May 6, 2001
LIVINGWELL THESE YACHTS ARE BUILT FOR LUXURY - AND SPEED
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amIN today's cyber world, even leisure-class boaters seem inclined to spend fewer hours on the high seas cruising from port to port. Enter the speed yacht, a mega-sized floating hybrid...
SMITHSONIAN GETS DOWN
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Smithsonian Institution is taking it to the streets. Rising hip-hop fashion star Marc Echo, designer of Ecko Unlimited, was recently tapped by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum to...
CFOS BITING THE DUST, TOO
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amWITH layoffs predicted to skyrocket to a million by the end of the year, it might be nice for those joining the breadlines to know that the penny-pinchers are getting...
LET THE OTHER SHOE DROP
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amFor young single women, "Sex and the City" character Carrie Bradshaw played by Sarah Jessica Parker is much more influential than any financial guru, according to a survey by OppenheimerFunds...
USAA'S WEIBLATT PLAYS IT SAFE TO PAY STEADY, RELIABLE DIVIDENDS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amSO corporate America's newfound love of layoffs is leaving you wondering where your next check is coming from? No problem. The USAA Income fund is designed to generate a big...
!AY CARAMBA! LOOK AT MEXICO GO
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amFORGET tacos, let's talk pesos. The Nasdaq's down for the year. The Dow just broke even. But in Mexico, the Bolsa - an index of 36 leading stocks - is...
FAMED FORTUNE-TELLER HIGH ON ENERGY, BIG ON BEARS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S not easy being a contrarian. Woody Dorsey, president of Market Semiotics, which consults with hedge funds and other portfolio managers on market behavior, knows that his ideas are never...
IT'S HEADLINE INVESTING
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Money Honey has a hot tip for you. CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo says you can build a successful investment portfolio just by scanning the daily newspaper - and not...
MISSION: DE PALMA
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amBrian De Palma's filmmaking career has ranged from small, quirky movies ("Greetings," for example) to Hitchcockian thrillers ("Dressed to Kill") to big-bucks Hollywood fare ("Mission: Impossible"). Just as the genre...
4 QUESTIONS FOR EDWARD JAMES OLMOS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amACTUALLY, I WANTED TO PLAY BASEBALLWho are your heroes? Cesar Chavez is probably the most influential man I've met. I never knew Ghandi. Toni Morrison is a brilliant person who...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: KANDACE KRUEGER
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amAs a kid, Kandace Krueger - who will represent the U.S. in the Miss Universe pageant tonight - loved Sundays so she could watch the Dallas Cowboys play football on...
THE ALLURE OF THE MAN IN CONTROL
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amLast weekend I fell madly in love - with an undercover cop.I was at a techno party in Tompkin's Square Park handing out fliers for a deejay friend. Then, across...
WHAT I WATCH
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amGINUWINE Singer "The Wayans." I watch them whenever I need some cheering up. And reruns of "Good Times" because it reminds me of how life was back then. BRIAN KILMEADE...
SOFT WEAR: HAS THRERE EVER BEEN A TV SERIES WHERE THE CLOTHES WERE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ON "SEX AND THE CITY." MEET PATRICIA FIELD, THE DOWNTOWN DESIGNER WHO DRESSES THE WOMEN OF "SEX" - AND BECAME A FASHION ICON HERSELF.
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amYou may have never heard of her but - Patricia Field is the true star of HBO's "Sex and the City." Wait a minute ... There is Sarah Jessica Parker's...
MIGRATING BIRDS' M*A*S*H UNIT AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amMost spring mornings, as dawn breaks over New York's financial district, you can find Rebekah Kreshkoff and Ned Boyajian patrolling the grounds of the World Trade Center, looking for dead...
UNTIL RECENTLY, THESE FRESH FACES WEREN'T KNOWN FROM 'ADAM'
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amThe three young actors who gathered at the new Bryant Park Hotel were strangers two years ago - to each other and to most movie fans. But after wrapping the...
STAR LEDGER: HOT AUSSIE ACTOR CONSIDERS THE MERITS OF FAME AND FORTUNE IN HOLLYWOOD
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amWhen 22-year-old Aussie heartthrob Heath Ledger came up for air after a globe-trotting year and a half, shooting three movies back-to-back, he found that Hollywood had anointed him its next...
WHY HOLLYWOOD LOVES THOSE AWESOME AUSSIE HUNKS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amSo what is it about the Aussie bloke? It may not be apparent from his devil-may-care approach to grooming or taciturn demeanor, but the Australian man has a special charm...
PETER PRINCIPLE WORKS FOR TWO STAGE VETS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amThere was once an old New York theater joke that every English director was named Peter. Nowadays, British directors go by various names, but at least two classic Peters, Peter...
GROW WITH THE FLOW - IT'S EASY BEING GREEN WHEN YOU FOLLOW THESE HELPFUL GARDENING POINTERS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amNature doesn't come naturally to New Yorkers. Angela Muriel of the Chelsea Garden Center sees scores of wannabe green thumbs who confess they can't seem to keep plants alive. "Lots...
THROW THE HYPOCRITES OUT
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amLET me get this straight: The gasbags at the U.N. throw the United States off the Human Rights Panel, even as they welcome the human slave traders of Sudan? Instead...
WHO'LL PROTECT US FROM THE PERVS?
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN school officials couldn't prove accusations that teacher Milton McFarlane committed sexual misconduct with kids, they let him off with a warning not to be alone with kids. Think about...
BX. POL VOWS PROBE OF VIEQUES BUSTS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amProtesters on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques claim they were pepper sprayed and strip-searched, and yesterday Democratic Bronx Rep. Jose Serrano vowed to investigate. The protesters, busted for trespassing...
MAN BURNS TO DEATH IN PARK
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amPolice last night were investigating the death of a man found engulfed in flames in Riverside Park. Parks Department workers saw flames in the park near West 74th Street and...
POPE IN SYRIA TO URGE PEACE
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amPope John Paul II left Greece to make a historic trip to Syria yesterday, where he gave an impassioned plea for Middle East peace and planned to visit a mosque....
BUSH DELIVERS RADIO ADDRESS EN ESPA-OL
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush and Democratic leaders battled for the Latino vote in rival radio chats in Spanish yesterday - underscoring the growing political clout of Hispanics. Bush, who speaks...
HOW DARE THESE KIDS STRIKE AGAINST EXAMS?
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amONE of the great lessons in education will be taught tomorrow by a bunch of kids, parents and teachers playing hooky. Oh, what a joy. Tomorrow, 27 buses will be...
SNIPERS KILL JIHAD BIG
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli sharpshooters gunned down a high-ranking Islamic militant yesterday, hitting him 25 times as he allegedly prepared a terrorist attack, The Post has learned. Palestinians immediately condemned the...
KIDS, PARENTS RALLY TO SAVE PLAYGROUND
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amAbout 200 parents and children blasted the Board of Education yesterday, demanding that a high-school science lab not be built on the Brooklyn elementary-school playground they enjoy. "I'm mad," said...
KNICKS RESPOND TO SPREE'S HARSH TALK
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amTo many observers, Latrell Sprewell is the closest to a friend Marcus Camby has on the Knicks. But when Sprewell, in detailed fashion yesterday, explained how the team needed to...
SCHOOLS WATCHDOG FEELS HEAT
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amIndependent Schools Investigator Ed Stancik - for 10 years a feared and fearless exposer of Board of Education corruption - is now under fire for his own watchdog lapses. And...
IS ROBBER'S 'SURRENDER' JUST A SCAM?
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amGreat Train Robber Ronnie Biggs is trying one last swindle, his friends say - surrendering after 35 years on the lam to cash in on Britain's free health insurance before...
CLAPTON'S GAL GIVES EX-BEAU THE BLUES
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amThe man whose girlfriend dumped him for Eric Clapton reportedly says thinking about the aging rocker wooing his love makes him feel not so wonderful tonight. "The thought of what...
WILDING HERO ON TRIAL COP RESENTS NYPD'S PARADE PROBE
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amThe cop who saved a French woman from a wilding Puerto Rican Day mob says he too is a victim of the Central Park rampage. "It's been a nightmare for...
PEN PAL VIDAL TO SEE MCVEIGH DIE
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amNovelist Gore Vidal, who says Timothy McVeigh "has a sense of justice" and objects to "tyranny," will be among the Oklahoma City bomber's special invited guests at his execution May...
HOW CITY BUNGLED 'SEX TEACHER' CASE
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amSex-abuse claims against a Bronx grade-school teacher were so badly mishandled three years ago that the case became parents' "worst nightmare," law-enforcement sources told The Post. The case resurfaced last...
BROOKLYN BOY DROWNED TRYING TO SAVE FRIEND
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amThe parents of the Brooklyn teens who drowned near the Belt Parkway took some solace yesterday in hearing their children died heroes. Dawn Johnson said yesterday that a survivor of...
POT MARCH A BUST FOR 30
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amThirty reefer revelers were rounded up and charged with illegal pot possession at a pro-marijuana legalization rally in lower Manhattan yesterday. "We smoke pot, and we like it a lot,"...
NEW YORK POST FROM MAY 6, 1937:
May 6, 2001 | 4:00am"Vincent Astor Goes In For Noah's Ark Business," read The Post's headline about the arrival of a capybara rat from South America en route to Staten Island's Barrett Park Zoo,...
DRAMATIC WIN GIVES LEAFS LEG UP
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amControversy? What controversy? Toronto's Shayne Corson was adamant in his belief that he did not interfere with the Devils' Martin Brodeur on Tomas Kaberle's game-winning goal in the Leafs' dramatic...
NASA TO SPACE TOURIST: YOU OWE US
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amDennis Tito's space vacation is over - but he's not done paying for it, fuming NASA officials say. Tito and his Soviet pilots landed in Kazakhstan today, ending the Los...
NEW TORTOLA TWIST IN SLAY TRIALS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amThree men acquitted in the slaying of a Connecticut artist on the Caribbean island of Tortola are not home free yet - they still face conspiracy charges as a fourth...
GRIFT-SLAY MANSION WON'T SELL
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amNot only are Sante and Kenneth Kimes responsible for taking the life of Irene Silverman, they could be equally accountable for deep-sixing the resale value of the socialite's mansion. The...
TOT IS A CHIP OFF OL' STONE LIL' MICK DROPS BY FOR A VISIT
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amHe's got huge pouty lips, walks with a slight swagger, and has an eye for the ladies. Meet mini-Mick! Lucas Morad Jagger, at 23 months, is a chip off the...
MY LABOR DAYS OF BEING ABUSED
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amTHE first job was refilling soda and candy vending machines in nursing homes for a condescending ingrate who treated me like dirt. The second job involved painting the Upper West...
HEVESI PRESSES HARD TO LOSE 'FULL BORE' REPUTATION
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amThis is the fourth in a series of Post profiles of the mayoral candidates. Standing in front of a rowdy crowd at a candidates' forum last week, Alan Hevesi spotted...
WAGNER CONCERT PLAN STRIKES A SOUR NOTE
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. ADOLF Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner, is creating bitter discord among Israelis who strongly object to his music. "Hitler and his mistress, Evan Braun, committed suicide while listening to...
BX. TEACHER KILLS MOM, THEN GOES TO DINNER: COPS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amA city schoolteacher was arrested yesterday for stabbing to death his 68-year-old mother after an argument broke out over his girlfriend, police said. Louis Rivera Jr., 36, a special-education teacher,...
JUDGE WASHES HANDS OF DUFF & PERELMAN
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge has had enough of billionaire Ron Perelman and multimillionaire Patricia Duff. State Supreme Court Justice Eileen Bransten, who has presided over the dueling divorced duo's battle over...
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF BICYCLE ARBORCIDE
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amA deep-rooted desire to save the city's street trees from killer bicycle chains has budded into designs for the first-ever bark-protecting bike racks. New Yorkers will see "Adonis" - the...
KIDS RALLY TO PROTECT PLAYGROUND
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amAbout 200 parents and children blasted the Board of Education yesterday, demanding that a high-school science lab not be built on the Brooklyn elementary-school playground they enjoy. "I'm mad," said...
HILLARY ASKS HARLEM GALS TO WATCH BILL
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton asked a group of women in Harlem yesterday to keep an eye on hubby Bill Clinton after he opens his office there. "I expect all you...
HAPPY HAMPTON'S LIVIN' IT UP, UP, UP ; ROCKIES ACE WON'T SAY METS BLEW IT
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The jet fumes that drift in from La Guardia and envelope Shea aren't for everybody. They weren't for Mike Hampton. He lives in Evergreen, Col. now, 7,200 feet...
GET YER RIPOFFS HERE! STADIUM FOOD VENDOR SORRY ABOUT 'OBSCENE' PRICES
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amHEY, I've got a great idea. Let's all chip in and buy the Yankees a new stadium! And one for the Mets, one for the Jets and a new arena...
FISHING QUOTA ACT SPOUTS COMPANY LINE
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amMEMBERS of the Marine Fish Conservation Network are urging congress to protect both fish and fishermen in legislation which would set national standards on Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) programs, which...
MET GOLF WRITERS TO HONOR 'BIG 3'
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amLOCAL GOLF You don't need the Golf Channel to see "Big Three Golf." Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, who have combined for 34 major championships, will be reunited...
TO BEGIN WITH, FIVE'S PLENTY NHL MUST CUT BACK FIRST-ROUND SERIES
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amMUCH bigger, much faster players encased in armor no longer worn to merely protect but to inflict harm on opponents. A regular-season in which half of the league is eliminated...
RECORDS TUMBLE AT CHURCHILL
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The main track at Churchill Downs was like a paved highway yesterday after being scraped and rolled the night before. In the first four races, three track records...
SPREE GOT A RAW DEAL GUTSY GUARD DIDN'T DESERVE THE FATE OF HEARTLESS MATES
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amIN the game that would decide not only how far they would go in the 2001 NBA playoffs but also probably how long they will stay together as a team,...
JEFF MAY TAKE SORRY OFFENSE ELSEWHERE
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN you are a coach and your basketball world begins to tune you out, can you still coach that team? Would you want to coach that struggling team? That's the...
PRATT FINALLY BUSTS OUT
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amTodd Pratt was still looking for his first hit of the 2001 season yesterday, and he got it. The Mets backup catcher, subbing for Mike Piazza for the second straight...
LJ MAY BE FORCED TO RETIRE
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amHe was surrounded by his teammates, but yet Larry Johnson felt alone. Not part of the group. Not part of the struggle to advance deeper into the playoffs. And now,...
NOW IT'S GOLF AND GOD NO DISTRACTIONS LEFT FOR APATHETIC KNICKS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amDON'T say I didn't warn the Knicks. Now that they can give their undivided attention to God and golf, let's put that annoying distraction of basketball under the scope one...
TAKE THIS ACT ON THE ROAD
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amTHE problem with baseball organizations . . . OK, one of the problems with baseball organizations . . . is they lack imagination. They don't have the audacity to go...
JAX' SEAT: BUM VIEW
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amHe took a seat late in the third quarter. He sat as the Knicks mounted a comeback. He sat as the Raptors ultimately kept their composure. He sat as the...
RICE VOWS TO RETURN FACES SURGERY ON FOOT
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amGlen Rice said he is considering surgery on his left foot this summer to make his plantar fasciatis go away. Rice was bothered most of the season with the chronic...
RICHLY BLENDED ROLLS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amRichly Blended withstood early pressure from Skip to the Stone and drew away to win the $150,000 Grade 3 Withers Stakes by 41/4 lengths at Aqueduct yesterday. Le Grande Danseur...
NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR RUSHC
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amIn his first half-dozen outings, it's been a case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the Mets' Glendon Rusch. Yesterday, his seven brilliant innings strangled the life out of...
BRENLY MANAGING TO KEEP BUSY
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amBob Brenly traded in golf clubs for a baseball club. The retired San Francisco catcher's last gig - as a Diamondbacks' TV analyst - afforded him plenty of free time,...
SUB BOOTS HOME 50-1 SHOT
May 6, 2001 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Senor Gran rated off the pace and then made a wide move to gain the lead. Pacesetting I Think I Can Fly fought back and just missed...
YANKS THANKFUL FOR O'S
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - TGIWTO. If not for what should be their new mantra - "Thank God It Was The Orioles" - the Yankees surely would have inhaled a defeat because of...
SORE HAND KEEPS MIKE ON BENCH
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amMike Piazza was out of the starting lineup for a second straight day because of that sore right hand he hurt during the Mets' game Wednesday against the Astros. Piazza,...
POSADA'S ARM DANGEROUS BEHIND PLATE
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - It didn't take two throwing errors by Jorge Posada on Friday night to tip off scouts that the Yankee catcher's right shoulder isn't right. "He has been cheating...
WARD HAD DERBY ALL FIGURED OUT
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - You read it right here, folks, right in the pages of the New York Post, in a pre-race analysis of the Kentucky Derby so decisive and incisive it...
HOUSTON HOT AT LATRELL
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amAllan Houston, who expected to opt out the last two years of his contract and become a free agent, said he wants to return to the Knicks but may first...
KNICKS NEED TO TURN - SPREE TO MANAGEMENT: GET WEBBER AT ANY COST
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amLatrell Sprewell laid it on the line again yesterday. In emphatic terms, Sprewell urged Knicks' management to bring in more size, break up the Gotham-Guns' perimeter experiment and do everything...
HERE'S HOW THE OTHER JOCKEYS SAW IT
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - How the losing jockeys saw yesterday's Kentucky Derby:JOHN VELAZQUEZ (Invisible Ink): "Monarchos came over and almost touched my horse. I felt I had to steady for two jumps....
SPLIT FINISH FOR BAFFERT
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Trainer Bob Baffert was bewildered after his heavily favored Point Given finished fifth in the Derby. But he did get some satisfaction from the fact his other colt,...
MONARCHOS IS KING SURVIVES CLAIM OF FOUL TO TAKE DERBY
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Sitting in his barn office at Gulfstream Park a few days before he won the March 10 Florida Derby with the gray colt Monarchos, trainer John Ward talked...
MCKAY SAYS DOMI THREATENED NIEDS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amThe Devils don't believe it was just an elbow of impulse. In fact, Devils winger Randy McKay told The Post he heard Tie Domi directly threaten Scott Niedermayer. "I can't...
DEVILS' CROWN IS TEETERING
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amThe dream of dynasty demands another miracle now. The Devils' need-two task without Scott Niedermayer is no less daunting than last year's three-victory comeback against the Flyers. The stake is...
CHAMPS COMING APART AT SEAMS
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S as if General George S. Patton's Third Army has right before our very eyes somehow turned into Bill Murray's command in the movie "Stripes." The team that has been...
DEVS 'NIED' A LIFT
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amIF THE Devils' heads, hardened by success, seem an impregnable wall to Larry Robinson, they still go back to Toronto with a track record when backed against one. Not only...
HEY, CHERYL, IT'S TIME TO GET A LIFE, HONEY
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - On the eve of the 127th running of the Kentucky Derby, the biggest single event in American thoroughbred racing, a cry exploded out of the heart of blue...
PRESSURE IS NO PROBLEM FOR BAFFERT
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amDERBY NOTES LOUISVILLE - Trainer Bob Baffert, hours away from saddling Point Given and Congaree to run for the roses, was in a relaxed, retrospective mood Derby Eve, dining with...
MONARCHOS IS KING: SURVIVES CLAIM OF FOUL TO TAKE DERBY
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Unleashing the same powerful late move that carried him to victory in the Florida Derby, Monarchos drew away down the home stretch to win the 127th Kentucky Derby...
DOMI SORRY FOR 'STUPID REACTION'
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amA clearly contrite and justifiably shamed Tie Domi yesterday tearfully called the gratuitous elbow that knocked out Scott Niedermayer in the waning seconds of Game 4 a "stupid reaction." "I...
THIS 'D' IS D-PLETED
May 6, 2001 | 4:00amTHE shot to hockey's chin that laid out Scott Niedermayer was cheap. After so many years and so many incidents, so to become outraged over the obvious, what Tie Domi...