September 7, 2003
BULL'S EYE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amKoz's big bashDennis Kozlowski's picking up the tab for one last blast before he enters his criminal trial for looting $600 million from Tyco International. It's the wedding of his...
MERRILL, BIG BIRD SHOW KIDS WAY TO BIG BOARD
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amStarting this week, financial advice for preschoolers will be brought to you by the letters M and L. Merrill Lynch, the guys who tipped Enron, now are tickling Elmo, teaming...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amOnly a little bit country: The New Pornographers, at the Bowery Ballroom recently, were making fun of Shania's "halfway decent" radio hit, "Forever and for Always." "If a severely retarded...
PUPPY PUSHED OUT OF PAD
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amDuring 20 years in his rent-stabilized apartment, Larry Ostrow had two dogs and never heard a complaint from his landlord. Then his second dog died and he adopted a 10-pound...
BILL'S NEW STRIPES; HE ISN'T ALL FUN AND GAMES - THERE ARE GIRLS AND DRAMA AND OSCAR BUZZ
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amBill Murray is funny. "That's my cross. That's my burden," the former "Saturday Night Live" star said in his signature deadpan at a recent Venice Film Festival press conference. But...
WHAT A WEI TO GO
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amSHE caused a nationwide furor in China when she posed in a dress with Japan's imperial flag on it, and she was attacked by a protester on live TV. In...
SUMMER'S OVER, AND NOT A MINUTE TOO SOON
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amNow you can order eggs Benedict and home fries without having to face your stomach in a bikini for the rest of the day. I know I'm contradicting myself, but...
FASHION WEEK PREVIEW: THE BEST OFF-THE-CATWALK EVENTS
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amMonday, Sept. 8: LeSportSac hosts a cocktail party at the Four Seasons for the launch of Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B handbags. Friday, Sept. 12: The Union Square Diesel store hosts "Stephen...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN DESIGNER BRADLEY BAYOU PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amGOLDEN RULE: "You don't want to wear something - no matter howwell it's made - if it doesn't make you look good." He may have gotten his start in real...
FAB FALL FASHION: RAKE UP THESE FIVE MUST-HAVE LOOKS
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amCOVER: Miguelina dress ($408) and BCBG shoes ($152) at Bloomingdale's; Hand Maid by Michelle Frantz clutch ($150) at Girlshop.com. GATSBY GLAMOUR When it comes to autumn evening looks, pick a...
PRISON PERV PARADE; ALARM AS 78 SET TO BE SPRUNG
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amA recent spate of brutal attacks on city women have many looking over their shoulders. But a slew of sexual predators about to be released from state prisons into the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amLibrarians are throwing the book at a new action figure of a dowdy-looking, shushing librarian. The 5-inch "Librarian Action Figure" depicts a bespectacled woman in a cardigan who moves her...
BOMB-DEATH SHOCK ; MANIFESTO IS KEY TO WEIRD CASE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amERIE, Pa. - Four hidden keys may have saved Brian Wells from being blown up by the pipe bomb that was shackled to his neck. Wells is the 46-year-old pizza...
BOUDIN LOOKS HOME FREE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - The lawyer of Brinks robber Kathy Boudin said yesterday a new place has been found to house her when she is released from jail - possibly as soon...
GLORIOUS SUN AT LAST ; WEATHER BRINGS OUT THE STARS
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe weather gods finally smiled on the U.S. Open yesterday. Celebs turned out in droves for the women's finals and men's semifinals yesterday, but it was the perfect weather that...
MEMOIR BY AMNESIAC SHOULD BE MEMORABLE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amFormer prisoner of war Jessica Lynch, who apparently can't remember anything about her capture, and disgraced New York Times/Pulitzer winner Rick Bragg, who wrote a story from somebody else's reporting,...
POLICE TO POL? KERIK MOVES ON
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amIt was time for Bernard Kerik to leave Baghdad. For one thing, the ex-New York City police commissioner who spent the last 14 weeks rebuilding the Iraqi police force at...
CHANGING CLASSES; OVERHAUL KICKS IN TOMORROW
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amOne of the largest city experiments opens tomorrow with the ring of a bell. And when schools open for business in the morning, Chancellor Joel Klein knows the city will...
GOING UP: CITY EYES ELEVATOR WATCHDOG
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe city's Buildings Department will overhaul its troubled elevator-inspection unit after The Post revealed last week that accidents are at a 10-year high and the city's inspection system is flawed....
BLOOMBERG & KLEIN FACING THEIR 1ST TRUE TEST
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amANALYSIS High-stakes school reform begins tomorrow. Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein ring in the grandest experiment in urban education in the United States when 1,200 city public schools...
STATE PROBING HOSP BLACKOUT NIGHTMARE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amA state Health Department probe is under way into why backup generators failed at Brooklyn's SUNY Downstate hospital during last month's blackout, The Post has learned. The crisis at Downstate...
PALESTINIAN PM ABBAS CALLS IT QUITS
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas resigned yesterday after a bitter power struggle with Yasser Arafat, leaving the U.S.-backed "road map" to peace in a dangerous limbo. Saddened and...
'MILLION' KIDS HEAR WORDS OF PEACE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amDespite the dark cloud of rap wars and a violent history of its own, the Million Youth March was launched without a hitch yesterday as teens and adolescents gathered in...
LABORERS PUT THEIR UNION PRIDE ON PARADE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amThousands of union members waving American flags reveled in the morning sunshine and marched up Fifth Avenue yesterday in the annual Labor Day parade "I came out because I am...
MIKE MAY LET HIS CHECKBOOK DO THE TALKING TO STATE GOP
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amMAYOR Bloomberg, never one to skimp on political contributions, has to make a tough decision this year when he writes his annual check to the Republican state committee. The billionaire...
TAKING AIM AT ASTHMA
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amHundreds of people, including several local politicians, marched through East Harlem yesterday to raise awareness about the alarming asthma rates in the city. East Harlem has the "worst childhood hospitalization...
NEW SKAKEL TWIST ; KOBE KIN STEPS FORWARD TO TELL OF 'REAL KILLERS': LAWYER
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amConvicted murderer Michael Skakel will demand a new trial after bombshell evidence from Kobe Bryant's cousin emerged yesterday fingering two Bronx youths as the actual killers of 15-year-old Martha Moxley...
BEATEN GAL PAL FOUND SLAIN
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man who begged his estranged girlfriend not to press criminal charges against him for beating her up allegedly bashed her head in yesterday and killed her, according to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amSTATEN ISLAND A racially motivated dispute between a band of white youths and an African-American teenager in the Eltingville section led to four injuries and a continuing police probe, cops...
BLAZE KILLS BELOVED GRANNY, 103
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amBernice Wabraushek, who was one of New York's oldest residents at 103, died yesterday in a smoky blaze that swept through her Upper East Side apartment. "She was full of...
SURFERS RIDE FABIAN WAVE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe massive hurricane that devastated Bermuda caused a surfer's paradise on Long Island yesterday, where hundreds of joy-riders battled 10-foot waves yesterday - and some daredevils had to be rescued...
COPS: NO WAR IN RAPPER'S SLAY
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe Murder Inc. label rapper gunned down on a Queens street was not the victim of a new rap war, but instead blown away in a dispute with a local...
N.Y. 'DIRTY' COP BUSTED IN ORE.
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amAn Oregon grand jury has indicted a New York City cop for snapping sexually explicit pictures of himself and a 17-year-old schoolgirl in an Oregon hotel. Matthew DeGennaro, 32, who...
SKAKEL TRIAL DEMAND; KOBE 'KIN' STEPS FORWARD TO TELL OF 'REAL KILLERS': LAWYER
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amConvicted murderer Michael Skakel will demand a new trial after bombshell evidence emerged yesterday fingering two Bronx youths as the actual killers of 15-year-old Martha Moxley in 1975. Gitano "Tony"...
CELEBRITY SCENE IN FULL SWING AT U.S. OPEN
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amWith the sun showing its face at the U.S. open yesterday, so did the celebs - who turned out in droves for the women's finals and men's semifinals yesterday as...
BOMB-DEATH SHOCK; MANIFESTO IS KEY TO WEIRD CASE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amERIE, Pa. - Four hidden keys may have saved Brian Wells from being blown up by the pipe bomb that was shackled to his neck. Wells was the 46-year-old pizza...
HOMETOWN SHUNS BRONSON
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe folks who live in Charles Bronson's Pennsylvania hometown have a wish after the tough guy's death last month: They do not want to see his name honored with a...
SUPERMODEL EVANGELISTA IS GIVING 'EM ELLE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amAs the fashion flock descends on Bryant Park for spring/summer 2004 Fashion Week, lovely Linda Evangelista looked in the mirror and this is what she saw. This self-portrait is part...
AGASSI WILL KNOW WHEN IT'S HIS TIME TO GO
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amCLEARLY, the crowd at Ar thur Ashe Stadium didn't want to let go. And, of course, Andre Agassi, who has reinvented himself twice during his career, didn't become Andre Agassi...
PHILS 'WILD' OVER METS: BULLPEN RX COULDBE FOULKE REMEDY
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - The Mets have one of the worst bullpens in baseball, and they know it. Oakland closer Keith Foulke, a pending free agent, could be the man...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amCurses! HBO film examinesRed Sox Nation Leave it to comedian Steven Wright, a native of Burlington, Mass., to put in perspective what it means to be a loyal member of...
HENIN LEAVES NO DOUBT ; ROUTS CLIJSTERS TO TAKE TITLE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amSorry, Serena. No matter what the computer says and, even though the U.S. Open's chief sponsor doesn't know her first name, Justine Henin-Hardenne, is indisputably the 2003 women's player of...
PHILS 'WILD' OVER METS BEAT AMAZIN'S6TH STRAIGHT TIME
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amPhillies 9Mets 6 PHILADELPHIA - Lately, the Phillies are playing like a team of destiny. In contrast, the Mets aren't even a team of mediocrity - and for the sixth...
AMERICANS ALWAYS PUT THE 'US' IN U.S. OPEN
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amAFTER nine hours and three minutes on a tennis court over three days, David Nalbandian, the spittin' image of a tomato can booked to get Andy Roddick to his first...
ANALYSIS IS MADDEN-ING ; WHAT YOU GET ISN'T WHAT YOU SEE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amI KNOW that in some newspapers it's considered heresy to even hint at such a thing, that to in any way put the knock on John Madden is to risk...
IT'S TIME TO MAKE PLANS FOR HURRICANE SEASON
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amIf a hurricane does bear down on us - and we are long overdue - are you ready? THE deadly hurricane that has slammed into Bermuda is supposed to head...
THIS IS THE WEAK TO MAKE YOUR MOVE INTO FIRST
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amMEMO to those in first place or near the top of their league: Prey on the weak. Depending on whether your league had a trade deadline, this time of year...
COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING BIG ; GIANTS EXPECT TO OPEN SEASON ON THE OFFENSIVE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amConjecture about this Giants season is not veiled in caution or hope. No one within the team can tear away a certain newspaper clip or tune into a particular sound...
RAMS 'D' MIGHT BE CORNERED
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Take aim. That's what the Giants are sure to do this afternoon, with their sights set squarely on what looks to be a suspect Rams defensive backfield. "Obviously,...
IT'S HAMMER TIME
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amKERRY COLLINS and the Giants get a chance to prove they have overtaken the Rams as The Greatest Show on (Field) Turf. Yet, when they open their season today, the...
ELLIS, DEFENSE LEFT ON ISLAND
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amAFTER getting a good look at the Jets through one game, there's one glaring conclusion to be drawn: The defense had better carry this team until the offense finds itself,...
FT. HAMILTON FOLLOWS ISAACS PAST BAYSIDE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amFt. Hamilton 26Bayside 7 Fort Hamilton surprised much of the PSAL last season by reaching the championship game, where the Tigers lost to Curtis. If they want to get back,...
DEREK'S OUT AGAIN
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Derek Jeter repeated the same message to Joe Torre he delivered for the past five games, and Jeter got a familiar result: a seat on the bench. That's...
TORRE, CASHMAN ACCEPT OUTBURST
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amOn the surface, George Steinbrenner's calculated outburst to The Post on Friday night didn't have the Yankees' clubhouse in a frenzy yesterday morning. The consensus was that Steinbrenner's barbs are...
MILLAR'S ROCKET HELPS KEEP BOSTON ON ROLL
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amSix batters into the game, Kevin Millar set the tone for the day. As usual, the Red Sox had plenty of offensive heroes in yesterday's second straight rout of the...
THE BERLIN BRAWL ; QB'S TRANSFER MOTIVATES CANES, GATORS
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amMIAMI - Brock Berlin came out of high school with the hype of a new band. The only thing hotter than Brock's talent was the recruiting battle for his services,...
SATHER'S MADE QUITE A MESS ; BRINGING BACK CAPTAIN MAY SPELL DOOM FOR GM
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amLIKE the mayor of the one traffic-light town who is also sheriff and justice of the peace, he and he alone is the law. As such, the burden is entirely...
METS NEED SOME RELIEF ; MUST REPAIR LEAKY PEN
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - When the subject of the offseason comes up in the players' lounge and in the dugout, Vladimir Guerrero and Kevin Millwood dominate the conversation among the Mets. Lost...
RED SOX SHOWING ; YANKS WHO'S BOSS ; THIS SINKING SHIP NEEDS ITS CAPTAIN
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amGEORGE STEINBRENNER has it all wrong, of course. The Yankees don't need Joe Torre to topple the buffet table. They don't need him to steal pages out of the tough-guy...
HOWE PUTS TY BACK IN LINEUP
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - After being benched for a game due to his 3-for-30 slump, Ty Wigginton was back in the lineup last night against the Phillies. Manager Art Howe...
VERY UNHAPPY VALLEY ; BC RUNS ALL OVER PENN ST.
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amB.C. 27Penn St. 14 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Throughout the ACC's raid of the Big East, experts pontificated that Penn State could save the beleaguered conference. This team? Please. They...
FEISTY FERRERO TOPPLES AGASSI
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amWhen the day started, Andy Roddick was the young American who could be on the cusp of greatness. Andre Agassi is now the old American on the cusp of a...
TOUGH YEAR FOR LINKS OWNER
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amLOCAL GOLF First it was bad weather, then vandalism, now TV cameras. It's been a tough year for Mel Mindich. Recently, Mindich, owner of The Links at Shirley on Long...
WHICH IS THE CURSED TEAM HERE?
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amONE bears The Curse, the other the curser. One has the burden of 85 years of dashed dreams, the other a beast of burden named George Steinbrenner. While all contenders...
IT'S MINESHAFT IN WOODWARD
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amIn yet another bravura performance, 1-5 favorite Mineshaft, leading contender for Horse of the Year, cruised past the leaders on the far turn and drew off majestically under Robby Albarado...
SURGING BOSOX BASH BOMBERS
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amRed Sox 11Yankees 0 Tense. Tight. Terrible. The Yankees were all three yesterday when the Red Sox punished them, 11-0, at the Stadium to pull within 1½ games of the...
NIEU ON PACT: 'I'D LIKE TO GET THIS DONE'
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amFree agent Joe Nieuwendyk said yesterday that he had opened contract negotiations with Devils but had yet to complete a deal, confirming yesterday's report in The Post. "My agent spoke...
BOSTON HAS TO LIKE WHAT IT SEES
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amOn Aug. 20, Oakland beat the Red Sox, dropped them 7½ games behind the Yankees, and forced Boston catcher Doug Mirabelli to admit a harsh truth. "I made a statement...
FOR REELING YANKS, IT'S BOOMER OR BUST
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amHis 40-year-old back barks more than he admits. He is miffed at Joe Torre and Mel Stottlemyre. He has talked openly about pitching next year in his native San Diego,...
TIME'S STILL ON AGASSI'S SIDE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amCLEARLY, the crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium didn't want to let go. And, of course, Andre Agassi, who has reinvented himself twice during his career, didn't become Andre Agassi by...
CAPPY PLAYS CRYING GAME AFTER DEFEAT
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amJennifer Capriati was not ashamed to admit it. At 1 a.m. yesterday, her eyes red, her body aching, her semifinal somehow lost, she said she had a good long cry...
FERRERO'S PROUD TO BE NO. JUAN
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amThere is no question about Juan Carlos Ferrero's tennis. After he swiped a U.S. Open semifinal and the ATP No. 1 ranking from Andre Agassi yesterday, there is no doubt...
BOMBERS TASTE KNUCKLE SANDWICH
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amOK, Pedro Martinez you could understand. But Tim Wakefield? Yes, it was Wakefield, the Red Sox' ageless knuckleballer, who went from question mark to exclamation point in yesterday's 11-0 blowout...
AGASSI WON'T CLOSE BOOK ON OPEN
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES Andre Agassi was way off his game yesterday, but the semifinal disappointment has given him more resolve to come back for another U.S. Open next year. Before the...
RODDICK'S RALLY KEEPS USA ALIVE
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amTrailing two sets to love, Andy Roddick's frustration rose during a changeover midway through the third when he told the chair umpire, "I haven't said one word all day and...
MIFFED DAVID THROWS SPIT FIT
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amExasperated at the umpiring, David Nalbandian twice spit toward umpire Andreas Egli and then put out his right hand for a shake before pulling it back after his U.S. Open...
MIAMI MIRACLE BERLIN LEADS AMAZING COMEBACK
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amMiami 38Florida 33 MIAMI - If Brock Berlin is to be believed - if he did indeed treat last night's showdown against Florida as just another game - then we...
SURGING BOSOX BASH BOMBERS : SECOND BLOWOUT CUTS YANKS' LEAD TO 1½
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amRed Sox 11 Yankees 0 They booed Jason Giambi in the sixth inning but the slumping slugger was taking a bullet for the rest of the Yankees when it came...
THE CRYING GAME: CAPRIATI SHEDS TEARS AFTER MARATHON LOSS
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amJennifer Capriati was not ashamed to admit it. At 1 a.m. yesterday, her eyes red, her body aching, her semifinal somehow lost, she said she had a good long cry...
OWNER OF L.I. LINKS HANDLES PROBLEMS
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amLOCAL GOLF First it was bad weather, then vandalism, now TV cameras. It's been a tough year for Mel Mindich. Recently, Mindich, owner of The Links at Shirley on Long...
MASSACRE MOMENT: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER, YANKS AND SOX CAN'T FORGET MEMORABLE SERIES
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amToday marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of The Boston Massacre, a four-game stretch in Fenway Park where the 1978 Yankees swept four from the Red Sox to eliminate...
CARMELO READY TO STRUT AT GARDEN TWINBILL
September 7, 2003 | 4:00amMadison Square Garden will get its first fragrant whiff of Carmelo Anthony as a professional Wednesday night when the rising NBA rookie struts his stuff in the feature game of...