August 22, 2002
FIDELITY MAY NEED MORE CUTS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amFidelity Investments, the nation's biggest mutual fund company, is preparing a big cost-cutting initiative that is likely to include layoffs. However, there are no plans to shut any of the...
STOCKS RISE AS INVESTORS WELCOME FRAUD FIGHTERS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amStocks rose yesterday on renewed investor confidence that corporate fraud will stop and that accounting transparency is a priority on Wall Street and in Washington. Activist shareholders fighting for more...
MUSIC COS. DROP SUIT AGAINST PIRATE SITE
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amRecord giants yesterday dropped a pioneering Napster-style lawsuit after a rogue Web site that allowed entire CDs to be pirated mysteriously disappeared. Thirteen record companies filed a lawsuit against U.S....
PUB OWNERS BURNING OVER SMOKING BAN
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amA group of fuming mad restaurant and bar owners held an emergency meeting in a Midtown pub last night to plan ways to combat Mayor Bloomberg's proposed butt ban. Some...
PENSION BLOWUP IS NEXT - STUDY: BIG FIRMS MAY HAVE UNDERFUNDED RETIREMENT
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amTHE next big blow for corporations: underfunded pensions. Here's what happened: Companies were just as stupid as everyone else during the stock market bubble and they became dependent on abnormally...
HAMPTONS HOUSE HUNTING - RUDY & JUDY SCOURING EAST END FOR LARGER DIGS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amRUDY Giuliani and Judith Nathan are apparently feeling a little cramped in Judy's condo in the Hamptons. Sources say the ex-mayor and his girlfriend are looking for an estate more...
A HIT & RUN COMIC - NOTHING IS OFF-LIMITS FOR SARAH SILVERMAN
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amSARAH Silverman has a new favorite word: Diarrhea. "Either I call people that - like, 'I love you, Diarrhea!'," she explains, on the phone from the road, "or I use...
BUFFY'S MUSICAL EPISODE ON CD
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amA CD soundtrack from last season's much talked-about musical episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is being released next month. The episode, called "Once More With Feeling," was first broadcast...
CANCER SCARE FOR SHEPHERD - GROWTH REMOVED FROM STAR'S BACK
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amFORMER "Moonlighting" star Cybill Shepherd is battling a deadly form of skin cancer, according to published reports. Shepherd, 52, was diagnosed with melanoma on her back after she discovered a...
RAUNCH LAUNCH TO BLISS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amTHE JOYS OF SEX: A NAUGHTY NEW MUSICAL REVUE ---------- SOME shows are schizophrenic - they haven't made up their mind exactly what they want to be. Take "The Joys...
ROBBIN' WILLIAMS OF HIS USUAL GOOD HUMOR
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amYES, that's manic funnyman Robin Williams inside the pitiful blond husk of a man who creeps his way through the new psychological thriller "One Hour Photo." It's a tribute to...
FIVE YEARS AFTER DIANA'S DEATH, A MOVIE TELLS THE STORY OF THE MAN SHE TRUSTED MORE THAN ANYONE - HOW PRINCESS DI TOLD ME HER DARK SECRETS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amTHE unrelenting fascination with Princess Diana runs extremely deep - even five years after her death. How deep? Well, there's now a CBS movie, "The Biographer: The Secret Life of...
CAN'T BE BEAT - TEN TOP BANDS THAT ARE MAKING NEW YORK SING
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Strokes have gone stratospheric, and yeah, everyone knows the Yeah Yeah Yeahs by now. But these 10 area acts - a variety pack of garage, rap, post-punk, dance and...
STARR REPORT
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amMorton 'toons in with new Nick series British actress Samantha Morton, who copped an Oscar nomination for her role in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown," will voice the role of...
NEW 'IDOL' BOOT A SHOCKER
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amTAMYRA GRAY, a personal favorite of judge Simon "Mr. Nasty" Cowell, was booted off last night's live episode of "American Idol" in a shocking twist to Fox's summer reality series....
TOT HIT BY TV DIES 4 MONTHS LATER
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amA one-year-old boy died yesterday, four months after he suffered serious head injuries when a TV set fell on him in his Brooklyn home. The tragic incident occurred April 16...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amA man is driving to construction sites in California and pleading with builders to fill his car with concrete or asphalt. When workers ask him why, he replies, "Well, I'm...
GOLISANO'S GOOF
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amCARL McCall says he has "a secret weapon" that will propel him into the governor's mansion in November (assuming he gets past Andrew Cuomo in next month's primary). "Tom Golisano...
RAID ON REFUGEE CAMP THREATENS TRUCE DEAL
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amTEL AVIV - Israeli tanks and helicopters raided a Gaza Strip refugee camp yesterday - as Israel moved to inoculate thousands of its emergency workers against smallpox in case of...
AT&T FACES $LAP IN LOBBYING 'PLOY'
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - AT&T faces a massive fine for violating state lobbying laws by secretly financing a bogus consumer group aimed at cutting the company's expenses, sources told The Post. The...
CLINTON HAVANA TOUGH TIME WITH CIGARS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amLooks like Bill Clinton has been "framed" for possessing a dozen Cuban cigars. Cuban cigar peddler Emilio Egeraige recently got a thank-you letter from the former president after sending him...
GOOD GUY'S IDEA DRAWS MORE BLOOD DONATIONS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amSteven Castleton wanted to woo potential blood donors with more than food for thought - so the Long Island dad came up with the idea of thanking volunteers with free...
HILL HOPES SHE'LL 'NET MORE CASH
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's powerful fund-raising machine now has an Internet address - raising her national profile even as she downplays talk of a White House run. The...
RADIO CRETINS SEND DECENCY TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amORLANDO SHEFFAN reported for work on Aug. 15 at what looked to be the grand and sacred St. Patrick's Cathedral. There, the usher was greeted by the unholy sight of...
POLL FAULT BOOSTS MCCALL
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Last week's explosive Quinnipiac University poll - showing Carl McCall surging far ahead of Andrew Cuomo - inflated the size of McCall's support with a questionable and undisclosed...
MEDIA GIANTS BEHIND VICIOUS ANTI-U.S. FILM
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amVivendi-Universal is bankrolling a new documentary defending anti-American terrorism - and a second media conglomerate, Viacom, is sponsoring the flick's red-carpet premiere in Toronto on Sept. 11. The film, "11'09"01,"...
GRAPPLER SUES OVER 'TRASHED' TURBAN
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amA Sikh professional grappler is pile-driving wrestling impresario Vince McMahon's company with accusations of religious and ethnic harassment. Gurjit Singh Hans - whose ring name is Tiger Ali Singh -...
HERO BRAVES HELL & HIGH WATER
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amWading chest deep through the Bronx River toward an overturned car, firefighter Wayne Pokstis had only one thought: "Someone's in there and needs help." "It was similar to going to...
POLS TAKE 'LIBERTY' WITH NEWARK AIRPORT
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amGov. Pataki and Gov. Jim McGreevey of New Jersey yesterday proposed renaming Newark Airport "Liberty International" to honor Sept. 11 victims - but the city's mayor promptly vowed to block...
SIN DUO BEDEVILED - ST. PAT'S FORNICATORS BEAR WRATH OF COURT CROWD
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe Virginia couple who apparently thought St. Patrick's Cathedral was for lovers caught hell from an outraged public outside Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday. "You should be ashamed of yourselves!" "God...
BOOB-TUBE BUBBA - TALK HOSTS SAY CLINTON PERFECT FOR DAYTIME TV
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amBill Clinton hosting his own daytime talk show? Hey, it's not so far-fetched - especially in the anything-goes world of daytime TV, where dysfunction and hysteria are the norm -...
STOCK-MARKET SWOON BACKFIRING ON 'BLAME THE GOP' DEMS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amIT WAS supposed to be the summer of stockholder discontent with Democrats crowing about a sharp political shift in their favor - but instead, Republicans are now heaving a big...
CUOMO RIPS GOV OVER CORP. CRIME
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amAndrew Cuomo yesterday hammered Gov. Pataki for failing to push for "corporate responsibility," launching his second ad that focuses on the domino-like collapse of several huge businesses. Cuomo does not...
GUILTY IN KID SLAY - NEIGHBOR CONVICTED IN DEATH OF 7-YR.-OLD
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amA neighbor of Danielle van Dam is facing the death penalty after being convicted yesterday of killing the 7-year-old suburban San Diego girl, the first victim of a series of...
BUST-SEE-TV: 'BILL SHOW' A DUMB IDEA
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amI CAN hardly wait. There's nothing I love more than a front-row seat at a historic failure. A Bill Clinton talk show? I haven't been this excited since Fox bought...
LOVING SEND-OFF FOR HERO FIREFIGHTER
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe city said goodbye to yet another fallen hero yesterday -this time it was Firefighter Gary Geidel of Rescue 1, who was given a final farewell at Snug Harbor, Staten...
'CHIN' SCRATCHING - GIGANTE MAY NOT DENY MOB EXISTS: LAWYER
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amNotoriously nutty mob boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante has legal experts scratching their heads with his unusual legal tactic that may lead him to break the Mafia's solemn vow of silence....
'DOUBLE-VOTING' POL THROWN OFF BALLOT
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Billionaire gubernatorial hopeful Thomas Golisano's running mate in the Sept. 10 Conservative primary was tossed off the ballot yesterday by a state judge. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Keegan...
BUSH HOLDS FIRM ON OUSTING SADDAM
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush emerged from a huddle with his war Cabinet yesterday and said Iraq's Saddam Hussein must be removed - but he's in no hurry to act. "The...
GRAND CENTRAL SUBWAY PUSHER GETS 22 YEARS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amA hulking homeless man was sentenced to 22 years in prison yesterday for shoving a mother of two in front of a subway train at Grand Central station because she...
OUSTED PRINCIPAL SUES FOR $362M
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amA former city principal who was wrongly accused of padding attendance rolls to beef up her budget has lobbed a $362 million lawsuit at school investigators, the Board of Education...
JUDGE IN CUSTODY BOMBSHELL
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amA lurid custody battle between a Long Island woman and a male erotic dancer for their 5-year-old son exploded in controversy when a judge forced the stunned mom to represent...
MARTHA'S $15M TRADE - DOUBLES MONEY ON PENTHOUSE
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amMartha Stewart is quietly looking to unload her unfinished West Village penthouse pad for as much as $15 million - a move that could fatten her purse and cut costs...
CITY SCHOOLS' GUIDE TO 9/11 ANNIVERSARY
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe Board of Education yesterday unveiled a guide for the remembrance of the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks - focusing on "hope, healing and heroism," and downplaying the...
MOMMY MYSTERY AS JACKO UNVEILS 'SON'
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amWacko Jacko has reportedly become a father for the third time - but nobody's saying who the mom is. People magazine says Michael Jackson has been parading around a 6-month-old...
MEMORIAL WALL'S VIEW OF TRAGEDY
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe first panel of a transparent "viewing wall" around Ground Zero was unveiled yesterday - a 13-foot-high wire mesh structure adorned with a picture of the fallen Twin Towers. "I...
BROTHER SHOOTS SIS DEAD: COPS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man shot and killed his sister yesterday after they fought over some missing items, police said. Gary Harper, 43, shot his sister Denise, 42, in a second-floor hallway...
CROWN HTS. PRAYS - LITTLE GIRL IS 'DOING MUCH BETTER'
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe 3-year-old black girl hit by a Hasidic driver on a Crown Heights street showed signs of improvement last night as cops and community leaders worked to calm the neighborhood....
7 THUGS KILL B'KLYN TEEN
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amA 16-year-old Brooklyn youth was stabbed to death by a group of at least seven assailants on a Flatbush street, police said yesterday. Police said the group descended on Jean...
BRITNEY: BYE TO GOOD GIRL
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amBritney Spears says she's shedding her good-girl image and no longer claiming she'll remain a virgin until marriage. "Who really cares if I've had sex?" the 20-year-old pop tart tells...
TWO MORE NABBED IN GAP HEIST
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amTwo more suspects in the botched robbery of a Gap clothing store - including a former employee - were arrested early yesterday, police said. Cops nabbed Walter Houston, 19, and...
HUNDREDS MOURN SLAIN BX. GIRL
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amHundreds grieved yesterday for Maleny Mendez, the Bronx "little angel" who was killed by a gang member's stray bullet. "My mind is not here right now. I just have no...
CROWN HTS. PUZZLE - CELL-PHONE MYSTERY AS TOT FIGHTS FOR LIFE
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe 3-year-old black girl hit by a Hasidic driver on a Crown Heights street clung to life last night as cops tried to figure out what caused Tuesday night's accident....
HAMPTONS ON ROAD TO HONORING FALLEN HERO
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amIt now looks like a hero cop who died Sept. 11 will have a street in the Hamptons named after him. Friends and family had started a campaign to change...
POLS TAKE 'LIBERTY' WITH NEWARK AIRPORT'S NAME
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amGov. Pataki and Gov. Jim McGreevey of New Jersey yesterday proposed renaming Newark Airport "Liberty International" to honor Sept. 11 victims - but the city's mayor promptly vowed to block...
GONZALEZ MAKES DEBUT
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Raul Gonzalez realized he wasn't going to get much of a chance in Cincinnati. The 28-year-old outfielder was tearing it up in Triple A Louisville,...
MET SKID HANGS 10 IN FRISCO
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amGiants 3 - Mets 1 SAN FRANCISCO - Like many of the vagrants who populate the Bay Area, the Mets had their hands out for a bit of good fortune...
MCGRAW COULD START
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amWith starting free safety Damien Robinson nursing a strained left groin and questionable to play against the Giants on Saturday night, rookie Jon McGraw is bracing for his first NFL...
RICHIE'S GIFTS A BOOST TO JETS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amRichie Anderson might be the most important least-heralded player on any NFL roster. The senior member of the Jets' offense (he's been a Jet since 1993) has made himself into...
ISLES TIX GO ON SALE
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amIndividual-game tickets for the Islanders will go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Coliseum, Isles team stores and Ticketmaster for the upcoming season. The 41-game home slate this...
SLUMPING SAMPRAS NO SHOO-IN FOR DAVIS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amCaptain Patrick McEnroe revealed there's a chance reeling Pete Sampras won't be part of the U.S. Davis Cup team that faces France in the semis Sept. 20. McEnroe, noting the...
RANGERS DEALS TO BE HEARD
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe Players Association has requested an expedited hearing in the case of the NHL vs. Bobby Holik and Darius Kasparaitis (and the big-market, big-spending Rangers), The Post has learned. While...
HEWITT HANDED TOUGH OPEN DRAW
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amAt least we know the U.S. Open draw isn't rigged. The matchup USTA officials dreaded - a rematch of last year's racial indident between defending champion Lleyton Hewitt and rising...
THINGS GETTING HAIRY FOR ROOKIES
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - "Bad hair day" took on a new meaning yesterday at Giants training camp when five very bad heads of hair were unveiled. So goes life as...
WEAVER STRIKES ONCE AGAIN - GIVES UP ANOTHER COSTLY LONGBALL AS YANKS FALL IN 11
August 22, 2002 | 4:00am11 INNINGS: Angels 5 - Yankees 1 The Yankee bullpen - which will have to do without Mariano Rivera for the near future, and possibly the regular season - hadn't...
RONDELL'S DEEP FUNK GETS WORSE
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amRondell White hardly has to wait for the questions to be asked anymore. "I know I'm not doing the job," White said. "It doesn't matter if I'm not swinging the...
EL DUQUE GIVES YANKS REASON TO SMILE
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amOrlando (El Duque) Hernandez thought he was going to pick up his seventh victory of the season after the Yankees took a 1-0 lead over the Angels in the first...
GARNES TO SEND MESSAGE
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - The message was left on Shaun Williams' answering machine. It was more of a warning than a greeting. Williams, the Giants' strong safety, said the caller, Sam Garnes,...
MEDAGLIA D'ORO 2-5
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Standing in the paddock yesterday morning as post positions were drawn for Saturday's $1 million Travers Stakes, Hall-of-Fame trainer Bobby Frankel, who sends out heavy favorite Medaglia...
JOHNSON WILL BE OUT UNTIL SEPT.
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES While Nick Johnson - who had a bone scan turn up negative on his bruised left wrist Monday - took 25 swings without a ball Tuesday, it seems...
FILM ACTOR LIKES ROLE AS COACH
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amWILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - One inning is all you have to watch to realize these Harlem Little Leaguers are real actors. The camera loves them. Just ask coach Bill McGee. He's...
SELIG, FEHR COULD GROUND ANGELS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amIF YOU are a Yankee fan, this is what you saw yesterday at the Stadium: Rondell White further the notion he belongs on the bench; Jeff Weaver fail to fortify...
DEVS READY TO SIGN GOMEZ
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amA breakthrough in contract talks will likely see 2000 NHL Rookie of the Year Scott Gomez signed for the start of Devil training camp Sept. 13. "We've had constructive talks,"...
FOND MEMORIES FOR LAST NY CHAMPS
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amIf the Harlem Little Leaguers can win three more games they will be World Champs, only the second team from New York City ever to wear the Williamsport crown. In...
METS ONLY CAN BLAME EACH OTHER
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - It sounded an awful lot like finger-pointing. Throughout the Mets' miserably disappointing season, and throughout the first eight games of an epic losing streak, a team that...
PHILLIPS: YA STILL GOTTA BELIEVE
August 22, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Steve Phillips isn't abandoning ship. After all, it's sometimes the captain's job to sink to the bottom of the ocean. For better or worse, the...