July 3, 2009
SENATE AGAIN FAILS TO END STANDOFF
ALBANY -- Battling leaders of New York's Senate who met with Gov. David Paterson say there is no power-sharing agreement to end a standoff over control of the chamber. After...
Nash or Kidd?
Starting in Vegas summer league, you can follow me with updates on Twitter.By MARC BERMANHere is a great question. Would D'Antoni prefer Nash or Kidd to run the point guard...
SARAH PALIN TO RESIGN AS GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
WASILLA, Alaska -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but...
Ex-Cardinal Clark rips '86 Mets
By JUSTIN TERRANOVASomeone should tell Jack Clark to let it go.The Ex-Yankee and Cardinal ripped the 1986 Mets, who had an intensive rivalry with Clark's St. Louis team.In a radio...
POWERFUL SEDATIVE FOUND IN MICHAEL JACKSON'S HOME
The powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home, a law enforcement official said Friday as the city planned for a massive crowd at the singer's memorial service. Diprivan...
Game 79: Mets at Phillies
(UPDATED) PHILADELPHIA -- Now streaking in a positive direction, the Mets will try to keep pace in the NL East here tonight when they take on the rival Phillies behind...
Rangers sign Arnason, two others
The Ranges signed center Tyler Arnason today to a two-way contract.Arnason, 30, played for the Avalanche last season totaling five goals and 17 assists in 71 games. This will be...
Fan poll: Yankees plummet thanks to Stadium
By JUSTIN TERRANOVAThanks to their new stadium the Yankees have plummeted in an ESPN poll ranking all 122 major sports franchises.The Bronx Bombers were a middle-of-the-pace 65th last year, but...
Coverage in The Post
PHILADELPHIA -- Despite pitching meltdowns from Tim Redding and Frankie Rodriguez, the gritty Replace-Mets hung tough Thursday afternoon for a 9-8 win in 10 innings over the Pirates in a...
IRANIAN CLERIC: BRITISH EMBASSY STAFF TO BE TRIED
EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the...
3 UP: MET RESOLVE, GIRARDI DECISIONS, NFL ROIDS
Yes, I am on Twitter.1. The Mets came back from 0-5 down and the sock-in-the-gut tying homer in the ninth by Adam LaRoche to ultimately win 9-8 in 10 innings...
NY TEACHER PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN INTERNET SEX STING
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- A Pelham Middle School teacher has pleaded not guilty to a charge that he tried to lure a 15-year-old girl he met online into having sex...
Nobody Asked Me, But ...
The Phillies may be the worst team in baseball right now. Mets can be thankful no team has got it together in the NL East.CC Sabathia's lack of command last...
The Daily Whacks, Friday Edition
You can count me among the tweetin' Twitterers (or is that the Twitterin' tweeters?) now: http://twitter.com/MikeVacc*******I don't think Jerry Manuel has been perfect during the Mets' monthlong malaise. I don't...
Early morning Red Bull musings
Here are a host of early morning Red Bull musings, on everything from injuries to trialists to morale. And even a juicy tidbit on a possible DP coming to Toronto.Saturday...
U.S. opens Gold Cup defense on 4th of July
A week after grabbing the attention of the soccer world with it's stunning performance run to the Confederations Cup final, the U.S. National Team is already back Saturday against Grenada...
WOODS FINDS PUTTING STROKE
BETHESDA, Md. -- Two weeks after Tiger Woods blamed his poor putting for him failing to win the U.S. Open at Bethpage, Woods looked like a marksman with the flat...
DODGERS BRACE FOR MANNY'S RETURN
When the Dodgers play at San Diego tonight, Manny Ramirez will return to the lineup and the circus will start in their clubhouse. Ramirez will be in the lineup for...
AMAZIN'LY, THERE'S FIREWORKS IN PHILLY
PHILADELPHIA -- There is no way we could've expected what we're getting this weekend. This was the weekend the Phillies would bid farewell to the Mets, September coming a little...
A REDD-ICULOUSLY BAD START
PITTSBURGH -- Tim Redding had a simple description for how he pitched yesterday. "Terrible from the first pitch really," the right-hander said.METS BLOGHUBBUCH ON TWITTERBOX SCORE Redding gave up a...
RBI SINGLE IN 10TH CAPS WILD MET WIN
PITTSBURGH -- Three nights ago, Jerry Manuel preached to his team it had enough talent to win games despite all its mounting injuries. Yesterday, the Mets showed he might just...
PRENUP ALREADY! BRIT COURT 'ALTARS' MARITAL-PACT CUSTOM
LONDON -- An appeals-court judge yesterday strengthened the status of prenuptial contracts in British law by ruling that a German heiress' premarital agreement with her former husband should influence how...
'DECLARATION' REVEALED IN UK
LONDON -- British researchers have announced the discovery of a rare original copy of America's Declaration of Independence, just in time for the Fourth of July. Katrina McClintock, a spokeswoman...
JAVITS FIX FINALLY OK'D
The long-awaited renovation and expansion of the Javits Center has been approved by the Port Authority's Control Board. Gov. Paterson said yesterday construction will begin immediately. The $463 million project...
'NEW' FACE OF MICHELANGELO
VATICAN CITY -- The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize -- a previously unknown self-portrait of the artist. Chief Vatican restorer...
THIEVES FACE SMARTER 'SMART PHONES'
Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other "smart phones," but victims now can fight back with technology. One device allows a user to remotely activate a siren to rattle...
EWE GOT SMALLER
Just like a woolen sweater in a clothes dryer, sheep are shrinking, apparently due to global warming. Wild flocks on the Scottish island of Hirta are 5 percent smaller than...
GI ABDUCTED BY TALIBAN FIENDS
A GI who inexplicably "just walked off" his Afghan combat base has been captured by the Taliban, US officials said yesterday. US and Afghan forces launched an intense search for...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan * A would-be thief tried to swipe a cellphone from a man as they waited under an awning for the rain to subside in Chelsea, authorities said yesterday. Eric...
'YOU DON'T DO THIS TO A KID!'
It was a "horrific" plot. A Long Island woman allegedly tried to get revenge on a 9-year-old girl who ar gued with her daughter by giving a throng of sex-...
US LAUNCHES AFGHAN ASSAULT
US Marines, 4,000 strong, stormed into the Taliban's lair in southern Afghanistan yesterday in the first major test of President Obama's strategy to take back the war-torn country. One Marine...
BUS-STOP MOB HIT
A hotheaded mob soldier under investigation by the feds was whacked execution-style yesterday as he stood at a bus stop in a deserted section of Staten Island. The shooter pumped...
N. KOREA MISSILE FIRE
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles yesterday, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, a move that aggravates already high tensions after Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and UN...
O: I'M THE FIRST FAN
WASHINGTON -- The King of Pop had a fan in the White House. President Obama described himself as an aficionado of Michael Jackson, who died June 25 at age 50....
LAST CUP OF 'JOE'
West Village diners are crying in their egg creams over news that their favorite neighborhood restaurant is about to become toast. The lease on Joe Jr.'s Diner on Sixth Avenue...
FERRY 'SLIP'UP POWER PROBE
Investigators are probing the failure of all four transformers that caused a Staten Island Ferry boat to lose power and ram the St. George terminal, officials said yesterday. Veteran Capt....
UES ATTACK TOLL GROWS
A gang of young thugs is being sought for as many as six bashings on the Upper East Side, including three assaults on gay men, The Post has learned. Police...
KELLY BUSTS PATROL CHIEF FOR DESK-PICABLE NYPD ORDER
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly abruptly canceled a new regimen of Friday street patrols for desk-duty officers, and then reprimanded the chief who ordered the reassignments behind his back, The Post...
MAX IN SI HUBBY SLAY
The Staten Island mom convicted of murdering her fire-marshal husband in his sleep was all smirks yesterday as a judge threw the book at her for the cold-blooded killing. "Even...
INDIAN OCEAN CRASH GIRL IN TEARFUL REUNION WITH DAD
PARIS -- The miracle girl believed to be the only survivor of an Indian Ocean plane crash flew back yesterday to Paris, where she was tearfully embraced by her father....
FRANK-LY SPEAKING
The weigh-in for 20 contestants in tomorrow's annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island was held yesterday -- and Joey Chestnut, last year's champ, clearly relished the chance...
BANKRUPTCY PLAY
RICHMOND, Va. -- Suspended NFL star Michael Vick has submitted a revised bankruptcy plan that funnels more of his future earnings to creditors, though a judge did not immediately rule...
FORGIVE BUT NOT FORGET!
Days after the weepy, philandering South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wailed about his lost "soul mate," the state's fuming first lady yesterday blasted her hubby's behavior as "inexcusable" but said...
JONAS' JERSEY GIRL
She's the luckiest girl in the 'tween pop kingdom. But before she shot to fame as pop star Kevin Jonas' brand-new fiancée, 22-year-old Danielle Deleasa was just a quiet, churchgoing...
OPEN AND SHUT
July Fourth is tomorrow, but the holiday is observed today: * City and most federal offices are closed today; state offices are open. * There's mail delivery today; none tomorrow,...
RENT-$CAM FAKE-ID RAP
A Bronx man helped families scam their way into subsidized housing they didn't qualify for, prosecutors said yesterday. Amadou "Bebe" Hamoudi, 39, was indicted on charges of offering a false...
FAA GROUNDS $9 FLIGHTS
The $9 flights that startup airline JetAmerica was scheduled to begin this month from Newark aren't getting off the ground, company officials said. At least not yet. A change in...
ROOKIE COP SCORES AN INSTANT BUST
A rookie cop teamed with two good Samaritans to bust a mugger attacking an elderly man yesterday -- just moments after the newly minted hero graduated from the Police Academy,...
COMPTROLLER PUTS FREEZE ON CLOWN POLS' PAYCHECKS
ALBANY -- State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced yesterday he was cutting off the paychecks of feuding state senators who haven't passed any significant legislation in nearly a month. EDITORIAL: DISSING...
EX OUT TO HIJACKO THE KIDS
Debbie Rowe -- the human incubator who bore Michael Jackson's first two kids and then signed over all parental rights -- vowed yesterday to fight his mother for custody now...
NO CHANCE IN FLT. 447 BELLY CRASH
LE BOURGET, France -- Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no...
KLEIN: I'M STILL THE BOSS HERE
Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday delivered a message to the city school system: I'm running the show! A chipper Klein said he has the same authority as before -- a day...
PASSION ENDS IN BASHIN'
Now that's rough sex. A Connecticut man getting hot and heavy with his squeeze was beaten by a group of bat-wielding teens after they mistook his girlfriend's sighs of ecstasy...
FEDS TOSS RUTH OUT ON HER CASH
Ruth Madoff was booted from her Upper East Side penthouse yesterday -- walking out with nothing but her purse and "the clothes on her back" after pleading in vain to...
LEYRITZ IS BUSTED IN EX ASSAULT
Former Yankee Jim Leyritz was held without bail yesterday after being arrested for assaulting his ex-wife in their Davie, Fla., home, cops said. A judge said the arrest, on a...
BUBBA DEFYING BAM TO AID MALONEY BID
WASHINGTON -- In a slap at President Obama, former President Bill Clinton will headline a fund-raiser for Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who is challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the Democratic primary...
ACCIDENTAL SEX EDUCATION
A fifth-grade teacher in California sent her kids home for the summer with a DVD full of class "memories" -- but a six-second sequence of sex on a sofa was...
ASTOR SON'S 'PAY RAISE'
Prosecutors in the Brooke Astor swindle trial say the beloved philanthropist's son decided in 2005 that his mother wasn't paying him enough to loot her finances -- and so nearly...
BETSY NOTBAUM
The hits keep coming for Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum. After a 40 percent budget cut last month, followed by little support from Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn,...
MEASLES IN BROOKLYN
The city's Health Department has identified 11 cases of measles in Brooklyn over the last two months, leading to an alert yesterday urging doctors to report all suspected cases of...
FEDS EYE BOOK SCANS BY GOOGLE
Google's $125 million proposed agreement to settle copyright issues with book publishers is being investigated by US antitrust regulators. The issues raised by the settlement "warrant further inquiry," US Deputy...
MIKE RIPS SENATE'S TOP DEM
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday blasted Senate Democratic leader John Sampson for allowing mayoral control of schools to expire at the same time he's representing a woman in a suit against Chancellor...
G, SOME GOOD SUBWAY NEWS
Riders of the grimy G train finally have something to cheer about. Four years of subway construction -- normally a straphanger's worst nightmare -- will actually improve service on the...
NEW CITIZENS MOVE MIKE
Mayor Bloomberg choked up yesterday as he spoke to more than 150 people who came here from 48 different countries and had just become citizens. Bloomberg, who delivered the keynote...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Staten Island graffiti vandal had more chutzpah than brains. Robert Canecchio, 19, allegedly scrawled his tag, "KEYONE," on a car assigned to the commander of the St. George station...
WOW! TEX MAKES AN ERROR
It must be all the rain: Mark Teixeira's gold glove and right arm seemed a tad waterlogged last night. BOX SCORE Teixeira's 106-game errorless streak ended with a throwing miscue...
HOLIDAY WEEKEND PERFECT FOR FISHING
THE second half of the fluke season starts today, which should add to your angling enjoyments for the Fourth of July weekend. Striped bass fishing continues to offer excellent chances...
EYE ARGUELLO SUICIDE
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Investigators have released new evidence that points to suicide in the death of former boxing champion Alexis Arguello. The Managua mayor and rising star of the governing...
HONDO HAS TWO SOX
Guthrie showed last night why he no longer has a stall in Hondo's stable, losing to the Angels to lower the earnings to 80 pacioreks. Tonight, it's the Sox and...
'ANDYMONIUM' TAKES OVER MEN'S SEMIFINALS
WIMBLEDON, England -- The current edition of Wimbledon is the 23rd Grand Slam tournament since Andy Roddick won his lone major championship at the 2003 U.S. Open. He badly wants...
WILLIAMSES TO MEET IN FINALS . . . AGAIN
WIMBLEDON, England -- The purple "W" logo at Wimbledon might as well stand for the siblings who have made the women's championship their own playground. Yes, the Williams sisters are...
SPORTS SHORTS
CYCLING: Lance set to goLance Armstrong is awaiting his first Tour de France since 2005, and a poll showed 72 percent of French respondents said they were "not bothered" by...
JETS' PACE SUSPENDED FOUR GAMES
Jets linebacker Calvin Pace has been suspended without pay for the team's first four regular season games for violating the NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances. Report: Broncos taking offers for...
SELIG SEES BIG BUCKS, FANS MISS HISTORY
ON a Sunday in June, New York couldn't have asked for a more New York baseball moment: Mariano Rivera's 500th save pitched for New York, in New York, against the...
RU, UCLA WILL TANGLE IN 2016
The BCS national title game will be held at The Rose Bowl this season, and like all teams, an appearance there would be the ultimate for Rutgers. But, if that...
RANGERS, SATHER CAN AFFORD TO BE PATIENT
Now the trick for Glen Sather is to find another high-end talent to complement Marian Gaborik, but that's easier said than it's going to be for the general manager to...
LAKERS, ARTEST AGREE
HOUSTON -- Ron Artest is joining the Lakers. "I am very excited to finally be going to L.A.," Artest said in a statement issued by his agent last night. "For...
DEVILS DON'T MAKE ANY MAJOR MOVES
Some of the best fits for the Devils are still out there, such as center Saku Koivu and defenseman Derek Morris. But with general manager Lou Lamoriello talking about bringing...
SOURCE: KNICKS NUTS FOR ALMOND
Grant Hill isn't the only Lon Babby client the Knicks hope will be on their club come October. In fact, the Knicks may have found their "Almond in the Rough."...
ISLANDERS SIGN 3 FREE AGENTS
The Islanders added some organizational depth yesterday, signing three free agents who are likely to spend time with their AHL affiliate in Bridgeport next season. For the second straight day,...
CC, BOMBERS EARN AN 'F' VERSUS M'S
APPARENTLY deciding that no game should be played without a rain delay, the Yankees staged one last night without the presence of a single drop of precipitation. BOX SCORE At...
ANTHONY LEADS TIGER'S TOURNEY
BETHESDA, Md. -- Before the AT&T National, hosted by Tiger Woods, began with yesterday's opening round at Congressional Country Club, Woods was asked who among the "young guns" he thought...
YANKEES STREAK STOPS AT 7 AS ACE GOES BUST
Like everything else about CC Sabathia, his shoulders are large enough to absorb big doses of blame. BOX SCORE So when Sabathia saw his teammates score four runs against the...
MAHORN CAN'T SHOCK LIBERTY
Bill Laimbeer won three WNBA titles in six years with the Detroit Shock and would like his next job to be in the NBA. Now his old Pistons teammate hopes...
ATLANTA SWEEPS PHILLIES
BASEBALL ROUNDUP Matt Diaz drove in the go-ahead run with a double in the eighth, and the Braves completed their first home sweep of the Phillies in four years. Diaz...
POSADA'S THUMB IS FEELIN' FOUL
Manager Joe Girardi held Jorge Posada out of the starting lineup last night because of a sore left thumb after the catcher took a foul tip Wednesday night. And the...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
KIWI KIDS 'Tis the season for free outdoor music, and New Zealand's indie-dance-pop-techno act Bachelorette is headlining a show also featuring Here We Go Magic tonight at South Street Seaport's...
METS, PHILS BOTH STRUGGLING TO STRING WINS TOGETHER
With their many injuries, the Mets likely don't have the talent to stick with the first-place Phillies, who they play this weekend, but they don't need their manager enforcing that...
THIS BAND IS UPPER MGMT
BROOKLYN band MGMT isn't the Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane, and Brooklyn isn't Haight-Ashbury circa 1967. But if you didn't get an inkling of that vibe at their gig at...
5 QUESTIONS FOR... JEFF VAN GUNDY
FORMER Knicks coach and ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy told The Post's Justin Terranova that his biggest concern is that Knicks fans are beaten down after too many years of...
FUNDEPENDENCE DAY
IT'S time to get your red, white and blue on! While many New Yorkers prefer to flee the city for the long holiday weekend, this year marks the 400th anniversary...
BROADWAY
"BLITHE SPIRIT": **½ Angela Lansbury and Jayne Atkinson prevent director Michael Blakemore from completely smothering Noel Coward's comedy. Shubert Theatre, 225 W. 44th St.; 212-239-6200. Closes July 19. "GOD OF...
OFF-BROADWAY
"ARCHBISHOP SUPREME TARTUFFE": *** Andre De Shields delivers a wildly charismatic performance as the title character in the Classical Theater of Harlem's entertaining musical updating of Moliere. Clurman Theatre, 410...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
JUANA MOLINA: The Argentine singer/songwriter brings her electronic dance sound to Central Park's SummerStage Wednesday at 7 p.m. Rumsey Playfield; west of Fifth Avenue at 69th Street; 212-350-2756. MATISYAHU: The...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Dominick Farinacci shows off some of the trumpeting skills that made him famous when he was only 15 years old. Monday at 7 p.m. 315 W. 44th St.; 212-581-3080....
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Bramwell Tovey leads the New York Philharmonic in "Born on the Fourth of July," featuring Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and Sousa's "Washington Post March." Tonight at 8...
DANCE
ALICE TULLY HALL: Shen Wei, the choreographer of the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony, leads his company, Shen Wei Dance Arts, in the New York premier of his three-part work Thursday...
FILM
BRYANT PARK: Al Pacino stars in Sidney Lumet's "Dog Day Afternoon," the 1975 drama about a Brooklyn bank robbery gone wrong, which screens Monday at sunset. 42nd Street and Fifth...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
ST. PATRICK'S OLD CATHEDRAL SIDEWALK SALE: A street fair on Prince Street between Mott and Mulberry streets today from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. USO -- AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS...
PREVIEWS
"THE EUROPEANS": The struggle between Islam and Christianity is played out in Howard Barker's play, performed by Potomac Theatre Project. Atlantic Stage 2, 330 W. 16th St.; 212-279-4200. In previews....
KABUKI HEALTH-CARE THEATER
THE White House sure likes to put on a show. The Obama administration broadcast a health-care propaganda play this week under the guise of a citizen "town hall." It was...
OVERSTOCK, 2 STATES IN DEAL
Overstock.com Inc. reversed its decision to drop its California and Hawaii-based marketing affiliates after receiving assurance from the states that their online-tax bills won't become law. Lawmakers in several states...
BING WILL TWITTER IN ITS RESULTS
Microsoft Corp., seeking an edge over Google and Yahoo!, will include updates from Twitter in its new Bing search engine. Bing will initially display Twitter feed entries, or Tweets, from...
ALL-ACCE$$ PRESS
WASHINGTON, DC -- Perhaps it should have been called "Pimp my newspaper." For a steep price, the Washington Post planned to invite lobbyists to the home of the paper's CEO...
STOCKS DIVE AS JOBLESS FEARS SPIKE
A surprise surge in springtime layoffs rattled Wall Street yesterday as it wrecked promises of an early recovery this autumn. Employers fired about one-third more of their workers than economists...
BUYOUT BIGS FACE CURBS
Private-equity investors seeking to buy the growing number of failed banks would be limited from lending to their investors and investment funds, and would have to make sure the new...
ANOTHER COP FOR THE SEC
The Securities and Exchange Commission named Debevoise & Plimpton lawyer Lorin Reisner to be deputy enforcement director, this year's third appointment of a former federal prosecutor to help lead the...
TWEET TRADEMARKED
Twitter Inc. applied to trademark "Tweet," the term for entries on the social-networking site, in a bid to cope with a stampede of outside developers seeking to gain from the...
O'S GOT A CASEY JONES
THE short, unhappy reign of Susan Reed as editor-in-chief of O, The Oprah Magazine, ended last week when she was replaced by the very sporty and outdoors-oriented Susan Casey. Casey...
CLEARLY FAILING
Radio and billboard giant Clear Channel Communications is running out of options after its outdoor unit failed to attract interest in a $3 billion debt offering, setting the stage for...
TALF LENDING SLOWS FOR WEEK
Banks borrowed less from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending facility over the past week and cut back on other programs designed to ease the financial crisis, encouraging signs that some...
ROSS MULLS DELPHI BID
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross and hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. are considering bids for bankrupt auto-parts maker Delphi Corp.'s assets, two people familiar with the matter said. Ross's WL Ross...
THEY SENT IN THE CLOWN
From Henry Clay and Daniel Webster to Hubert Humphrey and Daniel Pat rick Moynihan to . . . Sen. Stuart Smalley? Well, let's just say that the era of larger-than-life...
RUN, CAROLYN, RUN
Rep. Carolyn Maloney of Manhattan says she's planning a primary chal lenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the ideological chameleon from Albany. Good for Maloney. Yep, she's a dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrat....
DISSING DEMOCRACY
The separation of powers -- trias politica -- is a principle older than American democracy itself. It's been getting precious little respect in New York these days. Just yesterday, state...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
PPIP $$ The Obama administra tion may start its program to spur purchases of mortgage-backed securi ties from banks with about $20 billion in public and private money, down from...
STANFORD'S 'LOST' ANTIGUAN PASSPORT SUDDENLY FOUND
R. Allen Stanford's expired Antiguan passport was found among possessions seized by a court-appointed receiver for the financier's companies, three days after prosecutors told a US judge they didn't know...
THE QUOTA RACKET
THE Supreme Court's deci sion in Ricci v. DeStefano, the case of the New Haven firefighters, was a ringing endorsement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964's ban on racial...
A MAVERICK TRAVELS HEDGE HIGH ROAD
Lee Ainslie of hedge fund Maverick Capital is joining the ranks of hedgies looking to soothe investors shaken by the recent spate of frauds by hiring an independent auditor to...
GRIPPED BY GREED: MADOFF PAYS THE PRICE
THE ISSUE: The 150-year prison sentence given to Bernie Madoff for his criminal financial scheme. *** I am deeply gratified that grand swindler Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to a...
A TRIPLE-A OSWALD
UBS's newly installed CEO Oswald Grubel may be facing a rocky road as he tries to fix the hobbled Swiss banking giant, but internally the new boss is getting high...
KAMBAKKHT ISHQ
ADVERTISED as the first Bollywood movie shot at a Hollywood studio with an appearance by a major US star, Sabbir Khan's proudly silly "Kambakkht Ishq" ("Incredible Love" in English) otherwise...
SATURDAY FRIGHT FEVER
AFTER winning raves at last year's New York Film Festi val, Pablo Larrain's "Tony Manero," from Chile, is receiving a run here. Set in 1978 Santiago, during the brutal Pinochet...
IN THE MED BUT MAKES NO WAVES
THE comedy "The Girl From Monaco" revolves around Bertrand -- a dignified Parisian lawyer summoned to the fairy-tale land of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier to defend a rich, older...
BIG, FAT FLOP PROVES HONEYMOON'S OVER
STICK a fork in Nia Var dalos. I've been to fu nerals that were a lot more fun than "I Hate Valentine's Day," her second alleged romantic comedy in less...
JAILHOUSE MAMA: FROM FEAR TO MATERNITY
THE Argentine "Lion's Den" is a wom en-behind-bars drama with a potent twist: It takes place in a ward housing mothers (with their young children!) and moms to be. One...
A MUSICAL 4TH
WHAT could Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers possibly have in common with Prince and his former protégé Apollonia? They're both on the bill for a holiday-weekend near-marathon of musicals spanning...
PLANNING FOR FRANKEN ON 'SNL'
WHO gets to play Al Franken on "Satur day Night Live"? Now that "SNL" has its first alum in the US Senate, the question arises: Can Franken come back and...
NEIL PATRICK HOSTS EMMYS
AFTER nailing his Tony Awards hosting gig last month, Neil Patrick Harris is looking towards the "61st Emmy Awards." The "How I Met Your Mother" star is reportedly set to...
HERE'S RUBY: ROUND TWO
'RUBY," the reality show about 500-pound Savannah, Ga. girl Ruby Gettinger, who last season made a reality show commitment to lose weight on TV, returns Sunday night smaller and better...
NOLLYWOOD BABYLON
HOORAY for Nollywood! That's the thriving film industry in Nigeria, which churns out 2,500 movies a year, most of them made for less than $10,000 each. That makes Nigeria's movie...
Red Bulls head to Dallas, see Dave van den Bergh again for first time since trade
Some within the Red Bulls feel their season went sour in April when they gave up a pair of 90th minute goals to turn a win into a loss vs....
Reports: United to sign...Michael Owen?
How does Manchester United go about replacing Cristiano Ronaldo's goalscoring when Real Madrid outbids them for every single world superstar? Check the scrap heap for a broken-down, injury-riddled star Real...
FELDER ADVOCATES ELIMINATING THE PUBLIC ADVOCATE POST
The money spent on the office of the public advocate could be better spent elsewhere -- "for schools, senior centers, child care," for instance. That's the rationale provided by the...