June 25, 2002
FROM BAD TO BETTER - INVESTORS JUMP BACK IN WHEN DOW HITS 9,100
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amEnough is enough. That's what investors said yesterday as the U.S. stock market started off the trading session by sinking even lower after five consecutive weeks of losses. But when...
JACK: IT'S THE CAPACITY, STUPID!
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amWHAT'S wrong? The economy is growing - but only moderately. The stock market is dropping - almost daily. Consumers are still borrowing and spending - but businesses are not. And...
LUSTY PROF INVOLVED WITH IMCLONE
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amAnother kinky character has stepped into the spotlight of the widening Martha Stewart-ImClone scandal. He's Dr. Arnold J. Levine, who was ousted recently as president of Rockefeller University for making...
DEUTSCHE DUMPS - CUTTING 300 BANKERS IN CORPORATE FINANCE
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amAs the slowdown in mergers and stock underwriting activity continues to take a bite out of profits, Deutsche Bank AG staffers may be Wall Street's latest victim. Deutsche Bank, Germany's...
INSIDER GUIDE TO TIMES SQ.
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amWELCOME to Times Square. You're no tourist, but a curious real estate maven full of questions. Mysteries hang over five buildings clustered where Broadway and Seventh Avenue meet 42nd Street....
JU$TICE FOR EX-ENRON STAFF
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amAfter six months of heartache and financial peril, sacked Enron workers finally had something to celebrate yesterday - the court approval of a $29 million severance package. Only one ex-Enron...
MARTHA'S BOARD ON HOT SEAT
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amWhile Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's share price continues to fluctuate with each passing news cycle, the company's board of directors has yet to weigh in. In place to provide non-executive...
KIM JOINS 'CSI'
June 25, 2002 | 4:00am'NYPD Blue" star Kim Delaney is joining another "Blue" alum, David Caruso, on "CSI: Miami." The show, a spin-off from TV's highest-rated drama, Jerry Bruckheimer's forensic drama "CSI: Crime Scene...
BRITISH CLINIC SCRUBS UP FOR OUTDOOR OPERATION
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S summertime, and the living is easy, especially when you're rocking out by the water for free. Tomorrow, Liverpool's Clinic, whose members wears surgical outfits and play garage pop, headline...
LOOK MA, NO ADS - THERE'S ONLY ONE HITCH. EVERYTHING ON THE SHOW IS A PRODUCT PLUG
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amFINALLY, a network show without yapping commercials - well, sort of."Who Wants to be a Millionaire" producer Michael Davies is pitching a new live variety/news show - called "Live From...
CAUTIOUS CONNIE'S DEMANDING BABY - GOOD STORIES, BUT LOSE THE FAKE SENSE OF URGENCY
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amGOODNIGHT, Maury and Matthew? When Connie Chung said those words at the conclusion of her first show on CNN last night, the sound of my groaning could be heard a...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amOn the fence Those longing for "the good ol' days" need only travel as far as Hannibal, Mo., to relive those simpler times. Tom Sawyer Days, July 3-6, is a...
MORE NELLY VISION
June 25, 2002 | 4:00am* NELLY "Nellyville" [] Universal Records St. Louis rapper Nelly, who taught hip-hop where the verb goes with his staggeringly successful multi-platinum debut "Country Grammar," is at the blackboard again...
BURNS A HOLE IN PBS' WEEK : KEN BURNS SHOWS LIKE 'CIVIL WAR' TO BE REMADE AS SERIES
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amPBS's fall hopes now rest on the slim shoulders of Ken Burns. Burns - who became the world's most famous documentary filmmaker following the success of his masterpiece, "The Civil...
LADY LIBERTY FUND-RAISING FEUD BOILS OVER INTO SUIT
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amThe Statue of Liberty's ability to pull in the green has her caught in a legal tug of war. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation - which claims it's raised...
MADDUX PASSES ON START
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amGreg Maddux and the Braves spent their first couple of hours at Shea Stadium yesterday playing mind games with the Mets. Will he pitch today or won't he? "It feels...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amIf you're going to stroll down the street with a marijuana plant in your hand, don't brag about it - especially to a cop. That's the lesson Daniel Fornash of...
'RAPE' REV. HELD ON BAIL
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amA Nigerian priest, accused of raping a parishioner two years ago in a Brooklyn rectory, was arraigned yesterday and ordered held on $50,000 bail. The Rev. Cyriacus Udegbulem, 38, was...
THE BEAUTY BEHIND TERROR BOMB VICTIM TAG NO. 10
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The delicate arm peeked out from a black body bag by the side of the road, victim No. 10 of the Jerusalem bus bombing that threw the Mideast...
CONDIT PAY HIKES - GAVE AIDES RAISES AS INTERN SCANDAL EXPLODED
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Disgraced Rep. Gary Condit gave three of his most loyal staffers whopping pay raises just days after he admitted to cops he was sexually involved with murdered intern...
GROUND ZERO VISIONS - SNEAK PEEK AT WTC-SITE DEVELOPMENT IDEAS
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amA series of site plans drawn up by an independent group of architects provides a preview of what New Yorkers may see next month when public officials unveil development options...
'FLAG' MAN'S BURNING DESIRE
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amA Long Island man arrested for a rash of flag burnings told cops his arson spree wasn't political, he just likes to "watch things burn," police said yesterday. Lawrence Wan,...
NYERS SAY LIBERTY MEDALS LIFT CITY'S SPIRIT
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amNew Yorkers say the time is right for The Post's Liberty Medal Awards because they've come to realize, especially since September, that there are hundreds of heroes whose contributions to...
GROUND ZERO GRADS LOOK AHEAD
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amJoyous graduates of Stuyvesant HS yesterday said it's time to get over the Sept. 11 attacks and get on with life - but for a few, it wasn't easy. Chaz...
W.'S MIDEAST SHIFT
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amPRESIDENT Bush yesterday proved that he is not only the best friend Israel has ever had, but the best friend the Palestinian people have ever had as well. The speech...
ARIEL HAILS WHAT W. DOESN'T SAY
June 25, 2002 | 4:00am--ANALYSIS-- JERUSALEM. ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon watched President Bush's televised speech in his Jerusalem office yesterday and expressed full satisfaction about what was in it - and what wasn't....
ABNER'S GOT MORE STORIES THAN EMPIRE ST. BLDG.
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amIT WAS a rare scene for a courtroom drama: the prosecution helping out the defense. But then again, they may have predicted that Chuck Schwarz's defense attorney Ron Fischetti was...
CYBER CAFE ROBBERY 'NETS 2G
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amTwo gunmen made off with $2,000 in cash from a Times Square restaurant after beating the manager and forcing her to open a safe, police said yesterday. The gunmen invaded...
FIVE DIE IN TEXAS CHURCH BUS CRASH
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amFour passengers and their driver were killed - and 36 people injured - when a bus taking them to a church camp yesterday crashed into an overpass 30 miles east...
'TOO HARD' HS TEST PROBED
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amState Education Department officials said yesterday they're investigating whether the new physics exam given last week is too hard, after getting inundated with complaints of plummeting scores. About 11,000 public...
'DON'T HURT ME' - EAST SIDE BATHROOM SEX SUSPECT ON TRIAL
June 25, 2002 | 4:00am"I thought I was going to die!" a petite, aspiring actress told a Manhattan jury yesterday, testifying against a wealthy, young East Sider at the start of his trial for...
U.S. GAMBLE ASSUMES ARABS, TOO, ARE FED UP WITH YASSER
June 25, 2002 | 4:00am--ANALYSIS-- WASHINGTON. A CENTRAL assumption of much Mideast analysis - that America must lean on Israel and help Yasser Arafat to get Arab support against Iraq's Saddam Hussein - has...
ARAFAT'S & SHARON'S THUMBS UP - BUT NOT TOO HIGH
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Both Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon welcomed President Bush's Mideast speech yesterday - but with low-key responses. Arafat, the PLO chairman, praised Bush for making "a serious contribution"...
'LIAR' LOUIMA GRILLED - IDS SCHWARZ AS ATTACKER, BUT ADMITS TELLING FIBS
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amRecounting one of the city's worst police brutality scandals, Abner Louima again testified yesterday that Charles Schwarz held him down during the 1997 sodomy attack - but his credibility came...
NEW CLUE A BLOW TO MARTHA - PHONE LOGS SHOW BROKER WARNED HER DAY BEFORE
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amInvestigators probing the ImClone scandal are examining key new evidence that casts doubt on what domestic diva Martha Stewart and her broker have said about her stock sales, it was...
THIEF-SLAY BUS DRIVER DEVASTATED, HE TELLS JURY
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx bus driver, accused of shooting to death a neighborhood crackhead who was breaking into his car, was emotionally crushed by the killing, a jury heard yesterday. "I'm a...
THEY MUST DUMP YASSER: PREZ BACKS PALESTINIAN STATE ON TOUGH TERMS
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday bluntly told the Palestinian people they can have their own state within three years - but only if they dump Yasser Arafat. "I call on...
RUDY'S ON OUR SIDE, SAY 9/11 FAMILIES
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amA group of 9/11 victims' relatives said yesterday that former mayor Rudy Giuliani supports their vision for a "grand memorial" at Ground Zero. Yesterday's closed-door meeting - the second with...
ISRAELI FORCES STORM HEBRON: SHARON PLEDGES 'MASSIVE' PUSH AGAINST TERROR
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces, readying for a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, entered a seventh West Bank city early today, arrested a would-be bomber, and killed at least...
CARIBBEAN CRUISE FOR N.Y. TRASH?
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amCity officials, struggling to find a home for New York's 12,000 tons of household trash a day, are considering sending it on a Caribbean vacation - permanently. Sanitation Commissioner John...
'DWI' COP MAY FACE SLAY RAP
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amA shattered Brooklyn family yesterday gathered to mourn the son killed in a crash last week with an off-duty cop as prosecutors asked a grand jury to upgrade the charges...
MTA MAY TAKE OVER STRIKE ROUTES
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amThe city is talking to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority about having the state agency take over the routes of the three striking Queens bus companies, Mayor Bloomberg said last night....
ORCHARD BEACH SWIMMER DROWNS
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amA man drowned in the waters off Orchard Beach yesterday afternoon, police said. It was the first drowning at a city beach this season. Witnesses said the 19-year-old man, whose...
PREGNANT WOMAN, SON DEAD IN B'KLYN
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amA pregnant woman and her 6-year-old son were murdered in their Brooklyn apartment last night and her common-law husband was being questioned as the prime suspect, police said. The husband,...
FIRED ENRON WORKERS GET JU$TICE AT LAST
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amAfter six months of heartache and financial peril, sacked Enron workers finally had something to celebrate yesterday - the court approval of a $29 million severance package. Only one ex-Enron...
'I'M DEVASTATED,' THIEF-SLAY BUS DRIVER TELLS JURY
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx bus driver, accused of shooting to death a neighborhood crackhead who was breaking into his car, was emotionally crushed by the killing, a jury heard yesterday. "I'm a...
ONLY JURY CAN IMPOSE DEATH: HIGH COURT
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - More than 160 executions were put on hold by a Supreme Court decision yesterday that ruled only juries - not judges - can sentence criminals to death. The...
LOUIMA ON HOT SEAT: IDS SCHWARZ AS ATTACKER, BUT ADMITS TELLING FIBS
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amAbner Louima, the lead witness in Charles Schwarz's retrial, yesterday testified it was the ex-cop who helped Justin Volpe sodomize him with a broomstick in 1997 - and then the...
CARL VOWS TO CUT CLASS SIZES
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amBOLTON LANDING, N.Y. - Gubernatorial hopeful Carl McCall pledged yesterday to reduce the size of elementary-school classes to a maximum of 18 pupils per teacher. State Comptroller McCall, who is...
AMAZIN'S BRAVE FRONT IS WEARING THIN
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amHAVING won six of eight games before playing host to the rival Braves last night, the Mets offered the unified look of a relaxed team resistant to the notion they...
BRAVES' LITTLE MAN COMES UP WITH BIG SWING
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amThere was a ton of high-priced, heavy-hitting stars on the field at Shea last night: Mike Piazza and Chipper Jones. Mo Vaughn and Gary Sheffield. Jeromy Burnitz and Andruw Jones....
ONE STEP CLOSER TO THEIR DEMISE - LOCKHART HOME RUN PUTS METS 8 ½ BACK
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amYesterday afternoon the heat practically rippled off the Shea Stadium concrete. It felt like Hades, or maybe just Hotlanta. That was the setting for the beginning of a seven-day test...
KANE'S NOT ABLE TO FINISH SEASON
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES Kane Davis is out for the year. The right-handed reliever will have surgery at the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases Monday to repair the flexor tendon in his...
SPOON'S NOT WORRIED
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amRichie Adubato wasn't counting on Teresa Weatherspoon to become a scoring threat at this point of her career. But he didn't expect this. "People aren't guarding her anymore," said the...
'FREE AGENT' CHELIOS EYES RANGER DEAL
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amWhile a delegation of Red Wings dined last night with Dominik Hasek to try to convince the goaltender to return for one more season, it appears as if the Stanley...
DEREK DUE TO HEAT UP AT PLATE
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Searching for a reason why the Yankees have a good chance to finally separate themselves from the Red Sox? Derek Jeter is batting 20 points below his career...
EL DUQUE MAY OPEN VS. METS
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - There is a chance Orlando Hernandez could return from the DL to face the Mets in the first game of Subway Series II Friday night at...
A SIXTH LPGA WIN IN APPLE CAN BE ROSIE
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Rosie Jones tees it up at Wykagyl Country Club on July 25 to begin defense of her Sybase Big Apple Classic title, she'll do so with a distinct advantage:...
LOCKHART BOMB SHOCKS SCOTT'S, METS' SYSTEMS
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amIf you wanted to see fire and frustration and a steadfast desire to get the ball again and stick it to the Braves, you needed to hover around the locker...
NEW YEAR, SAME STORY IN NL EAST
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amANOTHER year, another big Atlanta lead. Another Braves series the Mets can't afford to lose or split. Another June waiting for Mets with track records to live up to them,...
SMUSH SCORES POINTS DURING NETS WORKOUT
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amHis parents recently moved to New Jersey. If he wanted to learn to play the point from the very best, he could do it in New Jersey. So guess what...
MATHIS STILL HAS STARS IN HIS EYES
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amThe Mohawk's staying for now. And so is Clint Mathis, for the time being, while the whispered rumors about the MetroStars' forward slowly turn into a racket that have him...
SHEA BAT VICTIM IS ON MEND
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Shayna Gottesman was wheeled over to the emergency medical technicians at Shea Stadium on Sunday afternoon after getting struck in the head by Jeromy Burnitz' bat, the 13-year-old Met...
WILCOX NO KNICK LOCK - BUCKS, GRUNFELD OUT TO STEAL PICK
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amCall it Ernie's revenge. Milwaukee GM Ernie Grunfeld is hot in pursuit of swapping picks with Cleveland to get the Bucks up to No. 6 in tomorrow's NBA Draft, one...
PHILLIPS' MESSAGE WASTED
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amThe time is now. So said Met GM Steve Phillips - before the Mets went out at lost another one to the Braves. While Bobby Valentine was insisting that this...
NO KANE DO: DAVIS GONE FOR SEASON
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES It's official: Kane Davis is out for the year. The Mets' right-handed reliever is scheduled to have surgery at the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases on Monday to...
MET BATS GIVE LEITER NO HELP
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amAl Leiter did his part but had to leave because his Met teammates provided nothing for him. The Met starter was lifted after six innings, allowing four hits to go...
AMAZIN'S PUT ON A BRAVE FACE
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amHAVING won six of eight games before playing host to the Braves last night, the Mets tried to offer the unified look of a relaxed team in control of its...
ONE STEP CLOSER TO THEIR DEMISE: METS TUMBLE 8½ BEHIND ATLANTA ON LOCKHART HR
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amBraves 3 Mets 2 Yesterday afternoon you could really feel the heat as the sun baked the concrete tunnels and bowels of Shea Stadium. And once again, it was the...
SHEA BAT VICTIM OK AFTER SURGERY
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Shayna Gottisman was wheeled over to the emergency medical technicians at Shea Stadium on Sunday afternoon after getting struck in the head by Jeromy Burnitz' bat, the 13-year-old Met...
PHILLIPS' MESSAGE: WIN NOW
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amThe time is now. So says Met GM Steve Phillips. Let Bobby Valentine insist that this crucial series with the Braves will be followed by another and then another, because...
IT'S DO-OR-DIE WEEK FOR METS : REALIZE SEASON'S ON LINE VS. ATLANTA AND YANKS
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amYesterday afternoon, the afternoon sun baked through the underground tunnels and bowels of Shea Stadium, making the place feel like the old visiting locker room at Boston Garden. For the...
MADDUX PASSES ON START TONIGHT
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amGreg Maddux and the Braves spent their first couple of hours at Shea Stadium yesterday playing mind games with the Mets. Will he pitch today or won't he? "It feels...
LITTLE MAN GETS BIG HIT FOR BRAVES
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amThere was a ton of high-priced, heavy-hitting stars on the field at Shea last night. Mike Piazza and Chipper Jones. Mo Vaughn and Gary Sheffield. Jeromy Burnitz and Andruw Jones....
MADDUX, BRAVES MAKING METS SQUI
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amGreg Maddux and the Braves spent their first couple of hours at Shea Stadium yesterday playing mind games with the Mets. Will he pitch today or won't he? "It feels...
SAME OLD, SAME OLD AT SHEA
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amANOTHER year, another big Atlanta lead. Another Braves series the Mets can't afford to split. Another June waiting for Mets with track records to live up to them, to be...
LAYDEN TALKING TRADE: BUT KNICKS MIGHT JUST KEEP PICK
June 25, 2002 | 4:00amKnicks GM Scott Layden said he is trying to move up in the draft, considering moving down in the draft and considering trading the seventh pick altogether - possibly for...