June 10, 2004

NEW CPI STATS ANTICIPATION IS GIVING GREENSPAN GAS

THE next consumer inflation number could be a killer. And that might be why Alan Greenspan seems so fixated on inflation this week. The Consumer Price Index for the month...

EURO DISNEY'S BAILOUT IS $2.9B

Mickey Mouse still isn't living that well in Paris. For the second time in a decade, banks are having to bail out Euro Disney after tourist crowds failed to give...

SAVE OUR BUTTS! - CNN TO HIRE EXEC TO OVERHAUL NIGHTLY NEWS

CNN is close to naming an executive to overhaul the network's struggling prime time lineup, The Post has learned. Sources say the announcement is imminent, and CNN's brass has told...

SPITZER GIG IS NEW WALL ST. MUST-HAVE

Wall Street isn't just looking for compliance officers who can help it handle the Securities and Exchange Commission anymore. Now they want execs who can help them handle Eliot Spitzer....

CYPRESS IS LEADING CONTENDER TO BUY AUTO PARTS FIRM

New York buyout firm Cypress Group is nearing a deal to buy the automotive replacement parts business of Dana Corp. for more than $1 billion, The Post has learned. Cypress...

IT'S OFFICIAL: LIFE REBORN IN OCT.

After a long drum roll, Time Inc. has finally given the official word that it is relaunching Life. The reborn magazine will be published weekly, with a circulation of nearly...

FRAUD EXEC FLEES - INTERPOL HUNTS EX-CEO OF SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES

Federal authorities have launched a manhunt for the former chief executive of Long Island's Symbol Technologies, who may have fled the country to avoid facing securities fraud charges. The executive,...

COKE EXEC GETS $66M

Steven Heyer - the heir apparent at Coca Cola who got passed over for the top job - has quit after just three years, but walks with more than $66...

MAY GETS FIELD'S FOR $3.2B

The May Department Stores Co. yesterday agreed to buy the Marshall Field's chain from Target Corp. for $3.2 billion in cash, helping it close the gap with rival Federated Department...

DAVID BYRNES DOWN THE HALL

DAVID BYRNEWHEN you think of a musician playing a solo gig at Carnegie Hall, you think about artistic achievement and contemporary relevance - and David Byrne cemented both of those...

SEND IN THE 'CLONES' - MINISERIES IN THE WINGS

A new animated "Star Wars" miniseries is blasting onto the Cartoon Network, just weeks before the film saga's latest chapter is set to debut in movie theaters next year. The...

CNBC SMACKS DOWN NAZI

CNBC has axed a pro-wrestler who moonlighted as a TV finance expert after he gave a Nazi salute during a wrestling match in Germany. John Layfield, 36, the author of...

ROCKIN' OUT SUITS WILCO

WILCOIN a seersucker suit, Jeff Tweedy, Wilco's main man, looked like the essence of spring at his show Tuesday at Irving Plaza. The suit was to honor mint julep month,...

MONTEL WINS VOTE TO HOST 'AMERICAN CANDIDATE'

SHOWTIME'S "American Candidate" has elected its host - Montel Williams. Williams, host of "The Montel Williams Show," will guide "American Candidate" as the reality show ultimately chooses one person who's...

STARR REPORT

Fuhrman speaks Mark Fuhrman says view ers will see the O.J. Simpson murder case in a much differ ent light after he releases new information on "The O.J. Simpson Case:...

VIXENS & VICTIMS - FIRST PEEK AT SUMMER'S BEST AND WORST DRESSED

IT'S been the busiest fashion week since the Oscars. From the Tony Awards on Sunday to the MTV Movie Awards, which airs tonight, stars on both coasts have been faced...

SCHOOL'S OUT IN B'KLYN, QNS.

Brooklyn and Queens schools are closed today in honor of a little-known holiday. It's called Brooklyn-Queens Day, commemorating the founding of the first Protestant Sunday school on Long Island. The...

DAUGHTERS SEE MA, AUNT SLAIN

After five years of domestic turmoil marked by angry separations and short-lived reconciliations, a Bronx ex-con fatally shot his pregnant girlfriend and her sister in front of his teen stepdaughters,...

ROCCO RIPS MEATBALLS MADNESS

Relations between financier Jeffrey Chodorow and TV chef Rocco DiSpirito have gotten so bad that Chodorow has blocked the celeb from getting some of his own mother's meatballs, the cook's...

TV JUDGE RAPS LAFAYETTE HS

Brooklyn's beleaguered Lafayette HS has become the butt of jokes - on national court TV. "People's Court" Judge Marilyn Millian said she knew Lafayette's reputation as "Horror High" as she...

WASHINGTON'S HAIL TO CHIEF - CASKET DRAWN PAST THOUSANDS; REAGAN LIES IN STATE AT CAPITOL; CONGRESS IN MOVING TRIBUTE

WASHINGTON - Ronald Reagan came back to Washington again yesterday as Congress paid him a moving final tribute and tens of thousands of well-wishers bid solemn farewells as his body...

INK STINK: MARTHA MAN INDICTED

The ink expert who helped put away domestic diva Martha Stewart faced his own federal indictment yesterday, when he was charged with two counts of lying under oath. Larry Stewart,...

DEALER IS INDICTED IN 500G ART SCAM

A prominent New York gallery owner is facing 15 years in jail for allegedly stealing a half-million dollars of artwork from his unsuspecting customers. Jack Wright, who operates galleries in...

SHELTER BABY SLAY - CITY MISSED WORST ABUSE SINCE TRAGIC LISA

IT is the worst case of child abuse since the killing of Lisa Steinberg - but this brutal murder of a Manhattan child was not hidden from public view behind...

WASHINGTON PAYS SOLEMN LAST RESPECTS AS REAGAN LIES IN STATE

WASHINGTON - Ronald Reagan returned to Washington yesterday, with Congress paying him a moving final farewell and tens of thousands of well-wishers bidding solemn a goodbye as his body lay...

WAREHOUSE SLAY OFFICER IS INDICTED

A New York City cop has been indicted in the shooting death of an unarmed African merchant in a Chelsea warehouse last year, sources said. The officer, Brian Conroy, was...

CHUCK RIPS $ECURITY BOSS

WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday blasted Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge and called it a "disgrace" that Wyoming and other rural states get more per-capita anti-terror money than New...

SILVER 'RAPE' BLAME

ALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is personally to blame for the rape of a 22-year-old staffer last year by a top aide, a lawyer for the young woman charged...

SCHOOL-SAFETY 'PERVERT' BUSTED

A Brooklyn elementary-school safety officer has been busted after an alleged rump-grabbing rampage against five of his colleagues. During one incident, he even fondled himself in front of a classroom...

THANKS, YANKS: IRAQ PREZ

WASHINGTON - An emotional President Bush yesterday held his first formal meeting with Iraq's new president, Ghazi al-Yawer, who warmly thanked America for liberating his country from Saddam Hussein. "I...

NANCY BEARS THE WEIGHT WITH CLASS

WASHINGTON - Slowly, sadly, Nancy Reagan walked over to her husband's flag-draped coffin and reached out to caress it as the echoes of "God Bless America" rang out through the...

HUNT FOR CANARSIE RAPIST

Fear gripped Canarsie yesterday as residents joined cops and police helicopters in a desperate search for a sweet-talking serial rapist. Brooklyn investigators said they were concerned the attacker, who targeted...

SEX SICKOS ASSAULT TEEN

A 13-year-old girl walking home alone from school on a Brooklyn street was kidnapped and raped by four youths who tried recruiting her as a prostitute, police said. The shocking...

'THE GREATEST PRESIDENT OF A LIFETIME' UNITES NATION EVEN IN DEATH

THE silence. From early in the morning, people teemed over Constitution Avenue in the blistering heat. Old people and newborns. Teenagers too young to remember the man whose passing they...

QNS. COP 'BITES' BACK AT SUSPECT

A cop yesterday fingered a Queens man as the thug who bit him in a scuffle outside Jamaica Hospital last year. "The defendant turned his head toward me, looked at...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Oh, bee-have! Norm Gitzen of Lake Worth, Fla., didn't mind 700,000 bees living in the roof of his house until recently - when they began stinging him and his nephew....

PROSTATE TEST OFFERS NEW HOPE

Scientists have identified a gene that can forecast how aggressive a man's prostate cancer will be. The research may lead to a test to identify the strength of a cancer...

BLOOMBERG BOOMING - APPROVAL HITS 50% IN POLLS

Political rivals who assumed Mayor Bloomberg was going to be a pushover in the next race got a jolt yesterday when a new poll showed his approval rating at 50...

SHOCKING TEEN RAPE

A 13-year-old girl walking home alone from school on a Brooklyn street was kidnapped and raped by four youths who tried recruiting her as a prostitute, police said. The shocking...

O.J. A COMMON KILLER: MARCIA

LOS ANGELES - Former prosecutor Marcia Clark belittled O.J. Simpson as a "common domestic-violence" murderer, and heaped blame on Judge Lance Ito's ego for The Juice's stunning acquittal. In her...

'POTTER'SAN POLITICS - DEMS, GOPERS PICK HARRY'S POWERS

Republicans and Democrats both like power - the power to become invisible, that is. Asked which of Harry Potter's magical powers they'd most want, registered members of the nation's top...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

THE BRONX * An 81-year-old Pelham Bay man was hospitalized after a plastic soda bottle filled with a volatile substance exploded in his hands last night, cops said. Two teens...

TEEN: DEM POL SODOMIZED ME

A teenager testified yesterday that her sister's former fiancé, then a Brooklyn Democratic district leader, sodomized her while the two watched a pornographic movie. The 16-year-old girl, who was 13...

VICTIM: SILVER LET PERV AIDE ATTACK

ALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is personally to blame for the rape of a 22-year-old staffer last year by a top aide, a lawyer for the young woman charged...

HE'S IN A FINE FIX - HIT WITH 3G IN TIX AFTER PLATES STOLEN

A Brooklyn man slapped with $3,397 in parking fines says he's not guilty of those violations - and blames the thief who stole his license plates for racking up the...

UNIONS NEED MORE THAN SOLIDARITY TO WIN

The first words out of Randi Weingarten's mouth at the massive municipal union rally outside City Hall were, "This is solidarity." It wasn't just rhetoric on the part of the...

$50M SUIT SERVED UP TO SOFTEE

Mister Softee has more trouble on his sticky little hands. The family of a young Bronx woman who was hit by a car and seriously injured after she bought an...

COP IN HOSPITAL SCUFFLE FINGERS LEG-BITER

A hulking Queens man who once beat a cop-shooting charge on a technicality was fingered in court yesterday as the man who chomped down on a police officer's leg during...

BOY, 5, TIED UP IN CLASS: GRAN

A Brooklyn woman yesterday accused her 5-year-old grandson's kindergarten teacher of tying him to a chair in front of the entire class. The alleged incident occurred May 26 at PS...

QNS. MAN CONVICTED IN 'RENT' STABS

A Queens tenant was convicted yesterday of trying to stab his neighbors to death in exchange for cash and a free apartment from the landlord, who was sick of the...

REAGAN-LIKE LANDSLIDE EYED

NOW is a good time to look back at the land slide win that sent Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980, because lots of analysts think 2004 could...

LOHAN'S DAD: MY GIRL SUPPORTS ME

Actress Lindsay Lohan's purportedly pugilistic papa denied yesterday that his teen sensation daughter is so "terrified" of him she's hired bodyguards. "His daughter is completely supportive of him," Michael Lohan...

MORE CHARTER SCHOOLS ON WAY

Mayor Bloomberg will open eight new charter schools this fall as part of his campaign to provide more options for students, it was announced yesterday. That will increase to 31...

DAY-CARE STRIKE - PARENTS LEFT IN LURCH

Some 7,000 angry day-care workers began a three-day strike yesterday, forcing the parents of 37,000 children to scramble to make other arrangements. Under a broiling sun, the workers, who have...

STREET ARTIST STANDS TRIAL

A popular street artist was caught white handed with his paint and a brush, two city cops said yesterday. James De La Vega's lawyer admitted the artist created a fish-themed...

TIGER MAN OPTS FOR TRIAL

The man who kept a 400-pound tiger in his Harlem apartment says he's eager to prove he never endangered the public. Antoine Yates, 36, could have avoided his July 20...

FROM CON TO DON - GOTTI PAL'S POWER BID

Hard-as-nails Gambino gangster Nicholas "Little Nicky" Corozzo will walk out of the big house today and is set to seize control of the city's most powerful crime ring, The Post...

'LAST MAN OUT' RETIRES - HERO COP WAS FINAL WTC SURVIVOR

It was little bit like Lou Gehrig retiring. With a bagpipe wailing and some 150 fellow cops, family and friends unleashing four solid ovations, nobody had to tell Port Authority...

'POTTY' WAR STALL TACTIC

A plan to force bars, theaters and stadiums to build more women's bathrooms would flush millions of dollars down the drain, critics said yesterday. The so-called "potty parity" bill, introduced...

HAMPTONS DIARY

ANYONE for fore play? Tiger Woods jetted into Southampton yesterday for a sneaky three-hour practice at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club before the U.S. Open kicks off there next week. The...

CANCER TEEN'S HIGH NOTE - GETS WISH TO PLAY VIOLIN FOR PHILHARMONIC

For the New York Philharmonic, tomorrow's performance is just another concert - but for 18-year-old violinist Claude Giampietro, it's a wish fulfilled. In November, three months after he was diagnosed...

'PLOT' THICKENS - JUDGE REFUSES TO EXHUME MOBSTER

A federal judge shot down reputed Bonanno boss Joseph Massino's bid to dig up a murdered capo's decades-old corpse yesterday after receiving a letter from the widow asking to protect...

ANNIVERSARY HORROR - ELDERLY PAIR KILLED BY 'DRUNK' DRIVER

An elderly couple celebrating their 47th wedding anniversary walked hand-in-hand into a Brooklyn street yesterday - and were killed by a drunken driver's speeding car, cops and witnesses said. Sylvia...

COUNCIL SLAPS JENNINGS

The City Council Ethics Committee yesterday formally charged Councilman Allan Jennings with creating a hostile work environment - and the embattled Queens legislator now faces an administrative trial that could...

NEIGHBOR NAILED IN 'RENT' STAB

A Queens tenant was convicted yesterday of trying to stab his neighbors to death in exchange for cash and a free apartment from the landlord, who was sick of the...

BIZ IN 'STALL' TACTIC : 2-FOR-1 LADIES-ROOM WAR

A plan to force bars, theaters and stadiums to build more women's bathrooms would flush millions of dollars down the drain, critics said yesterday. The so-called "potty parity" bill, introduced...

FATAL 'LOVE' STORY - BEAU KILLS SISTERS: COPS

After five years of domestic turmoil marked by angry separations and short-lived reconciliations, a Bronx ex-con fatally shot his pregnant girlfriend and her sister in front of his teen stepdaughters,...

CONTRACT CRY - CITY DAY-CARE WORKERS GO ON THREE-DAY STRIKE

Some 7,000 angry day-care workers began a three-day strike yesterday, forcing the parents of 37,000 children to scramble to make other arrangements. Under a broiling sun, the workers, who have...

B'KLYN POL SODOMIZED ME: TEEN

A teenage girl testified yesterday that her sister's former fiancé - then a Brooklyn Democratic district leader - sodomized her while the two watched a pornographic movie, declared his love...

HIGH NOTE AS CANCER TEEN GETS WISH

For the New York Philharmonic, tomorrow's performance is just another concert - but for 18-year-old violinist Claude Giampietro, it's a wish fulfilled. In November, three months after he was diagnosed...

CLASSROOM EXTRA - NEW YORK'S BEACHFRONT PLAYGROUND

Long before there was a Disneyland, Brooklyn's Coney Island was the world's largest amusement center. It's still a fun place to play. There are a few theories on how Coney...

METS LEAVE 'EM LOADED - OFFENSE STRIKES OUT VS. TWINS

Twins 5 Mets 3 MINNEAPOLIS - If you want to see the Mets really struggle offensively, here's what you do - load up the bases for them. That's right. Put...

DALY WON'T GET FREE RYDER

HAL SUTTON said it's "premature" to start finalizing whom he wants on his U.S. Ryder Cup team that will play the Europeans this September at Oakland Hills. With three major...

BURNOUT WATCH ON MO - RIVERA & 'PEN PALS PILING UP THOSE INNINGS

LIKE secondary charac ters on The Sopranos, the survival rate among closers is not strong. Are you more surprised Paulie Walnuts is still collecting illegal kickbacks through five seasons or...

DON'T BELIEVE BELTRAN TRADE TALK ... YET

YANKEE NOTES An Internet report linking the Yankees to a three-way trade that would bring them center fielder Carlos Beltran is a bit premature, according to a baseball official with...

IT'S A 'DOGFIGHT' ; LAKERS TAKE MOMENTUM TO MO-TOWN

LOS ANGELES - It has come down to Destiny vs. Defense as the deadlocked NBA Finals switch to The Palace of Auburn Hills for the next three games, starting tonight...

SHOCKEY HOBBLED AGAIN

Forget all that coach-speak about football being a team sport and how it takes all 11 guys on each side of the ball working as one. Some players are more...

YANKS BACK INTACT

"He knows how important he is. If there's any hint of any problem, he'll tell me." - JOE TORRE (ABOVE) ON DEREK JETER After missing three straight games with an...

POSADA'S SLUMP IS MIND-BOGGLING

When Jorge Posada was batting .324 on May 21 and hitting everything hard, he was reluctant to discuss the reason why his stick was smoking. "I don't want to know...

RED-HOT FARRELL GETS RELIEF FROM DIMAURO

CHSAAMsgr. Farrell 7Moore Cath. 6 Monsignor Farrell's Mike DiMauro was lit up by Molloy for four runs over the weekend, but coach Bob Mulligan didn't lose faith in the senior....

METS NEED BOPPER - PITCHING SOLID;'O' LACKS PUNCH

MINNEAPOLIS - The Mets had a new bat in the lineup last night. He was stationed in left field, ready to contribute. Yet it's clear that Gerald Williams is not...

MAILMAN MIGHT SING SWAN SONG

FINALS NOTES LOS ANGELES - If Karl Malone's career is over as feared, he wasn't willing to own up to it yet. The Lakers power forward sounded like a man...

HOWE 'FINE WITH KAZ' DEFENSE'

MET NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Art Howe defended Kaz Matsui's fielding yesterday, insisting he's not worried about his shortstop's defense. "I'm fine with his defense. I feel good with him at...

RICHTER GOES BACK TO SCHOOL

A year and seven months have passed since Mike Richter sustained his career-ending concussion. It continues to haunt him. "I'm still feeling some symptoms," Richter said from Central Park, where...

SHOCKED PISTONS PICK UP THE PIECES

AUBURN HILLS - There is no sense going on. The world has no meaning, no reward. The Pistons are dead, waiting only for the embalming fluid. That shot by Kobe...

COMEBACK KIDS - BOMBERS'HRS ERASE5-0 DEFICIT,TOP ROCKS

Yankees 7Rockies 5 Kevin Brown's balky back may be the equalizer, but just how deep a ditch do you have to put the Yankees in so they can't come back?...

METS LEAVE 'EM LOADED ; OFFENSE STRIKES OUT VS. TWINS

Twins 5Mets 3 MINNEAPOLIS - If you want to see the Mets really struggle offensively, here's what you do: load up the bases. That's right. Load 'em up. Put three...

HOWE 'FINE WIH KAZ' DEFENSE

MET NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Art Howe defended Kaz Matsui's fielding yesterday, insisting he's not worried about his shortstop's glove. "I'm fine with his defense," Howe said. "I feel good with...

JETER'S RETURN POWERS YANKS

Derek Jeter's importance not only as the Yankee captain but as their catalyst was never more clear than last night. After missing three games with a strained left groin, the...

BROWN'S BACK BAD NEWS

ABOUT two hours be fore last night's 7:08 first pitch, Joe Torre already was fielding questions about this afternoon's game. Well, he was answering questions about Jose Contreras And even...

COMEBACK KIDS - BOMBERS' HRS ERASE 5-0 DEFICIT, TOP ROCKS

Yankees 7 Rockies 5 Kevin Brown's balky back and a mind that worries there is something seriously wrong with him when he doesn't pitch well could be the equalizer. But...

DON'T BELIEVE BELTRAN TRADE TALK - YET

YANKEE NOTES An Internet report linking the Yankees to a three-way trade that would bring them center fielder Carlos Beltran is a bit premature, according to a baseball official with...

POSADA (3-FOR-4) GETS BACK ON TRACK

When Jorge Posada was batting .324 on May 21 and hitting everything hard, he was reluctant to discuss the reason why his bat was smoking. "I don't want to know...

MAJOR CHANGE FOR PHIL ; MICKELSON RELAXED AS BUICK BEGINS

"Obviously, I want to win more majors. That was my goal from the beginning, not to win just one."PHIL MICKELSON On the eve of today's Buick Classic opening round, Masters...

OLD COURSE STILL O-KAYE WITH CHAMP

The oft-brash 33-year-old said all the right things, all the correct things, about concentrating on the Buick Classic that opens today at Westchester CC and not fretting next week's U.S....

SCIACCA GRABS FIRST VICTORY

1ST RACE - Outside was place to be. Shesasoprano, who always shows speed and tires, set pressured pace along rail. Top of stretch, Mystical Sea came with three-wide move to...