April 1, 2006
BRUCE GETS $14M IN PAY
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amLazard boss Bruce Wasserstein took his first ever bonus as head of the newly-public investment bank last year, but his pay package paled in comparison to the heads of rival...
INTER-TEL PREPS FOR HOSTILE BID
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amInternet phone company Inter-Tel Inc. is fighting back against a possible proxy fight and hostile bid by its founder and former boss. The Arizona company announced a change to its...
BIOVAIL DENIED IT, BUT SPYING WENT ON FOR A YEAR
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amTroubled pharmaceuticals firm Biovail has been conducting a year-long surveillance of two stock analysts it says conspired to torpedo the firm. After a recent Post investigation, Biovail said last month...
GM LABOR CRISIS - DELPHI STRIKE COULD SHUT AUTOMAKER'S FACTORIES
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe end drew closer yesterday for General Motors with an ironic twist - the very people who reap its generous perks are likely to wreck the firm. Analysts say GM...
GIMME SHELTER
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amGood night and good luck GEORGE CLOONEY, Rande Gerber and New York-based development powerhouse Related have apparently crapped out in Las Vegas. As The Post first reported last December, their...
HOME SHOPPING CLUB - THE CHAIR WILL RECOGNIZE
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amLewis Mittman 10-27 46th Ave., between 11th Street and Vernon Blvd., Long Island City (718) 937-3833 Sale: April 7-9 Open: Fri., 11 a.m.-5 p.m./Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m./Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m....
HANGING AROUND - NOT JUST FOR STUFFY BALLROOMS, CHANDELIERS ARE ON THE UPSWING
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amIF you've ever felt the urge to swing from a chandelier, now might be the time to buy one. Chandeliers are popular again, with traditional rooms getting updated with modern...
NO NEW LIFE IN TIRED OLD SHOW
April 1, 2006 | 5:00am70 GIRLS 70City Center, 55th Street; (212) 581-1212. Last performances tonight and tomorrow afternoon. THE play "70 Girls 70" is probably the best Broad way musical ever to be written...
'SIMPSONS' PARKS A TRAILER; 'TOON'S MOVIE PREVIEW HITS U.S. THEATER SCREENS
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amTHE long-awaited "Simpsons" feature film is slated to be released June 27, 2007. Fans of the show learned this yesterday when trailers for the movie began appearing in theaters across...
ROLL WITH IT; EX-PUNK ROCKER HENRY IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOOR
April 1, 2006 | 5:00am"The Henry Rollins Show" Tonight at 10 on IFC * (one star) NOW we know what would happen if you gave Travis Bickle a talk show. It would turn out...
PLAID AS HELL - GO HAGGIS WILD - IT'S TARTAIN WEEK IN NEW YORK
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amAPRIL 1: pranks, pratfalls, plaid. That's right, not only is today April Fools' Day, it's also the start of Tartan Week in New York. That means for a solid week,...
APRIL FOOL! KIDDIE COMEDIAN TAKES HIS SHTICK TO THE NEW VIC
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amUNLIKE most stand-up comics, James Campbell keeps it clean. Then again, he has to - much of his audience is a solid decade below the drinking age. Some even arrive...
SPA LA LA
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amGet rubbed for a lot less than usual. And, don't worry, it's totally legal. More than 75 New York City spas are gearing up for Spa Week - where customers...
BASEBALL'S FINEST HITS - MOMA FILM SERIES TAKES YOU OUT TO THE BALLGAME
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amTHERE'S been all sorts of crap written about baseball and the American psyche. Well, according to the Museum of Modern Art, you can forget all that. As it says in...
RAIDING COPS SHUT 7 CLUBS
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amSeven trendy nightclubs were raided last night following a nine-month undercover drug probe, police said yesterday. Police hit the clubs at 10 p.m., just as they were starting their Friday...
E. SIDE BUS KILLS GRANNY
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amAn 82-year-old retired college dean was killed by a city bus on the East Side yesterday, authorities said. Esther Levine, who lived nearby, had just left a supermarket and was...
KIDS PROTEST ON PRINCIPLE FOR PRINCIPAL
April 1, 2006 | 5:00am"We want her back!" That was the shout yesterday from scores of students and parents from a Coney Island high school who rallied at Department of Education headquarters - demanding...
JOEY UNDER GUN AGAIN
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amSAN FERNANDO, Calif. - A judge ordered Joey Buttafuoco to stand trial on weapons-related charges that could land the veteran jailbird behind bars once again, authorities said yesterday. Buttafuoco, 50,...
BUBBA BRINGS IN MRS. BUSH
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amLaura Bush is expected to be among the movers and shakers who will descend on New York City in September for the second annual Clinton Global Initiative, ex-President Bill Clinton...
WTC TAPES LEAVE TRAGIC MA WITH ONLY HALF THE TRUTH
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amALL these years later, after so many memorials and too many sleepless nights, the tortured mother still searches for her son. Sally Regenhard prayed she might find that on the...
SHIRT DESIGNER SO $LAP-HAPPY
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amPersonal assistants and domestic workers should take the advice of a new must-have T-shirt: "Naomi Campbell slapped me - and I slapped the bitch back!" The tees (above) were designed...
ISRAELI HOSP $$ ARE DOA; PATAKI GRANT KO'D
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki's unprecedented plan to help a Jewish group finance a major hospital expansion - in Israel - has been killed by state lawmakers. The Post reported in...
NYERS LIKE MAYOR HERE
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amNew Yorkers like the job Mayor Bloomberg is doing - but 72 percent don't want him to make a White House run in 2008, a new poll shows. A WNBC/Marist...
NAOMI 'COVER-UP' BID ; AIDE WAS URGED TO SKIP HOSP VISIT
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amPsycho supermodel Naomi Campbell tried to cover up braining her housekeeper with a cellphone by urging her not to go the hospital, the domestic's lawyer charged yesterday. "After Ms. Campbell...
WHY AGING MODEL NEEDS 'BULLY' PULPIT
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amAs an aging supermodel in a world of ever-younger stars, 35-year-old Naomi Campbell may feel vulnerable, alone and afraid, a shrink said yesterday. "It seems like she targets the little...
'MOB COP' LAWYERS TAKE A PASS ON GASPIPE'S HOT AIR
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe defense team for two accused mob cops will not call an imprisoned Mafia boss to the witness stand - even though the gangster says he wants to tell jurors...
LOVELY HIGH-AND-DRY WEEKEND
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amSpring finally sprung yesterday, with sunny skies spreading warmer-than-usual temperatures across the region. March was the driest on record in the city, with just 0.8 inches of precipitation - less...
A NERVOUS SATURDAY
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amSome 375,000 teens are wading into the nerve-racking rite of taking the SAT exam today, with more than the usual trepidation after grading flaws marred the scores of 4,411 students...
ZERO IN ON TALKS; CHUCK: BACK TO TABLE
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Schumer is raising the pressure on New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and other key Ground Zero players to return immediately to the bargaining table to hammer...
'THEY'RE SAYING IT MIGHT BE A TERROR ATTACK. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. IT'S GOT TO BE HELL!'
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amHundreds of panicked callers trapped in the burning Twin Towers begged authorities for help, overwhelming 911 operators who struggled to hold back their own emotions, eight hours of emergency tapes...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amBROOKLYN *** Police are asking for the public's help in finding a shoeless, mentally handicapped Sheepshead Bay man who has been missing for five days. Duron Leebo (above), 21, was...
VANISHED TEEN'S BLOOD TRAIL ; TRASH CLUE SPURS LANDFILL SEARCHES
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amAuthorities have followed a trail of evidence down a dorm building trash chute in a bid to figure out what happened to a New Jersey college student who vanished a...
'GAMBINO 8' COP PLEAS
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amMobster Anthony "The Genius" Megale and seven other reputed Gambino gangsters have copped pleas in a sweeping racketeering case built on the work of a daring undercover FBI agent who...
WALL ABOARD! MIKE BACKS ALIEN BARRIER
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amWant to keep illegal immigrants out? Build a wall. That's the solution Mayor Bloomberg proposed yesterday to protect America's borders. "People say, 'I want control of the borders, but I...
NETS ARENA WILL LOWER ITS PROFILE
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amBruce Ratner is shrinking the skyscrapers surrounding his $3.5 billion proposed basketball arena. The owner of the Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets plans to scale back the entire project by 5...
TRUE BLUE HILLARY; NYPD HAILS KELLY'S HERO
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday got a warm boost from Police Commissioner Ray Kelly - one of the city's most popular figures - at a celebration of women in the...
TAIL OF TRAGEDY FOR HAL THE COYOTE; DIES BEFORE RELEASE
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amNew York's wiliest coyote never made it home. Hal, who was captured roaming the southern end ofCentral Park 10 days ago, died late Thursday as he was aboutto be freed...
PREGNANT SLAY; BOYFRIEND SOUGHT IN BRONX BUTCHERY
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe Bronx boyfriend of a woman nine months pregnant with his child is suspected of viciously stabbing her to death and threatening to cut off the ear of her terrified...
BUBBA TO HOST LAURA
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amLaura Bush is expected to be among the movers and shakers who will descend on New York City in September for the second annual Clinton Global Initiative, ex-President Bill Clinton...
CON ED TAKING TAX HEAT AS W-2S VANISH
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - The personal tax information from last year for 15,000 Con Edison employees has mysteriously disappeared, The Post has learned. Con Ed let the workers in on the situation...
BRICK WALL FALLS ON B'KLYN BOY
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amA brick wall collapsed on a 6-year-old boy in Brooklyn yesterday, sending him to a hospital with critical injuries, cops said. The youngster was playing in his back yard on...
L.I. HOOPS PA IN $40M COKE BUST
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe father of a University of North Carolina basketball player was held on $7.5 million cash bail yesterday for his alleged role in one of the largest cocaine-ring busts in...
SECOND-BREAST DEAL IN SCORES TAX SCAM
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe second Scores honcho indicted in a $3.1 million skim scam pleaded guilty yesterday in a deal that promises him only four weekends in jail - and lets him remain...
CON ED TAKING TAX HEAT - W-2 DATA VANISH
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - The personal tax information from last year for 15,000 Con Edison employees has mysteriously disappeared, The Post has learned. Con Ed let the workers in on the situation...
RCN SIGNS DEAL WITH SPORTSNET NY
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amRCN Cable, serving approximately 63,000 New York City subscribers, yesterday reached an agreement to carry SportsNet New York, the new Mets network. Left unresolved are the fates of tens of...
PLAYING BALL ; INVESTIGATION NEEDS PEOPLE TO COME FORWARD
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amNear the end of George Mitchell's opening statement at Thursday's Major League Baseball news conference, the former U.S. senator made a plea. "I invite those who believe they have information...
SMILEY MASE ; GEE-WHIZ GMU OUT FOR FUN VS. FLORIDA
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - It was 9 a.m. yesterday, about three hours before the George Mason Patriots were scheduled to practice before thousands of adoring fans that have adopted this team -...
GONZALEZ AND HALL IN SECOND HUDDLE
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amManhattan College's Bobby Gonzalez will have a second interview with Seton Hall athletic director Joe Quinlan sometime during Final Four weekend in Indianapolis, The Post has learned. Gonzalez and Pitt...
WIN WOULD LIFT BRODEUR, DEVS
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amPrecious points and a precious record will be up for grabs this afternoon when Martin Brodeur and the surging Devils play at Philadelphia. Brodeur, who tied Hall of Famer Jacques...
STRONG BRU ; PROUD UCLA KNOWS ITS PLACE
April 1, 2006 | 5:00am"We know that UCLA is across our chest and know to play with pride and tradition." - UCLA's Ryan Hollins "UCLA, you know, is just a couple letters on the...
LIKE OLD TIMES FOR 'CIDE' & 'ATTIRE'
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amField of nine veterans goes in 94th running of Grade 3, $200,000 Excelsior Breeders' Cup Handicap today at mile-and-eighth, featuring rematch of rival old geldings Funny Cide (2003 Derby winner)...
TOUGH TASK FOR BARBARO; FLA. FAVE ON THE SPOT
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amFLA. DERBY Is unbeaten Barbaro, the favorite for today's Grade 1, $1 million Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park and a top contender for the May 6 Kentucky Derby, a superstar?...
BIG BLUE IS GREEN IN SPRING
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe Giants yesterday announced tickets have been raised $5 across the board, with upper- and lower-tier seats now priced at $75, and mezzanine seats priced at $85. It marks the...
WEARY RANGERS GET NEEDED REST
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amAfter playing 12 games in a 20-day stretch that concluded with Thursday night's 4-1 loss in Ottawa, the Rangers finally have a chance to catch their collective breath. They don't...
UP & DOWN DAY ; PEDRO OK AFTER SHAKY START; ZAMBRANO HURT
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amCardinals 9Mets 6 PORT ST. LUCIE - Pedro Martinez was not spectacular in his second and final spring-training outing yesterday, but he had no physical problems. There is, however, a...
AILING PAVANO IS SHUT DOWN
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES PHOENIX - Carl Pavano won't pitch in an extended-spring-training game tomorrow, and the Yankees don't know when their $40 million investment will get back on the mound. Pavano...
QYNTEL HOPING TO RETURN
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Qyntel Woods told The Post yesterday he'd love to re-sign with the Knicks this summer, believing he owes it to Larry Brown. Woods is the lone free agent...
FULL ROTATION ; TORRE SELECTS WANG, CHACON TO START BEHIND UNIT, MUSSINA
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amYANKEES 6 D'BACKS 5 PHOENIX - The back spasms that forced Jaret Wright to miss a start weren't the reason Joe Torre left the right-hander out of the Yankees' four-man...
RANDOLPH MAKES FINAL CUTS OF SPRING
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - After several cuts yesterday, the Mets have all but determined their team, with Victor Diaz and Pedro Feliciano grabbing the final two roster spots....
YES MAY STEAL FLAHERTY
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amFormer Yankees catcher John Flaherty's studio gig with SportsNet New York, the new Mets network, lasted exactly zero days. In a move that seemed to be covered with George Steinbrenner's...
ISLES CAN'T CUT MUSTARD
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amPenguins 4Islanders 0 It may not officially be over, but the NHL season sure seemed done last night at the Coliseum, where the Islanders turned in a monumental stinker against...
POINT OF NO RETURN ; STEPH'S SEASON IN JEOPARDY; KNICKS MULL NEW PG IN '07
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amSixers 117Knicks 112 Has Stephon Marbury played his last game as a Knick? Before Marbury went down last night with a strained right knee, possibly for the season, Larry Brown...
SIXERS RALLY PAST KNICKS
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES It was nice while it lasted. The Knicks were without Stephon Marbury, injured in the first quarter with a strained knee. They were without Steve Francis (sprained toe)...
ISLES DON'T KID AROUND
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe Islanders' youth movement is well under way, appropriate leading into last night's game against the equally green Penguins, an Atlantic Division rival that likely will be a power in...
TURNING POINT - BROWN: STEPH, IF HE'S BACK, MAY BE SG IN '07
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amLarry Brown said the Knicks will seek a classic point guard this summer as they retool their roster, believing Stephon Marbury is no longer equipped to play the position. If...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 1, 2006 | 5:00amYou probably hate getting stuck on line at a fast-food restaurant drive-through - but not as much as Colton Raysor. Cops in Abilene, Texas, spotted him driving a vehicle that...