July 15, 2001
BULL'S EYE
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amHED: Recession's a complicated matter AT the top of the ivory tower is the National Bureau of Economic Research - more than 80-years-old, nonprofit, nonpartisan and dedicated to promoting a...
HITTING THE USAA JUNKYARD TO SNAG HIGHER YIELDS
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amWITH stocks going nowhere but south. and Treasury bonds offering low risk but equally low yields, investors are searching for alternative investments. One totally different asset class that's been getting...
HOW TO INVEST LIKE A STAR
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amTHE rich aren't so different from you and me -at least not when it comes to investing in the financial markets. Millionaire celebrities such as basketball superstar Michael Jordan, singing...
ALL EYES ON MICROSOFT ON THURSDAY
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amSOFTWARE behemoth Microsoft wraps up its fiscal year this Thursday - but for investors, the expected quarterly and annual earnings reports are just a first course. The real beef will...
MASTERING THE MEDIA MARKET: THOUGH AD SALES ARE WEAK, TOP ANALYST JESSICA REIF COHEN EXPECTS A TURNAROUND
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amTHE economic slowdown is taking its toll on entertainment and media stocks. As advertising dried up in response to low consumer confidence, ad-driven companies like the television broadcasters fell into...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: ALI LARTER
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amActress Ali Larter's biggest claim to fame wouldn't exactly make any mom proud: She appeared in a whipped-cream bikini in the 1999 high school drama "Varsity Blues." Since then things...
HE TAPS INTO TEEN 'WORLD'
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amOne of the hippest teen comedies this summer was directed by a 53-year-old man who wears a girdle - Terry Zwigoff, whose last film was an acclaimed documentary about underground...
HE'S IN TUNE AGAIN MUSIC LOVER NICK HORNBY SPINS OUT ANOTHER HIT TALE
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amRIVERHEAD BOOKS305 PAGES, $24.99 For a guy who once made ends meet by writing book reviews, becoming a millionare author is richly ironic. Just ask Nick Hornby, who after two...
WHAT I WATCH
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amMONA MANGANEXECUTIVE DIRECTORWRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA EAST"WEST WING," "THE SOPRANOS," "THIRTEEN'S AMERICAN MASTERS." BECAUSE THE WRITING IS SUPERB. TV IS ANYTHING BUT A WASTELAND.SHAKARA LEDARDSPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT MODEL"THE VIEW" IS...
HAMPERED BY MISERY IN THE HAMPTONS
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amMost people go away for the weekend to awaken their inner calm. After making my first foray to the Hamptons last weekend, I'm convinced that New Yorkers go there to...
FELINE JUST FINE - A DOG LOVER MAKES THE CASE FOR CATS
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amA dog of a movie, "Cats and Dogs" portrays felines as very bad guys indeed. But the old stereotype that dogs are good while cats are evil is woefully unhip....
PALM'S SURF 'N' TURF: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amPALM 837 Second Ave. (between 44th & 45th streets) (212) 687-2953 ------ At this very moment, you might not be craving a big, juicy steak and a monster lobster. But...
CRYSTAL GAZING - COMIC LAMPOONS MOVIE STARS AND THE MEDIA HIS NEW FILM
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amYou knew that reality and fantasy were bound to get tangled up when the cast of "America's Sweethearts" - a new film skewering the press junkets that movie stars do...
HE'D RATHER JUST WATCH THE OSCARS
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe thrill is gone for "Mr. Oscars" Billy Crystal, who says he'd rather not host future Academy Award shows. After seven outings helming filmdom's night of nights, Crystal says the...
DUMB AND DUMBER: CONFESSIONS OF AN EX-JUNKETEER
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amYears ago, in what seems like another life, I dabbled in that cultural phenomenon known as the press junket, a staple of the movie business and key element of the...
AAAAH, AALIYAH! THIS 22-YEAR-OLD R&B SINGER HAS HER EYES ON THE PRIZE
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amAaliyah Dana Haughton was born to be bigger than life. Her name - pronounced ah-LEE-yah, Swahili for "most exalted" - was chosen by her parents before she was even conceived....
EARLY DOUBTS ASIDE, LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL FITS FIRMLY IN NEW YORK
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amCall it the little festival that could. It was certainly an event that nobody wanted and nobody thought New York needed. When the Lincoln Center Festival launched six years ago,...
HORROR SPURS A NEW PARTNER IN PEACE
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. THE world is aghast over the latest violence against a Jewish family in the West Bank. After seeing pictures of a blood-stained young mother clutching her year-old son following...
CHINA BOOTS AMERICAN AFTER OLYMPIAN EFFORT
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amHours after China snared bragging rights for the 2008 Olympics, officials there booted a Chinese-American scholar who was convicted of spying for Taiwan. The quick trial of Li Shaomin took...
HE'S IN FITNESS PROTECTION ; EX-MOBSTER'S A HIT COACHING LITTLE LEAGUERS
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Former mob figure Michael Franzese ordered up a hit this weekend. But Franzese's soldiers were happy 11- and 12-year-olds looking to take a few good whacks -...
LUCK LANDS IN LIZZIE'S LAP
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amLEAVING the scene after plowing into 16 people at the Conscience Point last weekend may actually have helped Lizzie Grubman's case rather than hinder it. At least in civil court....
CHARLES NOW A 4-YR. NO-SHOW AT DI'S GRAVE
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amPrince Charles has snubbed Princess Diana in death by never paying a visit to his ex-wife's grave in the four years since her fatal car crash, her brother claims. "Prince...
ANTIQUE 'ROADSHOW' ROLLS IN
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amTalk about one man's trash becoming another man's treasure! Jim Morris' mouth dropped open yesterday when he learned that his collection of boxer Robert Fitzsimmons' memorabilia, which his parents had...
FRENCH ABORT LAW DOES NAZIS PROUD
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amMARSHAL Henri Petain, who headed the French collaborationist government during the Nazi occupation, turns out simply to have been a man ahead of his time. The re-Nazification of France is...
TEST GIVES LIE TO SCOUNDREL
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON. FORMER federal prosecutor Barbara Olsen said yesterday: "Does Abbe Lowell think we're all stupid?" Mrs. Olsen said that Lowell's pronouncement that his client, Congressman Gary Condit, had passed a...
RUSSELL-MANIA FOR NICOLE
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amSaucy "Moulin Rouge" star Nicole Kidman and hunk Russell Crowe were spotted on vacation together on the romantic island of Fiji - a day before Tom Cruise was scheduled to...
'DR. DOLITTLE' FELON DOES A LOT TO ESCAPE HIS CAGE
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A violent criminal remained at large yesterday after using Eddie Murphy's picture to make a fake identification card and sneak out jail, officials said. Kevin Jerome Pullum,...
VICTORIA GOTTI
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amFORGET the obvious: the sharp, chiseled features, the contrast of glistening black hair against eyes the color of blue-green Bohemian waters or even his meticulous GQ dress code. For he...
CUOMO'S WAR CHEST TOPS CARL'S
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Former federal Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo has won his first battle with state Comptroller Carl McCall, beating him in fund raising by about $1.6 million. Cuomo, whose father,...
'BAD' BRITNEY: HEY, I'M AN ADULT NOW!
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amBritney Spears wants everyone to know she's not a little girl anymore. That's the message behind her third album and live concert special from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas...
'EASY' TEST IS TOO HARD FOR TEACHER WANNABES
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe two exams you have to take to become a licensed teacher are so easy a high-school graduate can pass them. Yet 31 percent of city public school teachers have...
INTERN POL: MAN OF MYSTERY HE USED ALIAS & SUNGLASSES TO HIDE IDENTITY CONDIT'S SECRET LIFE CONDIT'S SECRET LIFE
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - From the hats and sunglasses he wore when he took his mistresses to dinner to the alias he used when he visited a tony Washington spa, Rep. Gary...
B'KLYN BOY, 4, KILLS SELF IN GUN TRAGEDY
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amA 4-year-old Brooklyn boy died last night after accidentally shooting himself in the face with a gun while watching cartoons on television, cops said. Ojagee Ajbar shot himself with a...
SEXY NEW FLAME HAS TIGER BY THE TAIL
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amHe's a swinging single no more. Just months after splitting with blond beauty Joanna Jagoda, Tiger Woods has found a new tigress in sexy volleyball player Gabrielle Reece, it was...
EWING TO TESTIFY ON SEX CLUB
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amFormer Knick Patrick Ewing is to testify this week about allegations he got free oral sex from dancers at an Atlanta strip club accused of luring celebrity guests to boost...
SLY COMFORTS DROWNED TOT'S PARENTS
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amSylvester Stallone recently flew the parents of the 4-year-old boy who drowned in bad-boy rocker Tommy Lee's pool to the Bahamas to ease their torment. The star of the "Rocky"...
EGYPT PREZ ACTS AS MIDEAST MEDIATOR
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak will conduct shuttle diplomacy in Cairo today with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Mubarak will meet first with Peres to discuss...
HEAT'S ON LIZZIE BIZ LAWYERS MULL HITTING HER FLACK FIRM IN $30M LAWSUIT
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amThere might be a 17th victim of the Lizzie Grubman's Hamptons smashup - her publicity firm. A source close to the case told The Post that new lawyers representing one...
KNOBBY SHINES IN PINCH RBI IN 10TH HELPS YANKS AVERT SWEEP
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI - An early two-run bulge had melted into a steamy South Florida afternoon. Ditto a late one-run lead. Suddenly, the chances of absorbing three straight losses from the Marlins...
COPS SHOOT MAN DEAD AS HE STABS GIRLFRIEND
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amCops responding to a report of a man holding a knife to his girlfriend's neck on an Upper Manhattan street early yesterday morning fatally shot the man as he repeatedly...
MIKE, ALAN PARTY GUYS 2 MAYORAL HOPEFULS SEEK 'EDUCATION' BALLOT LINES
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amTwo candidates vying for City Hall are launching their own political parties to carry their names on the November ballot, sources said. Republican Mike Bloomberg's party's sole platform will be...
FOXY NEWSHOUND WOWS D.C.
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amTantalizing Washington TV newswoman Norah O'Donnell insists she's not just another pretty face. "I'm not a talking-head person. I'm a correspondent," the 27-year-old former cheerleader, who has been covering the...
MICK'S DAUGHTER WAS 'PANTING' AFTER KEITH
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amTeen temptress Elizabeth Jagger admits she's been in Keith Richards' pants. "I used to wear them all the time," the 17-year-old brunette bombshell admits in next month's issue of Vogue....
COPS: KILLER PUT BODY IN TRASH
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amPolice believe a Queens man killed his nephew and stashed the body in a Dumpster behind the diner where they both worked. Cops found the 20-year-old man's body yesterday outside...
CITY GOES 1-FOR-2 IN MINOR LEAGUES
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amWhen it comes to minor-league baseball, Brooklyn is up and Staten Island is down - at least when you're talking attendance and economic impact. The city may lose out on...
N.Y. POLS ARE SLACKING OFF HOUSE VOTES
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - New York lawmakers have missed scores of votes in Congress so far this year, skipping perhaps the easiest part of their job. They've had a range of excuses...
KENNEDY CLAN FACES TRAGIC ANNIVERSARY
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amJust days after settling a messy wrongful-death claim, the families of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn and Lauren Bessette must again face the nightmare of the plane crash that...
WRITING AN ENDING TO THIS WHODUNIT
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe disappearance of Washington intern Chandra Levy has everyone wondering how the riveting case will unfold - especially mystery writers. Lee Goldberg, writer and former executive producer of TV's "Diagnosis...
THREAT OF TERROR CLOUDS GEORGE W.'S EUROPE VISIT
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush takes off on his second official trip to Europe this week - from lunch with the queen of England to a summit bristling with security against a possible...
TIME FOR LEETCH TO MOVE ON RANGERS COULD GET KID TALENT IN RETURN
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amBRIAN Leetch was the Rangers' best and most valuable player last season. Now, the best and most valuable contribution to the franchise he has served with so much distinction since...
LIVID NHL WON'T KO SAKIC & BLAKE PACTS
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amBECAUSE it really has no choice, the NHL will accept the Colorado contracts agreed to by Joe Sakic and Rob Blake, but the league is furious over the transparent lockout-protection...
THIS ONE DOESN'T ADD UP JINT ROOKIE'S ROBBERY REPORT SOUNDS FISHY
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amTHE divide that separates the regular-kind-of-guy modern sports fan from the modern professional athlete continues to widen. We really don't live in the same world. And the gap is widening...
SORE-WINNER IVANISEVIC SERVES UP VILE SPEW
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amJUST when we were starting to feel good for Goran Ivanisevic, he re-lived his Wimbledon victory by telling a congratulatory crowd in Split, Croatia, that the lineswoman who called him...
MILBRETT VS. MIA: ROUND II
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amToday, the Power get a second helping of Hamm. Mia Hamm, that is. The second-place Power (6-3), coming off a 3-0 loss to the front-running Atlanta Beat Wednesday night, travel...
GAS MONEY MAKES DREAM COME TRUE
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amA TRYOUT camp is the baseball equivalent of going away for the weekend and telling your teenage daughter she can throw a house party. Anyone could walk through the door....
KEEP YANKEE STADIUM EXACTLY WHERE IT IS
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Yankees are staying in The Bronx, basically, because they have no other place else to go. The last train from the $1 billion West Side rail yard project is...
VOLPONI ONE TO BEAT IN TODAY'S LEXINGTON
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amAlthough he's winless in three starts this year Volponi can mow 'em down late in the Lexington while stretching out to a mile-and-a-quarter. Of the nine 3-year-old colts running today...
YOGI, BRANCA ADD SHINE TO BIG APPLE CLASSIC
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amLOCAL GOLF Yogi Berra, Ralph Branca and dozens of other sports and entertainment celebrities will be teeing off tomorrow in the Mercury Celebrity Pro-Am at Wykagyl Country Club in New...
RAMS' MYSTERY MAN PLAYGROUND LEGEND TAKES LAST SHOT AT FORDHAM
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amSmush Parker - grades willing - hopes to show off his many talents this winter for Fordham.Brigitte Stelzer This is Smush Parker's last chance. He knows it, but the playground...
DEVILS' STEVENSON EYES FREE AGENCY
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amDeclining to file for salary arbitration today, Devil winger Turner Stevenson instead will be heading toward unrestricted free agency next summer, The Post has learned. By turning down his chance...
SHODDY ROBIN: NO EXCUSES
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amRobin Ventura, old-school veteran that he is, would never use injuries as an alibi for shoddy fielding. He will not use his sore shoulder or aching leg as an excuse...
SEVEN-POUND DIFFERENCE PROVES COSTLY FOR GAVIOLA
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amBefore yesterday's Grade 2, $250,000 New York Handicap at Belmont Park, trainer Bill Turner fretted about the weight his filly, 8-5 favorite Gaviola, was giving away as the 119-pound highweight...
JONES MAY BE DONE FOR YEAR
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amThere are 70 games left in the Mets' season and in all likelihood Jersey Bobby Jones won't be pitching in any of them, The Post has learned. The Mets' left-hander,...
BLINKERS BOOST 'NICHOLAS'
July 15, 2001 | 4:00am2nd RACE - The addition of blinkers made all the difference for Captain Nicholas as he went to the lead and never looked back in defeating these state-bred allowance horses....
ONE AND GLEN-DON RUSCH'S SINGLE-HIT GEM STYMIES SOX
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amMets2Red Sox0 Glendon Rusch improved to 5-5 yesterday via one-hit, eight-inning masterpiece vs. Bosox at Shea. Mets won, 2-0.Reuters His last time out, Glendon Rusch flirted with a no-hitter on...
BLACKOUT BURNS FANS
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amFor those of you still angrily wondering why yesterday's Yanks-Marlins game was not televised, here was the deal: Fox, which has a national Saturday exclusive between 1 p.m. and 4...
MO ANKLE PAIN FOR RIVERA
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI - Mariano Rivera couldn't hide the discomfort in his right ankle. He pushed the speed gun to 97 mph and pitched very effectively even if he suffered his fourth...
YANK PROSPECT BOLTS WITH LEGAL TROUBLES
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI - Andy Morales' short and ineffective baseball career in the USA appears to be over. Morales, the Cuban refugee who signed a four-year deal with the Yankees for $4.5...
A GRAND MOMENT IN V'S LOST YEAR
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amMark Johnson cracks second-inning homer yesterday for only run Glendon Rusch and Mets would need in win over Bosox.New York Post: Nathan Edwards A MILESTONE is much more than a...
NO-HIT SPOILER? NIXON'S THE ONE
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amIt seemed like an innocuous enough play when it happened, Trot Nixon legging out a first-inning bunt. Nobody knew at the time it would be Boston's only hit of the...
C-WEBB'S KEEPING HIS OPTIONS OPEN
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amNBA NOTES Chris Webber's brother denied a TV report yesterday that the NBA star was about to re-sign with the Kings. Although C-Webb began negotiations to remain with the Kings...
NET RESULTS: JEFFERSON SOLID, KERRY PAIN-FREE
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amThis was just a summer pro scrimmage, by Richard Jefferson's own admission about as tough as a good college game. But he treated it as more. So when Eric Chenowith,...
MAC OKS JERSEY OFFER
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amTodd MacCulloch has accepted free-agent offer from Nets - and now both sides will wait to see if Sixers match and keep big center on southern end of Jersey Turnpike.Reuters...
SHINJO & CYCLONES STORM S.I.
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amCyclones3Yankees1 Most people who visit New York from foreign lands don't plan on stopping off in Staten Island. Such was the case for Tsuyoshi Shinjo when he signed with the...
LANDMARK PRINT IS SWAN-TASTIC
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amTHE New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife has issued a second printing in its Landmark Series of three Hautman brother waterfowl prints. The print, "Tundra Swans at Barnegat Bay,"...
DON'T RUSCH A TRADE - GLENDON DEFINITELY A KEEPER
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amTHIS much was made clear over the last three games between the Red Sox and Mets. The Yankees have nothing to worry about over the next few years. The Subway...
WIN HAS BOBBY V FEELING SIMPLY GRAND
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amAs a man, Bobby Valentine remembers the feelings and relationships throughout his career, more than the scores. But as a manager, all he has is the numbers, bottom-line wins and...
KNOBBY SHINES IN PINCH - RBI SINGLE IN 10TH GIVES YANKS WIN
July 15, 2001 | 4:00am10 INNINGS: Yankees 5 - Marlins 4 MIAMI - George Steinbrenner was at nearby Calder Race Course to watch his horses, Illusioned and Dream Supreme, while the Yankees tried to...
JETER WAKES FROM NIGHTMARE
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI - Derek Jeter stroked Ryan Dempster's first pitch yesterday to left field for a double and immediately started to recover from his nightmarish performance Friday night, when he committed...
OVERTON HOPING TO HANG ON WITH KNICKS
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amDoug Overton is where he has always wanted to be: in a Knick uniform. Now for that scenario to last might be a long shot but the 31-year-old veteran who...
TAKING NEW STOCK IN BONDS - SAN FRAN SLUGGER BREAKING RECORDS AND OLD PERCEPTIONS
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amSEATTLE - The man in blue jeans is halfway between seated and lying down on the couch in the hotel lobby. To say he looks relaxed would be to say...
NEGRO LEAGUERS GETTING THEIR DUE - METS HONORING N.Y. CUBANS AND THE BLACK YANKEES
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amBefore the Mets host Toronto today at Shea, they will honor eight Negro League stars who outlived Jim Crow and outlasted segregation. When the Mets take the field, they will...
THE 'BRITISH' IS COMING - PLAYER'S GUIDE TO ROYAL LYTHAM & ST. ANNES
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amTiger-proofing major golf courses in an effort to level the playing field of Tiger Woods' dominance might be out and au natural may be in. After Woods won his four...
BETTER THAN 2ND-BEST - GIANTS GM SAYS SUPER BOWL RUNNER-UP HAS IMPROVED
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amThis, Ernie Accorsi firmly believes: "We're a better team on the field right now, just before we go to camp, than we were Super Bowl Sunday." This, Ernie Accorsi knows:...