August 9, 2001
HOW VERIZON CAN WIN GENUITY
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amVERIZON makes no secret of the fact that it wants to own Genuity Inc., the only two-buck-a-share Internet company that might actually be worth something. But it will take an...
FRUIT FLY FIESTA! BUG FOOD IS BIG
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amLet them eat bugs. That's the corporate world's latest answer to downsizing the office party while still generating buzz about the event. Instead of using caviar, mounds of shrimp and...
BRITS TELL DIOR TO PULL ADS FOR FANCY ANTI-AGING CREAM
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amFinding the fountain of youth is apparently much harder than it looks. The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered cosmetics titan Christian Dior to pull ads for its NoAge...
GOLDMAN GUIDELINES - THEY FALL SHORT OF RIVALS' CONFLICT RULES
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street titan Goldman Sachs finally moved to curb bias by its analysts yesterday - but the move falls short of more far-reaching measures from some rivals. The changes made...
OVITZ AND OUT FOR TV VENTURE - SHUTDOWN LOOMS; NO BACKERS IN SIGHT
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Ovitz' comeback has hit a wall. After plowing through a good chunk of his $100 million-plus severance package from Disney, the former super-agent turned entrepreneur is set to fold...
SEE JANE PAY? SUIT SAYS PRATT OWES 50G
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amJane Pratt, the editor-in-chief of Jane Magazine, may be a deadbeat editor who has skipped out on payments to two former partners totalling nearly $50,000. At least that's the claim...
JOHNSON'S $95M HOBBY IS HOTELS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amTelevision billionaire Robert Johnson is back on the entrepreneurial scene - as a hotelier. The 55-year-old founder of Black Entertainment Television is negotiating with Marriott International to buy a handful...
NAPSTER WILL CHARGE $5 A MONTH
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amNapster has named its price. The online music service will charge $5 a month. New CEO Konrad Hilbers told German magazine Stern, on newsstands today, that the music service founded...
BAD NEWS BEARS - MARTS ROCKED AS FED SEES WIDER SLOWDOWN
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe markets were slammed yesterday after a Fed report showed that the earnings recession may be spreading further weakness to the formerly immune services and consumer spending sectors of the...
BORN TO BE THE NEXT BIG THING - 'SAMURAI JACK' HAS ALL THE EARMARKS OF A HUGE CARTOON HIT
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA SWORD. A samurai. Cartoon Network's next big hit, potentially the channel's biggest yet, is called "Samurai Jack," which debuts tomorrow night (8 p.m.). The highly anticipated cartoon is the...
STARR REPORT
August 9, 2001 | 4:00am'Lenny & Squiggy' reunite in Savage garden Look for a "Lenny and Squiggy" reunion of sorts on Nickelodeon. David Lander (Squiggy) and former "Laverne and Shirley" co-star Michael McKean (Lenny)...
HOLLYWOOD-STYLE FAREWELL FOR A HARD-NOSED NY COP
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amJACK Maple, the ex-NYPD Deputy Commissioner who inspired and co-created the CBS series "The District," received an unusual honor yesterday - a Hollywood-style sendoff. A full-page memorial ad appeared on...
IT WAS NO ODE TO JOY - RADIOHEAD HAMS IT UP
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amRADIOHEADRadiohead returns to the area for two shows at Liberty State Park in New Jersey, Aug. 16 and 17. -------- THE audience adored Radiohead. Based on the applause the British...
A PREVIEW OF COMING ATTRACTIONS: KIDMAN VS. CRUZ
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amTOM Cruise has made his choice, and now moviegoers will get to make theirs, as Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz release films within a week of each other.Both films -...
CHART MONSTER GOBBLES UP *NSYNC
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHE unstoppable "Now That's What I Call Music" series has claimed another victim. This time, Vol. 7 of the killer album series has rolled over the world's biggest boy band,...
NICOLE STANDS TALL - DIVORCE FINAL, SHE'S NO LONGER ON CRUISE CONTROL
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amNICOLE Kidman wore black stilettos to the L.A. premiere of "The Others" Tuesday night, a sight rarely seen when she walked the red carpet with her height-challenged ex-spouse.With her divorce...
GOOD HEAVENS! TV HAS PATRON SAINT - YOU CAN CELEBRATE HER FEAST DAY ON SAT.
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amDOES TV deserve a saint? Pope Pius XII thought so. Though few people today seem to be aware of it, Pius proclaimed St. Clare - a noblewoman born in Assisi...
KID-PORN CRACKDOWN: 100 BUSTED WEB PERVS JUST A START
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA massive kiddie-porn bust announced yesterday by the feds is "only the tip of the iceberg," officials said. The U.S. Postal Service said 100 people were nabbed - including several...
WITNESS READY TO BOOST LOUIMA COP
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe retired cop known as "Officer F," whose new testimony has thrown officer Charles Schwarz's conviction in the Louima torture case into question, will take the stand for the first...
PAN AM BOMBER HIRES DERSHOWITZ FOR APPEAL
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz has signed on with an international legal team working to overturn the conviction of a Libyan intelligence agent for the 1988 bombing of Pan...
GRAMERCY PARK TARGET OF BIAS SUIT
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday told both sides in an ugly fight over school trips to tony Gramercy Park to stop acting like spoiled children, play nice, and strike a deal....
HEY, KIDS, YOU'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA WORD of advice to young idealists who plan on spending a summer abroad changing the world: Perhaps it's time to consider the Poconos. Susanna Thomas of New Jersey should...
MISSING BX. TOT TURNS UP ON S.I.
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA 4-year-old Bronx girl who disappeared with a troubled teen was found unhurt in Staten Island yesterday and reunited with her family. "Thank God she's alive, she didn't hurt her,"...
HEVESI & GREEN'S DIRT-DIG SQUADS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amDemocratic mayoral rivals Mark Green and Alan Hevesi are using little-known interns to dig up dirt on each other in their fight for City Hall, The Post has learned. Hevesi's...
PETE: SPEND $400M ON HEALTH COVERAGE
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amCity Council Speaker Peter Vallone yesterday proposed spending more than $400 million to provide free health-care coverage to poor kids and to expand prescription drug coverage for the elderly. In...
B'KLYN HIT-RUN MYSTERY VICTIM
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amBrooklyn police are trying to identify the elderly victim of a hit-and-run accident early yesterday in Bensonhurst. Cops said the victim, an Asian female in her late 60s, was found...
NEW YORK POST FROM AUG. 9, 1945
August 9, 2001 | 4:00am"Guam - A B-29 dropped a second atomic bomb at noon today, on the industrial port city of Nagasaki. Gen. [Carl] Spaatz's communiqué reported 'good results.' It is assumed here...
CITY PLANNING NEW SEX-CLUB CRACKDOWN
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe Giuliani administration yesterday sought to close a legal loophole that allowed most sexually oriented clubs to skirt city regulations. The City Planning Commission voted to bar the so-called "60-40"...
STRAPHANGERS RAIL AGAINST TA PLAN TO CLOSE CLERK BOOTHS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA coalition opposed to the Transit Authority's plan to close or cut back the hours at more than 100 subway token booths says it's filing suit today. "I'm hoping the...
S.I. BAGEL TEACHER IN 'HOLE' LOT OF TROUBLE
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA Staten Island teacher should get the boot for selling bagels when he claimed to be instructing students at their homes, Schools Investigator Ed Stancik said yesterday. Stancik said Frank...
100 DAYS: HEAT STILL ON CONDIT
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - On the 100th day since she vanished, the family of missing intern Chandra Levy yesterday renewed demands Rep. Gary Condit meet with their investigators. Lawyer Billy Martin, appearing...
LOTTO LOOT FOR L.I. WORKERS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amEight co-workers from West Islip, L.I., who had each been chipping in $10 for years to buy state lottery tickets, are holders of one of the two winning tickets of...
PROBERS DEMAND: WHAT'S HILLARY'S BROTHER HIDING?
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - House investigators yesterday accused Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother of stonewalling their questions about why he used her name to push a pardon for major cocaine dealer Carlos...
ST. PAT'S DONNYBROOK
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe chief organizer of the St. Patrick's Day Parade could be on the outs next month - that's if he doesn't oust the man who's called for his resignation first....
'SPIDER-MAN' JAILED FOR ANOTHER 50 YEARS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe acrobatic mugger dubbed "Spider-Man" threw a tantrum in a Manhattan Supreme Court holding cell yesterday - "ranting and raving," as his lawyer described it, when officers tried to bring...
MRI DEATH BLAME GAME: DOC, NURSE FAULT ONE ANOTHER IN MISHAP
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA doctor and nurse are blaming each other for the bizarre death of a 6-year-old boy killed when an oxygen tank crushed his head in an MRI machine, a new...
CONN. STUDENT BACK FROM RUSSIAN PRISON
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA Connecticut scholar who was jailed in a grim Russian prison for six months is home. A gaunt-looking John "Jack" Tobin Jr. declared it was "great to be back in...
HILL'S AIDES ON HOT SEAT AGAIN
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amMAYBE it's an occupational hazard - get a top job with Hillary Clinton and it's a good bet you'll wind up talking to prosecutors. So it was at the White...
MOODY MARIAH STAYS COOL AT MOM'S PLACE
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA pajama-clad Mariah Carey, wearing shades and sipping a drink, was spotted yesterday strolling in the lush garden of her mom's suburban home, where the singer is recovering from a...
FIVE CHARGED IN APARTMENT-RENTAL SCAM
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amFive men led a "lavish lifestyle" with millions of dollars they stole from desperate apartment-seekers in a heartless rental referral scam, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said yesterday. They were charged...
BRONX KIDS GET FIELD OF DREAMS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA Bronx baseball team that nearly went to the Little League World Series finally has a field it can call home. The Rolando Paulino All-Stars became state Little League champs...
GETTING AWAY WITH IT IN 'MY HOUSE'
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amMIKE the rookie cop was nervous and stinking drunk when a Nassau County police officer pulled him over. He didn't know what to expect and he flashed his NYPD badge....
ZANY ZOO VISITOR 'BARES' LOVE FOR GORILLAS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA man went ape at the Bronx Zoo yesterday, climbing into the Congo Gorilla Forest and stripping down to his underwear so he could commune with the big beasts, police...
RUDY: LEVY FIRED BUILDINGS CHIEF TO COVER HIS ARREARS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and other critics charged yesterday that Schools Chancellor Harold Levy sacked the Board of Education's school-construction boss to save his own hide in the uproar over the $2.8...
WHITNEY'S 911 CALL: RUSHES HUSBAND BOBBY TO JERSEY HOSPITAL AT 3 A.M.
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amBad-boy singer Bobby Brown was rushed to a New Jersey hospital yesterday with pop-diva wife Whitney Houston at his side in the ambulance after she made a frantic predawn call...
DRUGS CLAIM WITNESS IN KENNEDY KIN MURDER TRIAL
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA key prosecution witness in the murder case against Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was found dead in Rochester yesterday of an apparent heroin overdose, police said. Prosecutors said Gregory Coleman's...
APPLE BAKED TO CORE: TWO MORE DAYS IN 90S BEFORE WE GET SOME RELIEF
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe Big Apple could bake at 100 degrees today - and forecasters expect a fourth sizzling day of 90-degrees-plus temperatures tomorrow. Afternoon showers tomorrow might finally break the heat wave...
TRAGIC DWI MOM WILL LIE FOREVER WITH BABY
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amIn death, Maria Herrera cradled the infant son she never had the chance to hold in life. The 24-year-old mother, killed by an allegedly drunken cop, and the baby who...
ARREST IN STAB DEATH
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amCops last night made an arrest in the shocking July 15 stabbing death of a Brooklyn woman described by friends as "a walking angel." Louis Boveromo is accused of killing...
TROOPER FACES UZI-SALE RAP
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA state trooper was indicted yesterday on charges he lied to the FBI about selling an Uzi to a felon friend. John Kakavas allegedly sold the weapon to Mehmet Bogic,...
THIEF ROLLS OFF IN WHEELCHAIR
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA heartless thief stole an unguarded motorized wheelchair on Long Island while the owner visited a friend, police said. The 19-year-old owner was in a pal's Freeport apartment when the...
GIRL BADLY HURT RIDING ON TRUNK OF PAL'S CAR
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amA 15-year-old Long Island girl was critically injured when she fell from a moving car's trunk - where she was sitting because she didn't want to bother getting inside for...
DUBYA IN TEXAS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush got hurt in the line of duty yesterday - suffering a boo-boo when his left index finger got pinched between two boards while helping Habitat for Humanity build...
MAYOR ACTS: HEADS ROLL AT DWI PRECINCT
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amHeads rolled at the 72nd Precinct yesterday amid revelations that DWI cop Joseph Gray began his booze binge at a twice-a-month beer bash in an NYPD parking lot with fellow...
BAFFERT: POINT GIVEN IS LIKELY TO TRY TRAVERS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The odds improved that 3-year-old supercolt Point Given will run in the Aug. 25 Travers after encouraging words Tuesday night from trainer Bob Baffert. "We're going to...
WRIGHT STUFF HELPS 'NOVA LAND RECRUIT
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amIt looks like Jay Wright's New York connections have paid off again for the new Villanova coach. Bishop Loughlin forward Curtis Sumpter, who was named to The Post's All CHSAA...
BX. FUTURE FOR MR. PAST PERFECT?
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - David Wells may have burned some bridges, but he's never torched his childhood dream. Wells, who fulfilled his boyhood wish of pitching for the Yanks (1997-98), was...
STEVEN'S BELIEVIN' - TRACHSEL KEEPS ON COOKIN' VS. BREWS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amJust over a month ago, Steve Trachsel had been in the minors, an indecisive shell of his former self, suffering from paralysis by analysis. Last night? There was a confident...
ARMANDO SAVE NO RAVING BEAUTY
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES It was about as ugly as any save Armando Benitez will ever earn, and the Met closer admitted as much. But after last night's shaky ninth inning, the...
ESPN ADDS ANOTHER SUNDAY NIGHTMARE
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - The Yankees work more Sunday nights than Manhattan bartenders. To accommodate ESPN, their Sunday, Sept. 2 game at Boston has been moved from a 1:05 start to...
BOMBER BATS WAKE FROM LONG SLUMBER, POUND DEVIL RAYS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amBats all, folks. The Yankees treated Tampa Bay rookie Nick Bierbrodt like a pinata last night. Everybody had a vicious swing, and they broke open the game early. Then they...
TRUE SATURDAY HERO - TAB TALIAFERRO TO LEAD JOEPA'S LIONS ONTO FIELD
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Adam Taliaferro knows he'll probably cry. Fine. Let the tears fall. Let them stream down and glisten under the lights in Beaver Stadium Sept. 1. Let...
NYRA DECIDES TO BET ON SLOTS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - If the New York Racing Association has its way, the clang of the starting gate will soon be joined by the clink of coins from one-armed bandits...
VINNY SAVING IT FOR SEASON - QB FEELING LIKE KID AGAIN AT CAMP HERM
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amHe was less than an hour removed from a two-hour morning practice in a sweat-soaking heat that neared 100 degrees yesterday and there was Vinny Testaverde zipping into the Hofstra...
KICKERS IN DEMOLITION DERBY
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES SMITHFIELD, R.I. - They had to come all the way here for this? The Giants did not need to engage in a combined practice with the Patriots to...
STRICKLAND KEEPS BIG APPLE IN MIND
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Rod Strickland's new agent said the native New Yorker would like to return to the Knicks but only if they reduced their point-guard logjam. The Knicks are again...
EDWARDS: WE'LL BE AGGRESSIVE
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amJET NOTES Herman Edwards yesterday said he'll be ready and willing to go for it on fourth downs and make some bold moves once the season starts. "Oh, I'll gamble,"...
TOP PICK WILL GUT IT OUT! - ALLEN PROVING HIS METTLE TO JINT VETERANS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amSMITHFIELD, R.I. - That's one. Will Allen gets one check in the positive column for what he did this week, which was refuse to miss any practice time despite leaving...
FERGUSON WAITING FOR DOC'S WORD
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amEvery night, Jason Ferguson goes home and prays that his 2001 season is not over. Ferguson, the Jets' starting nose tackle, is on pins and needles about his status while...
SEHORN SHARING WISDOM
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amSMITHFIELD, R.I - Cornerback, model, celebrity, husband of actress Angie Harmon. Jason Sehorn is all of these. But tutor? Jason Sehorn? "I don't usually talk to anybody," Sehorn said yesterday....
RUTGERS: FAT IS OUT, MUSCLES IN
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amGreg Schiano's record as Rutgers coach is 0-0, but his impact can be measured already in slimmer waists, lower body fat and more defined muscles. Rutgers takes the field today...
HOLIK: DEVILS ARE BIG CHEAPSKATES
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amIt will stand as the most Pyrrhic victory in franchise history, the Devils' win in the Bobby Holik salary arbitration that was announced yesterday, of that there is no doubt....
ROBIN WOULD ROCK IN BRONX - VENTURA-TO-YANKS MAKES PERFECT SENSE FOR BOTH TEAMS
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Yankees and Mets don't have to like each other, but that doesn't mean they can't help one another. While Enrique Wilson and Luis Sojo went into last night hitting...
LIBERTY BOUNCE BACK
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amLiberty 82 - Starzz 63 When you're coming off a game in which you couldn't hit a shot, what should you do? If you're the Liberty, you play defense. "We...
METS SURVIVE KITTY CALL
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amSomewhere that was perhaps as nearly as hot as Shea was last night, the late Leo Durocher had to be laughing. The Mets' bad-luck season offered a black-cat exclamation point...
TRACH WORK PAYING OFF
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amHours before last night's game with Milwaukee, Steve Trachsel sat at a card table in the middle of the Mets clubhouse. In front of him was a laptop with game...
VALENTINE: JAY'S TRYING TOO HARD
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Jay Payton is still mired in a horrid batting slump, but it is clearly not for lack of effort. As a matter of fact, Bobby Valentine says the...
LAWTON FINDING HOME IN THREE-HOLE
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES In what may be a developing trend, Matt Lawton hit third for the third straight night in a 5-4 win over Milwaukee last night. And from the sound...
YANKEES ARE WEARY OF SUNDAY NIGHT GAMES
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amYANK NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - The Yankees work more Sunday nights than Manhattan bartenders. Due to ESPN, a Sept. 2 game at Boston has been moved from a 1:05 start...
IT'S PUT-UP TIME FOR LIBERTY
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe plan sounded good enough. The Liberty had reached the WNBA Finals during both years of coach Richie Adubato's tenure. Now, a team filled with veterans and playoff experience, the...
DEAD WOOD HAS YANKS GOIN' BATTY
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amWhen the Yankees surged to a five-game lead over the Red Sox last Friday, it was expected to be a launching pad - not a high-water mark. But the Yanks'...