January 21, 2003
WHY SAC MESS WORRIES STREET
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSTEVIE Cohen wasn't always a great stock trader. He admits it. But the head of SAC Capital Management, a New York- and Connecticut-based hedge fund, says a psychiatrist who specializes...
DILLER ON A LEASH - VIVENDI'S FOURTOU GRABS REINS AT MUSIC GROUP
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amThe French are taking back power from Barry Diller, The Post has learned. Jean-Rene Fourtou, the chief executive officer of Vivendi Universal, has taken Universal Music back under his direct...
BROKERS PUSH HEDGE FUNDS UNDER REGULATORS' MICROSCOPE
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amHedge funds are about to come under intense regulatory scrutiny - thanks to lobbying from mutual funds and brokerages. As hedge funds lower their minimums from $250,000 to $25,000, those...
A SKY-HIGH JINX AT 10 TIMES SQ.
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amONE year since this page first predicted that Arthur Andersen would leave the glamorous new skyscraper at 10 Times Square in the lurch, Boston Properties is still straining to land...
STUDIO GOLD RU$H - MIRAMAX, FOX BIG WINNERS; UNIVERSAL BOMBS
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amHarvey Weinstein is back on top after one of his worst years in the media. His movie studio Miramax, owned with Disney, walked away as the big winner at the...
U.S. FIRMS SHUT FACTORIES IN STRIKE-TORN VENEZUELA
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amAmerican companies in riot-torn Venezuela are shutting local factories in droves and cutting off investments. The corporate fears escalated yesterday after Microsoft temporarily closed its Caracas offices after 50 days...
STARR REPORT
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amGlobes afterglow: Some Golden moments The post-awards partying at Sunday's Golden Globes was something to behold, according to people who were there at the festivities in Hollywood. Observers at the...
WOMEN ON TOP
January 21, 2003 | 5:00am* VARIOUS ARTISTS "Respond II" [] Signature Sounds Recording Co. It isn't a complete Who's Who of music's female movers and shakers, but "Respond II" - with its impressive intergenerational...
HOME IMPROVEMENT - WHO NEEDS SURGERY? TAKE A DIY APPROACH
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amI wanted a lift, a new look - without needles, knives or vast amounts of money. And though my husband insists he loves me just the way I am (which...
BOWL SURVIVAL GUIDE
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amThat's entertainment Downtown San Diego hosts the NFL Experience Thursday-Sunday in South Embarcadero Marina Park; tickets, $15 ([866] 849-4635). To party with the winners, try crashing the Players Gala Sunday...
HEY, THIS IS THIRSTY WORK
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amWHAT'S the secret to surviving TV's match-making reality shows? The answer can be summed up in one word: Booze. From "High School Reunion" to "The Bachelorette," alcohol has emerged as...
MENDOZA LINE POPS UP AGAIN IN NEW YORK
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amBEFORE the Mendoza Line, whose cool name is an obscure baseball term, moved to Brooklyn a few years ago, the indie rockers were part of the mid-'90s local scene in...
WHAT IF ...
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amQ: I'm off to Seattle, and I am wondering whether the International District is worth a tour, and what the food is like. A: Seattle's International District (ID), adjacent to...
SAN DIEGO SCORES - THIS YEAR'S SUPER BOWL HOST IS ALL GROWN UP, WRITES DAVID LANDSEL
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amAS football fans descend on San Diego this week end, Alonzo Horton will no doubt be cheering from on high. One of San Diego's founding Fathers, Horton did not exactly...
'JOE' DOWN TO FINAL 4 AFTER DITCHING ALISON
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amMoJo had her mojo working on last night's "Joe Millionaire." As for Alison - well, be careful what you wish for, young lady, you just might get it. MoJo (alias...
CURRENTS
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amGOT the five-year itch to travel? Costa Cruises is offering a deal to couples celebrating a wedding anniversary in 2003 of any five-year increment that is, fifth, 10th, 15th and...
REALITY SHOW SHOOTS FOR SLAM DUNK
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amWATCH out Shaq, move over Michael and hit the showers Sheryl Swoops - the next king or queen of the court might come from Anywhere U.S.A. Yet another reality series...
AND THE LOSERS ARE ... CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY WORE THIS STUFF?
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amLARA Flynn Boyle's bizarro turn as a demented ballerina was without a doubt the most obvious example of bad taste at the Golden Globes. But it was far from the...
RED MENACES
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amTHE Golden Globes are a dress rehearsal for the Oscars - not only for trophies, but for fashion - and Sunday night proved a few stars are still not quite...
NO OSCARS LIKELY FOR YEAR'S BEST
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amA SAD prediction: None of last year's best movies will likely compete for the Best Picture Oscar. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association made some pretty good prognostications about who will...
GHETTO FABULOUS
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amLike a $20 bill on the sidewalk, these neighborhoods on the verge won't stay there long MACARTHUR PARK, LOS ANGELES Exit the subway at cacophonous Alvarado Avenue, and find yourself...
PLEA DAY FOR CON ACCUSED OF BUTCHERING EX-PROF
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amAn escaped con accused of savagely slaying a former NYU psychology professor in 1999 during a paid S&M session linked to the punk rock scene is to decide today whether...
ISRAEL'S LABOR PAINS - PARTY MAY DUMP ARIEL FOE BEFORE ELECTION
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's main opposition party, facing disaster in next week's election against Ariel Sharon, is considering dumping its candidate for prime minister, officials said yesterday. New polls reported that...
PILL THRILLS: WOMEN ON BIRTH CONTROL PREFER MACHO MEN
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amWomen on birth-control pills are more likely to choose macho men as their long-term lovers, a new study reveals. But believe it or not, bagging a chiseled hunk with a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amWhatever happened to the days when students put apples on their teachers' desks? That's the question being asked after pupils at Hingham HS in Massachusetts dumped a large dead fox...
296 - HOW MANY TIMES L.I. DRIVER HAD HIS LICENSE SUSPENDED
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amLong Island police say a Roosevelt man who didn't stop at a stop sign can't seem to stop having his license suspended - and has amassed a whopping 296 suspensions....
SPY NOOSE TIGHTENS ON BUTCHER
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agents and special forces are already active in Iraq, eavesdropping on Saddam Hussein's communications and paving the way for a broader effort to topple him from...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amMANHATTAN * A man plunged to his death yesterday from an Upper East Side apartment building, police said. The body of John Eaton, 61, was discovered at 9:15 a.m. in...
BREAST-BOTCH VICTIM BLASTS TORT REFORM
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amA woman who had both cancer-free breasts surgically removed after a hospital botched her diagnosis has gone public to protest a Bush administration plan to cap malpractice awards. Linda McDougal,...
COPS: CUFFED PERP STOLE OUR CRUISER
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amA New Jersey woman stole a police cruiser and led cops on a 60-mile chase - after she was handcuffed for assaulting an officer, police said. Jennifer Lach, 33, was...
WTC SITE SWAP IS BACK ON TABLE
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amThe once-stalled talks to transfer control of Ground Zero to the city have sprung back to life - with a price now under serious discussion, sources told The Post yesterday....
'MASSACRE' MAN TO PLAY BLAME GAME AT BX. TRIAL
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amClaiming his accomplice was responsible for the carnage, a Miami man goes on trial today on charges of slaughtering five members of a Bronx family. Luis Garcia, 41, is accused...
THE $OLE SISTERS - SHOPPERS SWARM MANOLO SHOE SALE
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amIt may have been freezing out, but when the most sought-after designer shoes in New York are going for half off, bargain hunters don't get cold feet. Hundreds of women,...
BALLCLUBS PITCHING $TRIKES AT COUNCIL'S GIFF
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amLooking for new homes to play ball, the Mets and the Yankees are stepping up to the plate for Gifford Miller - ponying up campaign cash to the bulging $1...
RENÉE TO BULK UP FOR 'BRIDGET 2'
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amRenée Zellweger says she's ready to pack on the pounds again - in the sequel to "Bridget Jones's Diary." "I'm ready, willing and able. Bridget's a character I really identify...
NYPD'S SISTER ACT - IDENTICAL-TWIN COPS MAKE HISTORY TODAY
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amThe identical-twin sister of a rookie cop will make history today when she joins the ranks of New York's Finest. Timera and Tiersa Flood, a matching set of 23-year-olds from...
B'WAY ARTIST HIRSCHFELD DIES AT 99
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amAl Hirschfeld, whose distinctive caricatures captured the countenances of generations of Broadway and Hollywood stars, died yesterday in his New York home at age 99. Hirschfeld's swooping, inked line drawings,...
20 VEHICLES COLLIDE AMID 'SNOW' VISIBILITY ON THRUWAY
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amOld Man Winter turned nasty yesterday as blowing snow, triggered by high winds, caused a massive pile-up on the New York State Thruway. A 20-mile stretch of the road was...
SCHOOL PERV ALARM - SEX-CRIME BUSTS SKYROCKET BY 30 PERCENT
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amThe number of school employees arrested for sex crimes jumped 30 percent last year, even as overall arrests were dropping. According to new statistics obtained by The Post, 1,340 school...
WAKE UP! - AS SADDAM SLEEPS, POWELL WARNS OF NIGHTMARE; SADDAM IS ONE CREEPY SLEEPY-HEAD
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSaddam Hussein said yesterday he's sleeping like a baby, despite a likely U.S. attack - but Secretary of State Colin Powell warned that the world should be tossing and turning...
SEX TALES STEAM GERMAN LEADER
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amLashing out at British press reports that his marriage is faltering because he's been unfaithful, an enraged German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has gotten a court injunction barring further publication of...
DEMS RIP DUBYA IN DIVERSITY 'BATTLE'
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amNew York's top Democrats yesterday used the Martin Luther King holiday to rip President Bush for his policies on race, education and the courtroom. In an impassioned speech at the...
A STAR IS DRAWN: THE SAGA OF A LEGEND
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amTHEY called him "The Line King." Al Hirschfeld was a Broadway institution and a New York treasure. Born in St. Louis, he was encouraged by his mother, who was advised...
COPS RESCUE BURNED SAILOR
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amFour courageous NYPD aviation unit cops plucked a burned crew member from a Dutch cargo ship that caught fire yesterday. The 28-year-old sailor, who suffered third-degree burns over 25 percent...
POWELL RIPS IRAQ'S TEASE - TELLS POST U.N. MUST AVOID STALL
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSecretary of State Colin Powell yesterday dismissed Saddam Hussein's promises of cooperation as a stall tactic to throw the world off the scent of his destructive weapons. "He has demonstrated...
BELOVED BIZMAN DIES IN NEW B'KLYN HIT-RUN HORROR
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amA plumbing-supply company manager who had recently celebrated his 33rd wedding anniversary was killed yesterday by a hit-and-run driver. It was the third hit-run fatality in Brooklyn since Friday. Alexander...
PSYCHO SEX FIEND - RAPE-BID SUSPECT EYED IN TWO SLAYS
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amAuthorities believe that Lee Van Glahn was on his way to becoming New York's next serial killer. The 43-year-old suspected psycho killer - busted last February while allegedly attempting to...
ARRESTED SLAY PAL RIPS COPS
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amCops put a Manhattan man they arrested - and then released - through "hours of abusive interrogation" in connection with the Lower East Side slaying of a college buddy, his...
LAURA SALUTES MLK - AND NEW YORK
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amNew York is like Martin Luther King Jr. because the city "refuses to let hate and injustice tear it down," First Lady Laura Bush told a Congress of Racial Equality...
KIDNAP 'LEADER' TRIED TO RECRUIT
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amA former U.S. Marine, nabbed in Canada for allegedly kidnapping a Connecticut millionaire, was in Toronto months earlier looking to recruit accomplices, authorities said yesterday. The suspected ringleader, Renaldo Rose,...
ANASTACIA HAS BREAST CANCER
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSoulful-voiced pop singer Anastacia is battling breast cancer, according to a published report. The 29-year-old performer, who lives in San Diego, was diagnosed over the weekend, a Sony Music veep...
CHILLING ROBBERY AT E. SIDE DINER
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amTwo cleaners got the chill of their lives yesterday when a masked, machine-gun-toting robber locked them in a refrigerator in a bid to loot an Upper East Side diner. After...
PHONE TRICK LET BIN LADEN GIVE GIS THE SLIP: REPORT
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amOsama bin Laden was able to escape U.S. forces closing in on him at Tora Bora in late 2001 by using a simple ruse that fooled the sophisticated American spy...
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION A FORCE FOR GOOD: COLIN
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSecretary of State Colin Powell took his defense of affirmative action to another level yesterday - saying it's largely responsible for America's military strength. "I have spoken a great deal...
SONY PROBED FOR BOOTING HOMELESS
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amTHE city Planning Commission is probing complaints that Sony Corp.'s security guards are illegally tossing homeless people out of the indoor public plaza at its Madison Avenue headquarters. Homeless men...
ROBBER LEAVES WORKERS IN COLD
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amTwo cleaners got the chill of their lives yesterday when a masked, machine-gun-toting robber locked them in a refrigerator in a bid to loot an Upper East Side diner. After...
'KIDNAP' RECRUITMENT PLOT
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amA former U.S. Marine, nabbed in Canada for allegedly kidnapping a Connecticut millionaire, was in Toronto months earlier looking to recruit accomplices, cops said yesterday. The suspected ringleader, Renaldo Rose,...
B'KLYN HIT-RUN HORROR
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amA plumbing-supply manager who had recently celebrated his 33rd wedding anniversary was killed yesterday in a hit-and-run accident in Brooklyn, police said. Alexander Benstock, 64, of Long Beach, L.I., parked...
'GERMANY' DECLARES WAR ON BRIT PRESS
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amLashing out at British press reports that his marriage is faltering because he's been unfaithful, an enraged German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has gotten a court injunction barring further publication of...
BUSH: STILL 'MORE TO DO' FOR EQUALITY
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday "there's still prejudice holding people back" from Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream that people will be judged by their character, not skin color. "Even...
ALYSWEEP ROLLS AT BIG A
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amAll things considered, it wasn't a good weekend for Philadelphia. Sunday, the Eagles were blown away at home by Tampa Bay. Then yesterday at the Big A, odds-on favorite Philadelphia...
KIDS, HEALTH HAVE FRANCO SMILING
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amTHERE were two events yesterday at a frigid Shea to bring the warmth of spring to a Met fan's heart. John Franco threw a baseball without pain and threw his...
STILL GOT THAT SWING - AGING JAZZ STAY HOT
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - Karl Malone swore it was over and done with, that he had forgotten the harsh words here last season from Byron Scott, who questioned his heart;...
TROTTIER EXPECTS EMOTIONAL RETURN
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amThe man is a miser with his feelings, which made Bryan Trottier's reflections yesterday afternoon all the more striking. He wanted the world to think his focus rested only with...
KINGS ARE ROYAL PAIN
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - They were to be the last thing Byron Scott saw last night, the first thing he would see today and actually the least desirable thing he...
SHANDON'S SLAM SET WINNING TONE
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amAllan Houston didn't have it yesterday, and not coincidentally, neither did the Knicks. Thank goodness for the backup. Shandon Anderson saved the star shooter and the team in yesterday's 72-65...
KNICKS SURVIVE FOR AN UGLY WIN
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amKnicks 72 - Heat 65 Something about Martin Luther King Day brings out the ugliest at the Garden. Two years ago, Marcus Camby accidentally head-butted Jeff Van Gundy, who fell...
RE-INJURED CAMBY'S LIKELY OUT
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Kurt Thomas will be disappointed. Saying yesterday he expected Marcus Camby to gut it out tomorrow night against the Knicks, Thomas won't like hearing yesterday's stark diagnosis from...
CALLAHAN DOES IT HIS WAY
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - Every time Father David Turner sees the word "puppet" it flushes his face with a most uncharitable wave of anger. And he sees the word a lot...
LONG WAIT'S OVER - BROWN SAVORS HIS 1ST TASTE OF SUPE
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - When Tim Brown's name was brought up to Bill Callahan moments after the Raiders' AFC championship victory Sunday, the Raider coach's eyes welled up. The mere thought...
RILEY: KURT AN ALL-STAR
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amIf Knicks' center Kurt Thomas has any chance of getting an All-Star berth, Pat Riley's opinion means more than Don Chaney's. That's because when coaches vote on reserves, they can't...
LOSING, ACCORDING TO LUKE
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amLEAVE it to the Cleveland Cadavers to celebrate the true meaning of Martin Luther King Day by coming to the realization that, "He had a dream, but we have no...
NETS' SALT LAKE PITY - UTAH OUTLASTS KIDD & CO. IN OT
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIME: Jazz 106 - Nets 103 SALT LAKE CITY - There were plots and subplots everywhere. There were brilliant plays and monstrous mistakes. There was an apparent victory swiped away...
FASSEL NAMES SCHONERT QBS COACH
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - The newest member of Jim Fassel's coaching staff is Turk Schonert, who has been hired as the Giants new quarterbacks coach, Fassel last night told The Post....
KENNEDY STICKS IT TO FANS OF HOST CITY
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSUPER BOWL CONFIDENTIAL SAN DIEGO - About 30 minutes after the Raiders had advanced to Super Bowl XXXVII, a San Diego reporter approached Oakland tackle Lincoln Kennedy and asked him...
TAMPA DOESN'T FLY COACH - GRUDEN A SUPER NO-SHOW ON FIRST DAY OF FESTIVITIES
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - Lest anyone think this is anything other than a business trip for the Buccaneers, Jon Gruden, their fiery head coach, did not make the trip here last...
RAIDERS LAND WITH AN AIR OF RESOLVE
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - The combatants for Super Bowl XXXVII arrived to this bustling seaside city tired but intact late yesterday, each having to deal with sleep deprivation and a short...
KINGS ROYAL PAIN TO SCOTT
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES SALT LAKE CITY - They were to be the last thing Byron Scott saw last night, the first thing he would see today: the Sacramento Kings. Scott and...
IN JON WE TRUST - BUCS HAIL COACH GRUDEN AS THEIR SUPER SAVIOR
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - John Lynch remembers the first conversation vividly. It was the day after Jon Gruden was hired - acquired, actually - and the veteran safety was in a...
MILES-CLARK TAKES AIM AT THE BEST
January 21, 2003 | 5:00amAt 36, Jearl Miles-Clark is still the U.S. record-holder at 800-meters, and will take aim at the 500-meter world-best in Saturday's New Balance Games. Age is just a number to...