October 8, 2002
WHO MAKES MY TEAM FOR THE WORLD SERIES - THESE STARS DIDN'T SHINE MUCH ON WALL STREET OR MAIN STREET
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amTHE heck with the Mets and Yankees. This is the team I'd like to manage in the World Series. CATCHER: Eliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General. Scouting report: The guy's...
DOUBLE TROUBLE FOR CASE - OXYGEN PROBE GIVES AMMO TO ENEMIES OF AOL TW CHIEF
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amThe pressure is mounting on Steve Case. A new investigation into how AOL Time Warner's online division booked revenue has seeped into the Time Warner side of the business, a...
BRAZIL BALLOT BATTERS BANKS BRAZIL BALLOT BANGS UP
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amThanks to an unresolved presidential election in Brazil, U.S. banking stocks are likely to be under pressure for weeks. Brazilians went to the polls over the weekend but failed to...
NEW WEEK, SAME OLD DOWN DOW
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amStocks fell for the fourth consecutive trading day, bringing the Dow Jones industrial average below the lows it set after hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management blew up in 1998, causing...
SEARS TURNAROUND FAILS TO DELIVER THE GOODS; STOCK PLUNGES 14%
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amCall it the sloppy side of Sears. The venerable retailer's turnaround hit a major snag yesterday when it announced its third-quarter earnings would be slightly below analysts expectations, ripping 14.3...
MIDTOWN'S ONE-HIT BLUNDER - SINGLE TENANT'S FISCAL WOES DERAIL SALE OF THIRD AVE. TOWER
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amTHE financial travails of a single office tenant have scuttled the closely watched $241 million sale of 685 Third Ave., The Post has learned. The owners of 685 Third, at...
CSFB BANKERS ASKED TO 'RIP UP' CONTRACT$
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amInvestment bankers at Credit Suisse First Boston are being pressured to "rip up" their six-figure-plus employment contracts and take lower pay. If not, they could face a rocky road through...
ECHOSTAR, HUGHES ASK FCC TO DEFER DECISION
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amIn a last-ditch effort at saving their proposed merger, EchoStar and Hughes urged the FCC yesterday to hold off judgment until they cobble together "major revisions" aimed at winning approval....
TIME'S UP FOR MAG; AS BOOM GOES BUST, SO DOES MUTUAL FUNDS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amTime Inc. shook things up yesterday, shutting down Mutual Funds magazine while playing musical chairs with three publisher jobs at Teen People, Money and People. Amid the shuffles, Anne Zehren,...
E-MAIL TROUBLE - MEMOS PUT CSFB'S QUATTRONE ON THE ROPES
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amCS First Boston banking star Frank Quattrone's problems just got worse. A noose appears to be closing around the necks of CSFB's Teflon tech banker and his staff as regulators...
WALL STREET SEEKS HELP FROM BELTWAY - AMID PROBES, GRAMM MOVE SIGNALS TREND
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amWall Street brokerage UBS Warburg added a U.S. senator to its staff - a move that experts say could be repeated on Wall Street in the days ahead. The Swiss-owned...
STARR REPORT
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amBenedict Arnold? Fuhrman has his say Mark Fuhrman is outraged over remarks made by Jonathan Benedict, who prosecuted Michael Skakel for the murder of Greenwich, Conn. neighbor Martha Moxley. Skakel...
PETTY PEEVE
October 8, 2002 | 4:00am* TOM PETTY and the HEARTBREAKERS "The Last DJ" [] Warner Bros. Tom Petty is sick and tired of the corporate music establishment's money-first attitude that gobbles up young artists....
'SONGBOOK' SINGER THOROUGHLY CONTENT
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amSHE could have been Millie - but Kristin Chenoweth made a sitcom instead. You win some, you lose some. NBC's "Kristin" evaporated after seven airings, while "Thoroughly Modern Millie" made...
PARIS IN THE SWIM
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amBIKINI season may be over in New York, but in France, it's just heating up - on the runways of Paris Fashion Week. Designers including Givenchy's Julian McDonald, Chloe's Phoebe...
NY1 NEWS WILL SPEAK SPANISH NEXT YEAR
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amNY1 will enter the growing world of Spanish-language television. NY1 is creating a Spanish-language network that will launch on a digital tier of Time Warner Cable either late 1st Quarter...
'PUPPETEERS' TOLD TO ZIP IT
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amTHE penis puppeteers will keep it in their pants when they appear tomorrow night on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," a spokeswoman said yesterday. NBC is barring the pair...
SAKS IN THE CLUB - STORE GOES HOLLYWOOD TO DRESS UP SERIES
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amTHE new Fox series "girls club," about three ambitious female lawyers, is getting some Saks appeal. The David E. Kelley series - which debuts later this month and aims to...
SOMETHING NEW IN OLD MEXICO - SOUTH OF HECTIC CANCUN LIE THE QUIET BEACHES OF RIVIERA MAYA
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amHAVEN'T heard of the Riviera Maya? You soon will, if the people in charge of marketing the area get their way. They hope travelers will compare this 72-mile slice of...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amFrench bus Travelers arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport face the dilemma of how much it's going to cost in time and money to get into Paris. Now, Air France...
TIME'S UP FOR MAG : AS BOOM GOES BUST, SO DOES MUTUAL FUNDS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amTime Inc. shook things up yesterday, shutting down Mutual Funds magazine while playing musical chairs with three publisher jobs at Teen People, Money and People. In the shuffles, Anne Zehren,...
POT 'PINCH' ILLEGAL: JUDGE
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge has ruled that a police officer stepped over the line when he pinched the cheeks of a drug suspect - causing four bags of pot to fall...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amAn upstate farmer found an ingenious way to protect his 15-pound pot harvest - he surrounded it with bees, authorities say. Eric Rasmussen of Kirkville, 15 miles northeast of Syracuse,...
FANS PICK BEST 007 GADGETS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amJames Bond fans have named their favorite Agent 007 gadget: the Rolex watch that unzips women's dresses. The debonair superspy used the timepiece to strip a voluptuous Italian secret agent...
ARABS NEAR CIVIL WAR - HAMAS KILLS ARAFAT'S POLICE CHIEF
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The Gaza Strip was on the verge of a civil war yesterday after gunmen in disguise - believed to be Hamas terrorists - assassinated a top-ranking Palestinian police...
BLAKE'S POLL GOAL - LAWYERS SURVEY ALL L.A. TO HELP PICK SLAY JURY
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake's legal team disclosed yesterday it's using political campaign-style opinion polls to measure public sentiment toward their client, who's accused of murder. Lead defense lawyer...
HEAT'S ON CEO WITH 2ND WORLDCON PLEA
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amFederal investigators probing ex-WorldCom bigwig Bernie Ebbers turned up the heat yesterday when the telecom giant's former bean-counter admitted to cooking the books - and said he was under orders...
ISRAEL CALLS GAZA 'TERROR' RAID JUSTIFIED
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel yesterday defended a raid on a "nest of terror" in Gaza that left 14 Palestinians dead, including at least two civilians. The attack on Khan Younis drew...
OLYMPIC SHAM IN CANYON OF ZEROS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amNOW I get it. Mayor Bloomberg must be working to get New York rejected as the 2012 Olympic city. Surely an Olympics would draw too many smelly Europeans smoking filterless...
HUNDREDS GETTING PAID TO STAY PUT
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amChecks will go out this month to more than 300 downtown residents who were among the first to be approved for a series of federal grants aimed at keeping people...
SMELL JUST LIKE YOUR MUMMY
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amYou know how to walk like an Egyptian - now scientists say they can make you smell like one, too. Researchers in France have recreated the perfume of the pharaohs,...
BX. WOMAN IN GUNFIRE BUST
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amCops arrested a Bronx woman who got into a heated dispute with one of her neighbors and fired a gun at him. Police sources said bad blood between Tani Gladney,...
KIN WANT ANSWERS ON DOC'S SLAY
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amDr. Karl Christian, the doctor whose throat was slashed in a Jamaican hotel, was buried yesterday in Denver - as his family and friends denounced the official inquest that claims...
HILL COMES MCCALLING - BOOSTS HIM IN SURPRISE PEP TALK
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday made a surprise appearance for Carl McCall, trying to boost his struggling campaign for governor. Attending a press conference with former vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joe...
SUPREME COURT OKS SWITCH FOR N.J. DEMS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for New Jersey's switcheroo, letting Democrats boost their hopes to keep control of the Senate by dumping Sen. Bob Torricelli...
DRIVER SOBER IN WEDDING TRAGEDY
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amThe young man charged with DWI in last week's tragic Long Island Expressway crash that took the life of three relatives returning from a wedding with him was not drunk,...
OFFICER UN-FRIEND-LY IN PARKING-TIFF BUST
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA cop named Officer Robert Friend was arrested yesterday for filching a parking spot from a civilian motorist - and menacing him with his 9 mm gun when the man...
B'KLYN COP SWAPS FINEST FOR BRAVEST
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA cop who met his fiancée while both patrolled south Brooklyn jumped ship from the NYPD yesterday to become one of 288 new probationary firefighters. "This is a longtime dream...
IT'S JUST THE BEGINNING OF ELECTION DAZE
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Let the election chaos begin. When the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ducked out of the legal battle over New Jersey's Democratic switcheroo, it opened the floodgates to more...
FIREFIGHTERS WHO WERE PLANNING A MASSIVE TIMES SQUARE RALLY ON FRIDAY TO DEMAND PAY HIKES AGREED YESTERDAY TO MOVE THE PROTEST
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amFirefighters who were planning a massive Times Square rally on Friday to demand pay hikes agreed yesterday to move the protest so that Midtown businesses aren't disrupted. Steve Cassidy, president...
SHIPMATE SHOCKER - SLEPT AFTER FATAL SHOVE OF SAILOR: PROSECUTOR
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amAfter pushing one of his fellow sailors out of the sixth-floor window of a Midtown hotel, Petty Officer Brian Cooley went back to his room and went to sleep, prosecutors...
LAWYER RIPS GRAPPLER'S 'NUDE' CLAIM
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amThe lawyer for World Wrestling Entertainment hit bodybuilder Nicole Bass below the belt yesterday, telling a jury: "There is not one person at the WWE who would risk their dream...
B'KLYN MAN CHARGED IN WIFE'S SLAY
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was charged with murder yesterday after he allegedly butchered his wife during a domestic dispute in their home, police said. John Capella, 44, repeatedly stabbed his 43-year-...
GOLISANO'S TV PRE$ENCE BLOWS AWAY RIVALS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amTom Golisano has dominated the TV airwaves in the governor's race over the last month - more than doubling the combined advertising budgets of Gov. Pataki and Carl McCall, according...
SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR JOEL KLEIN WANTS TO CREATE 200 SMALLER SCHOOLS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein wants to create 200 smaller schools to improve safety and teen academic performance - and he's moving to fire the 29-year-old high-school teacher who had a...
SUPREMES NIX CROWN HEIGHTS SUSPECT'S APPEAL BID
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amLemrick Nelson lost his bid to avoid a retrial in the stabbing death of Yankel Rosenbaum during the 1991 Crown Heights riots when the Supreme Court refused yesterday to take...
ARTS CLUB HONCHO ADMITS RIPPING OFF 160G
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA manager at the embattled National Arts Club pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing more than $160,000. Joseph Frappaolo, 47, admitted to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Bonnie Wittner that he skimmed...
FANS JEER SPREE: HAIL KNICKS OVER 250G FINE FOR HIDING INJURY
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amThe $250,000 foul the Knicks called against bad-boy superstar Latrell Sprewell yesterday won the resounding applause of fans. "He deserves it," Kevin Straker of The Bronx said of the fine...
EXPERTS PAINT PORTRAIT OF AN EVIL MADMAN
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amThe psycho killer terrorizing the Washington area is probably a man in his 20s or 30s and may have learned his skilled marksmanship in the military, profilers and other experts...
LAWYER REALLY WAS A CROOK
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA convicted felon who impersonated a lawyer was indicted yesterday for making at least three court appearances for a duped "client" and lying to a judge, authorities say. Carl Smith,...
'LATE SHOW' HEIST
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amCops don't need a "Top 10 List of How to Commit a Burglary" to know how a thief broke into the office of one of TV host David Letterman's assistants...
AIDE GETS JAIL IN PUPILS-SEX CASE
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA disgraced former teacher's aide who admitted she performed oral sex on two young male students has been sentenced to one to three years in prison, Bronx District Attorney Robert...
NEW SCHOOL-REFORM PU$H - EDUCATION GROUP ADVOCATES CHOICES FOR PARENTS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA new education-reform group has vowed to pressure Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein to give kids stuck in failing public schools more options to transfer to better schools -...
PIMP PUT 'HIT' ON HO & FOE: DA
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA jailed Bronx pimp tried to arrange hits via telephone at Rikers Island on an underage hooker and a business rival, according to charges in an indictment handed up yesterday....
DUBIOUS 'DOC' TO FACE THE FEDS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amFake physician Dean Faiello did some legal operating yesterday - negotiating with state authorities and agreeing to turn himself in today to face charges of practicing medicine without a license,...
BELLE MAY BE ON PAR WITH BOYS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amSomeone needs to hit players at the Augusta National golf course over the head with a club to make them realize their all-male policy is biased, critics say - and...
CASE CLOSED - WITH FACTS, THE PRESIDENT SOBERLY FACES DOWN FEAR
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amIF and when America finally takes up arms against Iraq in the coming months, President Bush will go on television to explain his action to the American people. Here's a...
A RELUCTANT, BUT DETERMINED, WARRIOR
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush last night spoke to the nation as a reluctant warrior - but a very determined one. He was somber and deliberately low-key as he answered critics...
HE'S SHOOTING CHILDREN NOW - BOY, 13, HIT NEAR SCHOOL IN 'TAUNTING' AMBUSH
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA psycho being hunted for seven previous sniper attacks in the Washington area upped the stakes yesterday - "taunting" cops by critically wounding the most innocent of victims, a 13-year-old...
DEFYING A 'FUTURE OF FEAR': BUSH SPELLS OUT HIS CASE TO AMERICA
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush last night told the nation that America must act against Iraq now or face "a future of fear" - and warned Saddam Hussein's generals that they'd...
COPS CAPTURE CON 'ARTIST'
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA Manhattan man bilked two people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling them fraudulent African art work, police said yesterday. Mourtala Diop, 53, sold a fake statue...
OSTEOPOROSIS VITAMIN EYED
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA new form of vitamin D has emerged as a possible treatment for osteoporosis, scientists say. The crippling bone disease, which hits postmenopausal women the hardest, increases the risk of...
PIMP PUT A 'HIT' ON HO & FOE: DA
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA jailed Bronx pimp tried to arrange hits via telephone at Rikers Island on an underage hooker and a business rival, according to charges in an indictment handed up yesterday....
NEW SCHOOL-REFORM PU$H - ED GROUP ADVOCATES CHOICES
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA new education-reform group has vowed to pressure Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to give kids stuck in failing public schools more options to transfer to better schools...
KEY HIV FIND BOOSTS HOPES FOR VACCINE
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amScientists have discovered why some people can live for years with HIV but never develop the symptoms of AIDS - a find they say will boost the search for an...
HE'S SHOOTING CHILDREN NOW BOY, 13, HIT NEAR SCHOOL IN 'TAUNTING' AMBUSH
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA sniper sought for seven previous attacks in the Washington, D.C.-area "taunted" police yesterday by critically wounding the most innocent of victims - a 13-year-old boy on his way to...
HE'S SHOOTING CHILDREN NOW: BOY, 13, HIT NEAR SCHOOL IN 'TAUNTING' AMBUSH
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amA psycho being hunted for seven previous sniper attacks in the Washington area upped the stakes yesterday - "taunting" cops by critically wounding the most innocent of victims, a 13-year-old...
A COWARD, JUST LIKE SON OF SAM
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amLIKE human beings, communities can have nervous breakdowns. New York had one in 1977 when a madman called Son of Sam stalked the innocent on city streets. Now it's the...
IRAQ 'UNIQUELY' EVIL: BUSH SPELLS OUT HIS CASE TO AMERICA
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush last night told the nation that America must act against Iraq because it poses a "unique" threat - and aides warned Saddam Hussein's henchmen they'd better...
MUCH BETTER EFFORT
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amGIANT REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: B+ Excellent job of scanning field by Kerry Collins (18 of 27, 228 yards). Fired three TD passes and each one was a beauty.RUNNING BACKS: B+ Best...
ROGER, COME BACK! - YANKEE BRAINTRUST WANTS CLEMENS TO RETURN IN 2003
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amPossibly as soon as the end of this week George Steinbrenner will gather his inner circle in Tampa to discuss what his first-round failure Yankees will look like next year....
FEEL-GOOD TWINS NOT SO WARM & FUZZY
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - They warm your heart, these Twins, who manager Ron Gardenhire says should be in a movie produced by the company owning the team against which they play Game...
INJURY-RAVAGED JINTS HOLDING ON UNTIL BYE
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amIf the Giants can defeat the Falcons this Sunday, they will head into the bye week with a 4-2 record and assure themselves of marching into a Monday Night Football...
DREAM'S OVER: HAKEEM RETIRING
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amUNOFFICIALLY, Hakeem Olajuwon's NBA career is Ramadone. According to those in the know, The African Dream plans to announce his retirement when the Raptors, who became his step-team last season...
SHOWALTER THE MAN FOR METS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amLOU Piniella would be the ideal choice to manage the Mets. He is accomplished with a World Series title in Cincinnati and a 116-win season in Seattle. He has handled...
FASSEL SAYS GAME WAS WON ON FRONT LINES
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Giants fans searching for the key to Big Blue's 21-17 win in Dallas need look no further than the lines. Jim Fassel called it the best offensive-line performance...
JEFF ROLE IS NO JOKE
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amByron Scott had just gotten out of his car in front of the Nets' training camp hotel, ready for the team's breakfast meeting. Suddenly, he heard a motor revving ominously...
D'S JUST OFFENSIVE
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amJET REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: B+ Chad Pennington (23-30, 245 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT) made the most of his first NFL start, taking the team on long, sustained drives and deftly...
NO DOUBT, HOLIK SET TO LINE UP
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amBobby Holik knows he'll be ready to play when the Rangers open their season tomorrow night in Raleigh. He just isn't sure who will be playing with him. "I have...
TEAMMATES STANDING BEHIND THEIR MAN
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Everyone with the Knicks expects Latrell Sprewell to be back with the team at some point. But even Allan Houston admits that the relationship between his backcourt partner...
THERE'S NO 'D' IN GREEN - JETS CAN'T STOP ANYONE
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amMaybe Chad Pennington should have played defense for the Jets against the Chiefs on Sunday. Maybe Pennington playing both ways he could have prevented the Jets from losing their fourth...
SAME OLD QUESTIONS - ANSWERS WILL DECIDE RANGER SUCCESS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amThe Rangers go into the season with a $75 million roster that won't be worth a plugged nickel unless they follow the lead of famously paid hard hats Bobby Holik...
MOSS FINALLY PAYS SOME DIVIDENDS
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amJET NOTES Sunday's performance in their 29-25 loss to the Chiefs is the reason the Jets drafted Santana Moss in the first round last year. It was the first game...
BERNIE SAYS HE'LL TAKE SOME BLAME
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amTwo days after the Yankees' stunning elimination from the ALDS, Bernie Williams shouldered some of the blame for a 9-5 loss in Game 4 to the Angels. With one out,...
STOT STILL IFFY ON COACHING RETURN
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Mel Stottlemyre says he'll decide before Saturday whether he will return as the Yankees' pitching coach. He hopes a fishing trip in Connecticut today with Don Zimmer and...
BUCK STOPS AT SHEA
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amFred Wilpon has no intention of asking the Mariners for permission to talk to Lou Piniella, The Post has learned - bolstering the candidacies of Buck Showalter and Willie Randolph...
AMAZIN'S TURN EYES TO BUCK
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amFred Wilpon has no intentions of requesting permission from the Mariners to talk to Lou Piniella, The Post has learned, opening the door for two other people with strong Yankee...
A FINE MESS - FED-UP KNICKS HIT SPREE FOR 250G
October 8, 2002 | 4:00amAfter four seasons of tip-toeing around Latrell Sprewell and his transgressions, the Knicks yesterday finally got serious. Fed up with the saga surrounding Sprewell's broken right hand and, more importantly,...