December 30, 2001
BE YOUR OWN LEGAL EAGLE
WWW.FINDLAW.COM Good legal advice is hard to find. You could listen to your know-nothing friends, but that might land you in jail. Luckily, there is findlaw.com. This Web site offers...
CONSTELLATION BRANDS STILL CHEERY AS BOOZERS SHIFT VENUES, NOT HABITS
The New Year's celebration means plenty of good cheer. As we raise our glasses and get toasty, the liquid inside is usually alcoholic. And now, more than ever, do we...
PLAYING FAVORITES: WHAT PROS PREFER
STRATEGISTS and analysts make a lot of predictions this time of year. But it is mutual fund managers who have to put their shareholders' money on the line, so their...
BIZ AS UNUSUAL IN '02: TORA BORA XP ASSURED
With the New Year just around the corner, Bull's Eye offers up its annual prediction of business stories you're likely to see in 2002. Or, perhaps more precisely, these are...
SEC RULE LETS INVESTOR KNOW FULL TRADE COSTS
Those $5 and $10 commissions on stock trades sound great, but common sense will tell you brokers aren't giving anything away. So who picks up the slack? Why, you do,...
GET A NEW YEAR'S 'GAME PLAN'
With Bowl games approaching, the words "offense" and "defense" should get you thinking about one thing this time of year . . . investing. How you play the market in...
4 QUESTIONS FOR ESAI MORALES
TOUCHED BY A BEATLE AND A BALL PLAYER Who are your heroes? John Lennon, because of the way he synthesized the pain in his life into various art forms. Roberto...
BEST IN SHOWS: THE GREAT BUT FORGOTTEN
It is always the runts of the litter that deserve our sympathy - particularly if they happen to be talented runts. Every theater season offers shows that for one reason...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: ERIN BROCKOVICH
If you don't know who Erin Brockovich is, you must be from a distant planet.Not only did she pioneer the largest class-action settlement in U.S. history, but she gave new...
RAISE A GLASS TO OUR PSYCHIC FRIENDS
If there's one thing I learned in 2001 - a year that should go down in history and stay there - it's to pay more attention to psychic predictions.Going into...
IN WITH THE NEW: BAR BELLES' GUIDE TO THE HOTTEST SPOTS TO RING IN 2002
For better or for worse, the annual calendar flip that marks the new year is all about booze. Naturally, that's when the Bar Belles truly come into their own. So...
THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE
Stop the presses! Hangovers are bad, according to a recent medical report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. "Hangover has never been shown to effectively deter alcohol consumption," the...
READE ALL ABOUT IT!
Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater opened Dec. 9, 1991, with the Stanley Donen evergreen "On the Town." Since then, the comfortable, state-of-the-art theater has shown a wide range of movies...
BURNIN' TRACKS FOR CD OF THE YEAR WITH AN ALTERNATIVE SPIN
There's a pop life beyond what you'll find on that best-selling compilation series "NOW That's What I Call Music!, " discs that were chockfull of Britney, Backstreet Boys and Destiny's...
THE REEL DEAL: TEN GREAT FILMS FROM 2001 THAT MISSED THE HYPE
Before this sorry year - on so many levels - fades into oblivion, it's worth noting a number of fine films that, for one reason or another, didn't get the...
WHAT I WATCH
DIANE WEATHERS Editor-in-chief, 'Essence' magazine "The Daily Show." It's a brilliant, witty and irreverent spoof of TV news and news broadcasters who take themselves so seriously. Jon Stewart is smart,...
INCOMING AFGHAN BIGS END TALI-BAN ON BUDDHA STATUES
KABUL - Afghanistan's new authorities hope to soon rebuild the giant Buddha statues of Bamiyan destroyed by the Taliban, Information and Culture Minister Raheen Makhdoom said yesterday. Makhdoom said several...
2001: ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS
D.C. DEBACLE: THE CHANDRA FOLLICLE FOLLY Before we were looking for Osama bin Laden, we were looking for Chandra Levy. Well, everyone was looking except contemptuous Rep. Gary Condom, er,...
TAJ MAHAL TO DON 'BATTLE GEAR' : SHRINE GETS CAMOUFLAGE AS BORDER TENSION BUILDS
As India and Pakistan teeter on the brink of war, Indian officials are planning to camouflage the Taj Mahal to prevent it from being spotted by Pakistani fighter jets. Officials...
DUTROW EYES 'SPECTACULAR' BIG A FINISH
Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. was just 16 years old in 1975 when his late father, one of the most successful horsemen in history with over 3,600 career victories, led the...
STADIUM BOOBIRD: REV. AL RIPS RUDY'S PITCH AS DEBATE RAGES
Mayor Giuliani's double stadium pitch had the Rev. Al Sharpton and some baseball fans crying foul yesterday, as Mets hurler Al Leiter urged Mike Bloomberg to push ahead with the...
TERROR POWS GET 1ST TASTE OF U.S. JUSTICE
U.S. forces yesterday transferred a group of al Qaeda and Taliban fighters from northern Afghanistan to a Kandahar airport detention center where they will be interrogated - and possibly imprisoned...
COLISEUM TO CLOSE ITS BOOKS
Coliseum Books may be down - but like a gladiator in the arena, it is struggling to rise once more. With its lease expiring next month, the famed independent bookstore...
FOREIGNERS TAKE PART IN LATEST RIOTS
JERUSALEM - Israeli soldiers clashed with Palestinian and European demonstrators in the West Bank yesterday, firing tear gas and warning shots to force them to disperse. The demonstrators - swelled...
COYOTE LAKES RULES ON BIG A INNER DIRT
For most of the year, Coyote Lakes is nothing but a hound dog. Put him on Aqueduct's inner dirt track during the winter, however, and he turns into the big...
WOMAN DEAD IN QNS. CRASH
A 49-year-old Long Island woman was pinned in her car and later died after she crashed head-on with another vehicle in Flushing, Queens, police said. Harjinder Kaur, of Hicksville, L.I.,...
RUDY'S HOUSE RULE: FEED THE RICH
I want a new house. I need a new house. I deserve a new house. And I want the taxpayers of this city to build it for me. Oh, I...
MIKE'S MILLIONS WON'T HELP HIM NOW
Don't expect billionaire Mayor-elect Mike Bloomberg to rely on his vast wealth to bail New York out of its budget woes. He doesn't have that much money. Besides, even if...
MIKE'S DEBUT SPEECH WILL 'CUT' TO THE CHASE
Mike Bloomberg may use his inaugural speech to call for symbolic cuts in staffing at agencies and at City Hall - and to urge the incoming City Council to meet...
'BELL' OF A WAY TO HONOR 9/11
Bells will chime around the city tomorrow evening - hours before folks will ring in the New Year. At 6 p.m., the mighty bells of the city's cathedrals, churches, mosques...
VIEWING PLATFORM OPENS ON 'HOLY GROUND'
Mayor Giuliani unveiled the first World Trade Center site observation platform yesterday, hours after he and aides to Mayor-elect Mike Bloomberg met with relatives of civilian victims of the Sept....
AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT, NEW YORK LOSES A MAYOR AND JUDI GETS BACK HER MAN
At the stroke of midnight tomorrow, Rudy becomes Judi's. As soon as the ball drops in Times Square, the Prince of the City will fall out of the public eye...
SPORE FIND RAISES NEW MAIL FEARS
Traces of anthrax were found inside a sorting machine at a Manhattan mail facility, raising fears yesterday there could be cross-contamination of millions of pieces of holiday mail. The machine,...
BROOKLYN PIT BULL A REAL PUSSYCAT: COPS
A pit bull roaming the streets of Brooklyn quickly turned into man's best friend yesterday, playing with police officers and jumping in the back of a patrol car. The pooch...
OOPS! HAS SEXY BRITNEY DONE IT?
She's not that innocent - Britney Spears has reportedly confessed to no longer being a virgin. The sultry 19-year-old singer was overheard at an awards party boasting about her sexcapades...
DEFENSIVE STORM POWERS JOHNNIES
St. John's97Quinnipiac60 If St. John's was looking for a competitive tuneup for its Big East opener on Wednesday at Pitt, the Red Storm looked to the wrong school in Quinnipiac....
QNS. BABY-SHAKE DAD BUSTED
A Queens man was charged with assaulting his 4-month-old daughter after he shook her apparently for no reason, officials said yesterday. Allen Suyayao, 49, was arrested at around 5 p.m....
ORAL ARGUMENT: PROSECUTOR BUSTED IN QNS. UNDERCOVER-HOOKER STING
A Queens assistant district attorney who prosecuted prostitutes and pimps has been busted for soliciting a hooker, police said yesterday. Michael Connolly, 49, a 23-year veteran of the Queens DA's...
DEMON DOC IS NO LONGER MY DAD, SAYS VICTIM'S DAUGHTER
A New York woman has vowed to "erase" all memories of her kinky doctor dad who murdered her mom. Shannon Sharpe, 28, said her cross-dressing father had turned out as...
SHOE KOOK SENT SUICIDE NOTE TO MOM
Accused shoe bomber Richard Reid wrote a chilling suicide note to his mom saying, "You will never see me again. You have better all convert to Islam." Reid sent the...
CHURCH PRAYS THAT ITS RELICS WILL BE FOUND AT GROUND ZERO
As workers continue to dig through the rubble at ground zero, a local pastor is praying that three saints' relics missing from his destroyed altar will be found in the...
COPS STING B'KLYN 'SCORPION' RAPE SUSPECT
The man known as the "Scorpion Rapist" was nabbed yesterday by cops after he terrorized women in two Brooklyn neighborhoods for nearly a month, police said. Omar Legree, 28, a...
VAUGHN-TED SLUGGER IS NUMBERED AMONG BASEBALL'S BEST GUYS
JUST outside the elevators leading to the Mets executive offices is a row of replica jerseys featuring some of baseball's royalty. All of the players or coaches represented - Tom...
FBI WIDOW FIGHTS FOR 9/11 FUNDS
The widow of the lone FBI agent killed while helping to rescue civilians during the World Trade Center attack was turned down for benefits by the city's Twin Towers Fund,...
UNION TO FACE MOB CHARGES OVER WTC
Cops say they are about to slap charges on up to 75 members of what they believe is a mob-tainted union preparing to muscle in on the rebuilding of damaged...
THE NERVE! CAN YOU BATTLE FOR A CAB WITHOUT BEING A JERK?
We've all been in the situation: You're late for an appointment, caught in the rain and trying desperately to score a cab. But when you finally spot a taxi with...
PARANOID ARAFAT FEARS A 'HIT'
JERUSALEM. ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said publicly he has no intention of ordering an attempt on the life of Yasser Arafat - but the PLO chairman acts as...
'POTTER' SCRIBE WEDS DOC
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling married her boyfriend at their home in Scotland, her spokeswoman said yesterday. The wildly successful writer married Dr. Neil Murray, an anesthetist, on Dec. 26,...
TIME FOR JETS TO...DISPERSE THE CURSE; GANG CAN BURY DECEMBER JINX WITH WIN TODAY
This is where the Jets let it all hang out. This is where they show their liberated side. Today at Giants Stadium against the 2-12 Bills is when the Jets...
MAKE JAX AN OFFER HE CAN'T REFUSE
IF Madison Square Garden's silent behind-the-screen star James Dolan has anything on the ball he should already be thinking about offering Mark Jackson the Knicks' head coaching job for next...
HE CAME & SAW, NOW VINNY MUST CONQUER
HE HAS waited two years and three months for this day, this moment, ever since his Achilles crumbled and a franchise and the Bill Parcells Era crumbled along with him....
DOC: EW NICE FIT AS COACH
KNICK NOTES Patrick Ewing the clown on the team plane? The life of dinner parties? So says Orlando coach Doc Rivers. Ewing's role as a backup center has not diminished...
BE ON LOOKOUT FOR 'TRAIN WRECK'
Cornerback Aaron Glenn said he'll have his head on a "swivel" for today's Jets game against the Bills. He'll be on the lookout for a guy nicknamed "Angry Man" and...
PAT'S BACK - AS BACKUP
MAGICatKNICKSTonight7:00 - MSG WFAN (660) Dave Checketts, the former Garden prez who masterminded Patrick Ewing's departure 15 months ago, never believed Ewing would have accepted a backup role as a...
ROLLING JETS ON CUSP OF PLAYOFFS
JET NOTES The Jets enter today's game having won two in a row, six of their last eight and eight of their last 11 games. The only scenario in which...
LINDROS LOSS WOULD BE REAL HEADACHE
LOS ANGELES - We won't know much of anything for a while, maybe for days, maybe for weeks, and we'll all have to live with that - including, most importantly,...
LEITER, METS HOPE FOR THE HOLIDAYS
HERE is what baseball teams are obligated to give their fans: Hope. So many teams have forgotten that simple fact and that's why major league baseball is in the mess...
JINTS WILL BE HEARING IT FROM THE CROWD
PHILADELPHIA - Playing at Veterans Stadium is not as daunting as it once was, as the Eagles are 3-4 at home this season. The Giants have also won their last...
PA. TUNES IN TO DEER SURVIVAL STUDY
THE Pennsylvania Game Commission and Penn State University recently launched one of the most extensive radio-telemetry studies of male deer dispersal and survival, and the effects of antler restrictions ever...
BYRON'S LOVING LUCIOUS
NET NOTESDay in, day out, Byron Scott has one message for Lucious Harris. "The only thing I say to him every day is, 'Just keep making shots, Lou,' " the...
'D'-PLORABLE EXHIBITION ; ISLES BLOW 5-1 LEAD, WIN IN OT
OVERTIMEIslanders6Canadiens5 The ball's not supposed to drop until tomorrow night. But last night in front of a sold-out Coliseum crowd, the Islanders almost dropped a major one in allowing the...
PURE KIDD STUFF AMAZIN' JASON LIFTS NETS
OVERTIMENets98Pacers93 For all those who utter "same old Nets" and insist that the early success being enjoyed in the Meadowlands is largely smoke and mirrors and that rotten luck and...
'CUSE CRUISES BY CATS ; MUNGRO 3 TDS SECURE WIN
INSIGHT.COM BOWLSyracuse26Kansas St.3 PHOENIX - A bobble, pick and bomb were all Syracuse needed to decisively swing momentum last night. The Orangemen made three key plays to score twice during...
HLAVAC'S 1-2 PUNCH KOS DEVILS
Canucks4Devils2 VANCOUVER (AP) - Jan Hlavac scored twice as the Canucks beat the Devils 4-2 last night. Mattias Ohlund and Brent Sopel also ended lengthy scoring slumps with goals for...
NO ERIC? NO PROBLEM 88 SITS AS RANGERS WATCH 'HEADACHE' SIGNS
LOS ANGELES - While Eric Lindros rested at the Rangers' hotel, Mark Messier rejoined the lineup after missing the previous four games with a shoulder injury. And Theo Fleury, who...
BACKS-TO-WALL JINTS; MUST FLIP THE BIRDS; LOMAS CALLS FOR PHYSICAL SHOWING
PHILADELPHIA - He has been around for longer than almost everyone, 17 years in the trenches, the last two with the Giants, and his face and body bear remarkably few...
BIG BLUE CAN PUT VET PARTY ON HOLD
PHILADELPHIA - They have experienced the joy that comes with clinching a division title twice in the past four seasons, and so the Giants know the drill. "We know they...
GIANTS POISED TO MAKE BELIEVERS OF US ALL
PHILADELPHIA - Their record is a pedestrian 7-7 and their chances of actually making the playoffs and defending their NFC Championship seem as remote as winning the lottery. But the...
THEO GETS OFF LIGHTLY : FLEURY NOT BANNED FOR KNEEING SHARK
LOS ANGELES - By the time the Rangers had boarded their charter for the flight here from San Jose immediately following Friday's wild and wildly improbable 5-3 victory over the...
ISLES ROLLING SEVENS : PECA LINE PROVIDES CONSISTENCY
The Islanders should feel lucky they have their Lucky Sevens. While the defense is reeling after the loss of Kenny Jonsson to a concussion and the Alexei Yashin line operates...
A TIME FOR TEARS & CHEERS : ATHLETES POURED THEIR HEARTS OUT DURING AMERICA'S DARKEST HOUR
True to the essence of the eternal athletic quest to get bigger, stronger and faster, a mournful 2001 turned into a record-breaking year. We learned how big was the athlete's...