April 6, 2004
GOVERNMENT'S JOBS DATA WILL COST YOU MONEY
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amTHE government mysteriously took away jobs in January and the government magically put them back this month. In last Thursday's column I showed how the Labor Department removed 321,000 jobs...
HINDERY RESIGNS - YES BOSS GIVES UP CEO SPOT AFTER CABLE VICTORY
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amLeo Hindery Jr. resigned from his post as chief executive officer of the YES Network yesterday, capping his nearly three-year long tenure at the upstart sports network, and instead will...
WALL ST. APPLAUDS PROOF ECONOMY IS ON THE MEND
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amConsumers are spending briskly in stores again, buoying corporate America's promise of a solid recovery this year. A report yesterday that measures non-manufacturing business expansion, including the huge retail sector,...
FLAGSHIP'S ALL WRAPPED UP - JUDITH LEIBER BAGS A FANCY MADISON AVE. STOREFRONT
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amJUDITH Leiber has claimed Madison Avenue's most glaringly empty storefront. The luxury accessories retailer just signed a lease for 680 Madison Ave., at the northwest corner of 61st Street across...
WILD PITCH: MLB MOVES TOWARD ADS ON UNIFORMS
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amThe next time a major-league baseball manager gives the go-ahead to steal, the sign may be "Gatorade, Gatorade, Nike, Microsoft, Pepsi." The MLB is considering whether to allow advertising on...
HOW SWEDE IT IS! GATES 'RICHEST' TITLE IN DISPUTE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amOne is in software. The other, soft wood. But is a Swedish furniture magnate really the richest man on the planet, wealthier even than Bill Gates? That was the claim...
A 'BLUE' MONDAY AT BANK OF AMER.
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amBank of America can't seem to end its string of public relations disasters. One of its top brokers, Ted Sihpol, 36, was indicted yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court on 40...
LA NABS 5 PULITZERS; THE NY TIMES IS DISSED
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amThere was a left-coast slant to the Pulitzer Prize derby this year as the Los Angeles Times dominated the competition with five awards. The scandal-marred New York Times, which used...
NEWLYWED ELLISON SELLS $164M OF ORACLE STOCK
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amJust weeks after getting hitched to wife No. 4, Larry Ellison has cashed out $164 million in shares of his Oracle Corp. It was the first time in several years...
LA NABS 5 PULITZERS; NY TIMES IS DISSED
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amThere was a left-coast slant to the Pulitzer Prize derby this year as the Los Angeles Times dominated the competition with five awards. The scandal-marred New York Times, which used...
STARVING ARTIST - RALPH LAUREN'S NIECE REVEALS HOW THINNER THIGHS NEARLY KILLED HER
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amANOREXIA and bulimia are on the rise - but Jenny Lauren says she doesn't need a federal study to tell her that. "I can tell just by walking down a...
NATURAL BLONDIE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00am* BLONDIE "The Curse of Blondie" [] (four stars) Sanctuary Records Despite 30 years in music, Deborah Harry and her band, Blondie, aren't ready to fade away and radiate. On...
PREZ WIVES' CLUB A FUN FANTASY
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amFIRST LADY SUITEAt the Connelly Theatre, 220 E. Fourth St.; (212) 868-4444. Through April 18. ---- FIRST ladies used to provide excellent opportunities for fantasy. At least they did in...
HUNG JURY: YOU GOTTA LIKE IT
April 6, 2004 | 4:00am* WILLIAM HUNG "Inspiration" [ 1/2] (two and one-half stars) Koch Records Sometimes it's good to be bad. As the worst singer to have ever won the hearts of America,...
STARR REPORT
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amHe's in-Vince-able "Sopranos" co-star Vince Curatola (Johnny Sack), who's doubling on "Third Watch" this season as Anthony's dad, has been a supporter of Heartshare Human Services of New York for...
OZZY'S [****] RETURN TO MTV
April 6, 2004 | 4:00am"The Osbournes" [****] (four stars) Tonight at 10:30 on MTV ---- THE two storylines would each be enough to sustain their own episode on any other show, but on "The...
WEST SWING - 'NEWLYWEDS' CALL UP '70S KITSCH
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amMTV's Ozzie and Harriet, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, are less than a week away from network stardom or infamy. With ABC's "The Nick & Jessica Variety Hour" - an...
THE PLEASURE PALACE - ON A WEEKEND IN THE POCONOS, SKEPTIC LISA KEYS BEHOLDS THE POWER OF THE HEART-SHAPED TUB
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amCLOSE your eyes and picture a romantic weekend. Did you envision heart-shaped whirlpools, round king-sized beds and mirrored walls? No? Neither did I. Expecting the worst, my husband Julian and...
SPOT CHECK
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FIRST-CLASS TREATMENT
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amFOR Alaska Airlines pilot Bob Duncan, a weekly commute from his former home in Washington state to his job in Anchorage was the incentive for his inflatable 1st Class Sleeper....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amJosh Traughber and Lynlea Jayo really stuck together at their senior prom - thanks to duct tape. The teens from Hagerman, Idaho, used the tape, thrift-store jackets and bed sheets...
THE ROAD TO IRAQ'S RIOTS: PAYING FOR WEAKNESS
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amSEVEN American soldiers died in Baghdad on Sunday because we failed to respond to last week's Fallujah attacks. Whatever our motives, we looked weak and indecisive. Additional enemies believed their...
TIME OUT IN JAYSON SLAY TRIAL
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amSOMERVILLE, N.J. - Jayson Williams' manslaughter trial screeched to a halt yesterday as alleged misconduct by prosecutors raised the specter of a mistrial. Judge Edward Coleman ordered the ex-NBA star's...
CONDI CAN DO: BUSH - 'SHE'LL BE GREAT' WITH 9/11 PANEL
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday he's "looking forward" to Americans' hearing National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testify this week before the commission investigating the 9/11 attacks. "I'm looking forward...
'THUGS' WON'T RUN US OFF: W.
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday U.S. forces won't be "shaken" by the recent deadly attacks in Iraq, and vowed America will hand over power June 30 as scheduled. "We're...
MARINES BATTLE IN FALLUJAH
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. Marines attacked terrorist safe houses in Fallujah yesterday, as American forces ringed the city to prepare for a new operation to capture or kill thugs responsible for...
MIKE BEEFS UP FOR THE HOLIDAY
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg shopped for Passover items yesterday in Queens hours before Jews around the world celebrated the first night of the holiday. "Maybe they should give the mayor a raise,"...
PASSOVER HORROR - FOUR BURNED IN RITUAL FIRE ON B'KLYN STREET
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amFour people were injured, one critically, in Brooklyn yesterday when a wastebasket used for the ritual burning of leavened bread before the start of Passover exploded in a dangerous fireball....
SUICIDE VIDEO SHOCK - LINKED TO L.I. COP
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amNYPD investigators have traced a stolen surveillance video of a Bronx man committing suicide to a Long Island cop's computer, as they hunt for the person who initially downloaded the...
'TIME' OUT: BLOOMY - WORK HALTED AFTER WARNER TOWER MISHAP
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amConstruction was halted at the Time Warner Center yesterday - the day after dangerous debris fell from the glitzy Columbus Circle project - as a fed-up Mayor Bloomberg ripped the...
'BANDIT' SHOOTER CLEARED - CLERK FOILED HEIST
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens bodega clerk who shot a man during an alleged robbery attempt was cleared of any criminal charges yesterday - a decision by District Attorney Richard Brown that the...
DETECTIVES IN RACE TO END MUSCLEMAN'S STICKUP SPREE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amLong Island cops are frantically searching for a bodybuilding stickup man whose robbery style has grown startlingly violent in recent days. The 6-foot, 220-pound thug, who has knocked off at...
'BOULEVARD OF DEATH' UPGRADE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amMore restrictions are coming to Queens Boulevard - once dubbed the "Boulevard of Death" - to protect pedestrians. Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that a 3.5-mile stretch from Van Dam Street...
-BUSH HAS NIXON-SIZE 'CREDIBILITY GAP': TED (M)-W. HAS NIXON-SIZE 'CREDIBILITY GAP': TED (S, LCF)
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Kennedy yesterday charged that President Bush's credibility was no better than Richard Nixon's - drawing an immediate rebuke from Republicans. A Kennedy spokesman said Sen. John...
TAXPAYERS SHELL OUT FOR BROKE MOBSTER'S ATT'Y
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amAccused gangster Anthony Colombo - charged with raking in large sums through extortion, loan sharking and gambling - pleaded poverty yesterday, saying he scrapes by on a $681-a-month government disability...
LETHAL STEAM PIPE WAS TO BE FIXED
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amA broken steam pipe that sent temperatures soaring to apparently lethal levels in a disabled woman's Brooklyn apartment over the weekend was due to be replaced this summer as part...
CLERK SHOT AT BROOKLYN 'DEATH' MART
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amThree thugs shot and critically wounded a clerk yesterday during a robbery at an all-night Brooklyn produce market where an employee was killed two years ago by a thief trying...
9/11 CHARITY TO GIVE UP ARTIFACTS
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amA New York charity that draws raves from educators but ran afoul of city fire marshals because of its traveling exhibit of Sept. 11 artifacts has agreed to return some...
THOUSANDS WILLING TO DIE FOR UNLIKELY SHIITE LEADER
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amHis political views are murky and shifting. His academic pedigree is shaky. And his oratorical skills are wooden. But radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has enlisted thousands of fanatical followers...
'SYMBOLIC' VICTORY FOR OLYMPIC BID
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amNew York's Olympic boosters are hoping they've hit on a sign of the times. The city's bid to lure the 2012 games to New York unveiled its trademark logo during...
4 NABBED AFTER BRAWL AT CAMPUS
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amFour men have been busted in connection with the bloody brawl at Fairleigh Dickinson University that left one student shot and six others stabbed, slashed or beaten. None of those...
STRIP BOSS EXPOSED - CHARGED IN PROSTITUTION STING
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amAnthony "Cousin Vinny" Agnello - the stripper-service owner who supplied the talent for a Chappaqua high-school party in 2001 and was charged with prostituting a teenager in 2003 - is...
FATAL INSULT - DOG BISCUIT TOSSED AT GIRLS; 'DOG' DISS STARTED DEATH CHASE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amIt began with a fight over girls - and the insulting toss of a dog biscuit. The fiery Staten Island car crash that killed 16-year-old Leonardo Ingrassia (right) Sunday night...
WATCH OUT IN TOURNEAU HEIST
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amA smash-and-grab bandit shattered a window at the posh Tourneau store on West 57th Street and scooped up more than $200,000 in watches and jewelry in a predawn heist yesterday,...
'REALITY' BITE$ - ROCCO COUNTERSUES TV EATERY EX-PALS
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amMamma mia! Chef Rocco DiSpirito is flambéing his "Restaurant" business partners, accusing them of locking him out of his reality-show eatery, giving patrons frozen pasta and stiffing his elderly, meatball-making...
TV DEVICE A TURNOFF, POLS SAY
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amA bipartisan group of more than 40 members of Congress is demanding immediate hearings on plans by Nielsen Media to introduce a controversial new TV ratings system to New York...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Police are asking for the public's help in locating this missing 12-year-old girl, who they say has a history of running away from home. Truedina Beloti (above), is...
LETHAL BIRTH CONTROL - 'PATCH' KILLS TEEN
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amThe 18-year-old fashion student who collapsed in a Midtown subway station and died - supposedly after her boyfriend pushed her minutes earlier - appears actually to have succumbed to a...
PRESS WANTS TYCO TRANSCRIPTS
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amThe judge who presided over the case of the Tyco two should release transcripts of the closed-door discussions with a juror that led him to declare a mistrial, press organizations...
B'KLYN BUS BUMP INJURES 6
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amA three-vehicle collision involving a bus and two cars in the Midwood section of Brooklyn yesterday morning sent six people to local hospitals with minor injuries, police said yesterday. The...
100G EDUCRATS CASH IN ON SCHOOL REFORM
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amThe number of managers in the Department of Education's central administration has skyrocketed 27 percent under Mayor Bloomberg's vast restructuring of the school system, a Post review of payroll records...
DIM-WITTED FANATIC SPEWS VILE MESSAGE OF VIOLENCE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amHe spouts murky political views, has lousy oratorical skills and boasts a lame academic pedigree - yet at the moment, he's the Allied Forces' Public Enemy No. 1 in Iraq....
APT.'S FATAL STEAM LEAK WAS SLATED FOR REPAIR
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amA broken steam pipe that sent temperatures soaring to lethal levels in a disabled woman's Brooklyn apartment over the weekend was due to be replaced this summer as part of...
HOUSE FIRE KILLS 3 - HIGH WIND WHIPS LETHAL YONKERS BLAZE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amThree people - including a young child - were killed late yesterday when a wind-whipped fire swept through three wood-frame buildings in Yonkers. Several other families living in the attached,...
FIRE WIPES OUT FAMILY - NEIGHBORS HORRIFIED AT DOOMED GIRL'S ESCAPE BID
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amA mother, father and 5-year-old daughter died in an apartment fire in Yonkers yesterday as neighbors tried frantically to break a window and free them, officials said. The wind-swept blaze...
CLERK SHOT AT B'KLYN 'DEATH' MART
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amThree thugs shot and critically wounded a clerk yesterday during a robbery at an all-night Brooklyn produce market where an employee was killed two years ago by a thief trying...
ADAMS' AGENDA - A COP, AND A GADFLY
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amWATCHDOGS can be useful. Whistleblowers. Inspectors general. Good-government groups. These folks (in theory, at least) help keep government officials honest. The NYPD has several watchdogs. Internal Affairs. Outside groups, like...
YOU PAY FOR BROKE MOBSTER'S ATT'Y
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amAccused gangster Anthony Colombo - charged with raking in large sums through extortion, loan sharking and gambling - pleaded poverty yesterday, saying he scrapes by on a $681-a-month government disability...
TRACKING HISTORY - PHOTO FOCUS ON SUBWAYS
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amAnyone who thinks history is boring should check out Marilyn Monroe's legs. The Hollywood legend's gorgeous gams will be on display at Grand Central Terminal beginning today, as part of...
4 BUSTED IN N.J. CAMPUS BRAWL
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amFour men have been busted in connection with the bloody brawl at Fairleigh Dickinson University that left one student shot and six others stabbed, slashed or beaten. None of those...
NEW TV RATINGS SYSTEM A REAL TURNOFF, POLS SAY
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amA bipartisan group of more than 40 members of Congress is demanding immediate hearings on plans by Nielsen Media to introduce a controversial new TV ratings system to New York...
BROWN WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE ALAMO
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Even in his last game, Taliek Brown had to prove himself. Georgia Tech made a decision in last night's NCAA Championship game to slack off Brown and...
NO CONN-TEST: HUSKIES REIGN - CLOSE-KNIT CLUB CLAIMS 2ND TITLE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - There is no greater feeling in team sports than winning a national championship, except, of course, cutting down the nets with teammates as closely knit as those...
EMEKA, BEN PERFECT TOGETHER
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The coronation was complete before the second half's first television time-out, meaning the Connecticut fans in the far corner of the Alamodome could start the party sooner...
CALHOUN ALSO HAD GUTS TO BEAT CANCER
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - They were fixed up on a blind date by the boy's sister Margaret, and have been married 38 years, and two sons have given them five grandchildren....
JACKETS NO MATCH FOR UCONN
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - They couldn't run with UConn. They couldn't hit free throws. They couldn't contend with Emeka Okafor or Ben Gordon. They couldn't deal with UConn's suffocating defense. They...
N.Y. SPOTLIGHT BELONGS TO BOMBERS ALONE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - The magic number is down to one in New York right now. And the Yankees are the one. In the city that never sleeps, we wake these...
JINTS ADD DEPTH TO DL
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amClearly, the Giants' approach to strengthening their depleted defensive line is to add quantity and hope it translates into quality. They continued that trend yesterday, signing Raiders defensive end Lorenzo...
AS USUAL, BRODEUR IS BIG DIFFERENCE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amHe stands, lunges and smothers, too, as the Devils' biggest edge over the Flyers. Martin Brodeur will have to be a difference to keep the Stanley Cup champs from being...
ISLES GET BOOT FROM FLA. HOTEL
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amThe opening volley of the playoff series between the Islanders and Tampa Bay was fired yesterday, not in the form of an explosive comment uttered by a player involved or...
YANKEES SET FOR RE-OPENING DAY - KENNY GETS CALL IN CF - BUT BERNIE IN LINE FOR TAKEOFF
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Kenny Lofton is Joe Torre's center fielder. That is, until Thursday. Not wanting to subject Bernie Williams to Tropicana Field's artificial surface tonight and tomorrow, when the...
BOONE MIGHT STAGE BRONX ENCORE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - The Yankees and Aaron Boone have held preliminary talks that could lead to last year's ALCS hero returning to The Bronx, The Post has learned. "We have...
METS NEED OPENING SLAY - BOPPING BRAVES CRUCIAL
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amATLANTA - Baseball is a sport of sayings. One of the most common is that the season is a marathon, not a sprint, so it really doesn't matter how a...
LUCK KEY FACTOR IN COACH SEARCH - NO GUARANTEE STORM WILL GET MR. RIGHT
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Everyone thinks they have the perfect formula. Everyone thinks they have the right solution. They're wrong, of course. There are no magic tricks involved in finding the...
THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE - CANCER BATTLE JUST BUMP IN ROAD FOR CALHOUN
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - They were fixed up on a blind date by the boy's sister Margaret. They have been married 38 years, and two sons have given them five grandchildren....
JASON AIDE OK'D TO FLY WITH TEAM
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - The never-ending Bobby Alejo saga has a new chapter. Jason Giambi's strength and conditioning guru has been granted a seat on the Yankee charters after...
CAMERON READY TO ENJOY HOMECOMING
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - If you hear an inordinate number of fans cheering for the Mets tonight, there's a good reason. The new centerfielder. Mike Cameron makes his Mets debut...
GLAVINE BEGINS AGAIN - DETERMINED TO BOUNCE BACK
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amATLANTA - It all starts tonight. It's been six months since the New York Mets last played a baseball game. It's been about nine or 10 since they played one...
DRESS CODE FOR COACHES
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - It's not how you coach, it's how you look. In a move smacking of George Steinbrenner, Isiah Thomas implemented yesterday a uniform code for the Knicks coaching staff...
YES, ISIAH, YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The Pacers have the league's best record at 56-21, but they are not the favorites to win the East, according to former Indiana coach Isiah Thomas. Isiah was...
FAMILIAR FOES MAKE FOR FANTASTIC WOMEN'S FINAL
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amNEW ORLEANS - In men's college basketball, few players stay long enough to become draws, and in the women's game there are few of them anyway. The sport's brands are...
KIDD, K-MART MIGHT COME BACK TONIGHT
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amAlthough it probably won't happen, there is a chance that both Jason Kidd and Kenyon Martin will be in the lineup tonight when the Nets play the Bucks. Neither player...
SJU PREZ IS TAKING HIS TIME
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amIf you believe that patience is a virtue, then St. John's president Father Donald J. Harrington is a virtuous man. Amid the emotion and angst that have gripped many factions...
BIRD, THOMAS HAVE SMOKED PEACE PIPE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amCONTRARY to popular perception, tonight's Knicks-Pacers game at Conseco Field House will not be the first time Isiah Thomas and Larry Bird are under the same roof since Indiana's president...
A DREAM TEAM - CLOSE-KNIT UCONN AIMED TO CUT DOWN TECH, NETS
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - There is no greater feeling in college sports than winning a national championship. Except winning one on a team that is as closely knit as the Connecticut...
OLD FOES CLASH FOR WOMEN'S TITLE
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amNEW ORLEANS - In men's college basketball, few players stay long enough to become draws, and in the women's game there are few of them anyway. The sport's brands are...
NO CONN-TEST: HUSKIES REIGN - OKAFOR, GORDON STAR IN CRUISE TO CROWN
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amFINAL FOUR: UConn 82 - Ga. Tech 73 SAN ANTONIO - There is no greater feeling in team sports than winning a national championship, except, of course, cutting down the...
SECOND TITLE JUST AS SWEET
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO- The coronation was complete before the second half even reached its midway point, meaning the Connecticut fans in the far corner of the Alamodome could start the party...
SPECIAL DAY FOR MATSUI
April 6, 2004 | 4:00amATLANTA - As he sat in the Turner Field dugout yesterday, Kaz Matsui figured he'd be able to sleep last night. The butterflies? Figure they'll creep in this afternoon. "I'll...