April 27, 2004
'UGLY' ACCOUNTING - CA ADMITS $2.2B DISCREPANCY, FIRES SALES CHIEF
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amComputer Associates finally unveiled the full extent of its "ugly and unacceptable" accounting practices yesterday, admitting that it had prematurely recognized $2.2 billion in sales in 2000 and 2001. The...
CABLEVISION TAPS INSIDER AS ITS COO
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amNew York cable operator Cablevision named Tom Rutledge to the post of chief operating officer yesterday. Rutledge, in the newly created post, will report directly to Cablevision President and CEO...
HOME SALES SOARING EVERYWHERE BUT HERE
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amA last-chance home-buying binge before an expected jolt in mortgage interest rates sent new home sales soaring to a record last month. Buyers flocked to close deals mostly on new...
KMART AND MARTHA MAKE NICE, INK NEW SALES DEAL
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amMartha Stewart's bedding, towels and housewares will continue to be sold exclusively at Kmart, following yesterday's announced settlement of a licensing dispute. The new agreement extends the partnership between Martha...
-MACKLOWES' MAD MOVE (M)-340 MAD. ON THE MOVE (S, LCF)
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amFIVE years of hard work at 340 Madison Ave. have finally begun to pay off for Harry and Billy Macklowe. The father and son just landed their first tenant at...
SHARE SEARCH - INVESTORS EAGER FOR A TASTE OF GOOGLE'S IPO
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amFor a town used to exclusive clubs and velvet ropes, one ticket is proving elusive to even the rich and powerful - a piece of Google. The company's hotly anticipated...
HUGE U.S. INSURER IN $4.9B DEAL FOR OXFORD
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amOne of New York's largest health insurers - Oxford Health Plans - is getting a new owner in a $4.9 billion stock-and-cash deal. Oxford and its 1.5 million customers are...
CLINTON BIOGRAPHY IS SET FOR JUNE INAUGURAL
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amDespite the absence of a complete manuscript, the publisher of President Bill Clinton's autobiography - to be entitled simply "My Life" - said the book will hit in "late June"...
DEAL & BUZZ GIVES CSFB A NICE BOOST - FINALLY
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amAfter months of falling in the league tables and bleeding talent to the Street, Credit Suisse First Boston appears to have won, with Morgan Stanley, a top role on the...
FASHION TO DIET FOR - LAGERFELD BOOK REVEALS HOW HE DROPPED 90 POUNDS
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amIF you hate exercise and love shopping, here's the plan for you. In his new book, "Karl Lagerfeld Diet" - just released in the U.K., but not yet available here...
'WORLD' BEATER
April 27, 2004 | 4:00am* D12" D12 World" [] (four stars) Shady/Interscope Records With today's release of "D12 World," the Detroit rap crew steps out of the shadow of Slim Shady. Given his Grammy-winning...
GIDDY FOR DIDDY - HOP KING & TALENTED CO-STARS ARE 'RAISIN' A HI; DIDDY'S A HIT-TY IN VIBRANT, RELEVANT 'RAISIN' REVIVAL
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amA RAISIN IN THE SUN [***] (three stars) Royale Theatre, 242 W. 45th St. (212) 239-6200 ---- LET'S cut right to the chase: Diddy do or Diddy not? Last night,...
WINNERS' DILEMMA - DOES 'TRADING SPACES' COUPLE PAY THE MORTGAGE NEXT WEEK?
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amFOR home renovators, the devil is in the details - but nobody told all the details yet to the winners of TLC's hit renovations show, "Trading Spaces: Home Free." "I'm...
'APPRENTICE' STAR EYES CABLE NEWS
April 27, 2004 | 4:00am'APPRENTICE" runner-up Kwame Jackson could be headed for a cable news gig. Jackson met last Friday with officials at MSNBC and CNBC, spokespeople from both networks confirmed yesterday. "He was...
MONSTERS' FALL - THE BEAST IS YET TO COME
April 27, 2004 | 4:00am"Land of Lost Monsters" [] (three stars) Animal Planet at 8 p.m. ---- IF you are 1) an animal nerd or 2) a giant-monsters-from-outer-space nut, "Land of Lost Monsters" on...
STARR REPORT
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amAt least he's honest Yesterday we wrote about the canine component of "Frasier," ending its 11-season run on May 13. Today, it's the human element. "Entertainment Tonight" was at last...
DISNEY'S POP CENTURY
April 27, 2004 | 4:00am1050 Century Drive, Orlando, Fla. 2,880 rooms, from $77; disney.com At first sight No, I wasn't hallucinating. The bowling pins decorating Disney World's newest hotel complex, Pop Century, really are...
MINX ON THE LINKS - ON A MIAMI GOLF COURSE, BRIDGET HARRISON FINDS THAT WHAT MEN WANT IS TO GET AWAY FROM WOMEN
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amIT was a long, grim winter, and I was single for all of it. Clearly, a change of scene was in order. Somewhere hot, rejuvenating and heavily populated with the...
SWAMP THING - LISA KEYS GETS STUCK ON THE EVERGLADES
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amALLIGATORS. Water moccasins. Swarms of mosquitoes. Judging from the rumors, it sounds like a visit to South Florida's Everglades is about as welcoming - and as safe - as a...
GET OUT THERE
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE'S far more to south Florida than gators in the 'glades. Thousands of years ago, the Calusa Indians made their homes among the hundreds of mangrove islands that lie in...
LIZZIE TOOK DIRECT PATH TO VICTIMS, SAYS EXPERT
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amLizzie Grubman drove in reverse without hitting her brakes for almost six seconds - correcting her steering at least three times to keep on course to hit her victims, according...
PERJURY RAP FOR TICKET COP
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amA city cop was charged yesterday with lying in traffic court to help a friend beat a ticket. Officer Andre Colclough, 29, had testified that he sounded his siren behind...
COUNCIL OKS MEASURE TO TARGET SCHOOL BULLIES
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amBullying in city public schools - an unpleasant rite of passage for many kids - got a whupping of its own yesterday. The City Council's Education Committee, by an 8-0...
LESBIAN TEACHER GUILTY
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amA married Queens high-school teacher, busted for having a lesbian love affair with a teenage student, pleaded guilty yesterday and will avoid jail time. Cheryl Reyna, 32, also agreed to...
JAYSON'S FATE IN HANDS OF JURORS
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amDid the shotgun held by Jayson Williams accidentally fire or did he pull the trigger on his hired help? These are the two scenarios jurors will ponder today when they...
HE WHO HESITATES - LOSING THE INITIATIVE IN IRAQ
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amOUR troops in Iraq are fighting a 21st-century war. And they're winning on the battlefield. But they're being defeated by diplomats seeking a 20th-century peace. Paul Bremer, Washington's scoutmaster in...
BX. APT. BLAZE KILLS GRANNY
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amAn elderly woman died yesterday after a small but stubborn fire tore through a bedroom mattress in a Bronx apartment, officials said. About 60 firefighters responded to a 9:30 a.m....
JOHN KERRY'S QUIET COLLAPSE - KILLING HIS OWN CAMPAIGN
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amTHE conventional wisdom is that the presidential election will be close. It's a 50-50 country, so the CW goes, just as it was in the year 2000. The problem is...
MICHAEL'S BROTHER BEHIND THIS LEGAL HARI-KARI
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amA JURY will determine his guilt or innocence, and we pray Michael Jackson is not guilty. Otherwise it would mean that a sweet kid has been violated in the most...
ARENA PLAN IS HIS ANXIETY COMPLEX
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amNO ONE recognizes Bruce Ratner as he dashes, bleary- eyed, into Junior's restaurant in Downtown Brooklyn at 8 a.m. and waves away the coffee pot. "If I have caffeine, it...
PIANO TEACHER FONDLED GIRLS
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amA 65-year-old Queens piano teacher was sentenced yesterday to three years probation for abusing three young female students while he was giving them private lessons in their Brooklyn homes. Malcolm...
KILLER WILL ROT - NO PAROLE FOR 'WRONG-VICTIM' SHOOTER
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe coldblooded gunman who executed the wrong guy in a Long Island contract hit was sentenced yesterday to life in prison without the possibility of parole - the maximum sentence...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amAfter four years of college and $112,000 in tuition, students at Villanova University in Pennsylvania were hoping for a more inspiring commencement speaker than Big Bird. Caroll Spinney, who plays...
HAMAS VOWS TO KILL TRAITOR ARAB SPIES
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe Hamas terrorist group - whose two top leaders were killed by Israel in the past month - is vowing to go after Palestinian collaborators. "There are thousands of spies...
'HOLE' LOT OF TROUBLE IN MIKE'S NEW PLAN
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg offered a good news-bad news message yesterday in his $47 billion budget for 2005 - preserving services, raises and a homeowner tax cut, while warning the city faces...
FUGITIVE L.I. BOARDER LEFT WOMAN'S BODY UNDER BED: COPS
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island man behind on his rent skipped out on the bill and left the rotting body of a murdered woman hidden under his bed, police said yesterday. The...
MYSTERY OF SLAIN MAN IN QNS. CAR
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amTwo parks employees made a grim discovery in Queens yesterday morning: a car with the engine still running and a man with a bullet in his head slumped over the...
FIX IT, BIG SHOT - L.I. HOMEOWNER, 93, WANTS JOEL TO PAY UP
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe 93-year-old Long Island woman whose house was rammed by Billy Joel 's skidding car said the singer-songwriter had "better come fix it." The accident-prone Piano Man trashed Maria Dono's...
A**KICKIN' AHEAD FOR KID BULLIES
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amBullying in city public schools - an unpleasant rite of passage for many kids - got a whupping of its own yesterday. The City Council's Education Committee, by an 8-0...
SHOT STAR'S PLEA TO 'DADDY'
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amSpeaking through a wired jaw, an actor who was shot four times by his elderly father recounted his ordeal yesterday, saying that after he was hit with a bullet the...
KERRY'S MEDAL MUDDLE - BLASTS 'PHONY' FLAP
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An agitated and defensive John Kerry hit the roof yesterday trying to explain that he never lied about tossing away his Vietnam medals at a 1971 anti-war protest....
'MY LIFE AT STAKE' - JACKO: LAWYER TOO BUSY WITH LACI TRIAL
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Declaring his "life is at stake," accused child molester Michael Jackson said he replaced his legal team because lead lawyer Mark Geragos spent too much time defending...
MURDER COMES TO RIVERDALE - SHOOTING ALARMS TONY BX. RESIDENTS
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amA Bronx man was shot dead on a quiet street in Riverdale yesterday, and the early-morning violence sent shivers through the upscale neighborhood. The unidentified victim, described by police as...
SCHOOLS 'EXPEL' GRANNIES
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amSupervisors are purging grandparents who serve as leaders of school parent associations, officials said yesterday. A Department of Education rule says only a parent or legal guardian can serve as...
CHENEY, DEMS SNIPE
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday used John Kerry's own words to mock him as Team Bush began airing $10 million in new TV attack ads that blast Kerry's...
MOBSTER: EX-PAL PUT HIT ON ME
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amA wiseguy who was shot twice in a botched mob hit fingered a pair of alleged assassins in Brooklyn federal court yesterday . Making his debut as a witness, Joseph...
LESBIAN-AFFAIR TEACHER GUILTY
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amA married Queens high-school teacher busted for having a lesbian love affair with a teenage student pleaded guilty yesterday and will avoid jail time. Cheryl Reyna, 32, also agreed to...
$100M MTA ANTI-TERROR PLAN IS ON TRACK
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe MTA will spend $100 million to develop a security program to protect its sprawling transportation network from a terror attack, officials said yesterday. The agency has enlisted the help...
YANKEE ALBUM OFFER A HIT WITH FANS
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amYankee fans picked up their free copies of The Post's New York Yankees 2004 Medallion Collection album yesterday - and one youngster said he can't wait to collect the medallions...
LETHAL BLAST IN WMD HUNT - 2 GIS DIE AT BAGHDAD 'CHEM' FACTORY
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Two U.S. soldiers were killed yesterday in a mysterious explosion at a Baghdad building that was being searched for chemical weapons. U.S. military teams, including the CIA-led Iraq...
RANDOM TESTS FOR BRAVEST
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amAfter a spate of drug- and alcohol-abuse cases in the Fire Department, the city is spending $500,000 to randomly test firefighters for drug abuse, it was announced yesterday. The FDNY...
JURY STARTS ON JAYSON CASE TODAY
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amDid the shotgun held by Jayson Williams accidentally fire or did he pull the trigger on his hired help? These are the two scenarios jurors will ponder today when they...
H'WAY DEATH THUGS - HURLED FATAL STONE
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amA gang of thrill-seeking punks was spotted throwing debris from a Yonkers overpass just minutes before a 10-pound chunk of asphalt crashed through the windshield of a Queens woman's car,...
BIG BUCKS TO BURY SOCIAL PROMOTION
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday set aside $116 million to fund his controversial new policy to end social promotion in the third grade. The staggering price - which will pay for the...
A 'SECOND' SIGHT - SUBWAY PLAN OFFERS LOOK INTO FUTURE
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amHere's a sneak peek at what the Second Avenue subway will look like as the dream finally gets on track to becoming a reality. The new T line will feature...
NYU BOOK WORM - STUDENT LIVED IN LIBRARY FOR SEVEN MONTHS
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amCall it home sweet tome. A "homeless" NYU undergrad claims he lived for seven months in the school's main library, without being caught by unsuspecting security guards or administration. Steve...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Cops believe this man (above) robbed two banks in Harlem on April Fool's Day. The suspect, Mark Bradley, 39, allegedly began his robbery spree at 10:45 a.m. on...
TREE TRYSTER BARKED THREAT
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe two nearly naked men - a transsexual and his teen lover - who enjoyed a treetop tryst in Central Park last week weren't merely the wacky wood nymphs -...
POISON GAS PLOT - QAEDA ADMITS EVIL SCHEME TO KILL 80,000; QAEDA POISON PLOTS COULD HAVE FELLED 80,000
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amDiabolical al Qaeda terrorists confessed yesterday to plotting to attack the U.S. Embassy and other targets in Jordan with sophisticated chemical bombs that could have wiped out 80,000 people. Azmi...
18TH CENTURY FOXES - CELEBS GO FOR BAROQUE AT THE MET'S ANNUAL BALL
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amIt was the ball to end all costume balls - period. The rich, famous and dutifully and deliciously dolled-up flocked to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's extravagant annual...
LIZZIE AIMED FOR VICTIMS: EXPERT
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amLizzie Grubman drove in reverse without hitting her brakes for almost six seconds - correcting her steering at least three times to keep on course to hit her victims, according...
ATM MAN TRAINED HIS 'KILLER'
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe man suspected of beating to death a Brinks ATM serviceman is a former co-worker who had been trained by the man he allegedly killed, the victim's anguished father told...
OIL-TERMINAL ATTACK KILLED UPSTATE SAILOR
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amAn upstate sailor who dreamed of becoming a Navy SEAL was among the three seamen who died Saturday after a Navy inspection vessel was destroyed intercepting a suicide boat. Petty...
CRA$H DUMMY WILL PAY A 'PREMIUM' FOR LATEST SLIP
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amBilly Joel should be in an Allstate of mind right about now. The car-crazy crooner will likely see his already astronomical insurance rates skyrocket, thanks to his crash into a...
SCHOOLS EXPEL PTA GRANNIES
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amSupervisors are purging grandparents who serve as leaders of school parent associations, officials said yesterday. A Department of Education rule says only a parent or legal guardian can serve as...
PERJURY RAP FOR COP OVER TICKET
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amA city cop was charged yesterday with lying in traffic court to help a friend beat a ticket. Officer Andre Colclough, 29, had testified that he sounded his siren behind...
'CIGS' GRANNY DIES IN BX. FIRE
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amAn elderly Bronx woman who cops believe was smoking in bed died yesterday when her mattress went up in flames. The small but stubborn blaze tore through Lydia Geiger's Co-Op...
BODY IN W'CHESTER WOODS ID'D AS CHEF
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amPolice yesterday identified a dismembered, decomposing body found stuffed in plastic trash bags in a wooded area of tony Bedford, N.Y. as that of a chef and restaurateur missing for...
CLASSROOM EXTRA: RHYTHM AND RHYME
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amIt's time to rhyme. Take a look and find the kind that sounds sublime. Limericks are funny, five-lined poems. They follow an AABBA rhyming pattern, meaning that the first, second...
MEDAL MUDDLE - KERRY FUMES AT 'PHONY' FLAP
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An agitated and defensive John Kerry hit the roof yesterday trying to explain that he never lied about tossing away his Vietnam medals at a 1971 anti-war protest....
SPECTER FACES STRONG GOP FOE
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Pennsylvania's veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter is in a fight for his political life today as he tries to fend off a strong conservative GOP primary challenger. Specter,...
'ATTACK-DOG-IN-CHIEF' CHENEY BITES JOHN
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday used John Kerry's own words to mock him as Team Bush began airing $10 million in new TV attack ads that blast Kerry's...
'CLIFF'S EDGE' FALLS IN PLACE - ZITO HAS REAL DERBY THREAT
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - After three years on the sidelines, twiddling his thumbs and champing at the bit, New York's classic-happy trainer Nick Zito is back in the Kentucky Derby hunt with...
NO 'RUSH' TO BREEZY WORKOUT
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Three horses - Quintons Gold Rush, Read The Footnotes and Lion Heart - who figure to be in the first flight in Saturday's 130th Run for the Roses,...
LION HEART'S GOOD CIDE
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - If you like The Cliff's Edge as one of the favorites for Saturday's Kentucky Derby at 6-1, how can you not love Lion Heart at odds twice as...
METS SLIDING INTO OBLIVION
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - About a week ago, Art Howe called a clubhouse meeting, during which he addressed the slumping offense. The Mets' manager also wanted to make sure that the...
WEAVER'S BROTHER A PHENOM
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - In his season-and-a-half with the Yankees, Jeff Weaver became the cautionary tale. The lesson? Not everyone with great stuff can perform well in New York....
HAMMON PROMISES SHE'S OK
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amBecky Hammon strolled onto the practice court for the Liberty's media day yesterday with two glaring additions. The first was makeup; remember, there were cameras. The other was a bit...
APRIL'S NOT TOO EARLY TO PANIC
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE is an appropriate time for alarm. There is a proper place for panic. For the Yankees, that time is now, and that place is Yankee Stadium, this evening, tomorrow...
NETS CAN'T REST - BUCKS, PISTONS TOUGH OBSTACLES
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe choice between Milwaukee and Detroit seems obvious. Any team should want to play the Bucks instead of the Pistons, who seemed to establish a different defensive record every game....
BIG BACKUP: 288-POUND QB
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe Giants believe they added the best quarterback available in the NFL Draft in Eli Manning. And now, they've added the biggest. Jared Lorenzen, a 6-3, 288-pound hefty lefty from...
BOSS OFFERS PRAISE - AND A WARNING! - SAYS JOE, CASH CAN RIGHT SHIP
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amSunday he was coming to The Bronx. Yesterday he was staying in Tampa. Today? Who knows? George Steinbrenner isn't happy about his club riding a four-game losing streak, three of...
.217 BOMBERS GO TO THE VIDEOTAPE
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Is it possible that the Yankees' problems at the plate are the result of the players using a high-tech video system that has led to paralysis by over-analysis?...
GARDEN OF PLEADIN'
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amSAY this much for the Knicks, at least they weren't swept by the Red Sox. But, really, what did you expect? The House That Zeke Built was good enough to...
TIME WON'T HEAL WOUNDED KNICKS
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amWhat the Knicks need are players who make Stephon Marbury better. KURT Thomas says he's not concerned about the possibility of being traded, despite having an affordable contract, obvious value,...
'BIG CAT' EYES NEW BASEBALL LIFE
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amAndres Galarraga wants the baseball world to know he is not only healthy but also looking to help a contender after the All-Star break. After reports circulated that he was...
'I DON'T NEED SURGERY' - ALLAN SAYS KNEES ARE FINE
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES After guaranteeing he'll be back to himself next season, Knicks captain Allan Houston was asked how close the Knicks are to winning a title. "I'm not ruling out...
DOLAN OUT KUDOS - OWNER GIVES ISIAH'S BUNCH PASSING GRADE DESPITE NETS SWEEP
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amOwner James Dolan graded the Knicks' season a "B", said he expects a better playoff showing next year, put some pressure on Lenny Wilkens and declared Isiah Thomas has the...
ELI SAD TO SEE HIM GO
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amEli Manning heard the news about Kerry Collins. "He would have been a good guy to sit behind and learn from, because he is a veteran quarterback and been through...
-A CLASS ACT START TO FINISH (M)-CLASSY KERRY WON'T BE BLUE (S, LCF)
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amTHE memory is fresh, even if the fears have long since faded. As Jamie Crimmins watched his good friend Kerry Collins at Giants Stadium, there were moments when violence was...
GOODBYE TO KERRY - COLLINS 'READY TO TURN PAGE'
April 27, 2004 | 4:00amAs Kerry Collins drove away from Giants Stadium yesterday morning, alone, having said goodbye to a few trainers and equipment assistants, Kerry Collins felt a sadness that faded into a...