April 13, 2003
RETURN OF DREXEL - FRED JOSEPH'S REBORN FIRM TAKES ON THE BIG BOYS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe shop that changed the face of corporate America 20 years ago - and then disappeared - is back together again. Many of the original A-team from the once-feared Drexel...
OIL SPOILS TO WAIT - END OF HUSSEIN REIGN WON'T SHOWER IRAQ IN CASH
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amNow that Saddam Hussein's regime has been toppled, many expect a rush to claim the spoils of war - namely Iraqi oil. But massive political instability, new technologies and rising...
FOOD DUO BUCKS GLOOMY ECONOMY
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amWith a portfolio that includes some of the city's best-known restaurants, New York's Glazier Group will rarely be mistaken for a mom-and-pop company. Technically, though, Peter Glazier and his wife...
MEET THE PARENTS? NOT THIS TIME
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amThere's nothing in life like timing. Last week I asked the question: How do you cope when your parents come to town to meet your boyfriend, and they disgree about...
VICTORIA CLARKE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amNEXT BIG DEAL VICTORIA Clarke may be most recognized these days as the Pentagon's no-nonsense spokeswoman, but she's got plenty of TV experience and has made a nice career out...
BEWARE THE BUNNY
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amEaster is no holiday for bunnies. Hundreds of them are abandoned every year, especially in the weeks and months following Easter Sunday. Too often, rabbits are purchased at pet stores...
THE GIRL IN THE HOOD
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amDon't ask Judy Marte if she wants to be an actress, because you'll probably get the same indignant answer we got when we put that query to the 19-year-old: "I...
STARR REPORT
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amDirect from Chad: 'SVU's' Lowe point "Law & Order: SVU" is ramping up for May sweeps with some interesting casting and directing choices. "Queer As Folk" star Gale Harold, who...
BRIAN HEIDIK GRABS THE REMOTE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amWinner, "Survivor: Thailand;" Actor, "Beach House" "Alias" is the one TV show that we can watch that enables us to lose ourselves. It is so much fun. "The Dead Zone"...
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SCUD STUD?
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amTwelve years ago, Arthur Kent was in the same position that Greg Kelly finds himself in now - he became a star overnight. But then he disappeared. The NBC reporter...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amBig blue suedes to fill: Pushing her debut album, "To Whom it May Concern," Lisa Marie Presley spent the week telling Diane Sawyer about sex with Jacko, telling Howard Stern...
SALE! - THIS WEEK'S BARGAINS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amCLOTHES Zero 225 Mott St., between Prince and Spring streets (212) 925-3849. Sale: April 16 through April 23 Open: Mon.-Fri., 12:30 to 7 p.m./Sat., Sun., 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. Samples...
SHOPAHOLIC - I DARE YOU: CAN DESIGNER LISA KULSON PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amTheory addicts will soon have a new fashion compulsion. Lisa Kulson, the designer behind the chic basics label that's a staple in every stylish, un-fussy girl's wardrobe (Jennifer Aniston and...
CYCLONE FEVER SWEEPS B'KLYN
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amDiehard fans began lining up at KeySpan Park in Coney Island yesterday morning to scoop up tickets for the Brooklyn Cyclones, which go on sale today. The team's home opener...
SHORTFALL IS TAXING - BLOOMBERG WOES GROW AS PROJECTED REVENUE SHRINKS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg's budget headaches continue to grow with new figures showing likely shortfalls in revenue that City Hall hoped was already in the bank. Two days before the mayor delivers...
STRAW HAS A GRASP - FALLEN BASEBALL HERO SAYS PRISON STINT SCARED HIM STRAIGHT
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amTAMPA - Darryl Strawberry knows what you're thinking. After watching his son Jordan play basketball yesterday, Strawberry was asked by The Post why people should believe he can finally beat...
U.S. NABS THUGS CARRYING BLOOD MONEY
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amU.S. troops detained 59 men on a bus near Iraq's western border who were carrying $630,000 in $100 bills - money earmarked for use as rewards for killing American soldiers....
HARLEM FIREHOUSE FIGHTING THE AX
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amFirefighters and residents rallied in front of a Harlem firehouse yesterday, trying to prevent its closing due to Mayor Bloomberg's budget cuts. Engine Co. 36 is one of eight houses...
ALLIES BAG TOP BIOCHEM BRAIN - SCI-GUY'S SURRENDER A BIG BREAKTHROUGH
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amSaddam Hussein's top scientific adviser surrendered yesterday - a move being hailed as a major help in unearthing Iraq's huge stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Gen. Amer al-Saadi -...
IT'S A LOOT OF WORK STOPPING MARAUDERS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amHarried M-16-toting U.S. Marines struggled to restore order in Baghdad yesterday as looters rampaged across the lawless capital. Five days after U.S. troops took much of the ancient city, American...
BUTCHER'S BRASS RATS RUN AS TROOPS GET SLAUGHTERED
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's military commanders forced their troops to hold their positions and face slaughter by American forces while they vanished into the darkness in a final act of...
EVEN HERE IT'S 'LADIES NEED NOT APPLY'
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amIf you think stuffed suits in stuffed arm chairs at private gentlemen's clubs are obsolete in politically correct Manhattan, think again. There are even private clubs for ladies on the...
KING AND JESTERS AT THIS RALLY
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAUGUSTA, Ga. -There was an Elvis sighting at Martha Burk's much-anticipated rally at Augusta National Golf Club yesterday - Mac Elvis, that is, who showed up with the requisite long...
WOMEN SWING AT CLUB - PROTESTERS: MASTERS MAKING A MISS-TAKE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amThere was more than the game of golf happening at the prestigious Masters tournament yesterday as some 40 activists protested outside the austere Augusta National, demanding an end to the...
MARINES RACING TO BUTCHER'S BASTION
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amU.S. Marines in Iraq rolled north yesterday to confront what could be Saddam Hussein's last holdout as President Bush warned that "hard fighting" may still lie ahead for troops putting...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amQUEENS * A 21-year-old woman escaped the clutches of two drunken men who tried to make sexual advances after they abducted her off a Jackson Heights street, cops said. The...
MURDER RAP OVER 'STAGED' SMASHUP
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amA grand-jury yesterday slapped murder charges on 22-year-old Brooklyn man who allegedly killed a 71-year-old grandmother by ramming into her car during an auto crash he staged as part of...
HIT-RUN DRIVER NEARLY KILLS QNS. BICYCLIST, 10
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAn early spring evening of fun on a bicycle ended in tragedy for a 10-year- old Queens boy last night - when he was run over and left in "extremely...
LOOTS OF LUCK IN IRAQ AS RESIDENTS GO WILD
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amOn the very first day of liberation, the newly independent Iraqi citizens took President Bush's words, "Your nation will soon be free," to heart by stealing everything that was and...
JUSTICE IS BLIND
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amFor more than six years the parents of JonBenet Ramsey, John and Patsy, have been the lead murder suspects in the minds of, well, everyone except, of course, themselves. Last...
PENN IS MIGHTY CARELESS WITH GUN
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amHollywood is just so much more fabulous than real life. In real life, regular Joes can't walk and chew gum at the same time - in Hollywood stars can't pack...
YOU'VE GOT E-MAIL . . .
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amJohn Dell: In the spirit of the recent smoking ban, I offer the following suggestions: The Pedestrian E-ZPass - mandatory implementation of an E-ZPass microchip in each NYC pedestrian, charging...
GOOD FOR NO FARE: TOKEN BELL TOLLS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe last train has left the station for subway tokens. After 50 years of use, the sale of brass tokens - embossed with the logo "Good For One Fare" -...
GUARD'S 'GANG' RAPE ANGUISH
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amA female guard at an upstate prison fears she has been targeted for rape by members of the Bloods gang after she helped bust their jail drug-smuggling operation, prison documents...
MT. SINAI STAR SURGEON IN TRAGIC HEART-VALVE MISTAKE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amIn a rare error, the chief cardiothoracic surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital implanted a mechanical heart valve upside-down, state Health Department officials told The Post. Mount Sinai was hit with...
GOD'S REAL ESTATE & AMERICA'S LUCK
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amONE of the greatest blessings enjoyed by the United States is that God hasn't claimed any local real estate. The insistence in so much of the world that one divinity...
BIG BROTHER APPLE - SMILE! SPY-CAM EYES SEE ALL IN CITY
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amPut on your close-up face when tucking into your foie gras at Alain Ducasse's new restaurant, Mix. Look sharp when you pass the construction site for the new Bloomberg News...
BIG BROTHER APPLE - SPY-CAM EYES SEE ALL IN CITY
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amPut on your close-up face when tucking into your foie gras at Alain Ducasse's new restaurant, Mix. Look sharp when you pass the construction site for the new Bloomberg News...
'53 SWIMMERS STIR UP HS ALMA WATER
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe city's 1953 high-school swimming champs from Brooklyn Tech competed again for the first time in 50 years - against students at their old school. "I want to know who...
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT - DRUMMER: IMPOSTER BEATS ALL
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amMike Portnoy, drummer for the rock band Dream Theater, might have thought someone was having a little fun with him on April Fool's Day as he drove to Manhattan's 115th...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amA murder trial in Australia was halted - after the victim was found alive. Natasha Ryan, 18, turned up during the trial of Lenoard Fraser, 51, who was accused of...
AILING UPSTATER MAY HAVE SARS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAn upstate New York man who recently returned from a business trip to China is now exhibiting signs of the flu-like respiratory disease that is ravaging Asia, officials said yesterday....
MARINE IS LAID TO REST IN B'KLYN
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe rain clouds parted over Brooklyn as the procession for Marine Lance Cpl. William White entered the Elim International Fellowship for a somber funeral ceremony yesterday. White, 24, drowned on...
COPS IN GAS MASK FUROR
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amState troopers on security duty on city-bound Metro-North and LIRR trains say a new ruling by their bosses that bars them from pre-assembling their gas masks could endanger lives, according...
HOMEWARD BOUND - EX-POW JESSICA BACK ON U.S. SOIL
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAmerica's sweetheart soldier, Jessica Lynch, touched down on U.S. soil yesterday for the first time after recovering from eight harrowing days as a POW. The 19-year-old private first class was...
BAGHDAD NOTEBOOK
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAfter 23 years in exile, Iraqi journalist Kamran al-Karadaghi, 64, is finally returning home. And the chief editor and deputy director of Radio Free Iraq in Czechoslovakia, a division of...
GOOD IN EMBED - NEWS STUDS CONQUER TV FAME & FANS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amA brave new breed of TV news stars has emerged from the rubble of Saddam Hussein's crushed regime. Although Iraq's crazy information minister "Baghdad Bob" Mohammed Saeed-al Sahhaf got most...
FRANTIC SEARCH OF JAILS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amDesperate Iraqi families are hoping that the liberation of their country is not just a figure of speech. Relatives of Saddam Hussein's political prisoners have begun searching jails all over...
BLAIR 'TOONS UP FOR 'SIMPSONS' ROLE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair is known for his animated personality - with good reason. On Friday, producers of "The Simpsons" stopped by 10 Downing St. and recorded Blair's voice...
U.S. MUST GET SADDAM: POLL
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amMore than two-thirds of Americans believe it's essential to kill or capture Saddam Hussein - and about the same number think he's still alive. Newsweek magazine said a recent poll...
SYRIAN KILLS GI GUARDING HOSPITAL
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amA Marine guarding a hospital in Baghdad was gunned down yesterday by a Syrian militant disguised as a groundskeeper, U.S. military officials said. The ambush happened outside a medical center...
SICKO PERV PUT VICTIM ON PARADE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAccused Syracuse sicko John Jamelske brazenly showed off his final teen sex slave in front of a group of his twisted pals several times during her six-month ordeal, introducing her...
PERV'S SICK PARADE - SHOWED OFF GIRL TO FELLOW FIENDS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAccused Syracuse sicko John Jamelske brazenly showed off his final teen sex slave in front of a group of his twisted pals several times during her six-month ordeal, introducing her...
JETS GM IN A BAD WAY - MISTAKES WITH COLES, MORTON WERE TERRY-BLE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amTERRY Bradway's miscalculations cost the Jets their kick returner extraordinaire, Chad Morton, and an extra draft choice for the loss of their best wide receiver, Laveranues Coles. But at least...
OTTAWA'S YASHIN OBSESSION SILLY - CITY'S EMBARRASSING ITSELF
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - It is the capital of the country that lectures down to the States at every opportunity while its messengers constantly remind us of its hockey sophistication and moral...
SNOW'S PARTY IS OVER - GOALIE EXPECTED GAME 2 BARRAGE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amOTTAWA - Garth Snow said after his shutout in Game 1 that the best save he had to make was against his own team in warm-ups. He figured it would...
FORMER GRADY H.S. STAR WANTS A CHANCE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amJerome Richardson helped Grady win a PSAL championship as a senior more than two years ago and thought he still had plenty of good basketball left in him. "I just...
MORE SHOTS TO BE STRUCK IN PRIVATE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amLOCAL GOLF The stiff winds of a bumpy economy are slowly turning against the public golfer. Citing a changing financial landscape, a number of upscale, daily-fee courses in the metropolitan...
DEVILS FIGURE TO SEE HACKETT
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - There's no point in waiting. The Bruins are expected to make the desperate goaltending change today that is nearly their last hope to turn around this playoff series...
CONGAREE COPS CARTER
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amIf Aqueduct were the only racetrack Congaree ever raced over, he'd go down as the greatest horse in history. By winning yesterday's Grade 1, $350,000 Carter Handicap - one of...
'EMPIRE' GETS IT DONE - CAPTURES WOOD, SETS SIGHTS ON RUN FOR ROSES
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amIn the days leading up to yesterday's Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, trainer Bobby Frankel and jockey Jerry Bailey said loud and clear that, while they wanted their...
HIDEKI GETS EARLY HALL CALL
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Ten games into his career and Hideki Matsui is already in the Hall of Fame. Cooperstown came calling after Matsui's performance Tuesday in which he became the first...
THANK GODZ! - MATSUI'S SINGLE IN 9TH SAVES DAY VS. LOWLY RAYS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 5 - Devil Rays 4 Hideki Matsui was having such a miserable game yesterday that it looked as if his honeymoon was over. It was bad enough that Matsui...
ROBERTO FEELING SAFE AT HOME
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - The standing ovations for Roberto Alomar the last two nights have been a dream come true as he has finally gotten the chance to wear a major-league...
THE DREAM'S JUST STARTING
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amYOU had a nightmare that a staff with 45 career postseason victories had a playoff series where it suddenly couldn't get anybody out. Weird thing was, the pitchers wore the...
OTB OPEN ON PALM SUNDAY
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amFor the first time in history, New York City Off-Track Betting announced yesterday it plans to open today, Palm Sunday, to accept wagers, in defiance of the N.Y. State Racing...
TIGER'S MOVIN' ON UP - TRAILS BY FOUR AFTER NEARLY MISSING CUT
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - The prom king, stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Augusta National, nearly didn't make it to the big Sunday dance. But day's end, the king...
MAGGERT, WEIR FACE MAJOR FIGHT
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Jeff Maggert might as well be your kid's sixth-grade math teacher. Mike Weir might as well be your neighborhood grocer. Or vice- versa. With no disrespect intended toward...
PUERTO REEK-O - ANOTHER SAN JUAN STINKER FOR METS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - As his $122 million collection of veteran talent bumbles defensively and stumbles on offense, Art Howe's "E-ZPass" managerial style is getting put to the test. Howe was...
GOLDEN BEAR MAY PASS ON MASTERS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Jack Nicklaus hinted yesterday that, depending how he's feeling and the conditions of the course at Augusta National, it's very possible that this could have been his last...
WELL, THEY WON'T SWEEP - ISLES SNOWED UNDER AS SENS EVEN SERIES
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amOTTAWA - The Senators didn't lose two consecutive games on their home ice all season. They still haven't. The Sens continued that trend into this Eastern Conference quarterfinal series with...
KNICKS COULD USE HIM - DON: IF VUJANIC COMES, HE'D PLAY
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amOVERTIME: Cavaliers 104 - Knicks 99 CLEVELAND - It's probably too late for Don Chaney to convince point-guard-of-the-future Milos Vujanic to play for the Knicks next season. But the Knicks...
JUNIOR CENTER HAS LAYDEN'S FULL ATTENTION
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES CLEVELAND - Knicks GM Scott Layden has been reluctant to talk about the strength of the draft until he knows which underclassmen are coming out. But one center...
FRANCO MAKING PROGRESS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN JUAN - Jay Bell cautioned that he's not a trainer. Still, he thinks John Franco will be able to get major-league hitters out very soon. "He got...
BIG GAME GIVES DIKEMBE REASON TO SMILE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES The frustration was plain to see. Rose Mutombo saw it clearly. And she told her husband. So Dikembe Mutombo was determined to smile last night. And he did...
NETS SURGE BACK TO 1ST - SLAM AILING RAPTORS TO END ILL-TIMED SKID
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amNets 94 - Raptors 86 Face it, had the Nets lost this one, a couple of them were getting pushed head-first over a cliff. It is one thing to lose...
FOR METROSTARS, ONLY FACES HAVE CHANGED
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amCrew 1 - MetroStars 0 --- The MetroStars brought in coach Bob Bradley and seven new starters to turn around last season's humiliating finish. But yesterday's season-opening 1-0 loss showed...
DROWN 'EM OUT, THEN CUT 'EM OFF
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amEVEN arrogance doesn't quite explain why Mike Francesa and Chris Russo take phone calls - then don't allow the callers to speak. Tuesday, a caller who sounded as if he...
HAS YOUR BOAT BEEN RECALLED?
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amFOR a period of 10 years after a boat is manufactured, federal law requires builders to recall and repair their vessels if they are found not to be in compliance...
'GAMES' OFF FOR SHOOTERS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amTHERE will be no firearms shooting events at this year's Empire State Games, a move that has caused an outcry from the shooting world. But those who run the games...
POPE'S THE MAN TO UNITE M'STARS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAfter booing defender Eddie Pope for the past seven years, MetroStars fans will learn to embrace him. Pope, a member of the MetroStars' archrival D.C. United since the start of...
IT'S ALL PITCHER PERFECT
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amYOU had a nightmare that a staff with 45 career postseason victories had a series when it suddenly couldn't get anybody out. Weird thing was the pitchers wore the numbers...
SON SHALL RISE AGAIN - MOM'S MESSAGE TO MET FANS: STAND BY ROBERTO
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - The long standing ovation for Roberto Alomar Friday night was a dream come true as he finally got the chance to wear a major league uniform in...
THIRD-ROUND LEADERS AREN'T OUT OF WOODS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Tiger Woods didn't exactly say his mere presence on the leaderboard entering the final round of the 2003 Masters will make the rest of the contenders nervous. He...
THE ART OF MANAGING - HOWE NOT READY TO SHAKE UP STRUGGLIN' METS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - With his set lineup stuck in quicksand and his team headed in the same southern direction, Art Howe's "E-Z Pass" managerial style will be put to the...
GOLDEN BEAR WON'T COMIT TO '04 RETURN
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK AUGUSTA - Jack Nicklaus hinted yesterday that, pending how he's feeling and the conditions of the course at Augusta National, it's very possible that this could have been his...
TIGER'S CLOSE SHAVE - MIRACLE SAVE ON 36TH HOLE KEEPS WOODS A CUT ABOVE
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - The prom king nearly didn't make it to the big weekend dance yesterday at Augusta National. Tiger Woods, the two-time defending Masters champion attempting to become the first...
MUTOMBO'S ITCHING TO BE STARTING AGAIN
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES It will come, Byron Scott said. As to when, suffice to say Dikembe Mutombo will be the Nets' starting center again soon. If not during the remaining three...
NETS ARE STILL FEELING SWEEPY
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amOK, it could have gotten really bad. And it still might. But in recent days, one overriding factor seems to have saved the Nets' bacon. "It seems nobody wants that...
AND THE WINNER IS . . . NO SECRETS IN OUR NBA AWARDS
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amWHAT'S all this nonsense about a secret ballot? This isn't the Springfield Hall of Fame, where voters are required to don (Celtic) ski masks for every election. The NBA year-end...
POINTING TO FUTURE - DON: IF VUJANIC COMES, HE'D PLAY
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - It's probably too late for Don Chaney to convince point-guard-of-the-future Milos Vujanic to play for the Knicks next season. But the Knick coach, in his first-ever remarks about...
A FAIRWELL TO ARMS - WHY BRAVES REALLY MAY BE BEATABLE THIS TIME
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amTHE longest streak in professional sports history, Atlanta GM John Schuerholz says, is his Braves' 11 straight division titles. "The next longest streak in professional sports history," Schuerholz discloses, "is...
YOGI DOES IT AGAIN
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amWhitey Ford's 75th birthday was celebrated at a fund-raiser for Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains before 1,000 people Thursday night at the Westchester Marriott with Yankee broadcasters John...
NEW YORK POST ALL-PSAL - 2003 FIRST TEAM
April 13, 2003 | 4:00amPLAYER OF THE YEAR SEBASTIAN TELFAIR Lincoln, 5-11, Guard Sebastian Telfair has already garnered plenty of national recognition, which is fine with him. But that's not what he wants. "He...