May 10, 2003
KOZ GANG BLEW THRU $24M LIVIN' HIGH LIFE
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amThe spending habits of two indicted former Tyco bigwigs have been greatly under-exaggerated - since their assets were frozen this past September, ex-CEO Dennis Kozlowski and ex-CFO Mark Swartz have...
AOL TW UNDER FIRE: CALPERS TO OPPOSE DIRECTORS AT ANNUAL MEETING
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amManagers at one of the country's largest pension funds said yesterday they would withhold votes for five AOL Time Warner directors at the company's annual shareholder meeting on May 16....
MARTS SURGE ON TECH EARNINGS
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amBullish news from the tech sector sent Wall Street on a buying spree, sparking a rally that ended a two-day decline. Markets surged following a string of solid reports for...
BILL CURTIS EYEING BID FOR WORTH
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amMalibu media entreprenuer William "Wild Bill" Curtis is closing in on a deal that will give his CurtCo Robb Media control of Worth magazine. Curtis publishes The Robb Report, an...
REGULATORS MAY GO FOR CEOS NEXT
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amRegulators investigating Wall Street's biggest investment banks may next target their CEOs, including Citigroup chief Sandy Weill. "Everyone is fair game," said one source close to the investigations, which after...
BEAK QUIET OR IT'S SAYONARA, DUCKIE
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amTHE perpetually frustrated AFLAC duck is heading to Japan - but in a kinder, quieter version. The popular white duck (pictured right), whose squawking "AFLAC!" tagline is voiced here by...
TICKLE ME: I'M ELMO ; FACE BEHIND THE RED MENACE
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amKEVIN Clash is behind one the half-dozen most recognizable names on TV - and, chances are, you've never heard of him. He's bigger than just about just about anyone on...
MOST DANGEROUS GAMES: SPRING INTO SHAPE WITH THE CITY'S WILDEST WORKOUTS
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amADMIT it - you nested all winter long and ate everything in sight. And now, the countdown to a beach-suitable body has begun. You could grab the jogging shoes or...
MARKT FOR GLORY
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amThe Bar Belles aren't picky it comes to what we drink from. Lo-ball glasses, champagne flutes, empty Mason jars, an old pair of pink Converse All-Star sneakers - hell, we'd...
BACK ON TRACK: BELMONT'S A GOOD BET - EVEN FOR BEGINNERS
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amYou don't have to be some Runyonesque, cigar-chomping gambling fanatic to enjoy a day at beautiful Belmont Park, which opened its doors Wednesday for another exciting 55-day meet of Thoroughbred...
WHAT A STAND-UP GUY
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amCall him musically promiscuous - because Edgar Meyer certainly plays around. Indeed, the double-bass player with the fearsome chops has played with just about everyone - the Indigo Girls and...
LAST IMPRESSIONS
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amIf you've been leaving MoMA's Matisse Picasso exhibition until the last minute, that moment has arrived. The show closes on Monday, May 19, and while advance tickets are sold out,...
ON THEIR TOES
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amTalk about being in sync: Next Saturday, both of New York's top classical dance troupes are putting their best feet forward - with programs that are perfect for kids. Catch...
UNEASY READER:HENRY 'FONZIE' WINKLER WRITES OLD WRONGS - WITH A KIDS' BOOK
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amAs Fonzie, Henry Winkler was the definition of cool. Black leather jacket. Motorcycle. Girls. But when he was growing up on the Upper West Side, Winkler's youth wasn't exactly filled...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amDinner Party Cheat Sheet has vowed never to gamble again after putting money down on William Bennett to win the Kentucky Derby. GOOD WILL Moral maven William Bennett said he's...
JESSE WINS HEARTS OF AMAZIN' FAITHFUL
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amPadres 5Mets 4 The loyalties of Met fans were torn last night, and rightfully so. With two outs and runners on the corners in the bottom of the ninth, 46-year-old...
PERV TEACH BLASTS BOY VICTIM IN COURT
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amMinutes before he was sentenced as a convicted boy-sodomizer, a former Harlem junior high school teacher dramatically called his young student victim a liar in court yesterday. But the boy...
I'LL WIN IN A LANDSLIDE, BLOOMY BOASTS
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg predicted yesterday that he'd be re-elected by "a very wide margin" - no matter what the polls show today - because things in the city will improve. "In...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amAirport officials in San Diego evacuated a terminal and delayed several flights when a man disappeared after running off a Chicago-bound flight, 10 minutes before its scheduled takeoff, telling a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amManhattan A 27 year-old man was gunned down on a busy Chinatown street last night, police said. The unidentified victim was shot twice in the chest in front of 30...
HOUSE TAX PLAN OKS $400 PER KID
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In another big step toward passage of a new tax cut that will bring parents a $400-per-child check in July, Republicans steamrolled a $550 billion plan through the...
PATAKI SHARPENS VETO PENCIL
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday ripped the state Legislature's new tax-and-spend budget as "the most irresponsible spending plan that I have ever seen." Pataki, continuing his confrontation with spend-happy lawmakers...
'HOSTAGE-HOLDING' MOVERS GUILTY
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amOutraged jurors called three crooked movers "scum," "scam artists" and "thieves" after convicting them yesterday of ripping off customers by jacking up fees while holding their belongings hostage. "It wasn't...
GRAFFITI JERKS HIT WTC SITE
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amGraffiti vandals at Ground Zero have defaced the viewing wall's eye-level information panels and the Port Authority plans to replace them - with ones too high to reach. "We're very...
SLAIN COPS' KIN BACK WEAPONS BAN
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amThe grieving families of two slain Staten Island detectives joined the call for a ban on assault weapons yesterday, backing Sen. Chuck Schumer's drive for new legislation to outlaw the...
BUSH FORMALLY ASKS UN
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's team yesterday formally asked the United Nations to name the United States and Britain as Iraq's "occupying powers" and end the oil-for-food program that was a...
SIZEMORE MATTERS IN H'WOOD BUST
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Hollywood bad boy Tom Sizemore turned himself in to cops for allegedly threatening ex-gal pal - and one-time Hollywood madam - Heidi Fleiss to keep her quiet...
GRANNY'S IRON KID THWARTS THUG DUO
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amWhen a pair of jewel thieves forced their way into a Mott Haven home early yesterday morning, they ran into an unexpected obstacle - 5-year-old Iron Corean. The youngster not...
'DEADBEAT' PRETZEL TWIST; BUMBLING CITY LETS VENDORS DODGE $1M TAX BILL
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amThe cash-desperate city has allowed some of its own concessionaires to duck nearly $1 million in taxes - partly due to a stunning lack of communication between agencies, according to...
STAR HS ATHLETE IN TRAIN SUICIDE
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amA promising high school baseball star involved in a spat with his girlfriend jumped in front of a train in Westchester yesterday and died. Brian Morris, 18, a star center...
TV'S BRADLEY SHOWS HEART
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amHeart problems won't be keeping "60 Minutes" newsman Ed Bradley from in front of the cameras for long. The 61-year-old CBS correspondent has been recuperating for the past week and...
SVETLANA HUBBY EYED IN $$ PROBE
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amThe drowning death of Svetlana Aronov may not be the end of bad news for her doctor husband. Alexander Aronov's name came up in the course of a federal investigation...
CAUGHT! 17 ILLEGAL SMOKERS GET TICKETS - IN THEIR CELLS
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amThe city has nabbed the first violators of the new smoking ban - but they're already behind bars. City officials revealed yesterday that 17 jailbirds in city correctional facilities were...
MIKE FIGHTS 9/11 KIN ON JOB BOOST
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg is seeking to block a bill that would make it easier for siblings of firefighters and cops who died in the Sept. 11 attacks to follow...
BUSH'S OFFER TO ARABS; PEACE AND FREEDOM AT HOME TO BRING $$
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - On the eve of a new Mideast peace push, President Bush yesterday pressed Arab nations to offer more rights to women and dangled an economic reward for peace...
YANK NABBED IN W. BANK SWEEP
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli troops raided the West Bank headquarters of pro-Palestinian foreign activists yesterday and seized three people, including an American. The arrests in Beit Sahour were part of a...
MOORE THE MERRIER AFTER PACEMAKER OP
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amAgent 007 has been given a license to live - a pacemaker. Roger Moore, the star of seven James Bond movies, was discharged from Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan...
120TH B'DAY BASH FOR B'KLYN BRIDGE
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn Bridge is celebrating its 120th birthday this month. Mayor Bloomberg and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will join thousands of people on May 24 walking across the historic...
WEEKEND BREAK FOR YANKEL JURY
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amA weary-looking jury went home for the weekend without returning a verdict after more than two days of deliberations in the case of self-confessed Crown Heights stabber Lemrick Nelson Jr....
PROBE EYES 21 B'KLYN JUDGES
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amProsecutors are demanding campaign finance records of at least 21 judges in an apparent probe into judicial corruption that's sparked a huge buzz in Brooklyn legal and political circles. Brooklyn...
'RAPIST' IN RAT TRAP ; 'ELEVATOR FIEND' BUYS COPS' RUSE
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amCops tricked an ex-con into believing he had to show up at his mother's home to end his parole - then arrested him as the suspected "elevator rapist" sought for...
OUT OF INDIA: INELIGIBLE NOMINEE SLIPS BY
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amRED-FACED city offi cials are rereading the rule books after nominating a native of India to head the Board of Standards and Appeals. It turns out that only U.S. citizens...
MIKE LAYS LAYOFF BLAME ON TEACHERS UNION BIG
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg and schools boss Joel Klein yesterday blamed teachers union boss Randi Weingarten for the planned layoffs of 864 classroom aides - including two heroes who rescued wheelchair-bound students...
HORROR AT 33,000 FT. ; 129 SUCKED FROM PLANE AS REAR DOOR SNAPS OFF
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amMore than 120 passengers were sucked out of a cargo plane when the rear door of the aircraft flew open at 33,000 feet over the Congo, officials said yesterday. Others...
GRASS-STAINED RIKERS BIG RETIRES
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amA high-ranking Correction Department chief accused of stealing landscaping equipment from Rikers Island and using on-duty officers to do yard work at his upstate home resigned yesterday. Anthony Serra, 42,...
JUDGE RETIRES CITY'S 'MAKE WORK' LAW
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amA judge ruled yesterday that a three-year-old law forcing the city to create 7,500 jobs for welfare recipients is invalid. Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Faviola Soto tossed out the law...
HS PLAYING BALL WITH KIN OF XXX TEENS
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amParents of the suspended Massapequa HS baseball team accused of lapping it up at a Florida strip joint during spring break threatened to play hardball and drag the rhubarb into...
SICK 'ROSE' LOSING BLOOM IN 'GYPSY'
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amShe's back - but for how long? Flame-haired songstress Bernadette Peters returned to the Broadway stage last night in "Gypsy" - her first appearance after spending six days battling a...
MTA BROKER PASSES BUCK IN FIASCO
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amThe real-estate lawyer who brokered the MTA's now-scandal-ridden renovations at its 2 Broadway headquarters defended the deal yesterday as a "great business decision" and blamed the boondoggle on the building's...
LENNOX' LAWYER WINS FIRST ROUND
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amLennox Lewis is trying to make sure Don King doesn't consummate a "shotgun" remarriage to Mike Tyson. A lawyer for Lewis was in court yesterday for the British brawler's $385...
STRIP-CLUB KIN SLAM HS KID BOOT
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amAngry parents - several of them accompanied by lawyers - confronted Massapequa HS officials yesterday about yanking their sons from the school baseball team and suspending them from classes because...
SAME OLD STORY AT SHEA ; PIAZZA BEHIND PLATE, BUT FIRST LOOMS
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amPadres 5 Mets 4 Memo to Mets management: when Mike Piazza pleaded on Thursday, "We have to get on the same page," he wasn't referring to the back page. After...
A BEANTOWN BLOWOUT: NETS DOMINATE, MOVE WITHIN ONE OF SWEEP
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 3 Nets 94 Celtics 76 BOSTON - Sticks and stones may break their bones but names - and Antoine Walker - will never hurt the Nets. The Nets came...
JASON'S LATEST MALADY: EYE INFECTION
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Jason Giambi has almost as many ailing body parts as he does hits. Bothered by patella tendinitis in the left knee from the beginning of the year and...
HUDSON ACES BOMBERS
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amA's 7Yanks 2 OAKLAND - With Tim Hudson facing Jeff Weaver last night runs figured to be at a premium as they were the last time they met. Hudson, one...
RED FIRES BACK
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Celtics patriarch Red Auerbach blasted Nets coach Byron Scott yesterday for making remarks that branded Boston fans as racially insensitive. Earlier this week, Scott said on WFAN that...
MORE PAIN FOR JASON: ADD EYE INFECTION TO LIST OF GIAMBI'S MALADIES
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Jason Giambi has almost as many ailing body parts as he does hits. Bothered by patella tendinitis in the left knee from the beginning of the year and...
NO KIDD-ING, JASON'S THE DIFFERENCE
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - So, dating back to last year's Eastern Conference Finals, the Nets have beaten the Celtics nine of 10 times. The biggest reason? Jason Kidd. "The main...
FLEETCENTER SET TO FAN THE FLAMES
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Nets all have experienced the full fury of fan wrath before. Hell, Rod Thorn used to feel it every day when he'd take the Metro North train...
SENATORS ARE LIKE DEVILS, ONLY BIGGER
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amOTTAWA - They have pretty much done it all over the last decade in establishing themselves as the East's pre-eminent team, winning two Cups, coming within a victory of a...
NOW, FOR THE TOUGH PART ; NHL-BEST SENATORS HUGE HURDLE FOR DEVS
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amOTTAWA - This, then, is the biggest test these Devils will face. They are playing to become the Stanley Cup favorite. They have already done more and gone further than...
'SECRET' HEADS FIELD IN NASSAU CO. 'CAP
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amA pair of graded stakes worth a combined 300G in purses drew just 12 total entries today at Belmont Park. A light field of five 3-year-old fillies will go seven...
POWER ON A WINNING SURGE
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amWhen you're the Power, winning two games in a row is stunning. Three games? Now that's just crazy talk. Well, start the blathering. If the Power can scratch out a...
MUTOMBO SAYS HE'S READY, IF NEEDED
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - At least fatigue won't be a problem for Dikembe Mutombo. Rust, however, is another matter. The Nets' 7-2 center sat out five straight playoff games waiting...
PREAKNESS GETS LOCAL FLAVOR
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amIt wouldn't be the Preakness without a local horse running, and next Saturday's middle jewel of the Triple Crown at Pimlico got one yesterday when the owners of Cherokee's Boy,...
PETKE'S HAPPY TO BE 'HOME'
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amMike Petke's blond hair, Long Island roots and physical defense made him a favorite among MetroStar fans right up until the club traded him to rival D.C. Tonight, he'll have...
NETS' YOUNG REST LESS ; JEFFERSON, COLLINS PLAY VITAL MINUTES
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - The resumes and statistics say Richard Jefferson and Jason Collins have been around for two seasons. Their play and poise say something else. "Twin [Collins] acts like he's...
NEW EXECUTIVE AINGE 'STAYING OUT OF' SERIES
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Afraid Danny Ainge would jump elsewhere with several management/coaching jobs open, the Celtics made the unusual move of hiring a new executive director of basketball operations smack dab...
PIAZZA PLAYS IT COOL ; BACK AT CATCHER, THOUGH FIRST LOOMS
May 10, 2003 | 4:00am"We're going to make the best of the situation."MIKE PIAZZA Memo to Mets management: When Mike Piazza pleaded on Thursday, "We have to get on the same page," he wasn't...
CHANEY COURTING JONES
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Don Chaney is leaving no stone unturned as he compiles his Knicks' assistant-coaching candidate list. Former Celtics legend K.C. Jones, attending last night's Nets' playoff game at FleetCenter,...
NETS SHOW WORLD THEY AREN'T AFRAID
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - This is why the Nets are going back to the Finals, why even the prospect of facing Detroit in the next round without home-court advantage won't faze them...
AINGE GIVES CELTS SOME INSIDE INFO
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - For years, NBA opponents maintained the Celtics would do anything for an edge, like alternating the visiting locker room temperatures between the surface of the sun...
'BRAIN COACH' IN DUGOUT - AGAINST RULES
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Is Fran Pirozzolo's job description as the Mets' "mental skills coach" looking good in a uniform, shagging balls during batting practice and violating Major League Baseball rules during...
A BEANTOWN BLOWOUT ; NETS DOMINATE, MOVE WITHIN ONE OF SWEEP
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 3Nets 94Celtics 76 BOSTON - Sticks and stones may break their bones but names - and Antoine Walker - will never hurt the Nets. The Nets walked into the...
ROCKET'S MOTHER IN HOSP
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Roger Clemens will have his mother, Bess, on his mind today when he chases his 298th career victory. "She is in a hospital in Texas with...
HECKLER RILES WALKER
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Antoine Walker's nightmare series turned worse last night when he left the bench late in the fourth quarter to charge after a heckler in the front row at...
FANS FIRE BACK
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Responding to Byron Scott's rips, Celtics fans lived up to their "outrageous" hype last night, even as their basketball team again floundered. The rabidness began well before Antoine...
BOOMER MOURNS LL COACH
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - He gets under people's skin so easily you sometimes think he tries to do it. He speaks his mind far too much for too many people....
'BRAIN COACH' MUZZLED: METS MAKE HIM OFF-LIMITS TO MEDIA
May 10, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES During a week in which the Mets made national headlines with their off-the-field follies, the question arises as to whether the players are staying in the right frame...