January 27, 2002
LOCAL GAMBLING ON WINNING STREAK
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amThe terrorist attacks devastated Las Vegas' tourist trade, but riverboat casinos have been on a roll. Why? Because bettors didn't lose the urge to gamble, just to fly. So regional...
NOW'S THE TIME TO PICK UP JUNK
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amJUNK-bond funds are seeing steady streams of inflows as investors have decided bonds are the place to be for the best returns at the lowest risk in 2002. But since...
LOOK PAST PRO FORMA PERFECTION
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amTalk about two-faced. Companies have been distributing two sets of earnings releases: one for official use and the other for investors. And one of those - you can guess which...
BULL'S EYE
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amKICKING KMARTWHILE IT'S DOWN Protestors in white shirts stroll through Kmart and other retailers' aisles pushing empty shopping carts to make a point about overconsumption. As if Kmart doesn't have...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: RASHIDA JONES
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amShe may be the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton, but Rashida Jones of "Boston Public" (younger sister of actress Kidada) got off to a rough start in Hollywood."It's...
INDIES PUT SHINE ON BIG APPLE FILM FESTS
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amCannes and Sundance get so much media attention, it's easy to forget that the Big Apple is home to more than 20 film festivals of its own, including the big...
HIGH-PITCHED BRIT BAND MAKES NO FALSETTO PRETENSES
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amTim Burgess, the lead singer of the British band Charlatans UK, just found a new voice, and now he's wrecked it. Burgess, who recently discovered a love for the sugary...
GROWIN' UP NEEDN'T BE ALL DOWNHILL
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amI'm quite happy being 30 - until I want to do things that I suspect might not be appropriate for my age.Like snowboarding, for instance, or having crushes on ski...
BROADWAY STARS LAUNCH SOLO FLIGHTS
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amBroadway will be doing quite a number on audiences this season. From the beginning of this year until March 4, five official Broadway openings have been scheduled. Among them, these...
BLOOM IS OFF AMBROSE
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amFar be it from me to make mountains out of mole hills, but when the legacy of our great nation is threatened by a failure to use quotation marks where...
WHAT I WATCH
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amJUDGE JOE BROWN Host, "Judge Joe Brown" Programs that are informative, challenging, and stimulating. Since I'm a Trekkie, I watch sci-fi, too. I like "Mad TV," E!, BET, Discovery, "National...
GRIN AND SHARE IT: BUSY NEW YORKERS DISCOVERING THE JOYS OF JOINT DOG CUSTODY
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amYou've heard of Hamptons time shares. Now there's something else busy New Yorkers are sharing: dog ownership. The idea occurred to Manhattan neighbors Perry Souchuk and Valerie Cihylik as they...
SINGAPORE, WITHOUT THE LONG PLANE RIDE
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amArmchair travelers, pack your chopsticks. The Singapore Food Festival hits town next week, importing the unique cuisine of the Lion City to local pan-Asian restaurants. The gustatory getaway starts Feb....
'BRIBERY' JUDGE MAY HAVE LED A DOUBLE LIFE
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amIndicted Brooklyn judge Victor Barron told authorities he hit up a lawyer for a $250,000 bribe because he was desperately in debt - leading them to suspect he leads a...
CONSUMER, BEWARE OF CHARITIES
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amNow you can munch on M&Ms, pick up wallpaper at Home Depot, buy Beanie Babies - and maybe help a disaster victim at the same time. The two largest Sept....
MALCOLM X GRANDKID BUSTED : BURGLARY RAP FOR TEEN WHO TORCHED GRANNY IN '97
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amMalcolm X's grandson Malcolm Shabazz, a troubled youth who set a 1997 fire that killed his grandmother, was arrested on robbery and burglary charges after he was caught riding in...
AMMON'S WIFE THREATENED HIM OVER PHONE: PAL
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amA former business associate of murdered millionaire Ted Ammon said that during an argument Ammon's widow Generosa made threats against him. The associate, who asked not to be named, told...
U.S. SLAMMED FOR AFGHAN RAID
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amAmerican generals were on the defensive yesterday, insisting that sending more troops to Afghanistan would not have ensured terror chief Osama bin Laden's capture - and refuting charges that U.S....
DURST LAWYER: THE DA MADE HIM DO IT
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amA spokesman for Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro yesterday ridiculed defense suggestions that her relentless pursuit of millionaire Robert Durst in the disappearance of his first wife, Kathie, drove him to...
TRAITOR LEFT A PAPER TRAIL
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amNew details have emerged about accused traitor John Walker Lindh's transformation into the American Taliban fighter. During his six months at an Islamic school in Pakistan, Lindh gradually shed all...
FLOATING CASINO SETS SAIL AT LAST
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amA controversial casino boat cast off for its maiden voyage yesterday - but it left the Brooklyn shore with only a handful of gamblers, who waited three hours for the...
U.S. MISSED TERROR SIGNS, JUST LIKE IN HITLER'S DAY: RUDY
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amRudy Giuliani yesterday took a veiled swipe at the Clinton administration's foreign policy, saying the United States "ignored" warnings of impending terror strikes during the 1990s. Giuliani's comments came an...
FIREMAN'S CRASH SPARKS DWI RAP
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amA Manhattan firefighter faces a DWI charge after getting involved in a fender-bender blocks from his East Harlem station, police said. John Coyle, 41, of Ladder 14, rear-ended a 1992...
S.I. CRASH KILLS 2, INJURES 2
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amTwo members of a Staten Island family perished in a car crash yesterday afternoon, police said. At 2:15 p.m., Mary Oliver, 43, lost control of her 1988 Ford and slammed...
FLIGHT RISK: HOT PLANE PARTS
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amItalian police yesterday seized parts taken from six Airbus A300 jets at Rome's airport - a discovery that may shed light on what caused the crash of American Airlines Flight...
PERV-LINKED CLERIC MARKS ANNIVERSARY
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amBrooklyn's bishop joyously celebrated his 50th anniversary as an ordained priest yesterday without any mention of his alleged connection to a former Boston priest convicted of pedophilia. During a special...
PRESERVING THE SACRED RELICS : ARCHIVISTS GATHER GRIM REMINDERS FROM WTC
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amA team of archivists combing through the World Trade Center ruins has set aside fragments of the towers and the artwork and everyday artifacts that once filled them in a...
BROOKLYN NEW HOME FOR SECRET SERVICE
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amAmerica's most elite security officers just became bridge-and-tunnel people. The U.S. Secret Service moved to downtown Brooklyn last week, four months after being displaced by the World Trade Center disaster....
EX-BEAU BUSTED IN BX. BAT SLAY
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amDetectives yesterday arrested the ex-boyfriend of a 22-year-old mother who was found beaten to death with a baseball bat inside her Bronx apartment. The body of Socorro Estevez was found...
BRONX SHOOTING LEAVES 2 DEAD
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amTwo men were shot dead in a Bronx apartment building last night in what police said was a drug-related shooting. The shooting occurred around 6:25 p.m. in a two-story building...
NYPD IN HIGH GEAR FOR ECON SUMMIT
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amSeventy global leaders and thousands of business executives will receive unprecedented police protection this week for the World Economic Forum. The 3,000 expected guests will meet Thursday at the Waldorf-Astoria...
REAL PREZ, REEL 'WING' BOTH KINGS OF RATINGS
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amThe vote is in and Americans have spoken with their TV clickers - President Josiah Bartlet of "The West Wing" is more popular than President George W. Bush of the...
POWS RECALL REAL JAILS : CAMP X-RAY NOTHING LIKE WHAT THEY SURVIVED
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amFormer American prisoners of war who survived disease-ridden death camps in Japan, Korea and Vietnam say the controversial Camp X-Ray is more like a country club compared to the horrors...
GUNFIRE KILLS HARLEM MAN
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amA 64-year-old man was shot dead last night and another man was wounded when gunfire erupted outside a Harlem housing project. Bullets flew around 9:15 p.m. in front of the...
GOODFELLA'S NEXT PLANNED HIT STRICTLY LEGIT
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amHe's gone from mob rat to Mobster Inc. Gangland stoolie Henry Hill, whose life in the Luchese crime family was immortalized in the film "GoodFellas," is again reeling in the...
SURVIVORS FED UP WITH LONG LINES
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amSurvivors of the World Trade Center attack - tired of being treated like tourists - are pushing Mayor Bloomberg for better Ground Zero access. In letters and in meetings with...
TRANSPLANT SHOCKER : DOCS CUT OPEN LIVER DAD FOR NOTHING: SUIT
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amA Long Island father has sued Mt. Sinai Hospital's liver-transplant program, saying surgeons cut him open to transfer half his liver to his son - then decided the son didn't...
GITMO GOT 'EM DOWN? LET'S USE TALIBAN LAW
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amCALL me a pinko commie, but I agree - the Taliban and al Qaeda captives are being mistreated. So in the interest of fairness, and to make the prisoners, er,...
AMTRAK'S 'SURF AND RIDE' PLAN HITS RAILS
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amYahooooo! Passengers riding the rails now can surf the Internet for free. Three Amtrak trains, including one on the New York-Washington route, have been outfitted with computers that let riders...
FEDS: DON RULED BY CRAZY 'CHIN' CODE
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amVincent "Chin" Gigante used simple coded language, telephone calls and family visits to control the nation's most powerful Mafia family from a Fort Worth, Texas, federal lockup, The Post has...
AID AUCTION LEAVES BIDDER TASTE FOR PA
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amThe Port Authority Police Benevolent Association has been short-changed in a sports auction that private promoters "guaranteed" would raise $50,000 for the families of its fallen cops. But the Port...
CITY PROF'S SITE BITES HIS BOSSES
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amA disgruntled math professor has declared war against La Guardia Community College in Queens on the World Wide Web - charging it's a dumbed-down, anti-Semitic institution. Professor Martin Millman created...
SHARPTON URGES KING HS STUDENTS TO HELP BOOT VIOLENT CLASSMATES
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amStudents at troubled Martin Luther King Jr. HS must help school officials root out violent classmates, the Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday. Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson will speak...
ACTIVISTS DECRY 9/11 ARRESTS
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amCivil liberties groups demanded yesterday that the government release immigrants detained after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Some 100 protesters marched outside the Metropolitan Federal Detention Center in Brooklyn, chanting,...
NEWS OF LATEST FLU IS HARD TO STOMACH
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amA debilitating winter virus with extremely unpleasant symptoms is sweeping Britain and is expected to hit the United States soon, doctors say. The highly contagious bug, known as the Norwalk...
VICTORIA GOTTI
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amCAN we honestly fault "Iron Mike" Tyson as the sole instigator and perpetrator of last week's fight-promotion press-conference melee? I think not. The build-up for any sporting event - especially...
DEAD ENRON EXEC PROTESTED NUMBERS GAME
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The former Enron executive who apparently committed suicide had challenged the energy giant's accounting practices months before it collapsed. The disclosure came as the embattled Houston company prepared...
THE REAL HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHT : BIG BUCKS SQUARING OFF OVER TYSON LICENSE
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amTHE voice of the Vegas Insider crackled over the phone line like broken glass on a driveway. "Get a pencil," it commanded. "I'm gonna tell you where all the bodies...
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, YANKS NEED CONE
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amTHE Yankees should sign David Cone. Not out of nostalgia. Not out of charity. But for the best reason. Need. George Steinbrenner told Cone last week he would consider inking...
NBA FANS FINAL-LY CATCHING A BREAK : . . . BUT ABSURDITIES STILL ABOUND
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amARE you sitting down? There's actually a little something in the NBA's new national TV deal for - are you ready? - fans. Starting next year, when the Finals switch...
JINTS WADE-ING AFTER PHILLIPS
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amJim Fassel is most comfortable hiring and working with coaches he's known through the years, and that trend could lead him to hire a veteran defensive coordinator to replace John...
SOMETHING'S ROTTEN IN SWAMP : SKIDDING DEVILS WON'T ACCEPT BLAME
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amTHESE are the two words you never hear from Devils players who are so quick to alert the world to the failures of their teammates, their coach and their general...
ALL-STARS AND STRIPES
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE - Like the other major sporting enterprises, the NBA has seen fit to entrust the selection of its All-Star starters to the paying populace. While this method of madness...
IF RAMS LOSE, IT'S ALL ON MARTZ
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Kurt Warner is wearing the jacket, but it won't save Mike Martz any flak if the Rams go down today. Should his quarterback's ribs prove hot to...
ST. LOUIS GETS DEFENSIVE ABOUT ITS NEW LOOK
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - At this time last year, Kim Herring was whipping up on the Giants in Super Bowl XXXV as a starting safety for the Ravens. He was signed...
LINES ARE DRAWN IN BATTLE FOR BOURBON : DOUGLAS-PACE TUSSLE MAY HAVE SUPER RESULT
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Hugh Douglas might not be able to afford another victory. Thus far, the Eagles Pro Bowl defensive end has been hit where it hurts, in the paycheck,...
RUNNIN' RAMS, HIGH-FLYING EAGLES READY FOR 'DOGFIGHT'
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - He was thinking back to the last time he was in this situation, merely two years ago, when there seemed to be no earthly way for a...
WRANGLER CORRALS BIG A'S PAUMONOK
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amWhen the first-string runners of the powerhouse Stronach Stable headed south to Florida for the winter with trainer Joe Orseno, they left behind their good sprinter Wrangler in the care...
MOURNING MUSCLE KNOCKS OUT NETS
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amHeat90 Nets77 MIAMI - Welcome to playoff basketball, Nets. This is how it will be. Grinding, physical, aggressive, ugly. None of that run up and down pretty-boy stuff you've been...
IT'S A DUEL TO THE DESTINY : KORDELL: SUPER IS NEXT PITT STOP
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - As you enter this beautiful reborn city the signs of Steeler love are impossible to miss. The electronic signs that hang over the highway to warn drivers of...
TERRIFIC TOM HAS PATS BELIEVING IN FAIRY-TALE ENDING
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Everywhere he turns today he will be engulfed by yellow Terrible Towels waving furiously under a blue-collar sky. Everywhere he turns today, he will be under siege by...
FOR KIDS, ONE TO GROW ON : MANNY, KLOUCEK STEP UP
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amRangers6 Capitals3 There were so many things to like about yesterday afternoon's 6-3 victory over the Caps at the Garden, such as the way the Rangers created (and then capitalized...
HARVEY POINTS BOYS IN RIGHT DIRECTION
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amH.S. HOOPS Boys & Girls66 Newtown42 Amadou Fall has come close to winning PSAL championships in the past, but as a senior, he wasn't sure what kind of chance Boys...
TY TRYIN' TO KEEP HIS HEAD ABOVE WATER
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Ty Tryon didn't make the cut at the Phoenix Open, but he left TPC Scottsdale yesterday with his head high, knowing he played his final 27 holes...
STORM FOUNDER IN OT
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amOVERTIME Providence75 St. John's70 St. John's coach Mike Jarvis said it wouldn't happen again; it couldn't happen again. No way, no how, would the Red Storm come out flat for...
ANOTHER LONG TRIP TO NOWHERE
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amDevils2 Wild2 ST. PAUL - The Devils came back from their Expansion Excursion with their pointed tails between their legs, worse off than they began. What should shock Lou Lamoriello...
DOUBLE THE PLEASURE
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE - From quitters to triumphant warriors, the Knicks have made a stunning reversal in five days. After surviving yesterday's 129-127 double-overtime, nationally televised marathon over the Bucks for their...
LEWIS: MIKE WANTED TO SUCKER-PUNCH ME
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amLennox Lewis crawled from under the rubble on the stage of the Hudson Theater and emerged at Madison Square Garden last night to, of all things, watch a fight. In...
BIG LEAD FINALLY TURNS INTO SOME BIG POINTS
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amIsles6 Lightning2 Some things never change, one of them being that the Lightning continue to be the best remedy for a losing streak. The Isles snapped a two-game slide last...
BITTER NIGHT FOR 'SUGAR' : FORREST CAPTURES SHANE'S CROWN IN EASY DECISION
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amThere's more bad news for the boxing economy today. The price of Sugar has just gone down. In the latest example of a fighter elevated to a pedestal only to...
DON'T LET PETA FOIL YOUR FISHING
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amTHE U.S. House of Representatives has introduced a bill to protect fishing access and give anglers a voice in the regulatory process. Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) and Rep. Gene Green...
MIDSEASON REPORT CARDS
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amA LOTT HAS GONE WRONG The crash of the post-Van Gundy Knicks has been ugly. So are the mid-term grades. While some would give Jeff Van Gundy a grade of...
SUGAR WANTS SWEETER SUCCESS: BLAMES PROMOTER FOR NOT CAPITALIZING OFF WIN OVER OSCAR
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amAbout a month ago, at the press conference to officially announce last night's Shane Mosley-Vernon Forrest welterweight title bout, promoter Cedric Kushner was asked when, if ever, Mosley would fight...
ISLES HOPING MEZEI CAN BE BIG HELP ON BLUE LINE
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amIf you think it's been an up-and-down week for the Islanders, just ask Branislav Mezei about it. Actually, it's been more of a down-and-downer week for the Isles, which is...
DEPLETED DEVS TURN TO BOUCHARD
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amST. PAUL - With Brian Rafalski out of the All-Star Game and questionable for the Olympics with a sprained knee, the Devils are turning to the defenseman who missed the...
THE MOURNING AFTER: OKLA. ST. HEALING ON CRASH ANNIVERSARY
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amThe verdict was an 81-71 loss to Colorado, so all the Oklahoma State basketball team and staff wanted to do was get back to Stillwater and forget about it. It...
SJU IN DANGER ZONE: RED STORM WARY OF FRIARS' STEADY, SHOT-DENYING 'D'
January 27, 2002 | 5:00amProvidence coach Tim Welsh's words should still be resonating in the ears of the St. John's players. If they aren't, then certainly the sting of a 78-57 blowout just two...