October 29, 2005
WPP FACES AEGIS DEADLINE
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amWPP Group Chief Sir Martin Sorrell is facing a deadline to launch a takeover bid for Aegis, the biggest independent media-buying firm. A British regulatory panel ruled yesterday that WPP...
REFCO STIFFING ITS CUSTOMERS
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amLawyers for collapsed futures trading giant Refco Inc. are trying to treat investors' cash and investments as debt that doesn't need to be immediately returned to the bankrupt firm's customers....
STORMPROOF - DOW SOARS 172 AS ECONOMY SHOWS ITS STRENGTH
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amFlexing its muscles, the nation's economy easily shook off the first round of double bashings from Katrina and soaring oil prices to give Wall Street its best lift in months....
SULZBERGER SEES 'FAILURE' AT TIMES
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amNew York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. criticized the paper's slow response to its now-discredited stories that Saddam Hussein was actively developing weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to...
MILLION-DOLLAR BABIES - $1M IS NO FORTUNE IN NEW YORK REAL ESTATE - HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN BUY
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amIF you were a millionaire, you'd be rich, right? In "If I Had a Million Dollars," the now-classic song from the Barenaked Ladies, we're told that with a million dollars,...
YOUR TABLE IS WAITING
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amOmniPresents The Surrey Hotel, 20 E. 76th St., between Fifth and Madison avenues (800) 317-4438 Sale: ends today Open: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Candles, bed sheets and soaps are $20 to...
A PRINCE PLAYS BALL
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amIT should be one of Park Avenue's more interesting couple of floors when Prince Abdul Aziz al-Thani moves into the apartment above the new Sultan of Swat, Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez,...
IT'S A TEEN THING - 'WAR AT HOME' TAPS INTO THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amFOX's freshman sitcom, "The War at Home," has been cornering the market on young viewers. And in a business obsessed with youth, that, more than anything else, has earned the...
ROAD TRIPPIN' - FILM SET BRINGS BACK '60S IN N.Y.; TUNE IN, TURN ON, PAINT OVER
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amIf you were lost on the Lower East Side lately and thought you wandered into Haight Ashbury, you're not tripping on acid. Rivington Street between Attorney and Suffolk streets has...
LOOK WHO'S HAUNTIN' - TRICK OR TREAT AT THE CITY'S TOP ATTRACTIONS
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amSPIDERS, spirits, worms and worse are taking over the city this weekend - and they're leaving virtually no place untouched. Ghosts are haunting Chelsea Piers, bats are raising the roof...
JAY-Z PREACHES POWER OF PEACE
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amA day before the hip-hop show Powerhouse 2005 played the Meadowlands, rap-mogul president of Def Jam Records Jay-Z - who starred in the extravaganza -said on the radio, "I declare...
LEAK PROBERS SOCK SCOOTER - RESIGNS AFTER INDICTMENT ON OBSTRUCTION AND PERJURY RAPS IN CIA SCANDAL
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, resigned yesterday after he was indicted by a grand jury, accused of obstructing its investigation and lying...
HE WAS A VIP TO THE VEEP
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amIf Karl Rove is George Bush's brain, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is Dick Cheney's clone. That means that much that is true about Cheney is true about his chief of...
CORZINE UP BY 10 PTS.
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amDemocratic Sen. John Corzine has opened up a 10-point lead over Republican challenger Doug Forrester in the hotly contested race for New Jersey governor, a new poll of likely voters...
MORBID STAT ON BYPASS
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - The University Hospital of Brooklyn had the worst adult heart-bypass surgery death rate in the state, according to a new state Health Department report. Of the 96 bypass...
'RACE RAGE' TALLY - 2 YRS. IN BAT ATTACK
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe victim of a brutal, racially charged bat attack in Howard Beach this summer made a plea for racial harmony in a Queens courtroom yesterday as a judge sentenced one...
DASTARDLY DAD'S DEATH WISH - KILLS 1 EX, SHOOTS 2ND ON S.I.
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amA Staten Island man's domestic drama took a bloody turn when he shot and killed one ex-girlfriend, critically wounded another and then ended his rampage by putting a bullet in...
MIKE TALKS THE TALK IN TRILINGUAL AD BLITZ
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amHe's been studying Spanish, but Mayor Bloomberg is so intent on reaching every conceivable voting bloc that he has campaign commercials in which the mayor also speaks Chinese, Korean and...
'GATSBY' SLAY BEAU IN L.I. COURT
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe live-in boyfriend of the young mother found brutally murdered in super-rich Sands Point, L.I., appeared yesterday in court. Edgar Sanchez, 34 - who was rooming with slain "Gatsby gal"...
REV. TURNS ON FERRER
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton was a mysterious no-show at a campaign event for Fernando Ferrer - and just hours later ripped the Democratic nominee for opposing the Atlantic Yards project...
'PERV' IN DOUBLE TROUBLE - TRAPPED TWICE ONLINE
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island lawyer thought he was chatting online to two young teenage girls competing for his affections - but both the teens turned out to be different undercover detectives...
DA WANTS OMERTA FROM 'MOB' LAWYERS
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe feds want lawyers for a pair of reputed mob cops to shut their yaps. Prosecutors from the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's Office say Bruce Cutler and Ed Hayes, who represent...
IS THAT ALL THERE IS? - CIA LEAK PROBE DISAPPOINTS LEFT
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amSO, after 28 months, what we are told is this: Scooter Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, lied about his conversations with two reporters. He lied about those conversations...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Police are seeking two men responsible for several gunpoint robberies of pedestrians in the Gramercy Park area - and several robberies later that day in Forest Hills, Queens....
BLOOMY BINGE: $63M
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg is keeping up his unbridled spending in the mayoral race, tearing through $17.2 million over the last three weeks to hit $63.8 million, according to filings yesterday. Rival...
SWEET SMELL OF MYSTERY WAFTING ALONG
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amCity and state officials are at a loss as to what caused the sticky-sweet smell of maple syrup to wash over lower Manhattan Thursday evening. But they're sure of one...
JILTED JOE HAS HONEY TOO: PALS
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe husband who's filed a $5 million suit against the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and the minister he claims cuckolded him "has a longtime girlfriend of his own," a family...
SHE KNOWS THE SCORES
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amCLAYTON, Mo. - She's the boss of the household - and like a corporate exec tamping down bad news, Michelle McCormick was mum yesterday about her hubby, the strip-club fan...
PRIVATE FUNERAL FOR TRAGIC ROWER
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amRelatives of a much-beloved rower yesterday were planning a "very private" funeral as an autopsy determined he died of head injuries suffered when he plunged into the Hudson River after...
A BLUE DAY FOR GIANTS - PLAYERS PAST AND PRESENT GATHER FOR MARA'S FUNERAL
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amIn a touching and star-studded send-off fit for one of pro football's patriarchs, New York Giant owner Wellington Mara was remembered yesterday as a devout family man and the driving...
TRAGIC SUICIDE $HAME - BIZ LOSSES BLAMED
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe shame of losing a tony lifestyle led a Manhattan mother and father to kill themselves and their two young children with carbon monoxide, police and grieving family members said...
KIDS SHUN TUTORING
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amMore than 84 percent of poor students in the city's worst schools entitled to free tutoring this year have not signed up for the benefit, according to city Department of...
'LIES' ABOUT IRAQ INTEL PUT A REVVED-UP 'SCOOTER' ON THE WARPATH
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - "Scooter" Libby must have been livid as he read leak after leak from Iraq war critic Joe Wilson charging that the White House faked Iraq intelligence to go...
TRIO BRAVES FIRE TO SAVE WOMAN
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThree men rushed into a burning Brooklyn building yesterday and rescued a woman about to succumb to heavy smoke. The fire began just after 5 p.m. at 488 Waverly Ave...
BEAU IN CELLAR SLAYING - GAL'S BODY FOUND
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe body of a Brooklyn woman missing more than two weeks was found in a windowless basement yesterday - and cops believe she was killed by her abusive boyfriend, authorities...
RUSH-HOUR CAR THIEF RUNS AMOK IN MIDTOWN
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amAn NYPD manhunt was on last night for a car thief who left a path of rush-hour destruction behind - injuring two Midtown pedestrians and a motorist while making a...
KNOWING THE SCORES - LAP-DUNCE WIFE RULES
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amCLAYTON, Mo. - She's the boss of the household - and like a corporate exec tamping down bad news, Michelle McCormick was mum yesterday about her hubby, the strip-club fan...
ONLINE DOUBLE TROUBLE FOR PERV SUSPECT
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island lawyer thought he was chatting online to two young teenage girls competing for his affections - but both turned out to be different undercover detectives competing to...
L.I. MARINE KILLED IN IRAQ BATTLE
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island Marine was killed during an attack in Iraq when his unit came under fire, officials said yesterday. Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Kremm, 25, of Hauppauge, was outside...
MOM TURNS ON 'LAWYER-SLAY' SON
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amCalifornia prosecutors yesterday flipped an embattled mom against her goth punk son who has been accused of murdering a prominent lawyer's wife. Esther Fielding, the 53-year-old mom of accused teen...
'GATSBY' SLAY BEAU IN COURT
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe live-in boyfriend of the young mother found brutally murdered in super-rich Sands Point, L.I., appeared yesterday in court. Edgar Sanchez, 34 - who was rooming with slain "Gatsby gal"...
JERSEY GUYS - PREZ, COACH HAVE RUTGERS BOWL-BOUND
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amPISCATAWAY - Rutgers president Dr. Richard McCormick was asked why his university's football coach, Greg Schiano, left powerhouse Miami, where he was being groomed as a possible head coach, to...
KENNEDY AFTER SIXTH WIN IN ROW
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amAlex Vega didn't panic when he lost his first two games as head coach at his alma mater. "I knew once we got healthy, we'd be better," the Kennedy coach...
ROCK HARD TEN A CLASSIC SCRATCH
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amRock Hard Ten, the 7-2 second choice on the morning line for today's Breeders' Cup Classic, was scratched yesterday because of an injury to his right front foot - not...
'HENDRIX' WINS AT THE WIRE
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe track was fast, harrowed, no turf; wind died down quite a bit.1ST RACE - Almost every horse in race held lead at one point or another. Suave Prince broke...
TONY JAX DEAD AT 62 - CANCER KILLS EX-SJU STAR
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amSt. John's basketball legend Tony Jackson died yesterday after a year-long battle with lung cancer. He was 62. Jackson, who was born in Brooklyn, was among the career leaders in...
DEVILS STAYING SCOTT-FREE
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amRetired, staying that way, and a little irritated. Scott Stevens put it plainly. Stevens reacted swiftly to a tale in a Jersey paper that inflated his "you never know" comments...
SATAN HAS POINT TO MAKE
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amSABRES at ISLES - Tonight - 7:00 FSN2; WBBR (1130 AM) This is Miroslav Satan's second chance at his old team, this time with added emphasis. Satan failed to score...
BENCH CAN BE A BIG BOON FOR NETS
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThere were moments in this preseason when the Nets looked at their vaunted depth and saw real cause for concern. There were times when the second unit got outworked, got...
RANGERS FEEL A LITTLE SHORT
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amRANGERS at CANADIENS - Tonight 7:00 - MSG; ESPN (1050 AM) MONTREAL - And then, other than all the obvious, there's a whole other reason the Rangers need to stay...
RELIEVE IT OR NOT - METS, YANKS EYE GORDON, OTHERS FOR '06 BULLPEN
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amTom Gordon and Trevor Hoffman have been informed: The Mets will be interested in the each veteran right-hander next month when free agents can sign with other clubs. Gordon and...
PIAZZA, BERNIE ENTER FREE AGENCY
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amTwo of the biggest names in New York baseball filed for free agency yesterday. It was nothing more than a formality, but newsworthy because of what Mike Piazza and Bernie...
CABLEVISION, OLN SETTLE DISPUTE
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe dispute that kept OLN's NHL cablecasts off Cablevision systems has been resolved. Cablevision's digital basic subscribers thus will be able to watch Monday's Canadiens-Rangers, as well as the rest...
OUTTA ROTATION - BROWN STILL HASN'T SET KNICKS' LINEUP
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amAs the Knicks were preparing to complete their final tune-up last night against the Nets, Larry Brown was still torn about his rotation. The coach and his team have four...
GET READY FOR A CLASSIC BATTLE - HORSE OF YEAR AWARD ON THE LINE AT BELMONT
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amMuch more than $15,755,000 in purses and awards will be at stake in today's 22nd running of the Breeders' Cup at Belmont Park. The "World Thoroughbred Championships," as the Breeders'...
BOX SEAT IN BLUE HEAVEN - MARA REMEMBERED AT PACKED ST. PAT'S
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amWellington Mara yesterday was remembered as a devoted husband, father, grandfather, a man of great faith and humility, as a caretaker for the New York Giants, the conscience of the...
STARCRAFT OWNER CONFIDENT OF WIN
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amTHE hottest jockey of the week, Patrick Valenzuela, told the owner of Starcraft yesterday that the Australian superstar could be a lock to win today's $4.7 million Breeders' Cup Classic...
FOUR HORSES LOOKING TO REPEAT
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK Only five horses have won back-to-back Breeders' Cup races: Miesque (1987-88) and Lure (1992-93) in the Mile; Bayakoa (1989-90) in the Distaff; High Chaparall (2002-03) in the Turf, and...
'BEFITTING HEAD OF STATE'
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThey had just said goodbye to their dear beloved Wellington Mara, and now Harry Carson stood in the cold outside St. Patrick's Cathedral and remembered how badly he wanted to...
BARNES TRULY MARA FRIEND TO VERY END
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amAs he did often during Wellington Mara's prolonged stay in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Ronnie Barnes slept last Thursday night in Mara's room, watching over the 89-year old co-owner and...
NET 'D' IS PLUGGING HOLES AGAIN
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amOK, the Nets' world is spinning on its axis again. They're not such a dreadful defensive team after all. Earlier this week, coach Lawrence Frank, admittedly one of the "half-full...
KNICKS KNOCKED - BROWN: TEAM 'DISORGANIZED' AS OPENER LOOMS
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amPRESEASON: Nets 91- Knicks 86 The Knicks completed their final tune-up last night against the Nets, with coach Larry Brown torn about his rotation and tearing into his club for...
CLEMMENSEN DELIVERS FOR DEVS
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amDevils 3 - Sabres 2 With Martin Brodeur talking practice tomorrow or Monday, Scott Clemmensen might not have long to show the Devils his stuff. He made the most of...
COUNTDOWN TO THE BREEDERS' CUP
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe Post continues its profiles of each of the eight Breeders' Cup races to be run today at Belmont Park. The Countdown to the Cup spotlights potential nice-price winners as...
DEVILS TO STAY SCOTT-FREE
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amRetired, staying that way, and a little irritated. Scott Stevens put it plainly. "Here's your headline: Stevens says, 'No way,' " the former Devils captain told The Post yesterday. Stevens...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 29, 2005 | 4:00amEmily the cat has been known to stray from her home in Appleton, Wis. But last time she not only strayed, she stowed away. A month after she went missing,...