November 2, 2005
REFCO SLAMS ROGERS OVER $362M CLAIM
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amBankrupt trading firm Refco Inc. struck back at hedge fund pioneer Jim Rogers yesterday, claiming two funds he partially controls approved the transfer of $362 million in assets to a...
MOGULS AD IT UP ; WEINSTEINS' FILM SHOP WELCOMES MARKETERS' MONEY
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amWhen WPP Group CEO Sir Martin Sorrell invested in Harvey and Bob Weinstein's new film company, he wasn't banking on a string of box-office hits but gambling that his long...
TALENT AGENCY ICM RAISES $100M TO GROW BUSINESS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amHollywood talent agency ICM raised more than $100 million yesterday to finance an expansion of its business. ICM raised the money from Merrill Lynch and Rizvi Traverse Management, a Greenwich,...
GRASSO BID FOILED ; JUDGE REJECTS MOVE TO DISMISS CHARGES
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amLawyers for the former New York Stock Exchange chairman yesterday apparently struck out in a bid to dismiss charges brought by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. State Supreme Court...
MEATPACKER PACKING UP
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amSO long to meat packing in the Meatpacking District. It looks like the Western Beef Building and its supermarket at 401-03 W. 14th St., on the northwest corner of Ninth...
TW WILL INCREASE ITS SHARE BUYBACK
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amLook for Time Warner to make news today beyond its quarterly earnings, as investors expect the media giant to announce an increase in its share buyback plan - a measure...
WAL-MART ELVES MAY STOCK $398 LAPTOPS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amFirst came the $19 Elmo doll, then the $29 DVD player. This year Wal-Mart is gearing up to offer cut-price computers, according to a Web site that tracks holiday bargains....
MCDONALD'S FACES BIG REIT ATTACK
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amMcDonald's Corp. may have to go to war to keep the meat of its company - its valuable real estate. Pressure mounted yesterday for the world's biggest restaurant chain to...
SEC SMACKS HACKERS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday sued an Estonian investment bank whose traders scammed almost $8 million by hacking into market-moving press releases before they became public. According to the...
FED HIKES AGAIN; BENCHMARK NOW 4%
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amAs expected, Alan Greenspan raised interest rates another notch yesterday to keep his legacy in motion, but concerns grew that his expected successor, Ben Bernanke, might take a different path...
NO MORE CELEBRITIES! JANN WENNER PUTS KIBOSH ON NEXT STAR-GAZING MAG
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amUS Weekly may be sitting pretty in the celebrity magazine world, but Wenner Media boss Jann Wenner obviously thinks too much of a good thing can be a bad thing....
'CURTAINS!' MAY RISE; 'SPAMALOT' STAR DRAWN TO A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE best comic chemistry to be found in the theater this week isn't the "marriage" of Matthew Brode rick and Nathan Lane. It's the "three-way" of David Hyde Pierce, Edward...
'LOST' TAKES NOVEL TURN
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE producers of the hit show "Lost" are writing a subplot into the show about a character named Gary Troup who didn't survive the show's deadly plane crash but left...
WHAT'S WITH THAT MELTDOWN MOM ON FOX?
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE gap-toothed Louisiana woman whose babbling, screaming meltdown has been played repeatedly on Fox to promote tonight's new season of "Trading Spouses" tonight doesn't care if people think she's nuts....
MOORE-ONS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amBRUCE Willis and Ashton Kutcher - Demi Moore's past and present husbands - are such good friends they will appear together for the first time on an episode of "That...
ALL SHOOK UP AT CNN PRIME
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amCNN storm-chaser Anderson Cooper appears to be inching closer to capturing a prime-time time slot on the all-news cable network. Although CNN had no comment yesterday, speculation continued to swirl...
CRACKING THE SOUP CASE - WHAT MAKES THE SOUP NAZI SO GOOD? OUR EXPERTS EXPLAIN
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amAL Yeganeh hasn't followed the classic recipe for success. It's more of a soup opera - take one part broth and add a dash of lust and fury. Nationally famous...
MY BLUE HEAVEN - TASTES LIKE CHICKEN? HARDLY, IF IT'S AN EXOTIC BLUE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amENOUGH with "Kobe" beef. Forget last year's underwhelming blue lobster: Blue foot chicken frenzy has seized the town. The amazing California-bred creature, modeled on France's fabled (and non-exportable) poulet de...
SIKH'S TURBAN BASH ORDEAL
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amA Sikh man told a Queens judge yesterday how he saw his cousin beaten and kicked on the ground outside a Richmond Hill catering hall by a group of white...
DEAL LETS QNS. SLAY-CARE OWNER DODGE PRISON
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe owner of a Queens day-care center where a 6-month-old boy was tragically smothered under a mountain of toys got off with no jail time yesterday after pleading guilty to...
GAULING MAULING - N.Y. MICHELIN GUIDE STIRS IREBY LEANING TO 'HOME' COOKING
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe Paris-based Michelin restaurant guide has finally hit the shores of North America, and - quel shock! - three of its four top restaurants are French. Alain Ducasse, Jean-Georges and...
CRASH 'LANDING'; 4 TEENS HURT AS CAR 'FLIES' OUT OF CONTROL
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amAn out-of-control car skidded off a Queens street last night - flying 50 feet though the air before landing in a driveway - leaving its driver clinging to life and...
ON-THE-JOB DEATHS SKYROCKET IN CITY
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amOn-the-job deaths increased sharply in the city last year, reversing a decade-long decline, the government said yesterday. There were 107 fatal work injuries here last year, compared with 94 in...
ISRAEL BLOWS AWAY 2 TOP TERRORISTS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - An Israeli missile blasted two Palestinian terror chiefs to death in the Gaza Strip yesterday - and militant groups vowed to "open the gates of hell" in a...
A PINCH OF BIAS LEAVES BITTER TASTE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amIS THE Michelin Guide full of surprises? It depends on your idea of a "surprise." For the most part, the product of a year's worth of anonymous visits by "highly...
UNTOUCHED DUCHESS IN RESTRICTED HEIR SPACE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amCHARLES, meet Camilla. Camilla, here's Chuck. If you missed their wedding on TV, you'd think that the red-hot geriatric lovers who came over yesterday from Britain had never met. Or...
REMORSELESS PERV 'PATAKI'S PRISONER'
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - Here's the first look at one of the sexual predators considered so dangerous that Gov. Pataki last month locked him up indefinitely, even though his prison term has...
OHIO CASH QUEEN JOINS TEAM HILL
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Ohio's biggest Democratic money maven from 2004 is throwing her financial support behind Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - a huge score for the former first lady in a...
TOP DEMS BACK OFF ALITO
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amSupreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's chances of confirmation without a filibuster rose yesterday when two key Senate Democrats said they see no reason to use the tactic of talking a...
WIFE DROPS ANCHOR ON HARBOR MAN
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe horny harbormaster who cut a wide swath through the town of Huntington - and is suing one of his alleged conquests for sexual harassment - can kiss his marriage...
POLS BOND WITH LARRY
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amDeveloper Larry Silverstein's bid for $3.5 billion in Liberty Bonds to rebuild the World Trade Center got a big boost from both of New York's senators, who have written to...
BIRD SCARE SENDS FOLKS FLYING FOR FREE FLU SHOTS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThousands of New Yorkers yesterday mobbed a city clinic to get free shots - many driven there by a fear that bird flu is on its way. The turnout amazed...
HERO EMT SAVES TWO FROM KILLER FIRE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amA quick-thinking medic saved two lives during a Queens blaze yesterday - but was unable to rescue an elderly woman who died in the fire. Fire officials said EMT Stephen...
PIER INTO FUTURE; W. SIDE PARK PACT
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe grass is getting greener on the West Side. A settlement announced yesterday between the Sanitation Department and the Hudson River Park Trust will make way for expansions to the...
MIKE AND THE TYKE STAR IN A HUG-WILD PHOTO OP
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amWhat's cute, covered in orange and could be Mayor Bloomberg's biggest fan? Little Min Ling Chan, that's who! The pint-sized 8-year-old was introduced to the city's top pol at the...
'PRANK' BLINDS BOY; LAUGHING GHOUL RODE HUMMER
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amA heartless Halloween prankster laughed as he tossed an egg out of a Hummer in a ritzy Long Island town, leaving a 13-year-old boy blinded in one eye, cops and...
WARNING ON DEBT SPIRAL
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amUnless the city restructures key spending programs and holds taxes in check, it risks a never-ending cycle of boom and bust, two new studies warned yesterday. The studies conducted by...
A REAL SLICE OF HISTORY ; PIZZA TURNS 100 WITH 'PIE ON A STICK'
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amIndustry insiders went dough-eyed yesterday as chefs, vendors and other experts began celebrating a major milestone for pizza at an expo at the Javits Center - the 100th anniversary of...
SLATER DEAL OK DESPITE ROOF ANTICS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amWEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Christian Slater's drunken rooftop plunge won't harm his deal with New York prosecutors, who are still willing to give him a pass for an embarrassing grope...
B'KLYN CRUISE GUIDE ON MAIDEN VOYAGE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe first passenger-ship guide to Brooklyn's $40 million cruise terminal has launched, in what may foreshadow a booming future for the borough's tourism industry. Brooklyncruiseguide.com creator Greg Manter spotlights local...
MAN WITH ATKINS BEEF MUST WEIGHT
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amA Florida man who claims the high-fat Atkins Diet nearly killed him failed yesterday to get fast-track treatment for his bid to put warning labels on Atkins products. Jody Gorran,...
MAYOR MAINTAINS MASSIVE MARGIN
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amWith just one week to go, Mayor Bloomberg is still sitting pretty with a solid 30-point lead over Fernando Ferrer, according to new polls released yesterday. The latest Quinnipiac University...
STRIKE PUTS BOOZE BIZ ON ROCK$
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amA strike by two major liquor and wine distributors could have New Yorkers thirsting for their favorite top-shelf hooch. Truck drivers and warehouse workers at Peerless Liquor and Wine Distributors,...
FERNANDO MAY YANK HIS RACY PREZ AD
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amFernando Ferrer's campaign has delayed airing a sexually provocative ad that shows Mayor Bloomberg grabbing President Bush below the belt. Ferrer's ad team had said the 30-second animated spot would...
'MONSTER' JAILED FOR 'TOO CHINESE' SLAYING
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe uncle of a Queens teen senselessly stabbed to death in a fight over ethnic identity tore into the admitted killer yesterday, calling him "inhuman trash." The angry words came...
FREDDY RAILS OVER 'VOICELESS' OUTER-BOROUGH SUBWAY STATIONS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amInvoking his two-city theme, Fernando Ferrer charged yesterday that subway stations outside Manhattan are treated as second-class. Campaigning at the B and C train stop at 135th Street and St....
BRONX MANIAC KILLS EX & SELF
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amA young Bronx woman found her parents shot to death in a gruesome murder-suicide inside the family's Soundview apartment yesterday, cops said. Murder victim Sharoll Medina, 39, had been separated...
FRUMPY DEBUT BOWLES OVER NO FASHIONISTAS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amDIANA would be amused. Her former rival and successor, Camilla Parker Bowles, failed spectacularly in her attempt to wow Manhattan society with her sartorial splendor last night. Dressed in an...
HIT-RUN DAD: ARREST KILLER
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amOn the day a memorial service was held for his son, a distraught Queens dad appealed to the Dominican Republic's president to arrest the hit-and-run driver suspected of mowing the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE BRONX *** A teen suspect escaped police custody after he was busted for disorderly conduct on a Longwood street, police said yesterday. The 17-year-old boy was arrested for causing...
VADER: MAY THE FAT BE WITH YOU
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amDarth Vader isn't just the personification of the Force's dark side - he's also murder on your cholesterol. The lord of darkness was sculpted in butter this year at the...
JUMP IN ON-THE-JOB DEATHS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amOn-the-job deaths increased sharply in the city last year, reversing a decade-long decline, the government said yesterday. There were 107 fatal work injuries here last year, compared with 94 in...
HAILED SCHOOL FAILS; BX. CHARTER TO SHUT
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amAt a time when state and city education officials are pushing to create more charter schools, a highly touted one in The Bronx will close its doors in July, The...
EGG-TOSS KIDNEY DONOR; KIN OFFER PAL ORGAN
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe family of a Bronx man left brain dead when a Halloween prank turned to gunplay wants to donate one of his kidneys to save the life of the nephew...
N.Y.'S CELEBS GIVE CHARLES AND CAMILLA A ROYAL WELCOME
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amIt was a star-studded opening night at MoMA as some of America's royalty turned out yesterday to welcome Prince Charles and wife Camilla to New York at a gala cocktail...
BLOOMY BA$H: ROUND TWO; FERRER GOES FOR DEBATE KO WITH JAB AT GOP BUCKS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg and Democratic challenger Fernando Ferrer went toe to toe in their second and final debate last night - trading blows over schools, how Hizzoner spends his money, and...
RAPIST SMOKE SCREEN - FAKE FIREMAN SETS BLAZE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amA Chelsea woman was duped by the sickest of sex fiends - a thug who dressed as a fireman and lit a blaze outside her apartment so he could sexually...
TAUNTS PUSHED HUBBY OVER THE EDGE; SHOT HIS CHEATING WIFE'S BRAGGART LOVER DEAD: DA
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amA cheating wife, a bragging younger man, a pistol-toting jealous husband. That's the murder case now being described to a Manhattan jury - and even discounting how it ended with...
FREDDY'S LAST STAND
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amALL politics is local, goes the old saw. But not in this year's mayoral race. Facing a 31-point deficit in the latest poll with just a week to go before...
FERNANDO'S 'GUTTER' BAWL OVER HORSEPLAY AD
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amFernando Ferrer yesterday brushed off charges from the Bloomberg campaign that one of his new ads depicts the mayor performing a sex act on President Bush. Ferrer insisted the commercial...
GAULING MAULING ; N.Y. MICHELIN GUIDE STIRS IRE BY LEANING TO 'HOME' COOKING
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe Paris-based Michelin restaurant guide has finally hit the shores of North America, and - quel shock! - three of its four top restaurants are French. Alain Ducasse, Jean-Georges and...
DUMPY FRUMP A FASHION DISASTER
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amDIANA would be amused. Her successor and former rival, Camilla Parker Bowles, failed spectacularly in her attempt to wow Manhattan society with her sartorial splendor last night. Dressed in an...
PAGE SIX
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amI'M no monarchist, but I was won over by Prince Charles and Camilla. It can't be easy making small talk with hundreds of sharp-elbowed New Yorkers all hoping to tell...
STRAY BULLET HITS PUMP JOCKEY
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amA Brooklyn mechanic was struck in the face yesterday by a stray bullet while he was working at a gas station, police said. Adrian Negron was standing next to a...
RAPIST SMOKE SCREEN; FAKE FIREMAN SETS BLAZE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amA Chelsea woman was duped by the sickest of sex fiends - a thug who dressed as a fireman and lit a blaze outside her apartment so he could sexually...
CHALLENGER DID WELL BUT THE BATTLE'S A LOST CAUSE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amNothing that Freddy Ferrer did in last night's debate is going to change the outcome of the election - barring a political apocalypse, Mayor Bloomberg is headed toward a sweeping...
BLOOMY BA$H: ROUND TWO ; FERRER GOES FOR DEBATE KO WITH JAB AT GOP BUCKS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg and Fernando Ferrer went toe to toe last night in their second and final debate a week before Election Day, trading shots on education, Ground Zero, economic development,...
SILLY CELEBS BOW DOWN TO QUEEN CAMILLA AT MOMA THRILLA
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amMoMA morphed into a celebrity madhouse last night, as Prince Charles introduced "my darling wife" Camilla to the carefully selected crowd of 300 New Yorkers - including Sting, Donald Trump,...
HIT-&-RUN VAN SLAMS MAN, 79
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amA 79-year-old Brooklyn man was struck by a hit-and-run driver yesterday while crossing a Borough Park street, police said. The man, who was trying to catch a bus, was running...
'SLAY CARE' BOSS GETS OFF LIGHTLY - SHE'S SENTENCED TO COMMUNITY SERVICE IN TOT-SMOTHER DEATH
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe owner of a Queens day-care center where a 6-month-old boy was smothered to death under a mountain of toys got off with no jail time yesterday after pleading guilty...
MAYOR'S LEAD HITS BIG 3-OH IN POLLS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amWith just one week to go, Mayor Bloomberg is still sitting pretty with a solid 30-point lead over Fernando Ferrer, according to two new polls released yesterday. The latest Quinnipiac...
POPE LEANING TO RICE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amMalcolm Pope is one of the top point guards in the area and while he began his high school career leaving Harlem to go to Blair Academy, he's now ready...
FRYE STEPPING FORWARD TO TAKE TAYLOR'S SPOT
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES BOSTON - With Maurice Taylor likely to miss tonight's opener because of a sprained right knee, it assures that Larry Brown will have to put rookie Channing Frye...
COLLINS EXPECTS TO PLAY
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES Lawrence Frank admits Jason Collins will play for the Nets tonight. Beyond that, you need bamboo under the fingernails. "I'm not going to make any statement about that...
AS GOOD AS IT NETS; COLLINS: 'WE HAVE A LOT OF EXPECTATIONS'
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe Nets have been installed across the continental United States, Canada and parts of Tunisia as the favorites to win the NBA's Atlantic Division this season. How nice, say the...
WOULD STANDARDIZE TESTING ; STEROID BILL RELAUNCHED
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amTired of waiting for baseball to adopt a stricter policy on steroids, Sens. Jim Bunning and John McCain will reintroduce steroid legislation today that would standardize testing and penalties for...
ONLY HERM CAN SAVE JET SEASON
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amHERMAN EDWARDS will stand before his players this morning and do what he does best as a head coach: Try, with veins popping out of his neck, to motivate the...
BETTER SHAPE THAN BOSOX
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE Red Sox dominated baseball discussions yesterday. No matter where conversations began they quickly veered into the dynamics that led to Theo Epstein resigning as Boston GM. Executives assigned blame...
ONE GIANT TOURIST TRAP
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amIT WILL BE the word of the day, the theme of the week. Trap. The Giants are heading into just such an entanglement in San Francisco, where they're favored by...
OH, DEER: DMPS STILL AVAILABLE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amHUNTERS who did not receive a New York Deer Management Permit during the first go-round still have a few chances at being selected. About 19,000 are available for some upstate...
FANS CAUGHT IN A RUT
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amCOLLEGE NOTEBOOK This an open letter to Rutgers fans. It's time to get with the program. I'm aware that the announced Rutgers crowd at Saturday's 31-21 win over Navy was...
NOT A LOT OF MEET; YANKEES' TALKS RELATIVELY QUIET
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe sexier story would be that representatives from each arm of the dysfunctional Yankees family yesterday greeted each other with chest bumps and hugs and vowed to work as one...
TERGAT HUNGERS FOR BIG APPLE TITLE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amWhen Paul Tergat discovered his gift for running, he attacked competition with the same hunger he once had for food. The 36-year-old Kenyan has won championships and set world records,...
ORDEAL TOUGHENED GRADY'S LAROCHE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amAngelo Laroche sometimes thinks about the basement apartment he shares with his older brother off Flatlands Avenue in Canarsie and can't believe that he lives there. "I look at the...
METS PLAY BILLY BALL
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe bullpen is number one on the Mets' list of things to address right now, and the club is already showing how much it covets the best reliever on the...
GOLD GLOVE 'GRATIFYING' TO JETER
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES He hasn't been fitted for a World Series ring in five years, but Derek Jeter takes his winning where he can find it. Yesterday the Yankee captain won...
ISLANDERS BEAT BACK BRUINS RALLY
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amOT / SUMMARY, P. 74Isles 4Bruins 3 Steve Stirling did the juggling, the Islanders walked a tightrope, and it was just another circus-like evening at the Coliseum last night. Alexei...
CLEMM MAKES POINT IN OT LOSS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amOT / SUMMARY, P. 74Penguins 4Devils 3 The Devils' near-disaster is nearly over, and survived nearly perfectly so far. Martin Brodeur says he may return to practice today from his...
BIG APPLE OF BROWN'S EYE - GREAT COACHES BRING GREAT EXPECTATIONS
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amBOSTON - We will spend a lot of time revisiting the past with Larry Brown, because the stories are so irresistible, because the tales tell you all about how Brown...
BIG APPLE OF BROWN'S EYE - LONG ISLAND NATIVE'S 'DREAM' BEGINS TONIGHT
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amBOSTON - Larry Brown's dream comes true tonight. Fifty-two years after playing pickup basketball in a Long Beach schoolyard with Knick players, Brown will make his Knicks coaching debut, leading...
'MINOR' BUMP FOR HUGH
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amSAY this for the Rangers: In assessing and handling Hugh Jessiman, the organization has not once even for a moment gone into a cover-your-backside routine in order to justify selecting...
INJURIES KEEPING DIPIETRO DOWN
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amSteve Stirling wants Garth Snow to start in goal at least once every two weeks, which is about how often Rick DiPietro has been hurt this season. DiPietro did not...
SCOTT'S A SAVIOR FOR MARTY
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amBesides a couple of much-needed victories, Scott Clemmensen has given the Devils something just as vital: time for Martin Brodeur to fully rest his lightly sprained right knee. "I don't...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 2, 2005 | 5:00amIf you start hearing a serenade in your apartment, quick, get the glue traps out. It turns out male mice sing to attract female partners, making chirping-like noises that are...