March 2, 2002
KOMANSKY CERTAIN BULLS ARE BACK
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amIf at first you don't succeed, try try again. That's the mantra for Merrill Lynch CEO David Komansky these days as he tries to convince other Wall Streeters to turn...
MARTS FIRED UP BY BIZ SPENDING
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amRally-ho! Stocks posted huge gains yesterday as investors finally heard the news they've been waiting to hear: corporate spending is coming back. Economists and market gurus had long held that...
PRIMEDIA KILLS TEEN MAGAZINE
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amPrimedia slashed costs yesterday by closing the 2-million circulation Teen magazine just seven months after buying it. KKR-controlled Primedia - owner of Seventeen and New York Magazine - has sold...
JUDGE TELLS DIRECTV: STAY AWAY FROM DEALERS
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amAfter coming under fire from consumers for its monopoly-styled merger, DirecTV has now been barred by a judge from even talking to its dealers. The satellite broadcaster was hit with...
'SURVIVOR' FINDS A RATINGS 'FRIEND'
March 2, 2002 | 5:00am'SURVIVOR: Marquesas" did a lot more than simply survive Thursday night head-to-head against a highly promoted episode of "Friends." The debut of the fourth installment of CBS' hit reality show...
HERE IS HOW THE WORLD WILL END... WITH TOPLESS BABES AND HUNKY GUYS IN COOL CLOTHES
March 2, 2002 | 5:00am"Jeremiah" [ 1/2] Sunday at 8 on Showtime ------------- THE time is in the not-too-distant future - maybe 15 years from now - although the stars of Showtime's new sci-fi...
FROM LUTZ TO KLUTZ - THE POST SKATES ON THIN ICE AT SARAH'S HOME RINK
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amTHEY say Sarah Hughes' gold medal-winning performance at the Winter Olympics has inspired legions of nimble young girls to take up figure skating. Step aside, kiddies. Here comes a 27-year-old...
GREAT NECK GOLDEN GIRL GETS A PARADE
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE'LL be balloons, marching bands, mounted police and a Macy's float at tomorrow's tribute to Olympic figure-skating champion Sarah Hughes in Great Neck, L.I. There will also be lots of...
SO YOU WANNA MAKE A MOVIE?
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amOne of the filmmakers speaking at the New York International Film Festival this weekend is 16-year-old Preston Burger of Massapequa, who made his short "Dead Men Do Tell Tales" at...
SCREEN CITY - TWO FILM FESTIVALS GIVE KIDS A PEEK AT THE WORLD
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amIt was a year of wizards and wonder, monsters and "Shrek." At least, that's what came out of Hollywood. But filmmakers elsewhere were making other kinds of movies - about...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amYou may know which spoon to use, but unless you're up-to-date, you'll end up - gasp! - a ghastly dinner-party bore. Here are the current events to study to show...
FEEL FREE TO PATROONIZE US
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amThe Bar Belles have always considered power drinking to be what one does when embarking on a serious elbow-bending bender. But the term takes on new meaning at Ken Aretsky's...
CUMIN GET IT
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amWhen a recipe calls for cumin seeds - as so many Eastern Indian and Southwestern dishes do - toasting them first brings out their distinctive nutty flavor. Place the seeds...
PARTY LIKE IT'S 2002
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amHope your dance card isn't full. South Street Seaport has imported deejay booths, created some VIP rooms and transformed itself into an all-night dance club for Destination NYC, which takes...
ROLL 'EM! STUDIO PLAN A GOOD SHOT
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amWhat - another scheme for a Hollywood-on-the-Hudson movie production studio in the city? Yup. But unlike a slew of similar proposals that were announced with trumpets and cymbals - but...
WIDOW'S TEARS - FAMILY STRUGGLES AFTER HUBBY IS SLAIN IN B'KLYN
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amA grieving Queens mother of two young kids will wait until next week to bury her hard-working husband. But her version of the American Dream is already six feet under....
TRIPP WOES GROW: NOW IT'S CANCER
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amSexgate squealer Linda Tripp is battling breast cancer, her lawyers said yesterday. Tripp, whose secret tape recordings of ex-White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to President Clinton's impeachment, "is demonstrating...
DROPOUT SHOCKER: 30% DON'T GRADUATE HS
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amCall it Dropout City. Nearly one-third of the city's high school students never graduate, the Board of Education admits. The dropout rate was 20.4 percent for students who were supposed...
PROGRESS AT GROUND ZERO
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amThe construction of a massive steel ramp that will allow Ground Zero workers to clear a large pile of World Trade Center rubble believed to contain human remains will be...
COPS TRACK RUTHLESS KILLER OF QNS. MOM
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amShot in her car.Detectives are hunting the bold gunman who executed a Queens mom inside her car as her 21-year-old son - her back-seat passenger and target of the deadly...
DUBYA TAKES DEM'S DIG WITH 'DASCHLE' OF SALT
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday brushed off Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle's criticism of the war on terror, saying it's already been "very successful" and will ultimately nail Osama bin...
STALLED NYSE PLAN EATING UP MILLIONS IN TAXPAYER DOLLARS
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amTHE city is paying $1 million a month in rent on a near-empty apartment building as part of the stalled deal to keep the New York Stock Exchange in lower...
MURDER STATS PLUNGE TO LOWEST SINCE '62
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amThe number of slayings in February was the lowest monthly murder toll recorded in the Big Apple since the fall of 1962, police officials said yesterday. The city recorded 32...
PAGEANT CHIEF QUITS AMID FURY
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amHe threatened to take Miss America out of Atlantic City - but now pageant boss Robert Renneisen is the one who is stowing his sash. Renneisen's sudden resignation comes just...
W. HOUSE DEVELOPS A BUNKER MENTALITY
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The two bunkers that now house a "shadow" U.S. government in the event of a doomsday scenario have food, computers, phones, TVs and generators deep underground, officials said....
MIKE TALKS TOUGH IN PUSH TO ERASE ED. BOARD
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday stepped up his campaign to abolish the Board of Education and vowed to reject half-baked measures that could prevent him from taking charge of the city's troubled...
EVEN IF HE DID IT, WIESE CAN'T BE CHARGED
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amEven if Officer Thomas Wiese was the second man in the bathroom attack on Abner Louima, he could never be charged with the crime because of the complicated legal history...
VOLPE'S DAD GLAD THE TRUTH HAS COME OUT AT LONG LAST
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amBOB VOLPE said yesterday: "Justin will sleep easier at night knowing that an innocent man is going free." Volpe, the retired undercover cop, is the father of Justin Volpe, who...
COPS' DEMAND: PUT US BACK ON BEAT - WIESE, BRUDER PLAN APPEAL TO NYPD FOR JOBS & 2 YEARS' PAY
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amTwo of the three ex-cops who won reversals of their convictions in the Abner Louima torture case want their jobs back - along with tens of thousands of dollars in...
AN ARTFUL COMPROMISE
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amThe Jewish Museum, bowing to growing outrage over unsettling Nazi imagery in an upcoming exhibit, yesterday said it will restrict access to the "most troubling" work. The announcement came two...
FIVE MORE TRAITORS - U.S. HOLDING OTHERS LIKE LINDH: REPORT
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - There may be as many as five American Taliban soldiers in U.S. custody in addition to accused traitor John Walker Lindh, according to a new report out of...
NYPD BLUE THUNDER: COPTER AIMS AT TERROR
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amTop police brass want to buy an "anti-terrorist" helicopter specially equipped with high-tech gadgets used in the nation's war on terror, The Post has learned. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's "wish...
END OF TIARA FOR MISS L.I. IN NUDE FLAP
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amMiss Long Island has relinquished her crown after revelations that she posed in Playboy magazine. Jill Nicolini, of Farmingville, won the Miss Long Island pageant on Feb. 3, and was...
TESTS SHOW JAYSON WAS DRUNK: TV
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amEx-Net All-Star Jayson Williams, charged in the Feb. 14 shotgun death of a limo driver at his New Jersey mansion, was legally too drunk to drive the night of the...
GIS WILL TAKE FIGHT TO YEMEN
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Bush administration is sending Predator drones and a contingent of U.S. troops to Yemen to help government forces attack a major center of Osama bin Laden's terror...
SLAY-LANDLORD'S NEPHEW ON STAND
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amA millionaire Upper East Side landlord who says he shot dead a tenant because she frightened him with a hammer called his nephew to the stand to testify that the...
GITMO SOOTHES MAD HATTERS, ENDS CURB ON TURBANS
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. military officials moved to ease tensions at Camp X-Ray yesterday by allowing Taliban and al Qaeda captives to wear turbans and promising weekly briefings on their legal...
TOLL RISES TO 19 IN ISRAELI RAIDS
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces pushed deeper into two Palestinian refugee camps yesterday as the toll from the two-day raid reached 19 dead and more than 200 injured. The Palestinians said...
COPS TRACKING RUTHLESS KILLER OF QUEENS MOM
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amDetectives are hunting the bold gunman who executed a Queens mom inside her car as her 21-year-old son - her back-seat passenger and target of the deadly ambush - watched...
NYPD SETS HIGH-TECH SIGHTS ON ANTI-TERROR COPTER
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amTop police brass want to buy an "anti-terrorist" helicopter specially equipped with high-tech gadgets used in the nation's war on terror, The Post has learned. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's "wish...
TED STUNNED BY ABC COUP - VACATION SHOCKER FOR KOPPEL AS NET MAKES MOVE FOR DAVE
March 2, 2002 | 5:00am"Nightline" host Ted Koppel is being torpedoed off TV's radar screen - by his own network. A vacationing Koppel was stunned to learn that ABC is maneuvering behind his back...
ODDS ON LETTERMAN REPLACEMENTS
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amOK, so let's say David Letterman jumps to ABC - who is CBS going to get to replace him on "Late Show"? It's likely that CBS would, indeed, continue "Late...
OH, QUIT YER SNIVELING, GUYS! THIS IS REAL 'REALITY TV'
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amSo David Letterman feels unloved and Ted Koppel feels blindsided. Well, boo hoo hoo. Hello - Earth to Dave and Ted: Welcome to the real world, the one in which...
IVERSON ANSWERS BOAST - WALKS WALK, SCORES 43 OFF BENCH TO FOIL NETS
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amSixers 110 - Nets 102 PHILADELPHIA - No way the Nets could debate Allen Iverson last night. On Thursday, Iverson claimed the Sixers, not the Nets, were the best team...
GIAMBI'S KEEPING EMOTIONS IN CHECK
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES DUNEDIN - Yes, Jason Giambi is excited about making his Yankee debut after missing two intrasquad games and a pair of exhibition tilts with a strained left hamstring....
GIANTS LOSE ARMSTEAD TO REDSKINS
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amWhat Sam Garnes is hoping for next season is that he's playing for the Jets and can sit back on a Sunday night and watch Jessie Armstead and his Redskins...
KEEP HIM! - DEALING DUQUE WOULD BE LOCO
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amDUNEDIN - The free sample of sunblock gel given to customers as they passed through the gates of Dunedin Park wasn't needed yesterday. The clouds didn't need much help blocking...
RANGERS MUST GIVE ERIC PROTECTION
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amWHEN Calgary's Bob Boughner took out Doug Weight on Thursday night, the Blues spent the rest of the game retaliating. If a Flyer hits Eric Lindros at the Garden this...
HERNANDEZ MAKES HIS JOB PITCH
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amDUNEDIN - View it this way. Playing a hole ahead on Thursday, Sterling Hitchcock fired par. So yesterday it was Orlando Hernandez' turn to provide Joe Torre and Mel Stottlemyre...
ARMANDO LOOKS MAH-VELOUS IN GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE DEBUT
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - For the most part, Armando Benitez has kept a low profile since his delayed arrival due to personal business. Yesterday, the Met closer faced...
JINTS MAY PASS ON COLLINS
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amHe gets married today on an exotic island off the coast of South Carolina. On March 15, he's due to receive a $1 million bonus from the Giants. Kerry Collins,...
B & G SETS RELAY RECORD
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amWhen the USA Indoor Track & Field National Championships returned here yesterday, it felt right to everyone involved. It was home. From 1888 until 1993 the event was almost exclusively...
HOT HAMILTON POWERS STANNERS
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amCHSAA HOOPS: Molloy 64 - Xaverian 61 If Archbishop Molloy makes a run in this week's CHSAA Intersectional playoffs, it should thank Kevin Hamilton's father. The 6-foot-3 senior hit five...
PRETTY? NO, BUT DEVILS TAKE IT
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amThey may not be convincing or pretty, but the Devils are at least regaining credibility under Kevin Constantine. The two-time Stanley Cup finalists are closer to sixth place in the...
EISLEY TO THE RESCUE
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amKnicks 89 - Sonics 87 Because of his mammoth, long-term contract, Howard Eisley likely will be around these parts for years. And last night, that wasn't such a bad thing....
DON'S ALL BUT GONE - PUTS EISLEY IN MIX IN TRY TO SPARK KNICKS
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amDon Chaney has already told friends he knows he'll be packing up his office in a couple of months. But in one last desperate attempt to shake things up, Chaney...
COLLINS A NET SUCCESS . . . BUT MAC MAY BE BACK TO MAKE WEST COAST SWING
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - He has fought Elden Campbell. He has battled Erick Dampier. He has aligned against whatever it was the Knicks threw in the middle to pass for a center....
MADDEN'S SHOWING SELKE FORM
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amThe new Devils coach has noticed his one reigning NHL trophy holder. Now he's trying to utilize the skills that won the Selke for John Madden. For the past two...
USA INDOOR MEET FEELS RIGHT AT HOME AT ARMORY
March 2, 2002 | 5:00amWhen the USA Indoor Track & Field National Championships returned here yesterday, it felt right to everyone involved. It was home. From 1888 until 1993, the event was almost exclusively...