May 26, 2002
INFO TECH UNDER THE RADAR : SOME IPOS DOING WELL, DESPITE DOWN MARKET
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amSome tech companies have been quietly racking up huge profits for investors in the IPO market. While the number of tech IPOs is meager compared to the heyday of the...
BLOCKBUSTER SEASON FOR PRODUCT PLACEMENTS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBig box-office means potential big pay-offs for companies smart enough to place products in this summer's blockbuster films. This weekend kicks off the summer blockbuster movie season and this year's...
VC INVESTORS MAKING A CAUTIOUS COMEBACK
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amVenture capitalists have found their wallets. Those high-risk investors, who plunk down megabucks to fuel fledgling companies, betting they'll get fatter returns later in the public market, are back. "If...
THIS DANCER'S STUDIO DANCES
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amIt's debatable whether Mark Morris' office is the room where he keeps a laptop and has meetings or the studio where he choreographs, rehearses and teaches. The director and dancer...
SPITZER: 'IT'S NOT OVER' : BATTLE WITH MERRILL IS JUST THE BEGINNING, AG SAYS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amEliot Spitzer's radical ways are not only transforming Wall Street, but the sleepy image of the Attorney General's office as well. Attorneys General traditionally are a quiet lot. Maybe they...
WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY GREETS OAKMARK'S HERRO
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amFOR the past few years, Oakmark International's portfolio manager, David Herro, said he's been feeling like he's on the island of misfit toys, waiting for someone to come along and...
HOW TO BE CONTRARY : ANTI-BANDWAGON CONTRARIANS FOCUS ON STOCK OTHERS AVOID
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amThe Sept. 11 attacks, Enron's collapse and plunging crude oil prices created nightmares for many investors, who bailed out of stocks during the turmoil. But for contrarian investors, who head...
BULL'S EYE
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amAT AMG, THEY'RE OVITZ AND OUT! Mike Ovitz's AMG Entertainment may have been sold to conglomerate-in-training The Firm, but the former agent mogul showed distinct signs of his old agent...
FEELING THE FORCE, GETTING THE MESSAGE
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amThey say a picture is worth a thousand words.So, indeed, is an e-mail.What other form of communication so brilliantly allows someone to say so little, and yet so much? I...
TIN COMMANDMENTS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amSummer gets under way this weekend, and how better to spend those lazy, hazy, crazy days than holed up in a stuffy Brooklyn apartment trying desperately to distill all the...
JUDGING COWARD: NOEL TO GO BUT UP
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amIT was some kind of charity reception - and there was Noel Coward, looking slightly weathered and oddly wizened, standing next to an artistically glamorous Marlene Dietrich. With my wife...
HER DEAD STUDENT'S DIARIES INSPIRE REMARKABLE PROBE
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Elizabeth Stone opened a mysterious package mailed to her Montclair, N.J. home seven years ago, she never imagined the path it would take her on. Inside the box was...
WEIRD TIMES AT JAPAN HIGH
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amYou say you want to go to the movies but couldn't care less about "Spider-Man" or the new "Star Wars" installment? Let Cine File offer you two alternatives - "Uzumaki"...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: DAVID CHAPPELLE
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amFew actors would rather live on a farm in Ohio than in Hollywood, but David Chappelle will take roosters over rockers anytime. "I can't be Superman all day, every day,"...
STILL QUICK ON THE DRAW : ONCE A RADICAL CARTOONIST, AUTHOR JULES FEIFFER STAYS IN TOUCH WITH HIS INNER CHILD
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amJules Feiffer says he's never threatened to leave any of his children by the side of the road - no matter how much they misbehaved. Nor did his parents ever...
MISFORTUNE TELLER : NOVELIST JODI PICOULT, WHOSE NEW BOOK DEALS WITH A CHILD-MOLESTING PRIEST, HAS A KNACK FOR WRITING NEWSWORTHY FICTION
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amTiming is everything, they say, and Jodi Picoult is living proof. The 35-year-old novelist's ninth novel, "Perfect Match," recently hit the shelves, and its plot, which revolves around a female...
WHAT I WATCH
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amGRIFFIN DUNNE Actor/Director I have a satellite dish so wherever I can find "The Simpsons," I watch it, even if I've seen that episode before. I find it meditatively funny....
SLICE OF PIAZZA: HE'S A REAL MAN
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amAS if New Yorkers don't have enough to worry about, with terrorists targeting Lady Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and mass transit on one of the busiest weekends of the year;...
L.I.'S EAST END OF THE WORLD : TV'S LOOK AT HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBarbara Kopple's "The Hamptons" is less reality television than Rorschach test - bringing into stark relief everything you love and hate about the Hamptons. The no-frills documentary, shot last summer...
PUNDITS: CUOMO WILL LAND BALLOT SPOT
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - While Andrew Cuomo faces a tough struggle with Carl McCall in the Sept. 10 primary, he'll have an easy time getting the 15,000 signatures needed to get on...
STRAIGHT TALK ON PIAZZA
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amGay men went berserk and began looting and rioting in hot spots around the globe last week because of persistent rumors regarding Mike Piazza's sexuality. No, they weren't angry that...
REPLAYING 9/11 IN ALL ITS AGONY : HBO SPECIAL BRINGS GRIM VIDEO TO LIGHT
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBodies tumble from the Twin Towers. "God almighty!" a voice cries out. "Holy s---!" yells another. Then, amid the horrified exclamations, comes a third, angry voice: "Don't take pictures of...
COOL $2M IN THE CARDS : BROOKLYN SHARK'S FULL HOUSE NAILS 'WORLD SERIES OF POKER'
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man's poker face morphed into a beaming smile - and spectators exploded in cheers - when he was dealt an unexpected full house, earning a $2 million victory...
NOW EVERY DAY A MEMORIAL DAY FOR FIREMEN
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amTHE first tour back after death is always the toughest. Emotions are high. Mortality is real. The firefighters' funerals are still fresh in their minds. "It's always hard," says firefighter...
LEADERS URGE ASIAN PEACE
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amPresident Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Pakistan to make peace with neighboring India as Pakistan successfully conducted a series of missile tests amid growing fears of war between...
BLAME BUSH FOR LAX SECURITY: POLL
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amNearly half of all Americans believe that President Bush is somewhat responsible for the lack of government action to prevent another Sept. 11, according to a new poll released yesterday....
NEXT STOP: FRANCE FOR A SOLEMN HOLIDAY
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amPresident Bush's seven-day European tour stops in France today, where he is expected to meet harsh protests, even as he prepares to celebrate Memorial Day by commemorating one of America's...
BX. MAN CHARGED IN 2 RAPES
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx man has been charged with two counts of rape in attacks on two women in the past five years, police said yesterday. Robert Cumberland, 37, was arrested Thursday...
MAN STABBED NEAR DOWNTOWN GAY BAR
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amA 36-year-old man was critically stabbed in the neck early yesterday morning by a man he had just met in a downtown gay bar, police said. The unidentified victim was...
COPS: SEPHORA $TAFFER CLEANED UP
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amAn employee at a makeup giant's Manhattan corporate office has been busted for embezzling $519,000 from the company, police said yesterday. Judith Roberts, 33, who worked at the Sephora.com corporate...
A MULTIMILLIONAIRE BUYERS MARKET
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amIf it's land you crave, Kay LeRoy - ex-wife of late restaurateur Warner LeRoy - has recently listed her 50-acre estate in Amagansett for $25 million. For that kind of...
PATRIOTISM ON PARADE IN TOWN
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amNew Yorkers get a chance to honor the nation's war heroes this Memorial Day weekend at the many parades, ceremonies and events being held all over the city, among them:...
TOURISTS FACE REALITY
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amVisitors to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island yesterday said they didn't mind being photographed by a new surveillance system that compares them to a federal database of terror...
MAN SHOT DEAD AT BX. GAS STATION
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx gas station attendant had a gruesome shock last night when he heard gunfire - and then saw a wounded man on the ground. The victim, 29, was pronounced...
ISRAELI TROOPS MARCH BACK INTO BETHLEHEM
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amIsraeli forces hunting for a top Palestinian militant stormed back into Bethlehem yesterday, just two weeks after the army lifted a siege at the Church of the Nativity. Soldiers and...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AGENTS SLAM TERROR ALERTS: WE'RE GOING OVERBOARD
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amThe classified security alerts that are keeping Americans in a perpetual state of fear are coming under attack from federal agents who feel the warnings - some serious, some silly...
'CONFLICT' QUESTION ON WTC TRANSIT
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amA consulting firm hired to help re-map downtown transit has also been working for a major developer pushing a controversial plan to link the Long Island Rail Road to lower...
BUTLER REVEALS 'VIRGIN' DI'S SEX SECRETS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amPrincess Diana's embattled ex-butler is set to rock the royal family with a host of new allegations about Prince Charles' wild sex life with Camilla Parker-Bowles - and how it...
'TRAINING' HELPS COPS NAB THIEF
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amClever cops collared a Brooklyn thief yesterday by letting him run down subway tracks while they went to the next station and waited. Carl Santana, 45, stole a CB radio...
RECRUIT'S HS OF HARD KNOCKS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amCanadian teacher Rhona Cunningham eagerly embraced Schools Chancellor Harold Levy's recruitment pitch last year to relocate and teach in the Big Apple. But the English teacher's decision to give up...
CHANDRA KILLING NOT A RANDOM ATTACK: D.C. DETECTIVES
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amInvestigators believe Chandra Levy was lured to her death by someone she knew or slain by a predator who methodically stalked her, police sources said yesterday. Evidence collected at the...
IT'S 'I BOO!' AS CLAUDIA WEDS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amUber-model Claudia Schiffer surrounded her wedding with uber-secrecy yesterday - angering fans who hoped to catch a glimpse of the fabulous fashion plate on her big day. Gawkers booed the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amAn Alaskan city wants to start putting peanut butter on top of dog poop to force pet owners to clean up after their pooches. Officials in Anchorage say when people...
POOR P.R. DIDN'T DOUSE THE DEMAND
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amEvery year a chorus of prophets says the Hamptons are over. Fueling this year's charges of overexposure on Long Island's East End are the pending case of Lizzie Grubman, the...
ANDY SPEAKS OUT : TELLS POST OF HIS 'UNCONVENTIONAL' CAMPAIGN TACTICS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amGubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo snubbed the state Democratic Party's leadership last week when he decided against seeking their support, opting instead to circulate a nominating petition to get on the...
STRESSFUL FIGHT FOR WORKER'S COMP
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amCarol Calvert is too scared to go back to work. "I'm petrified," said the Bronx woman, who is now one of hundreds of 9/11 survivors getting worker's compensation benefits, at...
TOP FIRM A KEY PLAYER IN PLANS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amWhile the architects at Beyer Blinder Belle are the lead firm in the World Trade Center site contract awarded last week, transit giant Parsons Brinckerhoff is one of the key...
LOTTERY LOBBYIST IN FINE MESS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - The Lobbying Commission is expected to recommend fining an influential lottery company's lobbyist for allegedly entertaining lawmakers in violation of state law, The Post has learned. The Lobbying...
TEARS FLOW AT HEROES' SPECIAL SCREENING
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amUniformed officers who rushed to Ground Zero moments after the World Trade Center collapsed shed tears as they watched a special screening of HBO's documentary on the Sept. 11 attacks....
RICHTER'S ON HIS WAY OUT : DEPARTURE COULD COST SLATS IN FREE-AGENT MART
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amMAYBE it's because, unlike those in the federal government whose job it is to protect our lives, I can envision the worst. Or maybe it's because two days ago I...
LONG DRIVE CONTEST SET FOR JUNE 15
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amGrab your driver and take a shot at winning $10,000 at the Pinnacle Distance Challenge, set for June 15 at Long Island's Eisenhower Park. Seven long-drive champions will help conduct...
BOATING IS REAL FAMILY AFFAIR
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amMARC Anthony does it. Jerry Seinfeld does it. Johnny Carson missed NBC's 75th Anniversary doing it. For 70 million Americans, boating with family and friends to spend quality time together...
MIDTOWN GOLF PRO CAN MAKE DREAM COME TRUE
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amSix days a week, a constant parade of business suits marches - one by one - in and out of Richard Metz Golf on 48th and Madison in the heart...
BOMBERS NEEDING SPOT HELP
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Who is the Yankees' starting pitcher tomorrow night in Chicago? It could be Mike Thurman, Sterling Hitchcock or Ted Lilly on three days' rest. Prior to yesterday's game...
42-YEAR-OLD RAINES STILL ROCK SOLID
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amEven opposing players whom Tim Raines has made life tough on - and that's a roster-full of teams over his 20-plus-year career - can't help but want a piece of...
PIERCING BLOWS PROVED FATAL
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Paul Pierce had said the shots would eventually start falling. And they did, but not until the fourth quarter, not until Antoine Walker ripped into him on the...
YANKS WEATHER BIG BLOW-UP BY BOOMER : MENDOZA, MO STOP RED SOX, SAVE DAY
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Had Jason Giambi been on Fenway Park's pitted infield yesterday when David Wells snapped at umpire Jim Reynolds, Wells might have a separated shoulder to go with his...
WELLS OUTBURST SETS UP RAMIRO AS HERO
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Ramiro Mendoza earned a win yesterday, when a save was much more deserving. With the Yankee pitching staff and psyche both fragile, the reticent right-hander served as long...
'SUNDAY' WINS PAN : HOPES TO PLAY BELMONT SPOILER
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amSecond star to the right, and straight on till the Belmont Stakes. That's the course Sunday Break set after winning yesterday's Grade 2, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park,...
METS THROW IT AWAY : FANS BOO MISTAKES IN LOSS TO MARLINS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amWith a perfect, blue-sky afternoon at Shea ruined, the crowd of 35,724 didn't hold back. Not ones to hide their feelings, they booed Roberto Alomar. They booed Mo Vaughn. There...
'MULE' ALMOST BLUNDERS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amThey don't call Pedro Astacio "The Mule" for nothing. He received the nickname early in his career in L.A. because of his ability to carry the load. Despite the Mets'...
CLEMEMNS LEAST OF V'S CONCERNS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S a topic Bobby Valentine didn't want to discuss, but then couldn't resist before finally saying he'd never talk about it ever again. Word out of Boston is Roger Clemens...
KOBE SHOULDN'TN BE THE ONLY LAKER FEELING NAUSEOUS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amTHINGS have gotten so out of control in L.A. that its fine folks are setting fires just to make sure Kobe Bryant's food is sufficiently cooked. Actually, reports that a...
ONE YEAR OUT, CHECKETTS CHIMES IN
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amOne year ago this week, Dave Checketts left the Garden for good. During an emotional farewell party at the World's Most Famous Arena, the fired Garden president wiped away tears...
MAMA SCORES IN METRO DEBUT
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Mike Petke arrived in the MetroStars' locker room before last night's 1-1 tie with Kansas City, he walked over to his newest teammate - and onetime hated enemy -...
DR. HEIMLICH! REPORT TO NETS' ROOM -- STAT!
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - All season long, according to Byron Scott, the Nets' worst has immediately brought out their best. But they had no idea just how bad that bad can be...
KIDD GETS DOSE OF YANK TRADITION FROM GIAMBI & CO.
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Joe Torre talked. So Jason Kidd listened. When you're traveling through unknown territory, the best guide is someone who's been there before. So with Kidd one stop away...
GHOSTS FUELED CELTICS' FLEET FEAT
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Antoine Walker was feeling so giddy after the Celtics' Memorial Day Weekend Miracle victory he even took a little poke at Nets fans. During their 41-16 fourth-quarter blitz...
THE WORST EVER ! NETS BLOW 21-POINT LEAD IN FOURTH
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - They went from attacking predators seeking no mercy and giving none, to impatient pacifists waiting only for the clock to save them. For three quarters, the Nets were...
IT'S ONLY ONE LOSS - OR IS IT?
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - They swear it is only one loss. Yeah, and Heidi Klum is just one girl, New York is just one village and Mt. Everest is just one hill....
THURMAN GETS CALL-UP TO START VERSUS CHISOX
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - The team with too much starting pitching in March is handing the ball to Mike Thurman tomorrow night in Chicago, five days after doing the same with Adrian...
LONG-DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NET : GAME 5'S LATE START NOT FAIR TO FANS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amSOMEDAY, perhaps, the bottom-liners who run sports will come to the realization that you can't improve TV ratings unless you create, then sustain, fans. And by then it'll be too...
NETS NEED PARA-SHOOT TO SAVE DAY
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Passed dizzy to the point of nausea in a Game 1 layup drill, the Celtics laid low in the lane in Game 2, making the Nets come to...
NO DEFENSE FOR JASON'S REBOUNDING
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - How do you stop Jason Kidd from getting defensive rebounds? You don't. All Boston coach Jim O'Brien cares about is keeping Kidd off the offensive glass, which hasn't...
WILSON'S HUSTLE PAYS OFF
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES As the backup to Mike Piazza, Vance Wilson must make sure he does every little thing possible so the dropoff isn't significant. Yesterday, Wilson did this to perfection...
JEFFERSON STANDS BY PAUL CALL
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - Richard Jefferson was asked to clarify his statements about Paul Pierce. Pierce had declined to give the Nets credit for his shooting struggles, saying instead he...
2002 WORLD CUP PREVIEW
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amIn a World Cup missing players like Romario, Roberto Baggio, Gary Neville and Mehmet Scholl, will there be any stars left to shine? Plenty. Here are 10 men to watch...
PELE SAYS 6 TEAMS HAVE SHOT AT CUP
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amIt was almost as if Edson Arantes do Nascimento's words came down off a mountaintop. Who better to talk World Cup soccer than Pele, Father Futbol himself, who spoke with...
HERE WE COME: AMERICAN DREAMERS ARE IN IT TO WIN IT
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amCoach Bruce Arena doesn't like to discuss the U.S.' horrible 1998 World Cup showing out of respect for his predecessor, Steve Sampson. The players don't like to talk about that...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU EHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amWALLY DOING IT HIS WAY How to get hired as a major-league manager in today's game: Shine the general manager's shoes. Give boring quotes dripping with false modesty. Blend into...
BROTHERS, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?
May 26, 2002 | 4:00amRESPECT your elders ... unless, of course, you're Major League Baseball or the Players Association. As player-owner strife threatens to ruin America's game, hear the story of Pete Coscarart. It...