November 2, 2003
BULL'S EYE
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amBOSS COOLS OFF Officials involved in the sale of the New Jersey Nets are taking a breather. The reason: George Steinbrenner is still fuming about his Yankees losing the World...
BOOMING CHINESE ECONOMY DRAWING FOREIGN INVESTORS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amIf you haven't gotten in on the Chinese gold rush yet, don't worry. There's still time. With growth in China's economy averaging 8 percent in recent years and its stock...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amPlay: Moby's new contest with moveon.org, "Bushin30seconds, says anyone can submit a 30-second TV ad based on "The truth of George Bush." Judges include Jack Black, Eddie Vedder, Michael Stipe,...
DEFENDING THE DOBERMAN
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amMany dog-loving New Yorkers go dogless because they fear their busy schedules won't leave them time for a dog. Not Elisabeth Rohm. The gorgeous blond star of TV's "Law &...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER ... THE INGRID BERGMAN FILM FESTIVAL
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amCatch one of Hollywood's favorite stars in a retrospective at the Nordic cultural center, Scandinavia House (58 Park Ave., between 37th & 38th streets). "Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish Films," through...
FUNNY BUSINESS; A CHRISTMAS STORY FROM ENGLAND'S ROMANTIC COMEDY DREAM TEAM
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amHopeless romantics rejoice! In time for the holidays comes a gift from Richard Curtis - undisputed master of the romantic comedy (author of the screenplays for "Notting Hill," "Four Weddings...
STARR REPORT
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amUncoupledNBC's much buzzed-about comedy bomb "Coupling" has been canceled. The network shut down production Friday on the sex- charged sitcom, informing the show's producers that additional episodes will not be...
OLD & NEW IN TIM BURTON RETRO
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amBE the first on your block to see Tim Burton's "Big Fish" (2003), starring Albert Finney and Billy Crudup. Not opening nationwide until December, it will get an advance screening...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN DESIGNER LAURA EISMAN PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amLaura says: "You have to know what's in fashion and you also have to pinpoint something that's you. Know what looks good on you." When Laura Eisman launched Girlshop.com out...
ANTI-NOISE COPS BAG BIGGER FISH
November 2, 2003 | 5:00am"Operation Silent Night," the year-old initiative to combat the city's noisiest neighborhoods, isn't just giving New Yorkers some peace and quiet - it's putting felons behind bars. In addition to...
SHARK MAULS KID; STAR SURFER GIRL LOSES ARM IN HAWAII
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amA competitive surfer girl on the brink of stardom lost her left arm in a dramatic shark attack in Hawaii, but survived thanks to the quick thinking of her best...
HOLLYWOOD SUPPORT FOR WAR-ART KID
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amA major Hollywood director and a top screenwriter have both offered to buy a controversial war drawing that got a New Jersey boy booted from school. Director Jonathan "Silence of...
BURNING OUT AT AGE 10 ; N.Y. KIDS WILT IN THE FAST LANE: EXPERTS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amLINDSAY WEISSMAN is a typical busy New Yorker. She leaves home before 8 each weekday morning and returns well after dark. If she's lucky, she sometimes has Monday night free....
BUSH: WE WON'T RUN; VOWS AGAIN TO FINISH THE JOB IN IRAQ
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amTwo U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq yesterday in a "day of resistance" declared by Saddam Hussein's holdouts - but President Bush vowed to stand firm, saying a premature U.S....
PROBERS SIFT THROUGH HUNGER HOME AGAIN
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amProsecutors yesterday gathered more evidence against a New Jersey couple accused of starving their adopted sons. Investigators from the Camden County prosecutor's office converged on the two-story Collingswood house, carrying...
LET IT BEATRICE: PAUL'S BABY GIRL
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amThey love her, yeah, yeah, yeah. Proud parents Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills are showing off their baby girl, Beatrice Milly, for the first time. The newest McCartney was...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amWhile trick-or-treaters were busy knocking on doors in America, some Catholics in France were trying to steer their own away from the imported holiday of Halloween. "Halloween plays with death....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amTHe BRONX Police are reviewing the suspicious death of a 70-year-old woman who was found inside her apartment with an unexplained injury, police said yesterday. The woman, whose name was...
H'WEEN EGGING TURNS BLOODY
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens father was recovering yesterday from a ghoulish gang stabbing after he tried to stop thugs from throwing eggs at his fiancée and two young daughters out trick-or-treating Halloween...
DOORMAN RUN DOWN; KILLED ON VERGE OF RETIREMENT BY PARK AVE. TAXI
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amA veteran Park Avenue doorman on the verge of retirement was mowed down and killed by a taxicab that jumped a curb and pinned him against a wall, cops and...
ROCKING THE BOAT; FERRY BIGS BLEW OFF CAPT.'S SOLO-PILOT WARNING
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amA Staten Island Ferry captain who complained about co-workers who pilot boats alone from the forward wheelhouse was told by his bosses to mind his own business, a maritime source...
HEADY NEWS FOR POST BRAIN
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amOne of The Post's very own eggheaded reporters has cracked the ultimate IQ test - and was welcomed into the elite genius society Mensa. Chris Bunting, 24, got the good...
PATIENT AT BX. HOSP STABS NURSE
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amAn unruly Bronx hospital patient stabbed a nurse in the arm with a knife while being rolled to another room on a bed, police sources said. The incident happened about...
'OSAMA' FLYER BAFFLES TOWN
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amA New Jersey town that lost dozens of people in the 9/11 attacks is being inundated with flyers from a mystery mailer claiming to be Osama bin Laden, urging them...
STUDENT DIES AFTER STAIRS FALL
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amA FIT student was found dead in her off-campus apartment yesterday, hours after falling down a flight of stairs, law-enforcement sources said. Courtney Ratcliffe, 23, was discovered around 11:38 a.m....
TEEN,15, HELD IN H'WEEN KNIFING
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens teen was arrested last night for his role in the ghoulish gang stabbing of a dad who tried to stop the youth and his thug pals from throwing...
HOW THE WEST HAS WON
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amRipples of Battle: How Wars of thePast Still Determine How We Fight,How We Live and How We Think, by Victor David Hanson, Doubleday, 288 pages, $27.50 VICTOR Davis Hanson is...
END OF LINE FOR REDBIRD
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amIt's the end of the line for the Redbird. The last of New York's oldest in-service subway cars will be taken off the rails tomorrow after the train rattles its...
AIDES FUME AS MIKE BOOSTS 'NO-WIN' POLS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amMAYOR Bloomberg ignored the advice of some senior aides when he endorsed long-shot Republican candidates, who are given little chance of unseating veteran Democrats, in City Council elections. The aides...
WOMEN'S MAGS CAN PUT ANYBODY IN A FOUL MOOD
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amBetsy McCall must be turning in her grave - or wherever paper dolls go when they die - over what happened to her once-beloved magazine, Rosie nee McCall's.Rosie O'Donnell was...
JURY-DUTY COPS CRACK DOWN ON NOT-SO-ARTFUL DODGERS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amDodging jury duty is becoming a surefire way of ending up in court yourself. After decades of hardly bothering to chase offenders, courts in the city are now taking a...
ANGUISH OVER 2 OFF THE 9/11 LIST
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amFor more than two years, Nora Elsa Molina has mourned the death of her teenage son on 9/11. A year ago she came to New York from Oaxaca, Mexico, to...
FERRY SCAM ARTISTS SNIFF TEST
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amLawyers for victims of the Staten Island Ferry crash are using a smell test to sniff out potential scam artists. While checking out stories of alleged ferry victims in an...
INSIDE THE FOSTER KIDS' NIGHTMARE WORLD OF FILTH AND STARVATION
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amFOR a household with 11 kids, the refrigerator was stunningly bare. It contained an egg carton, a block of butter, and two bottles of salad dressing. The freezer was empty...
ROCKING THE BOAT ; FERRY BIGS BLEW OFF CAPT.'S SOLO-PILOT WARNING
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amA Staten Island Ferry captain who complained about co-workers who pilot boats alone from the forward wheelhouse was told by his bosses to mind his own business, a maritime source...
CASINO MULLS FATE OF DEATH GARAGE
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amTropicana Casino officials in Atlantic City haven't decided whether to demolish just the collapsed portion of the 10-story garage that killed four and injured 21 others Thursday or to knock...
DOORMAN RUN DOWN: KILLED ON VERGE OF RETIREMENT BY PARK AVE. TAXI
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amA veteran Park Avenue doorman on the verge of retirement was mowed down and killed by a taxicab that jumped a curb and pinned him against a wall, cops and...
ELLIS POCKETING A QB EACH WEEK
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amIn games like the Jets-Giants clash that'll go down today inside of what's certain to be a rocking Giants Stadium, the eventual winner must have a difference-maker on its team....
T-MAC MAY OPEN SHAQ'S MAGIC DOOR
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amASIDE from Kobe Bryant, guess what other valedictorian has the right to opt out of class after this season? Tracy McGrady. So what, you say? Well, this is what! Those...
COULD BE A GOOD 'VALUE'
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amIn a year when every big race for 2-year-old males at a mile or longer has been won by a different horse, when Action This Day comes straight from breaking...
K-MART MAY COME BACK THIS WEEK
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Rod Thorn thought the worst as he watched teammates carry Kenyon Martin off the court Friday night. After Thorn's stomach did a few somersaults, only two simple syllables...
SCORELESS COLLINS STILL MAKES POINTS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES WASHINGTON - If you looked at a stat sheet, you might ask, "What's the big deal?" But if ever a game represented what Jason Collins means to the...
RUN-OF-THE-MILL RACE ; MARATHON NEEDS A FAMILIAR STAR
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amWE are red-faced that it has been 22 years since Alberto Salazar's last American victory in the New York City Marathon, white as the ghost of chance we have of...
CHANEY'S LINEUP NOT SO D-PRESSED
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SAN ANTONIO - "Don Chaney" and "good defensive team" are two phrases that have not been placed in the same sentence since he took over as Knicks head...
AMERICANS CAN'T CATCH UP
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amDefending champs Rodgers Rop and Joyce Chepchumba are the favorites in today's New York City Marathon; Martin Lel and Catherine Ndereba are the dark horses. Kenyan men have won four...
WIN-DOW CLOSING FAST FOR GREEN ; SEASON'S FLEETING FOR DESPERATE JETS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amLet's call this the way it is: A Jets loss today and the bottom falls out on their season. Yes, only halfway through their season, things are that urgent. The...
KNICKS ANSWER BACK ; HOUSTON, WARD TAKE ISSUE WITH SPREE'S REMARKS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00am"When you look at the Bulls, I'm sure you didn't see Michael [Jordan] hanging out with Dennis Rodman a lot."ALLAN HOUSTON SAN ANTONIO - Allan Houston says the Knicks' recent...
EVERYTHING'S JUST DUCKY ; ISLES ANSWER STIRLING'S CALL IN ROUT
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amIsles 4Ducks 1 Islanders coach Steve Stirling issued an APB this week for someone to step up and set an example for his team both on and off the ice,...
NOW THAT'S MORE LIKE IT
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 4Avalanche 3 In one monster Halloween week, the Devils have turned around the previous two. They've also surely quieted the trade whispers that are said to have been rumbling...
JINTS SHOULD HAVE A BRAWL FINISHING OFF SWAMP RIVALS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00am"We have guys who really want to take it to the next level."MICHAEL STRAHAN WHEREVER you are, whichever side of the George Washington Bridge you are on, you will hear...
IT ALL STARTS HERE ; GIANTS THINKING PLAYOFF RUN
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amRuling New York is the goal for today, but not the ultimate goal. Not for the Giants, not this season, not with this team. Long after Giants-Jets is history one...
IAN IS BELIEVIN' VS. ELLIS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES After starting at right tackle in the season opener, Ian Allen was benched, perhaps never to be heard from again. But with the Giants' offensive line in a...
TIME TO PICK OFF SOME QB STATISTICS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amAS LONG AS the NFL and its TV networks are so fixated on stats - to the sustained detriment of fans under the influence of stat-parroting "experts" - why not,...
HIT CHARADE ; YANK SEARCH FOR BAT COACH STILL MYSTERY
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amChris Chambliss was the hitting coach for a team that won four of six World Series titles and was fired after the Yankees won a third straight. Gary Denbo, Chambliss'...
BETTER TALK NOW TAKES K'BOCKER
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amLast July, Maryland-based trainer Graham Motion shipped his filly Film Maker up to Saratoga for the Lake George on turf, put Edgar Prado on her back and got all the...
COMBATTING CWD WILL BE COSTLY
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amAS CHRONIC Wasting Disease spreads across the country, a recent study says the cost to the economy could reach $100 billion. Colorado State University conducted the study that says rural...
METROS ON BRINK
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amRevolution 2MetroStars 0 One word, more than any other, summed up the MetroStars' emotions at the Meadowlands yesterday during and well after their 2-0 loss to New England in the...
NETS SLAP OLD FRIEND
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amNets 98Wizards 85 WASHINGTON - Similar styles; hardly similar talent or experience. So Big Brother won this one. The first meeting of Nets head coach Byron Scott and his former...
TECH THAT, 'CANES! HOKIES END MIAMI WIN STREAK AT 39
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amVa. Tech 31 Miami 7 BLACKSBURG, Va. - The drop was more shocking than former Miami Hurricane star Jeremy Shockey's dropped touchdown pass earlier this season for the Giants. It...
HOUSTON FIRES BACK AT SPREE
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SAN ANTONIO - Allan Houston says the Knicks' downfall in recent years was not because of too little chemistry or too many religious cliques, as Latrell Sprewell asserted....
BLAME CHANEY: SPURS ROLL OVER DON'S LISTLESS LOSERS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amSpurs 86 Knicks 74 SAN ANTONIO - The best head coach being paid by Knick owner James Dolan was sitting on press row at SBC Center with a headset on...
NETS BEAT OLD FRIEND
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amNets 98Wizards 85 WASHINGTON - Similar styles. Hardly similar talent or experience. So of course, Big Bother did it better. The first meeting of Nets' head coach Byron Scott and...
THORN RELIEVED BY K-MART NEWS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES WASHINGTON - Nets team president Rod Thorn thought the worst as he watched teammates carry Kenyon Martin from the court. But Thorn and the rest of the Nets...
DON'T BLAME THE PLAYERS ; LOCKOUT-SEEKING OWNERS NOT NEGOTIATING FAIRLY
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amMONTREAL - After speaking to a variety of sources who attended the agents' meeting on Wednesday with Bob Goodenow and his NHLPA negotiating squad, and with others who were present...
WEIGHT WATCHER: COACH WON'T LET PENNINGTON FRET
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amWHETHER or not the Jets beat the Giants today, whether they make the playoffs or watch them on television, one objective must be achieved when this 2003 season is complete:...
UNTOUCHABLE NO MORE: HOKIE JONES AIMS FOR RETURN TO GLORY
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amBLACKSBURG, Va. - Kevin Jones got half the carries last season while sharing the Virginia Tech tailback spot with Lee Suggs. The two were dubbed The Untouchables and quickly garnered...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amCHEAP THRILLS WARNING: George Steinbrenner reading this may be hazardous to other people's health. David Samson grew up in Manhattan a Knicks fan. For the last two years he's been...
RANGER KIDS ROCK
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amRangers 5 Canadiens 1 MONTREAL - The future was last night. Even if it doesn't seem like it now, there have been times throughout the last six wasted Broadway seasons...
BARNABY'S PLEA: JUST GIVE ME SOME TIME
November 2, 2003 | 5:00am"It's an entirely different game when you don't get the minutes." MATTHEW BARNABY MONTREAL -When Thursday night's 4-1 Garden victory over the Hurricanes had ended, Glen Sather was talking about...
METROS ON MISSION : HOPED FOR FAST REVIVAL
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amTo the outsider, it sure looked like the MetroStars had limped into the playoffs on a slide almost as bad as last year's collapse. When they hosted red-hot New England...
JINTS-JETS: THE MATCHUPS
November 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe Jets (2-5) and the Giants (3-4) have the identical records they had after seven games last season, when both rebounded to make the playoffs. It's doubtful today's loser will...