August 17, 2006
TIME TO SHORT STOCKS
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Make Us Rich hedge fund will place a big bet against the stock market and against the dollar at the end of this week. Last Friday the imaginary $1...
RAIDER GETS ONE BOARD SEAT IN HEINZ PROXY FIGHT
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amBillionaire corporate rebel Nelson Peltz appears to have secured at least one spot on the board of H.J. Heinz after a bitter months-long proxy battle that has cost the ketchup...
DANCE CO. BUYS IN HARLEM
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, a prominent Harlem-based group, is planning to buy and develop a $35.3 million theater and studios at Grid Properties' Harlem USA Phase II...
FAIRFAX STRIKE THREE - EARNINGS ERRORS DELAY FILING AT INSURER'S 3RD UNIT
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amA third subsidiary of troubled Canadian insurance giant Fairfax Financial Holdings said it wouldn't be able to file its quarterly financial update because it needed extra time to adjust accounting...
KATZ AXED AT VF
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amVanity Fair Publisher Alan Katz was dumped by Condé Nast yesterday, less than a month after the magazine's star Editor Graydon Carter told The Post he had "complete confidence" in...
GIMME SHELTER
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amUMA'S BUYOUT DESPITE the disappointing box-office receipts for her latest flick, Uma Thurman is spending big money at her Gramercy Park apartment building. The "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" star has not...
GHOST WORLD - GREY GARDENS: QUINN & BRADLEE'S HAMPTONS HAUNT
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amWRITER Sally Quinn believes in ghosts. And you might, too, if you lived in Grey Gardens, the infamous East Hampton estate that was once the home of Edith Bouvier Beale,...
PERK OF THE WEEK - BUTTER YOURSELF UP
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amAs if your local movie theater weren't having a hard enough time as it is, Towne Centre, a new rental building in Englewood, N.J., is attempting to one-up it. Not...
G-G-G-GOOD TO THE BONE
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amIF you're looking for depth, stylistic scope or a big musical vocabulary, George Thorogood isn't your guy. Monday, at the first of his three nights at B.B. King's joint on...
BENJI PUTS ON 'DANCE' CROWN
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amBENJI SCHWIMMER danced his way into the winner's circle last night on the live, prime-time finale of "So You Think You Can Dance" on Fox. The limber 22-year-old from Redlands,...
AWFULLY GOOD FLICKS - 'SNAKES ON A PLANE' - BORN TO BE BAD?
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amNEARLY a year ago, when New Line Cinema announced it was developing a horror movie called "Pacific Air Flight 121," its star, Samuel L. Jackson, went medieval on them: He...
HOPING N.Y. DIGS (NOT SPIKES)
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amTHEY rule the West Coast - and the Olympics - but Kerri Walsh and Misty MayTreanor have a tougher audience when they visit Coney Island for the Brooklyn Open today....
UTUBE: EVERY MUSIC VIDEO
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amYOUTube is talking with record labels about posting on its site nearly every music video ever made. The popular video Web site is negotiating for rights to thousands of videos...
STARR REPORT
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amCNBC's Margaret Brennan got a little more news than she bargained for yesterday. She flew into Boston, intending to report on an AOL story-and ended up reporting on the London-to-D.C....
DESIGNER GENES - 'NEXT TOP MODEL' DOUBLES ITS FUN WITH TWIN HOTTIES
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amTHE seventh season of "America's Next Top Model" premieres next month - but the show already has designs on its next season. An open casting call for Season 8 of...
FIGHT FOR TRUTH - IF YOU SEE ONLY ONE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT 9/11, MAKE IT 'NATIVE SOIL'
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amNOW that we're coming up to the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, every TV network, local station, cable news channel and you-name-it is rushing to make the definitive 9/11...
1996 JONBENET 'KILLER' BUSTED - THAIS HOLD 'KID PORN' TEACHER
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amA California teacher, fired for allegedly possessing child pornography, was busted in Bangkok yesterday in the brutal 1996 death of JonBenet Ramsey, the 6-year-old beauty queen whose horrific murder cast...
HIT-RUN INJURES 3 KIDS ON BIKE
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amThree youths riding on the same bike were struck and seriously injured by a hit-and run driver in Brooklyn last night, authorities said. The accident took place shortly before midnight...
BROTHER: NO WAY - INSISTS SUSPECT WAS JUST DOING 'RESEARCH'
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe brother of the suspect in JonBenet Ramsey's murder denied last night that his sibling committed the unthinkable act, saying he fell under suspicion because he tried to write a...
$1M SLAP AS HOSP LETS CORPSE ROT
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amA jury has awarded a Bronx man $1 million because a hospital allowed his mother's body to decompose so badly, he couldn't have an open casket at her wake. The...
HEZBOLLAH 3, ISRAEL 0 - OLMERT'S STRATEGIC DISASTER
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amISRAEL'S rep for toughness in tatters. Hezbollah triumphant. Iran cockier than ever. Syria untouched. Lebanon's government crippled. An orgy of anti-Semitism in the global media. Anti-Americanism exploding among Iraqi Shi'as...
REJECTED BEAU GUILTY IN FIERY MURDER HORROR
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amA man who pledged to die with his ex-girlfriend moments before dousing her with gasoline and setting them both ablaze - in front of her 10-year-old son - has pleaded...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN (lcf) * An East Harlem woman was clinging to life last night after she was shot twice in the head, police said. The woman, who was not identified, was...
BEAUTIFUL TOGA GIRL AN UGLY INGRATE
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amDENNIS KOZLOWSKI lost his fortune, lost his freedom and, for some inexplicable reason, is now losing his "loving" wife. Dennis, the former hot-shot CEO of Tyco, is doing 8 1/3...
U.S. IN WEB-WIDE WAR VS. OSAMA WANNABES
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said yesterday the new front in the war on terror is the Internet, where thousands of Web sites are encouraging terrorist wannabes "in...
STARBUCKS 'BUG' BREW
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amA group of Starbucks workers affiliated with the fabled Wobblies union said they've filed a federal complaint blasting three of the chain's popular shops in Manhattan because they're teeming with...
ROBO-SUBWAY RUN
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amStraphangers on the N line will get a chance today to take the maiden voyage of a prototype of new automated subway cars. The R160 cars begin a 30-day trial...
POLS: KIDS BOOZE, FOLKS LOSE
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amA powerful City Council committee is trying to crack down on teen drinking parties by introducing a bill that could put parents behind bars for up to a year for...
SPITZER: THROW MTA BOSS FROM THE TRAIN
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amIn a stinging attack on MTA management, gubernatorial front-runner Eliot Spitzer said he's baffled that subways here lack surveillance cameras five years after 9/11 and a year after terrorists bombed...
SEX-SACK FLAP AT CATHOLIC HS - GAL AXED, LOVER NOT: SUIT
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amA former assistant at one of Long Island's most prestigious Catholic schools charges she was canned for carrying on an affair with a colleague - while the still-married man was...
'NEW YORK' KOREAN SEX-SLAVE RING SMASHED
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amA prostitution ring involving dozens of young Korean women who were forced to work as sex slaves in New York and other East Coast brothels was broken up this week,...
TYCO ICE QUEEN KOS KOZ - WIFE'S SHOCK DIVORCE SUIT BLIND$IDES DA
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe wife of jailed ex-Tyco boss Dennis Kozlowski, who once dropped $2 million on a decadent party - including an ice replica of Michelangelo's David - to celebrate her 40th...
T'PIKE CRASH BUST CLOSER
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amPolice yesterday moved closer to filing criminal charges against the driver of the 18-wheel tractor-trailer that killed four people Monday after crashing, flipping and dumping its cargo of bricks on...
'I'M GOING TO DIE' - HEART-RENDING NEW TAPES OF 9/11
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe city yesterday released more tapes of 911 calls from the Sept. 11 attacks that include wrenching phone calls of emergency dispatchers trying to calm down and help doomed people...
DARING STINGS BAG 10 'DRUG BLOODS'
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe drugs for sale that day were fake - maybe baking soda, but certainly not cocaine - so the undercover detective made a split-second decision as he stood in a...
IMETTE LAW IS PASSED - LICENSING BOUNCERS
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amClubs and bars must hire only licensed bouncers under a new measure passed by the City Council yesterday in the wake of the slaying of Imette St. Guillen. The 24-year-old...
FARRAH'S ROAD FROM HAG TO FAB
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amFormer Charlie's Angel Farrah Fawcett no longer looks like hell. She's got her heavenly good looks back, thanks to what London's Daily Mail describes as "a substantial bout of cosmetic...
'JUNIOR' SINGS SOPRANO - SERENADES JUDGE WITH HAPPY B'DAY
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti finally sang - but it was "Happy Birthday" to a federal judge. Gotti helped Manhattan federal Judge Shira Scheindlin celebrate her 60th birthday by serenading her from...
INFAMOUS COLD CASE HELD U.S. IN ITS GRIP
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amHer brutal slaying captivated a nation, and as time passed with no arrests made, it became a national obsession unlike any child murder case since that of the Lindbergh baby....
1996 JONBENET 'KILLER' BUSTED - 'CONFESSES' IN BANGKOK JAIL
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amA second-grade teacher was busted in Thailand yesterday for the long-unsolved killing of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey - a stunning breakthrough in one of the nation's most mysterious and...
ATTORNEY BELIEVED IN PARENTS
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe Ramseys' famed libel lawyer, Lin Wood, is a master at clearing the names of his vilified clients, who also include Olympic bombing suspect Richard Jewel, former Rep. Gary Condit...
CANDID-CAMERA COPS - CAUGHT IN 'ILLEGAL' RAID AT BROOKLYN MASSAGE PARLOR
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amThree lowlife lawmen were charged yesterday with busting into a Brooklyn massage parlor in a bid to destroy video evidence proving an earlier police raid there was bogus, authorities said....
REJECTED BEAU GUILTY IN FIERY SLAY HORROR
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amA man who pledged to die with his ex-girlfriend moments before dousing her with gasoline and setting them both ablaze - in front of her 10-year-old son - has pleaded...
TURNPIKE BUST LOOMING - 'KILLER' TRUCKER FACES RAPS
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amPolice yesterday moved closer to filing criminal charges against the driver of the 18-wheel tractor-trailer that killed four people Monday after crashing, flipping and dumping its cargo of bricks on...
BOOST FOR RAMSEYS - STOOD FIRM ON SLAY INNOCENCE
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amFor a decade, the finger of suspicion pointed at JonBenet Ramsey's grieving parents, John and Patsy Ramsey. Although they proclaimed their innocence, and a lengthy grand jury investigation ended without...
MIKE'S A BIG $OFTIE - GIVES GOP $2M
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg is the soft-money king of New York - having ponied up $2 million to the state GOP, a report due today shows. The billionaire mayor not...
DEMS SLAM PIRRO ETHICS
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Democrats last night opened up a new attack on the ethics of Republican attorney-general candidate Jeanine Pirro after a statewide televised event in which the former Westchester DA...
2 BROTHERS SHOT DEAD
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amA plainclothes police officer opened fire on a man who shot and killed two brothers on a Brooklyn street yesterday, police said. The wild scene unfolded when the undercover cop,...
DRUGSTORE HOOD HUNT
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amPolice are looking for three knife-wielding thieves responsible for a series of robberies at Manhattan drugstores, authorities said yesterday. Surveillance cameras captured three men robbing a Duane Reade drugstore on...
HARSH SPOTLIGHT BACK ON CHILD PAGEANTS
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amJonBenet Ramsey, a kindergartner in high heels and a feathered cape, was a veteran of child beauty pageants, and her 1996 murder cast a light on that creepy world. A...
RUDY: JOE IS 'EXCEPTIONAL'
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amCHARLESTON, S.C. - Rudy Giuliani last night praised Sen. Joe Lieberman as a "really exceptional" senator, and called his support for the war on terror "very courageous." Giuliani made the...
4,000 FLEE BROOKLYN SUBWAY FIRE
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amAbout 4,000 commuters were evacuated from two trains when a three-alarm fire broke out in a tunnel near the DeKalb Avenue station in Brooklyn, authorities said. Ten commuters and four...
KING OF DIAMONDS - CHEERS AS YANK PARK GETS STARTED
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amStart spreadin' the dirt - they're building today. After years of talk that New York's most storied sports franchise might move to the West Side or - horrors! - New...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - SUMMER FUN EDITION
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amWhat a wild ride! Roller coasters entertain us - and scare us half to death. But we love it. Here's a history of how they got started. WHO would think...
DARING GANG STING - 10 BLOODS BUSTED
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe drugs for sale that day were fake - maybe baking soda, but certainly not cocaine - so the undercover detective made a split-second decision as he stood in a...
KIDS BOOZE, PARENTS LOSE
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amA powerful City Council committee is trying to crack down on teen drinking parties by introducing a bill that could put parents behind bars for up to a year for...
BLOOMBERG'S A BIG $OFTIE FOR STATE GOP
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg is the softmoney king of New York - having ponied up $2 million to the state GOP, a report due today shows. The billionaire mayor not...
TAKING OFFENSE - UNIT INTACT, GIANTS EAGER
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amThere's this vision that keeps dancing around the head of Plaxico Burress, an exciting vision he's anxious to transport from his mind to the football field. What the towering receiver...
CARTER ROLLING PAST MOSS
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES One of the anticipated moves when Giants training camp started was that before long, rookie Sinorice Moss would supplant Tim Carter as the No. 3 receiver. That hasn't...
MAGNA, CHURCHILL JOIN TEAM EMPIRE
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Like a locomotive picking up steam as it rolls downhill, the Empire Racing Association announced yesterday that the nation's two largest racetrack operators, Churchill Downs Inc. and...
TOM: RYDER SLOT WILL BE TOUGH SHOT
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amMEDINAH - Tom Lehman yesterday said unless there's some "crazy, unforeseen circumstances," he won't be playing in next month's Ryder Cup. Lehman, 47, will serve as the captain of the...
GARCIA FEELS TREE-MENDOUS
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amPGA NOTES MEDINAH - Sergio Garcia is happy to return to the scene of one of his best moments in golf. The question is whether it will forever be his...
SEVEN EYE 'SPECIAL'
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The Grade 2, $200,000 Saratoga Special often attracts a field consisting of one standout 2-year-old colt and assorted spear-carriers entered because someone has to complete the exacta....
STRAIT BACK TO WORK - RETURNS TO JETS AFTER TRADE COLLAPSES
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amDerrick Strait already had begun his new life. He had a new playbook and was sitting in a meeting with his new coaches comfortably wearing Cleveland Browns garb when he...
SHEA-JA VU FOR DARRYL
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Darryl Strawberry will be at Shea Stadium on Saturday for the 20-year celebration of the 1986 Mets after all. Two weeks ago, The Post reported that...
STATEN ISLAND IN THE HOUSE
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amLITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES When the Staten Island Little Leaguers walk the Williamsport streets, there's always someone who wants to know: "Where's the kid who hit the home run?" That's...
IT'S ODDS ON THAT CHALK BETTORS THREW WILD FIT
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Ouch! Yesterday's seven beaten favorites included three that went down at odds-on. FIRST RACE: Distance cutback from route to seven furlongs worked again. Rocky Blue, who set...
MANGINI, CRENNEL STILL FRIENDS
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES Eric Mangini is extremely close with Browns head coach Romeo Crennel, so you had to wonder if the voided trade between the Jets and Browns for running back...
'FOG' MAY HAVE CANCER
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Last year's champion sprinter Lost in the Fog has a mass in his spleen that doctors suspect is cancerous. A biopsy performed Tuesday at the UC-Davis veterinary...
STEPH: ISIAH WILL THRIVE AMID HEAT
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amStephon Marbury said yesterday it was a blessing that Knick owner James Dolan put the heat on Isiah Thomas by giving the new coach a one-year ultimatum. After a Manhattan...
ANGRY BULLS ARE FIT TO BE TIED
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amRed Bulls 0 - DC United 0 The first thing apparent under Bruce Arena is that his new team has become the Seeing Red Bulls. Or at least, yellow. There...
SHEFFIELD HITS REHAB WATER MARK
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Gary Sheffield took one step closer to returning yesterday, when Dr. Charles Melone gave him the OK to start swinging a bat underwater. He did so at home...
MISSION: COMPLETE - DOTEL FINALLY MAKES DEBUT IN PINSTRIPES
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amOctavio Dotel was sitting in his Columbus hotel room Tuesday night, watching "Mission: Impossible III" when his cell phone rang. Turns out the voice on the other side of the...
STRAW PLANS TO JOIN '86 REUNION
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Darryl Strawberry will be at Shea Stadium on Saturday for the 20-year celebration of the 1986 Mets after all. Two weeks ago, The Post reported that Strawberry wouldn't...
LOST GAME & LOST GROUND - BOMBER LEAD AT 2 AFTER LOSS TO BIRDS
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amOrioles 3 - Yankees 2 On a historic moment in Yankee history, when the first shovel was driven into the dirt for the new Yankee Stadium, the Yankees had multiple...
EXTRAORDINARY JOE CAN WRITE HIS OWN PINSTRIPED SCRIPT
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE was a time, I guess, when it was impossible to conceive of anyone other than Joe McCarthy managing the Yankees, and then in the '50's the same perception may...
OCTAVIO GETS CALL FOR DEBUT
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amOctavio Dotel was sitting in his Columbus, Ohio, hotel room Tuesday night watching "Mission: Impossible III" when his cell phone rang. Turns out, the voice on the other side of...
IN THEIR RED-VIEW MIRROR - BOMBERS STILL KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON BOSOX
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amWin and get in. That's Derek Jeter's mantra when asked about anything regarding the AL East and the Red Sox. "At the point we are at now, we control what...
DOTEL GETS CALL TO JOIN BOMBERS
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amOctavio Dotel was sitting in his Columbus hotel room Tuesday night watching "Mission: Impossible III" when his cell phone rang. Turns out the voice on the other side of the...
STRAIN DRAIN - CALF PROBLEM SENDS PEDRO TO DL
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - In this next week, the Mets say Pedro Martinez will be able to play catch and ride a bike while wearing a boot. In the next two weeks,...
OFFENSE PULLS AMAZIN' VANISHING ACT, AGAIN
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amPhillies 3 - Mets 0 PHILADELPHIA - Before Monday, the Mets had been shut out twice this season. Heading into today's series finale, they've now been blanked twice more. The...
STRAIN DRAIN - METS PLACE PEDRO ON DL WITH CALF PROBLEM
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The Mets' ace has been shelved. Pedro Martinez received his test results yesterday, and the ailing righty has what the Mets said is a "minor strain" in his...
MOMENT OF TRUTH - MICKELSON MUST PROVE HE, NOT TIGER, IS THE 'PEOPLE'S CHAMP'
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amMEDINAH - Quite frankly, it's getting nauseating to keep hearing about how Phil Mickelson is the "people's champion" of golf because he smiles at galleries, signs autographs and chats it...
ANGRY BULLS FIT TO BE TIED
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amRed Bulls 0 - DC United 0 The first thing apparent under Bruce Arena is that his new team has become the Seeing Red Bulls. Or at least, yellow. There...
SHEFF'S REHAB HITS WATER MARK
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Gary Sheffield took one step closer to returning to the Yankees yesterday, when Dr. Charles Melone gave him the OK to start swinging a bat underwater. Sheffield did...
SPLASHING SUCCESS - SHEFF REHAB HITS WATER MARK
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Gary Sheffield took one step closer to returning yesterday, when Dr. Charles Melone gave him the OK to start swinging a bat underwater. He did so at home...
NEW RED BULL KOVALENKO'S ROUGH & READY
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amWith his last name and a hit-first, ask-questionslater style, Dema Kovalenko might be a hockey player. Instead, the MLS veteran has been brought in to give grit and toughness to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 17, 2006 | 4:00amHere's one for the 'ex' files. Leah and Frank Berlanga have been divorced for two years - but they're still fighting. Both are running for City Council in Daly City,...