August 19, 2002
CO-OP MARKET JUMPS AS BUYERS SHRUG OFF THREATS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amManhattanites are a thick-skinned bunch who aren't scared of terrorists or of keeping their own nest in the city. The threat of terror has not slowed down apartment sales, which...
A BLOODY SHAME - U.K. COULD HAVE HELPED AVERT WORLDCOM FIASCO
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amA whistle-blower who claimed fraud in the London offices of fallen telecom giant WorldCom nearly three years ago apparently was ignored by regulators. Geraldine Kelly alleges widespread fraud - amounting...
GOO GOO DOLLS HAVE STORMY VOODOO DOLLS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amGOO GOO DOLLS ----------- THE thunder rumbling overhead and umbrellas blossoming across the Jones Beach amphitheater were testament that the curse holding the Goo Goo Dolls still had a white-knuckle-tight...
CBS POPS TOP ON SECRET DIANA TAPES
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amSECRET tape recordings made by Diana, Princess of Wales, have been used in a new TV movie airing next month. The tapes were made for a book written by Andrew...
STARR REPORT
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe big Hurt: 'Spy' movie reaches a Boyle "Everybody Loves Raymond" co-star Peter Boyle, who just received his fourth consecutive Emmy nomination for the CBS sitcom (he plays Ray Romano's...
TWO-BIT TOWN
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amTHE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE [1/2]The Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theater, 227 W. 42nd St. (212) 719-1300. ----------- NO Rodgers and Hart musical can be half-bad - but...
FIRST 9/11-INSPIRED FILM SLATED FOR FEST
August 19, 2002 | 4:00am'THE Guys," the first feature film inspired by the events of Sept. 11, will have its world premiere at next month's Toronto Film Festival - on the first anniversary of...
WHAT DO YOU CALL A KID WHO STEALS FROM THE MEDICINE CABINET? - BUFFALO PILL
August 19, 2002 | 4:00am"The Secret Life of Zoey" [ ] Tonight at 9 on Lifetime ------- REMEMBER when Lifetime used to do wonderfully trashy true-crime movies? Then, for reasons transparently clear, they left...
GLAM, BAM, THANK YOU MAN! - NEW YORK GUYS GO FROM SLACKER TO DAPPER WITH STYLE
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amWE'VE identified a new species of men strutting through the streets of the city. They've been spotted at upscale clothing stores, hair and nail salons, even makeup counters. And no,...
W. NILE VICTIM STILL CRITICAL
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amAn 84-year-old Queens man who is the city's first resident to contract West Nile virus this year remains in critical condition, officials said yesterday. The city Health Department said the...
PLAN OF ATTACK: ANDY SET TO SPRING NEGATIVE BARRAGE
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amANDREW CUOMO'S campaign - reeling from last week's devastating Quinnipiac poll - plans a high-risk "endgame" strategy in his battle with Carl McCall, insiders say. While Cuomo's camp is not...
FACTORIES OF DEATH - IRAQ REBUILDS SITES THAT MAKE NERVE-GAS INGREDIENTS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - These mysterious chemical factories northwest of Baghdad are a major reason the Bush administration thinks war with Iraq is inevitable. The 90-acre facilities are named Fullujah I, II...
MEGA MILLIONS GAME A BIG WINNER FOR LOTTERY
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - The multistate Mega Millions lottery game has been mega-successful since its creation in May. New Yorkers have paid out more than $127 million in hopes of winning big...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amA stubborn thief - who refused to dump 50 pounds of stolen cameras and CDs weighing him down - drowned as he tried to escape cops by swimming across the...
HORROR DEATHS OF THE ENEMY POWS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amHundreds of Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners captured by Afghanistan's Northern Alliance last November were stuffed into sealed cargo containers and died of asphyxiation, U.N. and human-rights officials charge. U.N....
SEX OF THE 'CITY' BABY IS A SECRET
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amSarah Jessica Parker says she and hubby Matthew Broderick are keeping the sex of their first baby a surprise. "The suspense is important to us," says the blond star of...
SHE IS THE GREATEST - RING LEGEND ALI WATCHES AS DAUGHTER TAKES TITLE
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe lady is a champ. Muhammad Ali's daughter Laila, with her proud papa cheering her on, won her first world boxing title in the second round of the International Boxing...
GOOD OLD HANDBALL IS BOUNCING BACK
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amIT WAS another Sunday afternoon and another culture clash at the famed West Fourth Street Playground. On one side of a standard-issue chain-link fence, 10 uniformed basketball players went at...
'SECURITY' BECOMES A FIRE TRAP
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amCity Department of Transportation managers ignored warnings and installed a security system that created a potentially fatal fire hazard in a Brooklyn building, The Post has learned. The Fire Department...
WHITE HOUSE RESPONDS TO HEAT ON IRAQ
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush will go directly to the American public to explain why he is attacking Iraq if he decides to wage war against Saddam Hussein, a spokesman said...
THE BEST OF ENEMIES - CUOMO, MCCALL PLAY NICE IN DEBATE
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amWith less than a month before they face off in a primary, the two Democratic candidates for governor yesterday largely ignored each other in their first televised debate and focused...
GAL NABBED IN LOVE-TRIANGLE SLAY
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amCops yesterday arrested a Manhattan woman who allegedly stabbed her love rival to death in a fit of jealousy on the Lower East Side Friday. Rosa Delacruz, 30, is charged...
LIZZIE'S LOCKUP TERROR - PALS SAY PUBLICITY PRINCESS JUST 'WANTS IT OVER WITH'
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amLizzie Grubman is "terrified" to go to jail. "She's scared, of course she is, but she wants it over with - for the victims, for their families, for her family,"...
CLAN BAKED: ANOTHER KENNEDY POL FALTERS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Andrew Cuomo isn't the only Kennedy kin whose political ambitions are running into trouble this summer. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend - sister of Cuomo's wife, Kerry, and eldest daughter...
STRAY SHOT KILLS KID - ALTAR GIRL, 10, HIT BY GANG GUNFIRE AFTER CHURCH PARTY
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amA 10-year-old altar girl was killed by a stray bullet outside her Bronx church yesterday after a gang of armed street thugs crashed a christening party and began arguing with...
SPECIAL-ED SUIT WILL HIT KLEIN ON 1ST DAY
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amSo much for the honeymoon. Joel Klein is being slapped with a civil-rights lawsuit today - his first day on the job as the new city schools chancellor, The Post...
SHE'S NOW STARRING AS A MENTOR
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amCrystal Field was a working actress - she starred with Natalie Wood in "Splendor in the Grass" - who wanted to give others the chance to realize their creative potential....
FRIENDSHIP CAME FROM RIOTS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe two men linked in grief and friendship over the Crown Heights riots will commemorate the anniversary today during a lunch with Gov. Pataki. Norman Rosenbaum and Carmel Cato will...
UH, OWE: STATE FEELS WORLDCOM PINCH
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amScandal- and debt-ridden telecom giant WorldCom has $154.3 million in contracts with New York state - a situation that's forced local agencies to make contingency plans in case the company...
SHAKING THINGS UP - IN MIDEAST, WHO NEEDS 'STABILITY'?
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amYOU can hardly open a newspaper or turn on a news channel without coming across some foreign policy notable who thinks we shouldn't go to war with Iraq because, even...
HILL AND CHUCK: NO RAISES FOR US
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chuck Schumer intend to vote against the $5,000 congressional pay hike, giving a big boost to accelerating efforts to block it, The Post...
THE 'BEAUTY' OF BOOZING
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amBeauty is really in the eye of the beer holder - not the beholder, scientists say. Researchers in Scotland measured the phenomenon by which members of the opposite sex become...
MEGA MILLIONS GAME A WINNER FOR LOTTERY
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - The multistate Mega Millions lottery game has been mega-successful since its creation in May. New Yorkers have paid out more than $127 million in hopes of winning big...
ARAFAT STOLE $8M A MONTH: PLO TREASURER
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amTEL AVIV - An ex-treasurer of the Palestine Liberation Organization has accused Yasser Arafat of taking more than a half-billion dollars in international aid - and transferring it to his...
PRESIDENT BUSH WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TO EXPLAIN WHY HE IS ATTACKING IRAQ
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush will go directly to the American public to explain why he is attacking Iraq if he decides to wage war against Saddam Hussein, a spokesman said...
HEY, JETS: SIGN WAYNE
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amTHE case for Wayne Chrebet is made today by the greatest receiver in Jets history and a man who was presented to the Hall of Fame by Joe Namath in...
TIGER PHASING OUT COACH
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - Tiger Woods won't be relying on his swing coach, Butch Harmon, as much as he has in the past. Woods has indicated he will require Harmon's services...
NO 'WAR' IN TRAVERS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - It's official. Trainer Bob Baffert and Richard Mulhall, manager of The Thoroughbred Corp., decided yesterday that Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem will stay at Del Mar and...
TUA IN LINE FOR BIG-BUCKS FIGHT
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY - Samoans call him Mafaufau Tavita Lio Mafaufau Sanerivi Talimatasi Mau. Americans call him David Tua. If he keeps fighting like he did in Saturday night's 30-second destruction...
REVVED-UP LIBERTY BREAK THE FEVER
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amLiberty 84 - Fever 65 With yesterday's 84-65 dismantling of the Indiana Fever in this blink-of-an-eye, best-of-three series, the Liberty's season now comes down to tomorrow night. "All we did...
COLLINS: LIVE AND LEARN - FEELS FLUBS IN LOSS HELP JINTS HANDLE ADVERSITY
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe way Kerry Collins explained the turn of events, it was a good thing the Giants caused themselves so much grief in Saturday's 36-24 preseason loss to the Falcons inside...
GIANT TIGHT ENDS HOBBLE TO FINISH
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Can you play tight end? Have you ever tried? If the answer is yes, contact Jim Fassel at training camp in Albany. That position will be depleted for...
SNEAKER COMPANY LOSES ITS BALANCE IN A BIG WAY
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amONE of the few popular brand-name sneakers we could purchase, relatively guilt-free, was New Balance. They were reasonably priced, seemed to be well-made and they weren't marketed as urban, attitudinal...
GALLERY GOONS SAME ALL OVER
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amTHE only logical explanation is that a bunch of New Yorkers made the trip to Chaska, Minnesota, to take in the PGA Championship. After all, a couple of people rudely...
METS FALL IN SWEEPS WEEK - LOSE 8TH STRAIGHT AS L.A. BRINGS OUT BROOM
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amDodgers 2 - Mets 1 Let's present the good news. The last place Mets won't lose today. There is only one reason for this. They're off. Second, there is a...
NO RUSH ON FONZIE RETURN
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES Edgardo Alfonzo is eligible to come off the DL, but Bobby Valentine doesn't expect him soon because oblique (stomach) muscles are tenuous. "I don't think he is that...
PHIL FINDS CURE FOR AILING GAME, TOO LATE
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amPGA NOTEBOOK CHASKA, Minn. - Phil Mickelson thinks he has fixed the problems that plagued him during the first three rounds of the 84th PGA Championship. After an early video...
WONDER AGAIN RUNS OFF WITH LAKE PLACID
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Jockey Edgar Prado killed two birds with one stone riding his fourth winner on yesterday's card. Aboard the blossoming grass star Wonder Again, Prado won the day's...
STUNNING COLLAPSE DOOMS LEONARD
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - Justin Leonard had all the positive vibes working his way as he entered the final round of the 84th PGA Championship. He had a three-stroke lead over...
GIAMBI SCRAPS SLUMP ON DOG-DAY AFTERNOON
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - A laser home run and a double convinced Joe Torre that Jason Giambi is out of the 7-for-39 (.179) funk he brought into yesterday's game. "He...
SHEA PLAYS HOST TO SWEEPS WEEK - METS LOSE 8TH STRAIGHT AS L.A. BRINGS OUT BROOM
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amDodgers 2 - Mets 1 Let's present the good news. The last place Mets won't lose today. There is only one reason for this. They're off. Second, there is a...
HEAD TO THE PARK AND BEAT THE METS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amTHE ELEVATOR doors swung open and in walked the new sole owner of the Mets, Brooklyn native Fred Wilpon. "I'm not doing too well right now," Wilpon understated after a...
MO TO SEE TEAM DOC - SHOULDER IS STILL HURTING RIVERA
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Mariano Rivera admitted to being worried about his bothersome right shoulder yesterday and will be examined by Yankees doctor Stuart Hershon today. "I am little bit concerned about...
BOBBY V NOT RUSHING FONZIE BACK TO LINEUP
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES Edgardo Alfonzo is eligible to come off the DL, but Bobby Valentine doesn't expect him soon because oblique (stomach) muscles are tenuous. "I don't think he is that...
YANKS BALLED UP - BOBBLE AWAY GAME AS ROCKET MISFIRES
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amMariners 5 - Yankees 2 SEATTLE - One ball couldn't be extracted from a glove. Another never made contact with leather. And far too many balls avoided the fat part...
LEONARD CAN'T STOP COLLAPSE
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - Justin Leonard had all the positive vibes working his way entering the final round of the 84th PGA Championship. He had a three-stroke lead and he was...
TIGER FIGHTS TO END
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - Walking down the 15th fairway, Tiger Woods turned to his caddie Steve Williams and offered a prediction. "If we birdie in, we'll win the tournament," Woods said....
A DAD'S MOMENT, TOO
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - Larry Beem sat glued to the television set, his nerves wound tighter than a golf ball. "I can't talk right now. I'm too dang nervous," he said...
BEEM COME TRUE AT THE PGA - LITTLE-KNOWN LONGSHOT TOPS TIGER FOR TITLE
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - Rich Beem was never intimidated. Not at the thought of Justin Leonard's three-stroke lead heading into the final round yesterday at Hazeltine National. And not at the...
PUMPED-UP PEN MAKES PITCHING PICTURE CLEAR
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - While Mike Mussina pitched better Saturday than he had in a month and Andy Pettitte has evolved into the staff ace with impressive outings, the main...
YANKS FREEZE UP - M'S SAIL BY ROCKET, PUNCHLESS BOMBERS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amMariners 5 - Yankees 2 SEATTLE - The American League's best team didn't hit, pitch, throw or field very well yesterday at Safeco Field. Consequently the Yankees didn't win, either,...
BEEM PULLS OFF MAJOR STUNNER - OUTDUELS TIGER FOR PGA CROWN
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - Rich Beem was never intimidated. Not at the thought of Justin Leonard's three-stroke lead heading into the final round. Not at the thought of Tiger Woods breathing...
COME TO THE PARK & MEET THE MESS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amTHE ELEVATOR doors swung open and in walked the new sole owner of the Mets, Brooklyn native Fred Wilpon. "I'm not doing too well right now," Wilpon understated after a...
PHIL'S GREAT LATE
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amPGA NOTES CHASKA, Minn. - Phil Mickelson thinks he has fixed the problems that plagued him during the first three rounds of the 84th PGA Championship. After an early video...
TUA'S IN LINE FOR BIG BUCKS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY - Samoans call him Mafaufau Tavita Lio Mafaufau Sanerivi Talimatasi Mau. Americans call him David Tua. If he keeps fighting like he did in Saturday night's 30-second destruction...