasis on liberal social positions has led to new unrest in some quarters of the state GOP, party insiders said yesterday. "A lot of...
CONEY'S LANDMARK LEASE - CITY TAKING BIDS ON CYCLONE COASTER
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amFor investors unafraid of taking their money on a roller-coaster ride, the city is putting the historic Cyclone up for rent. Coney Island's 1927 wooden coaster, famous for one doozy...
TEENS TAKE TO ROCK 'N' VOL CORPS
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amFour hours of community service. Most teenagers would do anything to avoid such a sentence, unless it were an alternative to jail time. But a new program rewards half a...
MORGY FOE OK'D $1M FOR FUTURE EMPLOYER
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amFormer Judge Leslie Crocker Snyder, now running for Manhattan DA against Robert Morgenthau, OK'd from the bench more than $1 million in commissions for the prestigious law firm that gave...
KOCH PUTTING THE KIBOSH ON LOPEZ ENDORSEMENT
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amED KOCH has rejected a request from advisers to Mayor Bloomberg to endorse the embattled Margarita Lopez for Manhattan borough president as new revelations about Lopez's cozy relationship with Scientologists...
CARING PREZ PRAISED BY KIN OF FALLEN
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush has offered a caring shoulder to cry on and an ear open to complaints, say families of fallen soldiers who've met with him privately. "It felt...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amA man was shot by police twice in the same shoulder at two different times - on the same night. Kenyatta Bostic, 33, was blasted once after he nearly mowed...
RUN OF THE HILL HIRING - '08 PREZ BOOST
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In a move sure to fuel speculation she's got eyes on the White House, Hillary Rodham Clinton has enlisted a draft-Hillary pioneer to be part of her political-action...
MCCAIN: 'GOT TO STAY'
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Until "I can land at the airport in Baghdad and ride in an unarmored car down the highway," Sen. John McCain says, the United States' mission in Iraq...
MCKIE NEXT ON NET LIST
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amWhen the offseason began for the Nets, one word above all reflected their plans: depth. They've found help in all three possible ways, the draft, a trade and free agency....
SHILL-A-MINUTE TV! - TNT IGNORES PGA (AND MISHAP) TO SELF-PROMOTE
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amFLAT screen, plasma, high def. Makes no difference. TV keeps getting worse. For example, it has become abundantly clear that Charles Barkley, being sold as an all-purpose, say-something-for-attention star in...
DRAMA FOLLOWS METROS
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amHow upside-down was the MetroStars' world going into last night's game with visiting Columbus, arguably the Metros' most important game so far this season? Amado Guevara - the league MVP...
DAVE, SANTOS MAKE 'POINT'
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amWheeling right back after winning allowance race on turf here Wednesday, Dave came from off pace again under Jose Santos to win $100,000 West Point Handicap for NY-breds over inner...
ROOKIE RUNS WITH TOTAL A-BRANDON
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES When asked yesterday which rookies impressed him in Saturday night's 17-14 preseason loss to the Browns, Giants coach Tom Coughlin responded "You mean besides [Brandon] Jacobs?" It was...
ROBERTSON WON'T WORRY ABOUT KNEE
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES Dewayne Robertson doesn't want to talk about his achy left knee or think about his left knee, thank you. "I'm looking forward to this year, I'm good, I'm...
BUNGLING BACHELOR - PALMER LOSING GRIP ON BACK-UP QB SLOT
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amNot even the illumination created by repeated flashes of lightning in Cleveland shed much light on the Giants' backup quarterback situation. At the moment, it looks as if the season...
HOUSTON IS SPARED - KNICKS WON'T CUT REHABBING GUARD
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amToday might have been a historic day in Knicks history - the release of Allan Houston. Instead, Houston stays and today's amnesty deadline will pass with the Knicks perhaps only...
A-ROD RIPPING ROCKETS
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amWith lightning bolts in the sky and thunder in his bat, Alex Rodriguez continued to smash his way through the Yankee record books yesterday against his former team. Rodriguez rained...
EIGHT IS ENOUGH - CHACON ENDS LOSING STRING
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amShawn Chacon did something yesterday he hadn't done since the first month of the season: He won a game. Chacon earned his first victory as a Yankee yesterday in a...
FIEDLER WON'T FIDDLE 'ROUND
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amIn an effort to get Chad Pennington up to speed and behind center for Friday night's second preseason game against the Vikings, Herm Edwards announced yesterday that The Franchise will...
UNIT SET TO GIVE RELIEF
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES No, your eyes weren't deceiving you. Randy Johnson really was throwing in the bullpen in the eighth inning yesterday. On Saturday, Johnson told Joe Torre he could close...
MATSUI STIRS UP BIG STORM - HIDEKI THREE-RUN HR LEAVES RANGERS ALL WET
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 10 - Rangers 3 A few days ago, the sky was falling at Yankee Stadium, replete with an idiotic teenager pulling a "Jackass" stunt. The White Sox took two...
BELTRAN SAYS COLLISION STILL A BLUR
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - Carlos Beltran doesn't remember the head-smashing collision that put he and Mike Cameron in the hospital. But that's OK with him. "The only thing that...
WILLIAMS CAN'T PLAY HERO ROLE
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - When Antonio Perez drilled a shot to deep center with one out in the eighth inning yesterday, Gerald Williams believed there was a chance he could make...
LIBS STING FOES - HAMMON'S SPARK SINKS CHARLOTTE
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amLiberty 73 - Sting 65 John Starks and Herb Williams sat courtside at Madison Square Garden yesterday. If they had stayed past halftime they would have actually seen the Liberty...
NOT THE WRIGHT TIME
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amEVERY game has become so singularly important for the Yankees that they had Randy Johnson warming up in the bullpen during the bottom of the eighth in case they needed...
ELK CHAMPING AT THE BIT
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amSteve Elkington was in a familiar place yesterday. His isn't a name that readily jumps to mind when you're collecting a list of major winners, but it's on that list....
BALTUSROL SCRAMBLES FOR FAN-TASTIC FINISH
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amPGA NOTES Yesterday's late thunderstorms that forced the suspension of play in the 87th PGA Championship sent tournament officials scrambling to solidify plans to complete the event today. It marks...
FROM NO-NO TO ... OH, NO! - PEDRO FLIRTS WITH GLORY - AND THEN DISASTER STRIKES
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amDodgers 2 - Mets 1 LOS ANGELES - The line at one point in the eighth inning read like this: 22 outs, no hits, one walk for Pedro Martinez. It...
AMAZIN' HEARTBREAK
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The price of being a New York Met is costly. To your career, and to your baseball soul. Pedro Martinez had that lesson drilled home yesterday on...
METROS DO WHAT'S NEEDED
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amM'Stars 2 - Crew 1 From coach to players to staff members, the MetroStars knew that last night's game against last-place Columbus was a must-win situation. In the second-half -...
FROM NO-NO TO ... OH, NO! - PEDRO FLIRTS WITH GLORY - THEN, DISASTER HITS
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amDodgers 2 - Mets 1 LOS ANGELES - Pedro Martinez walked the Dodgers' third hitter in the first inning yesterday. And for 7 1/3 innings after that, no other man...
MOTHER NATURE STEALS TIGER'S THUNDER
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amWE'LL never know what might have happened if the lightning had just held off a little bit longer. We'll never know what kind of misery Baltusrol had in store for...
RAIN FORCES A MAJOR MONDAY - MICKELSON IN FRONT BY SHOT BEFORE RAIN HITS
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amFor those of you who were at Baltusrol yesterday on your day off, riveted to the shootout that the PGA Championship final round had evolved into, and for those of...
RAIN FORCES A MAJOR MONDAY - SOFTER GREENS COULD LIFT LEFTY
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amThe final round of the PGA Championship yesterday resembled a U.S. Open final round in that it became a war of attrition. Survival became the goal more than making birdies....
PHIL'S TO LOSE - MICKELSON HAS EDGE IN SPRINT
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amYOU hear a lot about patience and not getting ahead of yourself in golf. To rush is considered a bad thing. It ruins tempo and concentration. Golf is closer to...
STORM CLOUDS - TOO-LATE TEE TIMES LEAVE FANS SOAKED
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amFOR those of you who were at Baltusrol yesterday on your day off, riveted to the shootout the final round of the PGA Championship had evolved into, and for those...
REIGN DELAY AT BALTUSROL
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amPGA NOTES Baltusrol got a minuscule cooling off yesterday afternoon when a quick, intense downpour forced the golfers off the course and delayed the start of the lead groups. But...
WOODS WAITS - STILL ALIVE, TIGER MAKES A LATE CHARGE
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amTiger Woods seemingly had no chance to win the PGA Championship when he got to the monstrous 650-yard, par-5 17th hole yesterday. Of course, you didn't think he'd turn tail?...
FOLLOWING A LATE CHARGE, WOODS WAITS
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amTiger Woods seemingly had no chance to win the PGA Championship when he got to the monstrous 650-yard, par-5 17th hole yesterday. Of course, you didn't think he'd turn tail?...
LOVE'S HOPES FADE IN WIND
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amOnce again, Love hurts in a major. Davis Love III, who Saturday spoke romantically about the rainbows he saw at his first PGA Championship in 1997, yesterday dishearteningly acknowledged the...
LOVE III FADES IN FLURRY OF BOGEYS
August 15, 2005 | 4:00amOnce again, Love hurts in a major. Only this time he had another night to ponder the pain, another night to wonder where it all went wrong, another night to...