February 6, 2003
GANGS OF ANGRY INVESTORS PLAN PROXY BATTLES
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amEVERYONE is itching for a fight these days. Bush with Saddam. New York with New Jersey. Me with, well, anyone. So why should it be any different in the corporate...
KPMG STAYS AT MIDTOWN TOWER
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amAfter flirting with the idea of a new World Financial Center address, accounting giant KPMG helped stabilize the Midtown market with a commitment to remain in its 345 Park Ave....
NASDAQ CEO LIST GETTING SHORTER
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amNasdaq is reaching out to possible new CEOs, including CSFB's Mike Clark, Artie Pacheco of Bear Stearns and Sanford Bernstein's Matt Andresen, The Post has learned. The exchange has hired...
REDSTONE'S GAME OF CHANCE
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amViacom's Sumner Redstone now personally owns more than 19 percent of Midway Games, and his holding company, National Amusements, has another 9 percent. Add in the 6 percent of Midway...
RAPPER DEMANDS CHECK AND APOLOGY FROM PEPSI
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amRussell Simmons formally announced his planned boycott of Pepsi for bumping a rapper from an ad and outlined his list of demands. Simmons and his 'Campaign for Respect' boycott will...
SUITS THREATEN AOL - INVESTOR ANGER OVER INSIDER DEALS COULD COST $3B
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amDebt-soaked AOL Time Warner could be pushed to the edge by securities fraud lawsuits filed against the company over its financial missteps. The lawsuits could cost more than $3 billion...
'UNBREAKABLE' DOUBLE: WILLIS SPREAD SPRAWLS
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amYOU could call Bruce Willis' latest spending spree, "Buy Hard with a Vengeance." The action hero has recently purchased another duplex in Trump Tower - in addition to the four-bedroom,...
SEVENTEEN ON BLOCK - RED-HOT AUCTION EXPECTED; MAGAZINE COULD FETCH $225M
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amDebt-heavy Primedia said it is willing to explore strategic options for Seventeen - the queen to teen titles - and most media observers see it fetching a price north of...
INVESTMENT GURU EBERHARD BUSTED
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amTodd Eberhard, an investment adviser and TV financial-news fixture, was busted yesterday on charges he bilked his clients out of millions of dollars. He "has made numerous misrepresentations to clients...
COLISEUM BOOKS TO REOPEN ON 42ND ST.
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amNew York book lovers can rejoice - Coliseum Books is coming back. The browser's paradise that closed in January 2002, after 27 years at Broadway and 57th Street, will be...
PARTY KING SAC TRADER EYED BY INVESTIGATORS IN BECKER CASE
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amA new figure who's surfaced in the Holly Becker insider trading scandal is a high-living hedge-fund honcho who makes movies and throws $1 million parties. He's 38-year-old Seth Kanegis, a...
ANOTHER SAC TRADER EYED BY INVESTIGATORS IN BECKER CASE
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amA new figure who's surfaced in the Holly Becker insider trading scandal is a high-living hedge-fund honcho who makes movies and throws $1 million parties. He's 38-year-old Seth Kanegis, a...
STARR REPORT
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amGriffiths gives the 'Under' over on 'Sopranos' Outspoken actress Rachel Griffiths (left), who plays funky Brenda on "Six Feet Under," takes a shot at fellow HBO stablemate "The Sopranos" in...
3 BRAINIACS CHASE 'JEOPARDY' JACKPOT
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amTHREE local teens are vying for a $50,000 top prize in this year's whiz-kid tournament on "Jeopardy!" The trio - Stephanie Ehresman, 17, from Shirley, L.I., Jonathan Gillerman and Anthony...
PRINCESS DIANA, DO YOU HAVE A MESSAGE FOR THE VIEWERS?
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amHERE'S a new angle on Princess Diana's life that hadn't been done yet - a pay-per-view TV séance to conjure up her "spirit." And hosted by ex-"Avengers" star Patrick Macnee,...
HEY JOE, YOU'RE THE MAN
February 6, 2003 | 5:00am'FEAR Factor" host Joe Rogan is expected to head over to Comedy Central as the new host of "The Man Show." But the move may cause a few legal headaches...
BLUES BLOSSOM; RADIO CITY ALL-STAR FETE OFFERS OLD & NEW
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amFROM the backwoods juke joints where field hands shook the day's work out of their bones with 12-bar progressions played on homemade guitars, to hallowed concert halls around the world...
CAT CALL FOR NICOLE
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amNicole Kidman would be purr-fect to play the crime-fighting superheroine Catwoman, Warner Bros. reportedly thinks. The studio is courting the much-in-demand saucy Aussie - expected to be nominated next week...
BOWLED OVER
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amBoosted by their star-spangled Super Bowl appearance, the Dixie Chicks returned to the top of the album sales charts this week, selling 103,940 copies of "Home," and pushing Norah Jones,...
JACKO DOCUMENTARY PROVES HE'S... NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amI AM Michael Jackson's worst nightmare. I was the one, you see, who first wrote about Wacko's relationship with the 13-year old boy who later accused him of sexual abuse....
CRAYONS, SIMPLE ADVICE: THE NEW LITERATURE
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amTHE romantic comedy, "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," which opens tomorrow, started humbly, five years ago, with a crayon and a visit to Kinko's. The authors, two...
LIFE IN THE FAT LANE: N.Y. MEN SIZE UP FASHION SHOW'S SEX APPEAL
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amARE men ready for super-size women in skivvies? Maybe not. Lane Bryant's held its fourth lingerie runway show in Manhattan on Tuesday night - parading models in sizes 14, 16...
NASA: DEBRIS NOT TO BLAME
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amNASA yesterday all but ruled out the possibility that the shuttle Columbia disaster was caused by a chunk of foam insulation that struck the left wing during liftoff. Agency experts...
ALZHEIMER LINK TO CELL PHONES
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amCell phones damage key brain cells and may trigger the early onset of Alzheimer's disease, an alarming new study suggests. Swedish researchers found that radiation from cell-phone handsets damage areas...
MARTHA PROBERS ON FENCE
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amProsecutors have warned Martha Stewart they've got enough evidence to accuse her of a crime, a source close to her insider-trading case said yesterday. But whether the FBI and federal...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amIt was a card game they'll never forget. Four people playing poker ended up diving for their lives when a van burst through the wall of their apartment in St....
BALD-FACED STROKE RISK
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amMen who have to shave less than once a day may have a 70 percent higher chance of suffering stroke, according to a newly released study. The link between an...
BULL'S-EYE! - COLIN COMES THROUGH
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amYESTERDAY morning, Secretary of State Colin Powell did a superb job of laying out the case against Saddam Hussein. As an old intel hand, I recognize both the quality of...
'BATTERED' KID'S DEATH PROBED
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amPolice on Long Island are investigating the death of a 4-year-old Patchogue boy who was brought to a hospital with a fractured skull and other internal injuries. Little Isaiah Silver's...
HIGH-TECH GEAR CAPTURES CHEATS IN MASS OBSTRUCTION
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - An incredible array of satellites, high-speed supercomputers and other secret space-age technology helped catch Iraqi military commanders deceiving U.N. weapons inspectors, U.S. intelligence officials said last night. In...
POOPED-OUT POLS CHANGE DOG-DOO LAW
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amDog owners will no longer be in deep doo-doo if their pooches poop on the grassy strip between the sidewalk and curb outside homes in Leonia, N.J. Borough Attorney Steven...
PERV PRIEST GUILTY OF 'LAP' ATTACK
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn jury convicted a Catholic priest of sex abuse yesterday for a 1999 attack in which he grabbed a 12-year-old girl and forced her to sit on his lap....
DEFIANT N. KOREA FIRING UP ITS NUKES
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amNorth Korea raised the stakes in its confrontation with the United States yesterday, with the surprise announcement that it had restarted a nuclear-energy program that Washington says was building atomic...
JOINT FORCES OF EVIL - QAEDA, SADDAM TIE BARED
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday presented frightening new intelligence information about dangerous al Qaeda cells operating out of Baghdad as part of an emerging "sinister axis" between...
BILL BOOSTS GI TENANTS
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amLandlords who discriminate against members of the military could be tossed in the brig for a year under new federal legislation proposed yesterday. U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said yesterday...
PACINO TAKES TWINS' MOM TO COURT
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amAl Pacino may be suffering his worst family problems since the "Godfather" trilogy. He's taking his girlfriend of five years, actress Beverly D'Angelo, to court in Manhattan over their 2-year-old...
SMOKING GUNS - ADMINISTRATION WINS AGAIN
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amDID Colin Powell show the "smoking gun" at the United Nations? Hell, every single word he spoke was a smoking gun. After 9/11, President Bush told the nation that we...
BUSH: WE'LL FINISH THE JOB THAT ISRAELI HERO STARTED
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - President Bush consoled the children of Israel's first astronaut by telling them he would finish the job begun by their father - who bombed Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor....
B IS FOR BOY AT NEW BROOKLYN SCHOOL
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe city's first all-boys public school in a generation is coming to Brooklyn. The State University Charter Schools Institute has recommended opening the Bedford-Stuyvesant Charter School for Excellence. Its board...
JAYSON'S KILLER $$ DEAL WITH GUS' KIN
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amFormer hoop superstar Jayson Williams settled a civil lawsuit brought by the family of a limousine driver shot dead last year at his mansion - and offered a heartfelt apology...
EVEN DEMS SAY IT WAS 'COMPELLING'
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amSUDDENLY, everyone stopped demanding, "Where's the smoking gun?" - because Secretary of State Colin Powell came armed with plenty of ammunition as he made the case against Saddam Hussein. "It...
U.N. DEN OF HARLOTS NO PLACE FOR HERO POWELL
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amRADIOACTIVE with rage is the only way I can describe my feeling as I sat in the castle of consummate cowards - watching a tough New Yorker who fought battles...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amTHE BRONX * An on-duty NYPD officer was arrested after swiping more than $600 in cash and three $45 money orders from a woman's apartment in Kingsbridge, authorities said yesterday....
BABBLING BAGHDAD
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amIraqi officials dismissed Secretary of State Colin Powell's case against them yesterday as an "American show" complete with special effects and stunts designed to sell the world on war. "The...
S.I. POL MAY FACE MOB-PAYOFF RAP
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amA Staten Island Conservative Party bigwig who allegedly bought labor peace from the mob while operating a major New York container terminal could soon face criminal charges, the feds said...
CSC TOOK MCCALL TO DINNER
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Former Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Carl McCall was wined and dined by a bribery-linked correction company being probed by the state, The Post has learned. Records turned over to...
DOG-MAUL HORROR - S.I. MOM SURVIVES ROTTWEILER ATTACK
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amA petite mother of two sobbed yesterday as she told from her hospital bed how a pair of Rottweilers suddenly pounced and mauled her on her way home from a...
PATAKI PAL PROBED IN ROOSEVELT IS. STORM
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe head of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp. - Gov. Pataki's campaign manager when he first ran for governor - has been placed on leave and is under investigation by...
COP CLAIMS SEX-HARASS RAT TRAP
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amA high-ranking cop, testifying yesterday on a female lieutenant's sexual-harassment claim, said a "rat" trap packed into a box of her belongings could have been a cruel joke - or...
JAILHOUSE CROCK - MUSLIM CLERIC GETS BOOT FOR PRAISING 9/11 THUGS
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amOfficials yesterday banned the state's former top Muslim cleric from setting foot in a state prison ever again - after he said the 9/11 terrorists should be honored as martyrs....
MIKE MIFFED DIPLO LET OFF HOOK
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe Bloomberg administration was surprised by the Manhattan district attorney's decision to drop the case against a Pakistani diplomat accused of beating up a woman, sources told The Post yesterday....
MTA BIGS ARE FARE GAME AT HEARING
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amDroves of enraged straphangers and politicians railed against transit officials yesterday, arguing that the MTA has not made its case for raising bus and subway fares. More than 200 people...
POWELL UNVEILS EVIDENCE IRAQ PLAYS DOOMSDAY HIDE-AND-SEEK
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday played a chilling intelligence tape of Iraqi officers plotting to conceal deadly "nerve agents" from U.N. inspectors, as he made America's case...
PBA VOTE SPURS CIVIL WAR
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amA group of candidates trying to unseat the city's police union leadership has sued for access to the PBA's mailing list so they can get their message out to New...
2 CHARGED IN THEFT OF SHUTTLE WRECKAGE
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amCracking down on souvenir hunters, federal authorities indicted two Texans yesterday on charges of swiping debris from the shuttle Columbia. They also announced an amnesty period, ending at 5 p.m....
MAYOR'S IN FOR HACK OF AN EXTORTION TRIAL
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg was a hero for helping nab an extortionist computer hacker, a prosecutor said yesterday - but a defense lawyer claimed the mayor was rash in seeking the helpful...
FATAL ATTRACTION - ACTRESS MET SPECTOR HOURS BEFORE DEATH
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amStruggling cult-film actress Lana Clarkson knew pop legend Phil Spector only a few hours when she accepted a ride home with him - and ended up dead in the foyer...
B'KLYN HIT-RUN NIGHTMARE - DRUG-FUELED DRIVER KILLS TWO MOMS AND BABY IN B'KLYN CRASH HORROR: COPS
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amAn SUV driver, high on heroin as he barreled down a busy Brooklyn street, left a trail of death in his wake yesterday - killing two teen mothers and an...
1ST-BIRTHDAY PLANS TURN TRAGIC
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amYaritza Santos was making plans for the first-birthday party for her son, Manuel Noriega Villot, when they died under the wheels of a hit-and-run car in Brooklyn, police said. "They...
CELL PHONES NOW TIED TO ALZHEIMER'S
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amCell phones damage key brain cells and may trigger the early onset of Alzheimer's disease, an alarming new study suggests. Swedish researchers found that radiation from cell-phone handsets damage areas...
MIKE'S TECH-TORTION VIDEO
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amProsecutors say they'll screen a secret videotape that shows a Russian computer whiz trying extort $200,000 from Mayor Bloomberg business-news company. The video is key evidence in the trial of...
'LEONA-LY' AT THE TOP : HOTEL QUEEN WONDERS IF SHE CAN TRUST ANYONE AGAIN
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amSHE'S got lots of stuff. But for Leona Helmsley, unfairly branded as an enemy to homosexuals, it amounts to lots of nothing. We are sitting in Leona's vast, two-story penthouse...
FATAL ATTRACTION: ACTRESS MET SPECTOR HOURS BEFORE DEATH
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amStruggling cult-film actress Lana Clarkson knew pop legend Phil Spector only a few hours when she accepted a ride home with him - and ended up dead in the foyer...
B'KLYN HIT- RUN NIGHTMARE : DRUG-FUELED LUNATIC KILLS TWO MOMS AND BABY IN B'KLYN CRASH HORROR: COPS
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amAn SUV driver, high on drugs as he barreled down a busy Brooklyn street, left a trail of death in his wake yesterday - killing two young mothers and an...
DRIVER'S L.I. NEIGHBORS 'SHOCKED'
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe accused driver of the death car is a 25-year-old man who grew up in Wantagh, L.I., and attended the local high school. Police sources said John Zappulla was out...
B'KLYN HIT- RUN NIGHTMARE: DRUG-FUELED DRIVER KILLS TWO MOMS AND BABY IN B'KLYN CRASH HORROR: COPS
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amAn SUV driver, high on heroin as he barreled down a busy Brooklyn street, left a trail of death in his wake yesterday - killing two young mothers and an...
POWELL LAYS OUT FIRM EVIDENCE OF IRAQ PLAYING LETHAL GAME OF HIDE-AND-SEEK
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday played a chilling intelligence tape of Iraqi officers plotting to conceal deadly "nerve agents" from U.N. inspectors as he made America's case...
BOTCHED PLAY LEADS TO LOSS FOR ST. JOHN'S
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amBC 84St. John's 82 CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - For the past season and a half, no player in college basketball has carried his team more than Marcus Hatten. But with...
HIT STILL A HEADACHE FOR JONSSON
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amKenny Jonsson was being evaluated yesterday after sitting out practice in the wake of the opening-minute hit he took from Jeremy Roenick in Tuesday's 2-1 loss to the Flyers. Jonsson,...
FDNY SIZZLES AT HUNTER MOUNTAIN
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amOVER 130 teams from the FDNY took part in the annual Firefighters' Races at Hunter Mountain the past two days, races that are steeped in tradition and lots of apres...
JUST 'LAKE' THE KNICKS ; SO FAR, L.A. IN SAME BOAT AS CHANEY GANG
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amIt was a notion that made Kurt Thomas smile, Allan Houston laugh and Latrell Sprewell smirk. Two hot teams clash tonight at the Garden and lo and behold, at the...
YES, DOLEAC! MIKE MAY START
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES You don't stay the course against the Lakers if you are the smallish Knicks and have the imposing presence of Shaquille O'Neal to deal with. So, coach Don...
HE'S SORE-IANO : ALFONSO REPORTS ACHY SHOULDER
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amAlfonso Soriano's right shoulder was sore enough for the Yankee second baseman to pull out of a home-run-hitting contest this weekend in Las Vegas. - but as of late yesterday...
VLAD TAKES ONE STEP BACK ; SPASMS GIVE MALAKHOV HIS FIRST SCRATCH
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amAnd then there were none. Not one Ranger defenseman, that is, able to play in every game this season, not after Vladimir Malakhov missed last night's Garden match against the...
NBA UNION: AGE ISN'T JAMES' PROBLEM
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amEighteen is old enough. That was the message from NBA Players Association director Billy Hunter, who doesn't view the recent avalanche of negative publicity associated with 18-year-old LeBron James, the...
LEBRON GETS OK TO PLAY; WILL RETURN IN JERSEY
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amLeBron James is back. And his next stop is Trenton. The 6-foot, 8-inch phenom, regarded as the nation's best high school hoopster, had his scholastic eligibility reinstated by the Summit...
CLARK'S STEPPIN' OUT
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amPSAL HOOPSB. Channel 65A. Martin 61 Rahshon Clark has all the makings of a star. He's got size, athleticism and, as of recently, a deadly jumper. There's just one thing...
LSU WINS RECRUIT WAR
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe changing face of college football took on a new look yesterday as many of the nation's elite programs failed to emerge with stellar recruiting classes, while some lower-profile programs...
CASTELLANO SHAKEN IN SPILL AT AQUEDUCT
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amJavier Castellano, leading rider at the Aqueduct winter meet with 55 winners, was taken to North Shore Hospital yesterday complaining of neck and shoulder pain after he fell when his...
ELIAS, MADDEN PERFECT MATCH
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 4Capitals 1 WASHINGTON - He splashed in as Coach of the Year in his first season with each of his previous three teams. Last night, Patrik Elias and John...
SATHER HAS FIXED NOTHING
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amSenators 5 Rangers 3 Too many penalties, too many of them foolish and undisciplined. Too many power plays against that they simply could not kill. Second verse same as the...
SETON HALL UPSETS IRISH
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amS. Hall 78N. Dame 72 It was fitting that Seton Hall's recent resurgence continued last night with an emotional 78-72 upset of Notre Dame - a win that sent Pirate...
PHILLY BUSTERS ; KITTLES, NETS SOCK SIXERS
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amNets 11176ers 85 PHILADELPHIA - Kerry Kittles only had to look around. On one side, he spotted an empty seat vacated by Kenyon Martin who was out for the game,...
KENYON HURTIN' ; BUT INJURY 'NOT SERIOUS'
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Kenyon Martin faced down Keith Van Horn midway through the first quarter. Martin went this way. But he felt something in his left knee go that way. Nothing...
BATTLE TO BE BEST: NETS SET THEIR SIGHTS ON TOP SPOT IN EAST
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - You need goals. Something to go after. Something to chase. The Nets have theirs: the Indiana Pacers and the best record in the East. That top spot is...
SETON HALL FINDS WAY ON DEFENSE
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe last time Seton Hall faced Notre Dame, the Pirates were a team in disarray. Their mild-mannered coach was ripping the refs. Their players were playing sievelike defense. And the...
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE: LACK OF TRUE CENTER HURTING ST. JOHN'S
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amCHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Considering that Mike Jarvis' greatest stroke of coaching fortune came in the form of a 7-foot high school center who eventually was chosen as one of...
DEVILS HUNTING BIG SHARK: LOU TARGETS NOLAN AS VICTORIES MOUNT
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Even while his team is flying high, the word is that Lou Lamoriello is doing plenty of talking these days. The Devil GM is said to be talking...
KIDD IS ALRIGHT: JASON COMPLETELY HEALED
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - You lose a point guard, you gain a point guard. And no disrespect meant to anybody, but the Nets gained the point guard they wanted. While...
LITTLE GUYS COME UP BIG IN RECRUITING WARS
February 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe changing face of college football took on a new look yesterday as many of the nation's elite programs failed to emerge with stellar recruiting classes, while some lower-profile programs...