December 2, 2001
LOCKING UP PROFITS : POST-IPO SALES BY INSIDERS CAN LOWER PRICES
Knowing when to buy a stock is tough enough, but investors who master that art can still lose their way deciding when to sell. Most investors would sell if they...
AMATEURS' PICKS YIELD POOR RETURNS
EVERY millennium generates its own bad ideas. One of the first bad ideas of this millennium is the shareholder-run mutual fund. Mutual funds, as most everyone knows by now, were...
NEW MED RECORDS WEB SITE WILL HAVE TOUGH ROW TO HOE
Blam! You're in a near fatal accident and you're brought unconscious to some strange hospital and treated by doctors who don't know you from Adam. Wouldn't you feel more comfortable...
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BULL'S EYE
'RETURNERS' A NEW WORRY FOR RETAILERS It's bad enough that the holiday season has been forecast as an all-around bummer for retailers' bottom lines. Between promotional sales and consumers who...
TAKING A SHINE TO STAR QUALITY
So many stars are shoved before our eyes these days that we all could rank as amateur astrologers. Anyone with a hit record, a semi-important movie role or even a...
THOSE NOT-SO-SUPER HEROES
Leotards, capes and codpieces are all the rage again - and Mick Jagger's got nothing to do with it. Rather, it's the return of the superhero, those fearless characters possessing...
LOVE ON THE RUN
THE new German movie "In July" features Moritz Bleibtreu as a mild-mannered teacher who treks across Central and Eastern Europe in search of a woman he hardly knows. In the...
LICKERED UP AT EROTIC BALL
I've often wondered if I have an inner wild side that might be unleashed given the right time and place. I always wished I'd attended one of those erotic balls...
TOTS AMAZING! KIDS COLOR IN MASTERPIECES THANKS TO BOOK BY MOM LAWYER
When Aidan, the artistic 7-year-old son of attorney Lisa Frey, came home from kindergarten one day clutching a paper copy of van Gogh's "Vincent's Bedroom in Arles" and asking how...
JEST JULIA: CITY-GIRL STILES ON 'BUSINESS' AND HER DISASTROUS JOKES
Oops, Hollywood teen-movie queen Julia Stiles - who admits she's caused herself grief with off-the-cuff jokes - has done it again. "I'm on a failing-your-classes break from college," said the...
WHAT I WATCH
JOE KAMINSKIGENERAL MANAGER, HOTEL DELMONICO"SCOOBIE DOO" IS ONE OF THE BEST CARTOON EVER. I WATCH IT WITH MY YOUNG CHILDREN. I WATCHED IT AS A CHILD AND IT MADE ME...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: MICHELLE BRANCH
Instead of dancing with a snake like Britney Spears, pop singer Michelle Branch appeals to her audiences with her tongue-in-cheek lyrics and guitar playing. The hands-on 18-year-old, a rising star,...
ROB'S CAT SKILLS: ROCK STAR AND WIFE COME TO THE RESCUE OF ANIMAL SHELTER
Christmas came early for an upstate New york animal shelter when Rob and Marisol Thomas came calling. Last week, the Matchbox Twenty frontman and his wife, a Wilhelmina model, paid...
24-HOUR BISTRO IS FRENCH BLISS
Pigalle 790 Eighth Ave. (at 48th Street) (212) 489-2233 Next time you're in Midtown, it's 4 a.m. and a sudden urge for pigs' feet strikes, there's somewhere to go -...
U.S. ATTORNEY PICK LIKELY A SHOO-IN
James Comey - just officially tapped as the U.S. attorney whose turf will include ground zero and the terror fallout - is known as a dogged prosecutor who doesn't seek...
TOP COPS TOLD TO RESIGN
The NYPD's top brass were told to turn in letters of resignation and their resumes so incoming Police Commissioner Ray Kelly can make changes at the top when he takes...
CIA HERO'S BODY RETURNS TODAY
The remains of the heroic CIA agent killed during bloody riots with Taliban prisoners returns home from Afghanistan today, a day after four soldiers wounded during the uprising were honored...
NTSB BIRDBRAINS STICKING HEADS IN ROCKAWAY SAND
LITTLE wonder the National Transportation Safety Board has bleated for help from NASA to help them out in the tragic crash of American Airlines Flight 587. The NTSB has shown...
DUBYA AND DEMS TRADE 'STIMULATING' RADIO BARBS
President Bush yesterday prodded the Democratic-controlled Senate to pass an economic-stimulus plan to bring holiday help to "Americans who are hurting" as the tax-cut wrangle edged toward a blame game....
DEVILS IN HELL OF A MESS: TIGHTWAD TEAM MAY BE WORST IN DIVISION
THE seeds of destruction were sown last spring and summer when the Devils threw away a championship that would only have earned them an eternal place in NHL history and...
PROBIE GETS HIS DUE: LAID TO REST AFTER MIX-UP
Hundreds of mourners paid their respects yesterday to rookie firefighter Christopher Santora, who lost his life fighting his first big fire. During a somber four-hour funeral service, the 23-year-old "probie"...
TALIBAN LOSES GROUND IN KANDAHAR
U.S. bombers yesterday chipped away at the last Taliban refuge in the city of Kandahar, as rebel fighters managed to capture part of the city's airport amid hopes the Islamic...
FUGITIVE DURST'S WACKY DISGUISE DREW ATTENTION
In the days before his capture, millionaire murder suspect Robert Durst prowled the outskirts of Bethlehem, Pa. - a strange and outlandish figure in a brown wig and a clashing...
SECRET SERVICE: EX-BEATLE CREMATED BEFORE WORLD KNEW OF HIS DEATH
The final photo of a deathly ill but brave and dignified George Harrison emerged today just hours after the Beatle's ashes were flown to India to be scattered over a...
TURNCOAT'S TALE OF JAIL HORRORS: TALIBAN FIGHTER FROM U.S. TELLS OF CELL DEATHS
An American who had been fighting with the Taliban and survived last week's bloody prison uprising in Afghanistan says he saw more than 400 men die in a cramped basement...
'PEOPLE WERE SCREAMING, RUNNING AND FALLING'
The Ben Yehuda mall in Jerusalem is usually packed with young Israelis on Saturday evening. A target of suicide attacks in the past, including in 1997, the mall was still...
DOWNTOWN FIRE INJURES DOZENS
Forty-two people, mostly firefighters, suffered minor injuries yesterday in a basement fire at a Manhattan building, officials said. The fire erupted in part of the 50-story Financial District building's air-conditioning...
SHARON SOUNDS BATTLE CRY FOR HIS OWN WAR ON TERROR
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will have a blunt warning for President Bush at today's emergency meeting - he's ready to launch his own war on terrorism against the Palestinians....
AFTERSHOCKS OF BOMBING OSAMA: EXPERTS WORRY HIS DEATH COULD SPARK NEW TERROR
Killing Osama bin Laden could be a bomb drop away, but dealing with the death of the world's most wanted man looms as a new challenge for every American, security...
SLEUTHS SELL OFF SAMMY'S SPOILS
The good news for Mafia buffs is they now have a shot at owning Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano's blue bullet-proof vest, cache of weapons, pinkie rings and heavy gold chains....
EX-CON EYED IN VISA SCAM, WTC RIP-OFF
Federal investigators are probing whether an ex-con busted two weeks ago on charges of stealing $600,000 from Chinese-Americans has illegally obtained World Trade Center disaster relief money. Tin Yat Chin,...
TWIN SUICIDE BOMBERS STRIKE: UNSPEAKABLE CARNAGE ON A PACKED STREET
Two suicide bombers exploded nail-studded devices in a downtown Jerusalem pedestrian mall yesterday, killing at least 10 young Saturday-night revelers and injuring 150. Bodies were hurled through the air when...
CRASH COURSE FOR POLS ON INSURANCE REFORM
ALBANY - As New York leaders try to hammer out an auto-insurance reform package, experts say they should look at New Jersey for what not to do. In 1998, with...
N.Y.'S TOP DEM PUTS PRE$$URE ON NAT'L PARTY
ALBANY - The incoming head of the state Democratic Committee wants the national party to pump significant money into New York to counteract Republican gains reflected in Michael Bloomberg's mayoral...
ANOTHER CHARITY FAILING 9/11 KIN
The September 11th Fund, which has raised more than $300 million in charitable donations, is considering lifting a controversial $10,000 cap on aid to families of people killed in the...
FUND EYES HELPING PA CIVILIANS
The Twin Towers Fund is mulling whether to aid the families of 12 Port Authority civilian workers who died helping firefighters and cops evacuate thousands from the World Trade Center....
MTA: YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU
Subway conductors have been instructed to remind passengers to take their property with them when trains pull into stations in a bid to reduce the number of bomb and anthrax...
TEACHERS: SUSPENSION POLICY A FLOP
The Board of Education's new policy to deal with rowdy students has been a flop, the teachers union charges in a recent survey. The United Federation of Teachers poll claims...
VICTORIA GOTTI
FRIENDS and family sometimes call me "the Bionic Woman" because of the tiny high-tech pacemaker doctors fitted into my chest three years ago. I usually ignore their teasing until last...
KILLER DOC'S BOASTS BACKFIRE: JURY DIDN'T BUY TRANSVESTITE WIFE SLAYER'S INSANITY PLEA
Flamboyant cross-dressing killer Dr. Richard Sharpe could not be acquitted of the murder of his wife because the lurid candor of his testimony mocked his insanity plea, jurors have revealed....
SPORE-KILLING GAS SANITIZES SENATE
The anthrax cleanup in the U.S. Senate started early yesterday morning after a seven-hour delay. Experts had hoped to pump chlorine dioxide, a very lethal gas, into the office suite...
FERTILITY DOC ON CLONES: THESE ARE GOOD PEOPLE
A controversial American-based fertility doctor says opponents of cloning should "get over" their fears and open their minds to the reproductive possibilities of the scientific process. Early this year, Panayiotis...
SLAUGHTER IN JERUSALEM FROM TWIN SUICIDE BLASTS
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowded pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem filled with Saturday night revelers - killing at least 11 and wounding 121. "People flew into...
LITTLE BILL HAS CURTIS IN CROSSHAIRS
CURTIS Martin doesn't have Jim Brown's power. He doesn't have Barry Sanders' dancing shoes. He doesn't have Walter Payton's sweetness or toughness, even though he has plenty of both. He...
JETS TARGETED BY PATRIOT MISSILES: BIG CHANCE TO EXORCISE DECEMBER DEMONS
At midnight Saturday the clock ushered in December of 2001. Usually that's a bad sign for the Jets. Usually, December is a time not to move forward and to forge...
ANGRY NFL THROWS FLAG ON TV REFEREE-BLASTERS
WHILE the NFL doesn't want to get into a public shouting match with its partner TV networks, it's once again plenty peeved by the battering its game officials are taking,...
REAL PRO LEAVING CH. 5
CURT Menefee, Ch. 5 News' lead sportscaster the last 6½ years, will pack it in shortly after New Year's when his contract expires. He'll remain with Fox as an NFL...
THE BOOK ON ELSTON: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Carmen Berra and Arlene Howard were in a room clothed in Yankee pinstripes the other evening and it might as well have been the late 1950s or early '60s when...
LEHMAN RATES EDGE OVER SHEEPSHEAD BAY
It's a good thing Sheepshead Bay isn't playing for glory, because if it were, the Sharks would be disappointed. The team has gone undefeated (10-0), but it hasn't exactly captured...
ALLURING IDEAS FOR THOSE FISHING FOR KIDS' GIFTS
YOUNG people often ask Santa to bring them fishing equipment, but parents, particularly those who are not anglers themselves, might wonder if their child is old enough to fish, or...
PATS' PLAN B PROVES A-OK: BRADY STEPS UP AT QB AND SHOWS REAL STAYING POWER
The circumstances, while not identical, were eerily similar for Bill Belichick and Charlie Weis. The top dogs of the Patriots' coaching staff stared at a season of turmoil back on...
GANG GREEN DEFENSE FLASHING TOP FORM
JET NOTES The Jets have won seven games this season largely because of two factors: Their plus-22 turnover ratio and their mere 38 penalties, both of which lead the NFL....
IT'S UP TO THE JINTS: PLAYOFF HOPES REST IN THEIR OWN HANDS
Before they ever officially settled in for their bye weekend, the Giants fell further behind in the NFC East when the Eagles beat the Chiefs. This was not the pick-me-up...
IF THERE IS A WILPON, THERE MAY BE A WAY
THE METS are again headed toward another offseason where they window shop, while the Yankees aggressively buy the best items in the store. The differences in the two clubs' approach...
METS SIGN ANOTHER JAPANESE IMPORT
The Mets made the signing of 36-year-old, right-hander Satoru Komiyama official yesterday. Komiyama signed to one-year, $500,000 deal with an option for 2003. "We think Satoru can help us as...
MOVE OVER MJ, HERE COMES PAUL
WHEN Tracy McGrady joined the Magic, Doc Rivers thought he was getting another Scottie Pippen, discovered he was closer to Michael Jordan and told friends he's so good, "I wouldn't...
HOFSTRA CAN'T TAKE PRIDE IN THIS WIN
Hofstra 67Iona 54 For much of yesterday's turnover-filled, foul-marred matinee, neither Hofstra nor Iona seemed to want the ball or the game. That is until the Pride seized both midway...
ATTIRE WINS AT AQUEDUCT
When Evening Attire, making his first-ever stakes appearance in the Oct. 31 Discovery Handicap at Aqueduct, won by a length at 65-1, the victory was dismissed as a fluke. But...
PIERCE POUNDS NETS
OVERTIMECeltics 105Nets 98 After the Nets blew a 24-point lead but came back to win in Boston on the second night of the season, Byron Scott said he learned an...
THROUGH IT ALL, BROTHERS :CADETS, MIDDIES ALL ON ONE TEAM
PHILADELPHIA - There is nothing like the Army-Navy game, especially when the President comes into your locker room and your country is at war. Back when he was an actor,...
JOHNNIES GET THEIR REVENGE
Maybe it was St. John's pressure and depth that took their toll on Fordham in the end. Or perhaps it was just the second-half brilliance of junior Marcus Hatten, who...
'CANES GRAB THE ROSES : HOLD OFF HOKIES TO GET TITLE SHOT
Miami 26Va. Tech 24 BLACKSBURG, Va. - Roses don't come withoutthorns. Roses don't comewithout thorns. Coach Larry Coker had said it all week. Now he stood on the sidelines at...
TRADER LOU MAY WANT TO WAIT A WHILE
The bait bit back last night. In probably their last chance to freeze Lou Lamoriello's trigger finger, the players on the trading block gave the Devils their most vital victory...
ST. PETER'S WINS TITLE
Derrick Valentine had an interception late in the fourth quarter to stop an Archbishop Stepinac drive and preserve a 14-12 win for No. 7 St. Peter's in the CHSFL AA...
ISLES PROSPER, THEN COLLAPSE
Sabres 4Isles 2 Alexei Yashin was crumpled on the ice with 1:42 left to go last night, beaten and battered for the duration of the Islanders' unsightly 4-2 loss to...
GOLDEN AT MOLSON : BLACKBURN KICKS OUT 45 AS BLUESHIRTS HOLD ON
MONTREAL - He can stay now. The 10th game of 18-year-old Dan Blackburn's NHL career, when the meter started running on his $1.3 million rookie salary and the Rangers happily...
EMOTION'S NOT ENOUGH TO HIDE KNICKS' FLAWS
THERE will be plenty of excuses readily available if the Knicks' season winds up being a forgettable one. A lack of size, a lack of real speed, and a lack...
KNICKS CRUMBLE IN CRUNCH TIME: PISTONS FIRED UP BY FIGHT
It was just another typical night of the Knicks blowing a 16-point lead halftime lead, falling behind by 13 late in the fourth quarter, surging back frantically to take a...
BOOK: ARTEST'S FORTITUDE WAS IN QUESTION
Knick Notes The Frederic Weis/Ron Artest snafu will likely haunt the Knicks for years. Weis, the 7-2 French center whom the Knicks picked with the 15th overall selection of the...
"BIG TIME" TOO MUCH FOR "GOOFI" AT JAVITS
Goofi was big-timed last night. Lance "Goofi" Whitaker, a heavyweight contender who answers only to his nickname, was completely overmatched and outclassed by Port Jefferson native Jameel "Big Time" McCline...
CAN RADEK BE BOOST? DVORAK RETURNS IN MONTREAL
MONTREAL - The Canadiens are in position to make the playoffs for the first time in four years and the Rangers for the first time in five, which last night...
FAIR GAME! BEING THE BEST IS A WAY OF LIFE FOR LINCOLN'S TELFAIR
Sebastian Telfair's life has been almost entirely based on being the best. "The first time anyone ever told me I was No. 1 at something was when I was in...
HOT ISLES THRIVING IN SLUSH
What's up with the ice at Nassau Coliseum? Through the last few home games, the Slurpee-like ice in front of the nets has been soft, pucks have been bouncing, and...
LARRY TRIES PLAN 'A' WITH SKIDDING DEVILS
The coach is pulling out all the stops to pull the Devils out of their nosedive. Before the start of this weekend's crucial home-and-home with the league-leading Red Wings, Larry...
SIX CHASING LECAVALIER
SIX teams, sources have told Slap Shots, are leading the hunt for Vincent Lecavalier, whose relationship with the Lightning has deteriorated beyond repair and is very publicly on the block....