October 12, 2002
EX-TYCO EXEC IN-LAW BAILOUT OK'D
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThe in-laws are keeping former Tyco exec Mark Swartz out of jail. A Manhattan judge yesterday tentatively accepted a $5 million bail package assembled by the former CFO's parents, in-laws...
A FEW TECHS SHOW SURPRISING STRENGTH
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amDespised and scorned since early 2000, tech stocks finally got some redemption this week. Gains on the tech-laden Nasdaq composite index roared past the blue chips this week, adding a...
DESPITE THE BAD PRESS, KMART STILL LOVES MARTHA
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amWhat do you do if you're Kmart and your most important spokeswoman looks like she's about to be indicted? Well, put her in your TV ads, of course. That's what...
BIG BULL SESSION - DOW SOARS 4.2% IN FIRST UP WEEK SINCE AUG.
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amBull markets aren't built in just two winning sessions - but many investors say it feels just like one. Stocks soared for a second straight session yesterday, fueled by old...
PORN TO BE A H'WOOD STAR
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amSHU Qi, the love interest in the Hollywood thriller "The Transporter," may be new to U.S. audiences. In Asia, however, she's a major star. The 27-year-old, Taiwanese actress has been...
FINAL FOUR EARLY BIRDS FACES YOU'LL SEE AS CBS TRIES AGAIN IN THE MORNING
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amDALLAS anchor Rene Syler appears to be the final piece of the revamped "Early Show." Syler - who says she hates getting up early - would join Julie Chen, Hannah...
RYAN ADAMS' ACT SHOULD BE HEARD, NOT SEEN
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amBETWEEN his chain-smoking and his enormously swollen head, it was a wonder Ryan Adams didn't die of asphyxiation when he played the Beacon Theatre Thursday. Adams is a talented singer...
'SMALLVILLE' IS SMOKIN'
October 12, 2002 | 4:00am'SMALLVILLE' is about to get a taste of the "X-Files" Cigarette Smoking Man. William B. Davis, who played the creepy insider who seemed to be at the center of every...
YOU SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY! IT DOESN'T TAKE BIG BUCKS TO THROW A GREAT THEME PARTY
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amBirthday parties aren't what they used to be. Take the bash that hip-hop's Russell Simmons and his wife, Kimora Lee, threw recently for their daughter Ming's second birthday. They basically...
JUNGLE FEVER
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amJust in time for Halloween - for those who need a few weeks' prep time - comes "We're Going on Safari," the picture book that turns babies into beasties. Round-cheeked...
SLUMBER PARTIES WORTH STAYING AWAKE FOR
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amIf you want to have a slumber party with a difference, here's a book that'll guarantee your guests won't go to sleep on you. In "Slumber Parties: Things to Make...
HIGHER LEARNING : LESS THINKING, MORE DRINKING AT THESE HOT COLLEGE BARS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amFor most people, the college experience is less about hitting the books and more about hitting the bar. Fortunately, there's no shortage of local watering holes ready to offer some...
GREAT SCOTT-ADITI!
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThe Italians have a name for it - scottaditi. It means "burned fingers," because these little grilled lamb chops are thought to be so irresistible no one can wait for...
PENTHOUSE SWEET
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amVoyeurism, anyone? It's the name of the game at Ava Penthouse, Manhattan's latest rooftop bar, where you can tip back toddies while enjoying a glorious view of Times Square -...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amAn older reader of Dinner Party Cheat Sheet said he blushed after reading the column last week. Sorry, Uncle Sammy. I was inspired by a Comets song. OLDIES BUT WOODIES...
FREE FOR ALL
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amBlock stars Some pop culture treasures, like Elvis guitars and KISS costumes, will go to auction as the Rock Greats and Legends of the Big Screen hits town today. See...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amBovill, Idaho, residents are fed up with Lloyd Hall's bovines doing their duty on lawns across the neighborhood - and some have fought back. Hall, 77, a former mayor who...
STOCK MART'S GRAND FOR 10G POST VICTOR
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amA 30-year-old Katonah man outwitted more than 14,000 contestants to bag $10,000 in the New York Post's "Guess the Dow" contest. Christopher Ryder, a manager of the Katonah Pharmacy in...
COP & HORSE HIT BY A CAR
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amA mounted policeman was in stable condition last night after he and his horse were hit by a car in Times Square. The officer and his steed were riding east...
B'KLYN KID-STAB FIEND COPS PLEA
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amA man pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted murder and assault for stabbing an 11-year-old boy 17 times and leaving him for dead last February in what police called a failed...
'SOPRANOS' PARADE FLAP MIKE & PALS TAKE A HIKE
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amWith a "bada bing, bada boom," Mayor Bloomberg withdrew from the Columbus Day Parade yesterday - just before a federal court ruled he couldn't bring along two actors from "The...
ISRAELIS SEIZE BUMBLING BOMBER
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Security guards near the U.S. Embassy overpowered a would-be homicide bomber who had tried to enter a café, police said yesterday. They said the bomber, with more than...
GI STABBED WEB 'TWIN' TO FAKE OWN DEATH: COPS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amIn an attempt to fake his own suicide, a depressed Fort Bragg soldier lured a lookalike he found on the Internet to his home, tied him up and stabbed him...
DUBYA WOULD BURY GORE IN REMATCH: POLL
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amIf voters got a second chance to pick between George W. Bush and Al Gore, it would be a Bush blowout by 59 to 34 percent, according to a new...
TEEN SWINDLE SUSPECT BAILED
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amBryant Alexander, the 16-year-old accused of operating a $36,000 scam from his part-time job at JPMorgan Chase, was released from prison yesterday under the "strict supervision" of the Nassau County...
SADDAM: YASSER, THAT'S MY PEN PAL
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat have exchanged secret messages of good will - the last coming as recently as Thursday, Palestinian officials said yesterday. The Iraqi president wished...
HEROES ALL FIRED UP: BIG-TIME BACKING IN BRAVEST $$ RALLY
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amBroke city firefighters had a huge outpouring of support yesterday when cops, politicians and celebrities staged a rally in a rainy Central Park to protest their low pay. "New York...
FRANKLY, THEY LET SINATRA MARCH
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThe Sopranos? No way. Chairman of the Board? No problem. Yes, the same group that barred "Sopranos" stars Lorraine Bracco and Dominic Chianese from the Columbus Day Parade opened its...
MIKE'S MINUTE-BY-MINUTE CROWN HTS. 'SCRIPT'
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThe first meeting between Mayor Bloomberg and relatives of the two victims in the 1991 Crown Heights riots was scripted down to the minute, the mayor's daily schedules show. Some...
PATAKI, CARL BICKER 'AD' NAUSEAM
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amGov. Pataki and Carl McCall yesterday escalated their expensive TV ad war - with the governor claiming McCall has "let us down" on hot-button Democratic issues. In a tough attack...
TIGER MAULS N.J. HANDLER
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amA tiger mauled a worker at a controversial New Jersey animal preserve yesterday. The unidentified staff member was tending to one of the tigers on Joan Byron-Marasek's Tigers Only Nature...
'KILLER PAIR' SPUR JIHAD FEAR 'THESE ARE TERRORISTS'
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON, D.C. LARRY Johnson, former CIA agent, former State Department agent, said loudly and clearly: "At the end of the day, we have to give some credence that there is...
TRIBUTE SITE FOCUS OF ALL WTC DESIGNS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amArchitects who will develop the next round of plans for Ground Zero said yesterday that the space for the permanent memorial to Sept. 11 will be their most important focus,...
WAR ON TERROR : OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY BUSH: GIS TO HOLD IRAQ AFTER WAR
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThe White House yesterday said U.S. troops would be used help keep Iraq from falling apart if Saddam Hussein is ousted - but downplayed talk of a long U.S. military...
NOBEL KNOCKS U.S.: AWARDS BIG: PEACE PRIZE FOR JIMMY A SLAP AT BUSH
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThe award of the Nobel Peace Prize to ex-President Jimmy Carter sparked a major flap yesterday when the committee chairman said the choice was a direct slap in the face...
DON: WARD'S OUR STARTER AT THE POINT RIGHT NOW
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThat training-camp point-guard derby was a short race. Don Chaney said Charlie Ward has earned the starting job, beating out Howard Eisley. "Charlie's the better defender of the two," Chaney...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amMANHATTAN Cops are searching for a gun-toting thief who robbed the same East Village store twice. In the first incident, the suspect, in his 30s, entered Village Billaze at 124...
MEX IDOL'S KIN FREED KIDNAPPERS RELEASE ONE OF POP STAR'S TWO SISTERS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amAfter 19 days, kidnappers have released Sony Music chief Tommy Mottola's sister-in-law Laura Zapata, authorities said yesterday. The sister of Mexico pop princess Thalia Sodi - Mottola's wife - is...
AUSTERITY VISE PUTS $QUEEZE ON STAFFS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amTHE city's fiscal crisis has hit home with a vengeance for staffers in the Manhattan borough president's office - they've been put on four-day workweeks at reduced salaries. "That was...
HI-TECH HANG-UP FOR BRAVEST
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amFirefighters looking for rescue from their emotions will have to ring someone else - the phone lines to one of their crisis centers have been cut. The Project Liberty-affiliated center...
HIS EVIL NEW 'EXIT' STRATEGY: STRIKING CLOSE BY HIGHWAYS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThe last four attacks by the Beltway Sniper were carried out near major highways and allowed easy access to the target zone - a marked change from the seven previous...
MAD KILLER SLIPS DRAGNET 8TH DEATH TAKES PLACE RIGHT UNDER COPS' NOSES
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThe psycho sniper vanished into thin air yesterday, slipping through a massive police dragnet set up minutes after he snuffed out his eighth human life in 10 days with a...
TABLE CHAT TURNS TO TERROR AS SHOT RINGS OUTSIDE DINER
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amOn Thursday, Richard Robinson and the other Waffle House morning regulars were shooting the breeze at breakfast - talking mostly about where they thought the Beltway sniper would strike next....
W.'S GOP TOUR SIDESTEPS GOV
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amPresident Bush plans a jam-packed final push to boost Republicans for the Nov. 5 election - but so far there's no stop set in New York for Gov. Pataki. State...
MAD KILLER SLIPS THROUGH: ELUDES COP MANHUNT AFTER EIGHTH FATAL ATTACK
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThe psycho sniper vanished into thin air yesterday - slipping through a massive police dragnet set up minutes after he snuffed out his eighth human life in 10 days with...
PSYCHO SNIPER
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThe psychological toll the sniper has taken on residents is enormous - so is the cost of trying to catch him. in Montgomery County, Md. - where the first five...
GIANTS COMING UP BIG WELL-ROUNDED TEAM SURROUNDS BONDS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Look closely at the Giants and you see everything that the Yankees used to be and hope to be again in the near future. The most inspiring...
HALOS TAKE CHARGE GLAUS HOME RUN POWERS ANGELS TO 2-1 SERIES LEAD
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amGAME 3Angels 2Twins 1 ANAHEIM - The Angels are two games away from their first-ever World Series because of the muscles of Garret Anderson and Troy Glaus and the arms...
GARDENHIRE FEELS PROUD DESPITE 'L'
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - His team had dropped into a hole in the ALCS and yet all Ron Gardenhire could do was marvel at the 2-1 loss the Twins suffered last night...
MOUNT HAS SECOND THOUGHTS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amH.S. FOOTBALL It seems like everyone is playing for second place this year in the CHSFL, with St. Anthony's running roughshod over everything in its path. But a pair of...
THE MAGIC'S BACK AT SOUTH BEND
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amSOUTH BEND - How do you beat mystique? The question has been asked by countless teams that have come into Notre Dame Stadium to face the Fighting Irish and left...
ISLES LOOK TO AVOID HOME GROAN
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amCan the Islanders get that mulligan now? Just a game into the season and the Isles could use a do-over after an embarrassing 5-1 loss in Buffalo. Tonight they tee...
SUBS GET CHANCE TO SHINE
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amConsider tomorrow a day for the backups. The Giants will be without four starters for their game against the Falcons, putting many less-experienced players on the field and severely tapping...
TEAM CONCEPT ELUDING JETS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amHerm Edwards knew his Jets had a lot of talent this season. What he didn't know is if they would play well together. "I believe chemistry is important to a...
BAKER SHEDS LIGHT ON ROTATION
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - While Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has been spending much too much time talking about the antics of Kenny Lofton, the Giants have quietly rearranged their rotation....
BROWN PLUGS NICKEL FOR JINTS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThose who were able to watch the entire game called up Ralph Brown afterwards and told him, "You had a real good game." But those only able to view highlights...
JOE'S LIONS ROARIN' TO GO
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amANN ARBOR - First Penn State dispelled the myth that its offense is as vanilla as its uniforms. Then the Nittany Lions defied whispers that 75-year-old coach Joe Paterno had...
'HEALTHY' MAC TWEAKS NUGGETS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amAntonio McDyess has a right to gloat. Marcus Camby, who underwent hip surgery Thursday night, won't be back until January. Meanwhile, the outcry about McDyess' knees on Draft Night has...
LAWRENCE 'CAP MAY BECOME SLOPPY AFFAIR
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amToday's 109th running of the Grade 3, $150,000 Lawrence Realization Handicap, whose past winners include such legends as Man o'War, Gallant Fox, Whirlaway and Kelso, is scheduled to be run...
LOU COULD BE FREE FOR METS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amLou Piniella will be involved in an emergency meeting with Mariners executives this weekend in Tampa that could allow him to escape from his contract and become the next manager...
METS COULD USE LIVAN
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Had the Mets been willing to substitute Jeff D'Amico for Shawn Estes, which really was a trade decision about money not talent, they very possibly could have...
LOU COULD BE FREE FOR METS MEETS WITH M'S THIS WEEKEND IN EFFORT TO GET OUT OF CONTRACT
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amLou Piniella will be involved in an emergency meeting with Mariners executives this weekend in Tampa that could allow him to escape from his contract and become the next manager...
DEVS STILL TRYING TO UNLOAD ZYUZIN
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amAs they return triumphant to their home opener tonight, the Devils still face a dilemma of their own making. They don't use Andrei Zyuzin as a regular, so they are...
METS BREW UP SECOND RANDOLPH INTERVIEW
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThe Mets are planning for every contingency, and a source said they want to line up a second interview with Yankee third base coach Willie Randolph if they can't get...
STOTTLEMYRE SEEMS SET TO RETURN
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - When George Steinbrenner gathers his inner circle early next week in Tampa, it appears finding a new pitching coach won't be necessary. Even though Mel Stottlemyre hasn't announced...
GARDEN-VARIETY LOSS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amCanadiens 4Rangers 1 It could have been any night in the last five years, any game in the last five seasons in which the Rangers not only have failed to...
ROGERS' JOLLY FOURTH BOOSTS NETS AGAIN
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amThe turnover-plagued slop was "unacceptable" to Byron Scott. The Nets treated the basketball the way Bill Gates treats pennies, with complete disregard A 19-point lead was a distant memory, frittered...
FEELING SAFE AT HOME: ANGELS ANGLING TO MAKE ANAHEIM EDGE WORK OUT
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - It may be premature, but the Left Coast is smashed on talk of an Angels-Giants World Series. It didn't matter the Angels entered last night's ALCS Game 3...
MEL APPEARS SET TO RETURN
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amBASEBALL NOTES ANAHEIM - When George Steinbrenner gathers his inner circle early next week in Tampa, it appears finding a new pitching coach won't be necessary. Even though Mel Stottlemyre...
CURTAIN RISES ON B'WAY: HOLIK & TROTS GEARED FOR GARDEN DEBUTS
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amBobby Holik spent the last 10 seasons playing for a team that pretty much always wanted to dial it down, so it's no wonder that he espoused a philosophy of...
STEPHON: NETS GOT BETTER OF DEAL ... FOR NOW
October 12, 2002 | 4:00amYes, Stephon Marbury concurred with no hesitation, the Nets got the better of the trade with the Suns. For now. Marbury, more than a year removed from the Nets who...