March 10, 2002
BAD-NEWS BUFFETT : 'ORACLE OF OMAHA' SEES LONG-TERM TROUBLE
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amWarren Buffett sucked it up yesterday and took full responsibility for whopping losses at Berkshire Hathaway last year. The corporate titan said profits plummeted 61 percent, mostly from underwriting losses...
BULL'S EYE
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amBrokers are bummed out Wall Street's stock brokers are down in the dumps. A recent study-conducted by Alden Cass, a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Nova Southeastern University in...
GO FOR THE INSIDE TRACK
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amWhen Enron hit the skids last fall, shareholders were shocked to learn insiders - top executives and directors - had been selling shares for months. But it didn't need to...
GUTSY MANAGER, GUTSY FUND
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amFOR some investors, value is simply a matter of finding a stock that's cheaper than others. But for John Schneider, portfolio manager of the Pimco Value fund, it's being a...
TWO'S COMPANY FOR DESIGNER STEFFE
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amCynthia Steffe has a split personality. The fashion designer works out of two spaces - an office and a design studio she shares with several others. "That's where we receive...
THEY FOUND WAR AND PEACE AMONG ISRAELI, PALESTINIAN KIDS
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amCan a movie that brings together the views of Israeli and Palestinian kids avoid oversimplification and sentimentality? "Promises," an Oscar-nominated documentary shot primarily in 1997 and 1998 before the latest...
JEAN-LUC " ANNA
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amJean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina, the French New Wave's coolest couple, are getting a tribute at BAM Rose Cinemas. Thursday through March 31, the theater will unspool the seven features...
THOSE CURIOUS KNIGHT MOVES
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amIf there's any lesson to be learned from tonight's presentation of "A Season on the Brink," it's that white men can, in fact, jump - if only up and down...
WHAT I WATCH
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amPETER CINCOTTIJAZZ SINGER AND PIANISTSTEVE IRWIN'S "THE CROCODILE HUNTER." I LOVE HIS ENTHUSIASM. HE GETS PLEASURE OUT OF BEING BITTEN BY A SNAKE! HE'S THE MOST ENTERTAINING MAN ON TV.JANINE...
CYBER PIPER : WORLD'S TOP FLUTIST LOVES THE WEB
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amHe's something of a Pied Piper - many follow his golden flute - but James Galway also has a way with the mouse. The man many call the world's No....
TRYING TO GET AT WHAT'S REAL ON STAGE
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amThere's a subtle difference between naturalism and realism in the arts, always worth considering in matters theatrical. Bear with me on this one for a bit. Naturalism shows an objective...
MAKING THEIR OWN HARPSICHORDS HITS JUST THE RIGHT NOTE
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amSome New Yorkers have pianos in their homes, but not many have harpsichords. Fewer still have harpsichords that they've made. But there's a small circle of music lovers so enamored...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: AZURA SKYE
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amAzura Skye felt like she was in a fairy tale during the filming of the movie "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister," which airs tonight at 7 on ABC. "It was...
WANTED: HUNKY HERO FOR BRUSH WITH DEATH
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amLast Saturday, I was nearly killed. I got hit by a taxi while dashing across West Broadway in the rain, heading to the ATM. It was entirely my fault. I...
'KISSING' FRIENDS : UPSTARTS' LESBIAN COMEDY LOOKS LIKE A HIT
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amLet's say you're a nice, straight, Jewish actress from Connecticut fed up with the shallow sitcom roles you've been playing. What do you do? If you're Jennifer Westfeldt, you hook...
HEALTHY EATS FROM OUT OF THE BLUE
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amMelissa Blue 575 Second Ave. (between 31st & 32nd streets) (212) 481-4844 Eating out seldom coincides with eating what's nutritionally best. When it does, and the food is tasty, creative...
SPOOKED BY NUKES & CABBIES
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amLAST week, we were rocked to our socks by the horrifying news that in October, the CIA had information (later deemed as smelly as a 7-day-old fish), that terrorists had...
L.I. GOV'T WORKER BUSTED IN RAPE
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amA 22-year-old man who worked at the Nassau County Executive Office Building has been charged with raping a female acquaintance at his Baldwin home. Christopher Smith was busted Friday on...
WITNESS: I SAW SUSPECT WITH PEARL
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amThe prime suspect in the kidnap-murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl appeared yesterday in a Pakistan court for a pretrial hearing featuring testimony from a taxi driver who...
BUSH SENDS $5 BILLION
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amPresident Bush said America stands with New York City as he signed a bill yesterday to extend jobless benefits and create a "Liberty Zone" that will bring more than $5...
VICTORIA GOTTI
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amAS compassionate souls with heavy hearts have rallied to support relief efforts for victims of 9/11, some of the charitable causes that enjoyed public support B.B.L. (Before bin Laden) may...
SEINFELDS' KISSIN' COUSINS
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amHer celebrity dad's show was about nothing, which is pretty much what this 16-month-old and her mom were doing in Central Park yesterday when The Post caught up with them...
ATTA'S TERROR TAUNT: NEW EVIDENCE OF BOTCHED 9/11 ALERT
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amMohamed Atta, the cold-eyed terrorist ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks, boldly showed off a handmade model of the Pentagon just months before he and his deadly band smashed planes...
RABBI-ROUSING ROW : HOLY HELL AS SYNAGOGUE FEUD COMES TO FISTICUFFS
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amThe sabbath isn't so restful at Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar in Williamsburg lately. In fact, all hell is breaking loose inside the Hasidic house of worship. Brawls more likely in...
RICH'S PALS TIMED PARDON-PUSHING FOR BILL'S LAST DAYS
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amAdvisers to former fugitive financier Marc Rich - intent on winning him a presidential pardon - intentionally waited until the closing days of the Clinton presidency to lobby his cause,...
MIKE: DON'T PUSH ISRAEL AROUND
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amThe United States should not try to dictate Israel's policy, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday as even more violence and terror rocked the Mideast. The mayor also said Israel has suffered...
A WHOLE NEW WAY OF LIFE GOES ON
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amFrom Gene Russianoff's window on Murray Street, the downtown streets below look like a war zone, perhaps because they are. Jackhammers are screaming every hour of the day. Floodlights blanket...
ICY WEATHER SLOWS OUR TROOPS' PUSH
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amDespite brutal blizzards, American aircraft and allied ground forces yesterday continued pounding the remaining al Qaeda and Taliban fighters holed up in the remote mountains near Gardez, Afghanistan. But American...
MUSHROOM CLOD : RILED RUSSIAN SPEWS AT U.S. 'PLAN' TO NUKE FOES
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amA Russian official yesterday blasted a Pentagon report revealing that the United States has drawn up plans for using nuclear weapons, saying, "We should draw our own strategic conclusions from...
'ESCORT' GIRLS FALL PREY TO ROBBERS
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amCops are searching for a pair of armed thieves who have terrorized East Side "escorts" in their apartments, police said yesterday. Detectives said the men - who have pulled off...
COURAGE NEVER OFF-DUTY FOR GIRL'S RESCUER
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amAn off-duty firefighter saved a 7-year-old Brooklyn girl from her family's blazing home yesterday by scaling her building and pulling her from a second-story window, officials said. Robert Doyle, a...
JOKE'S ON FAKE COP IN BX. BUST
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amSome joke. The NYPD wasn't laughing when a man arrested in The Bronx yesterday for impersonating an officer said he was "only joking." Allen Turner, 22, was spotted handcuffing and...
STUDENT PITCHES TO $AVE BALLCLUB
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amA college senior from Brooklyn has rocked the baseball world by launching a bid to buy his own team. And what started as a joke among friends has snowballed into...
PERVY N.J. LADY SEXED MY SON: QNS. MOM
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amA distraught Queens mom said she is baffled over why city cops refused to track down a 24-year-old woman she claims used the Internet to lure her 15-year-old son to...
BLOWHARD CELEBS PLAYING WITH POLITICAL FIRE
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amIT is tempting to dismiss the latest dung flying from the mouth of a half-wit Baldwin brother as light entertainment. The self-loving, over-eating Alec is the latest celeb to squeal...
BOOO!-DA-BING CLUB :'GHOSTS' OF MEN KILLED BY THE MOB 'HAUNT' B'KLYN EATERY
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amTalk about mob haunts! The owners of a Brooklyn restaurant that was once the headquarters of murderous gangster Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano claim they've been spooked by ghosts and disembodied...
MARATHON MAN OF GROUND ZERO : PIT WORKERS PRAISE TIRELESS VOLUNTEER AS UNSUNG HERO
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amHe was among the first volunteers who waded fearlessly into the rubble looking for survivors. Now, six months later, he's still at Ground Zero as the final piles of debris...
WIDOWS FIND THEIR OWN WAYS TO COPE
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amPhilomena Mistrulli has created a living-room shrine to her husband with photos of their wedding kiss and the World Trade Center collapse. The two shelves hold Father's Day cards from...
MA HELD 'HOSTAGE' BY LOUSY SCHOOLS
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amHarlem parent Debbie Lannaman has staged a rebellion against a school district she charges offers "taxation without education." Her 7-year-old daughter, Chelsea, attends PS 36 on Riverside Drive at 122nd...
SATMAR SIBLING RIVALRY HURTING THEM ALL
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amA sibling rivalry to rule Williamsburg's Satmar sect has turned the political clout of a once-powerful Jewish group into chopped liver. "Before the split, they could deliver a lockstep vote...
DRIVER 'GIGGLED' AT HIT-RUN: COPS
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amA Texas nurse's aide laughed as she told friends "I hit this white man" after she allegedly struck a pedestrian and left him trapped in her windshield in her garage...
ABOUT TIME WE REMEMBERED FORGOTTEN SIX
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amIT WAS only six people. As for the damage, well, they could patch that up after a while, and people could forget what happened and get on with their important...
LOU MAY DISMANTLE DEVILS TO LAND KARIYA
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amDALLAS - Treading eggshells, the Devils believe the big one's coming. The blockbuster making the scuttlebutt rounds in their locker room has Lou Lamoriello breaking up the team to acquire...
THESE GUYS ARE ALL BUSINESS : HONCHOS OF SPORTS LOOKING TO FUTURE
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amTHE topics to be discussed during the upcoming World Congress of Sports could inspire weeks, months and even years of debate. What's right with sports? What's wrong with sports? How...
BURE COULD PLAY BROADWAY
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - While the Rangers wait for St. Louis to make a pitch for Mike Richter that's yet to be delivered, they have been offered Pavel Bure by a Florida...
FRIGID ISLES STRUGGLING VS. PATSIES
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amAs the old saying goes, the Islanders are so low right now they can play handball off a curb. For the first time all year, they will be looking to...
MEMO TO NIT: DON'T CALL ANY DISSING TEAMS
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amAT 6:00 tonight, millions of television sets across the country will tune into the NCAA Tournament Selection Show. There will be jubilation and disappointment. Much later in the night, without...
CHANEY GANG ALL JAZZED UP HEADING INTO LA-LA LAND
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Don Chaney's rag-tag Knicks are viewed differently now after Friday night's "Miracle on Hardwood" in the Olympic city of Salt Lake. Instead of viewing today's matchup at...
GROUND STORM RUNS OFF WITH STYMIE 'CAP
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amOver the first 19 starts of his career, Ground Storm, a prolific winner in the allowance ranks, tried stakes company on several occasions. But the closest the Bill Mott-trained veteran...
THREE MORE FOR CONTESSA
March 10, 2002 | 5:00am2ND RACE - Gary Contessa continued his amazing two-month streak as Peruvian Summer pressed pacesetting favorite Duvalier and got up to win by a nose. It was Contessa's 36th win,...
THESE CRAZY KIDDS ARE OUT OF CONTROL : JASON & MRS. NEED TO LAY LOW
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amORLANDO -You know, Jason Kidd and his "celebrity" wife would find a lot more love in this space and in the minds of clear-thinking people (not those enthralled by Jason's...
KNICK SCOUT ON TURKEY HUNT FOR A BIG MAN
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Knick GM Scott Layden dispatched one of his chief pro scouts yesterday on a 10-day, four-country, big-man junket across Europe, primarily aimed at scouting a 7-foot center...
IT'S BITTERSWEET POINT : ERIC HURT IN OT LOSS TO PENS
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The Rangers played with desperation in one period yesterday, which made for a grand total of two in their three-game trip this week. Still, this was all somehow...
PETTITTE'S PLAYING IT SAFE
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - An MRI and X-rays taken Friday night on Andy Pettitte's cranky left elbow revealed a slight muscle strain on the inside of the hinge. With the emphasis on...
RED-HOT RUBEN MAY BE IN HOT WATER
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - Ruben Rivera was called into Joe Torre's office yesterday morning and met with the manager and Brian Cashman. Rivera was accompanied by special advisor Reggie Jackson and Bernie...
KOUFAX SHOWS ESTES THE ROPES
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Shawn Estes sat in front of his clubhouse locker yesterday morning like a sponge, earnestly soaking up the pitching wisdom of Sandy Koufax. The Hall-of-Fame left-hander...
TRADE-BAIT TIMO GIVES TEAMS LONG LOOK
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Marlins right-hander Josh Beckett is a can't-miss fireballing prospect, but Timo Perez didn't miss Beckett's second pitch of the game. Perez led off the bottom of...
LINCOLN LOGS SHOT AT TITLE :WILL FACE NO. 1 SEED ROBESON
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amPSAL A BOYS SEMI Lincoln68 Boys & Girls42 PSAL A BOYS SEMI Robeson85 Grady44 The last time Robeson faced Lincoln, the game ended with just over three minutes to go....
PENN TOPS YALE IN IVY
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amIVY LEAGUE Penn77 Yale58 EASTON, Pa. - The last time Yale played an NCAA tournament game, the Ivy had yet to fill the walls. It took 40 years for some...
HUSKIES ARE TOP DOGS : OUTLAST PITT IN 2 OTS TO WIN BIG EAST CROWN
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amDOUBLE OT UConn74 Pitt65 Visions of Willis Reed coming out of the tunnel. The Garden rocking. Fans losing their voices, if not their minds. Not overtime, but double overtime. Not...
IN LOSS, A KNIGHT TO REMEMEBR
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE is no justice in sports sometimes. The fates are so cruel sometimes. You are Brandin Knight, and you have come out of East Orange, N.J., out of the shadows...
QUEENS KID LIVES OUT DREAM IN GARDEN SPOTLIGHT
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amThe clock was winding down, both in the Big East championship and on the shot clock. UConn hadn't been able to shake Pittsburgh through the better part of two overtimes,...
'L' OF A FINISH TO BAD TRIP : REELING NETS DROP FOURTH IN ROW
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amSEATTLE - Byron Scott was asked, if he could be assured of any one thing for last night, what would he take? "Make shots in the fourth quarter," the Nets...
IT PAINS TO MAC TO SIT OUT
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amSEATTLE - If Todd MacCulloch had his choice, he'd be playing right now. But it's far more likely the Net center won't be back for two to three weeks. "I...
DUCK SEASON'S UP TO YOU, N.Y.
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amNEW York State Department of Environmental Conservation is asking waterfowl hunters to submit their recommendations for the dates of the fall 2002 duck hunting season to regional waterfowl hunting task...
HUSKIES ARE THE HUNTED: CALHOUN HAS TAKEN UCONN TO THE TOP
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amJim Calhoun remembers walking into his first Big East Conference coaches meeting in 1986 with fellow first-year coaches Jim O'Brien and Paul Evans and looking at the coaches seated around...
KENYON TOLD TO ZIP IT: CRITICISM OF VAN HORN LEADS TO A REPRIMAND FROM BYRON
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amSEATTLE - Before the game in Portland Friday, Byron Scott met with point guard Jason Kidd in part to pick his brain. After the game, he met with forward Kenyon...
NETS STARVIN' FOR BIG MAC
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amSEATTLE - Todd MacCulloch knows he would not have kicked Shaq's butt or turned away every Blazer rebounder. He might not have propelled the Nets to a 3-0 start on...
IT'S A MAD, MAD WORLD: SCOWLS & OBSCENITIES ARE SPORTS-MARKETING MOCKERY
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amA RECENT Taco Bell commercial depicts an attitudinal young man jumping the fence to a golf course, then raising hole-to-hole hell. At the commercial's end, the punk who did his...
BRING ON THE KNIGHT: RUTGERS' BOBBY BROWNLIE LOOKIN' LIKE TOP PICK IN JUNE DRAFT
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amThe projected No. 1 pick in baseball's June draft is amongst us. You wouldn't know it, though, as he looks like any other kid walking around the Rutgers campus. He...
SCOTT HUDDLES WITH KIDD
March 10, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES SEATTLE -Byron Scott had done it before with his players. But he figured this was a good time to pick Jason Kidd's brain and get his captain's point...