January 6, 2002
HASTE MAKES WASTE
AOL Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin shocked the world last month when he announced his retirement plans. While Levin was said to be pleased with his ability to keep his...
HOW SWEAT EQUITY PAYS
You might want to throw a gym stock in with your workout gear. Athletic clubs could be a way to beef up your portfolio, and the reason goes beyond New...
INSIDERS: BONDS SAFE IN '02
BONDS were a surprising source of good news for investors in 2001, and fixed-income insiders insist bonds will continue to be a safe haven in 2002 as well. However, the...
ACCENTURE WILL WOW ANALYSTS
Economic downturns can sink consulting firms, but Accenture Ltd. is managing to keep its head above water. The firm, formerly named Andersen Consulting, has managed to grab market share even...
BULL'S EYE
SHINY-NOSED HALEY WARBLES HIS STOCK PICK Tired of Christmas? Wall Street isn't. Just the other day, according to Bull's Eye spy Lois Weiss, Wachovia Securities analyst Christopher Haley penned a...
ADVISERS FAIL INVESTING
This won't inspire confidence. A new study says that the same people who are managing or advising you about your retirement money aren't doing so well with their own. It...
PRAISE 'LORD'? I THINK NOT
Call me prissy, but whenever I pay $275 million for something, I expect it to be perfect. If only the same could be said for New Line Cinema, whose high-priced...
ROMANCE RESOLUTION: BUILD ON FIRST SPARKS
So what happened to all those guys? As the clock stuck midnight on New Year's Eve, my reflections on 2001 were shallow and to the point - what had become...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: KRISTIN DATTILO
Kristin Dattilo - who stars on the "Chris Isaak Show" as Yola Gaylen, the country singer's fiery manager - can't avoid being cast as a music babe. As a teen,...
WRITER 'KABUL'S TOGETHER A RARE SHOW OF POLITICS
There has always been political theater. Even Shakespeare gave his history plays a Tudor slant - probably to please, or at least not displease, good Queen Bess. But for such...
TIME IS ON THEIR SIDE
Tsai Ming-liang, the talented Taiwanese filmmaker, was a bit apprehensive about directing Jean-Pierre Léaud in his pleasing black comedy "What Time Is It There?" "I'm very familiar with his [Léaud's]...
JET SET JITTERS : THE HOLLYWOOD CROWD IS JUST LIKE YOU AND ME: AFRAID TO TRAVEL FOR BIG MOVIE EVENTS
What if they held a major film festival, and no stars showed up? We may never find out, but things are looking a little bleak for next week's Sundance fest...
REX APPEAL: CORNISH CAT IS AS FANCIED AS IT IS UNUSUAL
The majority of feline fanciers see true beauty in the ordinary domestic shorthair - i.e., the average household cat. But there's a special breed of cat lover who has eyes...
BUFFALO STAMPEDE : THE HEALTHY 'OTHER' RED MEAT IS SUDDENLY FASHIONABLE
It's not just the snowiest city in the state. It's the hottest dish in town. Yes, those ladies (and men) who lunch have tossed aside their salads in favor of...
COMFORT FOOD BY WAY OF SOUTHWEST FRANCE
Gascogne 158 Eighth Ave. (between 17th and 18th streets) (212) 675-6564 On a frigid night, words like cassoulet and confit have a very nice ring to them. And a sip...
WHAT I WATCH
CHERYL HURLEY President, Library of America "I enjoy watching American Movie Classics because I can't resist Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Palance, Carolyn Jones and Katharine Hepburn!" GAYLE KING Editor...
CIRCLE THAT DATE ON YOUR CALENDAR
READY? OK, rhyme along with me: Thirty days hath September, April, June, but not November. November now has 31 according to the original 2002 Congressional Calendar. Yes, boys and girls,...
SLAY WIDOW'S BEAU DECKED IN BAR BRAWL
The bad-boy lover of Generosa Ammon was involved in a bloody barroom brawl over another woman, The Post has learned. Danny Pelosi, a Long Island electrician who has dated slain...
EURO SCAMMER HAS MONOPOLY ON FUNNY MONEY
A French bar owner confessed that a customer tricked him out of a free drink by paying with Monopoly money. Jean-Paul Bouton, owner of a bar located in the southern...
CANDLE BLAZE GUTS UPPER EAST SIDE APTS.
Six families were left homeless yesterday after a four-alarm blaze gutted their Upper East Side apartment building. One resident said an unattended candle in a sixth-floor apartment at 1264 Lexington...
COP SHOOTS PIT BULL IN B'KLYN BITE-FEST
A police officer investigating a report of shots fired in Brooklyn's East New York early yesterday shot a charging pit bull moments before his partner was bitten by another dog,...
BEST-SELLING HISTORIAN IS A COPYCAT, SAYS WRITER
Historian Stephen Ambrose plagiarized parts of his new book on World War II bomber pilots, a new magazine report claims. Fred Barnes, a columnist and executive editor of The Weekly...
SUDDENLY, CUOMO'S A BORN-AGAIN TAX CUTTER
ALBANY - Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo unexpectedly called on Gov. Pataki yesterday to keep promised tax cuts despite New York's looming budget deficit. Cuomo described the state's private sector...
SOLDIER LIVED & DIED FOR ARMY : FIRST COMBAT FATALITY SAW SERVICE AS SECOND FAMILY
Nathan Ross Chapman was no stranger to the world's trouble spots. In 14 years in the Army - most of them as a Green Beret - he parachuted into Panama,...
MIFFED COP CADETS WILL PACK HEAT
The NYPD has averted simmering tensions between new recruits and police brass over a proposal to force cadets who were sent out to help combat crime during the Christmas season...
POLS LEAD 9/11 KIN IN PROTE$T
The protest against the federal government's World Trade Center payout plan has intensified, with two congressmen and victims' kin gathering today outside the offices of the man putting the terms...
PERKY PREZ LAUGHS OFF TAXING DEM
A feisty President Bush yesterday charged that Democrats like Senate leader Tom Daschle are plotting to hike taxes when they rap his tax cuts - and vowed that they'll do...
ON-THE-LAM OMAR IS A MOTORCYCLE MULLAH: CHIEFTAINS
One-eyed Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has flown the coop again - this time riding a motorcycle - Afghan officials claimed yesterday after days of predicting they'd soon nab him....
ZINNI CONFIDENT OF A DEAL : TERROR-SHIP SEIZURE WILL DOMINATE TALKS
U.S. peace envoy Anthony Zinni was hopeful he could broker a new truce between the Israelis and Palestinians yesterday - despite continuing tensions over a 50-ton shipment of smuggled arms...
HS PARTY STRIPPER BUSTED FOR COKE
The stripper who let members of a Chappaqua high-school football team lick whipped cream off her breasts early last fall is behind bars after cops caught her with crack and...
GERI BURSTING AT THE BIG EGO
Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is telling a wax museum what she really, really wants: a skinny replica of herself. Halliwell, 29, formerly Ginger Spice, has had more than two...
OSAMA'S FAVE WIFE ARRESTED IN YEMEN
Osama bin Laden's favorite wife, her bodyguards and one of his babies were reportedly captured in Yemen yesterday, firming up investigators' suspicions the terror chief may be living there. Yemeni...
AN EXTREMELY SUPPORTIVE EX
In her first interview since his mayoral campaign began, Mayor Bloomberg's ex-wife reportedly says she's still "close friends" with the mayor - and that she feels "guilty" their marriage ended....
MIKE MULLING APPEAL OF HOMELESS RULING
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday left the door open to appealing a federal judge's ruling saying a Midtown church can continue to let homeless people use its steps for shelter. Bloomberg said...
TICKET TO DECEPTION: DUCAT-BUYERS DUPED BY 'FREE' MAGAZINE OFFER
ALBANY - Tens of thousands of New Yorkers wound up with paid magazine subscriptions they didn't ask for simply because they ordered tickets through Ticketmaster. An investigation by state Attorney...
BAD CALL: LONG-DISTANCE RATES $KYROCKET
If spending less money in 2002 was among your New Year's resolutions, you might want to think twice before making that next long-distance phone call. Between now and Feb. 1,...
HERO COP'S BODY FOUND IN RUBBLE
The body of a cop who twice entered the flaming World Trade Center in a daring bid to save as many people as he could was uncovered amid the towers'...
BARRON BRINGING 'HOOD TO THE HALL
EVEN though he's almost 70, Herbert Daughtry says life in New York continues to be full of new encounters. "I'm so used to swearing people out," the fiery Brooklyn minister...
PLANE HITS FLA. BLDG. : 15-YEAR-OLD STUDENT-PILOT DIES IN BIZARRE AIR CRASH
A teenage boy in a stolen plane brought back harrowing memories of Sept. 11 yesterday when he slammed a single-engine Cessna into a Tampa office tower, killing himself and leaving...
VICTORIA GOTTI
'IF anyone is kind enough to put me in the same category as an actor as my father, I would consider it the greatest compliment anyone could give to me,"...
THERE'S NOT ONE 'SOLITARY' GOOD REASON TO TORTURE A GOOD COP
CHUCK SCHWARZ, the hero Marine, the hero cop who is yet to spit on a sidewalk, is being tortured again. Lest the trauma of Sept. 11 anaesthetize us to individual...
WEEK ONE IS OFTEN A WEAK ONE FOR MAYORS
The Bloomberg era has already been marked by a funding fight with cops and firefighters, charges of blatant nepotism and the sad death of a homeless man who froze under...
YVES OF DEPARTURE? :FRENCH FASHIONISTA'S MYSTERY BRIEFING TOMORROW
When and if Yves Saint Laurent announces he's leaving the fashion world for good, an era of elegance, tradition and grand chic will come to an end. Many fear the...
CHINA SPY-PLANE PILOT NOW MAN ON AN AFGHAN MISSION
A U.S. Navy spy-plane pilot who was held captive in China for a tense 11 days last year is back in action - this time braving enemy fire while cruising...
BLOOMY'S KID: I EARNED A SPOT : BRAINY EMMA MAKES HER PITCH FOR CITY JOB
Emma Bloomberg wants a job at City Hall - and she's not shy about saying she thinks she'll be good at it. "It's not a matter of following in your...
THE SUPER 'SUPER' : NEW BOSS PULLS B'KLYN SCHOOLS OUT OF A SLUMP
Brooklyn's "brownstone" school district - mired in debt and turmoil just a year ago - is on the upswing. New District 15 Superintendent Carmen Farina is getting plaudits from Schools...
WALL STREET BIZ GROUP'S MISSION: RESCUE DOWNTRODDEN DOWNTOWN
Downtown business groups are grappling with the thorny issue of how to get tourists and New Yorkers to spend money in the area after they spill off the viewing stands...
COLLINS WILL FIND OUT HOW HE STACKS UP WITH BEST
IT'S all over, except for Jim Fassel shouting at Ron Dixon, the difference between a losing season and a non-losing season coming down only to semantics. If anything, 8-8 would...
GIANTS WILL TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS : THEY'RE DRAINED, BUT THEY'LL BATTLE PACKERS TO FINISH
A year ago, the Giants headed into the final game of the regular season brimming with confidence, filled with expectation and thirsting for more, more, more. One victory would give...
JUREVICIUS HOPES HE'S DONE ENOUGH TO STICK AROUND
Several players today will be playing their final game in a Giants uniform. Joe Jurevicius hopes to do something to ensure he's not one of those on the way out....
JETS HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO BRING IT HOME
OAKLAND - The Jets have no choice but to Bring It Home today. They are out of excuses if they do not bring home a playoff berth, and Bring It...
VINNY'S A GONER WITH LOSS TODAY : FAILURE SURE TO TRIGGER SHAKEUP
OAKLAND - From every angle, this will be a colossal showdown. It'll be a showdown between the Jets and Raiders with the 9-6 Jets having their playoff lives hanging in...
SELANNE HARPOONED BY TOP SHARK
PITTSBURGH - The uneasy relationship between Teemu Selanne and Darryl Sutter reached new proportions last week when the San Jose coach blasted the unhappy winger in front of his teammates...
RAFFI MAKES HIS MARK : TORRES WINS OVER FANS WITH CRUSHING HITS
When most people look in the mirror at the beginning of the New Year, they see some things they want to change. When Islanders rookie Raffi Torres sees the battered...
DEVILS FEELING HEAT JUST TO MAKE PLAYOFFS
RALEIGH - While they're still on the playoff bubble, their air of invincibility has burst. The Devils reach the midpoint of the season tomorrow when they play host to the...
REINING IN LOOSE KENYONS :NBA NEEDS TO HIT FLAGRANT FOULERS WITH FULL FORCE
OFF Kenyon Martin's injury-afflicted rookie season, I was oblivious to how much offensive velocity and defensive viscosity was packed into that powder keg of a body he struts around the...
LINE'S GREAT FEATS DON'T EQUAL WINS
OAKLAND - The biggest mystery surrounding the Jets is how their offensive line can be so good and yet the offense struggle so much to score touchdowns. If the Jets...
FOR ONCE, LET'S PROTECT THE FANS
SO LET'S say New York City does, in fact, gift hundreds of millions of dollars each to the Mets and Yanks to share the cost of building them new ballparks....
ROOKIES TO THE RESCUE! : COLLINS, JEFFERSON HELP DEPLETED NETS
Nets89 Hornets80 CHARLOTTE - Kenyon Martin was back in New Jersey for tossing a punch. Keith Van Horn sat in his hotel room after tossing his lunch. Todd MacCulloch answered...
THESE FREE-WHEELIN' METS NO BETTER THAN THE YANKS
A MONTH ago today, the Mets traded Robin Ventura, whom they had signed as a high-priced free agent two seasons earlier, to the Yankees for David Justice. Four days later,...
K-MART: NOW I'VE GOT TO BE MR. SOFTY
CHARLOTTE - In the wake of his second league-imposed suspension for a flagrant foul in two weeks, Nets forward Kenyon Martin admits he must tone down his act. "I've got...
HOUSTON PLAYS SAME OLD SONG
IT seems I've had this argument with friends, colleagues and even strangers almost weekly since the Knicks began their season. It centers around Allan Houston and whether he's worthy of...
IRON DEPUTY TAKES COUNT FLEET STAKES
Going into yesterday's $75,000 Count Fleet Stakes at Aqueduct, Iron Deputy already had shown he was the class of the nine-horse field, coming off a four-length victory in the Huntington...
LEZCANO IS RIDING HIGH
Hot-riding bug boys are a winter racing tradition in New York, as horsemen covet the five-pound weight break a talented young apprentice provides. Steve Cauthen, Rich Migliore, Shaun Bridgmohan and...
STORM HIT STRIDE IN WVU ROMP
St. John's72 W. Va.53 Perhaps St. John's is finally breaking out of its prolonged offensive slump. Or perhaps freshman Eric King is rapidly developing into the bruising force coach Mike...
BUG BOY BLOWS THE FINISH LINE
1ST RACE - In race guaranteed to have fast pace because Mayor Steve was running, Skipper Kipper surprisingly was made chalk. Mayor Steve rushed out to fast pace and had...
SORRY KNICKS FADE IN FOURTH
Celtics 90 Knicks 81 A cryptic mood enveloped the Knicks' locker room afterward. There were separate scenes of one player whispering into another's ear by their lockers. At one point,...
AFTER CLEARANCE, CLARENCE HURT AGAIN
Clarence Weatherspoon had expected to return to practice Friday and possibly play during the Knicks' three-game Texas trip that starts tomorrow night in San Antonio. But after being cleared to...
ONE RETURNS, ONE LEAVES : TROUBLED THEO WALKS OUT ON DAY LINDROS COMES BACK
PITTSBURGH - Eric Lindros' return to the ice here yesterday afternoon was overshadowed by an incident involving Theo Fleury. The emotional winger, who suffered through an exasperating six-game road trip...
TEXAS TUG-OF-WAR FOR JUAN : AMAZIN'S IN REAL BATTLE FOR SLUGGER
Yesterday, the Mets were sitting pretty in the highest of high-stakes poker games. The winner-take-all prize, it hardly needs to be said, is Juan Gonzalez. But sometime last night, two...
MONEY CAN'T CHANGE STREAKY ALLAN
IT SEEMS I have this argument with friends, colleagues and even strangers almost weekly since the Knicks began their season. It centers around Allan Houston and whether he's worthy of...
NOT EXACTLY ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY
Devils2 'Canes1 RALEIGH - When the swellings subside shortly, the main significance of last night's Devils victory is likely to be the way their top center left the building. "There...
ISLES' POPGUNS MISFIRE
Kings3 Isles0 And so the winning streak skids to a halt at one game for the Islanders. Third-period goals by Los Angeles' Eric Belanger (two) and former Isle Bryan Smolinski...
YOUTH SHOWS THE WAY :ROOKIES GIVE SCOTT SOME NEEDED RELIEF
Nets89Hornets80 CHARLOTTE - Kenyon Martin was back in New Jersey for tossing a punch. Keith Van Horn sat in his hotel room after tossing his lunch. Todd MacCulloch answered the...
ACHING SPOON'S STILL NOT READY
KNICK NOTES Clarence Weatherspoon had expected to return to practice Friday for the first time and play sometime on the upcoming Texas trip next week. But after being cleared to...
TIME NOT CHANEY'S ALLY: DON'S STILL TEACHING KNICKS TO DO IT HIS WAY
There are still things with the offense Don Chaney wants to do. He just hasn't had enough time. Yesterday marked the month anniversary since taking over for Jeff Van Gundy....
STOMACH BUG KOS VAN HORN
NET NOTES CHARLOTTE - Byron Scott swore he wasn't having flashbacks to last season. But you'd understand if the Net coach was. A few hours after learning he'd be without...
BEHIND THE MAKING OF THE AMAZIN'S
Ten men crowded into the fourth-floor executive suite at Shea Stadium the afternoon of Oct. 15. In a few hours, across the Triborough, the hated Yankees would clinch a fourth...