May 10, 2001
NEWS CORP. BEATS 3-QTR. ESTIMATES PROFIT FALLS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amNews Corporation exceeded Wall Street's expectations yesterday but posted lower third-quarter operating income because of a weaker U.S. advertising market. News Corp., which owns The Post, also warned that the...
ZERO CREDIT FOR WINSTAR
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amCan it get any worse for WinStar? Delisted, bankrupt and sued by shareholders, the flopped wireless wonder was blocked yesterday by a judge from getting its hands on a desperately...
VIRUS SETS SPEED RECORD
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amA new computer virus whipped around the world with lightening speed yesterday - and fizzled out almost as quickly. The virus, the Homepage worm, made one round of the globe,...
WALL STREET SLUMPS AFTER CISCO, GE REPORTS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amProfit-taking nudged blue chips lower yesterday as Wall Street's poor appetite for stocks nibbled again at the Dow, and bad news from Cisco cut short a tech rally. The Dow...
LOU, THE SEQUEL - DOBBS PUSHES NEW FORMAT IN RETURN TO CNN
May 10, 2001 | 4:00am"Moneyline News Hour with Lou Dobbs" is gone. It's now "Lou Dobbs Moneyline" - in case you forget who's hosting the CNN business show. That's just one of the changes...
CALVIN'S BIG PLANS - SLATES RETAIL EXPANSION OVERSEAS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amCalvin Klein has plans to dramatically increase the number of his international stores, The Post has learned. Though he's shuttering his CK Calvin Klein sportswear business in the United States...
L-3 HUNTS FOR ACQUISITIONS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amHERE'S a complete list of companies that are guaranteed to be shopping for acquisitions in this miserable economy: 1.) L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. 2.) No one else. Yep, there's only...
SHORTCYCLES BURBLES TO ITS DEMISE
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amShortCycles, the San Bruno, Calif.-based provider of business-to-business e-services for sales information exchange, has completed its life cycle. The Application Service Provider burned through $7 million in its two years...
INSIGNIA DESERTER SETS UP SHOP AT HALSTEAD
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amA key manager at Insignia Residential Group has jumped ship to help start a new division for rival Halstead Property Co. Paul Gottsegen, a talented property manager who folded his...
TOWER OF POWER
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amAC/DC WIRED for big sound and pushing the music with an intensity that would blow the fuse on a lesser band, Jurassic rock metal-mongers AC/DC charged Madison Square Garden with...
THE MOTHER OF ALL HOLIDAYS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amTHIS Sunday is Mother's Day, and my friend Jack will spend the holiday the way he always does - waiting by the phone, praying he hasn't made anyone a new...
NORMA JEAN BLEACHED BLACK
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amBlonde [ ] Sunday and Wednesday at 9 p.m. on WCBS/Ch. 2 ----------- IF drag queens had not already been invented, the mere existence of Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe...
SORKIN FEELS 'STUPID' AFTER 'SHROOM BUST - 'WEST WING' CREATOR MAKES 1ST PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN NYC
May 10, 2001 | 4:00am'WEST Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin used humor yesterday to ease into his first public appearance since being busted on drug charges last month. "When you feel stupid and embarrassed facing...
INFO OFTEN SLIPS THROUGH THE WEB
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amAS one might expect from Surfer gURL, I believe the World Wide Web has all the answers.And as I - sadly - have more and more so-called "senior moments," when...
THE STARR REPORT
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amStern ruling for 'Power' judge Andrew? If "Power of Attorney" Judge Andrew Napolitano is on thin ice with the show - and he might be, according to sources - he...
WHAT ELSE WAS FAKED? - 'SURVIVOR' CLAIMS 'RE-ENACTMENTS' WERE ONLY 'WINDOW DRESSING.' OK?
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amIT was fun while it lasted. For the better part of a year, I've been able to put out of my mind the nagging suspicion that "Survivor" isn't exactly on...
LANG LANG IS HOT, HOT, HOT! - FORTUNE SMILES ON BRILLIANT CHINESE PIANO TEEN, DUBBED THE 'TIGER WOODS OF CLASSICAL'
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amAS piano debuts go, this one's a hit on par with "The Producers" - all ecstatic ovations and rave reviews. Critics on both coasts call his playing "breathtaking," "dazzling," even...
IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RESERVE A TABLE FOR MOM
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amWITH all the meals she's cooked, no wonder Mother's Day is the most popular day to eat out, according to the National Restaurant Association. At this late date, reservations are...
COPS GRILL NEIGHBOR IN GIRL'S MURDER
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amPolice this morning continued questioning a neighbor of strangled 11-year-old schoolgirl Tamiqa Gutierrez after following a trail of blood and vomit to his apartment, investigators said. Police sources said the...
SMART $$ IS AGAINST BLOOMBERG
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amI'VE made a few friendly wagers that whoever wins the Democratic primary for mayor will defeat billionaire Republican Mike Bloomberg. My faith is based on Bloomberg's early bloopers, as well...
'GAS' PATIENT DIES AS FINAL ORDEAL IS BARED
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amA computer saleswoman, left brain-dead last month after undergoing a Manhattan psychiatrist's bizarre "gas therapy," died yesterday morning in Bellevue Hospital - as shocking new details emerged about the case....
HS 'LAWYERS' WON'T SETTLE FOR SECOND BEST
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amDon't expect to win an argument with any of these kids. Members of the mock-trial team from Kew Forest High, a private school in Queens, have won the title of...
NEW YORK POST: FROM MAY 10, 1943
May 10, 2001 | 4:00am"VICTORY COMPLETE," read The Post's front-page headline about the Axis surrender in North Africa: "At 11 a.m. yesterday, German Maj. Gen. Krause, artillery commander of the Afrika Corps, requested an...
CUTTING OUT THE 'BULL' - GRAVANO'S SON SEEKS OWN TRIAL
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe Gravanos have an odd definition of "family." First, mobster Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano betrayed his crime family by ratting out Gambino boss John "Dapper Don" Gotti. Now Sammy's son,...
CITY CHARITY BIG CHARGED IN CLOTHING RIP-OFF
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe manager of the city-run clothing bank yesterday was charged with taking the shirts off the backs of poor and homeless New Yorkers. Agents from the city Department of Investigation...
EX-'SAMMY' JUDGE GETS TOUGH
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn federal judge who once OK'd a plea bargain for "Sammy Bull" Gravano blasted the government yesterday for cutting a too-lenient deal with a drug lord who used Hasidic...
UNION REPS TELL PRINCIPALS: DON'T TALK WITHOUT US
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amSchool administrators have been told to watch their backs. The Council of Supervisors and Administrators yesterday urged principals and other school bosses to refuse to speak with Independent Schools Investigator...
REALITY CHECK: 'SURVIVOR' FAKED SOME SCENES
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amReality TV isn't as real as it's cracked up to be. "Survivor" producers, who repeatedly insisted that no parts of TV's quintessential reality show were staged, finally admitted they used...
GOV UNVEILS PLAN TO CUT COST OF CAR INSURANCE
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - After months on the sidelines, the Pataki administration yesterday unveiled its long-awaited plan to drive down New York's soaring auto-insurance rates. Gov. Pataki's plan, released while he is...
WIFE PLEADS FOR EX WHO KILLED HER KIDS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amIn a surreal courtroom display, the mother of two murdered little boys begged a Manhattan judge to have mercy on the beast who axed and bludgeoned them to death -...
TV HOST BACKS DONNA ON 'GRACIE BAN' BID
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amDonna Hanover yesterday got a few words of encouragement from comic Joy Behar - who told the city's first lady that Mayor Giuliani has no right to bring his "good...
KIDMAN'S SINGING NO BLUES OVER CRUISE AT CANNES FEST
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amA ravishing Nicole Kidman took Cannes by storm last night - showing absolutely no stress from her messy bust-up with Tom Cruise. The flame-haired star flashed a huge smile and...
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW IF NEIGHBOR'S A CHILD RAPIST
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amIS YOUR neighbor a child rapist? Mine is. As I reported on Sunday, I found this out by going online and consulting the New York City Sex Offender Registry (http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/nsor),...
COCOA FARMERS HARBOR A DARK SECRET: SLAVERY
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amTHE CHOCOLATE you buy this Mother's Day could come from cocoa farmed by slaves. Americans will spend tens of millions of dollars on chocolate this week - unaware that the...
RUDY HAILS COP WHO SAVED DEAF JUMPER
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani saluted a sign language-speaking cop and seven of his fellow officers as "heroes" yesterday for saving a distraught deaf teen about to throw himself off the roof of...
STEAL SIGN IS ON FOR METS AD POSTERS - TRAIN RIDERS ARE SWIPING FOX PLACARDS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe Mets' on-field performance may be as cold as ice, but their print marketing campaign is hotter than Claudia Schiffer. Posters promoting Mets games on Fox Sports Net, the ones...
FRIENDS ALREADY MISS HER WONDERFUL SMILE
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amTamiqa Gutierrez spread a little sunshine wherever she went. Whether she was walking her Chihuahua, picking up groceries at the bodega or listening to hip-hop with friends, she did it...
A FREQUENT FLIER THROUGH JUSTICE'S REVOLVING DOOR
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amHOW did the cliché go? Oh, yeah, I remember: The perpetrator who hit the cop with an iron bar is free on bail before the cop gets out of hospital....
DUBYA'S DUCKING DEM JABS & GIBES
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amSEN. Hillary Clinton and her Democratic pals keep spoiling for a fight with President Bush - but Bush refuses to rumble. That makes him a much harder target for Dems....
N.C. SENATOR VOWS TO SINK BUSH JUDICIAL PICK
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush reached out to Democrats yesterday with his first batch of judicial picks - but his hand was quickly slapped away by a Democratic senator who vowed...
JUDI LOSES HER COP GUARDS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's favorite friend, Judi Nathan, has lost her police detail. She had cop bodyguards for about three weeks last winter - ending shortly after The Post broke the news...
SENATE SET TO OK $1.3 TRILLION BUSH TAX CUT TODAY
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate is expected to give final approval to President Bush's tax cuts today, after House Republicans yesterday approved the plan. The plan includes a trimmed version of...
BUS KILLS MAN IN HARLEM
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amA Yonkers man chasing a basketball across a Harlem street died yesterday when he was hit by a Greyhound bus. Mark White, 42, ran across Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard at...
WINGED VICTORY! PARROT'S HOME
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe bird is back! Patricia Krivac had a dramatic reunion with her lost parrot, Hawkmoon, last night. The winged fugitive, who flew the coop from his Upper East Side home...
POLICE: SUSPECT LEFT COURT & RAPED WOMAN
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amTwo cops and a persistent 911 operator teamed up to nab a man suspected of raping a woman just hours after he strolled out of the Bronx courtroom where he...
SLAIN CABBY'S HUBBY QUIZZED BY COPS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amCops yesterday were questioning the husband of Bronx livery driver Anelidva Brown - the last person who may have heard from the mother of two before she was killed. Investigators...
RENT BOARD BLUNDERS ITS WAY TO 'LOW' HIKES
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rent Guidelines Board voted last night for rent hikes of 3 and 5 percent on one- and two-year leases - smaller than last year's increases - but only after...
PAUL: 'GOOD CHANCE' I'LL WED
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amPaul McCartney may soon be ineligible for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - he says he may marry girlfriend Heather Mills. The former Beatle told reporters at the Cannes...
L.A. COPS HAVE NOT 'RULED OUT' BLAKE
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Cops yesterday said actor Robert Blake is not off the hook in the investigation of his wife's slaying - and hours later conducted a second search of...
COPS: 250G LIKE BEACON TO DEACON
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amA church deacon visiting the Long Island "Gold Coast" mansion of a friend yielded to temptation and stole $250,000 worth of cash and jewelry from his friend's home, police said...
MIRACLE MUTT A CLASS ACT
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amMiracle, the death-defying wonder dog whose abusive owner buried him alive last year, yesterday wagged his survival tale in Brooklyn, where a group of schoolchildren got a lesson about animal...
WING & A PRAYER ANSWERED: PARROT FOUND
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe bird is back! Patricia Krivac had a dramatic reunion with her lost parrot, Hawkmoon, last night. The winged fugitive, who flew the coop from his Upper East Side home...
COPS: CROOK LEAVES COURT - AND RAPES A WOMAN
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amTwo cops and a persistent 911 operator teamed up to nab a man suspected of raping a woman just hours after he strolled out of the Bronx courtroom where he...
NICOLE HAS NO BLUES FOR CRUISE
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amA ravishing Nicole Kidman took Cannes by storm last night - showing absolutely no stress from her messy bust-up with Tom Cruise. The flame-haired star flashed a huge smile and...
N.J. REDISCOVERS WINNING FORMULA
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Maple Leafs were wearing the other uniforms, but they were never the Devils' major concern or chief opponent in the Eastern semis that ended in emphatic triumph at the...
ONE MISCUE SENDS TORONTO INTO TAILSPIN
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amTwenty minutes into Game 7, the Maple Leafs were huddled in their locker room brimming with confidence. Why not? They had a 1-0 lead, and the Devils were playing tentatively....
DEVILS DROP THE 'A' BOMB ON TORONTO
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amTHROUGH the first five games, and then another incomprehensibly slow start last night, the Devils meandered from overconfident to frazzled to paralyzed. Flashes of their old selves seemed to blind...
HAMPTON'S AMAZIN' VS. EX-MATES
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - What the heck happened this offseason? Why isn't Mike Hampton a Met? Why is there no Alex Rodriguez to pick up the slack? What happened? Last night, Hampton...
FRENCH DIP STILL ON KNICK MENU
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe Knicks do not think the answer to their center woes lies waiting for them in Paris, but that doesn't mean they have completely given up on the French Phantom....
VG WILL LOOK FOR EXTENSION
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy won't talk publicly about his future but is telling friends that the only way he won't be back as Knick coach is if he gets fired. However,...
SUPERFECTA HAUL ENDS IN ALL
May 10, 2001 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Skies were clear and the lack of rain continued to make the turf courses in New York favor speed. Majority Whip was hard used throughout, took the...
'CAT' HANDLES NASSAU HEAT
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amSooner or later they all get beat, and yesterday it was Xtra Heat's turn in the Grade 2, $150,000 Nassau County Stakes, the opening-day feature of the Belmont Park spring...
STEWART GEM MASTERS MANN
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amHackley 13 - Mann 0 Josh Deitch has given up. "It's always there," said Deitch, the first baseman at Hackley School in Tarrytown. "I've gotten past the point of trying...
TRINIDAD FIGHTS TO KO BOMBS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amFelix "Tito" Trinidad offered a few of the customary quips you expect during a boxing press conference. He said he planned to knock out William Joppy in their scheduled 12-rounder...
CTK'S GLEASON IS WAY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThere are some things that pitchers love to hear: "You've got a nasty curveball. We're going to let you finish the shutout." Two things no pitcher wants to hear are...
MONARCHOS GETS TOP BUNK
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe all-conquering colt Monarchos - his sights set on the Triple Crown after running the second-fastest Kentucky Derby ever and winning by 4 3/4 lengths - flew from Louisville to...
OAK: HILL SHOULD PAY UP
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Charles Oakley doesn't forget. And he doesn't play mind games. Got that, Tyrone Hill? Before Oakley's Raptors lost Game 2 to the Sixers last night, the Toronto forward...
WAIVER WIRE MAY NOT BE END FOR MORALES
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The reason the Yankees placed Andy Morales on waivers is they want the flexibility to make a move and didn't have space on the 40-man roster. When Morales...
DANEYKO: WE DID IT FOR NIEDS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe Devils have had their revenge on Tie Domi. Stronger than dirt, they won one for Scott Niedermayer. They did the right thing in sitting out Niedermayer and Sergei Brylin,...
GUTSY DEVILS ARE STILL REIGN MEN - CUP DEFENSE LIVES AS CHAMPS KAYO LEAFS IN GAME 7
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 7: Devils 5 - Maple Leafs 1 This is Proof of a Champion: The Devils will win when they have the will to win. Now the better team is...
DOMI DEALT FATAL BLOW - TO LEAFS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amTie Domi hurt his own team more than he hurt Scott Niedermayer. The Maple Leafs said the loss of Domi, who was suspended for the remainder of the playoffs after...
ILL DAD WEIGHS ON BERNIE
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amIT WAS only a bouncer up the middle, a single with eyes, yet it was enough to give Roger Clemens a lead on a night the Rocket wasn't about to...
IVERSON HITS 54; SIXERS WIN
May 10, 2001 | 4:00am76ers 97 - Raptors 92 PHILADELPHIA - As Allen Iverson's point count inexorably rose to Jordan-like numbers, the crowd here last night repeatedly arose and broke into chants of "M-V-P,...
ROGER RETURNS THE FAVOR - SMOTHERS TWIN BATS WITH BLANK-ET
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 2 - Twins 0 Roger Clemens watched the Twins flail at his trap-door splitter all night. He knew his fastball had enough late movement on it to make batters...
PAYTON WILL GO HOME FOR HAMMY MRI
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES DENVER - A very down Jay Payton is going back to New York today for an MRI on his right hamstring. The badly strained hammy is expected to...
MONARCHOS CHECKS IN
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe all-conquering colt Monarchos - his sights set on the Triple Crown after running the second-fastest Kentucky Derby ever and winning by 4 3/4 lengths - flew from Louisville to...
SMALLISH RAFALSKI PROVING DEVILS' MR. BIG
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amTit-for-tat is the goalie-running rule, and Brian Rafalski wishes his forwards would apply it to defensemen. "I think our forwards could get in there and get that first hit, and...
BEST TEAM WINS - ALWAYS - LUCK'S OVERRATED IN PLAYOFFS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amIF Scott Stevens can do it, so can I ... disagree publicly with Larry Robinson, that is. For here was the coach yesterday talking about his feelings as he prepared...
HOME NOT ALWAYS SWEET IN PLAYOFFS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amHAVING looked certain death in the eye in winning for only the 10th time in their last 13 road playoff games, the Devils were supposed to kneel last night to...
SCOTT PLAYS IT SAFE - SITS OUT GAME 7 FOR DEVS
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe Devil who saw the last big Concussion Comeback from inside the Flyers says Scott Niedermayer's failed bid to play last night shows the difference between the Devil defenseman and...
ESCOBAR'S A KEEPER - METS' BEST BET WITH PAYTON OUT MONTH
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - With Jay Payton's hamstring expected to keep him out for at least a month, there is no reason to believe this isn't Alex Escobar's time. The Mets need...
TORRE: EL DUQUE NEEDS A 'W' - SAYS HURLER'S CURE IS SOLID OUTING
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amJoe Torre didn't need Leo Astacio to translate for Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez during a brief conversation yesterday. One day after admitting he was concerned about the way El Duque...
ILL DAD WEIGHING ON BERNIE
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amBERNIE Williams is rushing to get everything done so that he can make it out onto the field for 4:40 stretching. He's always rushing to meet such deadlines. It's his...
76ERS CAN'T LEAVE DELL ALONE
May 10, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Dell Curry figured the Sixers had one major adjustment set for last night's Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals here. "To not leave me open," the veteran...