August 10, 2002
CONGRESS TO SLAP SOLLY WITH SUBPOENA
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amLawmakers are bearing down on formerly-stellar telecom analyst Jack Grubman, subpoenaing information from his firm that will show whether he was involved in IPO allocations to his pals at WorldCom....
DOW WEEK BEST IN 11 MONTHS
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amBlue-chip stocks registered their biggest weekly gain since September, but investors continue to wonder if the bull market has returned. WorldCom's disclosure that it found another $3.3 billion in improper...
CONSECO ON BRINK : DEBT DODGE MAY MEAN TRIP TO BANKRUPTCY
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amGary Wendt's embattled Conseco finagled an extension on a bond payment yesterday, but the company increasingly appears to be heading toward bankruptcy. Wendt arranged a 30-day interest payment extension, but...
BLACK & 'BLUE' : CAST BRAVES DEADLY WAVES TO MAKE SURF FLICK
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amTHIS summer, moviegoers have seen attacks by clones, aliens, dragons and eight-legged freaks, but the upcoming surfer girl flick "Blue Crush" features perhaps the scariest monster of them all. It's...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amDinner Party Cheat Sheet (DPCS) is unhappy that reports have leaked out that it will invade Iraq. Oh, reports didn't leak out? Forget you just heard that. SATELLITE COMEDY A...
ROCKABILLY IDOL
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amBust out the pomade and the motorcycle jacket, because rockabilly, that classic fifties rock sound, makes a comeback today at Lincoln Center. The Roots of American Music: A Red Hot...
LUCKY '7'
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amA cameo appearance on "Sex and the City" recently has made the fruit salad-colored Sushi Samba 7 an even hotter place to see and be seen. The only thing the...
QUICK GETAWAYS: STAYING CLOSE TO HOME AND FEELING FAR AWAY
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amDepressed because you've let another summer slip by without a proper vacation? Whether it's time, money or laziness issues (or all of the above) holding you back, don't fret. You...
THE ART OF GORE : FILM FEST HONORS JAPANESE DIRECTOR'S VIOLENT VISION
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amTakashi Miike of Japan is one of the world's busiest filmmakers, turning out an exhausting five or six movies a year. He also is one of the most notorious, dealing...
HOT TOMATO
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amNothing says "summer" like a just-picked tomato still warm from the sun. The heady taste makes a potent case for existing on nothing else. If you're a tomato fan lucky...
VERTICAL LIMITS: BRAVE YOUNG CLIMBERS HIT THE WALLS
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amHas the heat got you climbing the walls? Luckily, there are man-made cliffs all around the city where you can make like Spider-Man without breaking a sweat - mostly because...
PULLING THEIR PUNCHES: HOW TO MAKE A FAKE FIGHT LOOK REAL
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amEver wondered what it would be like to be a swashbuckling star of the stage - brandishing your sword, throwing punches and dodging flying fists? A bunch of aspiring actors...
HAS WHISKERS, WILL TRAVEL
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amBetter hide that cookie - the Mouse is back. And we're not talking Mickey. The Stuart Little-esque hero of Laura Numeroff's "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" series is...
BACK MIKE OR WE'RE LUNG GONE
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amGOOD for you, Mayor Bloomberg! As a reformed smoker, and a man who still enjoys a few cocktails, I applaud your proposal to ban smoking in bars and restaurants, or...
'SNAKE' LAWYER AND WIFE GET 8 YRS.
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amA former Manhattan immigration lawyer and his wife were sentenced to eight years in the slammer yesterday for helping Chinese "snakeheads" smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States. Robert Porges,...
COMMISH RIDES IN STYLE ON 9/11 AID
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amTHE commissioner of the Department of the Aging is tooling around town in a new Ford Explorer bought with relief funds provided by the federal government after Sept. 11. Flora...
QUEENS HERO 'JUST LOVED BEING A FIREFIGHTER'
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and hundreds of New York's Bravest packed a tiny Queens church yesterday to bid a tearful farewell to 9/11 firefighter Thomas Casoria. The 28-year-old...
TV SO BAD, IT'S UNREAL
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amCENTURIES from now, when historians study the fall of Western civilization, they'll see reality TV as an early sign of the collapse. Remember "Hill Street Blues," "Cheers" and "The Cosby...
MINISTER GRACES PANEL OF JUDGES
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amThe Rev. Dr. James Alexander Forbes Jr., senior minister of the Riverside Church, has joined the distinguished panel of judges who will select the 10 winners of The Post's Liberty...
HILL RETREATING FROM DIRTY IMCLONE DOLLARS
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A day after The Post revealed that Sen. Hillary Clinton intended to keep her campaign-cash stash from indicted ImClone CEO Sam Waksal, she flip-flopped and said she'll give...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amGive that dog a bone. A young girl, lost all night in temperatures dropping into the 30s, took shelter and kept warm underneath her family's dog. The Seattle Times reported...
IT'S MY RIGHT TO PUFF IN PUBS
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amCONSENTING adults are allowed to make love in the house they own or rent - I don't see anything wrong with that. With that said, however, if they acted out...
MIKE REVERSES GEAR ON TOWING DIPLO-SCOFFLAWS
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday backed off his threat to start towing illegally parked diplomats after reaching an agreement "in principle" that would allow the city to go after diplo-scofflaws. But the...
PAY TOILETS MAKE CITIES FLU$H: MIKE
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amIt's deja loo all over again. Mayor Bloomberg moved forward yesterday with a long-stalled plan to bring public toilets to the streets of New York, asking the City Council to...
WATER OFFICIAL SHOT IN QNS. ROBBERY
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amA city Department of Environment Protection official was shot in the head and critically wounded early yesterday while sitting in his government-issued car in a desolate Queens street in what...
SCAMMER IN SLAMMER FOR SWINDLE
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amA 73-year-old scam artist and former Broadway producer was sentenced to nine years in prison yesterday for bilking illegal immigrants out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. "I'll see you...
A LIVING ANGUISH FOR VICTIMS AND THEIR KIN
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amAlzheimer's disease is a degenerative brain disease that gradually robs individuals of their memory and mental abilities. It is the leading cause of dementia and usually begins after age 65,...
'WRONG MAN' STAYS IN JAIL FOR NOW
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amLooks like Lamont Branch - who claims he's innocent of a murder to which his brother has since admitted - won't be getting out of jail anytime soon. A judge...
CHARLTON'S AGONY : TOUGH-GUY STAR: I'M BATTLING ALZHEIMER'S
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amSaying he's "neither giving up nor giving in," Hollywood legend and tough-talking National Rifle Association head Charlton Heston revealed he's suffering from Alzheimer's disease yesterday. The 77-year-old star - best...
GOV LEAVES GLASS HALF EMPTY ON HAPPY HOUR
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Happy hour just became a little less happy. Gov. Pataki signed into law a bill outlawing the ability of bars to lure patrons with super-low prices that progressively...
ALMONTE 'FESSES UP TO FIB
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amNot-so-little Little League hurler Danny Almonte has confessed he knew he was two years older than the age limit of 12 during the scandal - but insists he found out...
HIDEOUS HARRELSON : NYERS SLAM WOODY'S ANTI-U.S. COMMENTS
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amNew Yorkers called Woody Harrelson a blockhead yesterday - after the wacky actor branded Americans soldiers "terrorists" fighting a "bulls - - t" war in the wake of Sept. 11....
DRUG CASUALTIES : SCHOOL RX TURNS KIDS' MINDS TO MUSH: TEACHER
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amLUZ, a third-grade teacher in a city public school, thinks medicating children in the schools has gotten way out of control. Today, she charges, even kids with good grades are...
PAYROLL SOARS AT ED. BOARD
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amThe number of central administrators in the Board of Education has shot up 7.5 percent since 1999 despite the city's fiscal crunch, a new report shows. There were 2,357 managers...
E-MAILS ZAP BIG HOLE IN MARTHA TALE
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amMartha Stewart's stockbrokers were frantic to reach her Dec. 27 - the day before ImClone's cancer drug Erbitux was rejected by the FDA, according to e-mails released yesterday by a...
FEDS EARMARK $2.75B FOR DOWNTOWN TRANSIT HUB
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amBillions of dollars in federal emergency Sept. 11 aid will be used to build a downtown transit hub under a plan officials are set to unveil Monday. The new $2.75...
MCCALL COFFERS EQUALING CUOMO'S
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amthe first time in the governor's race, Carl McCall pulled even with Andrew Cuomo in fund-raising - raking in $302,000 to Cuomo's $303,000 over the last month, according to figures...
KICKED OUT: RADIO CITY GIVES ROCKETTES THE BOOT
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amThe Rockettes are getting a kick in the derriere from Radio City Music Hall. Cash-strapped Cablevision, which owns the Rockettes and the fabled music hall, is trying to dissolve the...
TEACHERS TAKE MONEY AND RUN
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amA wave of veteran teachers - who've just received pay hikes in the new union contract - are saying adios to the Board of Education. A total of 4,141 teachers...
BIZMEN RIP CIG BAN AS ASH-ININE
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amWelcome to the new Prohibition. That's what bar and restaurant owners were fuming yesterday as they lit into Mayor Bloomberg's plan to ban smoking in city bars and eateries. "We're...
STRAINED OBLIQUE FORCES FONZIE ONTO DISABLED LIST
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Given the choice, Bobby Valentine said he would rather not see Edgardo Alfonzo on the disabled list. He would rather manage with a short bench now and...
FIELD OF 11 PRIMED FOR SWORD DANCER
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - If you look up "stakes victories on grass at the Old Spa" in the encyclopedia, you'll find a picture of trainer Bill Mott and jockey Jerry Bailey....
HENDERSON STARS WITH 'BUS' STOP
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amJET NOTES If you didn't know any better, by watching Thursday's Jets win over the Steelers in Pittsburgh, you'd have thought Jamie Henderson was one of the Jets' most productive...
BITTER 16 FOR YANKS
August 10, 2002 | 4:00am16 INNINGSA's 3Yankees 2 If you stuffed the Yankees' starting rotation into a box to be shipped, the label on the outside would have to read, "Fragile: Handle With Care."...
CELTIC SKY LOOKS GOOD IN PHOTO
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Horses trained by Christophe Clement have lost a slew of photo-finishes at this meet, including Forbidden Apple in the Bernard Baruch and Voodoo Dancer in the Diana....
FUTURE EXCITES JET DUO
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amThere was one particular play late in the first quarter of the Jets' 16-6 preseason victory over the Steelers on Thursday night that provided a clear snapshot of their present...
GIANTS' O-LINE TURNS TO LEFT : NEW UNIT SEEKS BALANCE
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amThere were plenty of messages left on Rich Seubert's answering machine, all conveying a similar "nice job" sentiment. One friend mentioned that on the "Monday Night Football" telecast John Madden...
POWER SEASON TO END
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amThe Power's WUSA season mercifully comes to an end today when they face the playoff-bound Washington Freedom (10-5-5) at Mitchel Field (7 p.m., MSG). After qualifying for the postseason last...
PATS DIDN'T LOOK SUPER
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amA year ago, the Giants and Patriots practiced together for three days at New England's facility in Smithfield, R.I. Bill Belichick was pleased with the joint practices but not by...
LOOKS LIKE NICK'S HEADED TO DISABLED LIST
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amUnless Nick Johnson's bruised left hand improves dramatically in the next 48 hours, the Yankees' rookie first baseman/DH is headed for the disabled list. "I am not very optimistic that...
CHAVEZ WANTS NO PART OF BX.
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amThe A's are a young, confident team, a team you'd expect to want to beat the best. But before yesterday's game, Eric Chavez basically said: Bring on anybody but the...
WEAVER STINT A REAL RELIEF FOR BOMBERS
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amJeff Weaver's night can best be explained by the kind of noise he generated last night from the crowd of 54,316 at Yankee Stadium. Before the second inning, when Bob...
THE LEIT-ER STUFF : MET LEFT-HANDER DECKS CARDS WITH LONGBALL HELP FROM MO
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amMets 2Cardinals 1 ST. LOUIS - Last night, the Mets had a little bit of longball and a little bit of small ball, a little luck and a lot of...
THOMSON ODD MAN OUT IN ROTATION JUGGLING
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES ST. LOUIS - With everything else that's gone on, it's easy to forget about John Thomson. The Mets have, at least for one turn in the rotation. In...
MAC STICKS IT OUT: MET SUPER-SUB LOOKS TO END LONG DROUGHT
August 10, 2002 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The game of baseball is constantly challenging to even the best players at the highest level. Whether your name is Mark McGwire or Joe McEwing, you end...