June 3, 2001
SPLURGE ON A TASTING OF CAVIAR
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amEVEN in less fruitful economic times, people still need their occasional indulgences. And nothing gets you through tough times like a good dose of caviar. "I saw one customer come...
EATON-VANCE MANAGERS FIND MEDIA IS THE METHOD
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amWhen technology stocks resume their ascent, Duncan Richardson and Jacob Rees-Mogg will breath a sigh of relief. The two co-managers of the Eaton Vance Information Age fund have had a...
AMEX: OVERLOOKED AND OUTPERFORMING
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amWhile stock markets are zig-zagging an uncertain path like summer fireflies, there are some finds out there you won't want to swat away. No, don't round up the usual suspects....
GET PATENT INFO FREE
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amwww.PatentCafe.com GOT a bright idea? Before you introduce the world to the copy machine that doesn't jam, the key that can't be lost, or the dot-com that makes money, spend...
SPORTSWEAR MAKER QUICKSILVER RIDES EXTREME WAVE TO PROFITS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amSURF'S up for Quiksilver. The Huntington Beach, Calif.-based sportswear company is riding high this summer after catching the wave of popularity of extreme sports. The world's largest surfwear manufacturer, Quiksilver...
BULL'S EYE
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amYou can learn a lot from bugs WHEN is a corporation like an insect? Ahhh, Grasshopper - when it is like an ant. Bios Group, a bunch of bio-science wonks,...
WHAT I WATCH
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amROBERT SHAPIRO LAWYER AND AUTHOR OF "MISCONCEPTION" "LARRY KING LIVE." I LIKE HIM AS A PERSON. HE TREATS PEOPLE WITH KINDNESS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, GETS THEM TO TALK...
TOKYO, DOWN AND DIRTY
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amTakashi Miike is one of Japan's top directors, having done as many as four or five movies a year since the mid-1990s and winning many awards along the way. But...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: RICHARD BELZER
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amKnown for his dark shades and trademark slicked-back gray hair, Richard Belzer - the target of the Friars Club Roast at Town Hall this Thursday as part of the Toyota...
TONYS ARE NO WAY TO RATE NEW YORK THEATER
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amLike most theater people, I love the Tony Awards. But let's face it: They are phony. Sure, the awards are important, but like the Oscars, they are as much a...
DOWN AND OUT AT 30? GET OVER IT, ALREADY
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amThree months ago I was 29 and having the time of my life. I had a heap of great friends, a decent job and no complicated relationship to tie me...
THE WRITE FLUFF: ROCKERS TURN AUTHORS WITH MIXED RESULTS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amWhat's to be said about the state of literature when, nestled between the works of Dorothy Parker and Robert Parker at Barnes & Noble, is a collection of stories by...
WILL RADIOHEAD FORGET 'KID A' STATIC WITH NEW 'AMNESIAC'?
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amColin Greenwood, Radiohead's bassist, is at home in London, whipping up a little pasta with anchovies and parsley as he chats with The Post about the group's last album, "Kid...
THE LIFE OF 'PARTY': JENNIFER JASON LEIGH AND ALAN CUMMING TEAM UP ON A STAR-STUDDED COMIC DRAMA
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amHow close are Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh? They finish each other's sentences, but it's more than that. They managed to co-write, co-direct and co-star in "The Anniversary Party"...
REIN IN THESE BUSH LEAGUERS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S not so shocking that the Bush twins used fake proof to order a couple of margaritas. (Like you didn't have fake ID in college? Liar!) It's that they thought...
WILL STIR-UP GIVE DUBYA A POLITICAL HEADACHE?
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's problems with his twins-in-trouble are "as American as apple pie," and he's right to treat it as a private matter, say most analysts - even Democrats....
COP CHARGED IN DWI HIT-AND-RUN
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amAn off-duty city cop has been charged with drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident after back-to-back car crashes on Long Island that left one person injured. John...
PROBERS WANT TORRICELLI BANK RECORDS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amFederal investigators are demanding records of New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli's personal and 1996 campaign bank accounts. Investigators armed with a subpoena called for all of the beleaguered pol's bank...
BURMA'S TEEN REBELS EYEING MOVE TO U.S.
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amThe baby-faced, twin 15-year-old boys who lead a Burmese guerrilla group and claim to possess mystical powers that make them bulletproof may be headed for a new life in the...
CANDIDATE GREEN MAKES HIS MARK ON PICKET LINE
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amPublic Advocate and mayoral hopeful Mark Green threw his weight behind striking maintenance workers in Brooklyn yesterday. Green joined nearly 40 protesters from Local 32BJ, Service Employees Industrial Union, on...
RUDY WANTS TO WED JUDI SOON
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani has one grand and audacious ambition - to marry his companion, Judith Nathan, in City Hall before he leaves office at the end of the year. If he...
TV'S COMEDY DARLING IMOGENE DEAD AT 92
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amImogene Coca, the rubber-faced comedienne who shared the small screen with Sid Caesar on TV's "Your Show of Shows," died yesterday. She was 92. Coca passed away at her home...
FRENCH EXTRADITION LAW REALLY STINKS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amTHE French gave us fashion, cologne, Monet, and very little soap. The French managed to throw their arms up in surrender in a world war and provided graveyards for too...
MCCAIN REMAINS LIFE OF THE PARTY TELLS W. HE'LL STICK WITH GOP
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain yesterday assured President Bush in a phone call he wouldn't bolt the GOP or challenge him for the White House in 2004, officials said. Bush...
SUSPECT IN ABORT-DOC SLAY WON'T FACE DEATH PENALTY
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Attorney General John Ashcroft won't seek the death penalty against a fugitive charged with murdering an abortion doctor in New York as part of a deal with France...
N.J. SERVICE DUE FOR BLAKE WIFE
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amThe sister of "Baretta" star Robert Blake's slain wife is planning a memorial service for Bonny Lee Bakley at a New Jersey church Thursday, the day Bakley would have turned...
SURVEY SHOWS WHICH JOBS ARE BIGGEST PAINS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00am"Not tonight, honey - I've got a headache" is no longer just a marital mantra. Pains in the head may be an occupational hazard for some professions - with number-crunchers...
VIDEO GAME IS A REAL RIOT
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amArmchair activists who've missed past anti-globalization melees can now clobber cops, blast businessmen and pillage stores without leaving the comfort of their living rooms. "State of Emergency" is a new...
TENNIS STAR BORIS ASKS EX FOR REMATCH
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amFormer tennis ace Boris Becker says he wants to return to his ex-wife after realizing he still loves her. After a string of affairs and a vicious divorce battle, the...
HEVESI WINS BACKING OF LIBERALS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amLiberal Party leader Ray Harding threw his support behind Democratic mayoral candidate Alan Hevesi yesterday - dealing a blow to Republican Michael Bloomberg's likely candidacy. The city comptroller and the...
MIKE'S SPANISH LESSON BLOOMBERG PLOUGHS DINERO INTO ADS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amAll-but-announced GOP mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg has been in talks with Spanish-language TV stations to air campaign ads, The Post has learned. The spots will likely start airing later this...
DONNA EYEING RUDY BOOK $$
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amDonna Hanover didn't get the fairy tale ending, so she's preparing for an epic battle instead - trying for a big chunk of Mayor Giuliani's mega book deal. Giuliani's due...
1-ARMED BANDITS GIVE GAMBLERS A 2-LEG WORKOUT
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amA new machine called the Pedal 'n Play combines a stationary exercise bike with a 25-cent slot machine, and you can give it a spin at the Tropicana Casino Resort...
A WHITE HOUSE DASH FOR DASCHLE?
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Today, Senate majority leader; tomorrow, the White House? Democrat Tom Daschle's surprise rise from so-what minority leader to perhaps the most powerful person in Congress has fueled talk...
WEB SITE VIOLATED CHAPPAQUA HS GIRLS' PRIVACY
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amEighteen Chappaqua high-school boys are in hot water for engineering a smutty Web site that spread dirty gossip about female students, The Post has learned. The site boasted bios of...
ISRAEL TAKES GLOVES OFF CABINET BLAMES ARAFAT FOR DISCO MASSACRE
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amIsrael ended its self-declared policy of restraint yesterday in the wake of Friday's suicide bombing that killed 18 teens at a Tel Aviv disco - while Palestinians maintained they were...
IDAHO SIEGE ENDS AS KIDS GIVE UP
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amFive gun-wielding children left their squalid Idaho shack yesterday, ending their bizarre five-day standoff with police, authorities said. A large blue sport-utility vehicle carried the children - ranging in age...
NEPAL BLOOD BATH CALLED 'ACCIDENT'
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amThe caretaker king of Nepal denied reports the royal family was slaughtered in a family feud, insisting today the eight deaths were accidental. Government officials initially announced Crown Prince Dipendra,...
CONTRACT, NOT CUP, IS ON ELIAS' MIND
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amIT is an inviolable compact; a sacred-if-unwritten rule that players do not talk about money, contracts or free agency during the Stanley Cup playoffs. It has been that way forever,...
A BOXING SHAM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHERS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amHISTORY often repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. The validity of this famous saying will be on display Friday night, when the daughters of Muhammad Ali and...
WHEN YOU RUN OUT OF HANDS . . .
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amHere are some suggestions for drivers who just have to do more than one thing at a time - from Kathy Lusby-Treber, executive director of the Washington-based Network of Employers...
CRASH COURSE IN SAFETY IT'S NOT JUST CELL PHONES THAT DISTRACT MOTORISTS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amThe nationwide public backlash against dialing while driving could pave the way to crackdowns on a host of other behind-the-wheel distractions, from eating a burger to putting on makeup, safety...
TERRORIST'S BIZARRE BID TO CHEAT DEATH
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amA terrorist working for Osama bin Laden will make a desperate final bid to escape a death sentence tomorrow by arguing his life should be spared because the United States...
HOME RUN FOR MANNERS W'CHESTER PARENTS PLAY NICE AFTER RUDE-ROOTING BAN
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amYes, it's still baseball without the booing. It was eerily quiet on the sidelines as Scarsdale parents watched the Little League Orioles and Giants compete last week, shortly after the...
GATES AND M'SOFT ON NEW ROLL
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amA federal appeals court this week is expected to savage the Justice Department's efforts to break up Microsoft Corp. in a move that could allow Bill Gates to once again...
VIEQUES VANITY PALES COMPARED TO REAL SACRIFICE
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Rev. Al Sharpton and his three co-bellyachers are giving civil disobedience a bad name. They knew when they trespassed onto U.S. government property on the island of Vieques that...
PERFECT RECORD A LESSON TO ALL
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amVeronica Baez belongs in the School Attendance Hall of Fame - if only one existed. Baez hasn't missed a day of school in 13 years, from kindergarten to her senior...
MOST KIDS HAVING A SWILL TIME, THEY ADMIT
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amSave some bar stools, Barbara and Jenna. Half the underage kids interviewed in an informal Post survey say they drink alcoholic beverages, too. "I enjoy myself on the weekends with...
AN ONLINE TOAST TO THE TWINS NEW YORK POST E-MAIL SURVEY
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amWhat should Dubya do about the Terrible Two? Should he administer tough love on fun-loving Jenna and studious Barbara? Or should he realize that, hey, they're in college, everyone drinks,...
SHARON PUTS FOCUS ON 'MURDERER' YASSER
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. 'HAVE you told the murderer to stop the violence?" This straightforward question was posed by Ariel Sharon before noon Friday when he spoke by phone with Javier Solana, the...
WIDEBODY TENOR NEEDS NEW JET
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amLooks like opera giant Luciano Pavarotti's booty is too big. That's what British Airways told the tubby tenor this week after he tried to book a flight from Milan to...
COPS HOPEFUL TALKS WILL END IDAHO SIEGE
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amFace-to-face talks with five gun-wielding children holed up in a squalid Idaho shack may soon end the bizarre five-day standoff, authorities said yesterday. But their mother's court-appointed lawyer said the...
B'KLYN TRAVEL AGENT SHOT DEAD
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amA travel agent was shot and killed by a man who strolled into his offices yesterday afternoon, police said. Police said an unidentified black man in his 20s walked into...
BATTLE ANIMAL-RIGHTS RALLY
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amTHE biggest animal rights organizations in the United States are planning to come together in Washington to discuss plans for how to stop hunting, fishing, trapping and all other forms...
AARONES PROVIDES POWER BOOST
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amThrough the first six games, the Power find themselves smack dab in the middle of the pack. The reason is simple, their offense has only two gears: slow and stop....
ARTEST HAS GOOD SHOT TO IMPROVE
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amFormer St. John's star Ron Artest has made it in the NBA. But now he's working on becoming a complete pro. Artest has been in Greece for the last several...
VINNY: HOW 'GOOD-GUY' GROH LOST JET PLAYERS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00am"BY NO means do I want to talk bad about Al Groh," Vinny Testaverde is saying at Weeb Ewbank Hall. "I think Al Groh is a great football coach, and...
SEE NO DEVIL . . . SPEAK NO DEVIL ; WFAN VOICES CLUELESS ON CUP
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amTWENTY years ago, when Art Rust Jr. on WABC held a virtual ear-lock on sports talk radio in this town, we would be served a nightly portion of platitudes, all...
THE DOCTOR IS IN FROM NINE TO FIVE
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amHE ISN'T just another big name on the payroll, collecting George Steinbrenner's paychecks in exchange for shaking a hand here, posing for a picture there. Dwight Gooden is a real,...
EVEN MIGHTY LAKERS CAN BE HAD IF . . .
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amThe Knicks were lambs heading toward the Staples Center slaughterhouse. They had lost three straight on their West Coast trip from hell, bickering about strategy among themselves. And Kobe Bryant...
ANNIKA SET FOR BIG APPLE CLASSIC
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amLOCAL GOLF The Big Apple Classic has a new sponsor and some familiar faces coming back this summer to Wykagyl CC. Defending champ Annika Sorenstam heads the field at the...
CUP'S SLIPPING AWAY FROM ROY & AV-NOTS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Avalanche had them. Despite the Devils' most urgent and compelling performance of the Finals, despite what was clearly the Devils' most urgent and compelling performance of the entire tournament,...
DUQUE DOWN 6-8 WEEKS; YANKS SHOPPING
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amWith the possibility of Orlando Hernandez being lost for six-to-eight weeks if he decides to undergo surgery on his left foot, Joe Torre revealed yesterday the Yankees are in the...
NINE AWAIT 'TEST OF THE CHAMPION'
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amWill Point Given, 21/4-length winner of the Preakness, prove to be the superhorse many thought he was before finishing fifth as the 9-5 favorite in the Kentucky Derby? Will Monarchos,...
A BRONX TALE 2? WELLS' RETURN LOOMING LARGE
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amTWO weeks ago, it was folly. Even 72 hours ago, it was mostly a pipe dream. Yesterday, however, the Yankees' tone about trying to obtain David Wells had changed. By...
TOTTENVILLE MARCHES ON
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amPSAL SEMIFINALSTottenville11Madison1 If Tottenville thought that it would have an easy path to the PSAL Championship Game, the Pirates found out otherwise in the quarterfinals last week. "We're thankful to...
'EYE' CAPTURES SHEEPSHEAD
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amCritical Eye took command on the far turn and drew off in the stretch to win the $150,000 Sheepshead Bay Handicap by 7½ lengths over Playact at Belmont Parkyesterday. Janet...
ACHING COLON 'WORRIED'
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amLast time Indians ace Bartolo Colon felt the same sensation in his right elbow, he was forced to miss the rest of the season. Colon, whom the Yankees tagged for...
THOME STILL RIPS ROCKET
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amAs reporters milled about Jim Thome's locker waiting for Cleveland's lefty slugger to emerge from the shower, an Indians player cracked "My Darling Clementine." It was a reference to Thome's...
RAMIRO'S THE MAN - JUMPS INTO ROTATION TO FACE PEDRO, SOX
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amPoor men want to be rich, rich men want to be king - and Ramiro Mendoza wants to be a starter. The Yankees right-handed reliever will get his wish tomorrow...
ASSAULT AND BATTERY - POSADA, CLEMENS COMBINE TO CRUSH INDIANS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amRoger Clemens and Jorge Posada usually work well together, but it's not because Posada hits two homers and drives in five runs every fifth day. The Yankee battery had more...
JINT MINICAMP HAS NICE RING TO IT
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amFor the first time since that highly-charged and highly-disappointing January evening in Tampa, the Giants en masse will assemble tomorrow at Giants Stadium for the start of a four-day minicamp....
LIBERTY CATCH DOSE OF CHAMPIONSHIP FEVER
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amLiberty75Fever58 The Liberty came into this WNBA season with high hopes, fancying themselves as contenders for their first title. But they were embarrassed by how they lost their season-opener in...
REFS PASS BUCK, BUT NBA GETS HIM
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amMilwaukee forward Scott Williams, fouling Sixer Dikembe Mutombo on his way to hoop, was virtually given green light for assault Friday night by refs after leveling Allen Iverson with a...
MCKAY: I'M DONE UNTIL NEXT YEAR
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amDEVIL NOTESDevils' alternate captain Randy McKay last night declared his season over, ruling out a return to the Stanley Cup Finals from his broken left hand. "In a word, done,"...
FONZIE COULD BE BACK TUESDAY
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Edgardo Alfonzo's back is improving and he could return to action by Tuesday, when the Mets open a three-game series in Philadelphia. Alfonzo didn't play for...
DEVS WILL KNOT BE DENIED
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amThose Hearts of Champions never pounded so strongly, pumping fresh life into the Devils' quest for glory. They were Heroes of Desperation again last night, rescuing themselves from the brink...
TIME TO BELIEVE IN METS? AMAZIN' BAYTS BASH MARLINS FOR LEITER
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI - You are allowed to dream as you crack open the paper on this Sunday. From miserable to Amazin': Will that be the story of the 2001 Mets? It...
A-LINE SUVIVORS SYKORA & ELIAS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amONE shift in, Jason Arnott's bell rung, seeming to toll for the Devils. Alexander Mogilny hadn't scored in 13 games, Scott Gomez in 12. The team's B line was making...
NO SHEA FOR ROCKET MAN : TORRE'S DECISION MEANS CLEMENS WON'T BE BATTING
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI - The Mets never expected Roger Clemens to pick up a bat at Shea two weeks from today. Last year, they questioned Clemens' manhood and wondered if he could...
JUNE OK FOR WEDDINGS BUT AWFUL FOR HOCKEY
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amMAYBE it's been the length of a season that Gary Bettman on Tuesday admitted cannot be reduced by any meaningful degree, maybe it's been a matter of style, or maybe...
NO QUIT IN THESE DEVILS : ROBINSON SEES GOOD SIGNS BEFORE KEY GAME 4
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amOn Larry Robinson's 50th birthday, the Devils conspired to present him a pile of sweat-drenched jerseys with a W on top. "The players would love nothing more than to give...
DEVILS DESPERATELY NEEDED THE 'A' TRAIN TO GET BACK ON TRACK QUICKLY
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amALL the heat is on Alexander Mogilny and Scott Gomez. Chances are, they already have melted. When they are this far gone, 13 and 12 games without a goal midway...
LI'L LADY DAZZLED NEGRO LEAGUE HIT MEN
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amCAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. -- You can find legends in the most common places. Her name is Mamie "Peanut" Johnson and she is sitting at a table in the back of...
THE TARGET'S ON FOOTE
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amThey are called the Big Three, and one of them is always on the ice for the Avalanche. The Big Three, defensemen Ray Bourque, Rob Blake and Adam Foote, are...
DEVIL AIDE WON'T ROCK THE BOAT
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amInsisting on being the good Devil solider despite being hurt, confused and worried what it means for next season, assistant coach Kurt Kleinendorst says he will support being replaced behind...
LIBERTY MUST HANDLE HEAT: EVERYBODY'S GUNNIN' FOR EASTERN CHAMPS
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amThe Liberty have reached the WNBA Finals three of the last four years, and this may be the deepest and best team they've ever had. The question is how they'll...