March 21, 2005
AT $10B, TECH LBO DRAWS GIANTS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amA buyout consortium led by San Francisco-based Silver Lake Partners is in talks to buy Sungard Data Systems for as much as $10 billion - in what would be one...
FACE-OFF LOOMING OVER COSMETICS SAFETY LABELS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amThe cosmetics industry has a lot of making up to do. The Food and Drug Administration has warned the industry it plans to enforce a 67-year-old law requiring companies to...
NEWHOUSE RULES MAG AWARD NOMINATIONS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amThey say the National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellies, are all about the editors and the stories, but inside each corporation is an imaginary gauge tallying how it...
'WOOLF' HAS BITE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amTWO dying scorpions trapped at the bottom of an empty gin bottle. That suggests something of the impact of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," which opened last night...
'DEVELOP' THIS, PAL
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amTHE biggest guessing game in Hollywood right now may be: will the much-loved-but-little-watched "Arrested Development" escape the axe? The off-center comedy series - starring Michael Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Jessica...
NO BUNNY NEEDS TO WORRY ABOUT LESBIAN 'POSTCARDS'
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amBUSTER the traveling bunny has gone where no rabbit has gone before: To Vermont to attend a Shabbat dinner and bonfire hosted by a lesbian couple and their kids. And...
STARR REPORT
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amNew Deutsch mark CNBC's "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch" has flown under the ratings radar since its January debut - but last week reached the triple-digit viewership mark for...
FASHION PASSION - 'RUNWAY' RESCUED
March 21, 2005 | 5:00am'PROJECT Runway," Bravo's runaway hit reality show, will strut again next season. Network execs are breathing a sigh of relief because the future of the show was in question, thanks...
FLIRT WITH SKIRTS - HOW TO CINCH SPRING'S MOST IMPORTANT LOOK; SKIRT ALERT: BEST BUYS FOR SPRING
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amTHERE'S no skirting the issue when it comes to the strongest trend for spring. Pouf, pencil, flouncy A-lines and intricately pleated skirts are this season's must-buy - followed by the...
LAWMAKERS RAIL AGAINST PATAKI'S SUBWAY BUDGET
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amThe state needs to funnel more money to maintain the subway system over the next five years - or straphangers will face an increased number of service delays like the...
COPS SEEK BEAU OF SLAIN BX. GAL - THREATENED TO KILL HER IF SHE LEFT HIM
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amCops last night were hunting for the hulking boyfriend of a murdered Bronx mother who once allegedly threatened to kill his petite girlfriend if she ever left him. The brutally...
MIDEAST HANDOFF FUMBLED
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's plans to hand over a second West Bank city have hit a snag over Palestinian demands that Israel yield control of two nearby villages. Defense Minister Shaul...
1G REWARD FOR FIEND WHO RAPED BLIND GAL
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amDetectives yesterday pressed their investigation into the savage rape of a 19-year-old blind woman in a Queens subway elevator. A black police officers' group is offering a $1,000 reward for...
BIDDER END ON W. SIDE - TIME'S UP FOR JETS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amThe battle for the West Side turns into a steel-cage match today when the Jets and their crosstown rivals at Madison Square Garden put in their final bids for control...
BARRON CONFRONTS FERRER OVER DIALLO
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amMayoral hopeful Fernando Ferrer just can't seem to get away from the controversial remarks he made last week about the 1999 police shooting of Amadou Diallo. City Councilman Charles Barron...
4 HELD IN BX. GAY-BASHING
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amFour teens were busted for beating a 35-year-old man in an apparent gay-bashing, Bronx cops said yesterday. The victim, whose name was withheld, was accosted by the youths at West...
FANS FED UP WITH TV SEX
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amIf you've seen one too many jiggling body parts, heard one too many swear words and had one too many gruesome acts forced on you, chances are you're part of...
HINDU HONCHO DRAWS PROTESTS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amHundreds of Indian-Americans gathered outside Madison Square Garden yesterday, protesting the satellite broadcast of a controversial Hindu leader whose U.S. visa was revoked on grounds he was responsible for a...
MY GUY SAVED DAVE'S KID
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amROY, Mont. - The girlfriend of a Montana mechanic says he "saved" little Harry Letterman by blowing the whistle on the ex-con accused of plotting to kidnap the tot from...
'PERV' TEACHER, 51, KISSED GIRL, 15: COPS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amA teacher at one of the city's top high schools was arrested yesterday for allegedly kissing and hugging a 15-year-old girl in a classroom on March 2, police sources said....
RIP-OFF - 'WINNERS' ARE LOSERS IN SNOOZE BLUNDER
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amScratch this! That's the message angry readers had yesterday for the Daily News, whose Scratch n' Match gaffe dashed the dreams of contestants who thought they'd hit the jackpot. New...
KELLY CALLS NYPD BRASS ON CARPET FOR OVERTIME
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly has taken the unusual step of personally grilling the department's top brass on the critical issue of overtime, just before heading to the City Council for...
GRIDDER'S 'CURRENT' ROLE - HOSTING RETURN OF TV CLASSIC
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amTim Green says he's just as excited about hosting the new version of "A Current Affair" as he was nearly 20 years ago when he was a rookie trying to...
DAVE-PLOT SNITCH 'DID WHAT HE HAD TO': GAL PAL
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amROY, Mont. - The girlfriend of a Montana mechanic says he "saved" little Harry Letterman by blowing the whistle on the ex-con accused of plotting to kidnap the tot from...
FILM WRITER DONATES DIAMOND TO HELP GIS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amA Hollywood screenwriter proved he's a gem of a guy - donating a $7,000 diamond to help injured American soldiers. John Ridley, who wrote the screenplay for "Three Kings," bought...
'TEACHER OF YEAR' IN PERV BUST
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amA "Teacher of the Year" at one of the city's top high schools was arrested yesterday for allegedly kissing and hugging a 15-year-old girl in a classroom, police sources said....
BASEBALL BULKS UP STEROIDS PENALTIES
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amMajor League Baseball and the players union agreed yesterday to toughen the sport's steroid policy, eliminating the possibility that a player who tests positive could be fined instead of suspended....
LAWYERS SUE STEVEN SEAGAL
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amSteven Seagal's ex-legal adviser Martin Perschetz and Perschetz's firm, Schulte Roth & Zabel, are suing him for allegedly stiffing them out of $711,531. SR&Z defended Seagal when he was sued...
NAIL 'VICTIM' CLIP$ SALON - 'FILES' 500G SUIT FOR INFECTION
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman is hoping to nail the salon she claims caused her finger to get so infected, she had to have surgery. "My hands are not attractive anymore," said...
COP'S HOOKER 'VICTIM' A GUY
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amA prostitute who was solicited and then robbed at gunpoint by an off-duty Bronx cop was a man dressed in woman's clothing, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Officer Miguel Martinez, 26,...
SCHIAVO 'RESCUE' STALLED - DEMS FOIL GOP
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - An unprecedented Palm Sunday push by Republican lawmakers to reconnect the feeding tube of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo initially failed yesterday - but House members reconvened and may try...
PELOSI JURORS 'PRESSURED'
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amConvicted killer Danny Pelosi might ask for a new murder trial because the jurors who convicted him were allegedly bombarded by friends and co-workers with opinions of his guilt, sources...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * An East New York woman told cops she was raped at knifepoint by two thugs during a nightmarish car ride, sources said yesterday. The 27-year-old woman said she...
GIS CLOBBER ATTACKERS - KILL 24 GUERRILLAS WHO STRIKE CONVOY
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amAmerican troops fought off rebel forces outside Baghdad yesterday, killing two dozen guerrillas, while two GIs died in separate bombings and terrorists assassinated a top Iraqi cop in Mosul. U.S....
CROWN HTS. RIOT FIEND LEMRICK GOES FREE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amLess than 14 years after the death of a Hasidic scholar stabbed at the peak of the Crown Heights riots, the man who wielded the knife is walking free. Lemrick...
POLS OK SCHIAVO 'RESCUE' - DRAMA IN CONGRESS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In an unprecedented high-stakes drama, the House voted early this morning to give brain-damaged Terri Schiavo a second chance at life by putting her fate in the hands...
PHONES HAVE KIDS' NUMBER - NEW CELLS ARE 'COOL' CALLERS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amThe race is on for your kids' talk time. At least three companies are introducing cellphones that'll have preteens chatting up a storm about the cutest boy in class, the...
STATE STIFFING CITY SCHOOLS OUT OF FAIR LOTTERY-POT CUT
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amCity schools have lost out on some $340 million in state aid over the last four fiscal years because lottery proceeds to education are not distributed equitably, state Assemblyman Scott...
RUDY HOLDING SUMMIT TO PLOT HIS NEXT MOVE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amFORMER Mayor Rudy Giuliani - weighing a run for president or governor - will hold a summit of top advisers within a month to "set the direction" for his political...
EX-LAWYERS CALL SEAGAL 'HARD TO BILL'
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amTough-guy actor Steven Seagal is getting "beaten up" by his own lawyers. His ex-legal adviser Martin Perschetz and Perschetz's firm, Schulte Roth & Zabel, slammed Seagal with a breach-of-contract suit...
'NET BETS THREATEN KIDS: CHUCK
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amSen. Chuck Schumer laid his cards on the table yesterday, offering a four-point plan to fix the problem of kids gambling online. Kids "can access roulette as easily as they...
GOV'T HAS NO RIGHT INTERFERING IN THIS TRAGIC CASE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amMY MOTHER, Florence Stasi, was forced to linger in a brain-dead state for weeks after she'd actually "died." We were forced not only to agonize with her but also to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amNothing like wearin' the green when you're stealin' it. A guy in a leprechaun get-up flashed a gun and stole $322 from a Butte, Mont., laundry - on St. Patrick's...
QUEENS DEATH BLAZE - VICTIM HAD LOST LEG
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amA disabled Queens man died in a fire that raged through his apartment building yesterday, police said. The man, whose name was withheld pending notification of relatives, died of cardiac...
BOY'S DEATH TURNS FAMILY'S HAPPY DAY TO HORROR
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amA Staten Island mom's joy in bringing home her newborn from the hospital turned to sorrow hours later when her 8-year-old son was killed in a freak accident, police and...
JORDAN CONVICTS AT-LARGE ZARQAWI
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amA Jordanian court yesterday convicted Iraq's most-wanted terrorist, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, and sentenced him in absentia to 15 years imprisonment for bombing the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad. Zarqawi was convicted for...
CROWN HEIGHTS RIOT FIEND LEMRICK IS TURNED LOOSE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amLess than 14 years after the death of a Hasidic scholar stabbed at the peak of the Crown Heights riots, the man who wielded the knife is walking free. Earlier...
COVERT OPS AFTER 'ROIDS IN BASEBALL
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Undercover congressional gumshoes are digging into baseball's dirty little steroid secret, a top Republican revealed yesterday. Rep. Tom Davis (Va.), who chaired the committee that grilled a six-pack...
GOING GETS RUFF - FAMILIES IN BATTLE OVER L.I. POOCH
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amA bitter custody battle has erupted between two Long Island families that both claim to be the rightful guardians - of a Chihuahua. Their bone of contention is a year-old...
'RING' ZINGS FILM RIVALS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amActress Naomi Watts ran rings around competitors as her horror sequel, "The Ring Two," debuted as the weekend's top movie. The DreamWorks film, a sequel to the 2002 hit "The...
RENT-$$ ROW OVER INTEL CZAR'S NEW HQ
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amJohn Negroponte, the newly appointed director of national intelligence, could have a $181 million headquarters to call home following an "emergency" military-funding bill passed by the House last week, a...
MAGGIE KUHN AND THE GRAY PANTHERS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amWhen Maggie Kuhn was growing up, women had three career choices: teaching, nursing or marriage. She chose none of the above. Social service and activism would be her life's work....
BAGHDAD BLOODSHED - GIS KILL 24 REBELS WHO STRIKE CONVOY
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amAmerican troops fought off rebel forces outside Baghdad yesterday, killing two dozen guerrillas, while up north near Kirkuk, a GI died in a bomb blast. Meanwhile, terrorists assassinated Iraq's top...
HURLS GONE WILD - YANKS NOT THROWN OFF BY MARIANO'S CONTROL PROBLEMS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amD-Rays 5 - Yankees 3 ST. PETERSBURG - Mariano Rivera morphed into Mitch Williams yesterday in a Legends Field bullpen, and the Yankees could have cared less if Rivera's location...
YANKS' LINEUP BLACK & BLUE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Bumps and bruises, Joe Torre can live with. Even if they arrive daily. Yesterday the Yankees learned Derek Jeter has a bruised left foot hours...
'KING' STILL ATOP THRONE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amIn coast-to-coast action Saturday, Sun King - nicknamed "Elvis" by trainer Nick Zito - maintained his place atop the "Derby Dozen" with a handy score in the Tampa Bay Derby,...
JESSE THE BACHELOR BACK WITH BIG BLUE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amWhen the Giants two weeks ago signed Jim Miller, they never officially stated he would be their backup quarterback. They did praise his leadership and experience and said they were...
MOOSE HAS NO PROBLEM BEING DEUCE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - It's a long shadow that 6-10 Randy Johnson casts, enabling Mike Mussina, Carl Pavano, Jaret Wright and Kevin Brown, that prince of darkness, to have it made...
UNDERDOGGING IT - PITINO PLAYED DOWN HIS NO. 4 CARDS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amNASHVILLE - What does it say about the quality of the NCAA Tournament, Rick Pitino was asked, that his Louis ville club and highly-regarded Georgia Tech would meet in a...
EYES ON THE BALL - NCAA COVERAGE PROVES THE GAMES ARE BEST FOCUS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amFROM a strictly clinical position, the first week of the NCAA Tournament on CBS offered proof of how good TV can be - and how bad it so often chooses...
SWEET & SOUR - ILLINI POSE UNIQUE CHALLENGE TO UWM
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amFirst it was fifth-seeded Alabama and its gifted SEC athletes. Then it was fourth-seeded Boston College, undefeated for most of the season with its Big East bruisers. But the next...
FOURTH STRAIGHT 'W' KEEPS HOPES ALIVE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - It really is simple this time of year in certain situations. You're fighting for your playoff life. You're on the road. Your stars must step up and carry...
NETS' ROBINSON TAKES UCONN LOSS IN STRIDE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES Cliff Robinson took his share of ribbing from his Net teammates as the early NCAA tourney game wound down. Robinson became the latest Net to see his alma...
MALIK IS SPURRED ON
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amYou can never accuse Malik Rose of not giving it his all every night. But tonight against the Spurs, Rose may have another gear at the Garden, with a thing...
HIGH-STEPPIN' HEELS - UNC TAKES WIND OUT OF CYCLONES
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amSYRACUSE REGION: UNC 92 - Iowa St. 65 CHARLOTTE - Sweet 16 appearances in the NCAA tournament were once a given for North Carolina. A recent downslide, however, makes the...
SUPER 'NOVA - CONFIDENT 'CATS GORGE ON GATOR
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amSYRACUSE REGION: Villanova 76 - Florida 65 NASHVILLE - As the clock was winding down on a Villanova victory that in every way epitomized what these Wildcats are all about,...
HODGE, N.C. STATE FORCE UCONN TO . . . PACK IT IN
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amWORCESTER, Mass. - With about eight seconds left, Julius Hodge glanced at his older brother, Steve, in the DCU Center one last time. "He gave me a look," Steve told...
ISHII IS METS' NEW KAZ FOR CELEBRATION
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amSPLIT SQUAD: Mets 10 - Dodgers 9 SPLIT SQUAD: Mets 5 - Orioles 1 PORT ST. LUCIE - There are issues with Kaz Ishii - not the least of which,...
CINDERELLA GORY - VERMONT OUSTED BY MICHIGAN STATE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amAUSTIN REGION: Mich. St. 72 - Vermont 61 WORCESTER, Mass. - The greatest four-year run in Vermont basketball history ended yesterday with sweat and tears dripping onto the court in...
PEDRO HAS A NEW SPRING IN HIS STEP
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Before the first inning, Pedro Martinez trotted onto the field before his teammates, hopping over the third base line to cheers. It was Martinez's...
BERGTRAUM, CTK LOOK AHEAD
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amEd Grezinsky was roaming the halls of Glens Falls Civic Center on Saturday, shortly after his Bergtraum team had lost the state Federation title to Christ the King. As he...
KRSTIC A QUICK LEARNER ABOUT KIDD
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - The language can still be a problem for Nets center Nenad Krstic of Serbia. But in less than one year in the U.S., Krstic has picked...
METS' LATEST KAZ CELEBRE
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amSPLIT SQUAD: Mets 10 - Dodgers 9 SPLIT SQUAD: Mets 5 - Orioles 1 PORT ST. LUCIE - There are issues with Kaz Ishii, not the least of which, that...
DOHERTY LOOKS TO LAND AT UMASS
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amManhattan College coach Bobby Gonzalez interviewed for the vacant head coaching job at Massachusetts last Wednesday, but it does not appear likely he will get the job, several sources told...
FUN IS IN THE CARDS - ROUT GA. TECH TO SWARM INTO SWEET 16
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amALBUQUERQUE REGION: Louisville 76 - Ga. Tech 54 NASHVILLE - Not long after he witnessed a pretty fair example of hoop perfection, Rick Pitino gathered his Louisville club and let...
DUKE KEEPS ON MARCHIN'
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amAUSTIN REGION: Duke 63 - Miss. St. 55 CHARLOTTE - They didn't come easily for Duke this weekend. Still, the Blue Devils are going to the Sweet 16 for a...
METS' LATEST KAZ CELEBRE - SEAL SWAP OF PHILLIPS FOR LEFTY
March 21, 2005 | 5:00amSPLIT SQUAD: Mets 10 - Dodgers 9 SPLIT SQUAD: Mets 5 - Orioles 1 PORT ST. LUCIE - There are issues with Kaz Ishii, not the least of which, that...