May 9, 2001
FEDS BUST MEXICO-U.S. INSIDER TRADING RING
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amAn international investigation into massive insider trading concluded with criminal and civil charges. The case will be tried here, regulators said. The broad investigation by the SEC and the U.S....
VOGUE, HARPER'S BEAT AROUND THE BUSH
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S been a particularly heated month in the battle between Anna Wintour's Vogue and Kate Betts' Harper's Bazaar. First, Wintour found to her dismay that Vogue did not have an...
DUMBO OFFERS RENT-FREE SPACE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE may be no free lunch, but if you go to DUMBO there's free rent. Many commercial and retail tenants at the 3 million square feet of space being re-developed...
REPORT: MARZOTTO MAKES A BID FOR VALENTINO OWNER
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amMarzotto is ready to play in the big leagues. Marzotto SpA, the owner of Hugo Boss, has reportedly made a written offer for Holding di Partecipazioni Industriali SpA's Gruppo GFT....
CAN LACK SAVE NBC? - NEWS CHIEF TAKING HELM OF NETWORK
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amIt's Andy Lack to the rescue - again. The NBC News chief was named president and chief operating officer of the General Electric-owned network yesterday - a move that gives...
CISCO SHORT-CIRCUITS - REVENUES DROP FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1990 IPO
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amThere was more evidence yesterday that the technology sector won't be out of the woods any time soon, as Cisco posted poor earnings and a gloomy outlook for the future....
INVESTOR PAUL ALLEN TAKES A BATH ON TECH
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amPaul Allen's billions keep shrinking. After getting whacked almost daily in his stakes at more than 130 tech companies, Allen is looking at bailing out of one of his higher...
COLLEAGUES SAY HE'S BEST BET
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amIf anyone can get NBC back on track it's Andy Lack, say those who know him. NBC is now hoping that the onetime TV commercial producer-turned-Emmy-winning news exec will work...
CALVIN CUTS 100 JOBS
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amCalvin Klein staffers were dressed down yesterday - as 100 or so employees lost their jobs, according to Post sources. The cuts were said to be concentrated in the company's...
'LINK' FINDS WEAKEST POINT
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amREWRITE those early obituaries - "Weakest Link" lives. One week after suffering a drastic ratings dropoff, "Weakest Link" righted itself Monday night, winning its timeslot (8-9 p.m.) with a 3...
LOOK WHO'S TALKING - ROSIE GETS RABID OVER GUMBEL'S FATSO QUIP
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amROSIE O'Donnell reacted like a mad dog after she heard Bryant Gumbel make an insensitive remark about "Survivor" castaway Maralyn Hershey's size. With Maralyn seated beside her yesterday, Rosie blasted...
PBS BOWS TO PRESSURE - IMAGES CUT FROM DOCUMENTARY ON ISLAM
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amPBS's decision to reedit a scene in last night's special on Islam "was an issue of respect," a network spokesman says. A scene in the historical documentary "Islam: Empire of...
'PRODUCERS,' 'LOVE' GARNER NEW AWARDS
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amMEL Brooks' "The Producers" won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical yesterday. The critics also voted Tom Stoppard's "The Invention of Love" Best Play. Since the...
SAY CHEESE AND SMILE AT ARTISANAL
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amARTISANAL [] 2 PARK AVE. (ENTRANCE ON EAST 32ND STREET) (212) 725-8585 -------- 'MORE light over the cheese," Artisanal chef/owner Terrance Brennan barked one night. At once, the awesome cheese...
DOCU-FILM A FUNNY FORUM
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHE MAN WHO BOUGHT MUSTIQUE [ 1/2] Very funny documentary about eccentric island-owning aristocrat Lord Glenconner. Running time: 118 minutes. Unrated (bad language, explicit Kama Sutra illustrations). At the Film...
IT'S ALL ABOUT KATE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amABOUT ADAM [ 1/2] Kate Hudson shines in a moderately beguiling date movie. Running time: 100 minutes. Rated R (sex, profanity). At the Angelika and the Cinema 1. -------------- A...
THE STARR REPORT
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amCher, Madonna - and now Deborah? "Inside Edition" host Deborah Norville is getting funky - and is about to shoot a video to go along with the single ("Gonna Keep...
'URINETOWN' GIVES THEATER FANS REASON TO GO
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amURINETOWNAt the American Theatre of Actors, 314 W. 54th St. Through May 28. Call TeleCharge at (212) 239-6200. ------- 'WELL, hello there. And welcome to Urinetown! Not the place, of...
DAN'S 'TODAY' SHOW GIG RATHER UNUSUAL
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHAT really was CBS News anchor Dan Rather on yesterday's "Today" show. It is rare and something of a novelty for a well-known anchor to appear on an arch-rival's news...
GOOD ROLE WILL BEAT BANKROLL - SHE STRIVES TO BE WOMAN OF (ACTING) SUBSTANCE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amKATRIN Cartlidge - a tall and angular beauty well-known to fans of independent films - resolutely refuses to take acting jobs for the money. "There was a British film star...
TIMES TO OFFER ALL THE FOOD THAT'S FIT TO EAT
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amIT looks like The New York Times is going into the restaurant business. The paper wants to open a giant eatery on the top of its planned new 51-story headquarters...
A WELL-DONE GRILL CLEANUP - BARBECUE TIPS FROM THE PROS
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amBARBECUING might put you in touch with your inner caveman, but times have changed since the ancients first tossed a haunch on the fire. Modern grillers are understandably wary of...
HE'S ONE NERVOUS 'SHREK' - DREAMWORKS' MOVIE MONSTER FEARLESSLY TAKES AIM AT DISNEY - THEN COWERS BEHIND LAWYERS
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amDreamWorks honchos turned to legal eagles to make sure "Shrek" - which pointedly mocks Snow White and other beloved Disney characters - doesn't invite a suit from their archrival studio....
DON'T WORRY, REED IS NOT DEAD YET
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amE-mail reports of Lou Reed's death have been greatly exaggerated - the former frontman of the Velvet Underground is alive, well and working in Amsterdam, his publicists say. On Monday,...
GIRL MOLESTED, MURDERED STEPS FROM HER HOME
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amA 10-year-old Bronx girl, described by her mom as an "excellent" student, was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered just outside her apartment yesterday, police said. A neighbor was being questioned...
NEW YORK POST: FROM MAY 9, 1970
May 9, 2001 | 4:00am"New York Knicks. Born 1946. Struggled 23 years. World Champions 1970. The World Champions. Roll that on your tongue for a while. Taste good? So did the beer and the...
CITY WANTS SPY-CAM GREEN LIGHT
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - New York City traffic scofflaws beware: There could soon be more spies in the "skies." The Giuliani administration will ask the state Legislature for permission to install cameras...
CONS TAKING DNA FIGHT TO CRIME-TIME TV
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amA bizarre and controversial new reality show features convicted criminals whose claims of innocence will be bolstered or shot down when the results of their DNA tests are revealed to...
SPY PLANE RECOVERY HITS SNAG
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Beijing yesterday shot down U.S. plans to fly home the crippled spy plane being held by China. The countries locked horns again as the White House insisted the...
CASE OF MYSTERIOUS E. SIDE PARROT GETS ALL FOWLED UP
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amIf only the parrot would talk. The flap over who owns a valuable bird found on an East Side high-rise balcony intensified yesterday when one woman discovered it was not...
SOAP OPERA'S STAR IS A PRIMA DONNA
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amSHE sure knows how to hit a guy where he lives. The battle between Rudy Giuliani and his sometime-actress wife has turned from soap opera - to beauty pageant. And...
BIRTH MOM LOSES 'SCRAMBLED EGG' CASE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amA white Staten Island woman's bid to get custody of the black child she gave birth to after a fertility clinic's mix-up ended in failure yesterday when the state's highest...
IS THIS PIC 'PROOF' OF PAST LIFE ON MARS?
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amScientists yesterday announced the discovery of a new image of a human-like face, tunnels, pyramids and signs of living vegetation on Mars - a red-letter day for those who believe...
STALKER TALE ADDS TO BLAKE MYSTERY
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A mysterious stalker once lurked outside the home of TV cop Robert Blake, prompting fears that his wife's con-artist past was catching up to her, an investigator...
GAYS BASH STUDY THAT SAYS 'GO STRAIGHT'
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amFurious gay-rights groups yesterday blasted an explosive new Columbia University study that suggests some homosexuals can turn straight - if they just try hard enough. The study targeted 200 "ex-gays"...
PENTAGON UNVEILS PLAN FOR SPACE-ATTACK SHIELD
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Pentagon boss Donald Rumsfeld yesterday announced he's beefing up military programs to combat outer- space attacks from "hostile" nations - but denied it will lead to space wars....
URBAN LEGEND FELL VICTIM TO HIS OWN MYTH
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Soundview section of The Bronx is a killer. The triggerman may have been Victor Vicenty, a part-time school bus driver. But in a way, the bullet that pierced Kevin...
GRACIE FOLLIES ARE NOT A 'GAG'
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe Big Apple was agog yesterday as the city's longest-running soap opera - starring Rudy, Judi and Donna - took a series of new and bizarre turns. "It's the talk...
MOM FOILS KIDNAP, HELPS NAB SUSPECT
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amAn enraged mom, who on Monday fought off a career criminal trying to snatch her 3-year-old son, helped Queens cops catch the suspect yesterday, police said. The bizarre tale began...
RENT HERO RUDY BIDS FOR 6% LIMIT
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani rode to the rescue of tenants yesterday, saying he doesn't want the Rent Guidelines Board to hike rents any more than last year's increases of 4 percent and...
WHY WAS SLAIN THIEF ON STREET?
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe crackhead crook allegedly killed by a furious neighbor was in and out of jail for 25 years - yet hardly off the streets for more than a few weeks...
FEMALE LIVERY DRIVER SLAIN IN BRONX
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amA woman livery driver was found shot to death in her cab on a deserted street in the Bronx early today. The victim was discovered slumped over the wheel of...
PENTAGON LOOKS TO THE HEAVENS FOR DEFENSE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Pentagon boss Donald Rumsfeld yesterday announced he's beefing up military programs to combat outer- space attacks from "hostile" nations - but denied it will lead to space wars....
HILL WON'T PLAY BALL WITH MEDIA'S HEAVY HITTERS
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON. JUST as she did during last year's Senate campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton is pitching a total news shutout to the national TV and radio corps. She'll talk with newspaper...
TEEN DIES IN GYM-CLASS MYSTERY
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amA popular, hard-working teen apparently suffered a sudden seizure and died during a packed gym class as horrified classmates looked on at a Manhattan high school yesterday. Witnesses said Alberto...
FAX ACTION HALTS GREEN SUIT OVER DIALLO-COP INFO
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Bernard Kerik yanked the rug out from under Public Advocate Mark Green yesterday, agreeing to give him confidential NYPD records on the Diallo cops just as Green was...
CRITICS STRIKE THE 'MOTHER' LODE - RIP INTO SCHOOL FOR BANNING MOM'S DAY
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe decision by an Upper West Side private school to ban celebrations of Mother's Day to avoid hurting the feelings of children with gay parents caused the mother of all...
COPS DRAW BLOODS IN GANG BUSTS
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe reputed leaders of New York's Bloods and "Bloodettes" were busted yesterday on a laundry list of charges - including ordering the executions of their enemies. The arrests of the...
CONSERVATIVES STRIKE MOTHER LODE - RIP INTO SCHOOL FOR BANNING MOM'S DAY
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe decision by an Upper West Side private school to ban celebrations of Mother's Day to avoid hurting the feelings of children with gay parents caused the mother of all...
'RACIST' BUG BUNNY CARTOONS YANKED
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amA dozen Bugs Bunny cartoons won't air next month for fear the wascally wabbit comes off a bit wacist. The Cartoon Network's 49-hour marathon June 1-3 was supposed to feature...
TEST REVOLT SPREADS TO ELITE SCHOOL
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amParents and students at one of the city's premier alternative schools boycotted the state's eighth-grade English exams yesterday as part of a revolt against standardized testing. "It takes too much...
FAKE-COP RAP FOR KID-RAPIST
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amA man who just got out of jail for raping an underage girl has been busted for impersonating a police officer to meet and try to date female security guards,...
SICK RACCOONS SPARK RABIES SCARE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amRaccoons foaming at the mouth as if they have rabies are scaring Long Island residents. The animals are actually infected with distemper, a viral disease with symptoms that mimic rabies....
GAYS BEAR BRUNT OF SYPHILIS RISE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amAfter years of decline, syphilis infections appear to be on the rise, especially among gay and bisexual men in Manhattan, city health officials warned yesterday. Susan Blank, the assistant health...
BLAKE CLAIMS HIS SLAIN WIFE FEARED VENGEFUL STALKER
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A mysterious stalker once lurked outside the home of TV cop Robert Blake, prompting fears that his wife's con-artist past was catching up to her, the actor's...
W. PICKS IMPEACH LEADER TO HEAD DEA
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush has tapped Rep. Asa Hutchinson, who helped lead the House impeachment of Bill Clinton, to head the Drug Enforcement Administration, congressional sources said yesterday. Arkansas Republican...
PUBLICITY IS STANCIK'S PRIME MOTIVATOR
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amED STANCIK might be late for dinner sometimes, but he is never late for a press conference. Bottom line, with due respect to hyperbole of newspaper parlance, Ed Stancik is...
PROSECUTOR: BX. TEACHER MOLESTED MORE KIDS
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amA Bronx prosecutor yesterday told a judge and a group of furious parents that he plans to ask a grand jury to indict teacher Milton McFarlane on more charges of...
EDUCATOR SEARCH IS GOING TROPICAL
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy wants to make a big splash by recruiting hundreds of teachers from the sun-soaked Caribbean. A team of eight Board of Education employees is flying to...
NEW GREEN, OR RECYCLED?
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amWILL the real Mark Green please stand up? Actually, it looks like he has. And it turns out that - despite a carefully crafted political makeover mirrored on turning the...
COP 'TALKS' DOWN DEAF TEEN JUMPER - SAVES LOVESICK BOY WITH SIGN LANGUAGE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amA hero cop used sign language yesterday to dramatically, and silently, rescue a heartsick teenager who was threatening to hurl himself off the roof of the Lexington School for the...
HE'S MADE A CAREER OF RESCUING PEOPLE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amEmergency Service Unit cop William Fischer, who "talked" a suicidal deaf teenager off a ledge yesterday, has a habit of showing up where the action is. In January, the 42-year-old...
'RULES' WRITER DIDN'T PLAY IT BY THE BOOK - AND FAILED AT HER OWN MARRIAGE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amELLEN FEIN wrote "The Rules." Now, she's broken them. While her latest book, "The Rules for Marriage," hits shelves today, the best-selling author who has advised millions of women on...
THIS COULD BE START OF SOMETHING SPECIAL
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHE center fielder raced toward left, dove, caught the ball facing the third-base line, then got to his feet, spun and fired home to nail a tagging runner. The veteran...
'GREAT' EXPECTATIONS - ALEX GETS CALL-UP AS PAYTON HITS DL
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - The awful luck of hot-hitting center fielder Jay Payton allowed the Alex (The Great) Escobar Era to begin for the Mets last night at Coors Field. Payton is...
AL'S WELL FOR LEITER IN WORKOUT
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES DENVER - There was some encouraging news yesterday on the Al Leiter front. Leiter, on the disabled list since April 21 with a bad elbow, threw off the...
SPREE REP EYES CHRIS
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amLatrell Sprewell's agent Bob Gist said yesterday he is attempting to become the agent for free-agent-to-be Chris Webber, who fired his representative earlier this season. Gist has known the Sacramento...
SENIOR TOUR NEEDS BOOST
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amA swing through New Jersey for a major championship and a major tournament in the span of three weekends could set a climate for optimism or continuing ambivalence for a...
SCOTT MAY GIVE IT A SHOT IN 7TH
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amThis is what defending the Stanley Cup demands. It requires 20 bulldog Churchills tonight, backing up their vow that this will be their finest 60 minutes, or more. It insists...
TIME TO BE THINKING A-HEAD; IS NIEDS HEADING FOR TROUBLE?
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amTO be fair, one has to assume no doctor, on retainer from the Devils or otherwise, is going to clear the participation of someone demonstrating post-concussion syndrome. One also must...
LEAFS-DEVILS ALL THE RAGE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amFIRST and foremost, there are the Rangers, there is no question about that, and then there are the Flyers. Nearly two decades of history, geography and mutual hatred dictate as...
RAPTS LOOK TO TURN TWO
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Sometimes, greed is good. Take the Raptors, for example. Any team opening a series with two games on the road will tell you a split can seem like...
COOK APPLIES FOR DRAFT
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amOmar Cook, second in the nation in assists last season as a freshman at St. John's, will enter his name in this year's NBA draft but will not sign with...
BLAZERS AX DUNLEAVY
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amBeleaguered Trail Blazers coach Mike Dunleavy was fired yesterday, nine days after Portland, with an $89.7 million payroll, the highest in NBA history, was swept out of the playoffs in...
BOMBERS WAIVE MORALES
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Since the Yankees refused to comment on the situation, it's not exactly known why they have placed Cuban defector Andy Morales on waivers. However, the 26-year-old third baseman...
MILTON TAKES SHUTOUT IN STRIDE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amEric Milton saw the Yankees as "just another game," which is downright scary. It's scary because he pitched like it was playoff baseball against a hated opponent. The 25-year-old left-hander,...
MILT-DOWN IN THE BRONX - ERIC SMOTHERS FEEBLE BOMBER BATS
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amTwins 2 - Yankees 0 The only death trap set last night at Yankee Stadium was the one Eric Milton caught the Yankees' bats in. When unruly Metrodome customers showered...
IT'S KEVIN AND HELL - APPIER SHELLED AS ROCKS ROUT METS
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - Kevin Appier is supposed to replace Mike Hampton. Last night, he did a good job of it. Remember last season when Hampton made his first start with the...
HERB: EWING'S NOT RULING OUT A KNICK RETURN
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing is not taking any gratification that the Knicks fell in the first round without him, his friend and former teammate Herb Williams said. "Not at all," said Williams,...
GIANTS, PATS IN JOINT WORK
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amJim Fassel credited a large portion of the Giants' fast start last season to remaining healthy during training camp. To give his team every chance to remain relatively injury-free, Fassel...
FINDING FISH NO FLUKE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHE increase in length for fluke fishing will make it a bit harder to fill your bucket with keepers, so you will need to know every trick in the book...
MIENTKIEWICZ MAKING UP TIME
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amHe understands the concept of lost time, but it has nothing to do with a season in the minor league outpost of Salt Lake City. Twins first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz...
PEN MIGHTIER THAN BEFORE - STANTON, BRIAN HELPING YANKS FORGET NELLIE
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amRemember all the angst that filled the Yankees' universe when Jeff Nelson spurned a three-year, $9 million offer and signed with the Mariners for $1.4 million more? What would become...
HAMPTON'S REGAINED CONTROL .. OF EMOTIONS
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES DENVER - When Mike Hampton peers in tonight against the Mets, the most important body part in his success won't be his $121 million left arm. As it...
TRAIL OF A FALLEN STAR - CANSECO TAKING BABYSTEPS BACK TO THE BIG LEAGUES
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amBRIDGEPORT - Think of him as a recording star who used to pack football stadiums and now works Holiday Inn lounges. Bursting with massive muscles and wounded pride, Jose Canseco,...
LEWIS TAKES DUEL WITH ROSENBLUTH
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amFrancis Lewis 2 - Cardozo 1 Jonathan Lewis has plenty of easy victories. Danny Rosenbluth will win his fair share, too. But both pitchers prefer to battle like they did...
SPLITTERS, VELEZ DERAIL PATRIOTS
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amLincoln 6 - Lafayette 2 Lincoln went into yesterday's game against long-time rival Lafayette short-handed and hobbled by injuries. The Railsplitters, however, were able to patch up the holes and...
'GREAT' EXPECTATIONS - PHENOM GETS SHOT AS PAYTON HITS DL
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - The awful luck of hot-hitting center fielder Jay Payton allowed the Alex (The Great) Escobar Era to begin for the Mets last night at Coors Field. Payton is...
COOK PUTS NAME IN DRAFT HAT
May 9, 2001 | 4:00amOmar Cook, second in the nation in assists last season as a freshman at St. John's, will enter his name in this year's NBA draft but will not sign with...