January 25, 2003
NYSE CLEANS UP AFTER MESSIER
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amJean-Marie Messier is out at the New York Stock Exchange. The former chief executive officer of Vivendi has left the board of the NYSE, the Big Board announced yesterday. Messier,...
WAR WHACKS MARTS : INVESTORS BAIL OUT OF STOCKS AHEAD OF IRAQ ATTACK
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amStocks ended a bad week on an especially bad note. The S&P's 500 index registered its biggest one-day loss in four months, while all 30 stocks in the Dow Jones...
OXLEY GORED IN SPITZ-ING MATCH
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Congressman Michael Oxley (R.-Ohio) got into a dissing match yesterday, even as each tried to take full credit for corporate governance reforms. Oxley...
TODAY'S MAN ON THE RACK
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amToday's Man is trying desperately to make sure it will still be around tomorrow. The beleaguered off-price chain has taken the drastic measures of laying off its top three executives...
IMG BOSS REMAINS IN COMA
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amMark McCormack, founder of the IMG talent agency remains in a coma in a New York area hospital after suffering cardiac arrest more than a week ago. IMG - formerly...
SUPER NATURALS : HWOOD BETS BIG BUCKS ON BIG BOWL H'WOOD BETS BIG BUCKS ON THE BIG BOWL
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amEVEN if tomorrows Super Bowl pro vides less than the ex pected thrills, the ads will be worth watch ing. With nearly half the country huddled in front of TV...
OUR SON 'JOE MILLIONAIRE' AND THOSE WILD RUMORS
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amCHOOSING Fox News Channel's Kit Hoover to interview the parents and sister of "Joe Millionaire" star Evan Marriott for "The Pulse" was a good call. Why? Well, Hoover herself basked...
OUTSIDE THE LINES
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amCelebrating the vanguard of the art world, the uber-hip Outsider Art Fair, which wraps up this weekend, is a fine art event devoted solely to the alienated and avant garde....
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amDinner Party Cheat Sheet is running for President as an Independent. Its platform? Free rides for fat kids. WEIGHTY ISSUE A federal judge tossed a lawsuit brought by obese kids...
BINGE AND MERGE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amThere's something very comfortable about the bar at Merge, a narrow, woody West Village drinkery fronting the popular DeMarco's Room restaurant. Maybe it's the old-school drinks (think stingers, side cars,...
HOLY TERRORS
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amStephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields, Dudley Klute (ex-Kid Montana) and Flare's LD Beghtol got together several years ago when they discovered a mutual love for pop music - not just...
T-REX AND THE CITY: BARNEY ANSWERS A FEW BOLD QUESTIONS
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amWhat's 6-foot-7, purple and playing Radio City Music Hall? It's Barney - starring in "Barney's Colorful World," through tomorrow. The Post recently caught up with the talkative tyrannosaurus rex. Here's...
THAT DRINK STINKS!
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amKing Fredipus is always right - or is he? Find out at "The Nastiest Drink in the World," the fun new musical by Vital Children's Theatre. If you've ever read...
CAN YOU DIG IT? GREAT EXPLORATIONS IN ARCHAEOLOGY, ART AND MORE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amIf you've ever wondered what archaeologists really do, or what makes an opera tick or what artists draw on for inspiration, you're about to find out - thanks to workshops...
IMPOSTOR ADMITS RENT SCAM
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amA man who posed as a landlord offering three-bedroom Brooklyn apartments for a mere $1,300 a month admitted yesterday to stealing $3,000 from one would-be tenant - although he allegedly...
8 MORE POLS AIDED BRIBE-FLAP COMPANY
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - State Democratic Chairman Herman "Denny" Farrell and seven other Democrats aided a bribery-linked company's efforts to win state contracts, it was revealed yesterday. Documents released by state Comptroller...
PLEA DEAL LIKELY IN TRAIN TRIO'S 'COUPLING'
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amThe husband and wife accused of having public group sex with the husband's brother on a Long Island Rail Road train are nearing a climax in the case - a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amHe almost was a has-bin. A transient who was napping in Dumpster in Victoria, British Columbia, woke up and found himself inside a churning garbage-truck compactor. Sanitman Brad Smith, who...
GOP SCORES COUP IN ELEX-BOARD CIVIL WAR
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amREPUBLICANS are about to snare the top position at the city's Board of Elections after convincing Bronx Democratic boss José Rivera to support their candidate, former GOP Assemblyman John Ravitz....
SPY HUNT: FEDS QUIZ 50,000 IRAQIS LIVING IN U.S.
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amThe FBI has launched a sweeping probe of 50,000 Iraqis living in the United States to find terrorists and spies - or potential allies - in a military move to...
ROCKET BLAST RATTLES ARIEL ON DAY OF BLOODSHED
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and destroyed a suspected weapons workshop yesterday - while terrorists launched a rocket attack on a town a short distance from Prime Minister...
MIKE HAS UNEQUAL TOLL GOAL
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg suggested yesterday that the current single-rate system of bridge tolls is headed for the scrap heap. "Everybody doesn't have to pay the same tolls," the mayor declared on...
FIRED INS MAN GUILTY IN $1M IMMIGRANT CON
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amA fired U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector was convicted yesterday of swindling nearly $1 million from Chinese families by promising them he could provide green cards for their relatives....
COUNCIL IN GROUND ZERO POWER GRAB
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amCity Hall and the City Council should have more say in the development at Ground Zero, council members said yesterday. The plea for more input came after The Post reported...
GOV PUSHES CURBS ON MEDICAID
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki pledged yesterday to include a "cost-containment package" for the huge Medicaid program - which could be a boon for fiscally strapped New York City. Pataki, speaking...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amMANHATTAN A Harlem man has been charged with murder in a fatal shooting last month, police said yesterday. William Green, 26, was picked up in an apartment on West 111th...
R. KELLY KIDS' BOOK IS BACK
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amR&B singer R. Kelly has been busted twice on kiddie-porn charges, but a publisher says she'll go ahead and re-release a children's book based on his rags-to-riches tale because it's...
HILL'S HOMELAND ATTACK : SLAMS BUSH OVER SECURITY 'MYTH'
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday made the explosive charge that President Bush has not done enough to make the nation safer in the wake of 9/11, saying, "We have relied...
BLOCKBUSTER : $40M MANSION BLOWN UP FOR H'WOOD ACTION FLICK PHOTO EXCLUSIVE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amOne of the most explosive moments of Super Bowl Sunday will come during a commercial break. A $40 million Miami mansion was blown to smithereens for the Will Smith action...
CUT-UPS BREAK THE ICE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amWhile the big chill continued its ear-numbing crawl across the East yesterday, Coast Guard captains carving shipping lanes through frozen New York-area waterways said they were working in a Winter...
MTA ASSETS COULD PAY FOR HIKE: MILLER
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amThe MTA is sitting on a gold mine - a whopping $700 million in net assets - it could tap into this year in order to avoid raising bus and...
A BLESSED MESS OVER VET FIRING AT CEMETERY
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amA former member of the honor guard at a New Jersey veterans cemetery is raising a holy stink over the way the American military is burying its dead - after...
PARKING TIX TO DERIDE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amThere was an added chill in the air on the Upper East Side yesterday when a coldhearted traffic enforcement agent began chasing motorists from their soon-to-be-legal parking spots - and...
COACH SUES OVER NET PAY
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amA former basketball coach at Fordham University claims in a $1.5 million lawsuit he was discriminated against by the college because he coached women. Kevin Morris, of Boonton, N.J., who...
MAYOR SET TO SPEND $100M ON '05 RERUN
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg is so intent on a second four-year term that's he's prepared to spend $100 million to ward off possible challengers, The Post has learned. "I heard out of...
BX. GRAVEDIGGERS BURY THE HATCHET
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amA strike by gravediggers at St. Raymond's Cemetery in The Bronx ended yesterday with ratification of a new three-year contract by members of Teamsters Union Local 282. The cemetery, one...
DRIVER DEAD BEHIND WHEEL
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amNew Jersey state cops said they were investigating the suspicious death of a 20-year-old man discovered in his car yesterday at a service station off the Garden State Parkway. Police...
MARTHA TO FEDS: GO EASY
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amMartha Stewart is begging for mercy. Lawyers for the beleaguered queen of domesticity have pleaded with federal investigators to abandon their criminal probe of her alleged insider trading of ImClone...
B'WAY 'BOMB'-SHELL : PRODUCERS MAY FIGHT A STRIKE WITH TAPED MUSIC
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amBroadway producers are prepared to unleash what one calls "our atomic bomb" - pre-recorded music - to keep their shows running in the event of a musicians' strike this spring....
KELLY'S 'NOTE'-WORTHY ANGER AT BANKERS
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amBank robberies have recently spiked in the Big Apple - and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday demanded the banking industry do more to help the NYPD catch the bad guys....
WACKY PICTURE OF DEFACE SUSPECT
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amThe screwy security guard charged with defacing a historic painting with a phony picture of the World Trade Center attack calls himself "a terrorist fighting terrorism." Robert Gray, 41, an...
MOM HIT BY CAR WHILE SAVING TOT
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amA 28-year-old pregnant Bronx mom made a loving sacrifice for her 21/2-year- old son yesterday - pushing him to safety just as they were about to be hit by a...
TOT SURVIVES ELEVATOR FALL
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amA 4-year-old girl yesterday miraculously survived a harrowing 14-foot plummet down an elevator shaft in a Manhattan building, police said. The tot fell into the empty freight elevator shaft around...
SCHOOLBOYS IN SEXUAL ATTACK: COPS
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amFive adolescent boys sexually groped a 13-year-old girl yesterday at a Queens school, police said. The attack occurred when the boys tried to grab the teen's breasts and attempted to...
HS SLAY 'HOAXER' BUSTED
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amIt took just days of using a computer instant messaging program for a Queens honors student to find himself in big trouble for an Internet threat to bomb his high...
NYPD UNITES CRIME TRACKERS
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amThe NYPD yesterday created a new citywide Special Victims Division to coordinate investigative efforts in the five boroughs. The new division, established within the department's Detective Bureau, will bring together...
WACKY PICTURE OF 'DEFACER'
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amThe screwy security guard charged with defacing a historic painting with a phony picture of the World Trade Center attack calls himself "a terrorist fighting terrorism." Robert Gray, 41, is...
BLESSED MESS OVER VET-CEMETERY FIRING
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amA former member of the honor guard at a New Jersey veterans cemetery is raising a holy stink over the way the American military is burying its dead - after...
COACH SUES FORDHAM OVER NET PAY
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amA former head basketball coach at Fordham University claims in a $1.5 million lawsuit he was discriminated against by college chiefs - because he coached women. Kevin Morris, of Boonton,...
SEX TRAIN TRIO MAY GET OFF WITHOUT JAIL
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amThe husband and wife accused of having public group sex with the husband's brother on a Long Island Rail Road train are nearing a climax in the case - a...
MARTHA IN MERCY PLEA TO THE FEDS
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amMartha Stewart is begging for mercy. Lawyers for the queen of domesticity have pleaded with the feds to abandon their criminal probe of her alleged insider trading of ImClone shares....
MTA ON DWI CHARGES
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amAn MTA police manager who oversees its vehicle fleet was arrested on drunken-driving charges on Staten Island early yesterday - after smashing an agency vehicle into a parked car, authorities...
REPORT CARD MAY 'B' EASY ON IRAQ
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The chief U.N. nuclear inspector is set to give Iraq a "B" grade for its good cooperation, while the White House signaled yesterday it might give inspectors more...
THIS SOAP OPERA BOWL IS RIVETING : STORYLINES & SUBPLOTS MAKE RAIDERS-BUCS MUST-SEE FROM SD
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - Pick a subplot, any subplot. You cannot go wrong. Super Bowl XXXVII is sure to be winner. Buff shine the Barca-Lounger, ice down the keg, pre-heat the...
GANNON, JOHNSON TOOK DETOURS TO DESTINY
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - Teams never learn. Coaches never learn. GMs? Man, they'll always be the last to understand, are you kidding? Right now, this morning, as you read this, there...
GANNON ISN'T ONE TO JUST LET IT 'DROP'
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amSUPER BOWL CONFIDENTIAL SAN DIEGO - Rich Gannon is a relatively quiet guy . . . until one of his receivers drops a pass, that is. Gannon, the Raiders' MVP...
THE MOUTHS THAT ROAR: SUPER SQUADS FULL OF BIG-TIME TALKERS
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - Even before football's two best teams clash tomorrow at Qualcomm Stadium, some of the game's best talkers have already shot from the lip. The mind-numbing days of...
YOUNG TURNED BIG BLUE AROUND
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - In many ways, it is fitting that Harry Carson and George Young are in the running today for selection into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Carson...
TAGS' IDEA FOR N.Y. SUPER BOWL A BAD, COLD JOKE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - Paul Tagliabue was playing for laughs at this point in his state-of-the-NFL speech. We know this because it was when the NFL men sprinkled throughout the vast...
'OTHER JERRY' MAKING NAME FOR HIMSELF
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - Picture Raiders' quarterback Rich Gannon standing tall and protected in the pocket surveying the field. One of his options is Jerry Rice. Another is Tim Brown. Who's...
SJU'S REYNOLDS HANGING TOUGH
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amBLACKSBURG, Va. - The courts will decide if Grady Reynolds is guilty of harassing and assaulting a St. John's coed. Reynolds can't control that. What Reynolds can control is what...
BAILEY GETS VINDICATION AS BAFFERT DUMPS SMITH
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amJockey Jerry Bailey will replace Mike Smith as rider of the unbeaten colt Vindication, the early favorite for this year's Kentucky Derby, trainer Bob Baffert said yesterday. Vindication (by Seattle...
GIRARDI ON LIEBER DEAL: YANKEES INKED 'WARRIOR'
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amJoe Girardi talked to Jon Lieber at least twice a week during this offseason, and the subject was always the same: "Tell me about the Yankees." Girardi, a Yankee from...
AMAZIN'S SIGN LLOYD TO MINOR-LEAGUE DEAL
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amThe Mets yesterday made room for another former Yankee bullpen star, signing free-agent left-hander Graeme Lloyd to a minor-league contract. "I love going back to New York," Lloyd said from...
SUNSHINE MILLIONS GETS OUT OF GATE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amThe Super Bowl isn't the only grudge match between teams from Florida and California this weekend. Today, Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita - both racetracks owned by Frank Stronach's Magna...
OVER AND DUNHAM : BLACKBURN FORCED INTO BACK SEAT
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amWHEN Mike Dunham goes between the pipes for this afternoon's Garden match against the Thrashers, it will mark the 18th time in the last 19 games that Dan Blackburn has...
THREE DAYS LATER, ALL IS FORGIVEN
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amIslanders 3Flyers 1 PHILADELPHIA - For the two days leading up to last night's resounding 3-1 win over the Flyers here, the Islanders were waiting on some sunshine to wipe...
RICE'S DYER CALMLY SINKS ROYALS
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amH.S. HOOPSRice 68CTK 65 This has not been a typical season for Rice. After starting off the year hot, the defending New York Federation champs dropped five of seven prior...
JAX THINKS JERSEY LOOKS FINE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Get the Nets healthy and they are as good - if not better - than the Nets who were swept away in last season's Finals. Who says...
VAN EXEL'S SO HAPPY TO BE A MAV
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amDays after Antonio McDyess became a Knick, he and Nick Van Exel heard the trade rumors. Van Exel and his former Nugget teammate talked on the phone, excitedly dreaming of...
MAV OWNER TIPS 'CAP' TO DOLAN
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amMavericks owner Mark Cuban revealed to The Post he owns stock in James Dolan's Cablevision and supports the Knicks owner's hands-off approach in daily events of the franchise. Cuban is...
FOURTH & SO LONG : KNICKS BLOW IT IN FINAL QUARTER
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amMavericks 101Knicks 90 Look at the bright side: The Knicks went toe-to-toe with the league's best team for three quarters, they entered the season's midpoint with a better record than...
NETS BACK ON TRACK ; TOP LAKERS, SNAP SLIDE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amNets 89Lakers 83 LOS ANGELES - Byron Scott insisted just one game would not be enough to rouse the Nets from their coma. But beating the Lakers in L.A. is...
THE MATCHUPS ; RAIDERS VS. BUCCANEERS
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amQUARTERBACKS/RECEIVERS vs. DEFENSIVE BACKS When the Raiders have the ball: Rich Gannon is the NFL's MVP and he's played like it the last two playoff games. He threw 26 TDs...
COACH HERM: BUCS' TOP-SHELF DEFENSE CAN SHUT 'EM DOWN
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - The Rich Gannon- led Raiders juggernaut offense can be stopped . . . or at least slowed down effectively enough for the Buccaneers to bring the Lombardi...
THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCE VS. THE IMMOVABLE OBJECT :
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - The Raiders know how smart the coach on the other side of the field is. They know he knows them as well, if not better, than they...
NO BABBLING BROOKS
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - People wanted to know what Derrick Brooks had to say, just not as many people as were crammed around Warren Sapp and Keyshawn Johnson. Even Jon Gruden...
SHOWDOWN ON THE STAGE: COVETED HALFTIME SLOT GIVES SHANIA EDGE OVER CELINE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amAMONG the Super Bowl's weapons of mass distraction - often more entertaining than the game itself - will be the music. Tomorrow's big game isn't just a battle between two...
WHAT, THEM WORRY? NETS SHRUG OFF WEST COAST WOES
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Their opponents have been averaging more than 100 points while shooting with high-percentage accuracy usually reserved for All-Star Games. They'd lost three straight games for the first...
TIMES ARE MAV-ELOUS FOR NELLIE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amThe biggest difference between coach Don Nelson's time with the Knicks and his stay with the Mavericks is that when times got tough, Dallas owner Mark Cuban didn't ask him...
HALFWAY HOME, KNICK SEASON HITTING STRIDE: TEAM'S AT .500 SINCE 1-8 START
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amWhen they began the season 1-8, projections had the Knicks - without injured Antonia McDyess - headed for their worst record in franchise history. Twenty one wins in 1962-63 is...
ISLES NEED TIMANDER TO RESCUE DEPLETED 'D'
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Mattias Timander, please step forward. The Islanders' defense has been ravaged with injuries to both Adrian Aucoin, No. 2 in the league in average ice time, and Eric...
KIDD'S PLAY CAN'T GUARANTEE VICTORY FOR JERSEY
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES LOS ANGELES - Jason Kidd scored his Net career high of 41 points Thursday. The Nets lost. On Monday, Kidd lit up Utah for 33. The Nets lost....