March 10, 2001
MARKET CARNAGE ISN'T OVER
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe heart-stopping fall in the Nasdaq composite index Friday may be far from over. "Monday's going to be a challenging day," said James E. Grefenstette, senior vice president, portfolio manager...
THERE ARE SAFE HAVENS IN THIS WACKY MARKET
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amThere are safe havens in this wacky market Take a deep breath! "You can't jump around like a grasshopper," says economist Larry Kudlow of ING Barings - or you'll get...
GET THE HOOK FOR THIS ONE
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amGET OVER IT Schlocky-looking, direct-to-video-caliber teen romance.Running time: 82 minutes. Rated PG-13 (vulgarity, teen drinking). At the Empire, the Lincoln Plaza, the Village East, others. 'GET Over It," a lame...
A BLIND PAINTER'S VISION
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amHER paintings fetch thousands-of-dollars apiece, but Lisa Fittipaldi isn't sure they're any good. She's never seen them - she's blind.Eight years ago she lost her vision to a rare autoimmune...
REELING IN A WORLD OF DREAMS
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amA cool new series of movies for kids -and occasionally by kids -starts today LESSONS FOR NOTHING ... 03/10/2001 The New York Post 220937 All Editions New YorkPulsePublished: 03/10/2001Page: 019Caption:...
GUNFIRE SCARE IN GAZA FOR NEW ISRAELI DEFENSE CHIEF : TARGET WAS NEARBY ARMY POST: OFFICIALS
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's new defense minister got a firsthand view of Gaza Strip violence yesterday when a Palestinian gunman fired a shot near him. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer was inspecting the scene...
SEX FIEND ADMITS HE KILLED 5 IN BROOKLYN
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amA crack addict suspected of being the serial strangler who terrorized Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant copped a plea to five murders yesterday. Vincent Johnson, 33, will be sentenced later this month...
EGAN'S OLD DIOCESE SETTLES CHILD-MOLEST SUITS
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amEdward Cardinal Egan will be spared taking the witness stand for a public grilling about priests who molested children in his former Connecticut diocese. The Diocese of Bridgeport, which admitted...
CLINTONS CLAM UP ON PARDON QUERIES
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Clinton and husband Bill stonewalled when asked yesterday about the FBI's growing activity in Pardongate. "I'm not talking about that thing," the freshman senator said after a Midtown...
IT'S LIFE FOR 'WRESTLING' SLAYER, 14
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amA hefty Florida youth convicted of killing a 6-year-old playmate while imitating pro wrestlers was sentenced to life in prison yesterday by a judge who called the murder "cold, callous...
CONTRITE TED BEGS CHRISTIANS' FORGIVENESS
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amTed Turner apologized profusely yesterday for calling CNN staffers who wore ashes on their foreheads for Ash Wednesday "Jesus freaks" - saying his insulting remark was "thoughtless." But the nation's...
HEROES NAB MIDTOWN 'THIEF'
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amA posse of heroic bystanders foiled a robbery at a Midtown bank - chasing and tackling a man who had snatched $2,000 from a woman, police said. The 26-year-old woman...
GANG GREEN'S GOING GAY : STAFFERS JOIN GROUP IN BID TO WIN ITS ENDORSEMENT
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amAt least a third of Public Advocate Mark Green's staff joined an influential gay Democratic organization last month to help Green win the group's endorsement for the mayor's race, The...
HILL GETS HER IRISH UPSTATE FOR ST. PAT'S DAY PARADE
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is avoiding the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade gay controversy, saying she'll wear the green and march in Syracuse rather than on Fifth Avenue next week....
TEACHERS: NEGOTIATIONS ARE DEADLOCKED
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe teachers union yesterday declared an impasse in contract talks with Mayor Giuliani, making it more likely the explosive pay issue will be thrown in the lap of the new...
B'KLYN D.A. STAFFERS IN 'JUSTICE FOR SALE' PROBE
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amFederal probers are investigating startling "justice for sale" claims that a handful of Brooklyn prosecutors took cash bribes to throw cases and let criminal suspects walk free, The Post has...
BATTLE OVER CYPRESS HILLS PATRONAGE PLUM HEATS UP
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amPOLITICALLY connected patronage appointees who have been collecting hefty fees for eight years managing Cypress Hills Cemetery are just weeks away from losing their pot of gold. But they're maneuvering...
BACKPEDALING ON TEACHER CUTS
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amA Manhattan school-district superintendent under fire for cutting substitute-teaching positions reversed course yesterday. District 3 Superintendent Patricia Romadetto told principals and teachers they can hire subs when full-time instructors are...
CAPITAL-GAINS TAX CUT LIKELY: HASTERT
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - House Speaker Dennis Hastert yesterday said there's a "very good chance" that Congress will cut the capital-gains tax, even though it's not part of President Bush's $1.6 trillion...
PUFFY TRIAL WITNESS THOUGHT RAPPER PUT 'HIT' ORDER ON HIM
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amA star witness against Sean "Puffy" Combs told police that a Combs insider warned him to watch his back - because the rap millionaire had put a $50,000 price on...
QNS. WOMAN KILLED BY SCHOOL BUS
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amAn 88-year-old Queens woman was struck and killed by a school bus as she crossed a street near her home yesterday afternoon, police said. The school bus, carrying 10 children,...
HIS TWO DADS IN COURT : BOTH LAY CLAIM TO 'KIDNAP' KID
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe natural and "adoptive" fathers of a 22-year-old Albuquerque man both claimed him as their son yesterday as they stood 2 feet apart in a dramatic Queens courtroom showdown. "I...
'ADOPTIVE' POP: I DID IT FOR LOVE
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe man accused of helping to spirit away a baby boy to Albuquerque and raise him for two decades under another name says simply: "I did everything for love." "Why...
BITTERSWEET CHAMPIONSHIP FOR HAYES' PITT
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amRashaad Pitt walked off the court after his Cardinal Hayes team held off St. Edmund's last night with tears streaming down his face. "I was just thinking about my father,"...
QUEENS POL SPARKS ASIAN ANGER AGAIN
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amA legislator who apologized five years ago for denigrating Asians has created a new furor by claiming members of the ethnic group "don't vote when they're registered." But that wasn't...
NURSING HOME SUIT IN 'BOGUS' SURGERIES
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amA Queens nursing home, its director and staff are being sued for allegedly letting doctors needlessly perform prostate surgery on two dozen mentally disabled men. Two doctors who treated residents...
S.I. STUDENT SUSPENDED IN 'HIT LIST' SLAY THREAT
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amA Staten Island teen was suspended and transferred to another high school after allegedly bragging about having a deadly "hit list" targeting other students, Schools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday....
'MISSILES OF OCTOBER' OVERBLOWN: CIA REPORT
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe world was not on the brink of nuclear war during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the CIA concluded in newly declassified documents. A 1963 CIA report contradicted other U.S....
STATE BARS WELFARE FOR CONS FREED TO DO WORK
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - The state is moving to keep inmates who are out on work release from applying for welfare benefits. A new regulation will require inmates to sign a work-release...
LUCAS SIGNS MIAMI OFFER SHEET
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe Jets have all but lost quarterback Ray Lucas to the Dolphins, who signed him to a three-year, $2.75 million free-agent offer sheet yesterday. Because Lucas is a restricted free...
LOOK FOR DEREK TO DH TODAY
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - You can expect to find Derek Jeter in the lineup for the first time this spring today when the Phillies visit Legends Field. However, don't look for...
BOSTON PARTY HEADS STYMIE 'CAP
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amAn evenly matched field of eight was entered for the Grade 3, $100,000 Stymie Handicap at a mile and an eighth at Aqueduct today. It is the last scheduled stakes...
EL DUQUE SET TO HAVE MRI
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amYankees4 Devil Rays3 ST. PETERSBURG - The numbers in the boxscore and on the speed gun gave no indication something was wrong with Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez' right arm. However,...
SHEFF'S STILL ON YANK MENU
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - Here is the news other AL teams never want to hear: the Yankees are a player in the Gary Sheffield Sweepstakes. That's because when the Yankees get...
LUKAS READY TO POUNCE
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla. - Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day, and a 3-year-old colt shipping in for a big-money race that nobody thinks he...
HOFSTRA: PRIDE OF LONG ISLAND
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe sign on the front door of Hofstra Arena states that a championship game will be played inside, followed by a simple disclaimer, in bold letters: SOLD OUT. Not much...
ACHIN' PIAZZA OUT 7-10 DAYS
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Mike Piazza was taken to Martin Memorial Hospital in Stuart yesterday for an MRI on his left knee. The picture would reveal if the Mets' season...
BRAVES FEEL SHEFF WOULD BE FINE FIT
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amBraves4 Mets2 PORT ST. LUCIE - The Braves can envision Gary Sheffield in red, white and blue. They would like to put their "A" on top of his head. Their...
B'WAY NOT ON ERIC'S EXPANDED WISH LIST
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amWild4 Isles1 For the second time within three weeks, Eric Lindros has just said no to Glen Sather and the Rangers. Despite finally having abandoned his attempts to force a...
TROY HELPS BC ANSWER WINNING BELL
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amTroy Bell learned earlier this season not to engage in one-on-one matchups. It was during a victory at Massachusetts that Bell, who shot 5-for-13 that night in Boston College's 74-65...
EAGLES PUT END TO SETON'S RUN
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amThere was a lot of talk from St. John's prior to the start of the Big East Conference tournament that if it won its first-round game, it would transform into...
RANGERS: NO PLACE TO GO BUT WAY DOWN
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amCapitals5 Rangers3 WASHINGTON - It was the best of all worlds for the Rangers, who now have only 15 games of garbage time remaining before this fourth straight playoff-free season...
PROFANE MARBURY SPEWS POSTGAME VENOM AT WARD
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amStephon Marbury would not let his play do the talking, even though his dominance of the Knick point guards last night spoke volumes. Marbury had to resort to rubbing it...
PITTSBURGH SHOCKS 'CUSE IN OT
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amThere were nearly 20,000 fans in the Garden, their eyes trained on Isaac Hawkins, but Pittsburgh's senior center must have felt like the loneliest man in the world. With last...
SECOND CHANCE EXCITES GROSEK
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - With nearly all things skewed toward Tuesday's trade deadline, the question is whether the Rangers recalled Michal Grosek for itself or for some other team that might have...
LINDROS EXPANDS ON HIS WISH LIST
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amAfter staunchly refusing to play for anybody but the Maple Leafs, Eric Lindros has opened his horizons by agreeing to join the Blues, Red Wings or Capitals this season, according...
CATHEDRAL FINALLY TURNS TABLE ON REGIS
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amCathedral 69 Regis 52 When Regis beat Cathedral for the second time earlier this season, the Crusaders had an unusual reaction. "We got confident," said Chris O'Connor. "That's when we...
YES, NET FANS, IT CAN GET WORSE : BAD INJURY NEWS ON FEICK, HARRIS, GILL
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amSeveral months ago, when there was hope and encouragement and optimism in New Jersey - honest, those elements can be found sometimes - Net coach Byron Scott jokingly was asked...
KNICKS GOTTA GET FAT ON CREAMPUFFS
March 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe time is now for the Knicks to take advantage of the soft schedule ahead of them and surpass Miami for the all-important third seed in the East. Starting with...