August 13, 2002
WHY GREENSPAN AND FED CAN'T CUT INTEREST RATES
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Federal Reserve would love to cut interest rates tomorrow. But it can't, so it won't. You've read a lot lately about whether the Fed will decide to cut rates...
DOW STARTS WEEK WITH 56-PT. LOSS
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amStocks fell at the start of a week that is packed with potentially market-moving events. The downturn came in part as investors became increasingly convinced the Federal Reserve will not...
SOLOW FINDS WORTHY TENANT FOR 57 STREET
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amSHELDON Solow took a long time finding a retail tenant for the former Festival movie theater space at 6-8 W. 57th St., across the street from his flagship 9 West....
CHARLES, PRINCE OF $ALES; BRITISH HEIR TO LAUNCH LINE OF WINDSOR WEAR
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amTalk about authentic. Designers like Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger have tried for years to mimic the look of the tweedy English country gentleman. Now they'll be marketing their wares...
BROKERAGE ACCUSED OF ANTI-SEMITISM
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amInternational brokerage Tullett & Tokyo Liberty's problems are getting deeper. Last year, the London-based interdealer broker ponied up more than $100,000 to settle a religious discrimination claim stemming from staffers...
J. LO SLAPPED WITH TRADEMARK SUIT
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amJ. Lo's Glow could be dimming. The Latina lovely and Coty, manufacturer of her signature fragrance, are being sued by Glow Industries, a California manufacturer of bath and body-care products,...
A FRUITFUL 'FRINGE'
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amPerhaps it's the whiff of success following "Urinetown." This year's New York International Fringe Festival has racked up more than $150,000 in advance sales - nearly five times more than...
GET THEE TO KINGS COUNTY'S 'HAMLET'
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amHAMLETAt the Founders Hall Theater, St. Francis College, 182 Remsen St., Brooklyn Heights. Through Aug. 24. Call Smarttix (212) 206-1515. ONE does not expect to discover a blazing, witty, bright...
OH, BROTHERS!
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amOASISAdditional performances tonight and tomorrow at the Beacon Theatre, Broadway at 74 Street; (212) 496-7070. Limited tickets available. AFTER years of scrapping with each other, the press and occasionally the...
STARR REPORT
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amTaxing situation: Accountant gets an Eiful Soap opera diva Eileen Fulton ("As the World Turns") is suing her accountant for over $1 million - charging that he failed to pay...
WOODY'S WORLD
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe American Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, will mark Sept. 11 with free screenings of Woody Allen's 1979 ode to the city, "Manhattan." The movie, which also...
'PLUTO' HELL
August 13, 2002 | 4:00am"The Adventures of Pluto Nash," a comedy starring Eddie Murphy as a nightclub owner on the moon, will open Friday without advance critics' screenings - a move studios generally resort...
ELVIS IN BRIEF: THE KING'S TOP-DRAWER CDS
August 13, 2002 | 4:00am"The Home Recordings" (1999) RCA When this album was recorded there was no audience in the room - just Elvis, a Grundig tape recorder and maybe a couple of pals....
BROOKLYN'S GIANTS: THEY MIGHT BE PERFORMING
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amTIME is winding down for outdoor shows. Here are three to choose from - one is by land, two are by sea - or the river. They Might Be Giants,...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amDishing the dirt Picture the Super Bowl on a very rainy day. The 26th annual MudBowl splashes its way into Hog Coliseum, North Conway, N.H., Sept. 6-8. The three-day event...
THIS DOG MUST DIE: A TALKING POOCH STILL ISN'T FUNNY (BUT OWNERS ARE)
August 13, 2002 | 4:00am"Beware of Dog" Tonight at 8 on Animal Planet ½ star "Animal Pranksters" Tonight at 9 on Animal Planet WHAT do you get when you mix humans, pets, and a...
TEACHER HAS HIGH HOOPS FOR RIKERS KIDS
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amRich Kosik has a slam-dunk way of motivating Rikers Island teen hoops fans to take education seriously: The teacher often brings a college basketball coach with him on his visits...
PREGNANT MOM BEATEN IN UPPER E. SIDE HORROR
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amA pair of thugs repeatedly kicked a pregnant woman in her belly, savagely beat her with their fists and snatched her purse as she tried to hail a cab with...
ROCKETTES FACE FIRING LINE TODAY
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amIt's D-Day for the high-stepping Rockettes: The long-legged dancers find out today if they're being high-kicked out of Radio City Music Hall and replaced with a pickup dance troupe. The...
ZAPPING SADDAM ; HIGH TECH TO TARGET MINDS & CIRCUITRY
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - New war plans being developed at the Pentagon call for massive use of exotic electronic and psychological-warfare technology to disrupt Saddam Hussein's communications and convince Iraqi soldiers to...
SAFETY PROBERS TAKE REINS IN JFK JET-FIRE INVESTIGATION
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amFederal safety investigators traveled to New York yesterday to begin probing how a fire started Sunday in the engine of an airborne Iberia jumbo jet, whose subsequent evacuation left two...
LOOKS LIKE SAM'S IN FOR A BAD RUN
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amA federal prosecutor painted a gloomy picture yesterday for Martha Stewart's troubled pal, Sam Waksal, telling a judge the government's case against the former ImClone chief was "very simple" and...
HEIR JAILED FOR VALET SLAY
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amAn AIDS-riven Upper West Side heir was sentenced to six to 12 years in prison yesterday for the 1997 slaying of man he took in as his valet. Richard Plastik,...
MCCALL'S BIG LIE ; HIS TALE OF LIFE IN PUBLIC HOUSING IS FAKE
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Gubernatorial hopeful Carl McCall never lived in a public-housing project, despite his repeated claims to have done so, records obtained by The Post reveal. The records - including...
CANDIDATES TAP CAMPAIGN ACCOUNTS
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amBoth Democratic candidates for governor quietly tapped the campaign accounts of their little-known running mates over the last month to make their own war chests look bigger, The Post has...
BLUE SUEDE NEWS ; LISA MARIE WEDS NICOLAS CAGE
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe question is, did actor Nicolas Cage wear his blue suede shoes? Cage, an admitted Elvis fanatic who was recently spotted squiring the King's pucker-lipped only daughter, Lisa Marie, around...
PRIESTLEY ON RECOVERY TRACK
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amJason Priestley was transferred from a Kentucky hospital to one in Indianapolis yesterday, as doctors said they expect the heartthrob actor to fully recover from a broken back and other...
NOW WE'RE MOVING ; POLS BARE EXCITING $6B TRANSPORT PLAN
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amMore than $6 billion in federal funds pledged to rebuild the downtown transportation system will pay for a new transit hub and an expanded South Ferry subway station - and...
TRAIN KILLS N.J. WOMAN
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amAn NJ Transit train struck and killed a young Ecuadoran immigrant early yesterday morning - but the woman's mangled body wasn't discovered until the crew of another train spotted it...
GUNMEN MAKE OFF WITH 70G 'HAUL'
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn car-service courier, heading to the bank with a knapsack packed with $70,000, was robbed yesterday by gunmen who sandwiched his car between two U-Haul trucks, police said. At...
'ANTHRAX' DOCTOR FAILED LIE TEST
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A month before the first anthrax-laced letters were mailed, the bio-warfare expert now at the center of the probe failed a CIA-administered polygraph test over questions surrounding his...
NYPD'S NEW FIREPOWER SETS SAIL
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe NYPD has beefed up the firepower on patrol boats, putting machine guns, rifles and shotguns in the hands of harbor cops. The guns - including new 9mm machine pistols...
ELVIS STILL WORTH A KING'S RANSOM
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amElvis Presley is doing pretty well for a dead guy. Twenty-five years after his death, The King was crowned the top-earning dead celebrity of the last 12 months, raking in...
TRAGIC LOVERS' PLANE FOUND 19 YEARS LATER
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amNineteen years after their plane went down in a hailstorm, the remains of two doomed lovers from New Jersey will be pulled from the wreckage on the side of a...
'MED SCHOOL' CRACKDOWN ; ALBANY LEANS ON STATE EDUCATION BOSS TO FIX RX PROBLEM
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amSTATE lawmakers are finally waking up to the dangers of over-medicating schoolkids. Yesterday, they made several smart moves in the right direction. First, state education czar Richard Mills said he...
MARTHA'S MORNING IN PERIL
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amMartha Stewart's woes are boiling over into the TV world - her show could lose its coveted morning time slot. "Martha Stewart Living" currently airs 9 a.m. weekdays on WCBS/Channel...
'63 ALA. CHURCH BOMB VICTIM HONORED HERE
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe sole survivor of a 1963 Birmingham, Ala., church bombing said at a Midtown awards ceremony last night that the four little girls who were killed in the attack "died...
FAMILIES RACING CLOCK FOR LAWSUITS VS. AIRLINES
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amFamilies of airline passengers killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks have begun peppering Manhattan federal court with wrongful-death suits to beat a one-year deadline for legal action, lawyers said...
INSIDE COP-SLAY PANTHER'S TALE
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Before being denied his first attempt at parole, Anthony Bottom emphatically denied he helped murder two cops in a Harlem housing project in 1971, according to transcripts obtained...
BEACH BUTT PATROL: NO-SMOKING CRUSADERS EYE SEASIDE & PARKS
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amAnti-smoking advocates who convinced Mayor Bloomberg to propose a tough new law banning butts in bars, company cars and all restaurants have already zeroed in on their next targets: parks...
SHARON MOVES FOR AN EARLY ELECTION
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday threatened to call new elections - and Palestinian factions met to form a "national unity" team that rejected calls for an end...
LAWMAKER AIMS AT MIDDLE-SCHOOL REFORM
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amA powerful lawmaker is proposing a sweeping package of reforms to try to turn around New York state's troubled middle schools. "Obviously there's a crisis in the middle schools when...
NEWLYWED BRONX MAN KILLS WIFE, SELF: POLICE
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx husband killed his newlywed wife - then turned his .38 revolver on himself - in a murder-suicide that may have been triggered by the woman's plans to annul...
BUSH TO PUT BRAKE ON FUNDS
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush plans to signal his resolve to fix the economy at a Texas forum today by nixing $5.1 billion in "emergency" funds pushed by Democrats like Sen....
GOOFY GANGSTER IS GUILTY OF SLAY
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe leader of a bizarre drug crew that called itself "the family" was found guilty yesterday of murdering a rival dealer - after a midget gangster and a wannabe Hasidic...
PATAKI ADMINISTRATION UNDER FIRE
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe Pataki administration is coming under fire for failing to collect up to $250 million a year in cigarette taxes from sales made by Native Americans and out-of-state sellers. State...
POL AIMS AT MIDDLE-SCHOOL REFORM
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amA powerful lawmaker is proposing a sweeping package of reforms to try to turn around New York state's troubled middle schools. "Obviously there's a crisis in the middle schools when...
DEMS TO BE AT BUSH GABFEST
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's team yesterday stressed there will be Democrats on hand as he holds an economic forum with "real Americans" today - to show he feels their pain...
'ANTHRAX' DOC FAILED POLYGRAPH
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A month before the first anthrax-laced letters were mailed, the bio-warfare expert now at the center of the probe failed a CIA-administered polygraph over questions surrounding his mysterious...
WAVE OF LAWSUITS STARTING TO BUILD
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amFamilies of airline passengers killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks have begun peppering Manhattan federal court with wrongful-death suits to beat a one-year deadline for legal action, lawyers said...
METS' WILSON SAYS HOPE'S ALIVE, BUT...
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amVance Wilson, the Mets' assistant player rep, said the union's executive board "talked about all the issues" at yesterday's union meeting in Chicago - but he but declined to elaborate...
POST PICKS PAY OFF
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Thanks to the Post's pony pickers, loyal reader Anthony DeRosa of Manorville, N.Y., is $5,000 richer after taking down the grand prize Sunday in the Saratoga SHOWdown...
'HUMOR' PROVES AWESOME
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Awesome Humor, purchased privately by WinStar Farm after winning the July 6 Debutante Stakes at Churchill Downs by two lengths, paid immediate dividends for her new connections...
DAYNE CAN'T COMPLAIN ; RB'S SUBDUED ATTITUDE VITAL FOR GIANT SUCCESS
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - The play had two options and once Sean Payton spotted the clue he needed to see, his call should have been to take the ball to the outside....
UNION DECISION PUTS ONUS ON SELIG TO SAVE GAME, LEGACY
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amTHE owners are going to win this labor negotiation unless Bud Selig is determined that everyone loses. The union's executive board met in Chicago yesterday and announced it will not...
BERNIE'S BEEN YANKS' ROCK
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amDespite a starting rotation filled with aces and a lineup loaded with All-Stars, the Yankees' season rests largely on the shoulders of center fielder Bernie Williams - the same sore...
MICKENS CONTENT AT NICKEL
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amMarch was approaching with the quickness of an oncoming slot receiver on third-and-five and Ray Mickens had no idea which way his career was headed. With the free agent signing...
STRICK: I'M NOT THAT BAD
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES Scott Strickland insists he's a better pitcher than his numbers show. But Bobby Valentine hasn't shown a ton of confidence in him lately. The last five times the...
COLLINS CHEERED BY WRS' SKILLS
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Prior to lunch, Kerry Collins assessed the talent around him and declared, "This is the best skill group I've had around me since I've been in...
BLOW TO THROAT QUIETS LB JONES
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets got a scare yesterday morning when linebacker Marvin Jones took an inadvertent hit to the throat by a teammate during a running play. The Jets sent...
PIAZZA: IT'S DO-OR-DIE; METS IN CRITICAL CONDITION, SAYS MIKE
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amMike Piazza isn't given to hype or exaggeration, so he's not trying to help the Mets sell tickets when he says this week's homestand is pretty much do-or-die. Piazza and...
ST. RAYMOND'S MCCROSKEY SELECTS 'CUSE
August 13, 2002 | 4:00amLouie McCroskey, a 6-foot-3 forward from St. Raymond's, verbally committed to Syracuse yesterday. When teammate Allan Ray went down with a broken foot last season, McCroskey filled in and became...