June 10, 2004
POSADA (3-FOR-4) GETS BACK ON TRACK
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Jorge Posada was batting .324 on May 21 and hitting everything hard, he was reluctant to discuss the reason why his bat was smoking. "I don't want to know...
COMEBACK KIDS - BOMBERS'HRS ERASE5-0 DEFICIT,TOP ROCKS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 7Rockies 5 Kevin Brown's balky back may be the equalizer, but just how deep a ditch do you have to put the Yankees in so they can't come back?...
MAILMAN MIGHT SING SWAN SONG
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES LOS ANGELES - If Karl Malone's career is over as feared, he wasn't willing to own up to it yet. The Lakers power forward sounded like a man...
DALY WON'T GET FREE RYDER
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amHAL SUTTON said it's "premature" to start finalizing whom he wants on his U.S. Ryder Cup team that will play the Europeans this September at Oakland Hills. With three major...
FATAL 'LOVE' STORY - BEAU KILLS SISTERS: COPS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amAfter five years of domestic turmoil marked by angry separations and short-lived reconciliations, a Bronx ex-con fatally shot his pregnant girlfriend and her sister in front of his teen stepdaughters,...
'LAST MAN OUT' RETIRES - HERO COP WAS FINAL WTC SURVIVOR
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amIt was little bit like Lou Gehrig retiring. With a bagpipe wailing and some 150 fellow cops, family and friends unleashing four solid ovations, nobody had to tell Port Authority...
TIGER MAN OPTS FOR TRIAL
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe man who kept a 400-pound tiger in his Harlem apartment says he's eager to prove he never endangered the public. Antoine Yates, 36, could have avoided his July 20...
STREET ARTIST STANDS TRIAL
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA popular street artist was caught white handed with his paint and a brush, two city cops said yesterday. James De La Vega's lawyer admitted the artist created a fish-themed...
QNS. MAN CONVICTED IN 'RENT' STABS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens tenant was convicted yesterday of trying to stab his neighbors to death in exchange for cash and a free apartment from the landlord, who was sick of the...
BOY, 5, TIED UP IN CLASS: GRAN
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman yesterday accused her 5-year-old grandson's kindergarten teacher of tying him to a chair in front of the entire class. The alleged incident occurred May 26 at PS...
COP IN HOSPITAL SCUFFLE FINGERS LEG-BITER
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA hulking Queens man who once beat a cop-shooting charge on a technicality was fingered in court yesterday as the man who chomped down on a police officer's leg during...
HE'S IN A FINE FIX - HIT WITH 3G IN TIX AFTER PLATES STOLEN
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man slapped with $3,397 in parking fines says he's not guilty of those violations - and blames the thief who stole his license plates for racking up the...
SHOCKING TEEN RAPE
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA 13-year-old girl walking home alone from school on a Brooklyn street was kidnapped and raped by four youths who tried recruiting her as a prostitute, police said. The shocking...
QNS. COP 'BITES' BACK AT SUSPECT
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA cop yesterday fingered a Queens man as the thug who bit him in a scuffle outside Jamaica Hospital last year. "The defendant turned his head toward me, looked at...
'THE GREATEST PRESIDENT OF A LIFETIME' UNITES NATION EVEN IN DEATH
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amTHE silence. From early in the morning, people teemed over Constitution Avenue in the blistering heat. Old people and newborns. Teenagers too young to remember the man whose passing they...
WASHINGTON PAYS SOLEMN LAST RESPECTS AS REAGAN LIES IN STATE
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Ronald Reagan returned to Washington yesterday, with Congress paying him a moving final farewell and tens of thousands of well-wishers bidding solemn a goodbye as his body lay...
WASHINGTON'S HAIL TO CHIEF - CASKET DRAWN PAST THOUSANDS; REAGAN LIES IN STATE AT CAPITOL; CONGRESS IN MOVING TRIBUTE
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Ronald Reagan came back to Washington again yesterday as Congress paid him a moving final tribute and tens of thousands of well-wishers bid solemn farewells as his body...
ROCCO RIPS MEATBALLS MADNESS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amRelations between financier Jeffrey Chodorow and TV chef Rocco DiSpirito have gotten so bad that Chodorow has blocked the celeb from getting some of his own mother's meatballs, the cook's...
SCHOOL'S OUT IN B'KLYN, QNS.
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amBrooklyn and Queens schools are closed today in honor of a little-known holiday. It's called Brooklyn-Queens Day, commemorating the founding of the first Protestant Sunday school on Long Island. The...
CYPRESS IS LEADING CONTENDER TO BUY AUTO PARTS FIRM
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amNew York buyout firm Cypress Group is nearing a deal to buy the automotive replacement parts business of Dana Corp. for more than $1 billion, The Post has learned. Cypress...
EURO DISNEY'S BAILOUT IS $2.9B
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amMickey Mouse still isn't living that well in Paris. For the second time in a decade, banks are having to bail out Euro Disney after tourist crowds failed to give...
NEW CPI STATS ANTICIPATION IS GIVING GREENSPAN GAS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amTHE next consumer inflation number could be a killer. And that might be why Alan Greenspan seems so fixated on inflation this week. The Consumer Price Index for the month...
MAJOR CHANGE FOR PHIL ; MICKELSON RELAXED AS BUICK BEGINS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00am"Obviously, I want to win more majors. That was my goal from the beginning, not to win just one."PHIL MICKELSON On the eve of today's Buick Classic opening round, Masters...
METS LEAVE 'EM LOADED ; OFFENSE STRIKES OUT VS. TWINS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amTwins 5Mets 3 MINNEAPOLIS - If you want to see the Mets really struggle offensively, here's what you do: load up the bases. That's right. Load 'em up. Put three...
HOWE 'FINE WITH KAZ' DEFENSE'
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Art Howe defended Kaz Matsui's fielding yesterday, insisting he's not worried about his shortstop's defense. "I'm fine with his defense. I feel good with him at...
METS NEED BOPPER - PITCHING SOLID;'O' LACKS PUNCH
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - The Mets had a new bat in the lineup last night. He was stationed in left field, ready to contribute. Yet it's clear that Gerald Williams is not...
RED-HOT FARRELL GETS RELIEF FROM DIMAURO
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amCHSAAMsgr. Farrell 7Moore Cath. 6 Monsignor Farrell's Mike DiMauro was lit up by Molloy for four runs over the weekend, but coach Bob Mulligan didn't lose faith in the senior....
YANKS BACK INTACT
June 10, 2004 | 4:00am"He knows how important he is. If there's any hint of any problem, he'll tell me." - JOE TORRE (ABOVE) ON DEREK JETER After missing three straight games with an...
DON'T BELIEVE BELTRAN TRADE TALK ... YET
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES An Internet report linking the Yankees to a three-way trade that would bring them center fielder Carlos Beltran is a bit premature, according to a baseball official with...
BURNOUT WATCH ON MO - RIVERA & 'PEN PALS PILING UP THOSE INNINGS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amLIKE secondary charac ters on The Sopranos, the survival rate among closers is not strong. Are you more surprised Paulie Walnuts is still collecting illegal kickbacks through five seasons or...
METS LEAVE 'EM LOADED - OFFENSE STRIKES OUT VS. TWINS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amTwins 5 Mets 3 MINNEAPOLIS - If you want to see the Mets really struggle offensively, here's what you do - load up the bases for them. That's right. Put...
HIGH NOTE AS CANCER TEEN GETS WISH
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amFor the New York Philharmonic, tomorrow's performance is just another concert - but for 18-year-old violinist Claude Giampietro, it's a wish fulfilled. In November, three months after he was diagnosed...
B'KLYN POL SODOMIZED ME: TEEN
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA teenage girl testified yesterday that her sister's former fiancé - then a Brooklyn Democratic district leader - sodomized her while the two watched a pornographic movie, declared his love...
BIZ IN 'STALL' TACTIC : 2-FOR-1 LADIES-ROOM WAR
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA plan to force bars, theaters and stadiums to build more women's bathrooms would flush millions of dollars down the drain, critics said yesterday. The so-called "potty parity" bill, introduced...
MORE CHARTER SCHOOLS ON WAY
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg will open eight new charter schools this fall as part of his campaign to provide more options for students, it was announced yesterday. That will increase to 31...
$50M SUIT SERVED UP TO SOFTEE
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amMister Softee has more trouble on his sticky little hands. The family of a young Bronx woman who was hit by a car and seriously injured after she bought an...
UNIONS NEED MORE THAN SOLIDARITY TO WIN
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe first words out of Randi Weingarten's mouth at the massive municipal union rally outside City Hall were, "This is solidarity." It wasn't just rhetoric on the part of the...
VICTIM: SILVER LET PERV AIDE ATTACK
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is personally to blame for the rape of a 22-year-old staffer last year by a top aide, a lawyer for the young woman charged...
TEEN: DEM POL SODOMIZED ME
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA teenager testified yesterday that her sister's former fiancé, then a Brooklyn Democratic district leader, sodomized her while the two watched a pornographic movie. The 16-year-old girl, who was 13...
'POTTER'SAN POLITICS - DEMS, GOPERS PICK HARRY'S POWERS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amRepublicans and Democrats both like power - the power to become invisible, that is. Asked which of Harry Potter's magical powers they'd most want, registered members of the nation's top...
NANCY BEARS THE WEIGHT WITH CLASS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Slowly, sadly, Nancy Reagan walked over to her husband's flag-draped coffin and reached out to caress it as the echoes of "God Bless America" rang out through the...
SILVER 'RAPE' BLAME
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is personally to blame for the rape of a 22-year-old staffer last year by a top aide, a lawyer for the young woman charged...
CHUCK RIPS $ECURITY BOSS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday blasted Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge and called it a "disgrace" that Wyoming and other rural states get more per-capita anti-terror money than New...
VIXENS & VICTIMS - FIRST PEEK AT SUMMER'S BEST AND WORST DRESSED
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S been the busiest fashion week since the Oscars. From the Tony Awards on Sunday to the MTV Movie Awards, which airs tonight, stars on both coasts have been faced...
SEND IN THE 'CLONES' - MINISERIES IN THE WINGS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA new animated "Star Wars" miniseries is blasting onto the Cartoon Network, just weeks before the film saga's latest chapter is set to debut in movie theaters next year. The...
MAY GETS FIELD'S FOR $3.2B
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe May Department Stores Co. yesterday agreed to buy the Marshall Field's chain from Target Corp. for $3.2 billion in cash, helping it close the gap with rival Federated Department...
SAVE OUR BUTTS! - CNN TO HIRE EXEC TO OVERHAUL NIGHTLY NEWS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amCNN is close to naming an executive to overhaul the network's struggling prime time lineup, The Post has learned. Sources say the announcement is imminent, and CNN's brass has told...
SCIACCA GRABS FIRST VICTORY
June 10, 2004 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Outside was place to be. Shesasoprano, who always shows speed and tires, set pressured pace along rail. Top of stretch, Mystical Sea came with three-wide move to...
DON'T BELIEVE BELTRAN TRADE TALK - YET
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES An Internet report linking the Yankees to a three-way trade that would bring them center fielder Carlos Beltran is a bit premature, according to a baseball official with...
BROWN'S BACK BAD NEWS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amABOUT two hours be fore last night's 7:08 first pitch, Joe Torre already was fielding questions about this afternoon's game. Well, he was answering questions about Jose Contreras And even...
HOWE 'FINE WIH KAZ' DEFENSE
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Art Howe defended Kaz Matsui's fielding yesterday, insisting he's not worried about his shortstop's glove. "I'm fine with his defense," Howe said. "I feel good with...
SHOCKEY HOBBLED AGAIN
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amForget all that coach-speak about football being a team sport and how it takes all 11 guys on each side of the ball working as one. Some players are more...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - NEW YORK'S BEACHFRONT PLAYGROUND
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amLong before there was a Disneyland, Brooklyn's Coney Island was the world's largest amusement center. It's still a fun place to play. There are a few theories on how Coney...
CONTRACT CRY - CITY DAY-CARE WORKERS GO ON THREE-DAY STRIKE
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amSome 7,000 angry day-care workers began a three-day strike yesterday, forcing the parents of 37,000 children to scramble to make other arrangements. Under a broiling sun, the workers, who have...
NEIGHBOR NAILED IN 'RENT' STAB
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens tenant was convicted yesterday of trying to stab his neighbors to death in exchange for cash and a free apartment from the landlord, who was sick of the...
ANNIVERSARY HORROR - ELDERLY PAIR KILLED BY 'DRUNK' DRIVER
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amAn elderly couple celebrating their 47th wedding anniversary walked hand-in-hand into a Brooklyn street yesterday - and were killed by a drunken driver's speeding car, cops and witnesses said. Sylvia...
CANCER TEEN'S HIGH NOTE - GETS WISH TO PLAY VIOLIN FOR PHILHARMONIC
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amFor the New York Philharmonic, tomorrow's performance is just another concert - but for 18-year-old violinist Claude Giampietro, it's a wish fulfilled. In November, three months after he was diagnosed...
HAMPTONS DIARY
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amANYONE for fore play? Tiger Woods jetted into Southampton yesterday for a sneaky three-hour practice at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club before the U.S. Open kicks off there next week. The...
'POTTY' WAR STALL TACTIC
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA plan to force bars, theaters and stadiums to build more women's bathrooms would flush millions of dollars down the drain, critics said yesterday. The so-called "potty parity" bill, introduced...
FROM CON TO DON - GOTTI PAL'S POWER BID
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amHard-as-nails Gambino gangster Nicholas "Little Nicky" Corozzo will walk out of the big house today and is set to seize control of the city's most powerful crime ring, The Post...
LOHAN'S DAD: MY GIRL SUPPORTS ME
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amActress Lindsay Lohan's purportedly pugilistic papa denied yesterday that his teen sensation daughter is so "terrified" of him she's hired bodyguards. "His daughter is completely supportive of him," Michael Lohan...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * An 81-year-old Pelham Bay man was hospitalized after a plastic soda bottle filled with a volatile substance exploded in his hands last night, cops said. Two teens...
O.J. A COMMON KILLER: MARCIA
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Former prosecutor Marcia Clark belittled O.J. Simpson as a "common domestic-violence" murderer, and heaped blame on Judge Lance Ito's ego for The Juice's stunning acquittal. In her...
PROSTATE TEST OFFERS NEW HOPE
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amScientists have identified a gene that can forecast how aggressive a man's prostate cancer will be. The research may lead to a test to identify the strength of a cancer...
HUNT FOR CANARSIE RAPIST
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amFear gripped Canarsie yesterday as residents joined cops and police helicopters in a desperate search for a sweet-talking serial rapist. Brooklyn investigators said they were concerned the attacker, who targeted...
THANKS, YANKS: IRAQ PREZ
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An emotional President Bush yesterday held his first formal meeting with Iraq's new president, Ghazi al-Yawer, who warmly thanked America for liberating his country from Saddam Hussein. "I...
WAREHOUSE SLAY OFFICER IS INDICTED
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA New York City cop has been indicted in the shooting death of an unarmed African merchant in a Chelsea warehouse last year, sources said. The officer, Brian Conroy, was...
SHELTER BABY SLAY - CITY MISSED WORST ABUSE SINCE TRAGIC LISA
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amIT is the worst case of child abuse since the killing of Lisa Steinberg - but this brutal murder of a Manhattan child was not hidden from public view behind...
DEALER IS INDICTED IN 500G ART SCAM
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA prominent New York gallery owner is facing 15 years in jail for allegedly stealing a half-million dollars of artwork from his unsuspecting customers. Jack Wright, who operates galleries in...
DAUGHTERS SEE MA, AUNT SLAIN
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amAfter five years of domestic turmoil marked by angry separations and short-lived reconciliations, a Bronx ex-con fatally shot his pregnant girlfriend and her sister in front of his teen stepdaughters,...
STARR REPORT
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amFuhrman speaks Mark Fuhrman says view ers will see the O.J. Simpson murder case in a much differ ent light after he releases new information on "The O.J. Simpson Case:...
MONTEL WINS VOTE TO HOST 'AMERICAN CANDIDATE'
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amSHOWTIME'S "American Candidate" has elected its host - Montel Williams. Williams, host of "The Montel Williams Show," will guide "American Candidate" as the reality show ultimately chooses one person who's...
CNBC SMACKS DOWN NAZI
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amCNBC has axed a pro-wrestler who moonlighted as a TV finance expert after he gave a Nazi salute during a wrestling match in Germany. John Layfield, 36, the author of...
FRAUD EXEC FLEES - INTERPOL HUNTS EX-CEO OF SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amFederal authorities have launched a manhunt for the former chief executive of Long Island's Symbol Technologies, who may have fled the country to avoid facing securities fraud charges. The executive,...
IT'S OFFICIAL: LIFE REBORN IN OCT.
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amAfter a long drum roll, Time Inc. has finally given the official word that it is relaunching Life. The reborn magazine will be published weekly, with a circulation of nearly...
SPITZER GIG IS NEW WALL ST. MUST-HAVE
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amWall Street isn't just looking for compliance officers who can help it handle the Securities and Exchange Commission anymore. Now they want execs who can help them handle Eliot Spitzer....
OLD COURSE STILL O-KAYE WITH CHAMP
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe oft-brash 33-year-old said all the right things, all the correct things, about concentrating on the Buick Classic that opens today at Westchester CC and not fretting next week's U.S....
COMEBACK KIDS - BOMBERS' HRS ERASE 5-0 DEFICIT, TOP ROCKS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 7 Rockies 5 Kevin Brown's balky back and a mind that worries there is something seriously wrong with him when he doesn't pitch well could be the equalizer. But...
JETER'S RETURN POWERS YANKS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amDerek Jeter's importance not only as the Yankee captain but as their catalyst was never more clear than last night. After missing three games with a strained left groin, the...
SHOCKED PISTONS PICK UP THE PIECES
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - There is no sense going on. The world has no meaning, no reward. The Pistons are dead, waiting only for the embalming fluid. That shot by Kobe...
RICHTER GOES BACK TO SCHOOL
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA year and seven months have passed since Mike Richter sustained his career-ending concussion. It continues to haunt him. "I'm still feeling some symptoms," Richter said from Central Park, where...
POSADA'S SLUMP IS MIND-BOGGLING
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Jorge Posada was batting .324 on May 21 and hitting everything hard, he was reluctant to discuss the reason why his stick was smoking. "I don't want to know...
IT'S A 'DOGFIGHT' ; LAKERS TAKE MOMENTUM TO MO-TOWN
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - It has come down to Destiny vs. Defense as the deadlocked NBA Finals switch to The Palace of Auburn Hills for the next three games, starting tonight...
COUNCIL SLAPS JENNINGS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe City Council Ethics Committee yesterday formally charged Councilman Allan Jennings with creating a hostile work environment - and the embattled Queens legislator now faces an administrative trial that could...
'PLOT' THICKENS - JUDGE REFUSES TO EXHUME MOBSTER
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA federal judge shot down reputed Bonanno boss Joseph Massino's bid to dig up a murdered capo's decades-old corpse yesterday after receiving a letter from the widow asking to protect...
DAY-CARE STRIKE - PARENTS LEFT IN LURCH
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amSome 7,000 angry day-care workers began a three-day strike yesterday, forcing the parents of 37,000 children to scramble to make other arrangements. Under a broiling sun, the workers, who have...
REAGAN-LIKE LANDSLIDE EYED
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amNOW is a good time to look back at the land slide win that sent Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980, because lots of analysts think 2004 could...
BLOOMBERG BOOMING - APPROVAL HITS 50% IN POLLS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amPolitical rivals who assumed Mayor Bloomberg was going to be a pushover in the next race got a jolt yesterday when a new poll showed his approval rating at 50...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amOh, bee-have! Norm Gitzen of Lake Worth, Fla., didn't mind 700,000 bees living in the roof of his house until recently - when they began stinging him and his nephew....
SEX SICKOS ASSAULT TEEN
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA 13-year-old girl walking home alone from school on a Brooklyn street was kidnapped and raped by four youths who tried recruiting her as a prostitute, police said. The shocking...
SCHOOL-SAFETY 'PERVERT' BUSTED
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn elementary-school safety officer has been busted after an alleged rump-grabbing rampage against five of his colleagues. During one incident, he even fondled himself in front of a classroom...
INK STINK: MARTHA MAN INDICTED
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe ink expert who helped put away domestic diva Martha Stewart faced his own federal indictment yesterday, when he was charged with two counts of lying under oath. Larry Stewart,...
TV JUDGE RAPS LAFAYETTE HS
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amBrooklyn's beleaguered Lafayette HS has become the butt of jokes - on national court TV. "People's Court" Judge Marilyn Millian said she knew Lafayette's reputation as "Horror High" as she...
ROCKIN' OUT SUITS WILCO
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amWILCOIN a seersucker suit, Jeff Tweedy, Wilco's main man, looked like the essence of spring at his show Tuesday at Irving Plaza. The suit was to honor mint julep month,...
DAVID BYRNES DOWN THE HALL
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amDAVID BYRNEWHEN you think of a musician playing a solo gig at Carnegie Hall, you think about artistic achievement and contemporary relevance - and David Byrne cemented both of those...
COKE EXEC GETS $66M
June 10, 2004 | 4:00amSteven Heyer - the heir apparent at Coca Cola who got passed over for the top job - has quit after just three years, but walks with more than $66...