March 2, 2003
AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST WITH THE NEWS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe rest of the world caught up with The Post last week. On Monday, The Wall Street Journal published a seemingly nice scoop when it reported that British music giant...
BULL'S EYE
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amWHY REUTERS HAS PROBLEMS Perhaps Reuters should look first at its technology department when it considers where to make the 3,000 job cuts the company announced two weeks ago. Staffers...
NORAH'S PRODUCER IN 'NET LA-LA LAND
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amrah Jones was honored with five Grammys and lives in a hipster hovel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Now all she needs is a producer with a clue. Arif Mardin, who produced...
SPRINT MEMO FIRES BACK AT WSJ STORY
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amAn internal Sprint memo obtained by The Post attacks the WSJ's story, saying some of the information in the article is "without foundation."Is The Wall St. Journal irresponsible? Telecommunications firm...
EMI'S REAL CASH MACHINE : BANDIER'S MUSIC PUBLISHING BIZ TOP$ NORAH JONES
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amEverything about Martin Bandier seems outsized - his office, his personality, his parties and the steady profits he keeps delivering to British music company EMI. As head of EMI Music...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amMeow mix: Web site www.rathergood.com, by Londoner Joel Veitch, features animated kittens playing punk rock, with the help of Flash, to hits such as the Vines' "Outtathaway!", the White Stripes'...
IRONIC OR RUDE? THE BRITS DON'T CARE
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amWhy, ask my American friends, are they always accused of not appreciating irony? We Brits love to say that Americans have no sense of irony. Whether this is true or...
STARR REPORT
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amEvery 'Witch' way: Rhea returns to 'Sabrina' Talk show host Caroline Rhea will return for the season finale of "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch," airing May 1 on The WB (8...
KEEPING UP WITH THE UNDERGROUND
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amThey said it wouldn't last - but the New York Underground Film Festival is marking its 10th anniversary and still going strong. "I wasn't around the first year, but from...
SHOPAHOLIC: WE WANTED NEW CLOTHES. WE GAVE NANETTE LAPORE $100. HERE'S WHAT SHE DID WITH IT.
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amYou can pinpoint Nanette Lepore's fun and colorful clothes from a mile away. Who could forget the bright, rainbow dress Carrie wore on "Sex and the City" when she fell...
LITTLE BLACK BOOK
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amWhere isn't he?: The ubiquitous Marc Jacobs teams up with Louis Vuitton for a line of colorful bags with springy bows and flowers on them. Save your pennies (they're $900)...
RECOVERY EFFORT: NURSING A DOG BACK FROM THE BRINK
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amIt's now been almost two months since Britannia Tige, a.k.a. Brittany, my little brindle pit bull who battled tetanus and won, came home from the hospital. She and I are...
TEXAS THRASHER VS. BAGHDAD BRAWLER
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amWHY, you may wonder, would President Bush refuse two - count 'em, two - offers by Saddam Hussein to avoid World War III by taking it outside and settling it...
GUN-TOTING 'MACHO' MAN'S PONYTAIL OF THE TAPE
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amMARTIAL arts actor Steven Seagal showed up in court at the Peter Gotti trial in a silk Mandarin jacket looking more like a presenter at the 1968 Academy Awards than...
DESPOT JACKPOTS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amFORBES magazine came out with a list of the world's richest rulers. Not for nuthin,' but how is it possible that they know, to the penny, the net worth of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amA good Samaritan is in one fine mess for his good deeds. Doug Jones was slapped with a $117 traffic fine after stopping to help motorists stuck in a snowstorm...
CLOONEY'S PALSY PAIN
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amGeorge Clooney has revealed for the first time the cruel taunting he got from classmates when he was 11 years old and suffering from Bell's palsy. Clooney said the debilitating...
NASSAU SMOKERS GET BUTT-KICKING
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amIt was lights out for lighting up in Nassau County yesterday. The state's most stringent workplace smoking ban went into effect, prohibiting smokers from lighting up in public places, including...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amManhattan A 1-year-old Lower East Side girl died mysteriously early yesterday. Police say the girl was sharing a bed with her 23-year-old mother in their Cherry Street apartment when the...
B'WAY TALKS HIT SOUR NOTE
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amWith a deadline looming tonight, Broadway producers and union musicians tried to work out their differences yesterday, but made little progress. The musicians union, whose contract expires at midnight tonight,...
MAN FOUND SLAIN FOR HIS ORGANS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amCops in Philadelphia say their sickening discovery of a corpse with its heart, liver and other internal organs expertly removed could be connected to a gruesome black-market trade. Police found...
NOTEWORTHY STRIKE VOTE
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amWith the sound of conflict in the air and their contract set to expire at midnight tonight, members of Broadway's musicians union voted yesterday to give their president the right...
GOODBYE DALI - FROM JAIL
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amA $175,000 Salvador Dali painting that the famed artist presented as a gift to Rikers Island inmates in the 1960s was brazenly swiped from the prison and replaced by a...
INSIDE THE VIDEO 'RAPE' HOUSE: HOW PERV PEEPER STALKED ME
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amINSURANCE executive Stephanie Fuller was young and happy to be moving into her first apartment on Long Island, while a budding relationship with her boyfriend, Marine Sgt. Joe Ferland, blossomed...
FEMALE FORCES WOMEN WARRIORS ON TV'S FRONT LINES
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amMove over, Christianne Amanpour. These are the new faces of War TV. If and when George W. Bush declares an all-out war on Iraq, the major television networks are armed...
YOU'VE GOT E-MAIL
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amFROM DemmaRus: "The Los Angeles District Attorney has announced that if Academy Award nominee Roman Polanski sets foot in L.A. to attend the awards ceremony, he will be arrested immediately...
HOW THE MOB MUSCLED IN AT GROUND ZERO
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amMafia bosses demanded cushy, high-paying jobs for their relatives and cronies at Ground Zero and may have stolen no-show pay during the eight-month cleanup of the site, The Post has...
JOB HAS SMELL OF $UCCESS - BUT NO TAKERS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amIt's a job that pays nearly $50,000 after five years, it requires only a high school education, and there are openings for the first time in four years. With unemployment...
'Y' NOT SPREAD CULTURE?
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe 92nd Street Y cultural center is considering an expansion to Lower Manhattan. The executive board of the 128-year-old organization is expected to commission a feasibility study this year to...
THE FAMILY JEWELS: DAD MAKES LATE DAUGHTER'S ASHES INTO DIAMOND RINGS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amShe sparkled in life, and now she sparkles in death. When Valerie Sefton died last year, her father decided to make a lasting memorial for her - by having her...
TRAGIC IRONY: INFERNO-CLUB OWNER ISSUED TV WARNING
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amA co-owner of the Rhode Island club where 97 people died when a fire tore through cheap, fast-burning packing foam used improperly on the walls had reported on the material's...
ONE FIEND DOWN AND 21 TO GO
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amKhalid Sheikh Mohammed's arrest in Pakistan leaves 21 men on the FBI's "most wanted terrorist" list - including the ever-elusive Osama bin Laden. The terrorists, who are nationals of numerous...
GOTCHA: MASTERMIND OF 9/11 ATTACK IS CAPTURED
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe evil mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Center - known as "the CEO of al Qaeda" and the No. 3 man in Osama bin Laden's terror web...
LEB BOMB TAKES OUT QAEDA BIG
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amA car bomb exploded inside Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp yesterday, killing an Egyptian Islamist accused of leading al Qaeda's operations in Lebanon, camp security sources said. Abu Mohammad al-Masri,...
CYBER RATTLING: SECRET WAR ALREADY UNDER WAY TO HACK IRAQ
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Tomorrow evening was earmarked weeks ago as the optimum time for the United States to strike Iraq because of a moonless sky and cool weather. An attack almost...
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: IRAQIS 'COMPLY'
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe United Nations said Iraq yesterday began destroying its banned Al Samoud 2 missiles - but the White House dismissed the move, calling it "a clever game of deception." Merci...
SNAKE SHEIKH'S RISE AND FAL: END OF THE LINE FOR QAEDA'S EVIL 'CEO'
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amWith a $25 million bounty on his head, a reputation for studied brutality and 27 aliases, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was one of the most wanted men on the planet. Dubbed...
SLAIN REPORTER'S DAD NOT READY TO BELIEVE JUST YET
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl said his family would not comment on the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed until it was certain the captured terror...
BODY FOUND SLAIN FOR ITS ORGANS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amCops in Philadelphia say their sickening discovery of a corpse with its heart, liver and other internal organs expertly removed could be connected to a gruesome black-market trade. Police found...
TV'S JILL OF ALL TRADES: 'MARRIED' STAR IS NO WALLFLOWER
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amShe may be about to be billed as a regular Miss Lonelyheart, but one of the five contestants in TV's newest reality show is no stranger to fame. Long Islander...
RAISING A STINK OVER DEPUTY $$
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amUnion leaders yesterday questioned Mayor Bloomberg's decision to give his top deputy a 16 percent raise - even as he demands $600 million in givebacks from city workers to help...
BOY'S MOM OK'D HIS LIVE-IN DEAL
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe New Jersey teacher accused of sexually assaulting one of her students arranged for the teenage boy to live with her last year while he attended school in affluent Mendham...
HOW KIDS CHARMED SEX-RAP TEACHER
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amJodi Thorp regarded the kids in her after-school program as her extended family and invited 16 of them to her wedding. One of the teens even walked her down the...
FREE AND CRAZY: INSANE CONS STROLL IN AND OUT OF HOSP
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amThis exclusive photo reveals how New York criminals deemed insane by the courts - including two killers - regularly breeze past the razor-wire fences and guards of a state mental...
VICTORIA GOTTI
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amROCKET MAN: Boy-band pinup Lance Bass says the Space Shuttle tragedy is not enough to keep his feet firmly on the ground - or spook him about reviving his bid...
FISHING GROUPS JOIN FORCES
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amREPRESENTATIVES of the saltwater fishing and boating community and leaders from the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration came together for an expansive dialogue on marine conservation and recreation...
ERA OF THE DOMINANT CLOSER MAY BE ; COMING TO AN END
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amFORT LAUDERDALE - Is this the ninth inning for closers? Could the high-paid, low-inning firemen go up in smoke? Could another revolution be brewing in Massachusetts to turn ninth-inning anthems...
THERE'S NO REST FOR WEARY ISLES
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amThat team with their tongues dragging behind their skates recently has been the Islanders, who were looking to snap a three-game winless slide (0-1-2) last night against the penniless Sabres....
GUTTY BURE'S ANYTHING BUT SOFT
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amODD, isn't it, how labels stick to players even in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary? How many times has Pavel Bure been called soft? How often have...
BATTLE OF BROOKLYN ALL-TIME CLASSIC
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amFIVE days later, his body still a bit sore, LIU senior Antawn Dobie wouldn't stop talking about the all-time Battle of Brooklyn. "It was," Dobie said, "the greatest game I'll...
DOLAN'S A NO-SHOW
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amConspicuously absent from Friday night's Patrick Ewing festivities was MSG boss James Dolan, who gave up his two baseline seats. A Knick spokesman said Dolan had a longstanding previous commitment...
SPREE: WE'RE IN THE HUNT KEEPS KNICKS FOCUSED IN BATTLE TO MAKE PLAYOFFS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amWhen Patrick Ewing's jersey was raised to the rafters Friday night, Latrell Sprewell felt the emotion just like everybody else. This was a magical night at the Garden, one that...
HEY, DAVID, DON'T HURT YOURSELF BACKPEDALING
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amKISSIMMEE - In what is a first - even in the wacky world of David Wells - yesterday the messenger shot all the other messengers. Wells blamed the media for...
WEIGHT-ING ON LENNOX RUIZ VS. JONES DECIDES ONE TITLE, BUT LEWIS RULES
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - John Ruiz and Roy Jones fought for the WBA heavyweight championship last night, a meeting with historic implications, but for a title without much distinction. The winner...
ADDAMS RELIES ON EBERHART
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amPSAL "B" QUARTERSJ. Addams50C. Barton44 Asim Eberhart remembered clearly what his coach, Jon Ostrow, told his Jane Addams players after practice on Friday. "He told everyone to get to the...
ENCORE! BRING EWING HOME
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amHIS emotions clearly stirred by the deluge of appreciation and adoration heaped upon him by fans, friends and foe, Patrick Ewing thanked everyone (it doesn't get any more touching than...
BOOMER BEER BASH CASHMAN, TORRE HAMMER WELLS' 'HALF-DRUNK' CLAIM
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amKISSIMMEE - While his teammates are laughing off David Wells' book, the Yankees' brass is taking the situation seriously. "I take it seriously because we don't want to be embarrassed,"...
'DESIGNER' EDGES XTRA HEART TO CAPTURE BUSHER
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amIn a thrilling, three-way blanket finish, Maryland shipper Elegant Designer, the 3-2 favorite, clawed her way past Virgin Voyage in a long stretch duel, then barely held off the late...
ROCKET 'CHANGES' COURSE IN SPRING DEBUT
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amAstros 4Yankees 2 KISSIMMEE - The word rolled off Roger Clemens' lips much better than the pitch flowed from his hand. "I threw my changeup a little too hard," Clemens...
BRUISED JETER PLANS TO FACE D-RAYS TODAY
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES KISSIMMEE - Derek Jeter missed his second straight game yesterday due to a bruised left shin but expects to play today against the Devil Rays, an opponent George...
SO FAR, HE'S A GLAV NOT
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amFORT LAUDERDALE - Tom Glavine was kept away from the Braves in his Met spring debut and that was the only positive yesterday for the lefty. Bad enough he was...
KIDD PUMPED UP FOR UTAH'S ONE-TWO PUNCH
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amWhen Karl Malone and John Stockton first teamed up, Richard Jefferson was 5, Kenyon Martin was a few months shy of his 8th birthday and Jason Kidd had reached the...
DEFENSE HAS HOWE HOPEFUL
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amMET NOTES LAKE BUENA VISTA - The Mets committed a major-league leading 144 errors last season, and nobody is eager to revisit that debacle. In yesterday's 2-2, 10-inning tie with...
CAMPBELL TO SAMPLE FREE WATERS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amThere is an impediment in front of Dan Campbell, one he knows he cannot vault as long as he remains with the Giants. "Shockey's there," Campbell said yesterday from his...
YOUNG GUN TAKES SHOT MIDDLEBROOK TURNS HEADS WITH ARM, COMMENTS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amLAKE BUENA VISTA - It's a flattering thought for Jason Middlebrook. On a day when Tom Glavine made his debut as a Met in Ft. Lauderdale, general manager Steve Phillips...
BANNEKER SAVED BY ITS SENIORS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amPSAL "A" QuartersBanneker 68S. Bay 66 All season long, it seemed Banneker would go as far as senior Gary Forbes would take it. Last night, senior Nana Saunderson proved he...
BLAKE PROVIDES MUCH-NEEDED LIFT
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amIsles 2Sabres 1 Peter Laviolette gave the Islanders the last two days off because he sensed his team was both mentally and physically exhausted and in need of a spark....
RANGERS' RUN GETS SERIOUS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amRangers 5Panthers 2 They have laid the foundation to make a run at a playoff spot and whatever glory but lay beyond, but now comes the heavy lifting. Now, after...
HOW TO WIN A SPORTS EMMY AMAZING! VOTERS CAN SELECT THEIR OWN SHOWS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amHERE'S one reason why this column has never been eager to apply credence to the Sports Emmys, local or national: This year's national sports Emmy nominees are now in the...
STARS STILL FLOCK TO AUTOGRAPH FRAUD
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amABOUT 20 years ago, the sports autograph/collectibles business took off. It was lousy with bad guys then. Today? You tell me. Staten Island autograph dealer Mike Bertolini made a modicum...
JONES CAPTURES RUIZ' CROWN IN HISTORIC TRIUMPH
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - It was a historic fight, but it wasn't a memorable one. Roy Jones Jr. became the first light-heavyweight to win a heavyweight championship belt since 1985 when...
KILLS BIG PART OF RANGER RUN
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amPenalty-killing hasn't been merely a season-long problem, it's been a regime-long problem for the Rangers since Glen Sather's June 2000 arrival in Manhattan. They were 29th overall in 2000-2001, better...
TVERDOVSKY IN MIDDLE OF DEVIL RUMORS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amHe still needs a gunner, he's going to need another center if Joe Nieuwendyk departs for Toronto this summer, but the word is that Lou Lamoriello is also trying to...
PIRATES WON'T BE BULLIED: HALL ANSWERS WVU DISRESPECT BY SURGING TO 9TH STRAIGHT WIN
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amSeton Hall 56 West Va. 53 Andre Barrett suffered through much yesterday, watching Seton Hall miss eight straight shots down the stretch, blow a late lead and endanger its NCAA...
STORM SEASON ON LINE WITH DEVILS DUE
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amIn 24 games, we have learned much about this St. John's team. St. John's has shown it can blow big leads and overcome equally big deficits. It can force opposing...
LIKE KNIGHTS AND DAY IN PISCATAWAY
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amPISCATAWAY - No one thought it would come to this, not after Rutgers went 18-13 last season, galvanized by new coach Gary Waters. The Louis Brown Athletic Center, affectionately known...
RED STORM HAVE TRIAL WITH DEVIL AT GARDEN
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amIn 24 games, we have learned much about this St. John's team. St. John's has shown it can blow big leads and overcome equally big deficits. It can force opposing...
KNIGHTS OUT FOR THE IRISH: COLEMAN'S 27 POWER RU ROMP
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amRutgers 95 Notre Dame 82 PISCATAWAY - When the offensive barrage was over, Notre Dame's Chris Thomas embraced Jerome Coleman of Rutgers at midcourt and the two guards exchanged telephone...
PART II: 7TH ANNUAL LOOK AT THE NEW YORK SPORTS SCENE... PRINCES AND PUNKS
March 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe Post concludes its two-part look at the best and worst qualities of the city's professional sports personalities: IMMATURE 1. Jeremy Shockey, Giants Called the Eagles' secondary overrated before he...