January 3, 2003
A NEW YEAR'S RALLY - DOW SHOOTS UP 265 POINTS ON FIRST TRADING DAY OF 2003
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amInvestors resolved to make a lot of money in the New Year, and the stock market cooperated with a huge rally, generating $300 billion in gains on the first trading...
ESPN, ABC SCORE WITH NFL RIGHTS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amAs New Yorkers cheer a weekend of Jets and Giants playoff games, football is also putting a smile on Disney. A surge in ratings for NFL games this year at...
MORE ANALYSTS ON DISNEY BANDWAGON
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amWall Street is slowly beginning to believe in Disney's turnaround story. Shares in the media giant rose almost 6 percent yesterday after Sanford Bernstein's Tom Wolzien became the latest Wall...
PLAINTIFFS' BAIT - J.P. MORGAN SETS ASIDE $900M FOR LAWSUITS, FEES
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amJ. P. Morgan Chase is setting aside a whopping $900 million to cover the cost of the myriad lawsuits facing the firm over Enron and analyst conflicts of interest. The...
CONGRESS BLASTS BANKS' SUPPORT FOR ENRON
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amNow it all becomes clear. As J. P. Morgan Chase was riding high on its good-news settlement yesterday, Congress released a scathing report damning the big bank, along with several...
TIME STIRS UP FASHION FRAY - STYLE & DESIGN SPINOFF TO TAKE ON 'TIRED' CONDE NAST
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amTIME magazine is jumping into the fashionista wars. Its oversized Style & Design spinoff, with 1.34 million circulation worldwide, will appear twice this year, starting at next month's fashion week...
STARR REPORT
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amA fine day for 'Joe' - to the tune of $104 Hey, maybe "Joe Millionaire" really is low on cash. Court TV's The Smoking Gun has gotten its hands on...
LIGHTS, SEQUELS & ACTION!
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amIF you're thinking the ubiquitous Jen and Ben surely canoodled themselves into oblivion during 2002 you'd be - bzzzz - wrong. With their two big-screen duets unspooling this summer -...
HAPPY WITH SOME BODY NEW
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amMOTHER of three Demi Moore is not taking her big-screen comeback lightly. Pictures from the set of "Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle," in which the 40-year-old actress plays a villainous...
CLICKER SHOCKER - CABLE FANS THINK NICHE IS NICE
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amTHE so-called "niche networks" dominated the cable ratings roost last year. Lifetime's "Television For Women" led the network to a win in households - while Nickelodeon proved that kid power...
A 'FALSETTO' START
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amCHAMPAGNE is fine for christening yachts - but there's nothing better than presenting a vintage show to open a theater. That's what off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons is doing - times four...
IS CLINTON TALKING TV AGAIN? - BARBARA HINTS BILL SHOW MAY BE NEAR
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amDOES Barbara Walters know something about Bill Clinton's TV future that we don't? Walters - in a nudge-nudge, wink-wink kind of way on yesterday's "The View" - added fuel to...
BROADWAY'S FANCY TURNS TO REVIVALS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amTHE Broadway season thus far is going to be a tough act to follow, especially in the musical theater department. Will spring bring anything as innovative as "Movin' Out," as...
BACHELORETTE'S BOYS - TRISTA 'TEST DROVE' THEM ALL
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amHOW does a "nice girl" date 25 guys at once? Passionately, it turns out. The star of the new reality show "Bachelorette," Trista Nicole Rehn, "is not afraid to test...
2ND DRIVER FACES DWI RAP IN QUEENS 'HIT-RUN'
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amCops yesterday charged a man in the hit-and-run death of a Queens pedestrian, as a second motorist was arraigned on drunken-driving charges for allegedly running over the victim's body. Christian...
SON STABS FATHER AT FAMILY REUNION: COPS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amA volatile Brooklyn family's New Year's Day reunion turned ugly when the eldest son stabbed his father in a desperate attempt to protect his mother - and now faces assault...
THE BESTOF 2003
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amTHINGS to look forward to in 2003: A world without Saddam Hussein. A Democratic Party race for the presidency that features neither Bill Clinton nor Al Gore. The publication of...
JUSTICE DEPT. KEEPS TAKING SWINGS AT A WEAK 'CHIN'
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amWE ARE up to our armpits in foreign terrorists intent on doing us great harm and who wander across American borders like stray buffaloes. And yet the Justice Department is...
SEARCHING HIGHS & LOWS - BRITNEY, J.LO, EMINEM TOP WEB-HUNT RANKINGS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amCall it a Web feat - Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and Harry Potter were among the most buzzed-about names on the Internet last year. But there was bad news for...
MTA'S 'GRAND' LIRR DESIGN OFF BY $1B
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amA construction project that would bring Long Island Rail Road trains into Grand Central Terminal has ballooned by almost $1 billion, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said yesterday. The escalating cost...
DRONE GOES DOWN ON ITS OWN
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - An unmanned Predator military plane crashed in southwest Pakistan during a routine surveillance mission, the Air Force said yesterday. The plane went down late Tuesday, and the wreckage...
BUSH TO BARE TAX WHACKS FOR $TIMULUS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday he'll release his economic-stimulus plan next week - an expected combination of new tax cuts for investors and businesses, and speeding up reductions that...
CABLE TV $OAR POINT
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amNo, it's not your imagination - your cable-TV bill really is growing by leaps and bounds. Average cable rates rose for the ninth consecutive year in 2002. For the period...
MULCH ADO AS CITY ENDS CHRISTMAS TREE PICKUPS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amNew Yorkers who want to recycle their Christmas trees are going to have to haul them a little farther than the nearest sidewalk. For the first time in nearly 15...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * The teen who turned himself in after being sought as a suspect in a stray-bullet shooting that took the life of a young mother was arrested last night....
IT'S H&R $HOCK - STAFFER, PALS HIT CLIENTS IN ID THEFT: FEDS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amA conniving H&R Block office manager has given customers a nasty tax shock - by stealing their identities and ripping off their returns, the feds charge. Ivy Johnson, 27, who...
TOP L.I. SCOFFLAWS GET THE 'BOOT'
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amProclaiming "there's a new sheriff in town!" Nassau Executive Tom Suozzi yesterday began his "Boot and Tow" clampdown by seizing the cars of the county's two top deadbeat drivers -...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amThis is what you call a snow job. A resourceful security guard came up with a clever way to keep burglars from looting vacation homes in the Vladimir region of...
SCHOOL S.W.A.T. - HEAVY COP PATROL BLITZES B'KLYN HS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amIn a SWAT-type action, cops swarmed over violence-plagued Lafayette HS yesterday in an attempt to bolster safety. The dramatic NYPD crackdown - complete with a mobile command truck - comes...
COPS: SON STABS DAD AT REUNION
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amA volatile Brooklyn family's New Year's Day reunion turned ugly when the eldest son stabbed his father in a desperate attempt to protect his mother - and now faces assault...
CHIMPS HAVE A LANGUAGE ALL THEIR OWN
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amScientists are going ape over the discoveries that chimpanzees can make up words and orangutans can teach their kids to use leaves as napkins. Kanzi, a bonomo, or pygmy, chimpanzee...
HOME SWEET HOME - GROUND ZERO RESIDENTS REOCCUPY APTS.
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amNearly 16 months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the displaced residents of 125 Cedar St. - the closest apartments to the Twin Towers - are finally back in their homes....
BETTER-HALF TIME - GIANTS' WIVES SAY TEAM IS PEAKING
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amSuper Bowl Fever is catching: Now the Giants wives have it. "This is real exciting; I think we can go all the way to the Super Bowl," Shelley Barrow, wife...
'BOYCOTT' MA: YOU CAN DO IT, TOO
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amA defiant Brooklyn mom who won her daughter a transfer after boycotting violence-plagued Lafayette HS yesterday urged other parents to fight City Hall. "You've got to fight for your child....
ID 'FAKER' GAVE TERROR-TEAM TIP
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amAn accused Big Apple passport-forger being held in Toronto provided the tip that sparked an FBI hunt for five suspicious men who apparently slipped into the United States from Canada,...
FEDS NIX PLAN FOR WALL ST. 'BACKUPS' IN STIX
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe feds have eased off their controversial plan to force Wall Street to create backup trading floors hundreds of miles from downtown, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday. In a letter...
RUDY'S RECORDS RETURNED TO CITY
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe first boxes of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's papers have arrived back into city custody, administration officials said yesterday. Giuliani ignited a furor last year after he took the records...
EMINEM RAPS UP 2002 AS THE TOP-SELLING STAR
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amEminem wasn't satisfied with the top spot on the highest-selling CD list for 2002 - so he took fifth place, too. Detroit's alienated bad-boy-turned-mainstream-movie-star was named champion of the music...
'CLONE' GROAN AS CULT DUCKS DNA TESTING
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe head of the company that last week boasted it had created the world's first cloned human now says it may not produce DNA proof of its claim, a French...
TRAGIC TEEN TWIST - B'KLYN SHELTER GUARD 'NEVER SAW' HIM
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amAs detectives continued to probe the senseless New Year's Day murder of a 15-year-old boy in Brooklyn, officials denied the victim was locked out of a city homeless shelter before...
2 DAYS, 4 DEAD - TOY-GUN TRAGEDY CAPS NYPD'S LETHAL START TO NEW YEAR; COPS KILL 2 MORE TO BRING '03 TOTAL TO 4
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amA cop blew away a 17-year-old as the youth held a realistic-looking toy gun to the head of another officer posing as a fast-food deliveryman in a Harlem robbery sting...
DWI VICTIM RUN OVER TWICE
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amCops yesterday charged a man in the hit-and-run death of a Queens pedestrian as a second motorist was arraigned on drunken-driving charges for allegedly running over the victim's body. Christian...
SHELTER GUARD 'NEVER SAW' HUNTED TEEN
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amAs detectives continued to probe the senseless New Year's Day murder of a 15-year-old boy in Brooklyn, officials denied the victim was locked out of a city homeless shelter as...
800 TROOPS JOINING GULF FORCE TO PUT SQUEEZE ON SADDAM
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe Army yesterday said it is sending 800 engineering and intelligence specialists to the Persian Gulf as part of an escalating buildup near Iraq. The specialists, to be deployed from...
PATAKI PAL HITS PAYDIRT - CAMPAIGN AIDE GETS 101G POST AS 3RD TERM STARTS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday tapped the head of his campaign's Hispanic outreach team for the first new appointment of his third term. Teresa Santiago, who worked for Pataki's Democratic...
COPS KILL 4 IN FIRST 2 DAYS - YOUTH IS SLAIN AS HE WIELDS 'TOY' GUN
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amA cop blew away a 17-year- old who was holding a realistic-looking toy gun to the head of an officer posing as a fast-food deliveryman in a Harlem robbery sting...
DEEP FREEZE SNARLS N.J. ROADS; 1 DEAD
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amA series of accidents made for hellish driving on the New Jersey Turnpike last night - including a giant pileup just west of the George Washington Bridge, and a horrifying...
40-CAR PILEUP ON ICY N.J. TURNPIKE
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amA huge chain-reaction crash caused an hours-long backup on the New Jersey Turnpike just west of the George Washington Bridge last night. Nobody was reported hurt in the 40-car smashup....
CHIMPS REALLY DO HAVE A LANGUAGE ALL THEIR OWN
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amScientists are going ape over the discoveries that chimpanzees can make up words and orangutans can teach their kids to use leaves as napkins. Kanzi, a bonomo, or pygmy, chimpanzee...
800 TROOPS ON WAY TO GULF AMID TALK OF IRAQ 'COUP PLOT'
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe Army yesterday said it is sending 800 engineering and intelligence specialists to the Persian Gulf as part of an escalating buildup near Iraq. The specialists, to be deployed from...
'CLONE'? OH, GROAN! CULT DUCKS DNA TEST
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe head of the company that last week boasted it had created the world's first cloned human now says it may not produce DNA proof of its claim, a French...
30 YEARS OF HIRINGS, FIRINGS & WORLD SERIES BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE BOSS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amThirty years ago today, George Steinbrenner bought the New York Yankees for $8.8 million - getting the biggest bargain the city's seen since Manhattan was purchased for a few beads....
NEW YORK! NEW YORK! - JETS, GIANTS WILL KEEP SUPE SHOWDOWN HOPES ALIVE
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amSOMETIMES in the NFL, it's not as important whom you play as when you play them. That's why the Jets have one of the most favorable matchups of wild-card weekend....
THE FAN'S CORNER
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amJohn Gray guaranteed victory last week and came through in dramatic fashion in the final week of the season, blowing away the competion with an 11-5 record for a .686...
ISLES SCOPING HIGHER PEAKS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe Islanders finally reached the coveted .500 mark with a thrilling overtime win on New Year's Eve at Buffalo; still, they didn't have anybody at practice yesterday sizing them for...
KITTLES RETURNS AS HARRIS' BACKUP
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe Nets have won seven straight games and 12 of their last 15. They're about to get even better. Kerry Kittles, out since Nov. 30 with a sprained left knee,...
CHANEY: WE DON'T GET STAR TREATMENT
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Offensively challenged Latrell Sprewell needs all the help he can get these days and he's certainly not getting it from the officials. During his horrid 3-point, 1-for-8 disaster...
ARTEST: WE CAN WIN IT ALL
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amDon Chaney believes Ron Artest goes into every Knick game looking to make his hometown franchise pay for bypassing him in the 1999 draft for Frederic Weis. But Artest has...
SCOTT, KIDD COP HONORS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amWith great performance comes great reward. Except for the Nets, who were ignored on every major NBA honor last season. But maybe things are starting to change. Yesterday, the league...
MIAMI ON MISSION - 'CANES PSYCHED FOR ANOTHER TITLE
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amTEMPE - Sixteen years ago the No. 1-ranked Miami Hurricanes, wearing combat fatigues and sunglasses, stepped off a plane here as heavy favorites to beat what was considered a slower,...
JETS RARIN' TO GO - NO JITTERS AS COLTS HIT TOWN
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe final preparations are complete. Now it's time for the Jets to go out and win a playoff game for the first time since 1998. At 12:30 yesterday afternoon, Herman...
JINTS TO TALK BACK LIVE - GIANTS FEEL DISSED BY MOUTHY NINERS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amCornelius Griffin is not one to retaliate. Good thing, considering he's a 298-pound block of granite who can give off a menacing stare with the best of them. This time,...
T.O. LOOKING MORE LIKE O.K.
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amSANTA CLARA, Calif. - For the first time in more than a month, go-to receiver Terrell Owens yesterday practiced for consecutive days and his 49ers teammates couldn't be happier. "He...
MCNALLY'S LINE BUILT ON BRAINS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amJIM MCNALLY says he looks more brilliant than ever only because the Giants gave him guys who are smart. "They are all quick, tough, hard working," says the coach of...
STATUS QUO STILL SATISFIES SATHER
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amGlen Sather had said he would stay away from the Rangers while they foundered, hoping they would turn things around on their own. One win is hardly enough to right...
JETS' HACKETT QUIETS CRITICS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amIt wasn't long ago that Paul Hackett involuntarily carried a third name. The Jets' offensive coordinator was referred to so often as the embattled Paul Hackett you wanted to check...
BLUE-PRINT: ROUGH UP OWENS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe Giants can talk, too. They proved that way back in the first game of the season when safety Shaun Williams and cornerback Will Peterson were both fined by the...
PENNINGTON EARNS AFC HONORS AGAIN
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amJET NOTES Chad Pennington yesterday was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week for a Jets' record third time and second in a row. Pennington helped lead the Jets...
DEVILS READY FOR TWO-RONTO
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amTwo things are certain as the Leafs arrive at the Meadowlands tonight for the first leg of a home-and-home that swings back to Toronto tomorrow: That these two teams don't...
VICK WAS HOOD-WINKED - MAGAZINE COVER PUTS FALCON QB IN BAD LIGHT
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amDID you know that Michael Vick, the superstar NFL QB, is a night-stalking, street-crawling hood? Neither did I, not until I saw the cover of the latest edition of ESPN,...
SUNS' AMARE TURNING HEADS WITH STOUT PLAY
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amJUST when you think Stephon Marbury might finally be maturing, he proclaims Kevin Garnett doesn't compare favorably with Suns compadre Amare Stoudemire, who barbecued his former T'wolf teammate/best friend for...
PLEASANT COLONY DEAD
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amKentucky Derby winner Pleasant Colony, champion 3-year-old of 1981 and a top sire after his retirement, died New Year's Eve of natural causes at age 24 in his paddock at...
TIKI DREADS FACING 'BOYS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amTiki Barber says it is not a good thing that next year the Giants will play against Bill Parcells twice. "Actually, it kind of [bleeps]," said the running back. But...
EX-MATE: SHOCKEY REALLY IS WACKO
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES First it was 49er linebacker Julian Peterson yapping about Jeremy Shockey's inability to control his emotions. Now it's Mike Rumph, the Niners' rookie CB and college teammate of...
STORM STILL HAVE KINKS IN ARMOR
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amSt. John's 78 Niagara 68 Although there was relief, concern remained. St. John's (6-3) ended a three-game losing streak with a 78-68 victory at Alumni Hall last night over Niagara...
U.S. MEN TAME HISTORY'S SLOPES
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amDARON RAHLVES swept across the finish line last Sunday at Bormio, Italy, pulled off his helmet and flashed a big smile. As he waited for the great Austrian guns to...
EX-MATE: SHOCKEY REALLY IS A WACKO
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Not all the 49ers can be coaxed into saying something naughty about the Giants. At some point in Sunday's playoff game, 49ers cornerback Mike Rumph, who might start...
TIKI DREADS FACING BILL'S 'BOYS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amTiki Barber says it is not a good thing that next year the Giants will play against Bill Parcells twice. "Actually, it kind of [bleeps]," said the running back. But...
THEY GOT GAME - JETS VS. COLTS JAMMED WITH DRAMA & SUBPLOTS
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amIt's Chad Pennington and it's Peyton Manning, and that probably would be enough right there. But Jets-Colts is a lot more than just two of the NFL's most dynamic quarterbacks....
NETWORK GAME: WHO'LL ANALYZE THIS? - DEION COMEBACK TALK MAKES CBS SCRAMBLE
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amIf Deion Sanders had signed with the Raiders, who would have filled his position as a CBS football studio analyst for the rest of the season? CBS Sports President Sean...
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR KENNY SMITH
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amKenny Smith has something most New York hoopsters don't - two NBA championship rings (with the Rockets). But the Queens native also has one of the best gigs in sports...
HALE'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amNBA on NBC vs. NBA on ABC/ESPN Maybe it's the John Tesh-composed theme song. Or just the smoothness with which Doug Collins, or whomever, used to always say, "You're watching...