March 11, 2004
WHY ALAN GREENSPAN IS WORRIED ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amTHIS is how bad the Social Security situation really is. If you look at a new document on the Treasury Department Web site called the "2003 Financial Report of the...
IGER FAILS TO GOOSE MOUSE
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amDisney faces a war on two fronts, but for both, its strategy is the same - a fortress-high share price. Unfortunately for the company, its walls are crumbling. Bob Iger,...
MSO FINDS A RECIPE FOR A RISING STOCK
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amMartha Stewart enjoyed one sprinkle of good news yesterday - her stock finally hit bottom and took a slight bounce. Shares in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia rebounded 2.8 percent to...
ECHOSTAR, VIACOM SAY TRUCE IS IN WORKS
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amCooler heads emerged yesterday with new efforts to settle a Viacom-EchoStar war that has blacked out programming for two days in millions of satellite-TV homes. After being summoned to Capitol...
B OF A'S BAD DAY - ALREADY MIRED IN PROBES, BANK GETS $10M FINE
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amThe SEC slammed Bank of America with a record $10 million fine for failing to cooperate with another investigation of the bank. The fine is the latest piece of bad...
NEW CONDE SHOPPING MAG ON TAP
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amConde Nast, fresh from the launch of its male-oriented shopping magazine Cargo last week, is already laying the groundwork for a new shopping magazine. The new Conde title, its third...
-SEXY ESPRIT MAKEOVER TARGETS WOMEN WITH $$ (M)-GROWN UP ESPRIT GOING AFTER WOMEN, NOT TEENS (S, LCF)
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amEsprit is not just for teenagers anymore - or so says a new advertising campaign that evokes the sexy images normally reserved for higher end designer labels like Gucci or...
DISPLEASED BY STRIPTEASE, EX-COWEN EXEC SUES
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amA former SG Cowen executive sued the firm and several executives for discrimination, claiming her expense accounts were rejected while male bigwigs were reimbursed for taking clients to strip joints....
ODD MAN IN - JOHNNY GOES OFF THE DEPP END AGAIN IN 'SECRET WINDOW'
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amWHETHER he's starring in a psychological thriller or a family film based on an amusement park ride, Johnny Depp marches to the beat of his own timpani. Depp turned last...
ROOF RAGE - GANSEVOORT TO LOOK DOWN ON SOHO HOUSE
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amSOHO House, that chi-chi haunt in the Meatpacking District, may not be as private as its A-list guests hope. Come April 1, when the towering Hotel Gansevoort opens right across...
'SEX' SYMBOLS ARE ON SALE
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amCARRIE & co. may be gone from the airwaves, but they can live on in your closet. Ina, a tiny, 600-square-foot designer consignment shop at 21 Prince St. in NoLIta,...
CIAO, ORGY - UPN CUTS SEXY 'MODEL' SCENES
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amNOW the Janet Jackson hammer has dropped on "America's Next Top Model." UPN ordered Tyra Banks, the show's executive producer and host, to cut out portions of next week's episode...
OMAROSA: I WAS SLURRED
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amOUTSPOKEN ex-"Apprentice" Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, who stirred things up on Donald Trump's reality show, says a fellow contestant dropped the "N" bomb on her during the show - but that it...
BARBER CAN STILL CUT IT
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amSWEENEY TODDNew York City Opera, New York State Theater, (212) 870-5570. Through March 28. ---- THE barber is back - and while City Opera's latest revival isn't as razor-sharp as...
STARR REPORT
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amWiseguys at the doc Martin Scorsese, Isabella Rossellini, Susan Sarandon, Marisa Tomei, Ben Gazzara, Nancy Savoca and John Turturro are all interviewed for "Beyond the Wiseguys: Italian Americans and the...
FLEETWOOD FLACK
March 11, 2004 | 5:00am"Fleetwood Mac: Destiny Rules" [*** 1/2] (three and one-half stars) Sunday night at 9 on VH1 ---- All this time I had the impression that Stevie Nicks was the willful...
CLASSROOM EXTRA: LESSONS OF LOVE AND GRACE
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amJackie Robinson made history when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier, but to his daughter Sharon, he was Dad. She talked to Classroom Extra about her new book, "Promises...
CORPSE IN BRONX-BLAZE APT.
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amA man whose body was found in a burning Bronx apartmentlast night was killed before the fire was set, authorities said. Firefighters discovered the body of Silverio Esteves, whose age...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amThere may be good reasons to avoid your probation officer, but hanky panky isn't one of them. Just ask Valda Morris of Port Charlotte, Fla., who insisted she couldn't hear...
2 UNIONS WANT SPITZER FOR GOV
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - Eight months before he'll even say if he's running, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been endorsed for governor by two major national union leaders. The surprise backing for...
RADIO COP GUILTY - FACES 18 MOS. FOR SWIPE AT SUSPECT
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amA judge yesterday found a Brooklyn cop guilty of attempted felony assault for wielding a police radio against a handcuffed suspect outside Prospect Park two years ago. Officer Charles Dorcent,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amMANHATTAN * A would-be bank robber was arrested in Midtown moments after he tried to hold-up two banks in succession, authorities said. Cops nabbed Paul Berger, 66, of Queens, at...
ROSS CAN'T HURRY JAIL, JUDGE SAYS
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amIf you do the crime, you do the time. That's the tune a judge sang to Diana Ross yesterday when he ordered her to return to Arizona to serve two...
IT TAKES A VILLAGE - VISIONS FOR QNS. OLYMPIC HAVEN
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amFuturistic towers unlike any seen here before - some tilted, others with a circular twist - were unveiled yesterday in the design finals for the proposed 2012 Olympic Village in...
CON ED UNION'S SHOCKING CHARGE: HOT-SPOT 'FIX' A SHAM
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amCon Ed's promise to check 250,000 service boxes and manhole covers for electricity leaks was "a big con job," the company's union complained yesterday, hours after two dogs were shocked...
FAMILY FEARS FOR MISSING BX. TEEN
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amA 17-year-old Bronx girl has disappeared without a trace - and her distraught mom fears that she's met with foul play. "Deep down in my heart I know she hasn't...
'SUICIDE' BEAU TELLS OF PLAN TO 'WED' HIS DEAD LOVE
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amDEATH can't part Christopher Lam from his beloved - he plans to wed tragic NYU student Diana Chien, whose suicide leap from a Midtown rooftop Saturday shook the school and...
THREE CHARTER SCHOOLS TO OPEN
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amThe Knowledge is Power Program Academy - one of the city's most successful operators of privately managed charter schools - plans to open three new schools next year as part...
FULTON ST. BECOMING 'TUBMAN'
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amBrooklyn's Fulton Street commercial strip is on its way to being named Harriet Tubman Avenue, in honor of the famed abolitionist, City Council officials said yesterday. In commemoration of the...
BUSH'S BOTHERED BUNCH NEEDS KAREN CARIN'
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amKAREN HUGHES, please come home soon - the White House misses you desperately. That's the plea from some Republican strategists who think President Bush's team can't get its mojo right...
SHARON AMENDING FENCES
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered the controversial West Bank fence to be shortened by more than 100 miles so that it doesn't go as deep as originally planned...
WEDDING OFF FOR POW JESSICA
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amFormer Army POW Jessica Lynch has reportedly "postponed indefinitely" her wedding to her sergeant fiancé. Lynch, 20, is still wearing her wedding ring but put off the nuptials with Sgt....
MONKEY MAN MULLS MOVING
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amIf Orlando Lopez wants to be reunited with his beloved monkeys he'll have to leave New York state. The agency that took the six monkeys, as well as a tarantula,...
RAPE-WARY RUTGERS A CAMPUS OF FEAR
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amRutgers University students were living in fear yesterday after three co-eds were brutally raped and robbed in an off-campus apartment by a gang of knife- and gun-toting masked men -...
VICTIM BLAMED FOR DUI DEATH
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amA lawyer for a cop accused of killing a young man in a drunk-driving accident charged yesterday that the victim was responsible for his own death because he used the...
MCCAIN RIPS '$OFT' GROUPS
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Campaign-finance reform leaders yesterday charged that new "527 groups," which are set to spend millions on anti-Bush ads, have replaced "soft money" as the biggest loophole in politics....
LIZA-GEST 'REALITY' DIVORCE DOWN THE TUBES
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amAnother Liza Minnelli and David Gest reality show has bitten the dust - one that would have taken Gest's "battered husband" lawsuit out of the courts and put it on...
ROGUE COPS' $2 MIL
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amTwo rogue cops indicted on money-laundering and narcotics charges are believed to have pocketed well over $2 million in drug-dealer rip-offs over the past several years, authorities said. Before his...
HILLARY: BEWARE OF VOTING MACHINES MADE OF STEAL
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton said yesterday voters in New York and elsewhere may not be able to trust future election results, charging the company that makes high-tech voting machines...
KERRY: MAKE RICH PAY 'BUBBA' TAX
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - John Kerry yesterday said he wants to hike taxes on people earning more than $200,000 a year to the level they paid under President Bill Clinton - a...
DOWNTOWNERS SUING FEDS OVER TOXIC 'LIES'
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amLower Manhattan residents and workers yesterday sued the Environmental Protection Agency - saying the feds told people to return to the area around the World Trade Center when the they...
KLEIN LETS PRINCIPALS GET TOUGH
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein has given principals the green light to suspend students more often as part of his campaign to crack down on unruly behavior, The Post has learned....
L.I. SEX SHOCKER - TEEN TELLS OF TRYST WITH PAL'S MOM
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amA Long Island mom accused of having sex with her son's 15-year-old best friend stared at jurors yesterday as the teen described how she kissed and seduced him in her...
HOW FINE ART DEALER 'FORGED' A LAVISH LIFESTYLE: COPS
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amA respected Manhattan art dealer masterminded a multimillion-dollar international art scam in which he bought up works by 19th century French artists, forged them and sold off the fakes through...
ED. FLAP LAWYER RESIGNS - ACCUSED OF COVER-UP
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein's top legal adviser resigned yesterday for his role in mishandling the hubby-hiring scandal that led to the ouster of Deputy Chancellor Diana Lam. Department of Education...
UNION RIPS CON ED'S HOT-BOX FIX
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amCon Ed's promise to check 250,000 service boxes and manhole covers for electricity leaks was "a big con job," the company's union complained yesterday, hours after two dogs were shocked...
MEPHAM COACHES DODGE CHARGES
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amFive football coaches who were fired from their scandal-scarred Long Island high school for failing to supervise a trip where players were sexually brutalized by older teammates will not face...
L.I. MOM SEX-RAP SHOCK
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amA Long Island mom accused of having sex with her 15-year-old son's best friend stared at jurors yesterday as the boy testified that she kissed him in her kitchen and...
STUDENTS LONELY IN HEART OF BIG CITY
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amNew York University has no classic campus, so it's very easy to feel lost and lonely. That was the almost universal reason given by students and staffers at the school...
IMCLONE SUES SAM
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amImClone Systems sued its former president and CEO, Sam Waksal, for $26 million yesterday, saying Martha Stewart's imprisoned cohort never paid income taxes on some of the fortune he made...
MAN SUSPECTED OF BEING NEW BRUNSWICK'S SERIAL RAPIST ..
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amJust three months ago, students at Rutgers and other locals breathed a huge sigh of relief after the arrest of a man suspected of being New Brunswick's serial rapist. Ricardo...
MONKEY MAN A FINE KEEPER
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amManhattan monkey man Orlando Lopez took terrific care of his illegal pets, but if he wants to be reunited with them, he'll have to leave New York state, officials said...
COP KILLS THUG - BULLETS FLY IN HARLEM FIGHT WITH PAROLEE
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amA pistol-packing Harlem parolee was fatally shot during a violent struggle with two plainclothes detectives yesterday - the second police shooting in three days. As fists flew, one of the...
RUNAWAY RAMPAGE - * LOCOMOTIVE MOWS DOWN 4 * CARS SMASHED IN QUEENS
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amA driverless, out-of-control LIRR locomotive roared through several crossings near the Queens-Brooklyn border yesterday, hitting five vehicles and injuring four people, two of them critically. The engine plowed through the...
-2 DEAD IN TURNPIKE TRAGEDY (M, S)-COUPLE DIE IN PILE-UP ON T'PIKE (LCF)
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amA husband and wife died yesterday in a multivehicle crash on the New Jersey Turnpike that snarled traffic for hours, authorities said. The 4 p.m. smash-up - two miles south...
WAKSAL SUED BY IMCLONE
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amImClone Systems sued former president and CEO Sam Waksal for $26 million yesterday, saying Martha Stewart's imprisoned cohort never paid income taxes on some of the fortune he made from...
CAMPUS OF FEAR - COEDS COWER AS COPS HUNT RUTGERS RAPISTS
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amRutgers University students were living in fear yesterday after three coeds were brutally raped and robbed in an off-campus apartment by a gang of knife- and gun-toting masked men -...
NEW BRUNSWICK RAPIST REIGN OF TERROR
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amJust three months ago, students at Rutgers and other locals breathed a huge sigh of relief after the arrest of a man suspected of being New Brunswick's serial rapist. Ricardo...
RUNAWAY RAMPAGE - LIRR LOCOMOTIVE HURTS 4 ; CARS SMASHED IN QUEENS
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amA driverless, out-of-control LIRR locomotive roared through several crossings near the Queens-Brooklyn border yesterday, hitting five vehicles and injuring four people, two of them critically. The engine plowed through the...
Correction Date: 03/12/2004
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amCorrection: A quote attributed to Donald Fehr in yesterday's Post was not, in fact, spoken by Fehr. It was columnist Mike Vaccaro's suggestion of what Fehr should have said. The...
NO CHARGES IN FIGHT - SPENCER, GARCIA 'GLAD' HEAT'S OFF
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - No criminal charges will be filed against Mets Karim Garcia and Shane Spencer following their parking-lot altercation with a local pizza deliveryman, police announced yesterday. But...
MILESTONE WIN FOR RAHLVES
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amDARON Rahlves started off the World Cup Finals in Sestriere, Italy, with a downhill win yesterday, making him the top American downhill racer of all time. The win, which took...
DEVILS LOOK TO REBOUND
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amThis is what you might call a lay-up for the Devils. Sitting seven points behind the Flyers for the Atlantic Division lead, the Devils play host to the lowly Blackhawks...
KAZ'S FLEET FEET THRILL SKIPPER
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Kaz Matsui isn't any closer to playing the field, but he's still impressing his manager and teammates. Matsui, who is batting exclusively left-handed as...
STEP-UP TIME FOR KNICKS
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amLenny Wilkens has coached and won more games than anyone in NBA history, and even the 66-year-old Hall of Famer can't remember a playoff race like this one. He says...
ARBITER'S DECISION ON BAKER NEAR
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amThe long saga of Vin Baker is expected to come to a head today when the Knicks are expected to find out whether they can sign the troubled ex-Celtic forward....
BROWN OK WITH SPRING STRUGGLES
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES DUNEDIN, Fla. - The perfectionist in Kevin Brown doesn't come out under the palm trees. "I made good pitches and bad pitches," Brown said after giving up two...
GARY'S STARTING TO GET IT
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amTAMPA - Gary Sheffield is learning life as a Yankee is like nowhere else on the baseball planet. Brian Cashman and the Yankees are learning the fire that burns within...
BIG BLUE GIVES BOOT TO BARROW
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amGeorge Young, the late Giant GM, once said this about the NFL in the era of the salary cap: If you're a great player making great money, you're safe. If...
SATHER WANTS LOOK-SEE BEFORE INKING PROSPECT
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amNo, contrary to a report out of Pittsburgh, the Rangers most certainly have not agreed on a contract with R.J. Umberger, the 16th-overall selection in the 2001 Entry Draft whose...
BC TAKES 1ST STEP - EAGLES OUST HOYAS, LOOK TO MATCH WOMEN'S TITLE RUN
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amBC 68G'town 57 Four games in four days. That's the winning streak Boston College needs in order to win the Big East Tournament. Nearly impossible, you say? Well, the Eagles...
IT'S BACK TO BENCH FOR HARRIS
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES Lucious Harris figured the shooting eye would come back last night. After all, he was going to be a shooting guard again. Harris was back in his customary...
MILBURY'S CONFIDENCE PUTS ISLES IN GEAR
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amThe Islanders have been challenged again by GM Mike Milbury. Except this time, instead of calling them "chumps," Milbury gave them a vote of confidence by not eliminating anyone from...
EL DUQUE: 'I AM A YANKEE'
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amDUNEDIN, Fla. - It was a jovial Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez who checked into Yankees camp yesterday morning. The veteran right-hander was home after spending last year on Montreal's disabled...
SHEFF STIRS POT - BLASTS CASHMAN OVER INJURY INFO
March 11, 2004 | 5:00am"Cashman was talking about it without talking to me. I am not happy about that." - Gary Sheffield DUNEDIN, Fla. - He was livid. Then mollified. Throughout the mood swings,...
REELIN' RUTGERS A GONER
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amVa. Tech 61 - Rutgers 58 A month ago, Rutgers was beating its collective chest thinking it was bound for the NCAA Tournament. The Scarlet Knights had just come off...
COACH AS CULPABLE AS BERTUZZI
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amNO matter what sen tence Colin Campbell pronounces against Todd Bertuzzi this morning, the NHL has already fallen shockingly short in its obligation to police the sport and demand accountability...
FEHR STRIKES OUT - UNION CHIEF CAN'T DEFEND STEROIDS POLICY
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The fury of the masses has a serious ally now, a career agitator named John McCain, a U.S. Senator from Arizona who yesterday turned his considerable...
BARRETT HOPES HE CAN CUT IT
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amAndre Barrett will tell you that there have been times - perhaps when he's shooting around in an empty Walsh Gym, or on one of those long bus rides that...
XAVERIAN ROLLS - CLIPPERS RAP RICE IN SEMIS
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amCHSAA AA SEMIS Xaverian 59 Rice 44 Xaverian has had its share of great players, from Chris Mullin in the early 1980s to Chris Taft, now a freshman sensation at...
EAGLES FIND THEIR GROOVE
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amBC 68 - G'town 57 Four games in four days. That's the winning streak Boston College needs in order to win the Big East Tournament. Nearly impossible, you say? Well,...
KNIGHTS STUMBLE TO FINISH
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amVa. Tech 61 - Rutgers 58 A month ago, Rutgers was beating its collective chest thinking it was bound for the NCAA Tournament. The Scarlet Knights had just come off...
KAZ' FLEET FEET THRILL HOWE
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Kaz Matsui isn't any closer to playing the field, but he's still impressing his manager and teammates. The switch-hitting Matsui, who is batting exclusively...
IRISH PRAYERS ANSWERED
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amNotre Dame 65 - W. Virginia 64 Notre Dame's NCAA dreams hung high in the air over the Garden last night as a game and a season headed for the...
XAVERIAN & ST. RAY'S ROLL IN CHSAA SEMIS
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amCHSAA AA: Xaverian 59 - Rice 44; St. Ray's 73 - Loughlin 69 Lavance Fields sat out a game earlier in the season because Xaverian coach Jack Alesi thought the...
WITH KIDD BACK, NETS HANG TOUGH
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amJason Kidd was back in uniform and on the court, and the near-customary double-figure assists followed for the Nets. Kenyon Martin exploded - emotionally, statistically and defensively - after being...
WILLIAMS STEPS UP FOR JASON
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES Aaron Williams had a terrific game. But it kind of went unnoticed as Jason Kidd returned with 13 assists, Kenyon Martin and Richard Jefferson combined for 54 points....
'NOVA FOYE-LS HALL - JUMPER IN FINAL SECONDS SENDS PIRATES PACKING
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amVillanova 61 - Seton Hall 60 Andre Barrett's dream of cutting down the nets in the Garden came to a bitter end last night when his desperation 3 at the...
DON'T LOOK BACK - PLAYOFF-BOUND NETS AREN'T LOOKING IN REAR-VIEW MIRROR
March 11, 2004 | 5:00amThis is shaping up as one of the tightest, potentially most intriguing and exciting Eastern Conference playoff races in memory. Yesterday morning, six teams awoke bunched within two games of...