November 18, 2001
FUND CAN GIVE A 'SHOT' TO INVESTOR'S PORTFOLIO
POOR economic news, recent market volatility, the Sept. 11 attacks and falling interest rates make this a good time for fixed-income investing, according to George Schupp, portfolio manager of the...
INVESTING ON A C-NOTE : DRIPS LET YOU BUY SHARES FOR UNDER $100
If you've got blue-chip tastes in investing but little to spend, there's no reason to avoid stocks. With just $100, one could buy into General Electric, Coca-Cola, General Mills, DuPont,...
MERGER BODES WELL FOR WESTVACO
They say there is strength in numbers, so many companies are finding that to survive in times like these, they must band together. Westvaco, a mid-sized paper-products company, is no...
BULL'S EYE
TV CELEBRITY ISN'T A GOOD TRAIT FOR CEO If you own stock and you see the CEO of the company on television, you may want to think about selling. That's...
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KEEPING THE FAITH WHEN HEARTS BREAK
I was raised as a Christian, but I rarely make it to church. Sunday morning comes and I just can't haul myself out of bed. I've happily blamed New York...
'GREED' GROWS!
For decades, movie lovers have hoped that the missing footage from Eric von Stroheim's eight-hour silent epic, "Greed," would be found. It hasn't, and probably never will be. But there's...
WHY TRUMP LOVES A CHARADE
Of all the patriotic gestures we've witnessed in recent weeks, none compares to Donald Trump booting Miss America from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In her place, the billionaire brings us...
A LOT OF 'NOISES' FROM THE FARCE SIDE
After seeing Jeremy Sam's gloriously wacky new staging of Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," I wrote that it was "the funniest farce ever written." The day these happy words appeared, I...
WHAT I WATCH
ROBERT KENNEDY JR. ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER"CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM." I LOVE LARRY DAVID. HE IS A GENIUS AND THE FUNNIEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED. WE ALSO WATCH "THE SIMPSONS." I THINK IT'S...
TV'S UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: HOW DID OSCAR MEET FELIX? WHY WON'T ROBERT GO HOME? WHERE'S RHODA'S BROTHER?
EVER wonder whatever happened to lanky Chuck Cunningham on the sitcom "Happy Days"? Didn't Richie or Joanie ever notice their older brother disappeared after Season Two? Remember "Family Matters," the...
HARRY'S HISTORY: BELAFONTE ON THE 40-YEAR QUEST TO BRING HIS 'BLACK MUSIC' TO THE MASSES
Forty years after he began it, Harry Belafonte has finally completed his longest journey. The 74-year-old actor and singer has released "The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: ANNABETH GISH
Annabeth Gish has been acting since she was 13 years old and has starred in more than 35 movies. But she's never experienced as tough a professional challenge as now...
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT 'HARRY' CREATOR
If you've wondered how Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling conjured the magical world of the new movie "Harry Potter and the Scorcerer's Stone," you might check out journalist Marc Shapiro's...
TASTY WAYS TO GIVE THANKS ON A BUDGET
Holidays can be particularly tricky for diners who don't want to bust the bank. Finding someplace suitably festive to celebrate Thanksgiving isn't always easy on a budget. That's why some...
SEEING STARS: PET PORTRAITS BRING OUT THE BEST IN CELEBS
Not every first-time photographer can get famous celebrities to reveal their more personal side to the camera. But according to Chris Ameruoso, the fastest way to a celeb's heart is...
'BEDROOM' BECKONS: SPACEK LURED BACK TO SILVER SCREEN
Looking for Sissy Spacek? Well, she can usually be found tooling around in a pickup, fussing over her kids or tending her garden on a 20-acre horse ranch in the...
BAZ TO THE FUTURE WITH HIS 'ROUGE' REDUX
Baz Luhrmann has been consumed with one thing since "Moulin Rouge" left theaters: promoting "Moulin Rouge." The Australian director has been traveling the world the past six months in support...
CRASH COURSE IN DOUBLE TALK
IT'S almost impossible to believe. Another horrible hit for the city and especially for the Rockaways. The mayor urged calm. And we've become pretty good at it too, considering. But...
U.S. ATTORNEY'S DEPARTURE PUTS QUESTION MARKS ON TOP PROBES
Mary Jo White's decision to resign as Manhattan's federal prosecutor may have been delayed almost a year, but still leaves the outcome of a number of major investigations up in...
FIRST LADY: IT'S A WAR FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Laura Bush said the war against terror is a battle for women's rights yesterday, as she blasted the Taliban's "brutal oppression of women" in a radio speech that marked a...
O.J.'S BODYGUARD THROWS BOOK AT HIM IN 'FICTIONAL' TELL-ALL
LOS ANGELES - O.J. Simpson's longtime and loyal bodyguard has turned to fiction to tell his version of the truth. Tom Gleason, an aspiring actor and writer, probably missed his...
SUSPECTED HIJACK-HELPER WRITES MOM: I'M INNOCENT
A terror suspect and possible member of the Sept. 11 hijack teams wrote his mother a cocky letter from a New York prison denying any involvement in the plot, a...
POTTER OF GOLD: A $31M OPENING
Harry Potter is bewitching American audiences, racking up a record opening-day gross of $31.3 million - with the movie on its way to a three-day haul experts said could reach...
VICTORIA GOTTI
I GREW up in Howard Beach, Queens - adjacent to JFK airport - and clearly remember how I would shake in my bed fearing a plane would crash through our...
3 WHO DIED AS THEY HAD LIVED: HELPING
Port Authority Police Capt. Kathy Mazza yesterday was remembered as a high-achieving law enforcer who had spent her life helping people. Mazza, 46, the first female commander at the Port...
EUROPE GIVING A PUSH TO NEW MIDEAST TALKS
JERUSALEM - A delegation of senior European officials called yesterday for the resumption of talks leading to a Palestinian state after delegates met with Yasser Arafat. "The Europeans want to...
GAY EXPO NOT FOR KIDDING AROUND
IT'S a sign of the times - and of this city. The Javits Center offers one-stop shopping this weekend to homosexuals who want to join the Police or Fire departments,...
SENATOR EYES DOMESTIC NUT BEHIND LATEST ANTHRAX LETTER
Sen. Patrick Leahy says he has no idea why someone would send him a letter laced with anthrax, but hopes it will provide clues to whoever is behind the bioterror...
GIULIANI: I'M IN NO RUSH TO LAND NEW JOB
Mayor Giuliani said he will take a "couple of weeks" to decide where he wants to work once he walks out of City Hall at the end of the year....
PROBERS FOCUS ON TAIL-FIN JET FLAW
Neither turbulence from another plane nor pressure exerted on the rudder by a frantic pilot should have caused doomed American Airlines Flight 587's tail to shear off, raising the possibility...
RED TAPE FINALLY CUT ON RED CROSS LIST
The city has finally turned over its list of Sept. 11 victims to the Red Cross to help the charity reach hundreds of families that still haven't received financial aid....
TOT SHAKE LEADS TO SLAY RAP
A 22-year-old Brooklyn man faces a murder charge after police say he shook his girlfriend's 15-month- old son to death because the child wouldn't stop crying. Police say DeAndrew Munroe...
AUTHOR CALLED THE SHOTS ON FLICK
AUTHOR J.K. Rowling exerted an unprecedented degree of control over the film version of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" - clout that both hurt and helped the instant blockbuster....
ALLIES TIGHTENING NET AROUND OSAMA: U.S. SURROUNDS 30-SQ.-MILE ZONE IN AFGHANISTAN
The hide-and-seek search for terrorist Osama bin Laden continued yesterday amid reports that U.S. forces had narrowed their hunt to 30 square miles in southeast Afghanistan. American and British troops...
ROCKAWAYS VENT AIR RAGE: PUSH JFK TO CHANGE ITS 'UNSAFE' FLIGHT PATHS
Shellshocked Rockaway residents fear it's only a matter of time before another fuel-filled jet crashes into their homes again, unless authorities draw flight paths based on safety instead of convenience....
IT'S HARD GIVING THANKS, SAY KIN OF WTC VICTIMS
World Trade Center widow Angela Fields and her four children will have Thanksgiving dinner with their church minister this week, hoping faith will nourish their spirits and help them overcome...
NONPROFITS LOSING ONE BIG PATRON TO CITY HALL
New York may be gaining a mayor, but 19 nonprofits will be losing a leader when Mike Bloomberg takes over City Hall. Bloomberg - whose business acumen and fat wallet...
LOVER: SLAIN TYCOON WAS 'IN DENIAL'
A grieving girlfriend of murdered millionaire Ted Ammon says he rarely locked doors at his luxury Long Island estate and never activated the burglar alarm - although he was involved...
MANY COPS TURNING TO COUNSELING
Even hardened cops and firefighters need a shrink to help them cope with the World Trade Center disaster. John Jay College for Criminal Justice is offering free mental-health counseling to...
HOW FATE TURNED HOPE INTO YET MORE DESPAIR
AS crowds gathered to watch pieces of a doomed aircraft being hauled out of a neighbor's Belle Harbor back yard last week, a jetliner buzzed overhead - and for a...
FIREMEN ON 9/11 BICYCLE TOUR PAUSE FOR LATEST TRAGEDY
Five New York City firefighters, who are on a cross-country cycling tour of America to thank communities for their support after Sept. 11, have told of their shock in learning...
MADONNA BABY MAKING WAVES
Madonna's baby is going on his own Drowned World tour. Rocco Ritchie has joined a group called Aqua Tots, which teaches that babies can hold their breath and swim naturally...
YEAST AND MORTON AREN'T KICKED OUT BY SANTANA RETURN
MIAMI - Santana Moss is making his NFL debut against the Dolphins today at Pro Player Stadium, 10 blocks away from where he grew up and where he family still...
SACKMAN CAN RUMBLE WITH GREATEST
FINALLY, at Mickey Mantle's Restaurant last Tuesday night, where they championed the cause of Andrew Cuomo for Governor, Michael Strahan sacked Muhammad Ali. "I've been at other events with him...
GREEN MACHINE EXPECTS TO WIN 'EM ALL
MIAMI - This is about more than driving a green-and-white dagger into the heart of the Miami Dolphins. This is about more than beating them for the eighth straight time...
STRAHAN'S THE MAN ON AND OFF FIELD: EX-GIANT MARTIN ADMITS MIKE PLAYING LIKE TAYLOR
As they engaged in battle after battle together, George Martin studied the wondrous exploits of Lawrence Taylor and from his vantage point as an on-site eyewitness, believed he would never...
JETS CAN'T LET FISH OFF HOOK : FIRST PLACE IN THE EAST OR ANOTHER BIG TEASE?
MIAMI - So, here it sits for the Jets: Prosperity on a platter. Sole possession of first place in the AFC East awaits with a win over the Dolphins today...
DOG, FAT CHANCE THIS POTION WORKS
TO LISTEN to Chris Russo's takes on sports, even on only a semi-regular basis, is to know that he's often a conspiracy theorist. He suggests that there must be a...
NOTHING MUCH DOING
PITTSBURGH - That the Rangers were able to hold an opponent off the scoreboard for 60 minutes for the first time since Feb. 26, 1999 - a span of 207...
BLACKBURN MAY LAND BACK IN KOOTENAY
PITTSBURGH - With Dan Blackburn having just one game to play before the Rangers are required to make a decision on his immediate future that will have contractual and protection-related...
GOOD HUNTING IS NO ACCIDENT
THE regular Southern Zone big-game hunting season begins at sunrise tomorrow and closes at sunset on Dec. 11 and in that time close to 400,000 hunters will have harvested more...
HOFSTRA NEEDS TO COPE WITH GROWING PAINS
Here's the assignment: Take over a program that's switching to a tougher conference, that's lost seven seniors and that's embarking on a massive rebuilding mission. Can you start tomorrow? So...
LINES CHANGE BUT RESULT STAYS THE SAME
Flyers3 Devils1 Halfway through the weekend's Matinees of Truth, one is emerging: The Devils' must replace Alexander Mogilny to contend, and Tony Amonte is the most likely answer. The breakup...
'PLEASENTFAR' WINS AT BIG A
Soon, New York's top horses will be heading south to Florida for the winter, but yesterday Mr. Pleasentfar completed a successful trip in the opposite direction, shipping up from Calder...
LIKE OLD TIMES FOR NETS
The Nets had no energy, no legs, no offense. The Sixers had lots of aggression, lots of defense and Allen Iverson. Guess who won? It wasn't the Nets, especially on...
NETS NO TURKEYS THIS TIME AROUND
WHAT'S WRONG with this portrait? For the first time in six or seven Taliban administrations, my replica Jersey Nets have a longer post-Thanksgiving shelf life than anything with the word...
NO KIDD-ING, THERE'S STILL HOPE IN SWAMP
THE Nets left the Knicks in the dust Friday night, speeding to the seventh win in their first eight games. The only thing that ever had broken this fast in...
NO DOUBT 'CANES ARE NO. 1
Miami59 Syracuse0 MIAMI - A rainbow appeared over the Orange Bowl yesterday. It did not contain the color orange. The Miami Hurricanes took the color out the Orangemen with a...
ST. FRANCIS STOPS IONA IN OT
Joe Kay expected Vinny Christoforo to get the ball when Iona Prep lined up for a two-point conversion on the game's final play. "I saw him coming at me and...
DEEP BENCH DRIVES STORM IN OPENER
St. Johns72 Stony Brook55 There are still a plethora of questions left about St. John's, but at least one thing was made abundantly clear in the Red Storm's season-opener: Their...
MCCALL'S NOT CRYING ANYMORE
LAS VEGAS - Before Hasim "The Rock" Rahman came along, Oliver McCall was the last man to shatter Lennox Lewis' chin. That was in 1994 when McCall took Lewis' WBC...
A SWIFT END TO A SHORT AND STORMY REIGN
LAS VEGAS - The short, tumultuous title reign of Hasim Rahman ended last night the way it began, in spectacular fashion and on the business end of a vicious punch....
LENNOX AVENGES LOSS TO RAHMAN: WINS BACK TITLE BELTS ON KO IN 4TH
LAS VEGAS - Lennox Lewis regained the heavyweight championship and restored his reputation as the division's most dangerous fighter with a stunning fourth-round knockout over Hasim "The Rock" Rahman last...
HATTEN HOLDS KEY TO STORM'S SEASON
Mike Jarvis suffered through a disappointing 14-15 campaign with his young St. John's team last year, the first losing season of his coaching career. Whether he has another one may...
AN UNLIKELY KING JESTER: LENNOX COULD LAND IN DON'S STABLE
LAS VEGAS- This morning, Lennox Lewis might well have awakened as something he never dreamed he could be. A Don King heavyweight. Regaining the title he lost in April to...
MCCALL'S NEW CRY: I'M READY TO FIGHT
LAS VEGAS - Before Hasim "The Rock" Rahman came along, Oliver McCall was the last man to shatter Lennox Lewis' chin. That was in 1994 in Wembley when McCall took...
TERPS TAKE AIM AT NO. 1 DUKE
If any coach has reason to want to tear down Duke, it's Maryland's Gary Williams. Four times last season the Blue Devils and Terps left it all on the court....
BILLY THE KID: DONOVAN GUIDING GATORS WITH FRESH IDEAS
He is a new-age coach motivated by old-world fears. When Rockville Centre's Billy Donovan was a step-too-slow guard at St. Agnes on Long Island, he was terrified of not getting...
BACKCOURT DILEMMA'S VEXING VG
LOS ANGELES - Maybe it was a changing-of-the-guard night on two levels. The obvious is the Nets have supplanted the forever-reigning Knicks as the supreme basketball team in the metropolis,...
JASON LEADING NETS FROM HISTORY OF FRIDAY THE 13TH
THE NETS are on the run from their past. They left the Knicks in the dust Friday night, but the only thing that has ever broken this fast in New...
KIDD: WE'RE TOO LEGIT TO QUIT
Something is happening. Just look at this weekend. The Nets were FAVORED to beat the Knicks and the Sixers on back-to-back nights. The last time that happened probably was the...
HAT'S OFF TO KOVALEV: EX-RANGER RIDING THREE-GOAL STREAK
PITTSBURGH - Alexei Kovalev had a dream. Well, not exactly. "I didn't really have a dream I was going to get a hat trick the first time or second time...
ST. ANTHONY'S MARCHES INTO ANOTHER FINAL
CHSFL PLAYOFFS A 38-7 win in the semifinals is normally something to get pretty excited about. Not for St. Anthony's. "No matter what, we have to win it all this...
ORANGE & 'CANES LAY IT ON THE LINE
MIAMI - The gripping matchup between Syracuse's relentless pass-rushing defensive end Dwight Freeney and Miami's mammoth offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie had both players talking this week as the Orangemen and...