May 30, 2002
HOUSEHOLD BLOCKS REPORT IN SUIT OVER FINANCING PRACTICES
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amWALL Street is concerned that Household International's profits won't be up to expectations - because the company might not be able to continue doing some nasty things it has been...
MANHOLES TRIP MOODY MARTS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amU.S. stocks ended the day with small losses yesterday, but the final numbers masked the volatility of the day. The Dow seesawed yesterday, dropping almost 30 points after the opening...
AT&T NEARLY JUNK - CREDIT DOWNGRADED, STOCK HITS NEW LOW
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amIn its fading days of glory, AT&T is being humiliated with a lower credit rating that pushes its bonds closer to the brink of junk status. The surprise downgrade yesterday...
BURBERRY, PRADA PLANNING IPOS - NEW OFFERINGS A SIGN OF LUXURY SECTOR TURNAROUND
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amThe long-suffering luxury sector is roaring back. Burberry announced plans for an IPO - close on the heels of a similar announcement from Prada, which has canceled two other announced...
BATTLE OF THE ALAMO FOR EL PASO
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amEl Paso Corp., the nation's top natural-gas pipeline owner, stunned Wall Street by saying it was restructuring and bailing out of its new energy trading business as the industry comes...
CH. 11 IS LIKELY TODAY FOR TROUBLED ADELPHIA
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amCash-strapped Adelphia Communications Corp. could file for bankruptcy today if the scandal-scarred cable company doesn't get an 11th hour respite from banks. The troubled Coudersport, Pa.-based firm, formerly run by...
AL FAYED SPIKES PUNCH; SATIRE MAG RETIRED
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amAfter 161 years of poking fun at just about everything, the satirical magazine Punch has closed its doors for good. The venerable British fortnightly spared nothing with its biting commentary...
QUEEN OF SOUL'S HAMPTONS PALACE: 200G FOR A MONTH
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amTHE soul quotient in the Hamptons will get livelier once Aretha Franklin arrives there in August. According to sources on the East End, the "Queen of Soul" will pay the...
INVESTORS POPPING THE CORK ON LVMH
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amThe tide may have turned for Bernard Arnault and his LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton. The luxury conglomerate's stock is up almost 37 percent year to date, which means investors...
RING, RING. NOT FUNNY ...UNLESS YOU LIKE DIRTY PHONE CALLS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00am"Crank Yankers" Sunday at 10:30 p.m. on Comedy Central THIS was the season for jaded puppets and the humans who love them. Think about it. Alf is on TV commercials...
STARR REPORT
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amRen & Stimpy back in the nick of time Ren & Stimpy are staging a comeback. The animated dog-and-cat combo, who created a stir on Nickelodeon in the early '90s...
NOW PETER CAN GO FOR BROKE-AW
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amPETER Jennings might be moving closer to a decision to stay at ABC News now that his NBC News rival, Tom Brokaw, has announced he'll step down in two years....
WELL HELLO, BOYS. I'M...; ANNA, THE NEXT OZZY
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amE! has jumped on "The Osbournes" bandwagon - and will produce a reality series around zaftig model/playmate Anna Nicole Smith."The Anna Nicole Smith Show," debuting in August, will follow the...
B'WAY BOOM ALL PLAYED OUT
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amBroadway's boom has gone bust. After 10 years of record-breaking gains, Broadway attendance and box-office receipts declined during the 2001-'02 season. The gross for the entire season hit $642,545,026, off...
ANEMIC 'GIRLS' LACK ENERGY
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amBOYS AND GIRLSAt the Duke, 229 W. 42nd St. Through June 9. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. ------ THE new and odd shapes that families can be taking are being examined...
SEX MUSEUM GIVES EXHIBITION NEW MEANING
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amTHERE'LL be sex in the city this fall - at the new Museum of Sex. The long-awaited museum, nicknamed MoSex, yesterday announced it will open on Sept. 23 with an...
SHRINK RAP: WE SEND SOURPUSS EMINEM TO THE COUCH
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amWHAT, dear doctor, is Eminem's problem? Underneath his angry veneer, there's a frightened little boy with an abandonment problem whose music saves him from becoming a killer. That's what one...
GRANNIES 'PEDDLED' PILLS TO DRUGGIES
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amTwo Brighton Beach grannies were spoiling the neighborhood kids rotten - by selling them potent prescription drugs, cops said yesterday. Not content with the quiet life at home, Roza Shusterman,...
THE FBI: WHAT'S WRONG - THE BUREAU & THE BUREAUCRATS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amIN the course of an unusual military career, I had the privilege to get to know a number of FBI agents. Most were extremely dedicated, intelligent men and women, committed...
THIEF TAPED IN FRAGRANT DELICTO
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amCalling all bloodhounds. Cops on Long Island need your help sniffing out a bold bandit who walked out of a Medford drugstore - during business hours - with a garbage...
COPS COLLAR UNGODLY THEFT SUSPECT
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amCops say they've busted a career church burglar who ripped off more than a dozen Long Island churches - hitting one of them three times. Sneak thief William Hepworth was...
EMS VETERAN BUSTED IN KIDDIE-PORN CASE
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amA veteran FDNY paramedic was arrested yesterday on child-pornography charges, police said. Steven McLeod, 40, was picked up shortly after 7 a.m. yesterday when the NYPD's Computer Investigation and Technology...
RUDY ROOTING FOR GOV
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amFormer Mayor Rudy Giuliani delivered a stirring tribute to "our great Gov. Pataki" yesterday, and pledged his all-out support to get the just-renominated governor re-elected in November. "George Pataki was...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amA French rapper has been fined $9,100 for roughing up his pet monkey on TV. Animal-rights activists including ex-sex kitten Brigette Bardot went berserk when Joey Starr slapped his caged...
COPS SHED LIGHT ON CAR DEATH OF ACTRESS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amTV actress Nandria Lin Courts was speeding and not wearing her seat belt in a fatal Memorial Day crash in the Hamptons, authorities said yesterday. Courts, 39, the mother of...
CUOMO RIPS GOP'S 9/11 'HYPOCRISY'
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amAndrew Cuomo yesterday called Republicans "hypocritical" for trying to raise campaign cash by invoking the Sept. 11 tragedy while telling him not to politicize the terror strike. Asked about the...
A RING OF TRUTH - D.C. COPS HOPE MISSING JEWELRY WILL HELP FINGER CHANDRA'S KILLER
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Police believe this missing tiny pinkie ring could be the key to solving the Chandra Levy murder case. A gift from her mother, Susan in 1998, it was...
RUDY WORKING FOR OXYCONTIN
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amFormer Mayor Rudy Giuliani is lending a hand to the maker of OxyContin by trying to stem abuse of the controversial pharmaceutical painkiller. Giuliani's consulting company, Giuliani Partners, began a...
ISRAEL IN DEBATE TO BOOT ARAFAT
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A 10-day wave of renewed terrorist attacks triggered a sharp debate yesterday in the Israeli Cabinet over whether to expel Yasser Arafat from the region. Armed forces commander...
PERHAPS FREE RIDE IS OVER FOR SOCIAL-MENACE ATHLETES
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amMAYBE there's hope for the future of professional sports after all. Something amazing happened on the basketball court this week in Boston, and it had little to do with the...
HEAVY PEDAL FINES - NEW LAW WOULD HIT CRAZED CYCLISTS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amTwo-wheeled menaces like food deliverers and bicycle messengers who speed on sidewalks could be facing stiff new fines under a bill that moved one step closer to law yesterday. Bikers...
STILL HOPING FOR THE CALL - FIREMAN'S MOM PRAYS HE'LL BE ID'D
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amTeresa Otten has been anxiously waiting by the phone every day with the hope of receiving that one call. The 63-year-old grieving mother of firefighter Michael Otten - who died...
FIRED TEACHER IN REHAB SUIT
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amA New York City schoolteacher who was fired after going into drug rehab has filed a federal lawsuit against the district, claiming it violated his civil rights because he's disabled....
OH, BROTHER, IT'S TROUBLE - RELUCTANT SISTER TESTIFIES AGAINST SKAKEL
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amMichael Skakel's sister reluctantly testified yesterday that she called out her brother's name when she saw a figure dash across the family's lawn at 9:30 on the night their neighbor...
DEMS BUSHWHACKED BY 'WHAT DID BUSH KNOW' ATTACK
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amA LOT of Democrats are suddenly sounding very sorry they attacked President Bush on what he knew about 9/11 before it happened - and the polls show why. Less than...
'PRIVILEGED' UPBRINGING SOUNDS PRETTY AWFUL
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amAS DUSK settled on the Martha Moxley murder trial yesterday, we caught a glimpse of what it was like to be a "privileged" Skakel kid. The family's dirty laundry was...
WORKERS HAIL CHAPEL AS HAVEN ON EARTH
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amWorkers who found a second home in St. Paul's Chapel near Ground Zero yesterday honored the volunteers who created a "haven of hospitality" in the historic house of worship. The...
MIKE: LEVY CAN KEEP JOB - FOR NOW
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday indicated he will allow Schools Chancellor Harold Levy to stay for a transition period after his contract expires June 30. Bloomberg, who met privately with Levy yesterday,...
SPITZER $UPPORTS TUTORING FOR FAILING PAROCHIAL KIDS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amState Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has drafted a legal opinion concluding that it's OK to provide taxpayer-funded remedial services to parochial-school students, The Post has learned. The 35-page legal analysis...
EXPLODING MANHOLES SPUR EMPIRE STATE TERROR FEAR
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amSeveral manhole covers exploded into the air near the Empire State Building yesterday, snarling traffic and raising fears the tallest building in the city was under attack. "I thought the...
$200M SUIT OVER COP'S DWI SLAYS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amRelatives of four victims mowed down by DWI cop Joseph Gray filed a $200 million lawsuit yesterday, charging police and union officials with encouraging him to drink - and then...
SEARCHING UNTIL LAST MINUTE
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amRecovery work at Ground Zero has moved far faster than anyone could imagine - but not quite fast enough to be done in time for today's ceremony to mark the...
I.N.S.ULT: N.Y. COPS' FURY AS FEDS FREE ALIENS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amFrustrated cops in New York had to free a suspicious gang of illegal Mideast aliens because the INS "didn't want to be bothered" on the Memorial Day weekend, The Post...
BIKER WON'T SLOW DOWN IN MAD DASH FOR MONEY
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amBike messenger David Williams is fast and furious. The athletic Bronx resident says the new crackdown is a misguided attempt to hurt little guys making an honest buck. "This is...
GIRL, 11, GIVES BIRTH TO BABY OF DIRTY OLD MAN, 75
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amAn 11-year-old Connecticut girl, impregnated by a 75-year-old pervert, has given birth - and prosecutors are working to put the father behind bars for the rest of his life. James...
MORE PRE-ATTACK WARNING MEMOS TURN UP
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The FBI yesterday acknowledged two more pre-9/11 memos that hinted at terror attacks - one about a Middle Eastern country seeking a flight simulator, and another about Middle...
BUREAU SETS 'HIRE' STANDARDS - 900 NEW G-MEN THE ANSWER TO 9/11 FLUBS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - FBI Director Robert Mueller yesterday admitted the agency made mistakes that might have prevented 9/11 - and began transforming the nation's crime-fighting bureau into a giant counterterrorism force....
BROKEN-DOWN CAR HELD $2M IN COKE
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amA pair of drug mules transporting a big stash of cocaine slipped away from cops who aided them when their Volkswagen broke down on a Bronx highway. The officers directed...
BOSTON'S CHOWDER HEADS - KIDD'S WIFE RIPS 'IGNORANT' FANS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amThe angry wife of Nets star Jason Kidd blasted the Beantown boors who taunted her husband as a wife-beater, ripping into them as stupid, ignorant and crude. "Fans and security...
BLATHERING BEANTOWNERS SAY YOU AIN'T HEARD NOTHING YET
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amLouder and even more hostile. That's the reception Celtics fans believe the Nets should receive when they return to Boston tomorrow for the sixth game of the NBA semifinals. "Boston...
BOSTON'S CHOWDER HEADS : KIDD'S WIFE RIPS 'IGNORANT' FANS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amThe angry wife of Nets star Jason Kidd blasted the Beantown boors who taunted her husband as a wife-beater, ripping into them as stupid, ignorant and crude. "Fans and security...
PIAZZA HER GETS METS HEALTHY - SOLO SHOT IN 7TH LIFTS AMAZIN'S BACK INTO 1ST
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amMike Piazza smashed the ball deep into left-center field, and Philadelphia's Doug Glanville began drifting back, back, back. When Glanville made a leaping catch on the warning track to end...
BOBBY V IS A-OK WITH VAUGHN'S BAT GURU
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES If Mo Vaughn wants to use personal hitting guru Mike Easler, Bobby Valentine doesn't see anything wrong with it. The Post reported yesterday that Easler was in a...
SAVE PLAYERS FROM THEMSELVES - TEST!
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Two unmarried baseball players: One huge and long suspected of using steroids, another built like the athletes from generations past, never suspected of using anything stronger than Budweiser...
YANKS, METS IN 'ROID RAGE
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amIf you believe what 1996 NL MVP Ken Caminiti says about steroid use and apply it to the Yankees and Mets, then 12½ of each club's 25-man roster is using...
HEADS-UP JORGE MAKES KEY PICKOFF PLAY
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - Lost in the Yankees' five-run ninth inning that was highlighted by Jason Giambi's three-run homer last night was a heads-up play by Jorge Posada in the...
JASON'S2ND HROF NIGHTKOS CHI
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 6 White Sox 3 CHICAGO - The great ones see the game at a different speed than even the good players. While the action is a blur for everybody...
RONDELL HBP GETS YANKS ALL FIRED UP
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Get-away day. They would win the series regardless of the outcome of last night's game. They were trailing by two runs going into the ninth. Nice time to...
KEITH-KITTLES TREYS SHRED CELTIC 'D'
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amCeltics coach Jim O'Brien is daring Keith Van Horn and Kerry Kittles to carry the Nets to the NBA Finals. And the two unpredictable Net bombers are taking the dare...
NETS SLAP CELTS AROUND, SEIZE 3-2 SERIES LEAD
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amGAME 5 Nets 103 Celtics 92 The Nets are one victory short of playing in the NBA Finals. Think about that, OK? Back in October, that was about as plausible...
COLLINS COMES UP BIG IN THE MIDDLE
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amSome media types were milling around Jason Collins' locker and joked with him. Look at the stat sheet, why is anyone trying to talk with you? "He came in and...
OFF-TARGET WALKER FEELS HEAT
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amThe goat horns were passed from Paul Pierce to Antoine Walker in last night's 103-92 loss. Walker, who had been the Celtics' most consistent player entering Game 5, shot 5-of-20,...
VENGEFUL JASON WON'T LET THIS GUTTY TEAM FAIL
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amGAME 5Nets 103Celtics 92THE man who came down from the mountain, carrying two tablets that ended 25 years of Net wandering in the desert, said yesterday morning that "Thou Shalt...
'WAR' WORKS LIKE A CHAMP
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amAfter simply walking the shed row for the first few days after his hard-fought victory in the May 18 Preakness, followed by a week's worth of routine morning gallops, Kentucky...
HOLYFIELD: DON'T DISS IRON MIKE
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY - If Mike Tyson had Evander Holyfield in his camp, then maybe boxing's most famous ex-convict wouldn't be, well, boxing's most famous ex-con. "You got to not look...
AT CLASSIC, RICE STILL MASTER OF GREEN
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amWhen New Yorkers last saw Jerry Rice he was chewing up the Jets' secondary and spitting their season of promise out in the form of a 38-24 Raiders' wild-card playoff...
FACING GIANT UNKNOWN
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amTiki Barber and Ron Dayne were talking recently when it suddenly hit Barber: He is one of the longest-tenured Giants. "And we don't even consider Tiki an old guy," Dayne...
KNICKS HOLDING MORE WORKOUTS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amThe Knicks will bring in the junior-college small forward sensation Qyntel Woods and Indiana swingman Jared Jeffries today for a workout at Purchase College. Often compared to Tracy McGrady for...
JETS' SZOTT TEARS ACL
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amThe Jets suffered a potentially damaging blow to their offensive line yesterday when it was discovered that Dave Szott, slated to start at left guard, suffered a tear in the...
XAVERIAN ROCKS 'N' ROLLS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFS: Xaverian 10 - Moore 2 Danny Christensen stands about 6-foot-2, but his pitching prowess can at times cast a shadow over the rest of his Xaverian teammates. "He's...
KELLER'S INJURY WORRIES U.S.
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amThe biggest lineup question with the U.S. World Cup team has been who will start in goal: Kasey Keller or Brad Friedel. Now the question is will Keller will be...
DEVILS TO INK 'D' PROSPECT
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amAt least there's one guy the Devils aren't losing. Sources say junior defenseman Phil Cole is passing up his chance to re-enter the draft to sign with New Jersey. The...
PIAZZA HR GETS METS HEALTHY - SOLO SHOT IN 7TH LIFTS AMAZIN'S BACK INTO 1ST
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amMets 4 - Phillies 3 Mike Piazza smashed the ball deep towards left-center field, and Philadelphia's Doug Glanville began drifting back, back, back. When Glanville made a leaping catch on...
NET FANS DISPLAY AP-PAUL-ING TASTE
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES And they can be just as tasteless in New Jersey. After all the furor about the Celtic fans chanting "wife-beater" at Jason Kidd in Boston, two "fans" showed...
TAKE THAT, BOSTON! KIDD & CO. SLAP CELTS, SEIZE 3-2 SERIES LEAD
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amGAME 5 Nets 103 Celtics 92 The Nets are one victory short of playing in the NBA Finals. Think about that, OK? Back in October, that was about as plausible...
CHAMP-ING AT BIT: NETS CONFIDENT ABOUT SURVIVING EASTERN FINALS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amThey have endured virtually every scenario a playoff team can endure: double overtime, blown leads, heart breaking shots, home defeats, road defeats. There's more, but you get the point -...
FOR LILLY, TRIP TO 'PEN A MATTER OF TIME
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - Ted Lilly is eventually going to the bullpen, unless Andy Pettitte and Orlando Hernandez never make it back from the DL. When you pitch for a...
THAT'S ALL, FOULKE! GIAMBI & YANKS POUND CHI CLOSER
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 6 White Sox 3 CHICAGO - Hanging around until closing time hoping to leave with the best girl in the joint normally isn't a good plan. However, that's the...
STEROID CHARGES ROCKING BASEBALL: YANK PLAYERS RIP SCOPE OF ALLEGATIONS
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amCHICAGO - If you believe what 1996 NL MVP Ken Caminiti says about steroid use and apply it to the Yankees, then 12½ of the club's 25-man roster is using...
NO. 2 PIAZZA UNFAZED BY CAMINITI'S 'ROIDS MVP
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amMike Piazza doesn't hold a grudge against Ken Caminiti for doping up or speaking out. But Piazza, who was denied the 1996 MVP because Caminiti had better numbers while admittedly...
O'BRIEN: KERRY, VAN NOT A THREAT
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amCeltics coach Jim O'Brien is daring Kerry Kittles and Keith Van Horn to carry the Nets to California for the Finals. If those two unpredictable Net bombers are going to...
FINE-TUNED VAN GIVES SMOOTH RIDE
May 30, 2002 | 4:00amAll season, it has been as Jason Kidd goes, so go the Nets. But in these playoffs, a better barometer actually has been Keith Van Horn. He plays well, the...