February 17, 2005
AD EXEC HAD EYE ON FED $
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amFormer Ogilvy & Mather ad executive Shona Seifert vowed to "wring the money" out of federal officials for the agency's work on the government's national anti-drug campaign. Seifert, who stands...
KALIKOW'S BIG SALE - SCORES $300M FOR 195 B'WAY TOWER
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amReal-estate developer Peter Kalikow is selling 195 Broadway for nearly $300 million just two months after he put the landmark quality office building near Ground Zero up for sale. The...
CITIGROUP GOES TO ETHICS CLASS
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amAfter facing scandals on three continents, Citigroup will require mandatory ethics classes for all of its employees in a desperate effort to reform the giant bank's image. Some ethics experts...
THE LYIN' KING - EBBERS' DEFENSE ATTACKS ACCUSER SULLIVAN
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amScott Sullivan is a big liar. That was the message yesterday as time and again Bernard Ebbers' legal attack dog got the former WorldCom CFO to admit that he lied...
EX-CFO'S RICHES TO RAGS SOB STORY
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amThe Bernard Ebbers defense team wasted little time yesterday in painting Scott Sullivan as a wealthy, drug-using felon. They had the once-highly paid WorldCom CFO describe for the jury his...
IPO FOR BANKER WEISEL
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amThomas Weisel, the high-octane dealmaker who helped take many of Silicon Valley's leading companies public, wants to do the same for his own firm, The Post has learned. Thomas Weisel...
DAVE'S STUNT GIRL RETURNS
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amSNOWBOARDING babe Tara Dakides, who was injured last year in a spectacular stunt gone wrong on "The Late Show with David Letterman," is trying it again. Dakides will attempt a...
SHE'S AT IT AGAIN; OMAROSA: 'APPRENTICE' HAS RACE PROBLEM
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amINFAMOUS reality star Omarosa said yesterday that "The Apprentice" has a problem with black contestants. "Once you start looking at how all the black men are perceived as lazy and...
GOLDFINGER'S AU-SOME IN ACTION
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amGOLDFINGER 'DID you expect Goldfinger to talk, Mister Bond?" "No, I expected them to dive - stage-dive." And at Irving Plaza Tuesday, the L.A. band did just that, while laying...
'IDOL THE MAGAZINE' HITS STANDS
February 17, 2005 | 5:00am'AMERICAN Idol" fans are chewing their gum a little faster today. The first issue of "American Idol: The Magazine" hits newsstands this week - a bimonthly built around the idea...
3 DOORS EQUALS NO. 1
February 17, 2005 | 5:00am'SEVENTEEN Days," by Mississippi rockers 3 Doors Down, debuted in the top spot on Billboard's Top Albums charts this week. The disc sold 231,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, enough...
LESBIAN FOR A WEEK
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amIT'S hard work being a lesbian - especially if you're not. I'm not - I'm getting married in a few months - but "The L Word" piqued my curiosity. Would...
LOVIN' IT: HOT 'L WORD' GALS KISS & TELL ALL
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amMischa Barton's hyped-up lip lock on "The O.C." doesn't even register on the lesbian-love Richter scale in the land of "The L Word." Having to make out with another woman...
REMEMBER WHEN 'SNL' WAS FUNNY?
February 17, 2005 | 5:00am"THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" Sunday night at 9 on NBC/Ch. 4 * * * * (four stars) It's impossible to think that 30 years ago, "Saturday...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amAn Ohio police chief woke up in the middle of the night when he heard noises, grabbed his gun to investigate - and discovered a young man playing Beethoven on...
POL'S BILL COULD SPUR 'ROAD RAGE'
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - Former state lawmakers would still be able to strut their stuff on the roads under legislation proposed by a Long Island senator. Kenneth LaValle's bill would create a...
NEW PAIN FOR SLAIN TEEN'S MOM
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amThe Long Island mom who watched as her 16-year-old daughter was stabbed to death on Valentine's Day said she is upset the accused killer - the father of the victim's...
BOY, 8, FLEES 'PERV' - 3RD TERRIFYING INCIDENT
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA hysterical 8-year-old Long Island boy told police he was accosted by a would-be kidnapper - who held a knife to his throat and a gun to his side -...
POL TRAILER-TRASHES MOVIE START TIMES
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amNo one may be able to do anything about those annoying ads preceding movies, but a West Side legislator is pushing to at least let moviegoers know when the actual...
VERRAZANO GETTING NEW COAT
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amThe longest suspension bridge in the country is getting a makeover. The MTA plans to clean and paint the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and its main suspension cables this year as...
I'M IN (PUPPY) LOVE - MY DINNER WITH THE TOP DOG
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amWHY, when I'm hit in the mouth with a bottle and the top falls off and all the contents fall inside of me, why, oh why do I moan the...
DNA ADDS 19 YEARS TO CON'S TERM
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA burglar serving a seven-year sentence will do 19 more years, thanks to a DNA hit linking him to a 1999 Queens robbery and sexual assault, prosecutors said yesterday. William...
FOOD'S TOO (RHYMES WITH) RICH
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amSam Algar says people regularly drive for up to four hours to sink their teeth into a tasty "Fat Bitch," or "Fat Ass" at his Rutgers University "grease" truck. But...
'GATES' $WING FOR CHRISTO
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amWith the huge spike in visitors to Central Park to see "The Gates" has come a huge spike in the market for the artists' work. Since opening Saturday, more than...
YANKS BID TO NIX $6M SUIT
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amThe Yankees urged a federal judge to throw out a $6 million civil lawsuit filed by two fans - one of them blind - who charged they were illegally forced...
GRANDFOLKS & KIDS GET OWN APTS.
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amDozens of people who have custody of their grandchildren will soon be moving into a Bronx apartment complex, thanks to an affordable housing project that's the first of its kind...
RAIL-YARD WAR PUTS KALIKOW ON THE SPOT
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amIT took MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow just two months to find a buyer for 195 Broadway, his "wedding cake" office building near Ground Zero, which he's selling for $270 million...
W. HINTING SOC. SEC. TAX HIKE
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush may accept a backdoor tax hike on people who make more than $90,000 a year to keep Social Security afloat - a stunning consideration after his...
PILL SWAYS GALS' TASTES IN GUYS
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA new study has found the pill has an intriguing side effect - it changes women's tastes in men. Previous studies by psychologists at the University of St. Andrews in...
PORTER HALTS HOOCH HEIST
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA suspected booze bandit who preyed on a popular Upper East Side nightspot was arrested yesterday after he was caught in a trap set by a porter. Clifford Freeman, 42,...
SLAY VICTIM'S SONS SLAM KILLER
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amTwo brothers broke down in tears yesterday as they confronted the career criminal who beat their 69-year-old mother to death inside her Queens apartment. "You didn't have to kill her,"...
WEDDING WINGS - HAWKS BACK HOME - AND MATING
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amThe city's most famous feathered couple have rebuilt their nest - and are starting a family. "I'm totally excited this is finally happening," said E.J. McAdams of New York City...
EUROPE STILL LIKES US: CONDI
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday told lawmakers she found an "open door" in Europe, with leaders in Germany and France ready to work together with the United...
LAWSUIT IN FIRETRUCK DEATH
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amThe family of a young man killed when a firetruck slammed into an SUV in The Bronx has sued the city, accusing officials of covering up the fact that the...
MEGASTORE BACKS OFF BX. BID
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amBJ's Wholesale Club yesterday abruptly withdrew its application to build a mammoth store in The Bronx, just hours before lawmakers were certain to deny the required permits. "The applicant decided...
TEARS FOR GENTLE GIANT - SLAIN HS GRID STAR IS LAID TO REST
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA 245-pound Bronx high-school football star savagely gunned down after confronting a neighborhood bully was laid to rest yesterday amid an ocean of red roses and carnations. Hundreds of mourners...
CLUB SUED IN DWI CRASH
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx teen injured in a DWI wreck is blaming a strip club for the crash - accusing employees of plying his underage pal with booze. In a lawsuit filed...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amQUEENS * A 24-year-old man was shot in the back of the head on a busy Ozone Park street last night, police said. Salvatore Minichiello, of 115th Street, was found...
17 YRS. FOR BOUNCER KILLER
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA martial-arts expert was sentenced to 17 years in prison yesterday for killing an East Village bouncer during a melee that broke out after the victim ordered a clubgoer to...
'PERVY' POLICE AIDE - 'AUXILIARY' BUSTED
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA Manhattan auxiliary cop allegedly groped a 13-year-old girl - who belongs to an NYPD program that educates young people about law enforcement - in a marked car while on...
THE LIGER - PART LION, PART TIGER WEIGHS 900 POUNDS - AND HE'S STILL GROWING
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amBehold Hercules the mighty liger - 900 pounds of big cat that's part lion, part tiger and all humongous. This King Kong of cats is not the work of a...
DEADLY QNS. HOUSE FIRE
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA Queens truck driver died yesterday in a blaze that saw four firefighters treated for minor injuries. Richie Bamberski, described as in his 50s, died in a 10:30 a.m. fire...
TRAGIC MOMS' FIGHT VS. DWI
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amThe mothers of two Queens boys - one killed and the other badly injured by a drunken driver - yesterday brought their crusade for tougher penalties to the City Council,...
FREE CLUB KILLERS, EX-JUDGE URGES
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amFormer judge Leslie Crocker Snyder yesterday called for the release of two men convicted in the 1990 murder of a bouncer at the Palladium nightclub and for the arrest of...
STADIUM FOES PAID LOBBY TEAMS $14M
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amThe warring parties in the battle over a West Side stadium last year spent nearly $14 million to hire some of the state's most powerful lobbyists and on massive media...
LOONEY TUNE-UPS - STRANGE, SPIKY NEW LOOK FOR BUGS & BUDS
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amHAS Warner Bros. gone daffy? That's what fans of the studio's classic cartoon characters might be asking after they get a look at the new, futuristic versions of some of...
BULLETS HIT ZONGO FROM BEHIND: DOC
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amJurors in the manslaughter trial of Police Officer Bryan Conroy learned yesterday that his unarmed African victim was shot once, and possibly twice, from behind. Coroner Dr. Susan Ely testified...
BETTER RED THAN DEAD: TEAM FINDS MARS LIFE SIGNS
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amTwo NASA scientists say they have found strong evidence that life exists on Mars - hidden in caves and sustained by pockets of water. The scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry...
'I'M NO SLAVER' - SCARLET WOMAN RIPS NANNY'S SUIT
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amAn Upper East Side woman said yesterday that even though she's a dominatrix, she doesn't treat her nanny like a slave. Scarlet Constance LeMay, who runs an S&M escort service,...
34 NABBED IN TOW SCAM VS. NYPD
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amAuthorities busted 34 people who provided the city with false documents to obtain licenses for a lucrative NYPD towing program, officials said yesterday. The suspects - owners and employees of...
MYSTERIOUS TANK KILLING ROCKS KIN OF 'PERFECT' MA
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amGEETHA ANGARA was a loving wife, a dedicated mother of three, and a brilliant scientist living an idyllic life in the suburbs of New Jersey. That is, until last week...
CHINA NABS POSH 'PIRATE' - FUROR AS N.Y. BLUEBLOOD GOES TO TRIAL OVER COUNTERFEIT-VIDEO RING
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amRandolph Hobson Guthrie III, the black-sheep scion of one of the city's oldest, wealthiest and most socially prominent families, is behind bars in Shanghai, waiting to find out if he'll...
TESTS DUE FOR 'GIFTED' KIDS
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amTalk about high-stakes tests for kids. Kindergartners and first- graders by 2007 will have to pass an exam to be admitted to a gifted program, under a new city initiative...
B'DAY DADDY SLAIN - HIT BY STRAY SHOT
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA Brooklyn father carrying a cake and candles home with his two young daughters to celebrate a family birthday was killed by a bullet intended for another man, authorities said...
HOW MTA PUT JETS IN TAILSPIN
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amMTA chairman Peter Kalikow's surprise decision this week to call for more bids to develop the West Side rail yards came just two days after the Jets thought they were...
JAIL DEPT. HIT WITH BIAS RAP
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA veteran black female correction officer slapped the city's Correction Department with a discrimination suit yesterday, alleging she was passed over for promotions and assignments and forced to work under...
TYCOON IN $1M BATTLE - 'NO-PAY' PERELMAN
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amFaux no! Two French art dealers claim billionaire Ron Perelman is stiffing them on a measly $1 million worth of antique furniture - but the takeover tycoon says they have...
JACKO LOSES PATIENTS - HOSPMATES ARE GETTING SICK OF HIM
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson waved a peace sign from his hospital room yesterday - but his goodwill gesture wound up ruining the peace and quiet of his fellow...
CLIFF JUMPS INTO ACTION FOR NETS - ROBINSON IS LATEST ADDITION TO EVER-CHANGING NETS ROSTER
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amThe New Jersey Nets 2004-05, Version 7, took the Meadowlands floor last night. As is now virtually weekly custom, there was a new player aboard, Cliff Robinson. The veteran 6-10...
DUMP JAIL CHATS: GOTTI
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti urged a judge yesterday to toss out transcripts of prison conversations with his former lawyer, which prosecutors want to use as evidence in his upcoming racketeering trial....
HOSP KID'S MOM GETS VISA
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA hospitalized 6-year- old Bronx boy will get to see his mother today after the federal government reversed itself and granted her a visa to visit him from Ecuador. The...
JACKO OUT OF HOSP - ANGERED FELLOW PATIENTS
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson quietly slipped out of a local hospital last night, 33 hours after coming down with a mysterious flu that has delayed his child molestation...
'CATHOLIC' PARENTS VOW FIGHT
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amParents at St. Anthony's School in Greenwich Village - one of six Catholic elementary schools slated to be closed by the Archdiocese of New York in June - plotted their...
WATER-MAIN BREAK FLOODS ASTORIA
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA private contractor working on a home in Astoria, Queens, triggered a huge water-main break yesterday that drove up to 100 people from their homes, officials said. Surging water 10...
TEXAS COPS FIND L.I. GIRL WHO RAN OFF WITH PERV
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA missing Long Island teenager has been found unharmed near the Mexican border, but the convicted sex offender accused of running off with her is still on the loose. "We...
CHINA NABS POSH 'PIRATE' - FUROR AS N.Y. BLUEBLOOD AWAITS VERDICT ON COUNTERFEIT-VIDEO RAP
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amRandolph Hobson Guthrie III, the black-sheep scion of one of the city's oldest, wealthiest and most socially prominent families, is behind bars in Shanghai, waiting to find out if he'll...
BROOKLYN BRAVEST SUSPENDED OVER CRASH
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA Brooklyn firefighter was suspended yesterday - because he disappeared from a hospital and refused to be tested for drugs or alcohol after he crashed his speeding ladder truck into...
4 DEAD IN THREE BLAZES
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA Queens truck driver and a Brooklyn woman were killed in separate blazes yesterday, while two bodies were discovered in the rubble of Tuesday's Bronx fire that gutted a row...
MAN CHARGED IN FLATIRON SLAY
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx parolee was nabbed by cops yesterday for killing a man and wounding another in a Flatiron District building last month, police sources said. Antoine Gumbs, 20, is charged...
KID ROCK 'EM - ARRESTED FOR 'SLUGGING' DJ
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amKid Rock was cheerful and upbeat yesterday after he was charged with punching out a DJ in a Nashville strip club - and asked reporters covering the story whether his...
SONS OF SLAY VICTIM SLAM KILLER
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amTwo burly brothers broke down in tears yesterday as they confronted the career criminal who beat their 69-year-old mother to death inside her Queens apartment. "You didn't have to kill...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - A FIERY VOICE FOR THE PEOPLE - FROM THE PULPIT TO THE HALLS OF CONGRESS, ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR. WAS A TIRELESS SOLDIER FOR CIVIL AND SOCIAL RIGHTS.
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amAdam Clayton Powell Jr. was born on Nov. 29, 1908, in New Haven, Conn. His privileged upbringing was far removed from the struggles of the people whose causes he would...
GIANT 'BACKERS GET NEW COACH
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amLast season, the Giants had to incorporate three new starting linebackers with a new system and a new coach. This year, the players and system will primarily remain intact, but...
STRATTON OFFERS 'BOARDING SCHOOL'
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amTHE birth of snowboard ing is synonymous with two names, Jake Burton Carpenter and Stratton Mountain. Story has it that Carpenter use to climb up the Suntanner trail in the...
MATES DON'T BACK NIXON
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amFORT MYERS - Tuesday, Trot Nixon claimed Alex Rodriguez was a "clown," becoming the second Boston player to take an unsolicited slap at A-Rod in the past few months. Yesterday,...
A-ROD TURNS UP THE HATE
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Alex Rodriguez is turning into Bobby Valentine before our eyes. His mere smile, the way he answers questions, the style he carries himself at work all generate loathing...
MILKSHAKE TESTING UNDER WAY
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amPre- and post-race testing for milkshakes officially began at Aqueduct yesterday. Random races will be selected for pre-race testing. Only the fourth-race field yesterday was pre-race tested. All horses that...
TENACITY IS THE NORM FOR STORM
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amSeveral days before Boston College suffered its first loss of the season, a group of media types were debating the biggest surprise of the season in the Big East Conference....
TALL ORDER ; JOHNSON WANTS TO BE ONE OF THE GUYS
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Everything about Randy Johnson stands out. He is almost 7 feet tall, a likely Hall of Famer with a searing fastball married to a bloodthirsty nature. He is...
YANKEES AREN'T ANSWERING SOX
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - No matter how many shots the Red Sox take at Alex Rodriguez, he and his Yankees teammates refuse to fire back. Last November it was Curt Schilling. Tuesday...
ROCKY START FOR NEW MAN IN PEN
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amYANK NOTES TAMPA - Felix Rodriguez' Yankee career is off to a rocky beginning. The righty reliever didn't report to camp Tuesday and missed taking his physical yesterday morning. According...
ESPN MAY ZOOM OUT
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amWith this season canceled, the NHL may have another problem when it returns - no ESPN. ESPN is considering not continuing its TV deal with the league. "We've got some...
KNICKS PRAYING FOR NO LOCKOUT
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amKnicks forward Jerome Williams can't imagine the NBA labor woes reaching the point the NHL reached yesterday. Earlier this week, Knicks players held a discussion in their locker room regarding...
CUP EMPTY AS LEAGUE BAGS SEASON
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amThe players surrendered their one untouchable and still couldn't convince the league to play hockey. Commissioner Gary Bettman bears the blame for his cancellation of the NHL season, but he...
HERB WON'T DISS VAN HORN DEAL
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Herb Williams was in no mood to look back at last year's All-Star break when the Knicks made their ill-fated trade on Feb. 15, shipping Keith Van Horn...
TESTING EXPERTS WARN . . . 'ROID CHEATS WILL FIND WAY
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amMajor League Baseball hopes its new testing policy will rid the game of steroids, but experts feel players who want to remain on performance-enhancing drugs will be able to. Baseball...
OSCAR & BERNARD TEAM UP
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The last time Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins shared the same dais at a pre-fight press conference, they were getting ready to rumble last September...
KIDD TEMPERS TAMPER TALK
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES Jason Kidd stressed again he has not asked for a trade. But when the point about playing with Kevin Garnett was discussed, Kidd reverted to Diplomacy 101. "Um,...
UNION TRAITORS GIVE OWNERS THE FIRST VICTORY OF 2005-06
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amTHEY don't trust the commissioner, they don't trust the owners, they probably don't trust their general managers and coaches to any great extent, either. Now the players can't even trust...
OMAR: WE CAN COMPETE IN EAST, IF ...
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - If the Mets are injury free, GM Omar Minaya believes, they should be as good as anybody in the NL East. "I think if...
GIANTS UNFAZED BY ARREST
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amThe Giants are hopeful and confident that the Feb. 4 arrest of cornerback Frank Walker on charges of possession of a stolen vehicle in Atlanta is much ado about nothing....
ANOTHER CLOSE LOSS FOR STORM
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amWest Va. 67St. John's 66 Several days before Boston College suffered its first loss of the season, a group of media types was debating the biggest surprise of the season...
JEROME SEES NO NBA LOCKOUT
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Knicks forward Jerome Williams said the NBA labor woes will never reach the point the NHL reached yesterday. In fact, earlier this week, Knick players held a discussion...
U-NET-FIED FORCE ; PIECES COME TOGETHER IN NETS' ROUT OF KINGS
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amNets 96Kings 85 Maybe Jason Kidd will wear a Nets uniform beyond this season. Maybe not. Kidd says he is only concerned about now and can't look down the line....
ROBINSON SOLID IN FIRST NET OUTING
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES Another week, another adjustment period for the Nets. As is now virtually weekly custom, there was a new Net aboard last night, Cliff Robinson. The veteran 6-10 forward,...
KNICKS WILL BE BREAK DANCIN'
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amKnicks 108Bucks 90 As birthday boy Herb Williams was ready to enter the interview room late last night, Knick president Isiah Thomas intercepted him, shook the hand of his coach...
REYES OF HOPE - JOSE 'FEELS GREAT' - NOW HE'S GOTTA STAY THAT WAY
February 17, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The very first grounder came to Jose Reyes, and the shortstop scooped it up with ease. "Ooh," David Wright yelled over from his spot at third...