December 7, 2002
NO MORE AMATEURS! ARCHER LEADS LIST OF POSSIBLE O'NEILL SUCCESSORS
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amBill Archer, the Texas Republican who is former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is emerging as a front-runner to replace Paul O'Neill as Treasury Secretary. Archer, a...
ECHOSTAR DISHES ON CABLEVISION
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amIn the latest salvo of the satellite-TV war, Dish Network launched a new raid on disgruntled Cablevision customers. Some Cablevision viewers are still fuming over last season's blackout of the...
LINDSEY, O'NEILL FOUGHT LIKE CATS AND DOGS
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amLarry Lindsey thinks Paul O'Neill's a jerk - and thought he would get the Treasury job once O'Neill got the boot, sources told The Post. The two have been at...
YEAR OF THE KAT: POST CONTEST WINNER COULD BECOME SUPERMODEL OF THE WORLD - TONIGHT!
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amTHIS time last year, Katherine Fonseca was an average Manhattan teenager who loved going to school and hanging out with friends. But since winning a six-month modeling contract in a...
GET YOUR ROCKS OFF
December 7, 2002 | 5:00am'Tis the season to drink colorful drinks! And the W Times Square, the Bar Belles have learned, serves up a holiday tipple that's as pretty as it is potent. The...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amDinner Party Cheat Sheet knows that Michael Jackson was never bitten by a spider at his Neverland Ranch. The only thing that bites in his life is his career. SOCK...
JINGLE HELL: SPEND A CRAZED CHRISTMAS WITH ODDBALL AUTEUR ALEX DE LA IGLESIA
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amYou say you've had your fill of smaltzy holiday movies like "It's a Wonderful Life" and you're looking for something with bite this season? Then check out "Day of the...
FREE FOR ALL
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amGarden party Pretend it's Victorian times and go caroling at the New York Botanical Garden's Christmas Sing-along tomorrow when they light their 25-foot evergreen. If you've ever wondered how to...
SEIZE THE SEASON! HOLIDAY CHEER IS EVERYWHERE - AND IT'S CHEAPER THAN YOU THINK
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amIt's the most wonderful time of the year - filled with music, glitter and light, and the promise of presents to come. Little wonder why the Hanukkah-Christmas season is also...
LOOK WHO'S KISSING J. LO
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amMove over, Ben Affleck: Tyler Garcia Posey is the coolest kid on Jenny's block. Never mind that Tyler - who's 11 - has an earring and can do a kick...
HAVE A HEARTH
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amSo you don't have a fireplace. You can dream, can't you? Better yet, stop by Savoy restaurant today for a lesson in hearth cooking. Chef-owner Peter Hoffman - a sustainable...
SILVERSTEIN WTC BOND PLAN ON HOLD
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amCity officials have delayed a decision on World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein's bid for $400 million in taxpayer-subsidized bonds - saying they want to make sure he really needs...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amIt takes one to sue one! A Montana man named Jack Ass is suing Viacom - the parent corporation of the "Jackass" movie and TV properties - for plagiarism and...
BEHIND THE BOMBSHELL: A 'VENDETTA' AGAINST FAIRSTEIN
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amBCK in 1992, fresh from putting away five teens in the attack on the Central Park jogger, star prosecutor Linda Fairstein zoomed to the short list to be Bill Clinton's...
SPITZER'S A SEWER SUER
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday sued the city of Yonkers over what he says are repeated discharges of raw sewage into the Bronx River. The lawsuit, filed...
BLIX SHOCKER ON IRAQ PAPERS : INSISTS HE'LL KEEP LIST OF ARMS FROM U.S. PROBERS
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In a surprise announcement, chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said yesterday he won't quickly hand over Iraq's list of its weapons to the United States and other Security...
KID-HOOKER HELL : COUNCIL HEARS TALES OF CITY'S LITTLEST SEX SLAVES
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amShe was only 15 when she hit the streets of The Bronx to sell her body rather than accept welfare. The 19-year-old woman identified only as "Miss X" sat before...
MIKE: WE MAY NEVER KNOW WHOLE STORY
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday we may "never know" what actually happened in Central Park on April 19, 1989, while his top cop said he hopes the NYPD can learn from...
TEAM BUSH NEEDS ECONOMIC RELIEF PITCHERS
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush ordered his economic team to walk the plank yesterday because he knows he has to fix the shaky economy before the 2004 election. And frankly, they...
GIVE TERRIER-TOSSER LONG STRETCH IN THE DOGHOUSE
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE'S no way I will be in court on Dec. 19 when John Jefferson is sentenced for heartlessly tossing Ribsy the dog out a 23rd-floor window in a rampage against...
S&M FIEND GUILTY : CYBER-LURE RAPIST FACING 375 YEARS
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amA Long Island jury convicted James Warren on all but two of the 65 charges against him in the brutal S&M kidnapping and rape of a 15-year-old girl he met...
TIMES TO TAKE A MULLIGAN
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amAfter a flood of criticism for spiking two sports columns about women in golf, The New York Times said yesterday it was considering printing the pieces over the weekend. While...
POWER PUFF BARGAINING : DEAL NEAR ON MIKE'S SMOKE BAN
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg and the City Council have stepped up negotiations on the mayor's tough anti-smoking bill - with one source saying there's a "excellent chance" a deal will be reached...
PREZ CASHES OUT $$ MEN : MARKETS UP AS O'NEILL, LINDSEY SENT PACKING
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amPresident Bush yesterday shook up his economic team, booting Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and economic adviser Larry Lindsey in new hopes of energizing the economy. Bush ordered the resignations of...
LENNOX WINS $1M BOUT WITH LAWYER
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amHeavyweight boxing champ Lennox Lewis yesterday scored a unanimous decision - and $1.175 million - from a jury that found Lewis' lawyer shouldn't have represented a promoter who cheated him....
'ANTI-TERROR' RAID AT MASS.-BASED SOFTWARE FIRM
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amFederal agents yesterday raided a high-tech software firm and searched its offices and computer files for links to a Saudi businessman with suspected ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda...
CROOKED ASSESSOR SOCKED WITH $160M FINE
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amA former city tax assessor yesterday was sentenced to prison for one year and one day - and ordered to pay $160 million in restitution - for taking more than...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amMANHATTAN Police are offering a $10,000 reward in connection with the beating of an off-duty city cop in Jersey City last month. Hung Nguyen, 35, assigned to the 7th Precinct,...
BLAZE RIPS THROUGH CON ED PLANT
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amFirefighters shut down a Manhattan Con Ed steam-producing plant on the East River after an electrical fire broke out on the 10th floor of the Upper East Side facility, officials...
SCHOOL MENINGITIS SCARE
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amA first-grade student at a Brooklyn elementary school has contracted meningitis - although health officials said the strain of the infection is noncontagious. But parents at PS 52 in Sheepshead...
TWU FIGHTS FOR RIGHT TO 'TALK' STRIKE
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe Transport Workers Union went to court yesterday to demand the right to discuss staging a bus and subway strike - a prospect Mayor Bloomberg called "really scary." The TWU...
WINONA AN RX WRECK :COURT PAPERS BARE PILL ADDICTION OF SHOPLIFTING FELON
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Sticky-fingered Oscar nominee Winona Ryder has been using and abusing hard-core prescription drugs for years, says a bombshell probation report released yesterday. A Los Angeles County...
TODDLER'S 9-HR. VAN NIGHTMARE
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amA "dollar van" driver was charged with child endangerment yesterday after allegedly failing to drop off a 4-year-old Brooklyn boy at school - and then taking him on a harrowing,...
COLOMBIA TERRORISTS PLOTTED RUDY KIDNAP
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amA Colombian terrorist group was plotting to kidnap former Mayor Giuliani around the time he was planning to travel to Mexico City last month, law enforcement sources said yesterday. The...
BUSH CAN'T LET THIS HANS OFF POLICY STAND
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON. CHIEF U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix threw President Bush a curveball yesterday by declaring that Iraq's weapons declaration is too sensitive to turn over to America right now -...
RAPE FIEND COULDN'T ID SPOT JOGGER WAS FOUND
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amInvestigators who probed the Central Park jogger case are scoffing at the Manhattan DA's report that Matias Reyes - a serial rapist, murderer, mugger and self-described "monster" - is now...
MENINGITIS CASE SPOOKS PARENTS
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amA first-grade student at a Brooklyn elementary school has contracted meningitis - though health officials said the strain of the infection is noncontagious. But parents at PS 52 in Sheepshead...
PREDATOR OF THE PARK: '89 JOGGER DETECTIVES RIP DA FOR BUYING 'LIE'
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amInvestigators who probed the Central Park jogger case are scoffing at a prosecutor's contention that Matias Reyes - a serial rapist, murderer, mugger and self-described "monster" - is now an...
PROSECUTOR RIPS HER 'KID' BID FOR SYMPATHY
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Winona Ryder's shoplifting trial exploded into an ugly confrontation yesterday when a prosecutor accused the sticky-fingered actress of trotting out "the body of a dead child"...
WINONA AN RX WRECK : COURT PAPERS BARE HER PILL ADDICTION
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Sticky-fingered actress Winona Ryder has been using and abusing hard-core prescription drugs for years, says a bombshell probation report released yesterday. A Los Angeles County judge...
HANS OFF: PROBER TO KEEP REPORT FROM U.S.
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The White House yesterday seemed blindsided when chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said out of the blue that he won't turn over Iraq's weapons declaration to America...
GOP TAX RAGE SPURS UN-CONVENTION-AL THINKING
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amREPUBLICANS intent on blocking the city from winning the 2004 GOP presidential convention are pointing to Mayor Bloomberg's 18.5 percent property-tax increase as a reason not to come here. "They're...
BOND, LAME BOND: N.Y.'S RATING FALLS
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY -In a sign of the state's financial troubles, Moody's Investors Service yesterday lowered its bond-rating outlook for the state to "stable" from "positive." "It is clear now that the...
BEANTOWN BUMMER : CELTICS HUMBLE LIFELESS KNICKS
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amCeltics 91Knicks 80 BOSTON - Antoine Walker barreled to the hole with 8:35 left in the Celtics' blowout, made a layup, tumbled to the floor and performed a wiggle dance...
PAVEL COULD MISS SEASON
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amSABRES 4, RANGERS 1 As if to confirm the Rangers' 8-4-2-1 surge seemed too good to be true, a Garden filled with jaundiced eyes watched Pavel Bure limp to the...
'STATE CHALLENGE' FILLS IN RACING GAP
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amIs there life after the Breeders' Cup? Except for New York's Thanksgiving HolidayFest and a few stakes in California, not really. Horse racing, as a major-league sport, pretty much folds...
JARVIS SUB CLARK: IT'S NOT ABOUT ME
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amKevin Clark doesn't want today's game at the Garden against Fordham to be about him. And after taking St. John's through a two-hour practice yesterday morning, the Red Storm assistant...
FORDHAM COACH PLOTS HAPPY HOMECOMING
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amToday will be the welcome-back party for Fordham football coach Dave Clawson. He just hopes the dip won't turn. Five years removed as offensive coordinator of Villanova, Clawson has steered...
ISLES FIGHT FOR JUSTICE : NHL SHOULDN'T SQUASH REVENGE
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amTHE NHL goes to sleep every night wishing it would wake up as the NFL, wishing it could earn billions on a television contract, wishing it could operate under a...
ARMY-NAVY MORE THAN JUST GAME
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amThere could be no more fitting day for the annual Army-Navy classic than today, the 61st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. And though the play in this series...
YANKS ON DEADLINE : ARBITRATION OFFERS DUE ON ROGER, FIVE OTHERS
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amHas Roger Clemens fired his last fastball as a Yankee, seven wins shy of 300 victories? Was the pitch Adam Kennedy hit for a single in the sixth inning of...
FONZ NIXES MET OFFER - AND CLOCK'S TICKING
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe Mets got Tom Glavine but they don't have Edgardo Alfonzo. They made a multi-year offer to Alfonzo yesterday that was rejected by the third baseman. The club has until...
NETS' DEFENSE MUST RETURN TO OLD SYSTEM
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amReturn with the Nets to those thrilling days of yesteryear - like eight months ago - when everyone defended to the death and there was no luxury of a shot-blocking...
COLISEUM BRACED FOR HARD-HITTING REMATCH
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe atmosphere at the Coliseum last night was expected to be like that of a street fight for Islanders-Maple Leafs: "The Rematch." Security yesterday surrounding the Leafs was tight, and...
'CANES PLAYING FOR FIESTA BID
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amMIAMI - Miami coach Larry Coker has been around long enough to know that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. History has come calling...
JEREMY'S STAR IS ON THE RISE
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amJeremy Shockey did not know how many receptions he had. When asked, he quickly admitted he had no clue, then turned the tables on his questioner. "Do you?" he asked....
MOSS PLANS TO PLAY AGAINST BRONCS
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amSantana Moss usually moves around faster than a high-speed modem. He zaps from one spot on the field to another as if directed by the tap of a mouse. Yesterday,...
DIXON HAS FLAIR FOR THE UNUSUAL
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amOnce Ron Dixon establishes himself as a starting receiver for the Giants, watch out. He's liable to do, well, almost anything. "I think sometimes people think football is supposed to...
OLD-TIMERS' NIGHT : KNICKS FACE AIR . . . AND COACH EW
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amBOSTON - Latrell Sprewell admits to being surprised that Michael Jordan is back in the starting lineup for the Wizards, who, the Knicks face tonight. Sprewell figured the only reason...
KLECKO, GASTINEAU STILL NOT PALS
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amAs the Sack Exchange sat along a dais, the tension at the ends - from Joe Klecko to Mark Gastineau - could be felt. It's been more than 20 years...
STANTON LEFT OUT : REJECTS YANKS' OFFER, WILL TEST OPEN MARKET
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amWhen the Yankees gave Mike Stanton 15 minutes to accept a two-year, $5 million deal yesterday they put the veteran lefty reliever in a very tough spot. And ended his...
DEAD-EYE FAN A HOTSHOT
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amBOSTON - Keith Bishop provided the Garden with its most clutch shot this season and sparked its loudest roar Nov. 16 when he banked in the million-dollar halfcourt bomb. Considering...
ISLANDERS' TOUGH GUYS PUT UP GOOD FIGHT IN WIN
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amIslanders4 Leafs2 That's that. The most anticipated Islanders game of the year ended not with someone in a Maple Leafs jersey being carried out of the Coliseum last night. No,...
DEVILS HAVE SPRING IN THEIR STEP
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amDevils3 Penguins1 While the 82-game schedule ultimately is a rehearsal for the playoffs, the Devils are making some season of practicing that spring style. Their 3-1 triumph over the Penguins...
LEAFS RUN, CAN'T HIDE : TUCKER COPS OUT AS ISLES HIT BACK
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amOH, the Maple Leafs are tough all right, so tough they'll elbow you in the face when your head is turned, clip you at the knees when there's no earthy...
RANGER ICE TIME CENTERS ON HOLIK
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe return of Bobby Holik gives the Rangers three centers who each need 18 to 22 minutes of ice time a game, plus another who, never mind he is 41...
LATRELL: WE MUST WORK ON END GAME
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES BOSTON - Latrell Sprewell says the Knicks probably need to practice their end-game situations more to avoid further embarrassment. On two final possessions in the past three weeks...
NEXT UP: JORDAN & COACH EW
December 7, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES BOSTON - Latrell Sprewell is surprised that Michael Jordan is back in the starting lineup for the Wizards, who host the Knicks tonight. Sprewell figured Jordan came back...