July 9, 2002
CLEAN UP YOUR ACT OR THE BULL GETS IT
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amA ransom note from thelittle guys to the businessbigwigs who blew our lifesavings.TO: Wall Street, corporate and Washington fat cats. From: Angry investors. If you want your bull back alive,...
BOA'S BRANCHING OUT - BANK SIGNS $150M LEASE FOR OFFICES ON 57TH ST.
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amTHERE'S life in the old beast yet. The limping office market got its best news in months yesterday with the year's biggest signed lease so far - a 152,000 square-foot...
BUFFETT TRIES TECH - MAY TARGET WORLDCOM AFTER LEVEL 3
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amSavvy investor Warren Buffett raised eyebrows from Wichita to Wall Street when he and a group took a half billion dollar stake in distressed bonds of Level 3 in a...
CB RICHARD ELLIS BRINGS OUT ITS BIG GUNS
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amInternational real estate giant CB Richard Ellis yesterday officially launched its assault on the New York market, which company president Brett White called its "Achilles' heel." Aiming to fill what...
STOCKS OFF BEFORE BUSH CRACKDOWN ON WALL ST. CORRUPTION
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amWall Street slinked off into the corner yesterday in anticipation of a spanking today from President Bush. Traders unloaded shares as concerns spread about still more tainted bookkeeping and slack...
GRUBMAN GRILLED - SOLLY ANALYST BUMBLES BEFORE LAWMAKERS
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amJack Grubman, the top telecom analyst for Salomon Smith Barney subpoenaed by lawmakers, gave his first public account of his role in the WorldCom debacle. But Wall Streeters wonder whether...
STARR REPORT
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amBehar keeping it all in the (ABC) Family Joy Behar is branching out - but "The View" co-host is not leaving the ABC family. Beginning Sunday, Aug. 11, Behar will...
WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN? - WHEN YOU'RE IN DEEP DOODOO, HERE'S THE PLAN
July 9, 2002 | 4:00am"Worst-Case Scenario" [minus ] Tomorrow at 9 on TBS -------- DON'T set your Tivo! Don't stay home! Don't even think about it! At last a TV premiere that lives up...
'GOOD DAY' FOR RYAN'S RETURN
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amJIM Ryan was showered with confetti yesterday as the "Good Day New York" anchor returned to the air after missing two months due to heart surgery. Ryan, 61, underwent a...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amWrist action Dolly's Splash Country has a high-tech solution to an age-old problem - keeping track of the little ones. The 25-acre waterpark in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., has installed a...
'SNL' INNOVATOR DIES
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amDave Wilson, who directed 'SNL' on and off for 17 years, began working in the earliest days of television - including 'The Bell Telephone Hour' and 'Kraft Music Hall.' DAVE...
ESPN HEADS TO ROME
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amESPN is making a play to recover bombastic sports talk show host Jim Rome, possibly for a new weekly show. Rome, the host of Fox Sports Net's half-hour "The Last...
RED HOT & MELLOW
July 9, 2002 | 4:00am* RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS "By the Way" [] Warner Bro. When the Red Hot Chili Peppers got Rick Rubin to lend them his golden ear and produce "Blood Sugar...
ONE LAST CHANCE FOR 'IDOLS'
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amAMERICA decided they were rejects, but the judges on "American Idol" are going to give these lucky five a second chance. Wednesday night's "Wildcard" episode of "American Idol" (tonight's is...
TAN'S MADE IN THE SHADE
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amOF course, you know it's bad - dangerous even. But when the mercury rises and all you see is exposed flesh, you can't help feeling the urge to soak up...
SURF'S UP - THIS CALIFORNIA TOWN IS PART BEACH-BUM HAVEN, PART MEXICAN FISHING VILLAGE
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amIN 1888, construction began on a hotel at the northern end of San Diego's Coronado Peninsula. Its developers vowed their new resort would be the talk of the Western World....
SPORTSCASTER'S BEST DAMN WORKOUT PERIOD
July 9, 2002 | 4:00am'NOBODY makes me nervous," says sportscaster Lisa Guerrero, who interviews the toughest athletes on Fox's "The Best Damn Sports Show Period." Instead, she says, "I make them nervous." Refusing to...
IT'S A MAD MAG WORLD - WRITERS SKEWERS EDITORS AND HOLLYWOOD CALLS
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amIf you've read the latest literary tell-all, "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People," you know British journalist Toby Young has never met a powerful editor he couldn't annoy. Graydon...
POST AWARDS GET SENATORIAL STAMP OF APPROVAL
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amOrdinary New Yorkers who do the out-of-the-ordinary deeds are the "backbone" of the city, says a former state senator, and The Post's salute to them gets his vote. "With all...
COP SHOOTS DOG DURING BX. ARREST
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx cop shot a vicious dog that attacked him while he responded to an armed robbery in an apartment yesterday, police said. Two officers went to 735 Walton Ave.,...
SKY TO GET A FRESH HAZING
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amSmoke from the raging forest fires scorching a wide swath of remote Canadian wilderness will again darken the skies over the Big Apple, the National Weather Service said yesterday. Meteorologist...
ISRAELI 'BRADY BUNCH' - COUPLE WITH SLAIN SPOUSES TO RAISE 12 KIDS TOGETHER
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - She is a mother of eight who lost her husband to a terrorist ambush on a West Bank road last year. He is a father of four who...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amPolice in Colorado arrested a man after he fell asleep in a department store's furniture display. Officers in Glenwood Springs said he had lain down in Wal-Mart after doing his...
PERV ATTACKS SOHO TEEN: COPS
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amA Manhattan man has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl in her SoHo apartment, cops announced yesterday. John Vega, 34, grabbed the 16-year-old on her way home from...
PILOTS STAY GROUNDED IN JERSEY JAIL
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe two pilots accused of flying planes recklessly over the Rockaways on July 4 - forcing NYPD choppers to chase them - were yesterday ordered held in New Jersey for...
KID IN FIRETRUCK SLAM 'DOING WELL'
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amA 7-year-old Brooklyn boy who slammed into the side of a moving firetruck Saturday was in good spirits, recovering from his injuries at Kings County Hospital yesterday, hospital officials said....
NO, NOT MICHAEL - AN OPEN LETTER TO REV. AL
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amDEAR Rev. Al, A note of advice: Choose your "victims" well. You unveil your racism-in-the-music-industry summit today. Looking into this may have some value: From old delta blues singers to...
W. SIDE CORPSE PREGNANT
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe young woman whose badly decomposed body was found in a garbage bag in Manhattan was a 20-year-old Westchester college student who was six-months pregnant, her family said yesterday. Sandra...
A LIAR OF HEROIC PROPORTION
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S the eighth wonder of the world: Officer Eric Turetzky, whom the prosecution calls "a hero" is still on the police force, while a good man like Chuck Schwarz has...
REACH FOR THE SKY: WTC PLANNERS
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amA rebuilt World Trade Center should aim high enough to make a significant mark on the city's skyline and become a "powerful symbol," downtown planners said yesterday. The Lower Manhattan...
SOMEBODY SHOULD PUT SLUGGER'S 'GHOULISH' KID ON ICE
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE. ANYONE considering purchasing the DNA of Ted Williams from his son, the Splendid Minter, ought to consider this: John Henry Williams inherited half of his DNA from Ted and...
EXECS' NO-TALK SHOW - WORLDCOM EX-CHIEFS TAKE 'FIFTH'
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - WorldCom's two former top executives clammed up in front of Congress yesterday, while its current leaders blamed Arthur Andersen for the company's failing fortunes. Ex-Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers...
SHAREHOLDERS GAG AT U.S.-HATING RAG
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amCries of outrage arose yesterday after a London newspaper's July 4 front-page attack on America called President Bush a "criminal" at the helm of "the world's leading rogue state." Under...
PRESIDENT BUSH YESTERDAY FORCEFULLY REJECTED CALLS TO DUMP SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION CHIEF HARVEY PITT
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday forcefully rejected calls to dump Securities and Exchange Commission chief Harvey Pitt and said he's "doing a fine job" and is "fast to act" against corporate cheats....
DUBYA'$ DILEMMA
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amDAVID Gregory of NBC News asked the first question at yesterday's presidential press conference - and what emerged from Gregory's voice box was actually the collective voice of Conventional Establishment...
DAVE: I WAS TOO 'COMFORTABLE' TO CHANGE CHANNELS
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amJust a few months ago, David Letterman seemed on the verge of jumping to ABC, but now he says he doubts he ever would have made that leap. "In practical...
FIERY COLLISION JOLTS DOWNTOWN
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amAn out-of-control livery cab plowed into a parked Mercedes in lower Manhattan yesterday - with both cars exploding in a two-story fireball that sent terror-wary pedestrians scurrying in fear. The...
YANKEE'S ADMIRER PINCHED
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amA Bergdorf Goodman makeup artist, collared for jumping on the Yankee Stadium infield Opening Day to slip Derek Jeter her phone number, was red-faced with embarrassment yesterday after cops showed...
CLEARASIL-HEIRESS DEATH RULED SUICIDE
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe mysterious death of Clearasil heiress Meredith Brooks McDermott has been officially ruled a suicide by hanging, the city medical examiner's office said yesterday. McDermott's body was found with a...
CEOS TODAY FACE WRATH OF BURNING BUSH
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amPresident Bush comes to Wall Street today to take CEOs to the woodshed over fuzzy math - and he'll call for doubling jail terms so corporate cheats go to the...
COPS SUSPENDED IN ESCAPE FIASCO
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amIn an effort to crack down on the recent spate of escapes, the NYPD yesterday suspended two detectives who lost a drug suspect in Brooklyn Saturday - the 15th such...
GIRL CONFRONTS STARVED SISTER'S DAD
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amAs a 13-year-old, Nicole Lockwood had watched helplessly as her 4-year-old sister, Nadine, was slowly starved to death in their Washington Heights apartment. Yesterday - six years later - Lockwood...
EX-BOSSES TO JACKO: MAN IN THE MIRROR IS TO BLAME
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amMichael Jackson's former managers yesterday blasted him for branding Tommy Mottola a racist, and said the Gloved One is using the Sony chief in an "absurd," "ridiculous" effort to explain...
LIMO FROM HELL - WEDDING DRIVER HIT BRAKES TO DEMAND MORE CASH: COUPLE
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amA heartbroken Long Island bride said her perfectly planned wedding turned into a nightmare after her limo driver brought the party to a screeching halt just short of the reception...
FED PROSECUTOR: IT HAD TO BE SCHWARZ
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amAbner Louima fought so hard against being sodomized, one officer could not have attacked him alone - and the second cop could only have been Charles Schwarz, a federal prosecutor...
MEGA MILLIONS GAME A MEGAHIT FOR N.Y.
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amJoining the new Mega Millions lottery game, which will carry a jackpot of $115 million tonight, has paid off in a big way for New York state - with sales...
TERROR PROBERS RAID IMMIGRANTS' JEWELRY SHOPS
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Federal investigators have been conducting raids in New York and other states on jewelry stores owned by Pakistanis and others from the Mideast, hoping to break up fronts...
SUMMER-SCHOOL BLITZ FAILS
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amThousands of students played hooky from summer school yesterday - despite Schools Chancellor Harold Levy's weekend phone blitz to their parents. Attendance was dreadful in many high schools, where staff...
COP VAN HITS BOY, 13, IN HARLEM
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amA "sweet" and "fragile" 13-year-old boy was in critical condition last night after a tragic freak accident in which he was struck by the mirror of an unmarked police van...
'VIDEO BASH' COP SUSPENDED
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amINGLEWOOD, Calif. - A Southern California police department suspended one of its cops yesterday after a videotape showed him slamming a handcuffed black teen into the back of a car....
'LET'S FREEZE DAD' - TED'S SON SHIPPED HIM TO LAB: DAUGHTER
July 9, 2002 | 4:00am"Let's freeze Dad." Those were the chilling words of John Henry Williams, son of storied Red Sox slugger Ted Williams, after visiting the cryonics lab Alcor Life Extension Foundation a...
POOL-GROPE BUST IN B'KLYN
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amFor the second day in a row, a man was has been arrested for groping a teenage girl in a city pool, police said. Kareen Corbet, 23, of Brooklyn was...
CITY DIGS UP OLD TRUCK PLAN TO KEEP TRASH WOES 'CONTAINED'
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration is considering using garbage trucks with removable containers to help solve the city's trash crisis, The Post has learned. The idea was first proposed by former city...
RUFF DAY FOR COP WHO SHOOTS ATTACK DOG DURING BX. ARREST
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx cop shot a vicious dog that attacked him while he responded to an armed robbery in an apartment yesterday, police said. Two officers went to 735 Walton Ave.,...
COP VAN HITS TEEN IN HARLEM
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amA 13-year-old boy was in critical condition yesterday after a tragic freak accident in which he was struck by the mirror of an unmarked police van as it drove along...
LET'S BE FRANK, WILLIAMS JUST A SAFETY GUARD
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amLet's be honest. The Knicks are not hoping rookie Frank Williams is their starting point guard on opening night. But unless Knicks GM Scott Layden pulls off a trade for...
A MIDSUMMER CONTROVERSY - STRIKE TALK & STEROIDS TAKING THE SHINE OFF STAR GAME
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - During a one-hour media session yesterday afternoon, Boston's All-Star shortstop Nomar Garciaparra estimated that 98 percent of the questions posed to him dealt with one of two subjects:...
PREPSTERS LEARN ABCD'S
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amCollege coaches - and those in the NBA, as well - have been preaching for years for players to get back to actually playing basketball and not just playing for...
DON'T EXPECT MLB TO FLEX MUSCLES ON DRUG TESTING
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Thanks to three men by the name of Ken Caminiti, Tom Verducci, and Jose Canseco, steroids no longer are a taboo subject to discuss with ballplayers, all of...
AMONTE'S STILL WITHOUT A TEAM
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amRegardless of expectations falsely generated by any number of individuals, Tony Amonte remains a man without a team. At the same time, Petr Nedved remains a Ranger, as does Derek...
CHINA ON CENTER STAGE
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amABCD NOTES Yao Ming isn't the only young, towering center from China who is drawing interest in the States. Yi Jianlian, a 6-11, 220-pounder from ShenZeun, China, did well in...
MACCULLOCH WILL MISS THE WORLD
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe plantar fasciaitis that plagued his left foot and kept him out of 20 regular-season games will also keep Nets center Todd MacCulloch out of the World Championships beginning next...
METS' WILSON: WE MAY NOT HAVE A CHOICE
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - The executive board of the Major League Baseball Players Association met for five hours yesterday in Rosemont, Ill., failing to set a strike date but preparing to ask...
NEW YORK CITY GETS HIGH MARKS FROM PHILLIES' ROLEN
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amALL-STAR NOTEBOOK MILWAUKEE - Scott Rolen plays third base in Philadelphia for the moment, but that will almost certainly change next year. It just so happens both the Mets and...
LIBERTY FOR ALL - BALANCED EFFORT SINKS MERCS
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amLiberty 77 - Mercury 71 First Teresa Weatherspoon was the story. Then Tari Phillips. Then Tamika Whitmore. And finally Becky Hammon. See where this is going? If you're looking for...
JASON SMACKS SOSA
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Jason Giambi followed Sammy Sosa in the first round of last night's Home Run Derby, but was unable to match the excitement or prodigious nature of Sosa's bombs....
NYC ON ROLEN'S LIST
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Scott Rolen plays third base in Philadelphia for the moment, but that will almost certainly change next year. It just so happens both the Mets and Yankees have...
SPOON'S SURPRISED TO BE AMONG STARS
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amOf course she's honored. But for Teresa Weatherspoon, the best word to describe being elected to start in next Monday's All-Star game is this: stunned. "I'm shocked. I'm amazed," the...