February 1, 2003
DISNEY BOARD CRITIC SILENCED
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amA Walt Disney board member who's been a harsh critic of Chairman Michael Eisner says Eisner deliberately orchestrated her ouster to silence her. Eisner described on Thursday how he was...
FUGITIVE FUND CROOK SIGHTED IN CARIBBEAN
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amFugitive hedge fund manager Michael Berger who jumped the border with as much as $400 million is reported to have surfaced on the tiny island of Dominica, which has no...
AVON UN-BECOMING AT JC PENNEY
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amAvon has pulled the plug on plans to sell its beComing brand of skin care, cosmetics and fragrance products through JC Penney. It's back to making money the old-fashioned way...
UAL'S DOWNDRAFT: UNITED'S 4TH QTR. LOSS WORSE THAN 9/11 PERIOD
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amUnited Airlines' parent company, UAL Corp., lost a whopping $1.5 billion in the fourth quarter - contributing to its biggest annual loss ever of $3.2 billion - as its costs...
TV GUIDE PICKS LAFAVORE
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amMichael LaFavore, the founding editor of Men's Health, has beat out former Entertainment Weekly managing editor Jim Seymore to become the new editor-in-chief of TV Guide. Seymore had worked on...
ANTI-HEROES : AFRO-BEAT CREW ANTIBALAS ARE SET TO FUNK UP MANHATTAN
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amAntibalas, a funkified Afro-beat band based in Brooklyn, has up to 17 members in the group at any given time, but even that's not enough. Founder Martin Perna wants the...
BRIDGE AND FUNNEL
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amThe Bar Belles are a hearty duo, but even we balk at bar-hopping when the weather is such that you can get ice cubes for your G&T out of the...
SHEEP DATE
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amDon't put away those noisemakers just yet. It's time for the "other" New Year's bash - the celebration of the Chinese Lunar Year in Chinatown this weekend. Opening ceremonies begin...
MAKING HISTORY
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amNever mind that the subject is history (we can already hear you cry "Bor-ring!"). The city's museums, theaters and parks are offering some cool ways to appreciate Black History Month,...
THEY'VE GOT THE BEAT! IMPROV, AND ALL THAT JAZZ
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amEver wonder how jazz musicians know what to play without reading music? Wycliffe Gordon says it's as easy as A, B, C. "Just as we use the alphabet to learn...
THEY'VE GOT THE BEAT : LENNY BERNSTEIN'S MUSIC - WITH LOVE AND RHYTHM
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amTo the long list of everything Leonard Bernstein was - conductor, composer, pianist, teacher, New York man about town - add this: He was a super dad. Just ask his...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amDinner Party Cheat Sheet says: "If you can't find a date for your dinner party, dig one up." ESPRIT DE CORPSE Three twisted Long Island teens were busted after taking...
FAMILY-FEUD FIRE ; 1 DIES AS SON TORCHES DAD'S BUILDING: COPS
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man angry at his father set fire to an apartment building his dad owns - killing a homeless man and injuring an elderly tenant, police said yesterday. George...
STEAL SIGN FOR CROOKS AT BAT
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amPolice on Long Island are looking for the boys of summer - two athletic young crooks who burglarized a sports memorabilia store in record time last July and stole an...
EX-D.A. ADMITS LETTING MOM DIE
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amA former top prosecutor, whose Alzheimer's-stricken mother lived in squalor at his Westchester home, faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to her manslaughter death. Grant McClellan,...
GOV'S RAZOR-SHARP BUDGET AX SPURS COUNCIL TO DECLARE 'WAR' ON ALBANY
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amMAYOR Bloomberg is facing a revolt in the City Council. "War is coming," declared one council member bluntly. Council members assumed that after they enacted an 18.5 percent property tax...
MIGHTY MOUSE GROUNDS PLANE
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amTwo airline flights between New York and Zurich were canceled this week after a mouse went missing. The adventurous rodent - destined for use in lab experiments - slipped out...
PREZ PUTS HIV TEST ON FAST TRACK
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday he's cutting red tape to make an almost-instant AIDS test widely available. "We are determined to turn the tide against AIDS," Bush said, just...
GOVERNOR'S 'BUY'-LAND: PATAKI PAYS $1 TO SNAG HARBOR ISLE FOR N.Y.
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Gov. Pataki handed President Bush a single dollar bill yesterday in the Oval Office to take custody of Governors Island as he and Mayor Bloomberg praised Bush for...
BX. ALARMED BY FIRE CUTS
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amThe removal of all 34 fire marshals working in The Bronx will lead to a spate of arsons, car fires, insurance scams and fatalities, the firefighters union and City Council...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH OPENS
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amBlack History Month - a celebration of the contributions of African Americans - begins today. "Black History Month is a time for reflection on and celebration of the contributions that...
HEALTH PLAN HEARTBURN ; CITY HALL RIPS GOV'S 'DIVIDE-&-CONQUER' TACTIC
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE A top official in the Bloomberg administration yesterday accused Gov. Pataki of a "divide and conquer" strategy by pushing a new Medicaid plan that would help most counties -...
GO FINGER: 11-DIGIT DIALING IS HERE
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amNew Yorkers were hoping to avoid a digital disaster today - the first day it became mandatory to dial 11 digits for all phone calls, even local ones. City agencies,...
HEARTWARMING NEWS: TEMPS DOING THE MILD THING
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amYou can chuck your parka and stow your mittens, at least temporarily - Old Man Winter will be on the run as ice-plagued New York City gets a welcome dose...
JUSTIFYING INMATE OUTFLOW
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - The Pataki administration yesterday staunchly defended its plan to release up to 1,300 prisoners early, denying it represents a shift in the governor's normally tough-on-crime approach. "Whether this...
TALE OF THE TAPES TO BARE IRAQ 'LIES'
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell is expected to provide the U.N. Security Council with sensitive communications intercepts in which Iraqi commanders order workers to clean up suspect weapons...
BEEP BOPPING BLOOMY TIX BLITZ
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amManhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields yesterday charged that Mayor Bloomberg was sending traffic agents on a "witch hunt" against city drivers with his plan for issuing 1.7 million more...
JACKO'S BIDDER PILL ; SOTHEBY'S: HE OWES US $1.3M
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amMichael Jackson couldn't resist breaking the bank to snatch up this angelic portrait of "Cupid the God of Love" during a $1.3 million bidding spree at Sotheby's last fall -...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amMANHATTAN A second NYPD cadet has been arrested and suspended for torching a car owned by her cohort, police said yesterday. Off-duty cadet Mery Zaruma, 21, assigned to the Police...
ISRAELIS QUOTE ARAFAT: 'WHY NOT KILL MORE?'
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Yasser Arafat asked, "Why haven't you killed more Israelis?" and said, "You know what needs to be done," in a meeting with Palestinian terrorist chiefs, it was revealed...
IT'S OFFICIAL: GOP CONVENE HERE
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki signed a contract with the Republican Party yesterday to put the 2004 convention in New York City. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was on...
FAMILY FEUD SPARKED ARSON: COPS
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man angry at his father apparently set fires at an apartment building his dad owns - killing a homeless man and injuring an elderly tenant, cops said yesterday....
KATHIE LEE AND KIDS IN TEARS AS COYOTE TAKES BELOVED POOCH
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amKathie Lee Gifford is grieving for her beloved dog Chardonnay, who was killed near the family's Connecticut home by a predatory coyote who pounced on the petite pooch. Tuesday afternoon's...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amPolice in Olympia, Wash., found the mummified remains of a man hanging by the neck from the limb of a cedar tree about 40 feet off the ground. Officials said...
$ECRET LIFE PROBED IN SLAY OF ACTIVISTS
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday said cops are looking into the tangled financial world of two slain Chinese community activists to find answers for their brutal killings. "We are looking...
SCHOOL-BUS STRIKE PUT ON HOLD
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein temporarily averted a yellow school bus strike early next week after persuading the head of the union representing drivers and matrons last night to agree to...
SLUGGING GYM TEACHER GETS WRIST SLAP
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amA female Brooklyn gym teacher, accused of using lesbian love connections to have a respected assistant principal falsely arrested, was sentenced yesterday for slugging the man in the face. Marie...
A LONG WAIT IN STORE FOR 911 FIX
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amA high-tech cellular phone tracking system that could have pinpointed the distress call from four missing teens in the icy waters off City Island a week ago will not be...
NEW DIRT IN NYPD SEX SUIT
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amA retired police captain testified that his superiors purposely wrecked his career and dragged his reputation through the mud after he and his cop wife complained she'd been sexually harassed....
BIG APPLE KIDS CHEATED OUT OF $$$
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amNew York City school advocates yesterday took their case to the state's top court, arguing that Big Apple kids have been cheated out of billions of dollars in state funds...
CARJACKER GOES POSTAL IN HOSTAGE NAIL-BITER
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amA gunman seized a mail truck in Miami yesterday in a carjacking drama that ended with his surrender after he forced the female driver to lead police cars on an...
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amFour students have been booted from Christ The King HS in Middle Village for their alleged involvement in an alleged sex assault on a 15-year-old female student, officials said yesterday....
'ANTI-JEW' PRINCIPAL PUNISHED
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn high school principal has been stripped of her authority over who can use space at her public school following accusations that she discriminated against Jewish and other community...
CIA BIDS TO IMPROVE ITS CHINESE
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The CIA is wishing Chinese-Americans a Happy Chinese New Year - and trying to hire them. A new CIA ad campaign, featuring Chinese art, is running in English-...
WAR PACT: BUSH AND BLAIR TELL SADDAM: 'TIME'S UP'
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair - the closest of allies - together turned up the heat yesterday on Saddam Hussein. Standing side by side outside...
KINK STINK CAN'T STOP BITTER RITTER
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amSAUGERTIES, N.Y. - Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter was back blasting President Bush yesterday after a week in which the sordid details of an Internet sex sting came back...
KATHIE LEE AND KIDS IN TEARS AS COYOTE KILLS BELOVED POOCH
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amKathie Lee Gifford is grieving for her beloved dog, Chardonnay, who was killed near the family's Connecticut home by a coyote who pounced on the petite pooch. Tuesday's attack on...
SCHOOL REFORMERS HEADING TO COURT
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amNew York City school advocates yesterday took their case to the state's top court, arguing that Big Apple kids have been cheated out of billions of dollars in state funds...
WTC PLANS SLAMMED ; DEVELOPER CALLS THEM TOO RISKY
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amThe man who holds the lease on the World Trade Center site said yesterday none of the proposed design plans is "viable and safe" - and insisted he has the...
RAPIST LOOSE IN CITY
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amA "congenial"-acting sexual predator has attacked six women in Manhattan and The Bronx in the past two weeks, police said yesterday. The gap-toothed fiend is courteous to his victims before...
$ECRET LIFE PROBED IN SLAY OF ACTIVIST
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday said cops are looking into the tangled financial world of two slain Chinese community activists to find answers for their brutal killings. "We are looking...
LACI 'SPOTTER' WAS MISTAKEN: COPS
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amPolice in Washington state said yesterday a possible sighting of missing pregnant California woman Laci Peterson in a grocery store is likely not her, after they reviewed the store's video...
LONG WAIT IS AHEAD FOR 911 FIX
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amA high-tech cellular phone tracking system that could have pinpointed the distress call from four missing teens in the icy waters off City Island a week ago will not be...
WATCHING KID INMATES UNSAFE: UNION
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amCounselors at city juvenile detention centers claimed yesterday at a City Council hearing that they are being treated worse than the young offenders they are hired to protect. Several Department...
SOTHEBY'S SLAPS JACKO : SUIT SAYS MJ OWES $1.3M ON PAINTINGS
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amMichael Jackson couldn't resist breaking the bank to snatch up this angelic portrait of "Cupid the God of Love" during a $1.3 million bidding spree at Sotheby's last fall -...
NO EISLEY VICTORIES: HOWARD'S HOT HAND SAVES DAY FOR KNICKS
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amKnicks 108 Grizzlies 102 MEMPHIS - Howard Eisley had shown enough greatness for three quarters to propel the Knicks to a much-needed road victory. And when he came out with...
WHEW! HELL MONTH FINALLY ENDS
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES Nobody's more excited to see February arrive than the Nets - and not because of all those Presidents Day sales. It's because it means January, their most difficult...
KIDD SITS BUT NETS SOLDIER ON
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amBy now, nobody should act surprised when the Nets shrug off a player's absence and win anyway. Or haven't you been watching the last two seasons? These are not your...
HAMRLIK HAPPY FOR DAY IN SUN
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amRoman Hamrlik is honored to be going to his third All-Star Game, this time as the Islanders' lone representative. And this time he thinks he won't get booed. The last...
SMUG SATHER NEEDS REPAIR
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amFT. LAUDERDALE - Glen Sather revels in the disdain so many of the of the writers who cover the Rangers have for him, and he somehow glories in the outright...
RED-HOT DEVILS PRIMED TO MAKE DEAL
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amBy the time the Devils return from the All-Star break to play host to the bankrupt Sabres, they will have gone a full month without an outright loss. By the...
DEAL IN THE CARDS? KNICKS ARE POKER-FACED AS DEADLINE APPROACHES
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amMEMPHIS - Knicks management is actively making calls with three weeks to go before the Feb. 20 trading deadline, but are frustrating fellow league executives with its vagueness. "They always...
SURGERY FOR STANLEY
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amAndre Stanley never boasted when he got to start. He never sulked when he came off the bench. He never lifted so much as an eyebrow over the last two...
KNICKS FEEL FOR DEPOSED PREP KING
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amMEMPHIS - Allan Houston felt extreme sympathy for the banned LeBron James yesterday. "It's unfortunate," Houston said. "People are going to take it to the extreme with him and it's...
CALL HIM LEGONE JAMES: PHENOM'S HS CAREERCOMES TO 'CLOTHES'DUE TO FREE JERSEYS
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amLeBron James' high school basketball days are over. The Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) ruled yesterday that the prep phenom is ineligible for the remainder of the season as...
KIDD PLAYS IT SAFE WITH INJURY
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES Jason Kidd said he felt good enough to play last night. It didn't matter. After all, he is The Franchise, and the Nets weren't about to take any...
RAVENS WAKE UP JUST IN TIME
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amChrist the King stormed out onto its Queens court last night and tried to run St. Raymond's out of the building. The Royals did, but only for the first half....
JASON WHO? NETS CRUISE
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amNets 89Hornets 72 A game like this - maybe that's when you really know you have a special team. Last night at the Meadowlands there was no Jason Kidd. There...
TRADE TALK SLOWED BY VAGUENESS
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MEMPHIS - Knicks management is actively making calls with three weeks to go before the Feb. 20 trading deadline, but are frustrating fellow league executives with its vagueness....
ERNIE NOT DOGGED BY DOUBTS OVER DEAL
February 1, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MEMPHIS - Bucks GM Ernie Grunfeld's controversial decision to trade Glenn "Big Dog" Robinson in a Toni Kukoc package hasn't turned out that badly after all. When the...