May 28, 2002
BILLIONS LOST BY FEDS - GOVERNMENT CAN'T ACCOUNT FOR $17.3B
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON complains about deceptive corporate accounting. But the government last year misplaced an incredible $17.3 billion because of shoddy bookkeeping, or worse. Let me put that into numbers so you...
NEW HEARST 'CASTLE' - MEDIA GIANT'S HQ WILL GET $500M TOWER
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amMedia giant Hearst Corp. is pressing ahead with plans to start construction on its new $500 million-plus headquarters with a dramatic, triangular glass-and-steel tower atop its landmarked, six-story building near...
ZIFF FOLDS 2-YR.-OLD 'NET MAG
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe ad drought has caused another magazine to evaporate at Ziff Davis Media, which is closing two-year-old The Net Economy, one of six titles to collapse at the company in...
GRAND HYATT LANDS IN HOT WATER WITH CITY
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe city's own environmental protection commissioner caught the Grand Hyatt with its fountain flowing, and it's been slapped with summonses that could cost it up to $350 a day. City...
SAFE-HAVEN MADISON - UPTOWN RETAILERS THRIVE AS OTHERS REEL FROM 9/11
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amTHE retail shakeout that's battered SoHo has hardly made a dent on Madison Avenue, far-removed from downtown's post-Sept. 11 disruptions. That's more surprising than it sounds, because many avenue shoppers...
TIMES SQ. TENANTS SIGN ON
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amRed Lobster could be among the next group of tenants clawing their way into Times Square. Other tenants with leases nearing signature include Foot Locker, a pizza parlor and a...
SHADES OF SLIM
May 28, 2002 | 4:00am* Eminem "The Eminem Show" [] Aftermath/Interscope Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? On "The Eminem Show" - the follow-up to the 8-million-selling "The Marshall Mathers LP" -...
LOWRENT ; WE LOOKED FOR THE LEAST-RENTED VIDEOS IN NEW YORK AND FOUND THE STINKERS THAT NO ONE HAS DARED TAKE HOME . . . YET
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amIF you've never heard of the film "Alien Predators," you're not alone. Millions of VCR owners in Manhattan, and it has never been rented once - that's right, not once!...
'SOUTH PARK' PHONE HOME
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amDON'T answer the phone - it could be one of the yutzes from Comedy Central's new puppet-palooza, "Crank Yankers." "Yankers" - from the men behind "The Man Show" - is...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amRoad sage Renting a car in Europe can be next to impossible for students, because auto rentals are usually limited to drivers between the ages of 25 and 70. One...
CREEGGANS ARE BARENAKED
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Brothers Creeggan features Barenaked Ladies bassist Jim Creeggan, 31, and his brother Andy, 30, the former keyboard player in the pop band, but don't let that influence you. The...
THIS KID IS AMISH AND ON A BINGE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00am"Devil's Playground" Thursday at 8:30 p.m. on Cinemax POP-QUIZ time. How do you think Amish teens celebrate their 16th birthdays? A) They go off to pray and meditate for 366...
STARR REPORT
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amPregnant pause for 'SNL's' Gasteyer "Saturday Night Live" trouper Ana Gasteyer, who's pregnant, has posed for a fashion shoot for Fit Pregnancy magazine's August/September issue. Gasteyer, who's due in July,...
SUIT YOURSELF! THREE PAGES OF SEE-WORTHY BIKINIS FOR REAL-WORLD WOMEN
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amWHEN given the choice of having their molars extracted without anesthesia and trying on bathing suits, most women would head to the dentist. "It's not fun," admits Rachel Rothschild, who...
BRING OUT YOUR SHADY CHARACTER
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amSHADES are a definite must for the beach - especially if they're a pair of this season's sizzling new styles and shapes. Indeed, there's a pair for everyone. Read on....
THE WRONG STUFF - KEEP 'WORLD' ARCHITECTS AWAY FROM GROUND ZERO
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amSOMETHING exciting happened in Ground Zero redevelopment last week: the appearance, at least, of progress. However bumptiously, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. and the Port Authority meshed enough to pick...
IDENTITY CRISIS: NIGHTMARE FOR DOC WHO SHARES HIJACKER'S NAME
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amJust days before Sept. 11, Mohamed Atta visited the Big Apple for a whirlwind weekend with his new bride - taking in a Broadway play, fine French food and an...
HE'S LIKELY TO LEAVE ON HIS OWN 'TERM'
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - While there's no question that Gov. Pataki wants another four-year term, there's growing doubt he will actually stay in office that long if he is re-elected. "I think...
GYM KIDS GET LEASE ON LIFE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amA landlord who threatened to evict a Lower East Side gymnastics center that holds a free summer program for disadvantaged kids now says he will let it stay a few...
HARRY POTTER'S MIDNIGHT MAGIC
May 28, 2002 | 4:00am"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" worked its wizardry at midnight, when video and DVD versions went on sale. "We had to be one of the first to get the...
JUDGE MAY FREE MANSON FOLLOWER
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amManson family murderess Leslie Van Houten has gained the sympathy of a California judge who said he will decide in 30 days if he will order her freed. Van Houten,...
PARENTS TO LEAD CHANDRA TRIBUTE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Family and friends will gather today to pay their respects to Chandra Levy, as investigators have recovered virtually her entire skeleton in the densely wooded park where her...
CITY COP HIT WITH JERSEY SEX RAP
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amA city cop was arrested yesterday on the Jersey Shore for allegedly sexually abusing a woman as she slept, police said. Officer Frank Logiudice, assigned to the Manhattan Traffic Task...
A HIGH-TECH WAY TO CATCH A THIEF
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amA car thief headed to the Hamptons over the weekend in a shiny 2002 Mercedes 320 - unaware that his every move was being recorded by the sedan's sophisticated on-board...
TROUBLE IS BACK 'INN' SEASON AT LIZZIE HAUNT
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe notorious Conscience Point Inn - site of Lizzie Grubman's alleged "white trash"-bashing road-rage incident - was visited twice by cops over the holiday weekend. The first incident began around...
'EPISODE' TOO MUCH FOR THE COMPETITION
May 28, 2002 | 4:00am"Star Wars" blasted higher into the box-office stratosphere, raking in $61.2 million over the Memorial Day weekend - for a grand total of $202.5 million in 12 days. "Episode II...
BOSSY BOSS BETTER THAN BOOB
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amPeople hate working for incompetent and disorganized bosses even more than mean and abusive bosses, a new study reveals. Sociology Professor Randy Hodson of Ohio State University analyzed more than...
REBUILD BIG DEFENDS PACE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe head of the agency overseeing rebuilding at Ground Zero insisted yesterday his group is not moving too quickly. "People say the process is moving too fast," said Lower Manhattan...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amAn Ohio man who stole a street sweeper so he could drive to Alaska and "save the world" has been found not guilty - because he's insane. Hamilton County Judge...
NEW YORK RECRUITS ARE THE APPLE CORPS
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amFORT JACKSON, S.C. -New Yorkers by the hundreds have waved goodbye to civilian life and are preparing for payback in America's war against terrorism. Many of those who chose the...
BRAVE QNS. MOM IN THE ARMY NOW
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amFORT JACKSON, S.C. - Hers is the new face of patriotism. Before the terrorists brought down the World Trade Center on 9/11, Tywana Key punched a clock as an administrative...
HOUSEWIFE VS. MESSIAH IN S.I. SLAY
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amA Staten Island housewife who allegedly killed her millionaire husband and then took her kids on a trip to Disney World is expected to go on trial this week -...
NEW PILL GIVES VIAGRA STIFF COMPETITION
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amWatch out, Viagra - a new competitor is promising longer-lasting love. A libido booster called Cialis can keep the fires burning for up to 36 hours, while Viagra starts to...
TEARS FOR TOSSED TERRIER
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amTriBeCa residents yesterday were mourning "the little mayor of the neighborhood" - a dog named named Ribsy who police said was thrown 23 stories to his death by the ex-boyfriend...
SWELLED HEADS BECAME BLOCKHEADS AT FUMBLING FBI
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amTHERE are some who say the initials FBI stand for Famous But Incompetent. Now I didn't say that, but Joe Coffey, one of the toughest cops to wear out shoes...
SYMBOLIC STROLL FOR BROOKLYN BRIDGE BLOOMY
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg turned a Memorial Day jaunt into a terrorist taunt yesterday, defiantly marching across the Brooklyn Bridge as he urged New Yorkers to continue to stand up to evil....
RECOVERY EFFORT GOES ON AT S.I.'S FRESH KILLS
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amAs the recovery effort at Ground Zero comes to an end in two days, workers will continue sifting through debris and searching for remains at Staten Island's Fresh Kills landfill....
THERE'S THE RUB: BRIT BANK NOTE RECALLED
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amEngland's new five-pound note is really beginning to rub off on people. And that's the problem. The Bank of England has asked local financial institutions to stop issuing the new...
H'WOOD HONCHO IN BEACH BATTLE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amMALIBU, Calif. - Beach bums and Hollywood royalty are locked in a bitter battle over who really rules the sands of Malibu. Advocates for greater coastal access have long been...
BOO$T FOR BIZ PROBED BY FEDS
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amCongress is investigating whether millions of dollars in federal aid are being doled out fairly to help businesses suffering from the Sept. 11 attacks, it was reported yesterday. The probe...
STAB-AND-BURN HORROR IN B'KLYN
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man stabbed his girlfriend with a pair of scissors during an argument inside their apartment and then set the home on fire, leaving two other people badly burned,...
ISRAEL VENGEANCE SWIFT - RAIDERS HIT AFTER CAFE-BOMB HORROR
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amIsraeli troops, tanks and helicopter gunships blasted their way into the northern West Bank city of Jenin early today, hours after a Palestinian homicide bomber blew himself up at a...
NEW IN-LAWS FEAR FOR 'TALIBAN JEW'
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe new father-in-law of Adam Shapiro, the Brooklyn Jew who holed up with Yasser Arafat in his besieged West Bank bunker, fears his daughter may be widowed when Shapiro and...
CUOMO'S DEM SNUB BACKFIRED: MCCALL
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amCarl McCall yesterday blasted rival Andrew Cuomo for "insulting" party members by skipping last week's Democratic convention. Before marching in the Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day parade, McCall dismissed Cuomo's boycott...
MAKE-OR-BREAK FOR BLOOMY - RACES CLOCK FOR KEY DEALS
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe next two weeks are the most important since Mayor Bloomberg took office - and could determine the shape of his administration over the next four years. In the crucial...
UNDERWATER GRAVE - BODIES TRAPPED IN OKLA. BRIDGE COLLAPSE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amFour more bodies were recovered from the underwater wreckage of a collapsed Oklahoma bridge yesterday - but at least six dead are believed still entombed in the river below. The...
AL-QAEDA IN KASHMIR, INDIA SAYS
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amIndia's defense minister said today that Taliban and al-Qaeda forces loyal to Osama bin Laden are hiding out in the Pakistan-controlled portion of the disputed Kashmir territory. "We have information...
MALIBU PROTESTERS MAKE LIFE A BEACH FOR GEFFEN
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amMALIBU, Calif. - Beach bums and Hollywood royalty are locked in a bitter battle over who really rules the sands of Malibu. Advocates for greater coastal access have long been...
UNDERWATER GRAVE: BODIES TRAPPED IN OKLA. BRIDGE COLLAPSE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amA fourth body was recovered from the underwater wreckage of a collapsed Oklahoma bridge yesterday - but at least eight more dead people remained trapped in the river below, according...
GRANDMA & BABY SLAIN: TEEN BOMBER TARGETS TEL AVIV CAFE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amA teenage homicide bomber blew himself up outside a cafe in a mall near Tel Aviv yesterday, killing an elderly woman and her 18-month-old granddaughter, whose bloodstained carriage lay in...
BOMBER BATS LIVING DOWN-TOWN
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amCHICAGO - As the weary Yankees filed off the bus at 3:30 in the morning at their hotel, they ran into a big group of flamboyant men in town for...
AT LAST, HE'S A VAN HORN OF PLENTY
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amGame 4 Nets 94 Celtics 92BOSTON - Over? After Pearl Harbor, was it over? Was it over after Keith Van Horn made one stab at putting the Nets back ahead...
BERNIE'S BACK IN FORM ; FOUR RBIS LEAD YANK HIT PARADE OVER SOX
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 10 White Sox 6 CHICAGO - When Bernie Williams was killing the Yankees in April, it was huge news. Three cortisone shots in two extremely sore shoulders made headlines....
NET COLLAPSE WAS JUST MATTER OF TIME
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amSATURDAY night's fourth quarter of Nets-Celtics still exists as one of those Disney movies I'd go to see as a kid during Easter break. Fred MacMurray rushes from the lab,...
'OVERBOARD' SHOWS MILE IS NO PROBLEM
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amSwept Overboard, a top-class West Coast sprinter who'd never run farther than seven furlongs, handled the mile of Belmont Park's Grade 1, $750,000 Metropolitan Handicap with stunning ease yesterday, drawing...
RONDELL FARES WELL IN AWKWARD SITUATION
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - Rondell White admitted he was in an awkward situation last night when he looked across the field and into the White Sox dugout. How often does...
JONES HAS PERFECT DAY BACK IN MAJORS MET NOTES
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amBobby Jones made a successful return to the major leagues, pitching for the Mets for the first time since the 2000 season. The left-hander threw a perfect eighth inning in...
HORRY STORY HAS FAMILIAR RING
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amTHROUGHOUT their pre-eminent existence, the Lakers have amassed more than their fair share of pressure-proof players. For providing daring deeds above and beyond the imagination of mortal men, Jerry West...
FELONIOUS FISH STEAL DAY: SWIPE SEVEN BASESIN RUN-AWAY VICTORY
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amMarlins 5Mets 3 Everybody in baseball knows that Mike Piazza's Achilles heel is his limited ability to throw out runners. Stolen bases are like Kryptonite to the Met superhero, and...
CAVS MAY GET OFFER THEY CAN'T REFUSE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amContradictory information is being dispersed throughout the NBA regarding Andre Miller. Are the Cavaliers really shopping the league's assist leader as opponents are being led to believe, or are they...
'DRIFT' QUICK IN WORKOUT
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amPerfect Drift, who finished third as a "wiseguy" horse in the Kentucky Derby, worked six furlongs in 1:12.4 yesterday at the Churchill Downs Trackside training center in preparation for the...
JUST CALL MARLINS SPEED FREAKS
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Florida (baseball's best base-stealing team) got going yesterday against slow-to-the-plate Al Leiter and Mike Piazza (the big leagues' most victimized catcher) the results were as predictable as they were...
THERE'S PLENTY OF DEAD WOOD AT SHEA
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amSEEMS like the Yankees always get the last laugh on the Mets. The furor on this day will be about the Mets inability to throw out base stealers. That is...
KIDD AND CO. BARELY ESCAPE 2ND MELTDOWN, EVEN SERIES
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amGame 4 Nets 94 Celtics 92 BOSTON - The entire basketball world, minus about a dozen and a half individuals, looked at the Nets and saw the walking dead after...
KENNY ALL CHARGED UP OVER CALLS
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Kenny Anderson charged that every charge went against the Celtics in the fourth quarter yesterday. Though Anderson had the number wrong, the loquacious Boston point guard was right...
FOR PIERCE, MIRACLE II NOT TO BE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - For the first time all night, ear-splitting FleetCenter fell into a hush. Paul Pierce stepped to the free-throw line for two foul shots with 1.1 seconds left and...
KERRY GETS SOME NEEDED THREE-LIEF
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - In the first three games of the series, those folks they trot out for million-dollar shots were connecting with more accuracy than Kerry Kittles. In 17...
JASON STICKS IT TO CRUDE CELT FANS
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Jason Kidd just couldn't resist. All season, he had given his best "Aw, golly, shucks" routine and deflected praise and credit. Temper, goading and taunting were as much...
NETS HAD TO GET 'OVER' GAME 3, QUICK
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Over? Was it over after Pearl Harbor? Was it over after Jason Kidd tried to split a double team in the fourth quarter and got run over? Was...
BOMBER BATS HIT DOWN-TOWN
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amAS THE weary Yankees piled off the bus at 3:30 in the morning at their Chicago hotel, they ran into a big group of gay men having a party at...
NETS BARELY AVOID 2ND MELTDOWN VS. CELTS
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amGAME 4 Nets 94 Celtics 92 BOSTON - The lead was only four entering the fourth quarter, which given the Nets' recent history, made the situation about as safe as...
NO STOPPING SORIANO: YANK 2B ON PACE FOR 40/40
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Luis Sojo caused eyebrows to arch when he compared Alfonso Soriano to Alex Rodriguez after last year's World Series. Jason Giambi set heads shaking in April when he...
POWER JUST ONE PART OF TORRE'S GAMEPLAN
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - Joe Torre isn't a strong proponent of Earl Weaver's Three-Run Home Run form of managing, but he isn't going to fight his club's ability to go...
YANKS KEEP ON CLUBBING: JOHNSON, WILLIAMS HRS BACK THURMAN
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 10 White Sox 6 CHICAGO - The color of the Sox on their opponents' legs changed from Red to White last night for the Yankees. So did the location,...
VAN HORN CAN'T FIND WAY TO CHARITY STRIPE
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - Foul trouble. Lack of aggression. Decent shooting. Those are the top three reasons Keith Van Horn gave for his failure to get to the line in...
CELTICS SAY WALKER GETS A BAD RAP
May 28, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Celtics coach Jim O'Brien was shocked that anyone was surprised that Antoine Walker turned into Knute Rockne in Saturday night's historic Game 3. Walker's motivational pep talk to...