May 13, 2001
THE SUPERCAR
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amTHE McLaren F1 is not only the world's fastest street-legal production car -- at over $1 million per copy, it's also the most expensive. The high price hasn't dampened demand....
WSJ REPORTER WRITES VER FEW STORIES ON NO-SHOW JOB
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amHEY Peter Kann, here's a riddle for you: When is a Wall Street Journal reporter not a Wall Street Journal reporter? We'll provide a hint: it's a reporter who collects...
E-SHOPPING - AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS ... COME AGAIN?
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amHere's an idea: quit your fancy jobs at Goldman Sachs and set up a Web site to sell Palm Pilots, other consumer electronics, and sometime in the future, er, other...
ONE GOOD WAY TO GET FIRED
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amONE bold Goldman Sachs employee, who works in the company's famed investment banking division, has been bragging how little he works for his nice big salary - at a time...
NEXT TIME, CLEAR IT WITH THE BOSS
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amAn embarrassing slip-up by the Washington Times earlier this week caused the paper to eat crow and run the same article two days in a row. In what may be...
PASSION FOR FASHION : ECONOMIC RECOVERY IS EXPECTED TO BOOST APPAREL DESIGNER AND RETAIL STOCKS
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amPEOPLE always need clothes. It's one of the (usually) undisputed facts of life. Accordingly, making investments based on life's necessities has its benefits. After all, your investment should usually maintain...
TOP INVESTMENT GURUS OFFER TIPS
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amCHARITY brings out the very best in people, including the very best stock picks from many of Wall Street's top gurus. At an investment conference that raised funds for The...
LIBERTY CONTRARIAN'S MAACK IS BUCKING THE TIDE - AND GETTING AHEAD
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amAs the market attempts a recovery, most investors are trying to decide whether growth or value is the better strategy. John Maack, however, is neither a growth nor a value...
BACK TO THE BRONX
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amStanley Kubrick was born in The Bronx, but he abandoned the borough 40 years ago for a reclusive life in Britain. He never looked back. We thus doubt that he...
THE ROOTS OF 'HAIR'S BRUSH WITH FAME
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amIt was another time. It was another place. It was another tribe. Seeing "Hair" the other day at City Center's fascinating Encores! series brought a flood of memories about that...
4 QUESTIONS FOR HUGH HEFNER LET ME BE PERFECTLY FRANK...SINATRA
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amWho are your heroes? I think that my heroes come mostly from childhood - the source of inspiration when you're young. I think F. Scott Fitzgerald because of his books...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: AUDREY QUOCK
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amAs a young girl, Asian supermodel Audrey Quock dreaded attending Chinese school, as her father demanded."He used to make us go every Saturday and then make us speak Chinese at...
MY BIG SHOT AT REALITY TV
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amWhat do you do when you have just a few minutes to sell yourself as the wittiest, most attractive person in the universe? How do you "relax" when sitting in...
WHAT I WATCH
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amJAMIE-LYNN SIGLERACTRESS, "SOPRANOS" AND "CINDERELLA""FRIENDS." THE WRITING IS SO CLEVER, IT'S GREAT. I LAUGH THROUGH THE ENTIRE SHOW. I'M A BIG FAN OF CHANDLER - HE'S MY FAVORITE CHARACTER. MATTHEW...
MOM'S THE WORD: STAR MOTHERS REVEAL WHY THEY LOVE THIS HOLIDAY
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amToday, mothers of all sizes and shapes will be kissed, hugged and waited on. For many of us, Mother's Day is a time to be thankful for years of love...
BARBECUE AND MORE EARNS A HIGH FIVE AT NOHO HOT SPOT
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amFive Points 31 Great Jones St. (between Bowery & Lafayette streets) (212) 253-5700 Five Points gets bonus points for setting up a streetside grill. While NoHo might not be the...
ACCENT ON THE DETAILS: 'SHREK' TAKES QUANTUM LEAP IN ANIMATION
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amIn the midst of filming the highly anticipated new movie "Shrek," Mike Myers threw its filmmakers for a loop: He suddenly asked to change the accent of his title character's...
SIM AND BEAR IT
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amBlack & White is the latest Sim game from Peter Molyneux, who gave the world Dungeon Keeper and Magic Carpet. It lets you live out the cliché and play God...
MORE THAN FIT TO PRINT
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amThere are two compelling reasons to own a Hewlett-Packard PSC 750 all-in-one flatbed printer/scanner/copier. One, it may look like a bread machine, but it halves the footprint of having both...
ARE YOU WORKING YOUR LIFE AWAY? IF SO, YOU'RE NOT ALONE IN THIS JOB-OBSESSED CITY, BUT HERE'S WHY YOU SHOULD GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amAlex Westerman works six days a week, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. On the seventh day, he does rest, but he'll also put in a few more hours. Westerman has...
'HITCHHIKER' AUTHOR DEAD AT 49
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amSo long, and thanks for all the books. Douglas Adams, the offbeat British author of science fiction classics such as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," "Life, The Universe and...
THOMAS CRIES HEART OUT IN SPEECH
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas broke down in tears of joy as he spoke publicly for the first time about the legal battle to gain custody of his beloved 10-year-old...
DISTRAUGHT DAD: TIM WON'T FIGHT HIS FATE
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amLOCKPORT, N.Y. - Timothy McVeigh's anguished father doesn't believe his son will fight his execution despite the FBI's bumbling in the Oklahoma City bombing case. "I don't think he will...
W. URGES ENERGY SAVINGS
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday warmed up to energy conservation, just a week after Vice President Dick Cheney dismissed it as a solution to the energy crisis. Bush embraced a...
MONSTER HAS NOTHING TO TEACH US ABOUT 'JUSTICE'
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amTERRE HAUTE, Ind. GORE Vidal, who wants to write a movie about Timothy McVeigh, says the man that we know as the egomaniacal monster "has a sense of justice, and...
STUDY: CHEMO WASTED ON TERMINAL PATIENTS
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amDying cancer patients are often treated with grueling chemotherapy drugs that do nothing against their form of the dreaded disease, a new study found. According to researchers at the National...
ALL'S WELL AS GRANNY GETS PRIZED RING BACK
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amAnna Godaire's family gave her a dream Mother's Day gift - the antique wedding ring stolen from her hand as she lay in a hospital bed. Police returned the ring...
GRACIE NOW A 'PLAYBOY' MANSION
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amDo all men have a genetic need to turn into Hugh Hefner when they hit middle age - or is it just politicians? Pretty soon the mayor, for one, is...
TIP MAY GIVE COPS BREAK IN CARNEGIE SLAY PROBE
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amDetectives may have learned the identity of one of the suspects in last week's horrifying Carnegie Deli massacre, The Post has learned. This potentially crucial detail came from a tipster...
MILITANT IS KILLED IN ISRAELI ATTACK
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A Palestinian militant who walked with a limp from an old battle wound died yesterday when he was too slow to escape an Israeli helicopter rocket barrage. The...
LEVY HINTS AT TEST-SCORE RISE
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amLynne Cheney puts educators to the test / Page 19Elementary-school reading scores shot up this year, Schools Chancellor Harold Levy hinted yesterday - promising to announce specific results in a...
BOYS' CLUB STILL STIRS THE POT
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amTHOSE who think that New York's melting pot is history should take a trip downtown to 10th Street and Avenue A: The spoon is still stirring, it's just the ingredients...
NEVER SAY NEVER! BILL TALKS ABOUT RUNNING FOR 'SOMETHING'
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amBill Clinton told thousands of teachers at a union conference yesterday that he might run again for elective office. "Maybe someday I'll run for something again," Clinton said near the...
CABBY-SLAY CONS CLEARED JAILED 13 YRS. TILL KILLER CONFESSES: SOURCES
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amTwo men who have spent the last 13 years in prison for a 1987 Brooklyn livery-cabby murder have just been exonerated by the real killer, sources said yesterday. Arlet Cheston,...
'MIRACLE' GIRL, 8, SURVIVES 4-STORY FALL FROM WINDOW
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amCall it a second miracle - and a Mother's Day gift. Eight-year-old Megan Stecher fell four stories from her grandmother's Queens apartment - and lived. As far as her mother,...
JUDI STANDS BY HER AILING MAN
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amFOR the past two years, in sickness and health, Judi Nathan has fulfilled the role abdicated by Donna Hanover: She's behaved like a wife to Mayor Giuliani. She accompanied him...
WALL ST.'S WANNABE STUDS TAKING SURGERY ON THE CHIN
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amForget technology stock options and Startec cell phones. The latest status symbol among male Wall Streeters is the chin implant. Plastic surgeons say their waiting rooms are overflowing with young...
WOMAN, 80, SLAIN IN E. VILLAGE
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amAn elderly East Village woman known for her feisty battles against drug dealers was found murdered in her apartment yesterday, police said. Pauline Sejenko, 80, died from several stab wounds...
PORK-BARREL POLS ACHIN' TO BRING HOME BACON
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - How does Uncle Sam blow your money? Let us count the ways. Now that Congress has passed President Bush's budget blueprint - and promises to keep spending increases...
MILD MUSIC MAN COMO IS DEAD AT 87
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amCrooner Perry Como, famed for his mellow voice, mild demeanor and middle-of-the-road repertoire, died yesterday at his home in Florida. The beloved 87-year-old baritone, who also hosted television variety shows...
RUDY KNEW IMPOTENCE A STRONG POSSIBILITY
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani knew there was a good chance he would become impotent from the method of treatment he chose for his prostate cancer. His treatment causes impotence in 25 to...
COPS & FIREMEN IN TRUE GRID TEST
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amIt'll be a battle between New York's Finest and New York's Bravest to find out which is New York's toughest - on the football field. On Friday, the NYPD and...
TV COP'S REAL-LIFE CRIME DRAMA
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amAs a tough cop with a chip - er, cockatoo - on his shoulder, Robert Blake was forever associated with the line, "If you can't do the time, don't do...
NEW YORK POST FROM MAY 13, 1981:
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amVATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded today as he rode in an open Jeep. A gunman - believed to be a fugitive Turkish terrorist...
WOODS EFFECT: TIGER DRIVES THE MARKET
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amTiger Woods, the superstar who has been rewriting golf's record book, has quietly added another talent to his bag of tricks: stock-market mover. That's right. When Tiger Woods plays, the...
ATLANTA TRIAL PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON SEX, JOCKS & GOTTI JR.
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amA spicy brew of sports figures, strippers, mobsters, crooked cops and stool pigeons is about to boil over in Atlanta. Opening arguments are to begin tomorrow in the trial of...
SCHOOL BIGS IN A TWIST OVER MISSING PRETZEL DOUGH
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amA veteran aide at a top city school was busted for allegedly pilfering $5,000 in pretzel money collected from hungry students, sources said. Maria Cartagena was one of the school...
MEDIA-SHY BLOOMBERG IS GOP'S NEXT HOPE
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amThis is the fifth in a series of Post profiles of the mayoral condidates. Michael Bloomberg and Alan Hevesi had a rare crossing of paths last week. At the annual...
UNSETTLING STANCE ON SETTLEMENTS
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. FORMER Sen. George Mitchell's report on the Palestinian-Israeli violence - which says Israel "should freeze all settlement activity" - is prompting urgent diplomatic exchanges between here and Washington. A...
MRS. CHENEY PUTS SCHOOLS TO THE TEST
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Second Lady Lynne Cheney, who has never feared speaking her mind, has a blunt message at a time when some New Yorkers are rebelling against standardized school tests:...
'POTTER' SCRIBE TO WED HER BEWITCHING BEAU
May 13, 2001 | 4:00am"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling is about to make marrying magic - with a bespectacled doctor who looks just like the boy wizard in the books, it was reported today....
U.S. FEARS NEW TERROR STRIKES AS TRIAL'S END LOOMS
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amU.S. agencies are bracing for a possible new wave of terror attacks at home and abroad with the approach of a verdict in the U.S. embassies bombing trial here in...
HOW TO GET SLIM ON JUNK FOOD DIET: "BEST DIET I'VE EVER BEEN ON'
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amSAATCHI & Saatchi carries a lot of weight in the advertising world -- but not among its employees. Its staff has lost over 150 pounds collectively over the last four...
MEDIA KILLED OFF THE XFL, SAYS VENTURA
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amMinnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura has body-slammed the media, accusing it of unfairly covering the XFL, the no-holds-barred football league that was sacked after one season. "For 12 weeks you had...
MONTAUK IN MAY - A GREAT WAY TO GET HOOKED
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amMONTAUK - It's hard to imagine what the rest of the season will bring when your first fishing trip takes place on a glorious day with good friends and terrific...
EX-AGENT: C-WEBB'S BIG ON N.Y.
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amChris Webber may play his last game as a King today with Sacramento on the verge of being swept by the Lakers in the Western Conference semifinals. If it ends...
BOOMER BLOWING OFF SOX?
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amONCE David Wells questioned on his radio show the manhood of teammate Frank Thomas, front-office types throughout the game began wondering if Boomer was up to his old tricks. "Looks...
THE JOY OF SIX? THERE IS NONE
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Rangers, Bruins, Blackhawks and Canadiens all failed to qualify, the Red Wings were bounced in the first round of the tournament, the Maple Leafs in the second. Never in...
SPREE-HOU RIFT LINGERING
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amThe Knicks are in damage-control mode and are trying to downplay any rift between Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston. But a source familiar with Sprewell's thinking has revealed what's really...
SILAS IS WARDEN PORTLAND NEEDS
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amCHARLOTTE - Certified long ago as a player who didn't back up or back down, a characteristic often confirmed as a coach (just ask Anthony Mason and Derrick Coleman), Paul...
DERBY KING IS CROWN THREAT
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amCan a 3-year-old colt with the cutesy-pie moniker "Sparky," whose best pal is a pony named "Mouse," become one of racing's all-time greats? So far, he's on his way. Because...
A DAY OF THANKS - JETER BURIES BIRDS AFTER REVEALING SIS' BATTLE WITH CANCER
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amIt's a good day today. In the early stages of Friday night's game against the Orioles, Derek Jeter sidled up to his manager in the Yankees dugout and uttered those...
SKIPPING SCHOOL - UNDERCLASSMEN NOW MAJOR IN BUSINESS
May 13, 2001 | 4:00am"We can't look at college basketball as a business one day and as a boy scout organization another day. It's a business." - Jim Boeheim, Syracuse coach We've been had....
DAVID: NOTHING 'LEFT' TO SAY
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amDavid Justice made two things perfectly clear yesterday: He's feeling a little bit better at the plate, and he doesn't want any drama over the left-field position. "I'm going to...
SORIANO KEEPS ON FEASTING
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amAlfonso Soriano is not the sort of player who walks, in any sense of the word. He's a free-swinger at the plate and a thief on the bases, a fearless...
PINSTRIPES SEEM TO BREED PROFESSIONALISM
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amDEREK Jeter hurt his shoulder early in spring training, his thigh late and he carried inside the whole time that his younger sister was battling Hodgkin's disease. In the Age...
ESCOBAR STAYS PUT - FOR NOW
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The major-league maturation of Alex Escobar continued yesterday and it looks as if it will continue for a while. In the Mets' 10-3 loss to the Giants,...
LILLY STILL CAN'T TAKE THE 5TH
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amTed Lilly insists that his fifth-inning struggles are pure coincidence - Joe Torre isn't so sure. But two things are becoming abundantly clear: the fifth inning is a barrier for...
METS MIRED IN THE MUCK THUMPING BY GIANTS IS FIFTH STRAIGHT LOSS
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amGiants10Mets3 SAN FRANCISCO - Before everyone's eyes, the Mets are transforming into baseball's version of the New York Rangers. An old, rich team that has grown unproductive and complacent. Ownership...
PENS PAY PRICE FOR STEVENS' PENALTIES
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amKevin Stevens could live with the first penalty he was called for last night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Devils. The second penalty, however, left...
DEVS PUT END TO HEDBERG'S HONEYMOON
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amUNABLE to figure out why Johan Hedberg languished nine years in oblivion, the Caps and Sabres have turned the job over to the Devils. Hey, 29 NHL teams can't all...
MISSIONS ACCOMPLISHED DEVILS TAKE OPENER WHILE FRUSTRATING PENS
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 1Devils3Penguins1 The gauntlet the Devils threw down last night is the one they used to slap those Penguin superstars around. They say there are a few more whacks left...
HOLIK'S THE DIFFERENCE - DEVILS CENTER MAKES SUPER MARIO LOOK MORTAL
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amTHEY have a future Hall of Fame goaltender in Martin Brodeur, a future Hall of Fame lead defenseman and captain in Scott Stevens. They have a system that promotes discipline....
TRINIDAD DESTROYS JOPPY
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amAwesome. Devastating. Destructive. How else can you describe the dominating performance Felix "Tito" Trinidad delivered last night at the Garden in winning the WBA middleweight championship and adding to his...
DON'T MESS WITH TITO!
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amTHE most fearsome performer in professional sports stands 5-foot-11. When he has completely let himself go to pot, he weighs about 175 pounds. He doesn't speak enough English to order...
YANK FEAST CONTINUES
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amFOR the second time in 10 days, Joe Torre pulled Ted Lilly after 4 2/3 innings against the Orioles. Part of that was wanting to protect a young starter struggling...
JUSTICE LEAVES FRUSTRATION BEYOND WALL
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES In the second inning, he just missed. David Justice, slump or no slump, wasn't going to let that happen again. In the fourth inning yesterday, he sent all...
SLUMPING BERNIE BLASTS OUT OF FUNK
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amBernie Williams has been slumping of late, admittedly weighed down by a heavy heart as he frets over the health of his ailing father Bernabe back in Puerto Rico. But...
METS CAN'T SCALE THIS WALL: DONNE'S LATEST LOSS MAKES RELIEVER 0-3
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The Mets were playing much better Friday night. They were playing with the fire that manager Bobby Valentine had been trying to ignite with three team meetings...
THE KNICK FIX: FIVE THINGS JEFF TROOP MUST DO TO WIN
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amThe Knicks' season ended with back-biting and finger-pointing. Those who were part of the problem obviously were not part of the solution. The splintered Jeff Van Gundy-Latrell Sprewell faction insists...
PENGUINS RIDING HOT MOOSE INTO JERSEY
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amThe Moose is on the loose. Johan Hedberg, the Penguins' goalie has emerged as one of the feel-good stories in this years NHL playoffs. At 5-foot-11 and 185 pounds, he's...
NIEDERMAYER IS A NO-GO: BLUELINER SITS OUT OPENER VS. PENS
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amHe has heard talk that he should have been in the lineup, that he should have practiced Friday, that he should have played Game 7 against Toronto. But in one...
FIGHTS FILLING EMPTY GARDEN
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amIn a spring where its hockey team didn't come close to making the playoffs and its basketball team made a first-round exit from the postseason, The World's Most Famous Arena...
AS USUAL, DESPICABLE DON'S THE MAIN ATTRACTION
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amTHE self-proclaimed World's Greatest Promoter has done it again. Once again, Don King has conspired to overshadow his own event. Worse than that, on the eve of the fight that...
POWER STARTING TO TAKE CHARGE
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amMaybe they forgot to pay their Con Edison bill. Perhaps they didn't create enough quality chances. Whatever the case may have been in their first two games, the juice was...
A METRO STAR IS BORN: CLINT MATHIS IS NATION'S TOP SOCCER PLAYER EVER, AND THE MVP OF THE NEW YORK SPORTS SCENE
May 13, 2001 | 4:00amHE IS THE BEST player in the MLS, the Future of American soccer. He plays in New York, and since his arrival he's meant more to his team than any...