May 29, 2002
TERROR, WAR SCARE MARTS
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amStocks started the summer doldrums nice and early, falling in the first trading day after the Memorial Day holiday. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 122.68 to 9,981.58, while the...
RATNER, EX DUKE IT OUT IN COURT OVER BROKER FEES
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amBRUCE Ratner of Forest City Ratner is said to have decided to pay disputed brokerage fees on a $380 million deal to develop the Hilton on 42nd Street and the...
DYNEGY BOOTS CEO IN LATEST ENERGY PURGE
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amEnergy CEOs are becoming an endangered species. A second chief exec of a large energy trading giant stepped down yesterday amid investigations by regulators into accounting and trading practices. "There...
AMERICA'S GOING DUTCH WITH EURO FASHION MAGAZINE
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amDUTCH, the cutting-edge European fashion magazine, is coming to America. Shortly before jetting to Italy for his wedding to jewelry designer Kimberlin Brown, Bob Guccione Jr. told Media Ink he...
PEREGRINE CANS ITS NEW AUDITOR, KPMG
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amPeregrine Systems, the problem-plagued business software maker, can't keep its accountants. San Diego, Calif.-based Peregrine shot down its new independent auditor, KPMG, after less than two months on the job...
BIG GARAGE SALE - ADELPHIA'S P.R. ASSETS NEXT TO GO - SHARES FALL 28%
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amFacing financial ruin and probes over cooked books, cable giant Adelphia hopes to clinch its first cash-raising deal by the end of the week to avoid collapse. Dealmakers scrambled through...
SPITZER TAKES ON SPAMMER MONSTERHUT
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is cracking down on what he says is one of the worst junk e-mail outfits operating. Spitzer sued MonsterHut.com of Niagara Falls for jamming...
STARR REPORT
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amReally? What a shocker! Anna Nicole Smith now says she was never physically attracted to her late husband, 86-year-old, wheelchair-bound oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall (they met in a strip...
ANDREA'S BACK ON 'BLUE' AT COURT TV
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amANDREA Thompson, the ex-"NYPD Blue" actress who abruptly quit CNN Headline News last March, is now headed for a role on Court TV. Thompson will host a two-hour Saturday prime-time...
ARTLESS DODGER
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amTHE NEXT BIG THING 1/2 Not this movie.Running time: 87 minutes. Not rated (sex, profanity). At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer streets. ANYONE who makes it past the amateurish first...
'NIJINSKY' LEAPS
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amNIJINSKY: THEDIARIES OF VASLAVNIJINSKY THE great Australian director Paul Cox ("Innocence"), who once made a compelling film based on Vincent van Gogh's diaries, sadly has less success with his latest...
ONE BIG YAWN
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amTHE SLEEPY TIME GAL DIRECTOR/WRITER Christopher Munch made a favorable impression with his first two films, "Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day" and "The Hours and Times," both idiosyncratic,...
FAITH, HOPE AND COMEDY
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amELLING THE world refracted through Elling's eyes is a terrifying and noisy place, full of random events and troubling unpredictability. But "Elling," Norway's 2001 Oscar nominee, is not a prickly...
NOW THAT'S ITALIAN!
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amFIAMMA 206 SPRING ST. (212) 653-0100 'IT'S all about the squab," my friend gasps about the most memorable dish at red-hot Fiamma. In fact, this place is about lots of...
'BACHELOR' LOOKS FOR A TOUGH GUY ...ANY IDEAS, FELLAS?
May 29, 2002 | 4:00am'THE Bachelor II" is looking for a beer-drinker this time around - someone who doesn't remind viewers of Ivy League management consultant Alex Michel. "Alex is a tough act to...
AIR KISSES & LAUGHTER AT SIZZLING BISTRO
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amCASIMIR ½ 103-105 AVE. B (BETWEEN SIXTH AND SEVENTH STREETS) (212) 358-9683 JUST like good wine, restaurants can have legs.Take Casimir. The Alphabet City bistro started out with a bang,...
SHARE WARS: FOOD FIGHTS AT THE SUMMER HOUSE: HEY! THAT'S MY AVOCADO
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amBEING woken at 3:30 a.m. by the ear-puncturing sound of drunks screaming, "Hot Pockets! Gotta get me some Hot Pockets!" is not fun. Nor is watching some tight-fingered cheapskate eat...
TRUMP EATERIES CLOSE
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amLSI, Si has quickly become a no, no.In what could be the shortest partnership in recent memory, Roberto Ruggeri has severed his ties with chef Douglas Rodriguez at their two...
LATE TONY BUZZ
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amAND the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play goes to . . .Well, folks, your guess is as good as mine. With only five days until the Tonys, the race...
*NSPACE
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amIt looks as if *NSYNC star Lance Bass is really going "Bye Bye Bye" - he's been cleared to fly a Russian rocket into space, a Hollywood producer who's financing...
CITY AND FEDS NEAR $20M DEAL ON DIPLO DEADBEATS
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amThe city is on the verge of a deal to collect up to $20 million in outstanding parking fines owed by diplomats, Finance Commissioner Martha Stark said yesterday. Testifying before...
DAD BEGS TO ATTEND BURIALS OF TOT, MOM
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A tragic Israeli father, badly injured by a homicide bomber, pleaded with doctors yesterday to free him from his hospital bed so he can attend today's funeral of...
N.J.'S FACELESS GOP
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amIT speaks volumes about the dysfunctional nature of the New Jersey Republican Party that it couldn't convince a single candidate of any notable stature to challenge the state's vulnerable Democratic...
GOV WOULD POLL-VERIZE EITHER OF HIS RIVALS
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amGov. Pataki received great news at the start of the state Republican convention yesterday: a new poll giving him his highest job-approval rating ever. The Marist College survey showed Pataki...
EXECUTIVE SCAMMER SENT TO SLAMMER
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amA con man who stole the credit-card numbers of bigwig executives and used them to buy $730,000 worth of diamonds and Rolex watches was hit with an eight-year prison sentence...
WAS CONFESSION A BRILLIANT SEDUCTION?
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amDid cops try to wring a confession from a Carnegie Deli Massacre suspect by leaving him alone with another kind of police siren - a pretty, female homicide detective who...
MEX GIRLS IN B'KLYN PIMP-RAPE HORROR
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn pimp smuggled two teenage Mexican girls into the United States, raped them and forced them into prostitution - servicing up to 50 johns a day, police said yesterday....
'NET-SLAY CASE TAKES SHOCK TURN
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amThe adoptive father of a man who confessed to killing a 13-year-old Connecticut girl he met on the Internet is a fugitive accused of sexual abuse, attempted rape and pedophilia...
GET MEN ON, LEAVE 'EM THERE
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amTalking about the law of averages beats talking about batting averages. And every loss by the Mets boils down to a futile, redundant postmortem about numbers. Nothing changes, and the...
SUIT: @#$% OZZY REALLY T'S US OFF
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amA foul-languaged Internet company filed a $15 million lawsuit against Ozzy Osbourne yesterday in a fight over a crude T-shirt based on his hit MTV reality show. The New York...
TEEN TERROR VICTIMS - GUNMAN KILLS 3 YESHIVA STUDENTS
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Three teenage yeshiva students were gunned down and two other Israelis wounded last night when a Palestinian invaded a West Bank settlement and began firing randomly. The attack,...
ESCAPED DRUG LORD LANDS BACK IN COURT
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amHarlem drug lord Kevin Saxon was back in a Manhattan court yesterday, where a judge set a June date for sentencing on murder and drug charges likely to keep him...
ANCHOR AWAY AT NBC - BROKAW RETIRING AFTER 2004 ELECTION
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amOne down, two to go. Tom Brokaw is the first of the three major-network TV news anchors to call it quits. He'll retire as the anchor of the top-rated "NBC...
BUREAU SHUFFLES DECK AHEAD OF HEARINGS
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The FBI today will shake up its agents and resources, hoping to blunt criticism just days before Congress holds the first in a series of hearings on 9/11...
MT. VERNON GIRL, 13, IS KIDNAPPED, GANG-RAPED
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amCops are hunting for three men who abducted a 13-year-old Westchester girl, kept her prisoner in a Bronx apartment for 14 hours and gang-raped her twice. The girl, who lives...
ANDY TRIES HITCHING HORSE TO BUBBA CART
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amDemocratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo yesterday began playing the Bubba card, airing a new TV ad in the city touting his role in the Clinton administration. Showing a black-and-white photo...
BUSH TELLS JOHN PAUL HE FEARS FOR U.S. CHURCH
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A "concerned" President Bush wrapped up his European trip yesterday by telling Pope John Paul he's worried about the U.S. Catholic Church because of the exploding child sex-abuse...
PROSECUTORS PRACTICED JUDICIAL BLACKMAIL
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Chuck Schwarz prosecution team is running out of nails to put in its own coffin. Yesterday, in the morass of the Abner Louima torture case, I heard allegations that...
ACTRESS KILLED IN HAMPTONS CRASH
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amTragedy cast a cloud over the start of the Hamptons season this weekend when a vivacious actress was killed after she lost control of her car and flipped over on...
FEDS' SECRET X-FILE - 'STOCK SCAM' AGENTS KEPT CLASSIFIED PAPERS AT HOME
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amAuthorities investigating two FBI agents accused of helping an alleged stock schemer say the duo kept a mysterious classified file in the house they shared, it was revealed yesterday. U.S....
TEAM BUSH EYES NEW GAME PLAN
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush is sending two top aides to the Mideast - CIA chief George Tenet and Assistant Secretary of State William Burns - as he pushes for Palestinians...
'SUICIDE' LOVER GUILTY IN DAY-TRADE SLAY
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amA broke Long Island day trader who blasted his girlfriend to death, then tried to blow his brains out in a double-suicide pact, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. George Schavran,...
SILENT AGONY OVER CHANDRA - SLAIN INTERN'S PARENTS TOO OVERCOME TO SPEAK AT SERVICE
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amChandra Levy's numbed parents suffered through a heartbreaking memorial service for her yesterday, too distraught to speak and openly sobbing - only hours after her death was ruled a murder....
BIAS INCIDENTS AT LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHOOL
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amBrooklyn's Lafayette HS needs a surveillance and alarm security system, more guidance counselors and "sensitivity" training to combat violence and alleged bigotry, a report prepared for Schools Chancellor Harold Levy...
LINDH LAWYERS GET OK TO QUIZ GITMO INMATES
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Lawyers for American Taliban John Walker Lindh can submit written questions to 20 war prisoners at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Some of...
LOUIMA COP: FEDS LIED TO ME
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amAn ex-cop sentenced to probation for joining the "blue wall of silence" that surrounded the Abner Louima attack claims the feds broke a promise not to prosecute him - and...
COPS: PAROLEE ORDERED HIT ON OFFICERS
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amPolice are hunting a paroled armed robber they say masterminded the ambush of undercover cops in Brooklyn last week. Gamel Cherry, 26, and four accomplices plotted to sell 10 illegal...
GUNMAN KILLS 3 ISRAEL TEENS
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Three teenage yeshiva students were gunned down and two other Israelis wounded last night when a Palestinian invaded a West Bank settlement and opened fire. The attack, coupled...
FALL FROM ROOF KILLS DAREDEVIL FUGITIVE
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amA fast-on-his-feet fugitive survived a string of death-defying stunts to dodge authorities yesterday - only to trip up in the end, collapse in an ambulance and die, sources said. The...
TEAM BLOOMY DETAILS HOW CITY WOULD USE FED $$
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration has written a detailed account of how officials want to use federal 9/11 emergency dollars - in what sources described as a strategy shift designed to make...
SILVER PRODDING BLOOMY: KEEP LEVY
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said yesterday he wants Mayor Bloomberg to keep schools Chancellor Harold Levy on the job for at least one more year. "If he had the opportunity...
LOCKERBIE KIN WARY OF LIBYA'S $2.7 BILLION OFFER
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amLibya's offer to pay $10 million for each Lockerbie terror victim has strings attached - but the conditions may not be insurmountable, some victims' relatives said yesterday. "I would seriously...
FINAL CUT FOR WTC'S PILLAR OF STRENGTH
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amGround Zero workers cut down the last remaining column from the Twin Towers last night in an emotional ceremony that brought tears to the eyes of rugged hard hats. "It...
SORIANO, SHAKING OFF SORENESS, PLAYS
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Joe Torre's mindset was to give Alfonso Soriano a second game off last night to make sure all the stiffness was gone from the left hip flexor muscle...
VACATION VICTIM KIN SUE RESORT
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amIt's been two painful years since the Kirschhochs' daughter, Claudia, vanished without a trace from a Jamaican vacation resort. They have given up hope she is alive - but every...
SKAKEL SIS TESTIFYING VS. LIL' BRO
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amIn a last-minute surprise twist, the sister of accused murderer Michael Skakel is scheduled to take the stand at his trial today - as a prosecution witness. Julie Skakel, 45,...
'HARRY' VIDEOS IN VANISHING ACT
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amDVDs and videotapes of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" were flying out of stores faster than a Nimbus 2000 yesterday. Diehard Potter fans showed up at the Virgin Megastore...
IT'S WEIGHT AND SEE FOR 'SEX' STAR NIXON
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amIt may look as if model-thin "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon has been packing on the pounds. But she's really just wearing a fat suit. The flame-haired actress,...
DAD BEGS TO LEAVE HOSP FOR TOT'S BURIAL
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A tragic Israeli father, badly injured by a homicide bomber, pleaded with doctors yesterday to free him from his hospital bed so he can attend today's funeral of...
BOSTON BOOBS TAUNT N.J. NETS' STAR KIDD
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amThe big-mouthed bleacher bores in Beantown took heckling to new depths of viciousness during Game 4 of the Nets-Celtics NBA semifinals - taunting New Jersey star Jason Kidd as a...
PILLAR OF STRENGTH: LAST-STANDING WTC BEAM COMES DOWN FOR MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amWorkers who spent nine long months laboring at the World Trade Center site cut down the final piece of steel last night in a solemn ceremony. The memorial started in...
IT'S OFFICIALLY A MURDER MYSTERY
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The D.C. medical examiner yesterday ruled Chandra Levy was murdered - but said her remains showed no signs of "a gunshot, stab wound or beating." Medical Examiner Jonathan...
CLASSROOM EXTRA: REAL-LIFE SUPERHEROES
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amABSTRACT: With "Spider-man" and "Star Wars" looming large on the big screen, this week's Classroom Extra takes a look at some real-life heroes, the ones who are always on hand...
ADVANTAGE, NETS: NO ROAD WINS NECESSARY
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amIt didn't go quite as planned. The Nets didn't plan on blowing the largest fourth-quarter lead in NBA playoff history, then coming back the next game needing some botched Boston...
METS NEED ROBBIE TO REV IT UP
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Mets are 13-13 at Shea now because they let a Phillies outfit that had been 4-21 on the road steal one from them last night. They are less a...
VALENTIN TO RETURN VS. FISH
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amJohn Valentin plans to fly ahead of the Mets to Florida, leaving from New York tonight. Valentin will have a one-game rehab assignment in Class A St. Lucie tomorrow before...
BERNIE'S BIG BAT STIRS THE DRINK
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Tired of bludgeoning teams with home runs, the Yankees, as if to amuse themselves, staged a retro-victory last night at Comiskey Park, where they stayed in the park...
FISHING FUN - JUST ADD WATER
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amTEACHING youngsters to fish takes a dash of technique, two or three tablespoons of gear and several cups of patience. Here's the recipe - as well as instructions that Hooked...
YANKS' QUIET RIOT: WITHOUT FANFARE, GIAMBI MAKING NOISE AT PLATE
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Nothing about Jason Giambi suggests quietness. His ripped body screams power. A voice that can't be considered deep can be heard halfway across the clubhouse even when not...
GIANT QUESTIONS NEED ANSWERS AT MINICAMP
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amThere is no truth to the rumor that it was a member of the Giants who last week swiped the playbook of Eagles linebacker Shawn Barber. In fact, there wasn't...
HARRIS GOES FROM PALACIO TO THE PENTHOUSE
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amLucious Harris now has experienced the highest high and the lowest low of his basketball life against the Celtics, the team he grew up rooting for in, of all places,...
NETS MUST GO DOWNTOWN TO TAKE SERIES
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amWHEN the clouds hung low, the Nets rained perfect rainbows. Under the cover of darkness of the blackest fourth quarter in NBA playoff history, helped by the shadows in which...
CABRERA SPARKS WILD WIN
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amPapo Cabrera had suffered through every leadoff hitter's worst nightmare. He went 0-for-4, struck out three times and failed to sacrifice a runner to second with a bunt in the...
INDY WINNER NO LONGER 'HELIO WHO?'
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Helio Castroneves arrived for the Indy 500 this past weekend, a revelation came to him - people actually knew who he was. "I was very surprised that the fans...
WALKER DEFENDS CELTS' CELEBRATION
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amWALTHAM, Mass. - Antoine Walker couldn't believe his ears that some Nets were offended he and Paul Pierce hopped onto the scorer's table following Game 3's miracle comeback Saturday night....
KNICK DECISIONS WILL BE PIVOTAL
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - It's Center Time at Purchase College today. The Knicks, so badly in need of a pivot man in a draft weak at that position, will bring in two...
TIGER, O'MEARA PREP FOR OPEN
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amIn his first true preparation for the upcoming U.S. Open at Bethpage, Tiger Woods played the Black Course yesterday - and he didn't even have to sleep overnight to acquire...
VALENTIN MAY BE BACK FRIDAY FOR FISH
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amJohn Valentin said yesterday afternoon he might fly ahead of the Mets to Florida, leaving from New York tonight. Under that circumstance, The Post believes Valentin will be on a...
MO-MENTOR MAKES WAVES: VAUGHN CALLS FOR HELP TO END BATTING SLUMP
May 29, 2002 | 4:00am-- EXCLUSIVE -- Mo Vaughn wouldn't answer the question yesterday, playfully joking, "It's top secret. DefCon 5." Vaughn was asked whether he'd been in contact with his personal hitting guru...
METS ARE GOING NOWHERE FAST WITHOUT ALOMAR
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Mets thought they were getting a Hall of Fame second baseman when they stole Robbie Alomar away from the Indians. If the Mets plan on winning a World Series,...
SLUMPING MO GOES FOR OUTSIDE HELP
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amMike Easler, Mo Vaughn's personal hitting guru, is in New York and working with Vaughn. And two key Mets staff members, hitting coach Dave Engle and general manager Steve Phillips,...
A RALLY GOOD SHOW: BOMBERS FIGHT BACK AS LILLY BAGS WIN
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amCHICAGO - If you think turning water into wine was quite an accomplishment, consider what the Yankees did a little over two years ago. That's when they turned the Fat...
TAUNTS HAVE NETS RILED UP
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amOK, now it's personal for the Nets with Boston. They don't mind the booing, the taunting, even the cussing. But when Celtics fans began a Game 4 chant of "wife-beater"...
SORIANO SIDELINED 2ND STRAIGHT
May 29, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO -The Yankees were without Alfonso Soriano for a second straight game last night as the slugging second baseman continued to battle a stiff left hip flexor. Soriano,...