February 8, 2003
AGE OF ANALYSTS COMES TO CLOSE
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amRobert McCann resigned as head of research at Merrill Lynch yesterday - the latest analyst departure signalling a sea change on Wall Street. At Merrill and other Wall Street powers...
SBC IN NEGOTIATIONS TO BUY DIRECTV FROM GM
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amSBC Communications is in negotiations to buy satellite television operator DirecTV. Talks between SBC and General Motors, DirecTV's parent, are still in the early stages, but the deal could value...
BROKERAGE GIANT: CB RICHARD ELLIS, INSIGNIA COMBO IN WORKS
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amCB Richard Ellis and Insignia Financial Group may be heading to the altar. After weeks of rumors, Insignia confirmed yesterday it was in "combination" talks with CBRE that could result...
WHAT BAYWATCH BABES WEAR FOR WHITE WEDDING
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amIN what can only be explained as a phenomenal alignment of the stars and planets, the latest edition of a magazine has assembled nine of the most famous "Baywatch" beauties...
GROOM SERVICE ; DOG SHOW CONTESTANTS GET VIP HOTEL TREATMENT
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amTHE annual Westminster Dog Show doesn't begin until Monday, but at the venerable Hotel Pennsylvania, it's already Dog Day Afternoon . . . night and morning. Just a 50-foot walk...
VIEIRA CHECKS INTO HOSPITAL
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amMEREDITH Vieira's schedule just keeps getting busier. Vieira, who already co-hosts "The View" and hosts "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," will add several appearances on "General Hospital" to her...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amSPECTOR OF DOOM Legendary and eccentric album producer Phil Spector, 62, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after B-movie actress Lana Clarkson, 40, was found shot dead in the...
FREE FOR ALL
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amArt unleashed The Dogs in Art Auction Preview spotlights canine cultural contributions as Doyle New York puts over 200 works of art on the block. The gallery's also offering a...
CLASH ACTS
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amIt's been a rough stretch for punk fans, with the recent deaths of Joey and Dee Dee Ramone, and then the sudden December passing of Joe Strummer. The Clash frontman's...
BLACK IN TIME: HISTORY ON DISPLAY FROM MLK TO MODERN DAY
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amIn 1926, educator and historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week to honor the cultural contributions of African-Americans. In 1976, it became officially known as Black History Month....
LIVE AND KICKIN' - MUSIC THAT APPEALS TO ALL
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amYou've read the reviews (some of them)! You've heard the CDs (maybe)! Now see them live (you'll enjoy it)! February may be short, but there's no shortage of musical family...
BROWN-BAGGING IT
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amThey've got a cardboard cat, a cardboard car - even a cardboard haircut. But no one's ever called the Paper Bag Players flat. Funny, yes; flat, no. Started in 1958,...
THE CHILL IS GONE: LEAVE WINTER AT THE DOOR OF THESE HOT SPOTS
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amOn yet another gray, damp winter day, who isn't ready for spring? But as much as we long for blue skies and sandals-and-shorts weather, Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog tells us...
TAKING A STAND ON 'SLIP & FALL' SUITS
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amPUBLIC Advocate Betsy Gotbaum stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Mayor Bloomberg this week to support measures he's pushing in the City Council that would reduce the city's $40 million a year tab...
$600M PENSION WOE FOR GOV
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - State Comptroller Alan Hevesi warned yesterday that Gov. Pataki's newly proposed state budget may already be $600 million out of balance. Hevesi said state pension costs for the...
ACCOUNTING GIANT IN LOOP ON TYCO LOOT: DA
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amPricewaterhouseCoopers - the world's biggest accounting firm - was in on the Tyco shenanigans, Manhattan prosecutors alleged in a bombshell revelation yesterday. "Pricewaterhouse knew about most of the transactions of...
GAMBLE $HAMBLES ; ELEVATOR LADY BLEW LOOT ON HABIT: KIN
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amA bookkeeper charged with embezzling millions from a Queens company she had previously scammed lost nearly all the money on gambling and lottery tickets, family members said yesterday. "She has...
QUICK BOOT FOR SADDAM: RUMSFELD
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein yesterday that it won't take very long to oust him from power once the war starts. Rumsfeld's tough talk...
'FASHION FENCE' BOUTIQUE BUST
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amPolice busted two women and a man who set up a million-dollar "exclusive neighborhood boutique" selling stolen designer clothes in Queens, Commissioner Ray Kelly announced yesterday. Detectives searched an apartment...
PLAYING IT SHREWD ; HOW MAYOR NAILED GEEKY EXTORTION SUSPECT
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amLike a shrewd poker player, Mike Bloomberg played a game of bluff with an extortionate computer hacker for five months by sending him encouraging e-mails to lure him into the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amA Michigan man's patriotism has landed him in hot water. He was issued a ticket because the American flag he has flying outside his Anchor Bay home is too "noisy."...
JUDGE NAILED IN STUY TOWN EXPLOSION
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amA city administrative judge was arrested at his hospital bed for setting off Tuesday's gas explosion in his 12th-floor apartment in Stuyvesant Town, police said. Larry Feingold, 51, an administrative...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amMANHATTAN A man was arrested on drug charges after being shot and critically injured in Eastchester, police said yesterday. At 6:50 p.m. on Thursday, a shotgun-wielding assailant accosted a 26-year-old...
CYBER SICKO HAD TOT PORN
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amA 33-year-old pervert caught in a kiddie-porn "sting" pleaded guilty to possessing photos of men having sex with toddlers, the Queens DA said yesterday. Warren Young was snatched by NYPD...
MIKE EYES RUSH-HOUR TOLL BOOST
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday he's closely watching London's plan to charge drivers who enter the city's business district during rush hour - and noted it's been suggested for New York....
SNOW FLAKES BARE ALL ; NUTTY NUDES PROTEST WAR WITH A COLD 'SPELL'
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amIt's never too cold for a nude antiwar romp. Thirty stripped-down activists in Central Park braved yesterday's surprise early-morning snowstorm to show their bare-naked distaste for President Bush's plans to...
FRENCH WHINE IN BID TO BLOCK BUSH
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amFrance lashed out at President Bush yesterday in an all-out bid to block an Iraq attack as it threatened to veto any new U.N. Security Council resolution that authorizes action...
ED. BOARD BUILDING GOES ON BLOCK
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg has finally put the old Board of Education headquarters at 110 Livingston St. up for sale. The city Economic Development Corporation this week officially issued a "Request for...
MOB MOM SLAMS SLAYER
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amThe son of a slain Luchese mobster was handed a life sentence without parole yesterday after the emotional mom of the 17-year-old schoolkid he murdered chastised him for ignoring "God's...
JACKO'S VIEWERSHIP PERV-ASIVE
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amJacko brought 'em all backo to ABC on Thursday night after almost 27 million viewers tuned in to watch his bizarre two-hour tell-all. The "20/20" show was the most-watched episode...
SNAPSHOT OF DISASTER ; SHUTTLE'S LAST FEW MINUTES CAPTURED
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amOfficials at NASA got an unexpected clue to the fate of the shuttle Columbia yesterday from a super-powerful Air Force camera that took pictures apppearing to show damage to the...
KIDS RALLY TO BOOT PRINCIPAL
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amSome students at Franklin D. Roosevelt HS in Brooklyn held a mini-protest yesterday calling for the ouster of principal Adele Vocel for being too mean - and teachers union boss...
'THEFT' RING STAMPED OUT
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amThousands of stolen rare stamps were recovered after FBI agents busted two Bronx men who were peddling them to a Manhattan gallery. Ulysses Cheda approached the gallery owner last month...
'ORANGE' APPLE RAISING SHIELD ; OFFICIALS BOOSTING SECURITY CITYWIDE
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki announced yesterday the city is tightening security at subways, hotels and certain public places and that the state is hiking its terror threat level to...
TRIO'S DEATH TORMENT ; HEROIN ODS KILLED TWO BUDDIES OF 'SLAY' DRIVER
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amThey were a tragic trio - three high school pals from a middle-class Long Island town whose heroin addictions had deadly results. Two of them died of overdosing, and the...
BIGGER $QUEEZE ON APPLE APT. DWELLERS
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amHousing is so expensive in New York that a quarter of all households pay more than half of their income in rent, a new U.S. Census Bureau study says. One...
ATM STICKUP SUSPECT ARRESTED
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amThe suspect in a daring armed ATM heist at Brooklyn's Long Island University campus was arrested yesterday - with $4,000 of the stolen loot in his pockets, police said. Damian...
AGONY & 'ECSTASY' AS CLUBS SHUT DOWN
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amPolice were party poopers at two popular West Side nightclubs last night, shuttering the hot spots after amassing evidence of rampant "designer drug" use and sales. Narcotics cops shut down...
U.S. RAISES ATTACK-ALERT LEVEL AMID HUNT FOR FUGITIVE
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amThe feds and New York state yesterday boosted their terror threat alert levels one notch to high-risk "orange" - and FBI agents launched a nationwide manhunt for a Pakistani in...
PRISON BIG'S WARM BYE TO BANNED CLERIC
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Two years before being banned from preaching in state prisons, controversial Muslim cleric Warith Deen Umar received warm praise from the corrections chief. "Your decision to retire has...
ABDUCTOR COOKED BY PIZZA DOUGH
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amOne of the alleged kidnappers of tycoon Edward Lampert cursed and admitted "that was dumb" when police asked about using Lampert's credit card to order pizza, it was disclosed yesterday....
TERROR LETTERS VOW ATTACKS IN N.Y.
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amPolice are investigating a cache of suspicious letters mailed to Police Headquarters, the control tower at JFK Airport and several East Side buildings that pledge renewed terror attacks on New...
DOUBLE WIN JUST ELUDES TRAMMELL
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amOne hundredth of a second. Not enough time to bat an eye, snap your fingers, or even think a random thought. But in track and field, it's enough to separate...
BURE & LEETCH GETTING BETTER
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - The rusted Dan Blackburn impressively stopped Keith Tkachuk, then Al MacInnis down the stretch of a 4-4 tie in St. Louis Thursday night and now it is time...
30-SOMETHINGS! DEVERS AND DRAGILA HAVE RECORD NIGHTS
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amGail Devers and Stacy Dragila are both champions in their 30s, each at an age that has their doubters waiting for the years to catch up with them. Keep waiting,...
KIDDIE CORPS BOOSTS ISLES
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amThey played the NHL YoungStars game last week in Florida, but if you take a look at the Islanders' roster, they could field a formidable rookie team just about any...
GUOLLA'S BACK AND EAGER TO CONTRIBUTE
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amWhen he last played, the Devils still had Andrei Zyuzin and Mike Danton. Three months later, Steve Guolla was making his comeback from disc surgery last night, and he noticed...
GUSTUS LEAVIN' LOUGHLIN
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amTed Gustus has been in the coaching business for 32 years, but after this season ends at Bishop Loughlin, so will Gustus' coaching career. "It was a tough decision," said...
LOUSY 'D' IS KILLING STORM
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amThere weren't any secrets about what kind of team St. John's was supposed to be this season. After finishing next-to-last in the Big East in shooting percentage last season, the...
LEBRON WITH THE SHOW ; PREP PHENOM RETURNS TO COURT IN TRENTON
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amAKRON, Ohio - Make way for the LeBron James Circus. The big show has finally come to town. The high school phenom and his St. Vincent-St. Mary teammates flew into...
OHIO CHIEF: 'NO VENDETTA'
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amAKRON, Ohio - Clair Muscaro's message was perfectly clear: He doesn't have it in for LeBron James, and he never has. The commissioner of the Ohio High School Athletic Association...
GIVE CHANEY MEGA KUDOS : HIS KNICKS JUST WON'T QUIT
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amBY the start of the fourth quarter Thursday night, you'd have expected Don Chaney's Knick players to be thinking about sipping pina coladas on a Caribbean beach, playing video games...
BIG A, YONKERS SHUT DOWN
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amRacing and simulcasting at Aqueduct were cancelled early yesterday morning because of the massive snowstorm that dumped up to six inches on New York. As usual, the cancellation had less...
'COMET' FACES TOUGH TEST
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amWith undefeated 2-year-old champ Vindication injured and off the Triple Crown trail, the road to the May 3 Kentucky Derby is wide open. But is it wide enough for a...
STEPH BLASTS JEFF ; MARBURY FIRES BACK AT OUTSPOKEN NET
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTA - Stephon Marbury now has one more reason to dislike the Nets: Richard Jefferson. Marbury, who was traded by the Nets to Phoenix then heard some less-than-flattering remarks, grew...
YAO CALLS FOR FASTBREAK - FROM MEDIA
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amALL-STAR NOTES ATLANTA - The crowd was as great, if not greater, than anything Michael Jordan ever generated at these All-Star affairs. It simply gathered and surrounded the 7-foot, 5-inch...
RAVENS SOAR PAST XAVERIAN
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amCHSAA HOOPSSt. Ray's 60Xaverian 49 St. Raymond's will be in Trenton today playing Lanier from Jackson, Mississippi. But before the Ravens left last night to face the 14th-ranked team in...
IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN SOMETIME
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amThrashers 4Devils 2 The Devils' coach suggested last night that some out-of-shape scribblers could forecheck better than his $52 million Presidents' Trophy contenders. Pat Burns was clearly not willing to...
GAIL & STACY IMPROVING WITH AGE
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amGail Devers and Stacy Dragila are proud champions in their 30s, each at an age when their doubters keep waiting for the years to catch up with them. Keep waiting,...
DOUBLE TROUBLE ; TRAMMELL JUST MISSES HISTORIC TWIN TRIUMPHS
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amOne hundredth of a second. Not enough time to bat an eye, snap your fingers, or even think a random thought. But in track and field, it's enough to separate...
PULLING DOUBLE DUTY:TRAMMELL NARROWLY MISSES TWIN WINS
February 8, 2003 | 5:00amOne-hundredth of a second. Not enough time to bat an eye, snap your fingers, or even think a random thought. But in track and field, it's enough to separate the...