January 25, 2004
BULL'S EYE
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amBLIND FAITH The loud grumbling might be quieting a bit at CNBC over its new policy to ban its staff from owning stocks outright. The network imposed the ban to...
ON THE WARPATH; SPITZER'S SIGHTS: LAZY SEC, GRASSO, MAYBE ALBANY
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has made a sport of regularly, and quite publicly, beating up fellow regulators, primarily the Securities and Exchange Commission. He's referred to the agency...
MAKING WALL ST. ACCOUNTABLE
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amLast week, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer spoke with New York Post reporter Jenny Anderson about where Wall Street went wrong, misbehaving mutual fund boards, and why he won't...
LOST & FOUND; UNWITTING CANINE COMMUTERS ALL LANDED HAPPY HOMECOMINGS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amRecent news reports suggest that some savvy strays can figure out how to take public transportation and find their way home. On Christmas Eve, a retriever-spaniel ran away from a...
BOOK-WRITING BLITZ FOR PROGRAM FRITZ
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amThere's a hot new writer of chess books these days - although he gets no royalties and no credit on the title page. It is Fritz, the German computer program...
NBC'S IDIOT MOVE; NETWORK CHANGES SERIES' STARTING AND FINISHING TIMES
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amLEAVE it to NBC to find something that isn't broken, and then fix it anyway. The newest "problem" identified by the network is the way TV shows begin, with unceasing...
POLANSKI CAN BE A REAL DRAG
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amPICTURE this: Roman Polanski, in drag, jumps a few flights from a window of a Paris apartment. Bloodied but still alive, he goes back upstairs and jumps again. It's the...
COCKTAILS & COUCHES; CLASS UP YOUR LIVING ROOM FOR A MONTH'S WORTH OF TV PARTIES
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amWith New York in the grip of what feels like a new Ice Age, and a solid month of some of the best TV events of the year coming up...
GIMMICK ROCK; MEET THE MOST BIZARRE COVER BANDS IN TOWN
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amA Guns N' Roses tribute act is taking the classic tune "Sweet Child O' Mine" a bit too literally. Li'l G'N'R salutes Axl Rose and company - but its members...
STARR REPORT
January 25, 2004 | 5:00am'24' spins a Web "24" fans will have something extra to cheer about when "24inside" signs onto the Internet immediately following Tuesday's episode at 10 p.m. (Ch. 5). "24inside" will...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN KELLY OSBOURNE PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amWhether she's wearing Chanel earmuffs, a diamond tiara, hot pink fishnet tights or a jacket that says "Young, Willing and Eager," Kelly Osbourne is America's favorite teenage fashion rebel. And...
GOLDEN GIRL: WHY CHARLIZE THERON IS A BEST ACTRESS SHOE-IN
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amChubby, straggly-haired, blotchy-faced - not words normally associated with statuesque stunner Charlize Theron, who is up for BestActress in a Drama at the Golden Globes. But when a beautiful Hollywood...
DEALING FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE DECK
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amA recent spate of highly inappropriate commercials plugged into decidedly family holiday programming caused TV critics and viewers alike to angrily ask whether by "family viewing," networks mean the Manson...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amNoise of politics: Howard Dean's rant is everywhere! There's the techno "Dean Goes Nuts Remix" (www.right-magazine.com); a funkier version at barlowfarms.com; and the rant's set to Black Sabbath's "Crazy Train"...
NETS FACE A COURT SCRAPE ; NEIGHBORHOOD SUITS LOOM
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amHe got the team, but Bruce Ratner's $2.5 billion Nets arena combined with commercial development and apartments in Brooklyn may still only be a hoop dream. Even before a lengthy...
DARLINGS OF KERRY CAMELOT; DEM'S DAUGHTERS MAKE CAMPAIGN A FAMILY AFFAIR
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H. - As John Kerry rises in Democratic presidential polls, his daughters are suddenly in the spotlight, too - as a photogenic, Camelot-style clan who just might be America's...
IRAQI TOP COP MAKES DREAM TRIP TO APPLE
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amThe deputy interior minister who is trying to build the Iraqi police force never thought he would survive a Saddam Hussein prison, much less live out a dream to visit...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amAn Arkansas man was busted for indecent exposure after he purposely left a photo of his genitals on a motel soda machine. Curtis Dechaine, 40, taped the photo - which...
WEINER EYES MAYOR-RUN $$
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amIn the surest sign yet that he'll run for City Hall in 2005, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn/Queens) yesterday filed paperwork with the city Board of Elections that will allow him...
SURVIVOR LUCKY IT WASN'T HIM
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amHe knows it could have been him. Just moments before Jodie Lane was electrocuted Jan. 16 on East 11th Street, area resident Mark Bulvanoski was standing on virtually the same...
DNA TESTS IN QUEENS HIT-AND-RUN
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amPolice are conducting DNA tests on pieces of human flesh found on the black SUV that may have been involved in the bizarre death of a Queens teenager who died...
MAYOR HAS TO EAT HIS WORDS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amSometimes, they're the two hardest words to say. After five days of refusing to say he was sorry, Mayor Bloomberg finally broke down and apologized to Dr. Robert Atkins' widow...
5 GIS DIE IN IRAQ BLASTS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amFive U.S. soldiers were killed yesterday in separate bombings in Iraq's "Sunni Triangle" west of Baghdad, officials said. In Khaldiyah, a car bomb killed three GIs and wounded six others...
TRAGIC FOTOG HAD BEEN AILING
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amKinky photographer Helmut Newton, who died in a Los Angeles car crash Friday, was in failing health but continued to work, a source said yesterday. Newton, 83, probably suffered a...
WOULD-BE MARTHA JUROR A 'SHOE-IN'
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amA potential Martha Stewart juror who's made it into the final 50 jury candidates acquitted Imelda Marcos at her $200 million fraud case in which the Filipino was represented by...
FROZEN GIFF'S WEIRD SENSE OF POLITICAL REALITY
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amPORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Perhaps it was a sign. The minute it pulled out of New York, the heat conked out on the bus carrying City Council Speaker Gifford Miller and...
'ART' BLOWS UP IN FACE OF RADICAL
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amA self-described radical pyrotechnic artist yesterday brought out the Bomb Squad and counterterrorism units after he blew up part of his face. The FBI was called to the scene when...
COKED-UP FIREMEN FACE AX
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amTwo firefighters who tested positive for cocaine after FDNY investigators raided their East Harlem firehouse last week are likely to get the ax, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Firefighters John Condon...
LEADER PUTS N.H. PRIMARY RACE ON ICE
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H. - Democrat John Kerry yesterday got on the ice to skate with Boston Bruins hockey gods Cam Neely and Ray Bourque - and scored two goals as he...
SNOW MORE! 4 INCHES WILL ADD TO FREEZE UNEASE
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amMother Nature isn't done with us yet. Shivering New Yorkers will face more misery today when spine-chilling Siberian temperatures are topped off with another sprinkling of snow. Today is starting...
DIZZY DEAN GLAD TO BE OUT OF FIRST
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amNEW CASTLE, N.H. - Gov. Howard Dean had his mom and his wife join him yesterday on the campaign trail, and he declared he was having more "fun" now that...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amBrooklyn A 19-year-old man was shot to death in Fort Greene. The victim, who was not identified, was discovered at 11:40 p.m. Friday lying unconscious at 56 Monument Walk, police...
COP KILLS INNOCENT IN B'KLYN BLUNDER
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amAn NYPD cop shot and killed an unarmed 19-year-old man inside a stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project early yesterday. "I thought he had a gun," the shaken cop said...
SURVIVOR: I MIGHT HAVE BEEN ELECTROCUTION VICTIM
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amHe knows it could have been him. Just moments before Jodi Lane was electrocuted Jan. 16 on East 11th Street, area resident Mark Bulvanoski was standing on virtually the same...
MANHOLE SHOCK; HUNDREDS ARE TICKING BOMBS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amThe bizarre electrocution death of a Manhattan woman while walking her dogs was a tragic first - but it might not be the last. Severe winter storms, rock-salt spreading and...
NEW ON-BOARD WATCHDOGS TOTALLY OUT TO SEA: INSIDERS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amThey may not know their way around a boat, but the Staten Island Ferry's newest safety teams have plenty of experience sitting and watching. Pothole crews are among a group...
DERELICT DECKHANDS; HALF OF FATAL-FERRY CREW IN BREAK ROOM
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amNearly half the crew of the ill-fated Staten Island Ferry may have been out of position and relaxing below deck in a private quarters at the time of the crash,...
'04: THE REPORTERS' RACE; TO MISIDENTIFY THE NEXT TREND
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amNOW that the first votes in the 2004 presidential race have actually been counted, it's time for Media Scenario No. 8 - or is it No. 10, or 25? Whatever...
NEW YORKER SCARLETT IS SPREADING HER FEVER IN HOLLYWOOD
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amWITH two best actress nominations for tonight's Golden Globes, newly minted "It Girl" Scarlett Johansson is the toast of Hollywood - but she's every inch a Gotham girl. The fashionably...
COP'S BLUNDER KILLS INNOCENT; SHOOTS MAN, 19, ON B'KLYN ROOF
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amAn NYPD cop fatally shot an unarmed 19-year-old man on the rooftop of a Brooklyn housing project early yesterday. "I thought he had a gun," the shaken cop said after...
MARTHA'S NEMESIS HAIL & ARTY
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amWith days to go before he takes the stand against Martha Stewart, her broker's ex-assistant has been holding down a new job in a Chelsea art gallery, chatting with pals...
NEIGHBORS RAGE AT 'RACIST' SLAY
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amRacial tensions spilled out into the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant yesterday just hours after a black teenager was shot and killed by a white cop on a housing project rooftop. One...
VICTIM WORKED TO BETTER HIMSELF
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amThose close to Timothy Stansbury Jr. remembered him yesterday as a hard-working young man who loved his family and was striving to get his high school equivalency diploma. "He did...
W. 'AWOL' IN VIETNAM, LEADER SAYS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H. - On the brink of the New Hampshire primary, Democrat John Kerry yesterday stood by past remarks suggesting President Bush went AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard...
SOUL SEARCHING; TWO VOICES ON BLACKNESS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amThe End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners by Debra Dickerson, Pantheon Books, 304 pages, $24 Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, And Tragic...
B'KLYN MOM'S THROAT SLASHED
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amA mother of six was found dead with her throat slashed on a Brooklyn street yesterday morning, authorities said, leaving the woman's family baffled. Maria Monti, 45, was discovered face...
DERELICT DECKHANDS ; HALF OF FATAL-FERRY CREW IN BREAK ROOM
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amNearly half the crew of the ill-fated Staten Island Ferry may have been out of position and relaxing below deck in a private quarters at the time of the crash,...
GIFFIE RINGS UP $UPPORT
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amA COMPANY blocked by the Bloomberg administration from installing more pay phones in Manhattan is pumping money into the mayoral campaign of City Council Speaker Gifford Miller. Records show that...
B'KLYN REFUGE UNDER SIEGE
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amWorkers at a controversial Brooklyn shelter for battered women are finding themselves on the receiving end of abuse from neighbors still pulling out all the stops to prevent the safe...
BEN THERE, DONE SPAT IS HOW IT ENDS FOR NOW
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amPoor Ben is Lo - because he's no longer, as of last week anyway, officially classified as a Bennifer. He has, in fact, been declassified into yet another overexposed gambling...
PA $HELLS OUT DOUBLE FOR WTC PATH STATION
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amThe contractors who built the temporary World Trade Center PATH station are being paid twice as much in fees as they agreed to accept in their winning bid to do...
'SPRUILL' EFFECT ON DRUG BUSTS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amNYPD search warrants seeking guns and drugs fell by nearly one-third last year as gun and drug arrests also dropped, police statistics show. Search warrants fell from 5,117 in 2002...
IRAQI TOP COP'S APPLE DREAMS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amThe deputy interior minister who is trying to build the Iraqi police force never thought he would survive a Saddam Hussein prison, much less live out a dream to visit...
SLAIN DEAF-MUTE TOOK BULLET BEFORE
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amA deaf-mute Brooklyn man shot in the back and killed while waiting for a bus home from a basketball game had already been the unlucky victim of a shooting four...
BODY OF ICE-PLUNGE MAN FOUND
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amPolice scuba divers yesterday recovered the frozen corpse of a mystery man who plunged through thin ice on Prospect Park Lake and drowned in front of horrified witnesses last weekend....
MANHOLE SHOCKER: MORE DANGERS ARE SURFACING
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amThe bizarre electrocution death of a Manhattan woman while walking her dogs was a tragic first - but it might not be the last. Severe winter storms, rock-salt spreading and...
UP & ADAM: PATRIOTS KICKER IS GAME VIN-NER
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amYOU can call him Mr. Clutch. If Marv Levy had Mr. Clutch trying that 47-yard field goal at the end of Super Bowl XXV rather than Scott Norwood, Bill Parcells...
WHITE HOUSE BUYS SPORTSMEN'S PLEA
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amIN an incredible show of clout, America's outdoor enthusiasts have convinced the White House to reverse itself and abandon plans to rewrite the Clean Water Act rules that would have...
NIKOLAI SHOULD BE NEXT
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amOTTAWA - The notion that Glen Sather was "beaten" to defenseman Danny Markov by Philadelphia GM Bob Clarke is silly. Who, exactly, did the Rangers have to offer the Hurricanes...
SCOTT-LESS DEVS STILL CARRY ON
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amNo Scott Stevens? No problem. Once thought to be an unrecoverable loss, the Devils have managed to continue their dominating defensive ways without their captain in the lineup since Jan....
JASPERS EYE NATIONAL TV DATE
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amHISTORY and geography make Manhattan's games with Iona mean a shade more than the rest of the schedule. But a win this afternoon at the Mulcahy Center in New Rochelle...
IT'S BEEN A 'WILD RIDE'
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amHOUSTON - A documentary on what was then called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game will air tomorrow night on HBO with the intention of showing how what is now called...
VETERAN PATRIOTS TELL MATES HOW TO HANDLE WEEK
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amSUPER BOWL CONFIDENTIAL HOUSTON - One of the goals for the players as they descend upon Houston for the Super Bowl is to enjoy the week without being overwhelmed. "I...
UNBEATEN - UNBELIEVABLE ; '72 DOLPHINS IMPRESSED BY PATS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amHOUSTON - If the Patriots win Super Bowl XXXVIII Sunday at Reliant Stadium, it will be their 15th consecutive victory, placing them among the most elite company in NFL history....
SUPER-SIZED HYPE ; PATRIOTS, PANTHERS PREP FOR PRESSURE
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amHOUSTON - In the coming days, as the Patriots and Panthers arrive here tonight and square off next Sunday in Super Bowl XXXVIII, an almost endless barrage of words, sound...
WE CAN WORK IT OUT: VAN HORN, MARBURY MAKING ENDS MEET
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amTHE NBA being all about the fit, Stephon Marbury seems determined to have thrown his last fit over Keith Van Horn. "Keith and Allan are our two All-Stars, our two...
THE WILKENS WAY ; LENNY TURNS NEW PAGE ON KNICKS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amAfter last night's game against the Heat, the Knicks get a breather, and Lenny Wilkens will get in a slew of practices. Though Wilkens was hired 11 days ago, he's...
PEEPING TOM SHOWS OLD FORM
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amJust like old times. Veteran sprinter Peeping Tom, winner of the Grade 1 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct nearly three years ago but just 4-for-26 since then, recaptured his glory days...
IT'S A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amKNICKS REPORT CARD The best part of this assignment is no longer do I have to issue grades to Howard Eisley and Clarence Weatherspoon. Thank you, Isiah. With half the...
NETS' CIRCUS PULLS INTO MEADOWLANDS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amHurry, hurry, hurry. Step right up and see amazing tricks and feats of daring, see clowns and animals in the three-ring . . . Oh, sorry. It's not the circus...
ISIAH WAS FREE TO COACH
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amCONTRARY to a report by Mitch Lawrence (the definition for redundancy), Isiah Thomas would not have forfeited a single cent had he decided to coach the Knicks instead of hiring...
ORR KEEPS PIRATES ON WINNING COURSE
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amAfter throttling Syracuse, Seton Hall claims it has regained its defensive identity, rediscovered the tenacity and intensity that have become its trademarks during this recent resurgence. If coach Louis Orr's...
HONEYMOON'S OVER
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amSHANDON Anderson's 543-game streak without even a hangnail ended with a coach's decision, then 24 hours later he left the Garden with what was explained as a migraine. And we...
COUGHLIN ADDING TWO TO GIANT STAFF
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amThe Giants will add two more assistants to Tom Coughlin's coaching staff this week when they make official the hirings of Pat Flaherty as offensive-line coach and Dave DeGuglielmo as...
KNIGHTS SINK STORM
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amRutgers 78St. John's 70 This time there was no sugar-coating the truth or hiding the frustration. St. John's is the worst team in the Big East and six straight losses...
STORM PASSED ON DOUBY
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amThe only thing missing for Quincy Douby yesterday was former St. John's coach Mike Jarvis. Douby, the former Grady star, had his heart set on playing for the Red Storm....
STEP BACK FOR KNICKS: LISTLESS EFFORT HANDS WIN TO HEAT
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amHeat 85 Knicks 77 The expectations suddenly are high for the Knicks, so they can't lean on excuses anymore. The Knicks were worn down last night. It was their sixth...
DIPIETRO'S BIG NIGHT: SHUTOUT AND ASSIST
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amIslanders 3 Thrashers0 ATLANTA - If you would have predicted before last night's game that Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro would outscore Thrashers dynamo Ilya Kovalchuk, you might have ended up...
MIGRAINE BENCHES SHANDON
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES On Friday, Shandon Anderson's consecutive game streak ended at 543. Last night, Anderson wasn't even on the bench. By tomorrow, who knows where he will be. Last night,...
JARO-BLE THROUGHOUT ; BLUESHIRTS BLASTED IN JAGR'S FIRST GAME
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amSenators 9 Rangers 1 OTTAWA - This was a game that would get a coach fired if he didn't also happen to be the GM. This was a game that...
BENCH NOT SITTING WELL WITH KEITH
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amKeith Van Horn sat throughout the fourth quarter last night, watching Michael Doleac and other members of the Knicks' bench get minutes in his place. He didn't return until less...
J.R. SHOOTS HALL PAST SCRAPPY HOKIES
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amSeton Hall 83Va. Tech 76 As the second half of Seton Hall's game against Virginia Tech progressed last night, the Pirates' offense began to stagnate. Their vaunted fast break slowed...
BROOKLYN A HOOPS HAVEN ; BASKETBALL IS RELIGION IN THE BOROUGH OF CHURCHES
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amTHE setting was Manhattan, inside the old Madison Square Garden on 49th Street and Eighth Avenue, but that was just a geo graphic technicality. For one day, Brooklyn's bor ders...
CAGED PANTHER: CARRUTH'S LINK TO BIG GAME IS PRISON TV SET
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amHOUSTON - The committee will meet early this week, and the debate isn't expected to last very long. Some Sundays, that wouldn't be the case. There might be a NASCAR...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amInfiltrator knew Rose bettor than most Gate-crashing king Dion Rich was first glamorized here three years ago. Rich keeps rolling along. He has a terrific new book, "Confessions of the...
ISLES STAYING IN HUNT DESPITE ALL THE WARTS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amATLANTA - The Islanders were on one of their patented little rolls this week, winning a crucial game Friday in Carolina against one of the four teams nipping at their...
THE JAGR ERA BEGINS : EX-SUPERSTAR JOINS RANGERS IN OTTAWA
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amOTTAWA - The latest in a seemingly never-ending procession of Ranger dog-and-pony shows (who said, dog?) took place here following yesterday's morning skate, when captain Mark Messier and alternates Eric...
A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING: NEVER A DULL MOMENT AT THE MEADOWLANDS
January 25, 2004 | 5:00amAdmit it, in just three months, the Nets have taken the boredom out of the NBA season. We've seen injury, inconsistency, tragedy in the form of Alonzo Mourning's kidney illness....