May 26, 2003
ICAHN SHOPS VISX - LOSES PROXY BUT GETS HIS WAY ON TAKEOVER PLAN
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amThe nation's biggest laser eye-surgery firm is starting to see things Carl Icahn's way. Although the billionaire financier - who's also the biggest shareholder of Visx - lost a two-year...
TAXES? FUGGEDABOUDIT! N.Y. NEEDS ADS, SPONSORS
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amWHY can't the Brooklyn Bridge have a corporate sponsor? Or the Staten Island Ferry - not to mention Central Park, Yankee Stadium and New York's fine museums? As we are...
C. RONSON ROLL
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amIt's not so unusual to find mannequins huddled on the banquettes at Joey's bar in the East Village, especially since the place is owned by a model, Haylynn Cohen. But...
WARD-ROBBED - A 'CLOSET MONSTER' SAVES A FASHION ADDICT FROM HERSELF
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amTO say Robyn Heiberger has too many clothes is like saying New York has too many cockroaches. The closet in her palatial Midtown apartment is the size of a small...
BLOCKBUSTERS 'R' US - BIG-BUDGET FILMS, GEARED FOR ADULTS, RATE AT THE BOX OFFICE
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amJUST like the original "The Matrix" reinvented the sci-fi action thriller, megahit "The Matrix Reloaded" is rewriting the rules for ratings-restricted movies. The first R-rated summer "event" movie with a...
TEDDY AIN'T READY - RUBEN IS A GREAT SINGER, BUT CLAY HAS THE SPARKLE
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amCLAY should have won. And it's not necessarily because he sings any better than Ruben Studdard. That's a matter of personal taste. My own opinion was that Clay Aiken aced...
STATE EA$ES PATAKI PAL INTO 220G SECURITY JOB
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amGOV. PATAKI'S top bodyguard and longtime friend has become one of the highest-paid officials in state government, collecting $220,000 a year in pension and salary, The Post has learned. State...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amAn army of spiders, led by a large brown one, are terrorizing a Jonesboro, Ark., jail, biting at least 15 inmates so far - and they appear to be unstoppable....
SCHUMER PUSHES TRACKING SYSTEM TO KEEP MEAT SAFE
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amSen. Chuck Schumer said yesterday he wants the government to track all meat products from the time of slaughter until they arrive in stores to help prevent diseases like mad...
]]HOME SMOKE HITS STUDENTS
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amKids from homes where family members smoke need more time off from school to battle coughs and colds, new research reveals. Scientists from the Keck School of Medicine at the...
TWO-FACED IRAN HIDING OSAMA BOMB GOONS: U.S.
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amThe White House is turning its eye toward Iran. The Bush administration will hold a high-level meeting tomorrow to discuss options on dealing with Iran after receiving alarming new intelligence...
FLEET WEEK SAILOR TRAGEDY
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amA sailor in town for Fleet Week was killed yesterday when he stumbled off a Manhattan sidewalk into the path of an oncoming livery cab, police said. Cops said Petty...
REBELLION FLARES AMONG GRANNIES & STROLLER MOMS
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amFOR a thrilling moment, it was mutiny. Capt. Brenda Berkman leaned out the second-floor window of her newly defunct Brooklyn firehouse yesterday morning to address the chanting rabble below. We're...
COPS EYE BEAU'S DRUGGIE PALS IN BX. MOM-TOT SLAY
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amCops investigating the brutal murder of a Bronx mother and her 3-year-old son are looking into associates of a live-in boyfriend who was recently locked up by the feds on...
FRIST VOWS MORE TAX CUTS AHEAD
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said yesterday that last week's $350 billion tax-cut package will be followed by another series of tax cuts in upcoming months. "There'll be...
GRAMERCY STRIPPER PLUNGES 4 FLOORS AFTER BLOWOUT WITH BEAU
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amA stunning stripper went out the fourth-floor window of the Gramercy Park pad she shared with her deejay beau after the pair had a screamfest so loud, it caused firefighters...
AMERICAN IS FRENCH TOAST IN CANNES
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amAmerican director Gus Van Sant exclaimed, "Vive la France" upon winning the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival last night. "Elephant," a controversial documentary-style drama about a shooting rampage...
N.Y. HAS BEST HS 'BURB BRAINS
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amOne-quarter of the top 100 public high schools in the country are on Long Island and in Westchester County - but city schools aren't making the grade, according to a...
A BUSY RUDY PUTS DUTY BEFORE JUDI
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amThe honeymoon's already over for newly hitched ex-Hizzoner, Rudy Giuliani, and his blushing bride - he's heading back to work this week, sources said yesterday. Giuliani, who married Judi Nathan...
'NAZI FAN' JANITOR ARRESTED
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island school janitor turned his bedroom into a shrine to Adolf Hitler and white supremacy - complete with coffee mugs featuring the Fuhrer's face, Aryan coloring books and...
TRUCKER IN U.S. QAEDA BUST - BARES PLOT VS. PLANES & BRIDGES
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amFederal agents have nabbed an Ohio truck driver after unmasking him as an al Qaeda operative in plots to collapse a suspension bridge and blow up an airliner in the...
ISRAEL TO FOLLOW U.S. 'ROAD MAP' TO PEACE
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - In a historic move, Israel's Cabinet agreed to back the "road map" for a peace settlement in the Mideast yesterday, making it the first Israeli government to accept...
BURNING WITH RAGE IN B'KLYN - 20 PROTESTERS BUSTED IN BID TO SEIZE 2 STATIONS
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amTwenty angry demonstrators were arrested yesterday after occupying a pair of firehouses to protest the controversial closing of six engine companies. Twelve protesters - including actor Steve Buscemi, an ex-firefighter...
HAILING HEROES, BOOING BLOOMY - NEW YORKERS REIGN OVER RAIN
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amNew Yorkers made the best of the Memorial Day weekend yesterday - ignoring the ominous weather to relax with family and friends and remember the nation's war dead. There were...
VILE VANDALS MAR PATRIOTIC HOLIDAY SPIRIT
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amTwo pre-holiday acts of desecration marred the city's Memorial Day celebrations. In The Bronx, a vandal scrawled an incoherent poem over a mural honoring Vietnam veterans that shows three soldiers...
SYRIA PREZ: WHAT QAEDA?
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amSyrian President Bashar Assad - who has promised Washington that he would help in the war on terror - said yesterday that al Qaeda does not exist and that Arab...
L.I. 'NAZI' BUSTED - SCHOOL JANITOR A KLANSMAN: DA
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island school janitor turned his bedroom into a shrine to Adolf Hitler and white supremacy - complete with coffee mugs featuring the Fuhrer's face, Aryan coloring books and...
FLEET WEEK SAILOR KILLED BY LIVERY CAR
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amA sailor in town for Fleet Week was killed yesterday when he stumbled off a Manhattan sidewalk into the path of an oncoming livery cab, police said. Cops said Petty...
STRIPPER HURLED OUT OF WINDOW
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amA hip city DJ pushed his stripper girlfriend out the window of their fourth-floor Gramercy Park pad early yesterday after a vicious lover's quarrel that grew so loud, it caused...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amBROOKLYN A 78-year-old Crown Heights woman was raped by a man she'd known for years, police said. Walter Rutland, 50, of Bedford-Stuyvesant also took the woman's purse in Saturday's attack,...
TRAVELERS AVOIDING AIRPLANES IN DROVES
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amFear of possible terror attacks has kept jittery Americans grounded this holiday weekend - with only 3.9 million people choosing to fly. That's down 2.5 percent from last Memorial Day....
AWNING WARNING - UNFAIR FINE BLITZ WILL PUT US OUT OF BIZ: OWNERS
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amFor 18 years, Wendy Marsh freely displayed the phone number of her Queens optical store on the awning hanging over the sidewalk. Now those seven digits have cost her thousands...
BELIEVE ME, IT'S MORE FUN TO WATCH IRAQI BOMBS IN A MOVIE THEATER THAN ON THE BATTLEFIELD
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amAFTER two months of embedment in the U.S. Army, this film-critic-turned-war-correspondent had a sudden yearning to see a movie - a real movie in a real cinema. A movie that...
ROCKET LAUNCH BEGAN AT HOME - CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY SET FOUNDATION FOR CLEMENS' SUCCESS
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amGEORGETOWN, Texas - Any time spent with Woody Booher was a wonderful time. Woody had a way of making everybody feel comfortable and safe. He came into Roger Clemens' life...
JAMIE'S ON A MISSION
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amTIED for the playoff goal-scoring lead, tops among those still playing, Jamie Langenbrunner has bailed out Lou Lamoriello on the Jason Arnott trade. Now he wants to finish embarrassing Dallas...
TV MISSING THE BIG PICTURE
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amADVANCE to the rear! It has become abundantly clear that the more cameras and on-air personnel that networks assign to live coverage of significant sports events, the better the chance...
KIDD'S ANKLE RESTS UP
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES The most important ankle in New Jersey received treatment yesterday and may rest an extra day or so. "His ankle's sore, has some swelling which you would expect,"...
MOM'S ON ROB'S SIDE IN NIEDERMAYER BATTLE
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amScott Niedermayer, the older brother by a year, already won two Stanley Cups with the Devils. His younger brother, Rob, has none. And this week, the Niedermayer boys will become...
BOMBERS TRY LINEUP FLIP-FLOP
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Alfonso Soriano laughed, flexed his muscles and said, "I feel like Albert Belle." No, Soriano didn't proceed to hurl a baseball at a fan's chest. Rather, he was...
NETS HAVE EYES ON FINAL PRIZE
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amOK, everyone who thought a few months ago that the Nets would be in the position they hold today - on the way to the NBA Finals with a real...
BIG EAST FACING A 4TH AND LONG
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amWithout a doubt, the most outstanding college basketball T-shirt one could own in 1989 bore the question, 'Where is Seton Hall?' on one side and the answer, "In the Final...
BLISTERS BOTHERING GLAVINE, TRACHSEL
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - Both Steve Trachsel and Tom Glavine left their last starts with blisters. While Trachsel downplayed his two blisters and said there was "no question" he'd make...
MET MILE ON TAP
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amLost amid the hoopla leading up to Funny Cide's bid for the Triple Crown, one of the best racehorses in the world will showcase his talents today at Belmont Park...
FRANKEL: TURF'S UP FOR EMPIRE MAKER
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amTrainer Bobby "Fickle" Frankel, who changes his mind more often than some people change their socks, called another audible yesterday morning at Belmont Park, electing to work Belmont Stakes candidate...
DIKEMBE: NETS CAN STOP WEST
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amAfter being teased again by Byron Scott about getting more action in the Detroit series, Dikembe Mutombo got less - four straight DNPs. However, the 7-2 shotblocking menace only gets...
AGLIO KEEPS FARRELL IN GROOVE
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFS: Msgr. Farrell 3 - St. Francis Prep 1 Joe Aglio isn't surprised that his team is poised to advance to the CHSAA intersectional playoffs with one more win....
NO GOLD IN THE SWAMP
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amPARADISE is already paved where champion Nets and Devils could soon paint their East Rutherford town of 8,000 persons red in celebration. Instead, the teams will settle for fresh white...
DESPERATE YANKS TURN HOPES TO ROG - RIGHT NOW, BOMBERS WILL TAKE ONE OVER 300
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amROGER Clemens needs to help the Yankees win one game right now that would feel like quite a milestone. Suddenly, the Rocket's quest for 300 victories feels like the other...
ROCKET'S 300TH COULD PUT BULLPEN TO TEST
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amRoger Clemens will take aim today at his 300th victory, a milestone only 20 men have achieved. And unless the Rocket throws an unlikely complete game, one or more of...
STORMY WEATHERS - RELIEVER TOUCHED FOR HR AS METS FALL TO BRAVES
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amBraves 3 - Mets 1 ATLANTA - For every break the Mets muster, the break on the other side is twice as good. Every time there seems to be hope,...
DROP 4TH STRAIGHT TO JAYS
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amBlue Jays 5 - Yankees 3 For the winningest franchise in history, winning has suddenly become impossible. The Yankees' latest loss yesterday, a 5-3 defeat to Toronto, resulted in many...
ROCKETS EYE VAN GUNDY
May 26, 2003 | 4:00amDALLAS - Rockets owner Les Alexander came over from Houston with his general manager, Carroll Dawson, last night hoping to meet with Jeff Van Gundy after the Spurs-Mavericks game. Evidently...