February 25, 2002
DANGER LOOMING: PROS SAY RECOVERY FACES PLENTY OF HURDLES
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amThe market zooms forward when some new piece of economic data indicates a green light. Then another economic statistic contradicts the first, sending a clear red light. No wonder investors...
LA CONFIDENTIAL MAG DEBUT SET FOR OSCARS
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amLos Angeles has a new player in town. LA Confidential magazine will make its debut on March 18. The inaugural issue is being timed to coincide with the Academy Awards,...
DOING RIGHT TING: ACTRESS JOINS AIR FORCE AFTER ESCAPE FROM WTC ATTACK
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amA young actress-model who narrowly escaped death in the World Trade Center attack has ditched her party clothes for a drab Air Force uniform. Twenty-three-year-old Amy Ting - a 5-foot-5,...
YOU CAN'T BLAME ELAINE : THIRD TRY TO RECAPTURE 'SEINFELD' CHARM
February 25, 2002 | 5:00am"Watching Ellie" Tomorrow night at 8:30 on WNBC/Ch. 2 THE hardest part about "Watching Ellie," Julia Louis-Dreyfus' new show, is, well, watching it. That's because everyone (me included) loves Julia...
'PASSIONS' RISE ON SUICIDE PLOT
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amFANS of the NBC soap "Passions" are up in arms over a plotline involving a suicidal young girl who is pregnant with an unwanted child. In the show, the character,...
OLD BUT FOREVER YOUNG
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amCROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG TWO years after the triumphant CSNY2K concert tour that reunited Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the ancient supergroup got back to the Garden - and...
WHAT A GUY FOR BLUES
February 25, 2002 | 5:00am'WELL, I done got old. Can't do the things I used to do," laments Buddy Guy on the opening track "Sweet Tea," an album he released last year. The songs...
WHAT A GOLDEN TWO WEEKS!
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amTHANK you, NBC. If you were a figure-skater, I'd give you a 6.0 and throw roses at you. The network deserves all that praise and then some for paying close...
STARR REPORT
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amHal be seeing ya: Linden on 'Broadway' Former "Barney Miller" star Hal Linden will make his New York nightclub debut at Feinstein's at The Regency (March 5-16) with a show...
MOONLIT BEAUTY: WHERE TO GET PAMPERED AFTER DARK
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE'S enough to do on the weekend without having to attend to grooming - that's why more salons are staying open late during the week. "Clients come after work to...
PIERRE CARDIN : ISN'T IT RICH? AT 81, THE LEGENDARY DESIGNER HAS A LICENSE TO LIVE THE VERY RICH GOOD LIFE
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amYOU can find Pierre Cardin's name on wallets, olive oil, bath towels and cigarette lighters - everywhere but on the runways. At age 81, after five decades in the business,...
CARDIN'S SPACE AGE STYLE
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amWHAT inspires Pierre Cardin most? "Space," he said. "Space. Always." Throughout the '50s and early '60s, Cardin made popular ready-to-wear for men, women and children. But it was his "Space...
HEROES DON'T NEED GOP '$ALUTE'
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amWHEN the Twin Towers collapsed, Fire Department Lt. Jack Ginty had to crawl under a tractor-trailer to escape the crushing debris. For 30 minutes, he used his bare hands to...
GITMO TROOPS KNOW OTHER ENEMY IS WELL-RED
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amGUANTANAMO BAY. THE U.S. naval base in the southeast corner of communist Cuba is the only place in the world where U.S. servicemen are dealing with two conflicts at the...
MCCALL BOO$TER EARNED PENSION-FUND MILLIONS
February 25, 2002 | 5:00am-- EXCLUSIVE -- State Comptroller Carl McCall has taken $65,000 in donations from the operator of a private equity fund who has received $13.4 million in fees and commissions from...
'DROP' OF HOPE IN DROUGHT WATCH
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amNew Yorkers may still be looking at drought conditions ahead, but so far, we appear to be dodging the water-shortage bullet. The Department of Environmental Protection yesterday said readings at...
BRAVE BOY SOUGHT HELP AFTER MOM'S SLAY: POLICE
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amA 6-year-old boy who witnessed his mother's murder and her assailant's suicide walked from his Long Island house to a nearby gas station to notify the police, Suffolk County cops...
SILVER & GOLD: U.S. PAID $40M FOR ITS MEDALS
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - With a record-smashing haul of 34 medals, the United States has exceeded its wildest expectations, but its success has come at a price - nearly $1.2...
KIN OF '93 WTC VICTIMS DEMAND 9/11 BENEFITS
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amIt was nine years ago tomorrow that the first World Trade Center terrorist attack occurred, with a bomb that killed six and injured hundreds. Yesterday at City Hall, their loved...
DURST DETECTIVE CAN'T GET A HEAD
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amA new search in Texas' Galveston Bay failed to turn up the missing head of the elderly man allegedly murdered by New York real estate heir Robert Durst, a source...
MISSILES MISS IN KANDAHAR
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amAttackers fired rockets toward the U.S. military base at the Kandahar airport yesterday, but missed their target, officials at the base said. Afghan troops chased the attackers as they fled...
HIDDEN MIKE: MAYOR DUCKS OUT YET AGAIN
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amFor the second weekend in a row, Mayor Michael Bloomberg pulled a disappearing act, with his only public event a prerecorded radio address touting adoption. Last weekend, the billionaire mayor...
NO EXCUSE FOR JAYSON'S DRUNK SHOT, DA WARNS
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amEx-NBA star Jayson Williams won't beat a manslaughter charge just because he might have been dead drunk when he allegedly shot a limo driver to death at his New Jersey...
GRIM SEARCH FOR DEAD IN PHILIPPINES
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amWith a heavy heart, U.S. soldier Michael Farris bade farewell to his comrades yesterday, as military officials abandoned all hope of finding survivors from the military helicopter crash in the...
TERROR TUNNEL AT U.S. EMBASSY: PLOT FOILED UNDER ROME STREETS
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amTerrorists suspected of plotting an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Rome may have planned to set off a chemical bomb in holes cut into an underground utility tunnel next...
GOV. GEORGE IS PREZ GEORGE'S SLEEPOVER PAL
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Gov. Pataki and his wife were among a select few who scored an invitation to spend last night at the White House after President Bush's dinner for all...
HILL HAMMERS 'TERRORIST' YASSER AT TRIP'S END
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton concluded her two-day visit to Israel by again denouncing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as bearing "responsibility for the terrorist attacks" against Israeli citizens. In...
HARLEM LEADERS BLAST DRUG-HOUSING LOCATION
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amHarlem's elected leaders gathered at City Hall yesterday to condemn a proposed housing facility for homeless, drug-addicted single men, some with HIV. At issue is not whether the facility -...
WILDMAN BIKER BUSTED: HELLS ANGEL SOCKED WITH SLAY RAP IN GANG BRAWL
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amAn evil-eyed member of the notorious Hells Angels biker gang was charged last night in the vicious murder of a member of a rival gang at a motorcycle-and-tattoo expo on...
JETS MAY BE GROUNDED : RUMSFELD EYES FEWER PATROLS OVER U.S. CITIES
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amThe Air Force may cut back fighter-jet patrols protecting U.S. cities since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday. The military may ground the patrols until...
CONDIT WILL DISCUSS LEVY WITH LARRY
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amEmbattled Rep. Gary Condit will make his first TV appearance since announcing his re-election bid when he appears tonight on "Larry King Live" on CNN. In a statement announcing the...
STEALING THE SCENES: N.Y. LURES FILMMAKERS AWAY FROM HOLLYWOOD WITH STUDIO EXPANSION
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amThe city is poised for a wave of movie-studio construction that, if completed, will turn the Big Apple into Hollywood East. Already one of the busiest cities for shooting films...
UTAH'S 'SUPERB' JOB BOOSTS APPLE'S 2012 BID
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amAmerica's successful staging of the Salt Lake Games has greatly helped New York's chances of winning the 2012 Summer Olympics by wiping away the bad memory of Atlanta in 1996,...
FBI MAY BOOST CITY ANTI-TERROR FORCE
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amThe FBI is studying a plan to double the number of agents assigned to New York's Joint Terrorism Task Force by making it a special division of the bureau, sources...
U.S. HUNTED MASTERMIND BEFORE PEARL'S ABDUCTION
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amJust weeks before murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped, U.S. officials had begun an urgent push to arrest the man who later confessed to masterminding the abduction. Pakistani extremist...
PATAKI HOPING A RE-ELECT WIN COULD HELP HIM LEAP TO VEEP
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amGOV. PATAKI is interested in running for vice president in 2004, not just winning re-election in November, GOP insiders have told The Post. The insiders, citing talks among high-level GOP...
COPS SEIZE ROAD WARRIORS' DEADLY TOOLS OF THE TRADE
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amNassau County police confiscated hundreds of weapons in the wake of a fatal shooting at a Hells Angel motorcycle-and-tattoo convention at the Vanderbilt expo center in Plainview. The weapons were...
SLOBBO'S RAVE REVIEW DIRECTOR'S REEL ORDEAL
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amNEW York filmmaker George Bogdanich received some good news and some bad news last week. The good news was that his documentary, "Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War," which opens at the...
THUGS DON'T NEED OSAMA: RUMSFELD
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is warning that al Qaeda will still keep going with or without Osama bin Laden. "There are plenty of people who have knowledge of...
FLT. 587 TRAGEDY LINGERS IN QNS.
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amOnly 11 miles from the Twin Towers site, a Queens neighborhood is struggling to rebuild the city's other Ground Zero as residents wonder if life will ever be the same...
ISRAELI TANKS BACK OFF - BUT ARAFAT'S STILL TRAPPED
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli tanks pulled back from their positions surrounding Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah early today, but the Palestinian leader will remain confined to the West Bank city until...
'LORD' RINGS UP ANOTHER VICTORY
February 25, 2002 | 5:00am"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" is ready to cast its spell on the Oscars after bewitching the British Academy Awards last night with five prizes,...
OLYMPIC FINALE ALL FUN & GAMES: SALT LAKE SWINGS WITH ROCKIN PARTY TO PASS THE TORCH
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The world's winter athletes turned Mormon town into party central last night, rocking their way through a fast-moving musical extravaganza to close one of the most...
EX-GOV'T SCIENTIST'S HOME SEARCHED IN ANTHRAX HUNT
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amFBI agents on the trail of the person who mailed deadly anthrax-laced letters have searched the home of a former scientist at the government lab at Fort Detrick, Md., who...
PRETTY SOON, IT WILL BE 'PAUL IS WED'
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amPaul McCartney is set to wed his blond sweetheart, Heather Mills, next month, friends of the Beatle legend said. But don't expect a flashy wedding with hundreds of celebrity guests...
FIRE VOLUNTEERS' NEW RALLYING CRY: INCLUDE ME OUT!
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amSuburban fire departments are being doused with a grim reality - the scenes of Sept. 11 and its death toll have hurt the recruitment of future volunteers. Departments had expected...
PIG FARMER HIT WITH SLAY RAPS IN CANADA HOOKER-SLAY HORROR
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amCanadian cops charged the owner of a pig farm - believed to hold the corpses of 50 missing hookers - with two counts of murder. Robert Pickton, 52, will appear...
ENVIROS MINE 9/11 IN ANTI-DRILLING AD
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -The environmentalist Sierra Club is the latest group to use the 9/11 tragedy in a political ad -to attack President Bush's plan to drill for Arctic oil. The radio...
DEALING EL DUQUE IS TALK OF TAMPA
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - As a crowd of reporters surrounded Orlando Hernandez inside the Legends Field clubhouse, a buzz soared through the air. From the coach's room to the showers...
WHITE HITS HIGH MARKS AS STUDENT
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - Unlike many, Rondell White can handle the truth. It was White's willingness to listen to the good and bad from Tommy Harper that provided White with an understanding...
GREAT EXPECTATIONS GROW FOR SORIANO
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - Willie Randolph limited the tutorials last season. He figured Alfonso Soriano had enough going on in his rookie head to worry about the nuances of a new position....
NO DEFENSE FOR KNICKS' EXHIBITION
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Mark Jackson had the ball stripped at midcourt by Brian Shaw, who fed ahead to Shaquille O'Neal on the fastbreak. It was the 330-pound basketball superman all alone...
SHAQ & KOBE CAN'T ENLIVEN DEAD GARDEN
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amShaquille O'Neal, all 7-foot-1, 335 pounds of him, spoke in a whisper as if he were in a library instead of a locker room. For those who could hear O'Neal's...
TOSS LAYDEN OFF THIS SINKING SHIP
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amSOON after the Lakers put the finishing touches on a 107-91 thumping of the Knicks yesterday, Scott Layden held out the photo ID dangling around his neck to get past...
FACE IT, KNICKS ARE DONE ; LAKERS ROLL AT SILENT GARDEN
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amLakers 107Knicks 91 Dead team. Dead Garden. Dead season. Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant were simply passing through for a nationally televised glorified Knick funeral - an uncompetitive 107-91 Lakers'...
DODGERTOWN STILL COOKIN' WITHOUT SHEFF
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amLAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Traveling north on Florida's turnpike and in the standings from Port St. Lucie to Disney World, I decided to stop by the greatest spring camp...
CAMPBELL COUNTED OUT
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amThe frozen moments immediately following the Nets' 23-point comeback in a wild, emotionally-charged 95-93 win over the Hornets yesterday at the Meadowlands Arena best told the story of the game's...
SATORU WORKING OUT ALREADY
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Satoru Komiyama was a man on a mission yesterday, which was no different from his other days in camp. Pitch after pitch, hitter after...
'SUNDAY' HAS DAY IN DOZEN
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amWith the next round of important Kentucky Derby prep races still weeks away, the on-track action last week was limited, but possibly significant. Friday, Sunday Break, a colt by 1988...
SCARY MOMENT FOR KENYON
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES Kenyon Martin planted and wanted to go up. Instead, he went down. Hard. And the Nets' stomachs went with him. Martin lay on the ground, writhing in pain...
HEILMAN'S ARM HAS METS SHOUTING AARON GO RAH
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - At this time a year ago, Aaron Heilman was on his way to a perfect 15-0 senior season at Notre Dame. By this time next year,...
NETS GOOD AND LUCKY IN RALLY OVER HORNETS
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amNets 95Hornets 93 You're down 23 points and showing all the energy, verve and enthusiasm of standing water. To just get back into an NBA game, you need a diversified...
REHEARSING FOR PLAYOFF SHOWTIME
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amTHE DAY was spring-like yesterday at the Meadowlands as fans took in the warm sun before the game, sitting on the enchanting veranda outside the arena. Actually, they were sitting...
A GOLDEN MOMENT FOR CANADA ; U.S. JUGGER-NOT FALLS IN THE FINAL
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amCanada 5U.S. 2 SALT LAKE CITY - Our guys really wanted to win. Their guys had to win. And when Canada, saving its best for last, cranked it up yesterday,...
HARD-HURLING HEILMAN HAS THE RIGHT TOUGH
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - When his son was about 10 years old, Joe Heilman realized there was a toughness even he never knew about. One day the elder Heilman had...
GOLD LEAVES GRETZKY FEELING GREAT AGAIN
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The Great One did again. This time he didn't score or goal or record an assist. He didn't set up behind the net and wreak havoc....
REAL SPORTS FANS LEFT OUT IN COLD
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amTHE bottom line on these NBC Olympics is the same as the previous NBC Olympics, from Atlanta, then Sydney: If you're a sports fan - someone who would prefer to...
U.S. WEARS MEDALS PROUDLY AT CLOSE
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - They paraded into Rice-Eccles Stadium on the night of Feb. 8, most of them strangers to the average American sports family. The United States Olympic athletes...
THIS SILVER SHINES BRIGHTLY
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The net behind Mike Richter was half-empty and the U.S. tank still half-full when Mario Lemieux, on a 5-on-3 power play, one-timed a pass off the...
BLUE DEVILS PUT HOLE IN JOHNNIES' BUBBLE
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amDuke 97 St. John's 55 DURHAM - After Duke had handed St. John's its worst loss in nearly 80 years, Johnnies coach Mike Jarvis shook his head and tried to...
AMERICAN JUGGER-NOT FALLS FLAT VS. NORTHERN RIVALS
February 25, 2002 | 5:00amMEN'S HOCKEY Canada 5 USA 2 SALT LAKE CITY - Our guys wanted to win very badly. Their guys had to win. And when Canada, saving its best for last,...