May 24, 2001
CITI STILL PROWLING - AFTER MEXICO BUY, A U.S. BANK IS NEXT
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amCITIGROUP isn't finished yet. In this column last week I said the giant New York-based bank was on the prowl for acqusitions. The very next day the bank announced that...
TIGER INKS $4M A YR. AUTOGRAPH DEAL
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amJust when you thought Tiger Woods had signed every possible business deal, the world's No. 1 golfer pulls a golden rabbit out of his cap. Woods, who already earns about...
BOBBLEHEAD DOLLS ARE COMING TO NFL
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe king of the bobblehead dolls continues to be on a hot streak. Malcolm Alexander, whose company has tripled in size in a year thanks to the country's fascination with...
BILL'S SWEET REVENGE - BACK ON TOP, GATES CROWS TO COLLEAGUES
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amBill Gates is officially back - and cockier than ever. With the Microsoft founder and Chief Software Architect sitting pretty once again as the nation's technology crown prince, he gathered...
CONDE NAST HUNTING FOR A NEW SELF EDITOR
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amIt's guard-the-door time at publishing houses as Conde Nast goes on the prowl for an editor to replace Cindi Leive at Self. Glamour staffers heard at an 11 a.m. meeting...
HICKS PICKS A PECK OF PICKLES
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amTexas investor Tom Hicks may have found a novel way to get his stumbling Rangers baseball team out of the cellar - selling pickles. Hicks is buying the brand-rich but...
D.C. NEWS HITS MARTS - RALLY ENDS ON EXPECTED POWER-SHIFT
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amMarkets got slammed yesterday, shutting down a six-day rally in tech stocks and dealing triple-digit losses to blue chips as corporate profit worries and the threat of a power shift...
D.C. NEWS HITS MARTS: RALLY ENDS ON EXPECTED POWER-SHIFT
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amMarkets got slammed yesterday, shutting down a six-day rally in tech stocks and dealing triple-digit losses to blue chips as corporate profit worries and the threat of a power shift...
SWING INTO SUMMER - IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF YOU AIN'T GOT THE YOU-KNOW-WHAT
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amTHE swing dance craze that swept this town a few years back just won't shimmy away - Gotham is crawling with saddle-shoed hep cats who love to jitterbug all night...
THE SYN-THESPIANS ARE COMING - THIS SUMMER, THE SCI-FI 'FINAL FANTASY' INTRODUCES A NEW BREED OF ACTORS - AND THEY'RE TOTALLY UNREAL
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amHOLLYWOOD'S freshest new face is a giant fake. Nothing about her is real - not her bobbed black hair, her pixie nose, flawless complexion or knock-out bod. She was born...
THE STARR REPORT
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amSurprise! De Niro shocks pal Jackson Samuel L. Jackson will get the surprise of his life tonight when pal Robert De Niro makes a rare TV appearance to present Jackson...
GENES IN FASHION - MUSEUM EXHIBIT EXPLORES DNA, HANDS-ON ; AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amWHAT many of us don't know about genomics - the study of genes and their functions - could fill a museum. Now it has. On Saturday, the American Museum of...
A GETAWAY THAT MEANS GET AWAY!
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amIN a few days it'll be Memorial Day, that solemn time when we remember those who risked their lives - so that we can have a long weekend to frolic...
MASSACRE ON SESAME STREET - KIDS' TV SHOW LAYS OFF MORE THAN 70 WORKERS IN CUTBACK
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amSESAME Workshop, the company that produces "Sesame Street," suddenly laid off about 70 people yesterday- 20 percent of its workforce. "This is an uncertain economic environment and we had to...
'SOPRANOS' PRODUCERS DEFENDS FLAT FINALE
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amTHE fans didn't get it. Brad Grey, executive producer of "The Sopranos," says he's surprised that fans of the mob opera were disappointed by the season finale. People may have...
RUN LIKE A 'THIEF' FROM THIS TIRED TALE
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amTHIEF RIVERSignature Theatre, 555 West 42 Street. Call (212) 244-7529. ------ PLAYS that don't work can sometimes feel like the wrong thing in the wrong shape at the wrong time....
LET THE GAMES BEGIN - HOT NEW STUFF UNVEILED AT EXPO
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Electronic Entertainment Expo known as E3 just wrapped in Los Angeles, and gamers are still recovering from the annual bell-and-whistle blowout. "It was a blast," says Billy Pidgeon, an...
BENEDICTJEFFORDS: TURNCOAT SENATOR IMPERILS DUBYA'S AGENDA
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Jim Jeffords plans to make his stunning party switch official today - ignoring desperate pleas from Republicans who have begged him to stay in the GOP so...
BUSH BREAKS SOME CHINA BY WELCOMING DALAI LAMA
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush warmly welcomed the Dalai Lama to the White House yesterday and offered strong support for his bid to begin talks with the Chinese government over the future of...
NBC LAWYERS' SLAP AT THE 'GREATEST GENERATION'
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amInformal reviews suggest that "Pearl Harbor," the movie, is a bigger bomb than anything the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan dropped on Oahu way back when....
NEW YORK POST FROM MAY 24, 1883
May 24, 2001 | 4:00am"THE BRIDGE!! - Opening of the Great Structure Today - Rejoicing in New York and Brooklyn," read The Post's headline about the inauguration of what was then called the East...
HACKER-WATCHER SITE LOGS OFF
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amA Web site devoted to tracking computer hackers can no longer, er, hack it. Attrition.org - which logs incidents of online vandalism - says there's so much hacking these days,...
CASE CLOTHED: COPS SMASH 'TOMMY HILFIGER' DRUG RING
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amCops and investigators from the Manhattan district attorney's office say they've shut down a Harlem drug gang that gave new meaning to the term "designer drugs." District Attorney Robert Morgenthau...
GO FIGURE: RAIN KEEPS FLEET PARADE AT BAY
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amFleet Week sailed into the city in less than ship-shape yesterday as a steady downpour and fog rained on its traditional Parade of Ships. But it didn't dampen the spirits...
HOUSE NIXES PS VOUCHERS
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe GOP-led House yesterday put the kibosh on a top Bush administration priority: a voucher program for kids in the worst public schools. Lawmakers, in a 273-155 vote, rejected an...
MONEY IS NO OBJECT FOR HEVESI GURU
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amDemocratic consultant Hank Morris doesn't need to make a dime off Alan Hevesi's mayoral campaign because he's been quietly running a multimillion-dollar company on the side, The Post has learned....
IT AIN'T ME, BABE! - HOW DYLAN WOULD LOOK WITH A MAKEOVER
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amTHE times may be a-changin', but on his 60th birthday today, bedraggled Bob Dylan still looks the same - 20 years older than he really is. When he was 20,...
TOO OLD TO TEACH? - RETIREES: ED. BOARD WON'T LET US BE MENTORS
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amRetired educators are reacting angrily to news that nearly 1,300 teachers are being pulled out of classrooms to train rookie instructors - while willing retirees are ignored. Some retirees said...
WELL-HEELED SWINDLER - SHOE MAN TO PAY $9.3M AND DO TIME FOR STOCK FRAUD
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amDisgraced shoe magnate Steve Madden could soon be designing license plates instead of ladies pumps. Madden cut a deal yesterday to settle stock-fraud and money-laundering charges that will send him...
NIKI'S DRIVER ONCE FACED DWI: REPORT
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe driver whose car crash left supermodel Niki Taylor battling for her life had a previous brush with the law for possible drunken driving, a new report charges. Stockbroker James...
PAIR MAY FACE MURDER CHARGES FOR '91 KID BEATING
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe Queens DA is mulling murder charges against a couple whose severely disabled daughter died as a result of beatings they inflicted when she was just a baby - nearly...
BEATING WALL ST. IS CHILD'S PLAY
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amDid your broker put you in stocks that fell faster this year than the New York Mets? You might have been better off getting advice from your kid. A bunch...
AL'S 'CHAIN' REACTION: SHACKLED REV. GETS 3 MOS. FOR VIEQUES PROTEST
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton was behind bars last night in Puerto Rico - sentenced to 90 days in jail for protesting U.S. military exercises on Vieques - and lawyer Johnnie...
SERIAL RAPIST GETS 275 YEARS
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge yesterday made sure a serial rapist "will never again see the light of day" - giving him 275 years in prison for viciously attacking three women and...
REPUBLICANS DID THIS TO THEMSELVES
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amTHE anticipated defection of Sen. James Jeffords recalls the line from "A Man for All Seasons" in which Sir Thomas More, condemned to death on the false testimony of a...
RICH'S TESTIMONY IS WORTHLESS: INSIDERS
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Denise Rich has led federal investigators to a dead end in their probe of whether her billionaire ex-husband, Marc Rich, bought his pardon from then-president Bill Clinton, sources...
A BIG BOOST FOR CHUCK, HILL AND ALL NEW YORKERS
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amANALYSIS WASHINGTON - A Democrat-run Senate would be good news for New York - and for Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer. The needs of a heavily Democratic state...
POLS IN HOLIDAY PUSH ON TAX BILL
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amLawmakers were pushing to get a tax-cut compromise bill on President Bush's desk by the start of the Memorial Day weekend after the Senate yesterday passed an 11-year, $1.35 trillion...
WATCHDOG CAN'T KEEP UP WITH PUMPED-UP PRICES
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amFuel prices are a bigger pain in the gas than a city survey says they are - with the price of a gallon of regular well over $2 at one...
INTERN HUNTERS OUT OF LUCK IN NEVADA
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amCops were scouring casinos and hotels in the gambling haven of Reno, Nev., after getting a tip that a missing Washington intern was seen there. But they found no trace...
FANS: WELLS COULD PITCH IN FOR YANKS OR METS
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amEx-Yankee pitcher David Wells is on the trading block - and that has both Bomber and Met fans hoping for a Boomer redux in the Big Apple. "I want him...
BLAKE WIFE'S FAMILY MAY SKIP BURIAL
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A truce in the feud between Robert Blake and his slain wife's family fell apart yesterday, and Bonny Lee Bakley will probably be buried without any of...
TEEN TELLS HOW COP SHOT HIM IN CHASE
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amA Bronx teen yesterday faced the cop who shot him two years ago and calmly recalled how he lay wounded in the street and cried out: "You shot me! You...
DOG'S TALE HAS HAPPY ENDING - WOMAN CAN KEEP PILFERED PET
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amA expensive pooch pilfered from a Chelsea pet shop will stay in her new home - after her rightful owner decided to leave her with the women who loves her....
PEARL VETS GIVE NEW FILM 2 THUMBS DOWN
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amFor the men who actually were at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the Hollywood version that Disney hopes to turn into the summer's blockbuster is just what it claims...
THUG SAYS STRIP-CLUB OWNER MET MOBSTER
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amA violent felon who posed as a federal agent to torture and rob drug dealers said yesterday he saw Gold Club owner Steven Kaplan meet with a Gambino capo in...
CARNIVAL KID NOT MOLESTED
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amInvestigators do not believe sexual assault was involved in the murder of a 10-year-old New Jersey boy who disappeared from a church carnival, police said yesterday. Walter Valenzuela vanished Sunday...
CONVICTED TORTOLA KILLER: I'M INNOCENT
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe Long Island man sentenced to life in prison for the Caribbean beach murder of a Connecticut woman still insists authorities locked up the wrong man. "I'm an innocent man...
PERU PLANE VICTIM: WE HAD NO WARNING
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amA Baptist missionary, whose wife and infant daughter were killed when their plane was downed over South America, claims that a Peruvian air-force fighter gave no warning shots or wing...
MUSIC TO MCGRAW'S EARS: INNOCENT
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amCountry crooner Tim McGraw - husband of sexy siren Faith Hill and son of former Mets reliever Tug McGraw - was yesterday cleared of charges he assaulted cops during a...
ROY'S STATE BILL: MAKE SCHOOLS REPORT SEX CASES
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amA Manhattan legislator yesterday proposed a state law requiring school officials to report allegations of sexual abuse to the district attorney. Republican state Sen. Roy Goodman said the bill is...
JUDI'S EX: LEAVE US OUT OF IT: SHIELDS DAUGHTER FROM GIULIANIS' SPAT
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe ex-husband of the mayor's "good friend" Judith Nathan says he and his teenage daughter want nothing to do with the War of the Giulianis. "I sell vinyl wall covering....
FORBES STILL INTERESTED IN SENATE
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amSteve Forbes, who spent $75 million on two failed presidential campaigns, is keeping open the possibility of a big-bucks challenge next year to embattled New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli. "I...
FIRED! RUDY DUMPS DONNA AS CITY'S HOSTESS
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani will fire his estranged wife as the official hostess of events at Gracie Mansion - the latest salvo in the couple's fierce divorce battle, The Post has learned....
CONE'S AMAZED BY FAN REACTION
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amDavid Cone woke up with something that has been missing for some time: butterflies that accompany a big game. The one-time Yankee ace received a mostly positive reception last night...
O'NEILL, JOE: THERE'S NO RIFT BETWEEN US
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amA published report yesterday claimed that much of Friday's team meeting - and the fines discussed therein - were aimed at volatile Paul O'Neill. Both he and Joe Torre dismissed...
BOOMER'S A BIG MOUTH - BLABBER, BLUBBER, BLAME MAKE WELLS' WORLD GO 'ROUND
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amHAVE you heard about The David Wells Diet? It is very simple. You get to eat everything but your words. Those, you blame on someone else. It has worked for...
HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT - DEVILS-AVS A CLASSIC FINALS ANSWER
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amSo this team in search of destiny and dynasty returns from whence it came nearly 19 years ago, Mile-High Denver, where Rockies took their last breath and became these Devils...
BLUE HOLIDAY FALTERS AGAIN
May 24, 2001 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Steady rains made the track condition sloppy and all turf races were switched to the main track. Known Rhythm broke slowly, trailed the field early, made a...
MILBURY ROLLS DICE WITH PETE
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amGM Mike Milbury knows this likely was the last coaching hire he'll make for the Islanders. The Peter Laviolette era began yesterday and if it flops, the Milbury era ends,...
NO CONTEST IN PRELIMINARIES
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe Devils dominated the Avalanche in their two-game season series. Here's how it went:Dec. 5, 2000Devils 6, Avs 1 At the Meadowlands, the A Line goes ape with five goals...
DEVILS TAKE BLUES' NO. 1
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amIt's almost as if the Devils are gambling against themselves to win the Stanley Cup. Instead of looking for the first-round draft pick swap that would become more advantageous if...
MONARCHOS BOPS INTO BIG APPLE
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amKentucky Derby winner Monarchos, looking fit and frisky despite his sixth-place finish in last Saturday's Preakness, arrived at Belmont Park about 4 p.m. yesterday after vanning up from Pimlico. Accompanied...
MANNY'S THE MAN, BUT . . . YANKS MADE RIGHT MOVE WITH MOOSE
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amMANNY Ramirez's mantra in Cleveland, as David Justice remembers it, was "I just want to have a good year." Ask the righty slugger about the day's results. "I just want...
FINALS SCORE SHOULD BE 2-3-2
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amOTHER sports have their insane post-season schedules, too, we most certainly know that. All you have to do is call up last year's American League playoff series between the Yankees...
SIXERS EYE 'THE' TROPHY
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA -They have trophies for the MVP in Allen Iverson, the Sixth Man of the Year in Aaron McKie, the Defensive Player of the Year in Dikembe Mutombo and Coach...
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET - DON'T EXPECT YANK BLOCKBUSTER
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amA HIRED gun will walk through the door, lift the Yankees to unbeatable status, solve all their problems, a panacea in pinstripes. A David Cone or a Cecil Fielder. Not....
CONE TAKES STAGE - RETURN TO BRONX ROILS EMOTIONS IN STANDS, DUGOUTS
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amThis was the night David Cone came home as the enemy. This was the night the Yankees hoped to pull themselves within half a game of the Red Sox. With...
BOSOX' HILLENBRAND HAS IT MADE IN THE SHEA
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amIn the Hillenbrand family, the biggest grudge match used to center around Arizona high schools. Now that Red Sox third baseman Shea Hillenbrand has established a foothold in the big...
GARDEN BOSS CANDIDATE LOOKS LIKE LONGSHOT
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amStaples Center president Tim Leiweke, a candidate to replace Dave Checketts at the Garden, flew home to Los Angeles last night after spending three days in New York being courted...
THE 'OTHER' MOSS GOIN' TO 'DAWGS
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amBETHLEHEM, Pa. - Two days before Randy Moss was to participate in his first minicamp with the Vikings, he sprained an ankle playing in a pickup basketball game. Here's a...
SENIORS STILL FEAR SOGGY RIDGEWOOD
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amTwo days of rain may have dulled the teeth of Ridgewood Country Club, but as the 62nd PGA Senior Championship begins today, the storied course has plenty of sharp claws...
TAKE THAT, OLD PAL! - YANKS PREVAIL IN SHOWDOWN AGAINST CONE
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 7 - Red Sox 3 David Cone came home as the enemy last night. And now he knows how a real Red Sox player feels at Yankee Stadium -...
METS GM HAS EYE ON WELLS
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Steve Phillips' vigorous pursuit of David Wells came up just short last winter. Now, Phillips has a mulligan - but he is contemplating whether to take it. White...
ORDONEZ PICKING UP PACE AT SHORT
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - The past three days, Rey Ordonez picked more things off a carpet than a hotel maid. "Lately, he's been moving better," Bobby Valentine said before last...
MANNY'S ONLY ONE TO SOLVE PETTITTE
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amSometimes you just tip your cap to the other guy - unless your name is Manny Ramirez. Other than the Boston's free-agent signee, the Red Sox swung soggy bats against...
DEREK, BERNIE ARE BIG GUNS
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amON a typically dismal October night in May, Bernie Williams hit a monster through the mist off an old friend who looked as out of uniform in Boston road grays...
YANKS HAVE THREE DATES WITH PEDRO
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES This is one way to get in a batting slump. Over their next 10 games, the Yankees will face Pedro Martinez three times, beginning with today's matchup at...
AMAZIN'S HAVE LEIT STUFF - METS ROCK AS AL ROLLS OVER MONTREAL
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amMets 4 - Expos 2 MONTREAL - Early in the spring when Tsuyoshi Shinjo was popping up balls in batting practice, players and press alike wondered, "How good is this...
DAVID STILL ALL HEART - TIME FOR MUSSINA TO FILL CONEY'S CLUTCH CLEATS
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amDAVID Cone is now a fifth starter and judged by that standard he was fine last night in his Yankee Stadium return. Today the Yankees need Mike Mussina to begin...
PETTITTE PITCHES IN LIKE A PRO
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amWhen Andy Pettitte looked at the schedule and saw he'd be facing arch-rival Boston and David Cone last night, he knew that the former Yankee stalwart would be the headline...
SLUMPING, FRUSTRATED PIAZZA GETS NIGHT OFF
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - The least of the Mets' worries is if Mike Piazza is going to hit. He is the only sure thing in their lineup. Piazza is slumping...
PHILLIPS STILL MULLING HEFTY LEFTY
May 24, 2001 | 4:00amMONTREAL - This winter, Steve Phillips' vigorous pursuit of David Wells came up just short. Now, Phillips has a mulligan - but he is contemplating whether to take it. White...