January 28, 2002
WILL SMITH DESPERATELY SEEKS $80,000 SUBLET
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amWill Smith has an unusual dilemma. He's been searching for a one-month Big Apple sublet and is willing to spend up to $80,000 - but apparently hasn't found anything he...
MACK RAISES KNIFE - CSFB HONCHO'S NEXT MOVE IS SHAKE-UP
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amWhen John Mack took over as chief executive at Credit Suisse First Boston in July, he was charged with two major tasks: shrinking costs at the investment bank and cleaning...
LUSH BLUEGRASS
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amTHE bluegrass soundtrack from the Coen brothers film, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" was the surprise hit of 2001, ending up as one of the year's top-10 sellers. The group...
HOW TO BE A FIRST-STRING PLAYER
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amJASON Hagen sells guitars at Manny's Music, has his own band, and has been giving guitar lessons and auditioning tips for 10 years. Here's his advice about how to prepare...
PICK & CHOOSE - LIMP BIZKIT'S HUNT FOR NEW GUITAR PLAYER HITS QUEENS
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amTAKING a cue from the band's "Significant Other" album, Limp Bizkit is asking fans to "Show Me What You Got." The hard rock/hip-hop fusion band's 22-city search for a guitarist...
PREMIERES A HAPPY OCCASION FOR BALLET
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amNEW YORK CITY BALLETAt New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. (212) 870-5570. Season runs through Feb. 24. ----------- NEW York City Ballet this season has seen no less than three...
STARR REPORT
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amSchell game for veteran TV comedy stars A smorgasbord of TV stars from the '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s are banding together for a two-hour "Legends of Comedy" show that...
FOX HANDS (SPIT BALL TO 'MALCOLM' - 'SIMPSONS' STILL RULE BUT SEARCH IS ON FOR NEW TRADEMARK
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amMOVE over Bart. "Malcolm in the Middle" is trying to become the next signature show for Fox. Not since Homer Simpson and Al Bundy became the role models for Fox's...
ARE THESE THE FACES OF THE FUTURE? - BEWARE THE STAR SYSTEM. CABLE NEWS TENDS TO EAT ITS STARS
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amWHO will win the next round of evening talk wars on the cable news channels? The odds favor Fox, but the dark horse could be MSNBC. With Connie Chung set...
BEA-ING STYLISH:FORMER "GOLDEN GIRL" BEA ARTHUR TALKS ABOUT COMFORT CLOTHES, GOING BAREFOOT AND HER FAMOUS "MAUDE" WARDROBE
January 28, 2002 | 5:00am"You wanna talk about my STYLE?" growls Bea Arthur. "What style? I like to be comfortable!" In her hotel suite the other day, Arthur managed to look both stylish and...
HAT TRICKS
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amRATHER freeze your head off than wear a frumpy winter hat? Don't worry: This season's hat trends allow you to stay warm without sacrificing your fashion sense. Here, six of...
STUNNING COST OF 9/11 - U.S. ECONOMY TOOK $639B HIT: N.Y. STUDY
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amTHE Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will cost the national economy an astonishing $639.3 billion - and some 2 million lost jobs, a sober new state-funded report has found. The $100,000...
N.Y. LETS CHURCH SHIELD SEX ABUSE
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amIT'S time the Catholic Church in this city followed in the footsteps of its brothers in Boston before it's too late. On Thursday, the Boston Archdiocese broke a long-standing tradition...
OH, MY GUSH! FIX TRICKLES ALONG - CITY CRIES DROUGHT, BUT AQUEDUCT LEAKS 38M GALLONS A DAY
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amFacing the worst drought in more than a decade, city officials are pleading with New Yorkers to save water - yet they're still a year away from plugging a massive...
MALAYSIA AT CENTER OF PLOT: FBI
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amMalaysia was a "primary operational launchpad" for the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a secret FBI report. The capital city of Kuala Lumpur "is the perfect place for Arabs to...
BLOOMY: H2-WOES WILL 'GET WORSE'
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amA drought warning for the city will likely be issued by the end of today, officials predicted - prompting Mayor Bloomberg to call for voluntary conservation. "We are likely to...
VEEP FACES LAWSUIT OVER CONGRESS' ENRON PROBE
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The White House could face an unprecedented lawsuit by a congressional agency as early as this week, after Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday refused to budge on a...
BUSH WILL PUSH ECONOMY IN 1ST UNION ADDRESS
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Aides say President Bush will make his case for fixing the ailing economy and champion his lingering war on terrorism in his State of the Union Address tomorrow...
MIKE: WE'LL KEEP ECON SUMMIT SAFE
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg said that while he hopes there will be no mayhem at this year's World Economic Forum beginning Thursday at the Waldorf-Astoria, the NYPD is prepared to keep the...
'HAPPY' WON'T BE PART OF REAGAN'S 91ST BIRTHDAY
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amFormer President Ronald Reagan's 91st birthday will be marked not with balloons and streamers, but with a quiet bedside vigil by his family. Reagan is the longest-living American president, but,...
HEIR TURBULENCE ON DURST'S TEXAS JET
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amGALVESTON, Texas - Accused killer heir Robert Durst was flown to Texas yesterday - and spent the three-hour flight talking to himself, eating an apple and getting bounced around by...
'F' IS FOR FARCE IN GRADING REGENTS
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amCity science teachers are charging that state educators dumbed down the scoring of the biology Regents exam so more students could pass. The scoring system enabled students who appear to...
BUBBA SHOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE DUBYA ON LYING YASSER: CHUCK
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amSen. Charles Schumer yesterday criticized former President Bill Clinton for not holding Yasser Arafat's "feet to the fire," and praised President Bush for not talking about peace in the Mideast...
NOTE TO 'GENEVA' WHINERS: THESE RATS BITE
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amTHE lamebrains who keep rattling on about the Geneva Convention need an IQ transplant. If they stopped for a nanosecond to review the foundation of these accords, some light bulbs...
LADY VIAGRA WILL LEAVE WOMEN TICKLED 'PINK'
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amA female version of Viagra is expected to go on sale next year, with the promise of giving women faster arousal and better orgasms. Pfizer, the drug company behind the...
'NYPD BLUE' STAR DELANEY IN DWI BUST
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amSexy TV star Kim Delaney - who played an alcoholic cop on "NYPD Blue" - was busted for drunken driving over the weekend, police said. Delaney, 40, was arrested at...
BUSH: N-O TO 'POWS' - TOP AIDES REJECT STATUS FOR TERROR INMATES
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amTerror prisoners at Camp X-Ray will not be given prisoner-of-war status, key members of the Bush war Cabinet said yesterday - but new arrivals can look forward to munching on...
RAGING 'BULL@#$%': AMMON'S WIDOW RIPS TALE OF THREATS
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amLONDON - Murdered millionaire Ted Ammon's former wife, Generosa, yesterday blasted back at accusations that she made threats against her slain husband. "That's total bull- - - -," she raged...
TWO NABBED IN SUBWAY STABBING
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amCops have arrested two men for stabbing a fellow passenger during a dispute aboard a Manhattan-bound No. 7 train, police said. A 32-year-old man was stabbed in the head, back...
MIKE GOES TO ALBANY IN DASH FOR CASH
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amNew York City has been financially shortchanged by the state, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday, adding he plans to ask Albany lawmakers today to pump back a bigger chunk of the...
RUDY NAMED HIS JUDI TO TWIN TOWERS FUND BOARD
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani had his girlfriend Judith Nathan appointed to the board of directors of the city's Twin Towers Fund during his push to take over the...
CAMERA CAUGHT FLT. 587 CRASH
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amFederal investigators probing the November crash of Flight 587 into the Rockaways are studying photos taken from an area tollbooth that capture the plane's fateful plunge. And Italian police are...
NEW AFGHAN LEADER IN D.C.
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amHamid Karzai - the first Afghan leader to visit Washington in 39 years - meets President Bush today to urge the United States to continue its commitment to help restore...
BEAU KILLS WOMAN, THEN SELF
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amA jealous boyfriend shot and stabbed his girlfriend to death in her Brooklyn apartment early yesterday, then took his own life hours later in the elevator of a friend's home...
WOMAN BOMBER HITS JERUSALEM - KILLER & BYSTANDER DIE IN LATEST TERROR
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian terrorists' first female bomber blew herself up on a downtown Jerusalem street crowded with shoppers yesterday, killing an elderly man and wounding scores of bystanders in a...
HOMELESS GIRLS ON SAD SCHOOL ODYSSEY
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amTwo sisters have been forced to live as nomads - constantly switching schools, in some cases after only 10 days - because the city has failed to find their family...
SUIT ALLEGES JEHOVAH'S KIDDIE-SEX COVERUP
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amThe Jehovah's Witnesses, whose world headquarters have stood in Brooklyn since 1909, are being blasted in a new sex suit claiming church elders turn a blind eye to pedophiles in...
POLS NOT MAKING 'THE CUT' - NO TAKERS FOR MIKE'S STAFF-TRIM DARE
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amNearly a month after Mayor Bloomberg called on the city's elected officials to make 20 percent staffing cuts in their offices, none has yet embraced the idea. Bloomberg raised eyebrows...
STINK OVER STENKA: CITY KNOCKS LOCAL RUSSIANS' FIST FEST
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amLET'S get ready to rumble. Unfortunately, I mean that figuratively, rather than literally. In the latest example of political correctness run amok, it looks as though the city is going...
WOMAN SLAIN IN B'KLYN APT.
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amA woman was shot and stabbed to death early yesterday in her Brooklyn apartment, and police were searching for her boyfriend, authorities said. Lydia Francisco, 39, was discovered on the...
REAGANS SUBDUED ON RONNIE'S 91ST BIRTHDAY
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amFormer President Ronald Reagan's 91st birthday will be marked not with balloons and streamers, but with a quiet bedside vigil by his family. Reagan is the longest-living American president, but,...
GRATEFUL AFGHAN LEADER IN D.C.
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amHamid Karzai - the first Afghan leader to visit Washington, D.C., in 39 years - touched down yesterday, carrying a message of thanks and saying he hopes for an even...
AFGHANS: ATTACK ON POWELL FOILED
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amAfghan security forces claim they thwarted a number of terrorist attacks timed to coincide with Secretary of State Colin Powell's recent visit to Kabul. Kabul police have seized a bus...
ABDUCTORS SEND PIC OF REPORTER
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amThe group that kidnapped a Wall Street Journal reporter in Pakistan has e-mailed the newspaper a photograph showing a gun to his head, and demanded better treatment for terror suspects...
WOMAN BOMBER HITS JERUSALEM: KILLER & BYSTANDER DIE IN LATEST TERROR
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - The Palestinians' first female bomber blew herself up on a downtown Jerusalem street crowded with shoppers yesterday, killing an elderly man and wounding dozens of bystanders in a...
FEMMES FATALES HERALD NEW TERROR ERA
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amExperts in terrorism and the Middle East yesterday said the use of a woman as a bomber by Palestinian Islamic militants may indicate a new phase in the conflict. "I...
KAMENSKY IS GIVING DEVILS SOME HOPE
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amThere was a lone ray of sunlight breaking through the gloom of the Devils' Expansion Excursion, raising the hopes of the two-time Stanley Cup finalists that they aren't just as...
PRESSURE TACTICS SLOWING NETS
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amThere's no secret about the Nets' offensive success this season. They get it and go. But there's no secret about what teams try to do to stop them. "The scouting...
ADD GUOKAS TO KNICKS' COACH MIX
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amYou've heard the names of former coaches out of work who could turn into Knicks coaching candidates this summer if Don Chaney doesn't get the club into the playoffs. Mike...
CHUMPS TO CHAMPS: BELICHICK FINALLY BREAKS OUT OF TUNA'S SHADOW
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - He stood on the podium in the center of a hushed Heinz Field and pulled a blue sweatshirt over his head that read CHAMPIONS. Only two years ago,...
PATRIOTS GO FROM CHUMPS TO CHAMPS - STORYBOOK FINISH EASES BLEDSOE'S PAIN
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The most basic element of this game is belief, belief in yourself and belief in your teammates. When no one else believes. That lesson was driven home again...
KORDELL CRASHES & BURNS
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The last thing Kordell Stewart wanted to talk about was 1997. That had been the last time he had suffered a meltdown in the AFC Championship. He didn't...
PATS HAVE 1ST SUPER CONTROVERSY
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amAFC NOTES PITTSBURGH - What would Super Bowl week be without a little quarterback controversy? The Pats have a dandy one. Should young and injured Tom Brady start or should...
ST. LOO SUPER AGAIN, BUT IT'S NOT BIG EASY - FAULK'S LEGS HELP RAMS GRIND OUT WIN OVER EAGLES
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - The improbable joy ride of two years ago produced "a dream season," Kurt Warner recalled, because "no one expected us to do anything." It is two years...
EAGLES CAN ONLY BLAME THEMSELVES
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - When you have the ball for all of nine minutes of a second half that began with your team up four points, there is no crying over...
RAM QUESTION: WHICH QB? - NO PAT ANSWER AFTER BRADY'S HURT
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amNOV. 18, 2001: Rams 24 - Patriots 17 ST. LOUIS - This is unprecedented. The Rams, following yesterday's 29-24 victory over the Eagles in the NFC Championship game, knew they...
RAMS' 'D' TOUGH AGAIN
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amNFC NOTES ST. LOUIS - Another game, another example of why these Rams are more than all flash and dash. For the second time in as many playoff games, the...
KNICKS GET BACK TO BOLD SELVES
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amThey look like the Knicks again - resilient, mentally tough, proud, swaggering. The aliens that had invaded their bodies for the first six weeks of the Don Chaney Era, they're...
NFL REPLAY RULE MISSES THE BALL
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amA 19-YARD, second-quarter pass from Tom Brady to Troy Brown, good for a first down, was ruled incomplete in yesterday's AFC Championship, based on conclusive, replay rule visual evidence -...
BAIANO GETS POINT ACROSS; FINAL DISH DUSTS OFF MIDWOOD
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amSt. Peter's 60 - Midwood 58 When you think about New York City basketball, normally only four boroughs come to mind. Staten Island, well, it has good football. John Baiano...
SAARLAND IS FIRST OUT OF STARTING GATE
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amSpring, it seems, is already in the air. And although the first Saturday in May is still 14 weeks away, today The Post begins the annual countdown to the May...
IT'S TROY TO THE RESCUE - BROWN SPECIAL WITH FLIP, TD
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Think of Troy Brown's scoop and shuttle lateral as football's version of Derek Jeter's amazing flip that saved the Yankees against the A's. It was the same kind...
COX FINALLY FEELS SUPER
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - He waited 11 years for yesterday. Bryan Cox failed in the AFC Championship with the Dolphins in 1992 and again with the Jets in 1998. He didn't fail...
WARNER AVOIDS BIG HURT VS. EAGLES
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Not once. Not once did the Eagles get to see just how badly bruised Kurt Warner's ribs actually were. Not once did they get the big hit...
MARSHALL STEALS QBS' THUNDER
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - It only hurt Kurt Warner when he breathed. There wasn't much room for that activity, either, not the way Donovan McNabb kept bringing the Eagles back and...
ST. LOO PROVES IT'S RAM TOUGH: FAULK'S LEGS HELP STEAMROLL EAGLES
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amRams 29 Eagles 24 ST. LOUIS - If the Rams do indeed complete what appears to be their destiny and emerge as a dynasty, they always will remember the difficult...
DIRTY BIRDS GIVE RAMS PAIN: CHEAP SHOT SENDS PACE TO SIDELINES
January 28, 2002 | 5:00amNFC NOTEBOOK ST. LOUIS - The much-hyped confrontation yesterday between a pair of Pro Bowl linemen, left tackle Orlando Pace of the Rams and defensive end Hugh Douglas of the...