August 6, 2002
SMART MONEY BETS ON BIZ-SIDE SHUFFLE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amSmart Money, a joint venture between Hearst and Dow Jones, has been rocked by a shakeup that puts a Dow Jones man back into the top business job. Edwin Finn,...
CABLEVISION SEES POT OF GOLD WITH END OF RAINBOW
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amCablevision Systems Corp. took its first step toward preventing a cash shortfall next year by eliminating the Rainbow Media Group tracking stock it created just 17 months ago. Cablevision said...
DURST GETS BREATHING ROOM - COURT GRANTS STAY FROM $5M IN TERRORISM INSURANCE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amTHEY'RE breathing easier in Times Square this week. The New York State Appellate Division just extended a stay that bars Douglas Durst's lenders from dipping into revenue from his Conde...
CASINO GETS $2.26M FINE IN GIRLS-AND-GOLF SCANDAL
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amPinnacle Entertainment was fined $2.26 million by the Indiana Gaming Commission for supplying prostitutes and gambling money to attendees at a golf outing sponsored by its Belterra Casino Resort, in...
WHY BULLISH ADVICE IS A LOT OF BULL
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amWALL Street pros are playing with themselves. I guess I'll have to explain that. What I mean is that the scoundrels who brought you the bubble and investor poverty are...
STOCKS TUMBLE 3% - DOUBLE-DIP JITTERS SINK NASDAQ BACK TO 5-YEAR LOWS
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amHow low can they go? Investors have long been asking that question of stock prices, but now they are starting to ask it about interest rates set by the Federal...
ZEGNA TIE-ING UP FIFTH AVE. SPACE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amMonica Lewinsky's favorite tie man has cut what could be a record-setting deal to take over the current Ferragamo women's store on Fifth Avenue. Pricey clothier Ermenegildo Zegna - whose...
CHEAP MONEY KEEPING HOUSING MARKET ON FIRE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amAn interest-rate cut by the Fed this year could further fan the already white-hot housing market while fueling speculation that a bubble is indeed in the making. "There's cheap money,"...
ONE MOORER TIME
August 6, 2002 | 4:00am* Allison Moorer "Miss Fortune" [] Universal South Records Four songs into her new album of torch twangers, Allison Moorer cuts the mopey dope and turns up the funk jets...
ASIA'S TRIP TO SANITY
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amIF Vin Diesel is the snowboarding crowd's answer to James Bond in the thriller "XXX" - then Asia Argento is a Bond girl unlike any other. While megaplex audiences may...
DIRECTOR DENZEL
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amDENZEL Washington will unveil his highly anticipated directing debut, "Antwone Fisher," at next month's Toronto Film Festival. The biographical drama was written by Antwone Fisher, the former Sony security guard...
THESE LEGENDARY ROCKERS 'B. GOODE'
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amLITTLE RICHARD and CHUCK BERRY ---------- THERE are some majestic things ya just gotta see for yourself - like the Grand Canyon, the pyramids . . . and Chuck Berry....
STARR REPORT
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amNews of the Bazaar: Sharon's spree "The Osbournes" star Sharon Osbourne isn't letting a battle with colon cancer get her down - or stop her from her trademark frenetic shopping...
AFFIRMATION NATION - EVERYONE SAYS: 'I CAN DO IT'
August 6, 2002 | 4:00am'I'M good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me." This was the mantra of Al Franken's popular "Saturday Night Live" character Stuart Smalley, who hosted a show...
THOSE VOICES YOU HEAR COME FROM HOME
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amON the Guided by Voices Web site (www.gbv.com), there's an inviting link - "Robert Pollard's All Beer Diet." It just leads to a news page, but any fan of the...
ROSIE SIDEKICK'S SCARY STALKER
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amFORMER "Rosie O'Donnell Show" bandleader John McDaniel is being stalked by a homeless British woman - who's now on the loose after failing to appear for a court date. Susan...
SHAKE-UPS - HELLO, MA? 'ALIAS' GIRL GETTING A NEW MOTHER
August 6, 2002 | 4:00am'ALIAS" creator J.J. Abrams says his hit spy-thriller will be even more of a family affair next season. The show, which follows the adventures of Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) -...
HIGHLAND FLING - SPEND THE NIGHT IN THE SCOTTISH CASTLE WHERE MADONNA AND ASHLEY JUDD WED
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amI SLEPT in Madonna's bed. Probably.Because the staff at Scotland's Skibo Castle, where the star and English director Guy Ritchie celebrated their December 2000 wedding with a genuine Highland fling,...
BECKER'S NEW GIRL
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amTED Danson's grumpy "Becker" says he's sorry his flirt-interest Reggie is gone - but the show needed a change. Nancy Travis will be his new girlfriend. "I'm excited. I really...
COMEDY SETS BEAT FOR FEST
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amTHE sixth Urbanworld Film Festival - featuring some of its highest-profile titles ever - opens tomorrow with the world premiere of "Drumline," a fish-out-of-water comedy about a Harlem street drummer...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amPickup spot It's not as quick as a visit to your local grocer, but farm-fresh produce is just a two-hour drive away. New York's Catskill region offers a variety of...
ANNA NICOLE MYTH: THAT ANYONE WOULD WANT TO WATCH HER SHOW
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amIf "The Osbournes" was responsible for the spectacular birth of the reality sitcom, then Anna Nicole Smith just killed it. Her new show, which premiered Sunday night, is an historic...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amHas The Blob attacked a New Jersey town? It certainly looked that way when mysterious masses of a gelatin-like substance appeared on the sidewalks of Camden last week. But health...
SEPT 11 EVENTS
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amBagpipe processions will march to Ground Zero from all five boroughs on the one-year anniversary of Sept. 11, the first of several tributes that will end with Mayor Bloomberg lighting...
NOW THEY BLAME BUSH FOR 9/11
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amWANT to know why books that scream about liberal media bias sell hundreds of thousands of copies? You need look no farther than the cover of this week's Time. The...
FDNY BOSS WANTS A 'CONCRETE' RADIO PLAN
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amSkyscrapers should be forced to install radio-signal boosters to help firefighters communicate during calamitous emergencies like the World Trade Center attack, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said yesterday. "When you look...
JAIL FOR JERSEY SEX TEACHER
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amA New Jersey teacher who admitted having sex with her 13-year-old student will have to go to jail after all, an appeals court has ruled. The Bergen County judge who...
GIRLS SCARE OFF PERV - BRONX SUSPECT BREAKS LEG TRYING TO FLEE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amTwo young girls were sexually abused in the elevator of their Bronx apartment building yesterday - but screamed and scared off their attacker, who severely injured his leg trying to...
HARLEM LITTLE LEAGUERS COME UP BIG IN VICTORY
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amBRISTOL, Conn. - Harlem's pint-sized All-Stars moved one step closer to the Little League World Series with an easy 5-1 victory over Maryland's team in their first game of the...
HOW OZZY 'SAVED' ONE MINER FROM DISASTER
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amRoger Shaffer should have been down in the mines the day the world went dark. Instead, he was rocking out at Ozzfest. The 22-year-old apprentice miner had been scheduled to...
JOHN LENNON'S KILLER AGAIN UP FOR PAROLE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - John Lennon's killer will come up for parole in October for a second time, The Post has learned. Mark David Chapman, serving 20 years to life in upstate...
PARENTS SAY SHOW WAS OUT OF 'ORDER'
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amEXCLUSIVE Upper West Side parents flunked city school officials for permitting the TV show "Law & Order" to film at a junior high school yesterday - while struggling students were...
IVERSON IS LIKELY TO PASS ON JAIL
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amNBA superstar Allen Iverson will stand trial Sept. 18 in Philadelphia for allegedly making terroristic threats against two men, a judge said yesterday - but the 76ers guard almost certainly...
SPITZER GETTING INN-VOLVED
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office is investigating whether the civil rights of five Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn were violated when they were thrown out of an upstate Days...
SCHOOLS OUT: LEVY'S CREW STEPPING ASIDE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amTop aides to outgoing Schools Chancellor Harold Levy are clearing the decks for new schools boss Joel Klein. Deputy Chancellor Tony Shorris, who is also the chief operating officer, announced...
COPS MULL SHUFFLING SHIFTS FOR HIGHER PAY
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amCops would work extra - but restructured - shifts under a plan being discussed by the Bloomberg administration to boost police pay, The Post has learned. Sources said a three-member...
CREDIT RAIDINGS: 4,000 BILKED $15M FROM UNION AFTER 9/11 GLITCH: DA
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amMore than 4,000 people took advantage of the Twin Towers terror attacks by using a post-9/11 computer glitch to steal a total of $15 million from the Municipal Credit Union,...
NBC GOES SHOPPING
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amA teen's finicky fashion sense was the latest weapon in the ongoing morning-TV wars. Rivals say Katie Couric's interview yesterday with kidnap victims Jacqueline Marris, 17, and Tamara Brooks, 16,...
'MY GOD, WE MADE IT!' KIDNAPPED GIRLS: ORDEAL TURNED US INTO FRIENDS
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amThe two California teens kidnapped and raped by a psycho who was minutes from murdering them revealed yesterday how they've turned from strangers into best friends. "It's amazing what kind...
ANDY'S 'GRASS' ROOTS
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amAndrew Cuomo yesterday admitted that he and Gov. Pataki have at least one thing in common: They've both smoked pot. "I have tried marijuana in my youth," Cuomo said at...
STARTLING SMOKE $IGNALS: CIG SALES DIVE, BUT TAX REVENUES SOAR
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amCigarette sales here plummeted by half after the city hiked its tax by $1.42 a pack - but despite the decline in sales, tax revenues skyrocketed beyond projections, according to...
B'DAY GIFT TO HIMSELF: HERO SAVED MAN 9/11
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amPaul Catarra turned 36 on Sept. 11, 2001 and says the best birthday present he ever received was the good feeling that came from saving another man's life that day....
THUGS TAKE OUT CASH WITH THE GARBAGE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amThieves using a stolen garbage truck tore off the front of an HSBC Bank branch in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn early Monday morning - and drove off with a...
ADS FOR SEPTEMBER 11TH
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amMore than half of Americans think companies should pull the plug on their TV ads Sept. 11 to mark the somber occasion, a new survey shows. Only a third think...
VOLUNTEERS HAVE DESIGNS ON WTC: 2,000+ MEMORIAL PLANS POUR IN ON EVERYTHING FROM NAPKINS TO BLUEPRINTS
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amThe ideas and designs have come from all over the country, sent by architects, designers and everyday citizens. Some are professional presentations, some are pencil sketches on scraps of paper....
WTC LANDLORD SAYS E-MAILS WORTH $7.1B
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amLawyers for World Trade Center landlord Larry Silverstein claim they've unearthed a "smoking gun" document which entitles him to a $7.1 billion insurance payout. The document, which includes two e-mails...
MAG: FLT. 587 JET FAULTY, NOT PILOTS
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amThe American Airlines jet that crashed in Queens last November was a "high-tech time bomb" that likely crashed because of long-standing technical flaws and not because of air turbulence or...
GEEZERS GET OFF ON 'HIT' CHARGE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amWheelchair-bound mobster Gregory DePalma broke into tears yesterday and thanked God after a jury cleared him and another imprisoned gangster of conspiring to kill a Bronx car dealer. DePalma, a...
CITY COUNCIL OFF TO ISRAEL
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amCity Council Speaker Gifford Miller is headed to Israel with about 15 colleagues this weekend to show support for the terror-torn Jewish state. Miller (D-Manhattan) plans to meet with Prime...
TERROR TAKES BEATING: 2 BOMBERS FOILED, BUS FIEND BUSTED IN ISRAEL
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces foiled two terrorist attacks yesterday, tightened restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and arrested the "dispatcher" of the homicide bus bomber who...
WINDOW ON TERROR: TOSS-OUT CAMERA CATCHES CHILLING WTC PIC
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amA downtown financial analyst, after seeing the first plane crash into the World Trade Center, grabbed a cheapie camera and began snapping pictures - just in time to catch the...
BRIBE JUDGE COPS PLEA TO SHAKEDOWN
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amA disgraced former Brooklyn judge admitted to shaking down a lawyer yesterday - and now faces more time in the slammer than any crooked state Supreme Court jurist before him....
WAR PLAN: U.S. READIES BASE FOR STRIKE VS. IRAQ
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - These dramatic satellite photos show just how far U.S. preparations for war with Iraq have advanced. They are images of the state-of-the-art al Udeid air base in Qatar,...
ROGER CHOPS DOWN NO-NO
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amIt wasn't a sharply hit single or a crisp double down the line. But, when it comes to breaking up a no-hitter, beggars can't be choosers. So when Roger Cedeno...
HAMILTON READY FOR NAYSAYERS
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amCANTON, Ohio - These games are not for Keith Hamilton. The Giants last night faced the Texans in the preseason opener, the Hall of Fame Game. Hamilton started at his...
FASSEL NOT AN EXHIBITION-IST
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES CANTON, Ohio - Going into last night's Hall of Fame Game against the Titans, Jim Fassel was 5-15 in the preseason in his five years as coach of...
KNICKS RENEW VAN EXEL BID
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amWith Andre Miller and Baron Davis out of the picture, it's no surprise Knicks GM Scott Layden has turned back toward trying to acquire Nick Van Exel to answer the...
MAC WILL BATTLE BECKER
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amIt's a sad state for men's tennis that the most intriguing male competition at Ashe Stadium during the U.S Open could be the John McEnroe-Boris Becker exhibition. Yesterday, the USTA...
AMAZIN'S NEVER HAD A CHANCE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amTHE 13-game home-can't-stand-it-anymore finally ended yesterday with Randy Johnson pressing another stone to the Mets' chest. Good Lord, hadn't they already suffered enough? Apparently not, before it closed at 5-8...
YANKS' TIME TO SHINE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amBeginning tonight at Yankee Stadium against the hapless Royals, the Yankees must begin to play better than the 7-5 record they produced on a recent 12-game, four-city road trip that...
SHOCK TREATMENT! - JINTS WHIP TEXANS AS ROOKIE TE MAKES A DAZZLING DEBUT
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amPRESEASON: Giants 34 - Texans 17 CANTON, Ohio - This was a business-as-usual preseason affair, the Giants and Texans tied at 10 nearing halftime, when the future of the Giants...
KIDD NOW GROUNDED BY GROIN
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amA lingering groin injury will keep Jason Kidd out of the upcoming World Championships, which begin in three weeks in Indianapolis. Kidd officially withdrew from Team USA yesterday, and his...
JOHNSON: 'WINDOW IS CLOSING'
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amVickie Johnson, a member of the Liberty since the WNBA's earliest days, admits her perspective has changed over the past five years. No longer thrilled just to be playing professionally,...
HO-HUM, JOHNSON'S COMPLETELY MASTERFUL
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amRandy Johnson's next start is Saturday against Florida, where he is a 5-to-2 bet to strike out all 27 hitters on 81 pitches. What else is left for the man...
CURSES! JETS FOILED AGAIN BY BAD LUCK
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amThe Curse that has strangled the life out of the post-Joe Namath Jets reared its ugly head again yesterday and turned Weeb Ewbank Hall back into a Haunted House. An...
VINNY RESTS HIS THUMB
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amJET NOTES Two-a-days have turned into one-a-days for Vinny Testaverde. "His thumb's a little sore," Herman Edwards said, "and he's an elder statesman. He's only been in 16 training camps....
METS CAN'T MEASURE UP TO BIG UNIT - NEARLY SUFFER NO-HITTER, GET SWEPT AWAY BY D'BACKS
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amD'backs 2 - Mets 0 The distance between their dugouts at Shea is just about 150 feet, but the gap between the Mets and Diamondbacks is clearly light years wide....
PATROL 'FAME' FLOP
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Yesterday morning, trainer Bill Mott and jockey Jerry Bailey saw their beloved Cigar inducted into the Hall of Fame. But a few hours later, any hopes they...
'EMBLEM' LIKELY TO SKIP TRAVERS
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - When Kentucky Derby/Preakness winner War Emblem romped gate-to-wire in Sunday's Haskell at Monmouth Park, just minutes after Medaglia d'Oro did the same in the Jim Dandy at...
ESTES GETS NO HELP - AGAIN
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amMaybe Shawn Estes is at his best dueling future Hall of Famers with trophy cases filled with Cy Youngs. Or maybe he's finally broken out of his slump. Whatever the...
MOOSE HUNTING FOR ERA SOLUTIONS
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amYANK NOTES Mike Mussina has 13 wins and anybody not named Pedro Martinez would gladly take that in the early part of August. But Mussina is a perfectionist and when...
FAME GAME GETS SCARE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amCANTON, Ohio - There was a frightening and sobering moment in last night's Hall of Fame Game. With 12:24 left in the second quarter of the preseason contest between the...
OPENER SPOILS 'SPECIAL' HYPE
August 6, 2002 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES CANTON, Ohio - Remember all the optimistic talk about the Giants transforming their special teams into a fast and lethal weapon? Too bad a game had to arrive...