September 12, 2006
FUND MADE A MINT - FINAL TALLY: $306.8M
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amFINAL Profit: $306.8 million. That's how much our fake Make Us Rich hedge fund made during its slightly more than one month in existence. Thanks largely to a correct call...
COKE PLANS CAFÉS SANS STAFF COSTS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amCoca-Cola is getting into the coffee business with plans to set up mini-cafés in retail stores, offices, fast-food joints and movie theaters that can brew a frothy espresso in 30...
HOME FIRES DYING; FUND BETS ON BUST
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA New York hedge fund is betting big time what apartment-obsessed New Yorkers have been whispering about for months: that the real estate boom is over. In July, Paulson Credit...
MARKDOWN OFFER FOR ARAMARK HIT
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe timing of an earnings warning from Aramark and a low-ball offer by its chief to buy the food services giant has some of the company's big investors fuming. Investors...
E. FLATBUSH CONDO SALE; CONDO CHANCES IN EAST FLATBUSH
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA stalled East Flatbush condo is getting a capital infusion and new owners. Taconic Partners and Apollo Real Estate just paid $90 million for 983 apartments in Fairfield Towers, spread...
WHEEL MEDIA.COM ; AUTO DEALERS SEE ONLINE ADS IN FUTURE
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amBig automakers have been rapidly shifting their ad budgets to the Internet in recent years, but deep-pocketed dealer groups are poised to pick up the pace of spending even more....
MODEL RECOVERY - IMG BRINGS PROFIT BACK INTO FASHION
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amSoon after the sports-marketing giant IMG purchased the Seventh on Sixth fashion shows from the Council of Fashion Designers in February 2001, it set about preparing for the first season...
PROBERS DUNN-O ; FEDS WANT H-P EXEC TO REVEAL SPYING NETWORK
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amTwo separate federal probes sliced into beleaguered Hewlett-Packard yesterday over its secret spying on its own directors and at least nine reporters. The Justice Department piled on first, followed just...
SHADOWY TICKET SCALPERS CUT OUT DESIGNERS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amFor all of the publicity surrounding Fashion Week, it is still an invitation-only event, accessible to retail buyers, the press and celebrities. Increasingly, however, other types are surfacing in the...
VETO BUSH-LEAGUE MOCKUMENTARY
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amDEATH OF A PRESIDENT (one and a half stars) Preaching to the choir. Running time: 93 minutes. Not rated. At the Toronto International Film Festival. TORONTO - More offensive in...
9/11 DRAWSCROWD; TUNED IN TO9/11
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amEVERY year, the experts predict 9/11 boredom will set in - but the Nielsen ratings tell a different story. On the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, the steady stream of...
FALL & 'ORDER' - BRITNEY BABY BOBBLE ENDS IN 'L&O' MURDER
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amBRITNEY Spears and her husband are not going to like this. On the season premiere of "Law & Order," a wannabe rapper - who happens to be married to a...
DROPPING COURIC'S ANCHOR RATINGS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amKATIE Couric's sudden rise to the top of the evening-news ratings heap is quickly running out of helium. Between opening night - last Tuesday - and the end of the...
STARR REPORT
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe trades broke the news yesterday that "Sopranos" costar Steve Schirripa (Bobby Bacala) is shopping a latenight talk show to Fox, which launches Spike Feresten this Saturday (midnight/Ch. 5). Here...
IT'S GOOD TO BE KIMMEL - MIDNIGHT TURNS INTO JIMMY'S PRIME TIME
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amSEISMIC shifts in late-night TV really only happen a few times every generation, and Jimmy Kimmel seems to have been left out of the latest temblor. With David Letterman deciding...
FORGET THE TABLOIDS: JUSTIN'S LYRICS TELL THE STORY
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amJUSTIN Timberlake's "FutureSex/LoveSounds," like his 2002 solo debut "Justified," borrows musically from Michael Jackson. Lyrically, it borrows heavily from Page Six. Right up front, in the first verse of the...
12G BOUNTY ON TEEN'S BX. KILLERS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA $12,000 reward has been posted for information leading to the arrests of the thugs who murdered a young woman in The Bronx on Mother's Day, authorities said yesterday. Samantha...
COPS NAB FLEEING 'KILLER'
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx man who had just committed a murder was arrested by cops on routine patrol yesterday after he ran past them with a gun in his hand, police said....
GRIEF AFTER JOY FOR ANNA NICOLE; SON, 20, DIES AFTER SIS BORN
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith mysteriously died in the Bahamas just days after his famous Playboy Playmate mom gave birth to a girl, officials said yesterday. Daniel Smith...
'LACED' HEROIN EYED IN 2 DEATHS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amTwo people died in Queens over the weekend after they overdosed on heroin that was possibly tainted, authorities said. The man and woman both lived in Broad Channel but did...
MAD. AVE. HEEL ROBS SHOE SHOP
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA middle-aged thief brandishing a knife robbed a Madison Avenue shoe store yesterday. He menaced employees in the Aerosoles store at 293 Madison Avenue at East 40th Street just after...
'ART' OF THE STEAL; ASTOR PAINTING HALF-PRICE
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe dealer who purchased Brooke Astor's favorite painting, Childe Hassam's "Flags, Fifth Avenue," for $10 million quickly flipped it - with the final price on the work reaching up to...
BRAVEST BREATHE EASIER WITHOUT POLS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amDURING the most solemn and emotional hours of yesterday's special morning, perhaps it is appropriate to offer a so bering thought. At 100th Street and Riverside Drive, under the magnificent...
HOOPS 'SHOOTER' ARRESTED
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amPolice nabbed a Brooklyn man they say shot a 14-year-old girl during a youth basketball tournament at a city housing project, authorities said yesterday. Luis Villot, 20, of Vinegar Hill,...
AXED EXEC GETS NEW CITY JOB
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amAn official who was fined $4,500 for violating conflict rules at one city agency landed a new job - at a much higher salary - at a second agency, The...
ELIOT AND HILL RIDING PRIMARY TIDAL WAVE
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Gubernatorial hopeful Eliot Spitzer and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are on their way to blowout victories today, while Andrew Cuomo seems certain to defeat Mark Green in the...
ONE FOR THE AGES; WHO LIVES LONGEST - & WHERE
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amAsian-American women in New Jersey's Bergen County typically live to see their 91st birthdays, making them the longest-living Americans, a study has found. It also showed that Hawaiians can expect...
PRISON FOR COMA CRASH
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA drunken driver whose careening BMW put a Florida woman in a six-month coma must serve at least 11/3 years in prison, a Manhattan judge ordered yesterday. Meanwhile, his victim...
BIKE WOE ALL ON THE HEAD
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amBicyclists who wear helmets are more likely to be struck by cars than those who don't, a British researcher said yesterday. After biking on roads in England, Dr. Ian Walker,...
FIFTH AVE. BUILDING FIRE
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA fire tore through a Fifth Avenue building under renovation yesterday morning, FDNY officials said. Workers said they were converting showrooms in the 10-story building at 225 Fifth Ave. to...
HAMAS OKS UNITY BID ; STRIKES DEAL WITH FATAH FOR COALITION GOV'T
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amHamas bowed to a Western aid boycott and agreed to form a coalition government with moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, officials said yesterday. The agreement ends weeks of chaos in...
BUBBA PASSES ON 'PATH' TO CATCH FOOTBALL ON TV
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amBill Clinton snubbed ABC's controversial 9/11 miniseries on Sunday night - choosing instead to watch the Giants-Colts game on NBC. "He made the choice that most Americans made," Clinton Foundation...
DOWNTOWN RUDY'S OWN HEALTH FEAR
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amFormer Mayor Rudy Giuliani yesterday expressed concern for the first time that his own health may have been endangered by breathing the toxic smoke at Ground Zero. "I spent as...
MORE POLS: JUST $AY NO TO FULANI
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amSeveral elected officials asked the Bloomberg administration yesterday to back off plans to provide tax-free financing of up to $12.75 million to a group founded by activist Lenora Fulani. In...
FLIGHTING NATION
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks had little effect on air travel to and from the city - and across the nation, officials said yesterday. Traffic at the region's...
'WHERE'S KATIE?' CRASH MOM RECALLS GIRL'S GRUESOME DEATH
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island mother described in heart-wrenching detail yesterday how a drunken driver plowed head-on into a wedding limousine carrying her family, instantly killing her 7-year-old daughter and the limo's...
WEIGHTRESS OUTRAGE AT PUB SEX-HARASS LAWSUIT
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amTwo ex-waitresses at a trendy East Side bar are serving up a heavy-duty, $15 million sex-harassment lawsuit, accusing their former bosses of ordering female employees to be weighed as part...
HOLE AS BIG AS ONE IN HER HEART
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amTHE small girl with saucer eyes walked purposefully into the gaping hole in the ground. Immediately, she was overcome. "I miss my daddy!" Rebecca Ortiz cried. Rebecca is just 51/2,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** Two thugs robbed a cabdriver at gunpoint on the Upper West Side, police said yesterday. The 27-year-old victim, whose name was not released, had parked his yellow cab...
MAIL CALL IN B'KLYN REP. RACE
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amDemocratic candidates In today's four-way congressional primary race stuffed the mailboxes in the final push to succeed retiring Brooklyn Rep. Major Owens. City Councilman David Yassky, the only white candidate...
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS; CHEF A MASTER TEACHER
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amWalter Morrison set up a 1940s diner in his West Side classroom, where students learn math and history along with making meatloaf - and where self-esteem is his key ingredient....
SANIT MAN DIES ON JOB
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA 53-year-old sanitation worker suffered a heart attack and died yesterday morning while driving his garbage truck in Brooklyn - the third sanitation worker to die in as many weeks....
SCHOOL BUS HERO; MAN PULLS KIDS OUT OF CRASH
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA good Samaritan tourist helped a mini-bus full of frightened Bronx schoolchildren to safety yesterday after a car slammed into their vehicle, knocking it onto its side, officials and witnesses...
LONELY PAL TO STARS; NOW HE'S A CELL-EBRITY
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amSarah Jessica Parker didn't show. Nor did Madonna or Sting. Name-dropping French swindler Alexis Quinlin was sentenced in a Manhattan court yesterday to at least 2½ years in prison for...
SEX TEACH: I'M A VERY BAD GIRL; BARES ALL ON TEEN ROMP
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amHe was hot for the teacher - and, understandably, lukewarm on conversation. That's what steamy perv teacher Debra LaFave tells NBC's Matt Lauer about the "very flirtatious" middle-school student she...
GRIEF AFTER JOY FOR ANNA NICOLE SON, 20, DIES AFTER SIS BORN
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith mysteriously died in the Bahamas just days after his famous Playboy Playmate mom gave birth to a girl, officials said yesterday. Daniel Smith...
RAPE-ROB RAMPAGER COPS PLEA
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA bank robber who raped a woman and pistol-whipped a nun during a two-week crime spree pleaded guilty yesterday in Queens Supreme Court and will do 25 years in prison....
TURNCOAT'S SON TESTIFIES FOR JOHN
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe son of a star turncoat at the center of a witness-tampering case against John "Junior" Gotti took the stand in defense of the mob scion. Michael DiLeonardo Jr., 20,...
'FOR THE VALOR OF THOSE LOST' ; * SOLEMN TRIBUTES ON 5TH ANNIVERSARY * SPOUSES, PARTNERS READ TOLL AT WTC
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amWith tears, prayers, tolling bells and balloons released to the heavens, a heartbroken nation marked yesterday's fifth anniversary of the day death rained from the sky. At Ground Zero, on...
FEDS EYE 'JUNIOR' IN '85 HITS; COLD CASES COULD BE NEXT GOTTI TRIAL
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe FBI and the NYPD's Cold Case Squad are probing John "Junior" Gotti in two unsolved Queens murders from 1985, The Post has learned. One of the two victims was...
FIGHT FOR CIVILIZATION; FREEDOM OF WORLD AT STAKE IN WAR: BUSH
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush told the nation last night that America is waging war against the terrorists to protect free countries and to allow "good and decent" people to sow...
HUNT ON FOR THUG WHO 'EXECUTED' B'KLYN PAIR
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amPolice are hunting a gunman who executed two Brooklyn men. Eric McDonald, 22, and Dajaun Mitchell, 19, were found by cops in the stairwell of 428 Sheffield Ave. in East...
MOM IS A POST GAME WINNER
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amShe's in the money - the really BIG money - thanks to the New York Post. Meet lucky Marina Flores DeCalo, who has just scored a cool $250,000 in our...
PLAYING ITSTRAIGHT; W ON IRAQ & ANSWERING 9/11
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amEVEN if you hate George W. Bush, you have to hand it to him: He doesn't run away from controversy. He doesn't do what other politicians do when tied to...
COUPLE 'BURNED YOUNG SONS'
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA Yonkers couple who allegedly inflicted burns on their two young kids have been charged with child abuse, it was reported yesterday. Jesus Balcazar-Garcia, 26, and Brenda German, 25, were...
SCHOOL BUS HERO - MAN PULLS KIDS OUT OF CRASH
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA good Samaritan tourist helped a minibus full of frightened Bronx schoolchildren to safety yesterday after a car slammed into their vehicle, knocking it onto its side, officials and witnesses...
JACOBS A SHEER DELIGHT - OSCAR PUSHES PETALS, STUART LOVES BARDOT
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amSuch is the rock-star appeal of Marc Jacobs that the ostensibly sophisticated crowd clamoring for entry to his show shoved and elbowed and pushed each other, hard, recalling nothing so...
OSCAR IS A PETAL PUSHER - FLOWER PRINTS, THE PICK OF NEXT SPRING
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amIn "The Devil Wears Prada," Meryl Streep's terrifying Miranda Priestly delivers the devastating dismissal, "Florals for spring - how novel." But in a season where pretty, wearable clothes are back...
GIANT REPORT CARD - COLT WATER TORTURE
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amQUARTERBACKS Historic meeting vs. big brother wasn't lost because of how Eli Manning (20 of 34, 247 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT) performed. Still needs to get sharper with his...
THE POST'S TOP 25
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amRank (prev) TEAM RESULT NEXT 1Ohio State (2-0)won 24-7 at Texasvs. Cincinnati (2)Buckeye fans overload Expedia.com for travel packages to Glendale, Ariz. 2Notre Dame (2-0)beat Penn State 41-17vs. Michigan (1)Irish...
JETS REPORT CARD - HIGH-FLYING START
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amQUARTERBACK Chad Pennington (24-33, 319 yards, 2 TDs, 123.2 rating) was magnificent, particu larly in his poise and running the no- huddle offense, which the Jets used most of the...
COACH REFLECTS ON SOMBER DAY
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is always a poignant time for Giants coach Tom Coughlin. One of his sons, Tim, was on the 60th floor of the...
CHEAP THRILLS - METS, YANKS FIND GEMS IN BARGAIN BIN
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Yankees and Mets should be the last teams to receive free favors, since they have the resources to possess the most expensive rosters in their respective leagues. Yet one...
RIZZUTO FIGHTS ON IN LATEST BATTLE
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amPHIL RIZZUTO always has been a battler, the little underdog who made it all the way to the Hall of Fame. The Scooter will turn 89 later this month, and...
HAPPY MAN-GINI
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE has always come a moment, sometime in every Jets coach's tenure, when he's indoctrinated into the true brotherhood of pain, when he finally becomes one with the fans who...
OCTOBER SURPRISE - METS WAIT & WONDEROVER FIRST-ROUND FOE
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amMIAMI - It remains undetermined who the Mets are going to play in the first round of the playoffs. Heading into last night, the NL wild-card race had seven teams...
THE HOLE PICTURE; LOSS TO EAGLES WOULD PUT JINTS INTO 0-2 ABYSS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe temperatures are falling, but things have quickly heated up around the Giants, who are 0-1 and headed for some tough love in Philadelphia on Sunday, followed by a meeting...
'FIVE SECONDS'; JETS GET USED TO ERIC'S RULE
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amOne of Eric Mangini's core messages to his players has to do with what he calls "the five-second rule." The premise is this: Whether you've made a great play or...
RIVERA REMAINING CAUTIOUS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Noticing that Mariano Rivera cut loose the last 10 tosses he made Sunday, Yankees trainer Gene Monahan scratched Rivera from a scheduled game of catch today....
AMAZIN' STINKER - FISH DRUB METS; ROSS 3 HRS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amMarlins 16Mets 5 MIAMI - If you combined a bunch of bad Met games this year, it was last night's game. In their 16-5 mauling by the Marlins last night,...
PAPI DISSES DEREK ; ORTIZ RAPS JETER'S MVP CREDENTIALS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 9Orioles 6 BALTIMORE - Derek Jeter's answer to David Ortiz' suggestion that Jeter wouldn't be as good a hitter or an MVP winner in the Red Sox lineup sounded...
BELT-RAN CLOBBERS HIS 40TH
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Carlos Beltran has reached the 40s. Beltran became only the third Met to hit 40 home runs in a season last night, blasting his 40th in the fourth...
RIVERA REMAINS CAUTIOUS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Noticing that Mariano Rivera cut loose the last 10 tosses he made Sunday, Yankees trainer Gene Monahan scratched Rivera from a scheduled game of catch today....
PAPI POPS OFF - ORTIZ RAPS JETER'S MVP CREDENTIALS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Derek Jeter's answer to David Ortiz's suggestion that Jeter wouldn't be as good a hitter in the Red Sox lineup was pretty simple. "I don't have to do...
SKIPPER AWARD NOT ON WILLIE'S CARE LIST
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Willie Randolph said that if he wins NL Manager of the Year honors, he won't be celebrating too much. "That would just be a nice personal...
GIONTA TO ATTEND DEVILS CAMP WITHOUT CONTRACT
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe Devils will owe Brian Gionta one. Their record goalscorer intends to attend training camp on his own dime. After considering sitting out camp while unsigned as a restricted free...
ZIP CODE - COACH'S GUTS PUT AKRON ON THE MAP
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amCOLLEGE NOTES Anyone who believes ignorance is bliss is, well, ignorant. Take N.C. State. Before the Wolfpack's home game against Akron Saturday, the cheerleaders walked behind the visitor's bench and...
HELLFIGHTERS IN A HANDBASKET
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe Harlem Hellfighters have been here before. A year ago, the football team forfeited its first game because the PSAL ruled that the program - which is made up of...
GIONTA TO ATTEND CAMP WITHOUT CONTRACT
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe Devils will owe Brian Gionta one. Their record goalscorer intends to attend training camp on his own dime. After considering sitting out camp while unsigned as a restricted free...
SNEE'S ANKLE ONLY SPRAINED
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The prognosis did not look good early yesterday morning when right guard Chris Snee hobbled out of Giants Stadium on crutches, wearing a protective boot on his left...
NET GAIN: BOONE LIKELY TO MISS JUST 4 MONTHS
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amNets rookie Josh Boone may achieve the best-case scenario in an undeniably bad situation. When Boone underwent July shoulder surgery, his sideline time was placed at 4-6 months. Now, with...
MANGINI HEAPS PRAISE ON TEAM
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES Eric Mangini yesterday gave the entire team game balls for its collective victory in Tennessee. He, too, recognized some particular players on offense, defense and special teams whom...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 12, 2006 | 4:00amA Florida crook has been caught red-panted. After announcing a holdup in an Orlando bank, the bandit "stuffed a stack of bills into his waistband and pushed the money down...