April 23, 2002
HEY, OSAMA BIN LADEN, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS!
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amI'D like to set Osama bin Laden straight. The terrorist bastard stuck his head out of his cave long enough recently to brag that the attack on the World Trade...
NEUBERGER BERMAN GETS LIPPER JUNK BOSSES
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amNeuberger Berman stole a team of high-yield asset managers away from troubled Lipper & Co., which has had to shutter several of its hedge funds after suffering unsustainable losses. The...
LAWYERS OK MAJOR SUBLEASE AT 1 WFC
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amTHE deal that Downtown has held its breath for is about to happen. Law firm Richards Spears Kibbe & Orbe is scheduled to close this week on a closely-watched sublease...
NASDAQ FALLS 2.1% AMID TELECOM TURMOIL
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amStocks plunged yesterday, as gloomy skies over New York and bad news in the telecom sector infected the mood of traders. The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 120.68, or 1.2...
26,000 JOBS DISAPPEAR - LUCENT, ERICSSON LEAD FIRINGS; PROS BRACE FOR MORE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amProfits-poor corporations are fueling new recession gloom by laying off thousands and slashing advertising spending for the next two years. Layoffs swept the telecom industry yesterday with Lucent, the No....
MERGER SIGNAL? - VOICESTREAM EXPLORES OPTIONS, MAY SEEK PARTNER
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amGoldman Sachs is advising VoiceStream, Deutsche Telekom's U.S. wireless subsidiary, on its strategic options, including a possible sale or merger, according to people close to the situation. In the last...
RYAN, BECK GETS GRUNTAL
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amGruntal & Co. abruptly ran into the arms of another merger partner at the last moment yesterday. Gruntal was ready to be acquired for $20 million by rival Ladenburg Thalmann...
ANDERSEN BUST? - TURNAROUND BOSS' HIRE MAY MEAN BANKRUPTCY
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amEmbattled Arthur Andersen looks closer to a rare bankruptcy filing. The firm hired a high-priced bankruptcy and restructuring expert and is expected to lose Paul Volcker - the man charged...
BOTOX IS GETTING SUFFERING FOR BEAUTY:
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amA $50 million barrage of TV ads and pitches starring toxic face-lifter Botox will hit screens in coming weeks. Just days after winning federal approval to sell the novel bacterium...
ENRON MAY WRITE DOWN UP TO $24B FORMER CEO.
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amBankrupt energy trader Enron Corp. told federal regulators yesterday to expect another $24 billion in potential writedowns and blamed "possible accounting errors" as an excuse for the whoppers it filed...
TOUGH TOSHI
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amTOSHI REAGON "Toshi" Razor & Tie On Toshi Reagon's fourth solo disc, the singer has broken the restraints of gender and genre with an album of timeless acoustic (and a...
A GAUDI TIME IN BARCELONA ; FIND GREAT ARCHITECTURE, MARKETS AND TAPAS IN THIS STUNNING CITY
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amPARIS without the pretension. Buenos Aires back in the glory days. Madrid without the monotony. Barcelona is all this and more. The city is a self-assured stunner, with warm weather,...
HE'S JUST AN ENTREPRENEUR. PERIOD.
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amVinnie D'Angelo is not a freak.Sure, he makes his living peddling canvas tampon cases printed with a slightly deranged cartoon version of his grinning mug. And, yeah, the 33-year-old New...
STARR REPORT
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amIt's a Gray matter - George gaining fame "Weakest Link" host George Gray was in town yesterday, meeting with WCBS brass and making the rounds to talk about the syndicated...
IT'S DOWNTOWN FROM HERE ; A WALK THROUGH THE HEART OF LOS ANGELES
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amTHE biggest lie they'll ever tell you in Los Angeles is that there is no downtown. It's there - but in the tangle of cross-purposes that is today's City of...
ROSIE SURVIVES
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amROSIE O'Donnell will host the "Survivor 4" "farewell celebration" next month in Central Park - replacing CBS lame-duck Bryant Gumbel. O'Donnell, who's leaving "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" after six years,...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amHead south Dutch Caribbean Airline (DCA) has added a U.S. gateway to its routes. As of this month, DCA will have direct flights and connections from Miami to various Caribbean...
SWEEPS DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS; NETS CATCH FLASHBACK FEVER IN RATINGS MONTH
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amNOTHING spells easy ratings like a TV anniversary. And for the next few weeks the airwaves will be so chock full of 'em, you'll think every TV star, series and...
WHY ROBERT BLAKE ISN'T O.J. MATERIAL
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amTHE similarities between Robert Blake and O.J. Simpson end here: They've both been charged in the murders of their wives. Other than that, the differences are like night and day,...
NBC GRABS L-LO
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amCH. 11 entertainment reporter Lynda Lopez (pictured left) is jumping to NBC. Lopez, the sister of pop superstar Jennifer Lopez, will join the NBC station next month. She will also...
'BACHELOR' DOWN TO FINAL PAIR
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amAND then there were two "bachelorettes." Alex Michel, the star of ABC's "The Bachelor" reality show, chose Trista and Amanda last night - eliminating Shannon from the competition. On the...
SPANISH CHANNEL WINS TOP EMMY
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amCH. 4, Ch. 47 and Ch. 11 were among the big winners Sunday night at the New York Emmy Awards. While Ch. 4 walked away with a leading 9 Emmys,...
BULLY BOYS GET GOP CROSS AT 'CROSSFIRE'
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amCROSSFIRE," CNN's revamped political pundit pow-wow has landed in the cross-hairs of the GOP. A high-ranking source at "Crossfire" confirmed that the show is having trouble booking Republican guests because...
TARA HAS A BALL STAYING IN SKATING SHAPE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amYOU can't keep a great skater down. After hip surgery last year, tiny Tara Lipinski is back doing triple axels. She's currently skating her way across the country alongside sister...
QNS. MAN GETS 25 YRS. IN FOOD-SLAY
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amA 22-year-old man from a middle-class Queens family will spend 25 years to life in prison for the senseless beating death of a Chinese deliveryman he robbed for a bag...
AMNESTY'S CALUMNY
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amINTERESTING, isn't it, that Amnesty International says Israel is guilty of war crimes before it actually has done any real investigating? Why, it's enough to make you think Amnesty International...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amA rabid coffee fan is attempting to visit every Starbucks in the world. And John Winter Smith of Dallas just might make it - he's already been served at 2,850...
ARAFAT'S A TERRORIST: N.Y. POLL
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - New Yorkers say Yasser Arafat is a terrorist, but they don't want U.S. troops used as peacekeepers in the Middle East, a new poll yesterday showed. The Quinnipiac...
YANK-LOVING JUDGE THROWS FANS A CURVE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amAngry Yankees fans - who filed a class-action suit to force Cablevision to come to terms with the Yankees' YES Network and broadcast Bombers games - found out the umpire...
CHOPPER RAIDERS KILL KEY YASSER AIDE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli troops swooped down in a helicopter to kill a senior member of Yasser Arafat's militia last night, and Palestinians shot three suspected informers in a West Bank...
SILVER TARNISHES RUDY'S 9/11 IMAGE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - First, Andrew Cuomo questioned Gov. Pataki's handling of the Sept. 11 terror aftermath. Now, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the state's most powerful Democrat, says former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's...
BUSH HONES ECO AGENDA UPSTATE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Armed with an ax, President Bush whack-whack-whacked nails into a log to mark Earth Day in the Adirondacks with Gov. Pataki yesterday in a picturesque snow shower. Down...
A RIDICULOUS WAY TO DEFEND INDEFENSIBLE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amIT was hard to look the drunken cop or the well-fed lawyer in the face. Former police Officer Joseph Gray sat slumped in the defendant's chair yesterday as this waste...
FROM SELL BLOCK TO CELL BLOCK - SOTHEBY'S CROOK GETS YEAR & DAY IN THE SLAMMER
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amA federal judge denounced Sotheby's mogul Alfred Taubman for his "arrogance and greed" yesterday before sentencing the ailing titan to a year and a day in prison. The 78-year-old patriarch...
WHERE THEY'LL GO & WHAT THEY'LL DO
April 23, 2002 | 4:00am, The meeting of cardinals that could spark changes in the American Catholic church is being held today in a small corner room of the Vatican palace the pope calls...
MASTURBATING MUGGER ON LOOSE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amPolice are hunting for a mugger who stalks young women in The Bronx and Manhattan, robs them at knifepoint and masturbates in front of them. "This guy obviously has some...
NEW COUNCIL BILL WOULD BAR SMOKING IN ALL RESTAURANTS
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amSmokers, already bracing for another steep hike in the cigarette tax, may be forced out of all public dining rooms if a bill being introduced tomorrow by a Staten Island...
SHOOT KIN WANT PROBE OF L.I. COPS
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe family of the 20-year-old man gunned down by a Suffolk County cop rejected the official explanation for the shooting yesterday - even as the local police chief called it...
CLASS SHINES THROUGH, EVEN ON WAY TO PRISON
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amSLIGHTLY stooped, and as old as most grandfathers, there was something of a hero in this multimillionaire. Given the chance of groveling, Alfred Taubman's attitude was something I have seen...
POLS SLAP AT FLAG FLAP - U.N. SCHOOL RIPPED FOR NOT FLYING U.S. COLORS
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amPowerful lawmakers yesterday blasted the United Nations International School for refusing to display the United States flag - and one even suggested it might violate the law. Staten Island Rep....
GAY-BASH HOMILY DIDN'T HAVE EGAN BLESSING
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amA St. Patrick's Cathedral priest who is under fire for a sermon bashing homosexuality as the prime cause of priest child-molestation said yesterday he did not clear Sunday's homily with...
TRANSPLANT KIN SUE MT. SINAI
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amFamilies of two transplant patients who died in Mount Sinai Hospital's liver-transplant ward filed suit against the hospital yesterday, charging shoddy care cost their loved ones their lives. Mike Hurewitz...
HEAVYWEIGHT PALS ARE NO-SHOWS IN COURT
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amSome heavy hitters who fired off letters to a judge in Alfred Taubman's defense were nowhere to be found the day the ex-Sotheby's czar was slapped with jail time. Former...
NEW DWI LAW YANKS LICENSES OF TEEN DRIVERS
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amYoung drivers charged with DWI could have their licenses yanked almost immediately under legislation passed yesterday. Current law allows judges to suspend the licenses of anyone charged with DWI, but...
SEINFELD'S BACK, AT SOTHEBY'S
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amYada, yada, yada - Seinfeld goes under the hammer. Four years after Jerry Seinfeld and his sidekicks ended their nine-season laughfest, a collection of assorted props, scripts and costumes will...
KIN OF SLAIN 'KNIFE THUG' TO SUE EX-COP
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amRelatives of a Mexican immigrant who was killed by a retired police officer early Sunday said the family intends to sue the ex-cop. Carlos Gonzalez of Staten Island, brother-in-law of...
NBC SUED FOR DISCRIMINATION
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amA judge has given the green light to a race- and sex-discrimination lawsuit brought against NBC - saying a jury must see the evidence. Manhattan federal Judge Shira Scheindlin issued...
CHILLING 911 CALL STUNS 'DRUNK COP' COURTROOM
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amJurors considering the fate of an ex-cop accused of killing a mother and three children in a horrific car-pedestrian crash heard the bloodcurdling tape of an eyewitness' 911 call yesterday....
FINEST BEAT A PATH TO L.I.
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amNew York City cops are jumping ship for Long Island at a record pace. A new Suffolk County Police Department class of 110 recruits was sworn in yesterday - and...
'WRITING' OFF $2.7M - LEVY WANTS TO PAY CONSULTANTS TO APPLY FOR FUNDS
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy proposes the cash-strapped Board of Education spend up to $2.7 million for private consultants to write grant applications over three years because school staffers can't do...
GOV OKS NEW DISTRICTS FOR BOTH HOUSES
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki signed off last night on a controversial redistricting plan that will add five new legislative seats to New York City. Previous concerns expressed by the governor...
CARDINALS PAST THE POINT OF MEA CULPA
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amPope John Paul II and U.S. cardinals sit down at the Vatican today to tackle the high-stakes problem of Catholic priests molesting children - even as Boston's cardinal faces a...
MOUSSAOUI MAKES A MESS FOR HIMSELF
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amALEXANDRIA, Va. - The alleged 20th hijacker stunned a Virginia court yesterday by defiantly saying he prays every day for the destruction of America, firing his lawyers and waiving his...
ILER HAD HOT POT PIPE: ARREST COP
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe cop who pulled an empty pot pipe out of Robert Iler's pocket after a mugging last July testified yesterday that it was still hot. "It was hot and seemed...
WTC PLANNERS MEND FENCES
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amWith tensions mounting over who's in charge of rebuilding the World Trade Center site, the Port Authority and the city-state agency created to steer the process have signed a deal...
GOV. PATAKI HAS AGREED TO ALLOW THE CITY TO BORROW ANOTHER $200 MILLION
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki has agreed to allow the city to borrow another $200 million to help pay for teacher pay raises, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told The Post last...
ONE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN'S CAPTURED HENCHMEN TOLD INTERROGATORS T
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amOne of Osama bin Laden's captured henchmen told interrogators that the terror lord's organization can build and smuggle into the United States a "dirty nuke" bomb that could kill thousands,...
ANOTHER KID USED AS MULE IN HEROIN PLOT AT JFK
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amSicko Colombian drug thugs have stooped to an all-time low - using a 5-year-old girl as a "mule" to smuggle heroin aboard a flight to JFK Airport, authorities said yesterday....
BLAKE: I'M INNOCENT - PROSECUTORS SAY HE KILLED WIFE AFTER 2 FAILED HIT PLOTS
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Pug-faced actor and former child star Robert Blake pleaded not guilty yesterday to murdering his wife in cold blood - after allegedly twice trying to hire hit...
MURDERED IN CITY-PAID PAD
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amA mother and daughter murdered in a Bushwick apartment over the weekend had been living for a year in what was supposed to be temporary housing for the homeless. Police...
TOT CAUGHT IN HEROIN PLOT AT JFK
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amSicko Colombian drug thugs have stooped to a new all-time low - using a 5-year-old girl as a "mule" to smuggle heroin aboard a flight to JFK Airport, authorities said...
DNA DAWDLE SLOWS PROBE OF WRITER-SLAY
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amInvestigation into the slaying of fashion writer Christa Worthington is at a standstill because the cash-strapped Massachusetts crime lab hasn't completed DNA testing. The tests should have taken place within...
RUDY DOESN'T DESERVE ALL OF THE GLORY, SILVER SAYS
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - First Andrew Cuomo questioned Gov. Pataki's role in the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the aftermath. Now Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the state's most powerful Democrat, says former...
FEDS: JFK MAP ON ILLEGAL COURSE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amA historic shred of John F. Kennedy's legacy, apparently swiped by his personal secretary, is now for sale for $750,000, new government papers charge. Federal prosecutors are seeking to stop...
SPITZER SUES EX-L.I. BIG IN LAND $CAM
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amA Long Island estate where Marilyn Monroe once vacationed is the focus of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed yesterday against a former Suffolk official and one of the county's largest developers....
WALTON: KIDD CAN'T DO IT ON HIS OWN
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amGoing into last night's Game 2 meeting between the Nets and Pacers, NBA commentator Bill Walton knew the series was far from over. He also knew the Nets couldn't win...
KEENAN SOUGHT RANGERS JOB
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amIf the NHL does in fact conduct an investigation regarding alleged tampering with Mike Keenan by the Rangers, it's not going to be pretty for the Florida coach, who eight...
READY FOR REUNION: GIAMBI EXPECTS 'MIXED REVIEWS' IN OAKLAND
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amFor the Yankees, the three-game series that starts tonight in Oakland is just a revival of their budding rivalry with the A's. But for first baseman Jason Giambi, it will...
ISLES DESPERATE FOR 'W'
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amTheir backs are against the wall, but the blindfolds haven't been tied yet, nor have the rifles been loaded. But losing Game 3 tonight at the Coliseum would put the...
GIANT ROOKIE NOT YOUR TYPICAL IVY LEAGUER
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amYou will be able to notice Jeff Hatch. "I'm going to go to my first press conference smoking a pipe and wearing a cashmere sweater," he said, snickering. The Giants...
CANES' IRBE LANDS LOW BLOW ON MATE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amDEVIL NOTES The Carolina goalie is becoming the Devils' secret weapon. Arturs Irbe did what the Devils couldn't - slow down rookie whirlwind Erik Cole. Cole left practice yesterday at...
BELL TOLLS FOR AMAZIN'S
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amThis morning, Bobby Valentine rings the opening bell at the American Stock Exchange. His team had its bell rung over the weekend in Montreal, and now they need to answer...
NO JOKE, KEITH GOT AN EYEFUL
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES See, Ron Artest? Keith Van Horn wasn't faking. Van Horn took a finger in the left eye during the second half of Game 1 Saturday and bent over...
DEVILS GET SERIES-OUS ; NO ROOM FOR ERROR DESPITE 4-0 WIN
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe Devils' desperation remains at emergency level, but they're ready to give back what they've already received. This has become a series, and the Devils have caught up to the...
FONZIE TRYING TO STAY COOL
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES At the end of last Tuesday, Edgardo Alfonzo was sitting atop the National League with a .417 average. In fact, Alfonzo was one of the few Mets hitting...
JETS GET CORNER AFTER ALL
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amThere was much clamoring among anxious Jet fans this weekend when the Jets came out of the NFL Draft without a blue-chip cornerback. The Jets' brass heard the critical murmurs...
IT'S JUST LIKE OLD TIMES FOR REVITALIZED STEVENS
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amREMEMBER what Wayne Gretzky said to his dad when Walter wanted to know why No. 99 decided to hang up his skates in 1999? "Dad," said Gretzky, 38 when he...
WEST HEADING SOUTH ; GRIZZLIES BEST BET TO LAND MR. CLUTCH
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amTODAY'S geography lesson, students of the game, is entitled "West appears to be going south" in an attempt to fix one of two franchises trapped in that direction for years....
RACING LEGEND; PHIPPS DIES
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amOgden Phipps, a dominant force in American thoroughbred racing for more than a half-century, died yesterday morning in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 93. The son of Mrs. Henry...
THE MING DYNASTY COMING TO AMERICA
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amYao Ming's Shanghai Sharks won the Chinese Basketball Association title Friday night and now his next mission is coming to the U.S. to work out for a host of teams,...
STERN: NETS BUILT RIGHT WAY
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe Nets did it the right way. NBA commissioner David Stern said so. Stern, speaking before last night's Eastern Conference opening round playoff series Game 2 at the Meadowlands, said...
KIDD, NETS JUST 2 GOOD: JASON & CO. BARE THEIR FANGS
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amINSTEAD of acting like they were the top dogs of the Eastern Conference, the Nets acted more like timid puppies in Game 1 of their best-of-five series with the Pacers...
KIDD, NETS JUST 2 GOOD: POINT GUARD SETS PACE AS JERSEY EVENS SCORE
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amGAME 2Nets 95Pacers 79 Byron Scott saw it in the morning. Jason Kidd saw it before the game. The crowd saw it when the Nets stepped on the court. And...
ATTENTION, K-MART STOPPER
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amNet Notes Byron Scott had this idea. And so did Kenyon Martin. Both wanted to see Martin guarding Jermaine O'Neal, who slugged the Nets for 30 points in Game 1....
O'NEAL: NETS NOT VERY PHYSICAL
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amIndiana's Jermaine O'Neal vowed this won't happen again. In bold remarks, O'Neal refused to give credit to the Nets for his miserable evening. After stinking up the Meadowlands with a...
NETS: NO TIME 2 PANIC: BUT IF THEY CAN'T WIN SERIES, SEASON'S A BUST
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Nets have much to be proud of this season: A club record 52 wins, an Atlantic Division championship and the top seed in the Eastern Conference. The achievements wouldn't...
ARTEST FINDS HOME WITH PACERS
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amRon Artest has had an eventful year, beginning in the summer when he broke Michael Jordan's ribs during one of those private summer scrimmages in a downtown Chicago gym. Jordan...
KIDD, SCOTT SAY SERIES STILL THEIRS FOR THE TAKING
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amOne of the time-honored adages of sport is take what the defense gives you. And that's exactly what the Pacers have hoped the Nets will do. They'll give up scoring...
TORRE SAYS RIVERA IS JUST DANDY
April 23, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Yankee fans concerned that Mariano Rivera's rocky start is an indication that the team's best closer has lost it might want to listen to Joe Torre. "Not from...