December 8, 2002
NEW INDEX A TOOL FOR VANGUARD RIP-OFF
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amVANGUARD Investments, the mutual fund company that is most synonymous with index investing, just introduced a new and innovative way to scam its loyal shareholders. Instead of tracking the well-established...
TIMELY TIPS FOR THE OFFICE PARTY
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amAs office party season swings into high gear, best-selling author Susan RoAne has outlined how best to ruin your reputation as you revel in holiday cheer. Grab bags aside, RoAne,...
DR. PLANNER, I PRESUME?
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amAnyone who even attempts to figure out the stock market, especially after the past two years, may feel like they need a healthy dose of reeducation. Well, maybe the financial...
ELIZABETH FRANKLIN THINKS 'VALUE'
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amYou'd expect the headquarters of the Franklin Report, the Bible for New York's top interior designers, painters, contractors and the like, to be decorated in a tasteful super-posh fashion. Well,...
EISNER MOUSETRAPPED: DISNEY BOSS FIGHTS SHAREHOLDERS, WALT'S KIN
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amMichael Eisner is fighting back. After enduring months of criticism from disappointed investors and dissident board members, the longtime Disney chief is making bold moves to maintain his hold on...
WE'RE UNITED IN STAYING HOME
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amNo money. No time. If the nation's airlines think they're in trouble now, a recent spate of statistics shows they may be in even more trouble in the months ahead....
BULL'S EYE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amNEW CRAZE: STATUS SYMBOLS FOR RENT Even in our worst bear market, status symbols die hard. With times getting too tough to maintain all the costly but obligatory appearances, New...
STARR REPORT
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amMacy's marshal plan a real Christmas Carol Supermodel/"Good Day New York" reporter Carol Alt will serve as Grand Marshal of the inaugural Macy's Holiday Parade, which will run for a...
TORMENTED BY GAL PALS ON A MISSION
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amFew things in life beat having great girlfriends. So why are they the ones who make you feel the most insecure? I'd become quite content with my peaceful life with...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: ANSON MOUNT
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amAnson Mount rose to fame as Britney Spears' sexy love interest in "Crossroads," but his latest movie, "Tully," is where his heart is. "It's a film that takes place in...
THE FIRST JOURNEY TO SOLARIS
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amSteven Soderbergh's surprise hit "Solaris" is actually the remake of a Russian sci-fi film based on a Polish novel. If you have never seen the original "Solaris" (1972), by cult...
WHITE CHRISTMAS: THIS WINTER, NEW YORKERS ARE GETTING OVER THE BASIC-BLACK OBSESSION
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amWhite is the new black. Everywhere you look, New Yorkers are walking around in white parkas, white shearlings, white skirts, cream-color cashmere sweaters and furry white boots. "It's a very...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amThe life of Ryan: Troubled troubadour Ryan Adams is at it again - this time dissing "Little Girl Jack White," of the White Stripes in NME.com. Ryan calls White a...
UNFORTUNATE EMISSIONS: BAD WRITING ABOUT SEX - SO PREVALENT THERE'S A PRIZE FOR IT
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amA penis with "a seductive pin-striped foreskin." A man who strokes his lover "like a groom reassuring a frightened foal." An orgasm that's like "a hunchback in the belfry swinging...
I'M ON THE LIST: VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES: NOT JUST FOR LONERS ANYMORE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00am'People are busy watching "Friends" instead of hanging out with their actual friends," gripes 30-year-old New Yorker Scott Heiferman. So he's done something about it. A few months ago, Heiferman...
HBO'S SECRET INGREDIENT: THE HOTTEST CHANNEL ON TV ISN'T AFRAID OF SKIN
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amHBO's success isn't entirely dependent on garnering critical acclaim and Emmy awards for shows such as "The Sopranos" and "Six Feet Under." The other ingredient - the one no one...
TRY FILING FOR MORAL BANKRUPTCY
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amLAST week, the scandal-plagued Boston Archdiocese was given permission to file for bankruptcy. No, not moral bankruptcy - fiscal bankruptcy. The bankruptcy gambit is, as you might have guessed, an...
RAPE REVISITED
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amFIVE vicious young men grab a woman in her 20s in a city park at night and brutally beat her, gang rape her and run off. No, I'm not talking...
JACKO'S TRULY A SPACE CASE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amIF you always thought Michael Jackson was a real pain in the Uranus, perhaps it's because, as these startling - and exclusive - alien abduction photos reveal, you're right. Yes,...
'TOWERS' OF POWER
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amOK, I've seen it and you haven't. I'm talking about "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." In fact, my one perfect daughter and I went to the premiere...
OF MICE AND MEN
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amRECENTLY, a group of brilliant biologists at the New York Academy of Medicine met to debate the reality and ethics of injecting human stem cells into mice for experimentation, thus...
PIANO MANOR: JOEL'S NEW $22M ESTATE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amIt's hard keeping track of Billy Joel's properties. Ever since the singer-songwriter sold his 12-acre Hamptons oceanfront estate to Jerry Seinfeld in 2000 - for $32 million - he has...
TITILLATING TEENS : CHAT-LINE KIDS PUSH ENVELOPE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00am"I love you, you love me, come on and give me some --. "Come on, baby, don't be greedy, pull your zipper down so I can --." Welcome to The...
SADDAM GROWING 'SUPER SMALLPOX'
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Iraq is developing a vaccine-resistant smallpox virus, a nerve gas that can penetrate protective gear and may be just months away from becoming a nuclear power. Those are...
MEDDLING MIKE'S LATEST LAW WOULD EXTINGUISH OUR WORLD IMAGE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amUNDOUBTEDLY, there is one passion of Mayor Mike on which we can all agree. And that is he desperately wants the Olympic Games to be held in this city that...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amThey're the War on Terrorism action figures. Connecticut doll maker Emil Vicale, 42, says he has sold nearly 10,000 figures representing Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Rudy Giuliani, British Prime...
BUSH BLIX-KRIEG ON HANS
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amU.S. officials lobbied hard behind the scenes yesterday to get chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix to drop his decree that he gets to vet Iraq's arms declaration - and...
U.S.: IRAQ LIST THICK WITH LIES
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amSaddam Hussein's technocrats yesterday handed over a mountain of documents that they said was clear proof that Iraq had no nuclear, biological or chemical weapons - but U.S. officials said...
BLOOMBERG'S BUDGET PITCH RIGHT OVER THE PLATE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg entered the lion's den yesterday - and roared. After taking a beating from speakers before the Citizens Budget Commission, an independent watchdog group, Bloomberg stepped up to the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amBROOKLYN Cops are seeking the public's help in finding a 15-year-old boy who went missing in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Ariel Respass, who's in poor physical and mental health, was last seen 4...
LEGAL EAGLES' RIVALRY BEHIND JOGGER PROBE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amThey worked together for 25 years in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office - two bright, ambitious prosecutors whose styles could not have been more different. Linda Fairstein, tall, blond and...
NEWS CAMERAMAN FOUND EXECUTED IN CAR TRUNK
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amA free-lance news cameraman for WNBC-TV was found murdered in the trunk of his late-model Mercedes-Benz in Queens, police said yesterday. Michael Clarke - was reported missing on Dec. 3...
RUDY DEFIES THREAT OF MEX KIDNAP PLOT
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amRudy Giuliani yesterday remained tight-lipped about news that a Colombian rebel group is plotting to kidnap him in Mexico City - but insisted his crime-fighting work will be done there....
VICTORIA GOTTI
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amWHITNEY has 'fessed up about her demons, but her cousin Dionne Warwick still refuses to accept responsibility for the 11 marijuana cigarettes found in her own baggage at Miami International...
FOREMAN DIES IN CEMENT HORROR
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amA barge foreman died yesterday after falling into his boat's cargo of powdery cement additive. Foreman Dylan Reed, 33, of Florida, was checking pump equipment on the barge, docked at...
'SOPRANO' SNEAK PEEK TONY'S CLIMACTIC SITDOWN BADA BING: THE SEASON FINALE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amA few clues about "The Sopranos" season finale, airing tonight at 9 and lasting 75 minutes, can be spotted by the show's faithful viewers in this photo snapped by a...
DI'S BUTLER COULD BE TYPECAST
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amLights, camera, butler! A deal is in the works to cast Paul Burrell, the late Princess Diana's former butler who was recently acquitted of robbing her estate, as a manservant...
TRANSIT STRIKE THREATS GET UGLY
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amWith seven days to go before their contract expires, thousands of enraged Transport Workers Union members yesterday voted to authorize a work stoppage after their contract ends - raising the...
VILLAGE HAS H2-WOES
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amA water-main break created quite a splash downtown last night, flooding West Houston Street from Greenwich to West Street. The break happened on West Houston Street near Greenwich Street around...
LA. DEM LANDRIEU SLIPS BACK INTO SENATE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amIncumbent Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu narrowly won Louisiana's overtime Senate race last night, offering a sign of hope to depressed Democrats as she held off President Bush's Republican juggernaut. With...
FAMILY 'BASH' DRIVER, KIDS SUE IN 'BRUTAL' BUST
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amA traffic incident that resulted in a Queens man and his three teenage children being arrested has sparked a police-brutality lawsuit to be filed tomorrow. These dramatic photos show how...
YOU'VE GOT E-MAIL
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amFROM Belarius5: "The politicians call them taxes, the citizens who pay call them thefts." From Gail2: "Oh my god, I think I've become the man I wanted to marry!"
STORY LINES JUST GOT TOO 'WHACK-Y'
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amIF you are among the dwindling number of "Sopranos" fans who still think the show is worth wasting an hour of your time every week, then it's time you face...
PANEL MAY CALL FOR NEW MASTER OF ALL SPOOKS
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amA congressional panel looking into possible intelligence fumbles prior to Sept. 11, 2001, may recommend clipping the CIA director's authority over all U.S. spy programs. The joint inquiry by the...
CAMERAMAN SLAIN IN TRUNK
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amA free-lance news cameraman for WNBC was found murdered in the trunk of his late-model Mercedes-Benz in Queens, police said yesterday. The body of Michael Clarke, 28, was found shot...
KEY PLAYERS & THEIR ROLES IN CENTRAL PARK HORROR CASE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amThe April 19, 1989, attack on the Central Park jogger polarized the Big Apple and changed lives. Here's a look at some of the major players: MATIAS REYES, predator. Was...
PROSECUTORS IN JOGGER-CASE POWER STRUGGLE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amThey worked together for 25 years in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office - two bright, ambitious prosecutors whose styles could not have been more different. Linda Fairstein, tall, blond and...
HARD HAT DIES IN CEMENT HORROR
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amA construction worker at the St. Lawrence Cement Co. in the College Point section of Queens was presumed dead yesterday after he fell in a vat of cement powder, police...
WEIS IS RIGHT FOR THIS JOB!
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amIf the Giants do indeed send Jim Fassel packing at the end of the season, their coaching search should begin and end with one man: Charlie Weis. A Jersey guy...
TIME FOR RANGERS TO GET YOUNGER
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amNOW is the time for the Rangers to give their kids a chance to fail - there's simply no other reasonable route for the organization to take in the wake...
THIS OLD BOAT HITS AIR WAVES
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amA Centerbrook, Conn., man has turned his old boat into a new career on television. Outdoor enthusiast Matt Wettish wanted to restore his aging duck boat for use at hunting...
ASHAM TAKING FRUSTRATION OUT ON OPPONENTS
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Arron Asham has a little problem with Peter Laviolette. Asham was a healthy scratch three times this year, most recently in the loss at Ottawa last Saturday. It...
'SNAKE' TAKES QUEENS
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amHugging the rail under Jose Santos while drafting in behind the battling speed, Snake Mountain swung out for running room around the far turn, collared the leaders at the top...
'NOVA KNOCKS OUT FORDHAM
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amDIVISION I-AAVillanova 24Fordham 10 VILLANOVA, Pa. - Kevin Eakin kept waiting. "All year long, we've made big plays and I thought we were just one play away from getting control,"...
CANDY MAN MAKES NAVY DREAMS REALITY
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amAFTER a while, the other members of the Navy backfield could only laugh as they gathered in the huddle. Hey, sometimes, it's just a guy's day. Craig Candeto, he had...
NAVY SINKS ARMY
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amNavy 58Army 12 Someday soon, the men who played in yesterday's Army-Navy game - no, make that the Navy rout - will be fighting side-by-side to defend the country. But...
'CANES ROLL TO FIESTA WILL FACE OHIO ST. FOR TITLE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amMiami 56Va. Tech 45 MIAMI - The bags of Tostitos were being tossed into the air. The green Miami baseball caps with the Fiesta Bowl logo on the side were...
TRUTH BE TOLD, MCDONOUGH NOTCH ABOVE REST
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amODD, that Sean McDonough reached a preliminary agreement to become a Mets' TV play-by-player in the same week Texas A&M fired football coach R.C. Slocum. For me, McDonough and Slocum...
HEAP BIG RELIEF AT STAPLES CHIEF TRIANGLE REVIVES LAKERS
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amPHEW, Phil Jackson tightened the leash just in time, otherwise there's no telling how ghastly it could've gotten Friday night. What a relief for limp Laker lemmings to hear his...
YALE TAKES MANHATTAN AT GARDEN
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amOVERTIMEYale 80Manhattan 79 Six times the Manhattan Jaspers had played in Madison Square Garden under head coach Bobby Gonzalez. Six times they'd won. But yesterday things didn't have a familiar...
JOHNNIES WIN ONE FOR MIKE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amSt. John's 81Fordham 58 So, which was your favorite St. John's run last night? Was it the 9-0 spurt at the beginning of the game that transformed a 2-0 "deficit"...
VETS, YOUNG GUNS VIE AT Q-SCHOOL
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amLA QUINTA, Calif. - If the cart in the middle of the fairway wasn't enough of a clue, the limp told you who the golfer was: Casey Martin was moving...
VAN GUNDY ANNIVERSARY NOTHING TO CELEBRATE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Jeff Van Gundy cited a host of personal reasons when he decided to officially resign as Knicks coach exactly a year ago today. But Don Chaney also believes...
'NATIVE' WINS GOV'S CUP
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amThe $520,000 Governor's Cup was won by Allamerican Native and driver John Campbell last night at the Meadowlands, giving Campbell his sixth victory in the top late-season event. Campbell moved...
EWING ADJUSTING TO NEW LIFE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Patrick Ewing bounded into the Knick locker room before last night's 100-97 Wizards' victory to chat with the players and assistant coaches, not to steal any game plans...
POPGUN OFFENSE FIRES BLANKS
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amLeafs 1Devils 0 TORONTO - This was the reminder the Devils' brass needs: It's the shooters, not the shots. The Devils' season-long defiance of the Laws of Hockey finally caught...
CHUBBY CHILDS EYES POST-XMAS RETURN
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amNets 121Magic 88NET NOTES In a perfect world, Chris Childs would play for the Nets again on Dec. 17. Don't bother running for the Nets' schedule: Dec. 17 puts them...
SUDDENLY, IT'S ALL GOING RIGHT
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amIsles 6Penguins 3 PITTSBURGH - From the Better Late than Never Department, Michael Peca scored a pair of goals last night here against the Penguins in the Islanders' 6-3 win,...
N.J. WRECKING CREW MANHANDLES MAGIC
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amBefore the game, Orlando coach Doc Rivers just may have tried to be politically correct. Even without the injured Dikembe Mutombo, Rivers said, the Nets are the team to beat,...
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE KNICKS' RALLY IN 4TH FALLS SHORT AS AIR, WIZARDS ROLL
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amWizards 100Knicks 97 WASHINGTON - Jeff Van Gundy quit on the Knicks a year ago today, but at least the Knicks didn't quit on last night's game. Waking from their...
BOMBERS SAY BYE-BYE, RAMIRO
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amGeorge Steinbrenner's financial belt-tightening is strangling the Yankees' bullpen but he hasn't sent Roger Clemens packing yet. One day after Mike Stanton rejected a two-year deal worth $5 million, the...
FONZIE GONE; STEEV RE-UPS
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amThe clock struck midnight on Edgardo Alfonzo and the Mets last night, ending the infielder's 12-year relationship with the club. After all those years and all those key base hits,...
JETS NEED ONE VICTORY - FOUR TIMES BEAT THE BRONCOS OR FORGET PLAYOFFS
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amSure, the Jets must win their last four games to put themselves in position to make the playoffs. That's been a lot of the talk amongst the Jets since their...
THERE FOR THE TAKING
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amSIXTY Minutes. You have four Super Sundays left if you are lucky, fellas, and this is Super Bowl I. These are the only Sixty Minutes that matter. Because if you...
DEPLETED JINTS: WE AREN'T MAILING IT IN LOSS AT FEDEX FIELD WOULD ADD INSULT TO INJURIES
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amLANDOVER, Md. - The Giants will not be whole again this season. That is the reality of the situation. There are too many torn tendons and broken bones and sprains...
HERM WANTS SECONDARY TO GET A GRIP
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amHerman Edwards has a message for his defensive backs as the Jets take on Denver today: Catch the football. Edwards estimated that the Jets have dropped "at least 10 to...
STATS DON'T SHOW ELLIS' IMPACT
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amNo sooner than the words "Shaun Ellis" were uttered in a conversation with Mo Lewis on Friday, the linebacker said, "Most improved player." Indeed, Ellis, the Jets' third-year defensive end,...
MORE SUBS THAN REGS ON DEFENSE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amLANDOVER, Md. - For a veteran player, the inclination, of course, is to acknowledge all the inexperience around you and get in your head that you must do something spectacular....
WOULD NEXT BIG BLUE COACH BE ANY BETTER THAN FASSEL?
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amLANDOVER, Md. - Will the Giants let go of the rope? The watch begins today with the frayed end they hold of no consideration to those who don't like the...
WUERFFEL IS SKINS' QB OF WEAK
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amLANDOVER, Md. - Want job security? Need to know what's happening in your professional life from week to week? Do not, repeat, do not, attempt to play quarterback for the...
YALE TAKES MANHATTAN
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amOVERTIME Yale 80 Manhattan 79 Six times the Manhattan Jaspers had played in Madison Square Garden under head coach Bobby Gonzalez. Six times they'd won. Three times the Jaspers had...
FROSH BOSH POWERS JACKETS
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amGa. Tech 67 Marist 53 It's all about the freshmen in the ACC right now. Much like North Carolina's vaunted rookie trio sparkled last week in the Garden, Georgia Tech's...
THE CALL GOES OUT TO COREY: SCHWAB GETS START VS. EX-LEAF MATES
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amTORONTO - Give him this much: Pat Burns didn't shy away from giving this town a show. The Devils coach sent backup Corey Schwab into the nets for his third...
BYE, BYE RAMIRO: MENDOZA LATEST VICTIM OF YANK PURGE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amGeorge Steinbrenner's financial belt-tightening is strangling the Yankees' bullpen but he hasn't sent Roger Clemens packing yet. One day after Mike Stanton rejected a two-year deal worth $5 million, the...
ALFONZO, METS TAKE DECISION DOWN TO WIRE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amThe Mets know they need Edgardo Alfonzo to play third base in their veteran-laden lineup and to take the heat off Mike Piazza in the batting order, so the two...
TRULY THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME
December 8, 2002 | 5:00am"Champ, can you still do magic?" The question brings a smile, and all these years later there is still no brighter light than the one that twinkles in Muhammad Ali's...
DOC: EW HAD MAGIC INFLUENCE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Patrick Ewing's final season in Orlando was viewed as a bust, posting career lows in every category. By buying out his contract, the Magic all but forced Ewing...
CHILDS HAS PLAY DATE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amIn a perfect - really perfect - world, guard Chris Childs would play for the Nets again on Dec. 17. "You know I've got a date, the 17th. That would...
SLAY'S NO CHICKEN LITTLE
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES As an NBA rookie, Tamar Slay has many worries that weren't there as a senior at Marshall: the Nets' offense, a longer season, proper conditioning, running for teammates'...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
December 8, 2002 | 5:00amMr. Cutter goes to Washington You can't have a much better Thursday than Mets' left-hander Al Leiter did. He not only made his fourth visit to the White House and...