October 19, 2002
ONE FOR THE BOOKS - WEEK'S GAINS LEAVE INVESTORS HOPING FOR MORE
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amWhat a week! U.S. stocks stormed ahead to their second consecutive week of gains - that hasn't happened since August - and more investors than ever are convinced the bull...
DOWNGRADE IS DISNEY'S 3RD
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amDisney has been slapped with its third credit downgrade this autumn, increasing pressure to sell assets such as its World Series contender, the Angels. Moody's yesterday added the third credit...
SEC BOSS GAVE AOL HELP 3 TIMES
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amHarvey Pitt, whose Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating accounting at AOL Time Warner, worked on at least three matters for AOL Time Warner and did personal work for AOL...
POST COLUMNIST REPORTS HIS PHONE RECORDS STOLEN
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amPost columnist Chris Byron, probing a takeover bid of a penny-stock firm peddling anti-terrorist products, said his phone records on the story were stolen. The money-losing company, Imagis Technologies, is...
WORLD BEATERS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amPULSE: A STOMP ODYSSEY 1/2 Pure joy.Running time: 40 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At the Museum of Natural History's LeFrak Theater, 79th Street at Central Park West. THE unifying...
FREE FOR ALL
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amCover to cover Those who haven't been to a wedding or bar mitzvah lately and are really jonesing for a cover-band fix should ferry their way to Staten Island, which...
GAR-LICK YOUR CHOPS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amVampires might not care for it, but they're in the minority when it comes to garlic. Since ancient times, this member of the lily family has been credited with boosting...
BRAGG-ING RITES : BRIT FOLK ICON BILLY BRAGG DEBUTS NEW 9/11 SONGS IN NEW YORK
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amBilly Bragg, the outspoken leftie singer/songwriter from London, isn't usually at a loss for words. For more than 20 years now, the folk-punk rocker has been pumping out political messages,...
WHEN EMILY MET ADAM
October 19, 2002 | 4:00am"Punch-Drunk Love," which expanded nationwide yesterday, is not your typical Adam Sandler film. No poo jokes. No silly songs. In fact, if you're looking for cheap laughs this weekend, go...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amDinner Party Cheat Sheet regrets starring in anything with Madonna - except that dream at age thirteen. FLOP STAR Madonna stinker "Swept Away," directed by hubby Guy Ritchie, brought in...
PLAYS BY TEENS, FOR TEENS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amFive young writers are getting their first taste of fame at this year's Young Playwrights Festival running this week in Greenwich Village. The festival, founded by Stephen Sondheim 21 years...
GOOD AND PLENTY! IT'S OPEN SEASON FOR THEATER FOR ALL AGES - ON SEVERAL STAGES
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amKids' theater isn't child's play anymore. Never before has there been so much live (and lively) action for so many different age groups. And tickets won't cost you a fortune,...
HIP, HIP, BOO-RAY: HALLOWEEN GEAR
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amOn Oct. 31, expect Ozzy Osbourne and Frodo Baggins at the door - along with Spider-Man, Austin Powers and "Star Wars" Princess Amidala. TV and movies have set the tone...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amAn Atlanta radio station is auctioning off a half-eaten turkey sandwich belonging to Mariah Carey. DJ Jeff Dauler from Q-100 has placed the sandwich - complete with salad, pickle and...
FIERY E-MAIL BITES CIG FOE IN THE ASH
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amANTI-SMOKING crusader Joe Cherner has been hammering City Council Speaker Gifford Miller for refusing to embrace the mayor's proposed law that would ban smoking in bars and other public spaces....
NAVAL PRESENCE GROWS IN GULF
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe Pentagon is pressing ahead with a quiet military buildup in striking distance of Iraq as a third aircraft carrier - the USS Constellation, bristling with 72 warplanes - is...
GOTTI GANG DENIES 'ARYAN' ALLIANCE
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Lawyers for late mob boss John Gotti sprang to his defense yesterday, blasting federal prosecutors who have linked the Dapper Don to "white power" prison gangs. A...
BUY-AND-BUST TURNS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amManhattan narcotics cops shot and killed one man last night and injured two others, police said. Cops got into a confrontation with the men around 10 p.m. in the rear...
AL QAEDA OR AMERICAN, SNIPER'S A TERRORIST
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amTHE award for dumb quote of the week goes to Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. The man charged with protecting Americans from madmen and zealots had this insightful contribution to...
BRING IN OUR FINEST: BELTWAY BUNGLERS' SCATTERSHOT HUNT NEEDS HELP
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON. WANTED: a few good men - from the New York City Police Department. Look, investigators down here are good, decent, hard-working law enforcers. But they have to get their...
CITY COULD BE 'AIR' TO MILLION$
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe streets of New York may not be paved with gold, but city officials are now trying to determine if they can pluck hundreds of millions of dollars out of...
'STALKER' TALKER SPOOKS CALISTA
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A freaked-out Calista Flockhart called cops when she heard a voice calling her from the bushes outside the home of boyfriend Harrison Ford - but police said...
D.A. VOWS JAIL FOR 'KID-SEX' TEACHER
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amA two-timing Bronx teacher has 30 more days to decide whether he'll fight allegations he had sex with his girlfriend's underage daughter or cop a plea - either way, the...
SLASHED PRIEST: I'M COMING BACK
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe Upper West Side priest slashed and mugged on the doorsteps of his parish home is eagerly awaiting his return to the pulpit tomorrow morning, his boss, Edward Cardinal Egan,...
HOW MOM'S ANGUISH TURNED TO JOY
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amA New York mom who traveled to China to rescue her young son from the father who snatched him away is on her way home with the boy. "It's been...
'OLD' NEWS IS GOOD NEWS FOR LAUTENBERG IN N.J. POLL
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A new poll says New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg won't be hurt by his age - he'll be 79 in January - but could take a hit over...
KARAOKE KILLER KO'D :GUILTY VERDICT IN NIGHTCLUB GUN RAMPAGE
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe price of a night out at one Manhattan nightclub was murder, a jury has found. The jury took just one day to find Youngmin Kwak, 27, guilty of shooting...
FOUL SEX PLAY: EX-STAR PUCKETT BUSTED IN GROPE
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amBaseball Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett was charged yesterday with dragging a woman into a steakhouse bathroom and groping her - an attack she said could have turned to rape...
FATAL GUNPLAY AT 'J.LO' CLUB IN L.A.
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - One man was shot to death and hundreds of clubgoers poured into the streets after gunfire erupted at a popular Latin music hot spot, police said yesterday....
TERRORIST TAUNTS BALI KIN: CONVERT!
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe radical cleric suspected of masterminding the horrific Bali blast has a cruel message for relatives who lost loved ones - convert to Islam. Abu Bakar Bashir, the leader of...
READY TO RUMBLE: BRAWLING KIDS INJURE HIGH SCHOOL GUARDS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amTwo school safety officers were injured when gang warfare erupted among some 20 students in the lobby of Brandeis HS on West 84th Street yesterday morning. The protagonists of this...
S.C. DEM BALKS AT GIULIANI'S GOP PITCH
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amFormer Mayor Rudy Giuliani's TV ad for South Carolina wannabe senator Lindsey Graham is drawing fire from his rival, who's insinuating it capitalizes on the Sept. 11 tragedy. "You don't...
MIKE: CITY SLAY RATE WILL HIT NEW LOW
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg went out on a limb yesterday and predicted that the city would end the year with the lowest number of murders in recent history. "We're going to have...
RUDY THROWS GOV $OIREE: BRINGING IN BIG $$ FOR FAST FRIEND
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amFormer Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Judith Nathan are hosting a $300,000 fund-raiser next week for Gov. Pataki in their new apartment, a Pataki spokesman said yesterday. "The governor and Libby...
BLAST SURVIVORS WED AMID DEFIANCE
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amTwo survivors of the deadly Bali blast defied the terrorists who carried out the attack and tied the knot yesterday. Sarah-Jane Brightmore carried a big bouquet of flowers to hide...
DEAL CLOSE IN LOUIMA FEES SUIT
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amO.J.'s "Dream Team" is ready to settle a dispute with another team of lawyers over legal fees from the whopping $8.75 million Abner Louima civil suit. Lawyers on both sides...
SLAIN COP HONORED IN HARLEM
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amAbout 300 cops, family members, and Harlem neighbors met yesterday to honor the memory of a NYPD cop murdered in the line of duty 14 years ago yesterday. The intersection...
BLOODY FIGHT IN TIMES SQ.
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThree men were beaten and stabbed early yesterday after a dispute inside a Times Square fast food restaurant spilled onto the street, police said. A 22-year-old man was hospitalized with...
REPORT CARDS FAIL TEST WITH PEEVED PARENTS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amDear Chancellor Joel Klein: Scrap the new report cards - they're horrendous. That's the message from many parents and teachers who are giving the city Department of Education's unwieldy 10-page...
BUSH PLAN: PALESTINIAN STATE BY '05
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amPresident Bush has presented Israel with a three-stage plan that outlines steps for the creation of a Palestinian state by 2005, The Post has learned. The blueprint for peace, which...
SNIPER SICKO: LIE WITNESS IS CHARGE BY COPS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe man exposed as a liar for telling investigators he had seen the Beltway Sniper kill his latest victim was arrested yesterday. Matthew Dowdy, 38, of Falls Church, Va., was...
HOMELESS-SHOOING PLAN SET
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amTwo police units assigned to deal with the homeless are being merged today in a new initiative to move homeless people away from commercial and residential areas, The Post has...
DEAD MAN'S KIN SLAM BRONX DA
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe family of the South Bronx man who died after being punched in a liquor-store fracas is outraged at The Bronx DA's office for not charging the man's assailant with...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A man was almost killed after losing control of his motorcycle in Washington Heights, police said yesterday. The accident occurred around 3:15 p.m. Thursday on the Henry Hudson...
$7M TO NAIL A TRAITOR
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The FBI paid $7 million to a former Russian KGB official for the information that led to the arrest of FBI spy Robert Hanssen, a new book says....
COUNCIL HAS AN IDEA TO MAKE BIG APPLE 'AIR' TO MILLIONS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe streets of New York may not be paved with gold, but city officials are now trying to determine if they can pluck hundreds of millions of dollars out of...
FOUL SEX PLAY : EX-STAR PUCKETT BUSTED IN GROPE
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amBaseball Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett was charged yesterday with dragging a woman into a steakhouse bathroom and groping her - an attack she said could have turned to rape...
U.N. SHOOTER 'NOT VIOLENT'
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe son of a South Korean immigrant accused of shooting up the United Nations said yesterday his dad "wouldn't hurt an insect." Steven Kim Jr. also says his dad didn't...
STALKER SCARE FOR CALISTA
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A freaked-out Calista Flockhart called cops when she heard a voice calling her from the bushes outside the home of boyfriend Harrison Ford - but police said...
MISSING MAN FOUND SLAIN
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe bullet-riddled body of a man reported missing two days ago was found slumped in the back seat of his girlfriend's car yesterday on a Queens street, police said. A...
METS, RAYS RACE FOR LOU
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThough Tampa Bay received permission yesterday to negotiate with Lou Piniella, the Mets remained staunch in the belief they would land their top choice to replace Bobby Valentine. In fact,...
TROTS BREAKS UP DEFENSIVE PAIRS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe theory was sound enough. Darius Kasparaitis and Vladimir Malakhov, who pretty much speak the same language both on and off the ice, would combine to form an abrasive defensive...
ISLES HAVE LOTS TO FIX
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTA - The dateline and the opponent for tonight's game is of little importance. So when the Islanders take the ice against the Thrashers here this evening, the other team...
TIME TO START OVER PENNINGTON MUST GET A WIN
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amChad Pennington's first start marked progress, both for the struggling Jets and for his future as an NFL starter. Tomorrow against the 1-4 Vikings at Giants Stadium in his second...
CLARETT MAY BE READY FOR WORLD
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amMADISON, Wisc. - The story could not have run at a worse time for Ohio State or a better time for the run amok conglomerate known as Walt Disney. Smack...
TWO TEAMS JOCKEY FOR TOP HONORS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amH.S. FOOTBALL Vinny Laino isn't worried about his team being ready for its game against Sheepshead Bay. "They are the defending champions," said Laino, whose Fort Hamilton squad hosts the...
ON NETS, ARMSTRONG LOOKS OUT FOR NO. 1
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amOn Chris Childs' page in the Nets' preseason media guide, the space for uniform number contains no digit; rather, it says "TBD" for "to be determined." Childs always has worn...
FOR STARTERS, A HERO VICKI SCHMIDT FIGHTS CANCER TO SEE SON JASON PITCH
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Vicki Schmidt was to make a plane trip yesterday she said would have been impossible six months ago because, "I didn't have the strength to fly." It wasn't...
BRAVES FACING MASS EXODUS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - There may be positive offseason news for the Mets yet. If something good doesn't happen for them, maybe something bad finally will befall the Braves. Atlanta made a...
JULIE CAN'T STAY AWAY FAMER WILL RIDE AGAIN
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amJulie Krone, the greatest female jockey of all time, told The Post she is coming out of retirement. "I tried to stay away but they pulled me back in," Krone...
STILL FAITH IN 'COLONY'
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amEven though Summer Colony, one of the top contenders for next Saturday's Breeders' Cup Distaff, finished a well-beaten third as the heavy favorite in her last start, the Oct. 5...
STOTT TELLS YANKS HE'S COMING BACK
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Other factors figured into Mel Stottlemyre's decision to return for an eighth year as the Yankees' pitching coach, but the way his pitchers were punished by the Angels...
MARINERS CALL PINIELLA'S BLUFF
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The Mariners emerged as the most powerful hand at the bargaining table yesterday, calling out both Lou Piniella and the Mets to determine if they are dealing with...
BARRY: DUSTY SHOULD REMAIN IN CHARGE OF GIANT 'DYNASTY'
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Barry Bonds made it clear last night that Dusty Baker must return as manager of the Giants. If not, Bonds said, "I would be disappointed just due to...
GOLDEN STATE, BONDS IN SPOTLIGHT THIS YEAR
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The first World Series without the Yankees in five years opens tonight about as far from The Bronx as you can get. Instead of The Bombers being featured,...
SPREE'S TEAMMATES EXTEND THEIR HANDS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - While the Knicks were here finishing up their three-game preseason Western trip last night with an 85-82 win over the Spurs, Latrell Sprewell finally showed up at...
ATONING ELIAS KEEPS DEVILS PERFECT
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amOVERTIMEDevils 3Predators 2 The illegal stick cut both ways. The humiliation of blowing a regulation victory by being caught curve-cheating put steely determination into Patrik Elias. Despite wearing goat horns,...
AT LONG LAST, BARRY GETS SHOT AT THE BRASS RING
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - This is Barry Bonds' World Series. Bonds often acts like he's just a cog in the Giants' machine, but this series belongs to him. Deep in his heart...
KNICKS SWEEP THROUGH WEST
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Not even another sprained ankle from Allan Houston could dim the giddiness from last night's 85-82 victory over the Spurs that gave the Knicks a three-game preseason...
CENTER STAGE BELONGS TO BONDS AT LONG LAST
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - This is Barry Bonds' World Series. Bonds may act like he's just another cog in the pennant winning of the Giants, but this series belongs to him. And...
GOLDEN STATE GRABS SPOTLIGHT FROM YANKS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The first World Series without the Yankees in five years opens tonight about as far from The Bronx as you can get. Instead of the Bombers being featured,...
RINGS FOR THEIR WINGS: DOMINANT BULLPEN WILL TAKE ANGELS TO BASEBALL HEAVEN
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Get ready for an ocean of cheap hits and productive outs by the Angels, Barry Bonds being fed pitches inches off the plate, the continuing rise of Angels...
METS CAN'T PIN LOU DOWN
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amIf the Mets thought they had the upper hand in the Lou Piniella pursuit, most - if not all - of their leverage vanished yesterday afternoon when Seattle and Tampa...
METS, RAYS RACE FOR LOU : AMAZIN'S CLOSE TO COMPENSATION
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe Devil Rays took a lead on the Mets yesterday, but the Lou Piniella Derby is far from over. In fact, Mets officials feel that by as early as today...
CHECKETTS STILL A SPREE FAN
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES SAN ANTONIO - When owner James Dolan fired Dave Checketts as Garden president after the 2000-2001 season, Latrell Sprewell knew he had lost a trusted ally. Sprewell had...
CAPT. HOUSTON TAKES CHARGE FOR KNICKS
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Maybe it started in July when Allan Houston showed up and participated in two practices with the Knicks' summer-league team while Latrell Sprewell was spending the summer...
BURNS SHAKES UP DEVS' PERFECTION
October 19, 2002 | 4:00amHere's one way Pat Burns differs from so many of his peers. Riding a perfect 2-0 start as the Devils' coach, Burns decided to throw his lines into a blender,...