August 10, 2006
GODADDY'S CEO LETS OWN IPO GET YANKED
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amBob Parsons, publicity-seeking CEO of GoDaddy.com, pulled the company's initial stock offering this week in part because he didn't want to shut up. One of the restrictions placed on companies...
BIG $AFETY NET - ESPN ACCOUNTS FOR HALF OF $2B DISNEY PROFIT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amDisney would only be half the company it is today if it didn't have ESPN in its stable. In another validation that the cable sports juggernaut is the lifeblood of...
JUST HUMAN NATURE, ARNOLD AD SHOP SAYS
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amWhile it sounds right at home at an Ivy League university, the first Department of Human Nature is actually housed at an advertising agency. The new department is the brainchild...
THE IRS CHIEFTAIN GOES ANGLING FOR 'PHISHERS'
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amMARK W. Everson is a great American and a great human being. And I'm not just saying that because he's the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and, as such,...
IMAX FALLS AS BIDS COME IN TOO CHEAP
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amMovie chain Imax Corp. gave its shareholders a workout worthy of the big screen yesterday after it announced that offers for the company - including one from rocker Bono's private...
SCAM ON THE LAM - COMVERSE EXEC FLEES BEFORE ARRAIGNMENT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe government's poster bad boy in its war on doctored stock options - a CEO accused of pocketing $138 million from the scam - went on the lam just hours...
GIMME SHELTER
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amLOST IN SPACE FASHION mogul Elie Tahari has sold his sky-high penthouse apartment to space cowboy Gregory Olsen. Tahari has unloaded his fourbedroom, 5 1/2-bath, 51st-floor condo at Trump International...
'CURB' WILL BE BACK
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amBALD and angry Larry David has finally agreed to return to HBO for a sixth season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," but has yet to sign a contract with the network....
MEN OF STEEL - THE 9/11 STORY NO ONE HAS TOLD: IRONWORKERS
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amA word to Hollywood from this New Yorker: We don't need your fake re-enactments of 9/11 - no matter how famous the stars, and no matter how much money you...
WAR AND PEAS - TRAVEL CHANNEL RUSHES CHEF'S BEIRUT SPECIAL TO THE TABLE
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon began last month and interrupted filming of TV chef Anthony Bourdain's Travel Channel series, he was sure his plans for a Beirut episode were...
EMMY DEFENDS BURSTYN NOMINATION
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amTHE uproar created by Ellen Burstyn's Emmy nomination - for an 11-second cameo - is forcing the TV Academy to re-think its nomination process. The academy is now "willing" to...
STARR REPORT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00am'Dog' days at A&E Well, it wasn't exactly Tiny Tim marrying Miss Vicky on "The Tonight Show," but Duane "Dog" Chapman tying the knot with longtime partner Beth resulted in...
A TIP OF THE GLASS FOR CHILD LABOR
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amTEACH your toddler how to fix you a martini, make you a hangovercure breakfast, change the oil in your car and apply for a home equity loan. Sound too good...
STARS ARE BLIND & DEAF
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amPARIS Hilton, whose day job mostly comprises panty-less flashing of paparazzi, already makes our eyes bleed several nights a week via "The Simple Life." Now, she's after our ears -...
GHOST TOWNS OF WAR - ISRAEL'S EMPTIED-OUT NORTH
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amKIBBUTZ SASA, ISRAEL DRIVING north to the war from Tel Aviv, the traffic thins gradually - until you realize abruptly that your car is the only one left on the...
MURDER-SUICIDE AS KIDS NEARBY
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amAn off-duty correction officer shot and killed his wife inside their Queens home, before turning the gun on himself, police said. The couple's horrified children were inside the house on...
$CAM LAWYERS SLAMMED
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amA chiseling pair of Manhattan personal-injury lawyers must perform 400 hours community service and pay back the $275,000 they admittedly stole, bit by bit, from at least 10 clients. Financial...
COUGH UP WEB CIG TAXES: CITY
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amIf you ordered cigarettes from Dirtcheapcigs.com, expect to find a bill from the city for unpaid taxes in your mailbox soon. The Finance Department is mailing out bills to more...
'KILLER' HAS POOR TRACK RECORD
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man is facing 25 years to life in prison for the "callous" killing of his friend - whom he allegedly shoved onto the tracks as a train rolled...
UPPER EAST SIDE BONNIE & CLYDE - PREPPIE PAIR PULLS BANK HEIST
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amCops are searching for the Bonnie and Clyde of the hipster set. A male-and-female pair of stylish bank robbers - clad in cargo shorts and flip-flops - ripped off nearly...
LIEBERMAN STICKS TO 'PRINCIPLES'
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amHARTFORD - A defiant Sen. Joe Lieberman yesterday said it would be "irresponsible and inconsistent with my principles if I were to just walk off the field" after a bitter...
WHITE GALS SMOKE AFTER 'SEX'
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amWell-to-do white teenage girls like to smoke cigarettes because they look hip and sophisticated - like the character Carrie Bradshaw on "Sex and the City," a new Big Apple survey...
A STENCH GROWS IN BROOKLYN
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amBrooklyn botanists are waiting with bated breath for the "world's stinkiest" flower to bloom - which could turn the borough's Botanic Garden into a Little Shop of Nausea. "It's pretty...
MIKE JOINS INDY TEAM
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amJoe Lieberman won an over-the-top endorsement yesterday from Mayor Bloomberg, who offered to travel to Connecticut to campaign for the embattled senator on the independent line. "This country needs nonpartisan...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Police yesterday were searching for a note-passing bandit who robbed a Murray Hill bank. The unidentified suspect (above), in his 30s, walked inside an Independence branch on Lexington...
EGYPT TRIO FOUND - 8 STUDENTS STILL SOUGHT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amThree of the 11 Egyptian students who disappeared in New York en route to study at a Montana university were taken into federal custody yesterday as questions remained about their...
TEACHER UNION QUIETLY BACKS ELIOT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - The state's largest teacher union yesterday quietly endorsed Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for governor, nearly two months after an investigation into the New York State United Teachers was...
L.I. SMOKE-OUT - TERROR LINK EYED IN $9M CIG RING
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amAuthorities rounded up a group of contraband-cigarette dealers who were selling more than $9 million a year of untaxed butts that they purchased at Long Island Indian reservations, authorities said....
QUEENS 'KIDDIE PERV' A CAREER CRIMINAL
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amAn ex-con suspected of molesting four young girls in his Queens neighborhood was free to walk the streets despite a rap sheet dating back nearly 25 years, authorities revealed yesterday....
3 MORE RACE-HATE BUSTS
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amThree more Brooklyn teens were busted yesterday for their alleged parts in a vicious beating of a 15-year-old black youth who cycled into their Gerritsen Beach neighborhood in June. Five...
MIKE CAN DIG IT - HAILS NEW WATER TUNNEL AS 'MARVEL'
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amAnother milestone in the 36-year history of the massive Third Water Tunnel led Mayor Bloomberg yesterday to again descend 550 feet below 10th Avenue into what he described as "one...
NYPD ISSUES DAGGER ALERT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amAll city cops have been warned to be on the lookout for a dangerous jailhouse weapon - an improvised knife fashioned out of two sharpened plastic spoons tied together with...
CAMPUS RAPE RAP FOR TEEN
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island college student has been charged with raping a co-ed who fell asleep on his dormitory bed after a boozy sorority party, police said. The rape charge came...
L.I. TOT DROWNS IN BACKYARD POOL
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amA 16-month-old Long Island infant drowned after climbing a ladder and falling into his family's backyard swimming pool, law-enforcement sources said. Suffolk cops said the tragedy happened as little Nijeek...
BLACK SETBACK AT KEY CUNY SCHOOLS
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amFive years after the City University of New York introduced stricter admissions standards, the number of black undergraduates attending three of the system's premier four-year colleges has sharply declined. Enrollment...
JUDGE WOE FOR 'MOB' FED
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amA judge took the wind out of an alleged rogue FBI agent's push to make his trial a federal case - saying yesterday he was "leaning" toward letting it play...
KISSEL'S LAWYERS WANT OUT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amLawyers for Hayley Kissel - whose swindler husband, Andrew, was brutally murdered in their Connecticut home - want to fire the widow as their client, The Post has learned. Kissel's...
FAUX-TOGRAPHY A CRYING SHAME
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amIs this wailing woman from Hezbollah central casting? These pictures - taken nearly two weeks apart and which some observers say seem staged - show an unidentified woman wearing all...
IRAN CAUGHT DEAD-HANDED - BODIES OF TEHRAN'S TERRORISTS IN LEB
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The bodies of members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard were found among Hezbollah fighters killed by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon - conclusive proof that Tehran is behind the...
MET WIFE GETS THE 'LO' DOWN - RUNS TO LAWYER POST-HASTE IN TEXAS
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amPaul Lo Duca's sexy Playboy-model wife ran right to her lawyer yesterday morning after reading The Post and learning about her hubby's luscious teenage paramour - whom acquaintances described as...
BUSH AIDES RIP ANTI-WAR PURGE AGAINST JOE AS A DEMOCRATIC CUCKOO COUP
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe White House angrily accused Democrats yesterday of embracing the extreme left wing of their party by backing anti-war Senate nominee Ned Lamont - calling it a "defining moment" and...
FIRE IS. NUDIE'S SUIT A REAL DOG
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amA bodybuilder yesterday dropped his fight to have his dog with him when he sunbathes nude on Fire Island. Former Gay Games competitor Mark DelCore - who says he developed...
ASTOR SERIAL SLEAZE - WILL-FUL LAWYER HIT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe Brooke Astor lawyer who has made a healthy living off his elderly, ailing clients' estates has made a "practice" of taking advantage of their "advanced age and fragile condition,"...
GRANDPERV IS CAUGHT IN THE ACT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amA Con Edison worker stumbled onto a sick, incestuous scene in a Brooklyn basement yesterday as a little girl was being sexually abused by her own grandfather, police said. Ray...
NYPD 'THRAX SCARE - BROOKLYN MAN QUIZZED
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amPolice were questioning a Brooklyn man yesterday after an envelope filled with a mysterious white powder was mailed to Police Headquarters with a letter threatening "the next time" it will...
HILL COOL ON PARK CONDOS
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday she has "serious concerns" about the city and state's controversial plan to include high-rise condos in the planned Brooklyn Bridge Park. "I think there's...
HE'S BAAAACK!!! - PAROLED BODY-CHOPPER DURST ON WEST SIDE
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amHe's free, he's scary, and he's here in New York! This exclusive photo shows cross-dressing killer Robert Durst back in his old stomping grounds of Manhattan yesterday. The Post's lensman...
NYPD 'THRAX SCARE - MAN GRILLED ABOUT MYSTERY POWDER
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amCops were questioning a Brooklyn man yesterday after an envelope filled with a mysterious white powder was mailed to police HQ with a letter threatening "the next time," it will...
'KIDDIE PERV' CAREER CRIMINAL
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amAn ex-con suspected of molesting four young girls in his Queens neighborhood was walking the streets despite a rap sheet dating back nearly 25 years, authorities revealed yesterday. Keith Poladin,...
GOP RIVALS SLING MUD
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe lone debate between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's long-shot GOP rivals promptly turned personal last night, getting down and dirty over charges of adultery, nepotism and campaign smear tactics. "You...
FLOWER-POWERFUL B'KLYN STINK
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amBrooklyn botanists are waiting with bated breath for the "world's stinkiest" flower to bloom - which could turn the borough's Botanic Garden into a Little Shop of Nausea. "It's pretty...
MOVED TO TEARS - NYERS SALUTE 'WTC' AT SOLD-OUT THEATERS
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amNew Yorkers flocked to theaters yesterday expecting an emotional wallop from the acclaimed "World Trade Center" - and few were disappointed, describing intensely personal and still-raw feelings stirred by the...
PATAKI & MIKE IN 9/11 $PLIT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amGov. Pataki said yesterday he's "strongly inclined" to sign two new laws granting generous death benefits to families of retired cops and firefighters who died after toiling at Ground Zero...
PROBERS NEED JOLT - DRAG FEET ON CON ED OUTAGE
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amPlodding state bureaucrats said yesterday they're months away from even beginning to investigate whether Con Ed shareholders or customers should pay to rebuild the sputtering power grid in northwest Queens....
EAST RIVER DOG SAVED
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amMembers of New York's Bravest became New York's Kindest last night when they rescued a frightened, shivering mutt clinging to a rock in the East River beneath the FDR Drive....
FIRE SAFETY IS POLS' NEW PET PROJECT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amA Manhattan lawmaker is pushing a bill to require that pet stores, stables, vets' offices and animal shelters install sprinklers to protect the creatures in their charge from fire. City...
EGYPTIAN 3 FOUND - 8 STUDENTS STILL SOUGHT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amThree of the 11 Egyptian students who disappeared in New York en route to study at a Montana university were taken into federal custody yesterday as questions remained about their...
THE 5TH ANNUAL LIBERTY MEDAL AWARDS - GIVE THEM A BIG HAND
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amSomeone, somewhere is right now making a difference in a New Yorker's life and we want to know who it is so we can say thanks. We are seeking candidates...
JUDGE MAY PASS ON MOB TRIAL
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amA judge discouraged alleged rogue FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio's push to make his trial a federal case - saying yesterday he was "leaning" toward letting it play out in state...
GOV & MIKE IN 9/11 $PLIT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amGov. Pataki said yesterday he was "strongly inclined" to sign two new laws granting generous death benefits to families of retired cops and firefighters who died after working at Ground...
RAVEN REVIEWS FOR DEMPS
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - There are two disparate ways Will Demps can view what he left behind in Baltimore. He can curse the Ravens for dumping him after four solid seasons or...
LAVAR CLAIMS HE'S FINE
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - No worries. That's LaVar Arrington's message to anyone concerned about the lingering right-knee problem that kept him out of practice with the Giants for the past...
CHAD'S LOOKING TO GET HIT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES It's hard to imagine a player who's suffered the injury woes Chad Pennington has actually wanting to get hit, but that's exactly what the Jets quarterback said he...
LEPAROUX, ASI SIEMPRE ROLL
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Not sure what meet record is for most wins by apprentice jockey at Old Spa, but willing to bet that Julian Leparoux will break it. Hotshot French...
'NOT WORRIED ABOUT RETIREMENT'
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amWith rumors and reports swirling that Curtis Martin may be forced to retire, the Jets running back addressed the media yesterday but didn't say when - or if - he'll...
BARBARO CONTINUES TO MEND
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Barbaro was reported to be "doing well" yesterday after the cast on his right hind leg, which was fractured in the May 20 Preakness, was changed Tuesday...
BUM HEEL PUTS FLOYD BACK ON DL
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Cliff Floyd was placed on the disabled list yesterday for the second time this season, this time because of tendinitis in his left Achilles. Floyd, who was supposed...
GIAMBI JUST CAN'T PUT HIS FINGER ON LINEUP
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Because manager Joe Torre wanted to get Bernie Williams' bat in the lineup last night against Jon Garland, the only way Jason Giambi was going to play against...
PERFORMANCE LIKE THIS FEELS 2 GOOD 2 BE TRUE
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amSIX LONG weeks Shea went without laying eyes on Pedro Martinez, not nearly long enough to be missed like Mike Piazza has been, obviously. When the former Met took Martinez...
RIVERA'S BACK IN MO-TION - MARIANO BARELY BAILS OUT BOMBERS
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 7 - White Sox 6 CHICAGO - For seven innings, the drama at U.S. Cellular Field centered on Randy Johnson's no-hit bid and Johnny Damon's cranky groin, which forced...
METS SURVIVE PIAZZA BLASTS - PEDRO POWERS PAST PODS DESPITE MIKE'S BIG NIGHT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amMets 4 - Padres 3 Mets fans must have realized that Mike Piazza was in a position to cost them the game, and when he came up in the eighth...
NIGHT LIKE THIS 2 GOOD 2 BE TRUE
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amSIX long weeks Shea went without laying eyes on Pedro Martinez, not quite long enough to be missed like Mike Piazza has been, apparently. Of course, the 13 1/2-game lead...
PLEASE, SAVE THE CONCERN - MO MOVES ON AFTER WINDY CITY BLOWN SAVE
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Mariano Rivera glided into the Yankees' clubhouse yesterday afternoon looking like a man who didn't have a care in the world. Since there was no way Paul Konerko's...
ABOUT LAST SLIGHT - FANS TURN AGAINST SLUMPING MILLEDGE
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amIf Rudy Giuliani was a Mets fan, perhaps he would be calling in to radio talk shows to beg fans not to rain boos down on Lastings Milledge. The young...
FLOYD LANDS ON DL AGAIN
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Cliff Floyd was added to the disabled list yesterday for the second time this season. The left fielder is suffering from left Achilles tendinitis. Floyd, who had totaled...
METS SURVIVE PIAZZA BLASTS - PEDRO, AMAZIN'S PUSH PAST PODS DESPITE MIKE'S BIG NIGHT
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amMets 4 - Padres 3 Mets fans must have realized that Mike Piazza was in a position to that could cost them the game, and when he came up in...
PAVANO - WHO ELSE? - MOVES CLOSER TO A RETURN
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - Say this about the Yankees: They don't have a limit on how many times their expectations for Carl Pavano rise. For what seems like the 100th...
ENDY IN STARTING ROLE NOW
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amCliff Floyd was placed on the 15-day DL yesterday, which means that Endy Chavez will likely be the Mets' starting left fielder for the next two weeks. Chavez, invaluable this...
TAKING A STAND - METS BETTER OFF WITHOUT TRADE FOR PITCHER
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amTHE SHIP has sailed on Livan Hernandez, traded Monday to the Diamondbacks for two prospects, without Omar Minaya crying and pounding his fists on the dock. John Maine has pitched...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 10, 2006 | 4:00amTalk about the catch of the day! A 4-foot-long sturgeon leaped out of the water and slammed into a jet skier, knocking him unconscious and into the Suwannee River in...