April 14, 2002
PATENT EXPIRATIONS STIR GENERIC DRUGS
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amHere's a dose of reality - generic, of course. Generic drugs are on a roll, undercutting the more expensive competition and raking in the sales. With a slew of patents...
RED FLAGS FOR FUNDS
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Putnam Investments disclosed last week that it would stop filing changes in its fund manager ranks with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it was the last straw for frustrated...
BULL'S EYE
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amRED FACES OVER BIG BLUE HYPE Timing is everything. But some timing is worse than others. Business2.0 - that troubled tech monthly - ran a strap on the cover of...
BLOOMIE'S EXEC BUCKLES DOWN
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amRetailers are notorious for the long hours they work. Bloomingdale's Chairman and CEO Michael Gould is no exception. "I very rarely go out for lunch," said the exec from his...
IT'S NOT AL ROSIE : CEO DAN BREWTER IS G+J'S WORKING STIFF
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amDan Brewster should be on top of the world. He's just about to wrap up year No. 2 as the CEO at Gruner + Jahr USA, publisher of Rosie. He...
EMERGINE MARKETS LESS SCARY
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amTHERE was a time when investors avoided emerging markets because of the risks. But in a post-Enron world, where even seemingly-solid U.S. companies can become penny stocks virtually overnight, the...
THALIA REDUX
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe Thalia is back. After being closed for most of the past 15 years, the legendary revival house at 95th Street and Broadway - where for decades legions of film...
WHAT I WATCH
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amLAURA KLEINPUBLISHER WOMAN'S DAYMY FAMILY AND THE SAME GROUP OF FRIENDS GET TOGETHER EACH WEEK FOR OUR OWN VERSION OF "FRIENDS" BY HAVING DINNER AND WATCHING THIS FUN SHOW.BILL WALTONCOLUMNIST,...
FOR 'RAIN' MAN, FILM STILL WASHES AWAY THE BLUES
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amIt's been a half-century since America first went "Singin' in the Rain," but to Donald O'Connor, who co-starred with Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds in the film, it seems "like...
A CHEMICAL THRILL : BROTHERS BACK IN TOWN WITH HOT NEW SPIN MOVES
April 14, 2002 | 4:00am'Everything is geared to make you freak out," said Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers' upcoming New York show. The turntable twosome (Ed Simons is the other Brother) are returning...
JAGGER, 'SNL'S MICHAELS TEAM UP ON BRIT SPY FLICK
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe release of the new thriller "Enigma" this Friday marks the culmination of a most unusual collaboration, a sophisticated WWII spy flick produced by "Saturday Night Live" founder Lorne Michaels...
STYLE & SUSTANCE: JON FAVREAU
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amWith his comedic, mobster-friendly movies - "Swingers," "Very Bad Things" and "Made" - Jon Favreau defined style for single men. "Money" became slang for cool, and calling a girl "the...
B'WAY, BRIT HITS: NO SEA CHANGES
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amIt was that unique Anglo-American Winston Churchill who observed that "the United States and the United Kingdom are two nations divided by a common language." But so far as theater...
ELEPHANT PLAN : HOW DIRECTOR PREPPED FOR THE BIG REVIVAL
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amMichael Jackson wanted to buy them, but the Elephant Man's bones remain where God left them - at London Hospital. "They didn't think it was apt to let them out...
FEELING LEFT OUT - AND GRUMPY ON THE SIDELINES
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amI overheard a colleague this week trying to persuade another work mate to join his softball team. "It's not serious . . . just a bit of fun," he told...
LOOK WHO'S STALKING
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amWhen it comes to pretty faces, I'm just as much of a sucker as the next guy - more so, if you consider the time I saw Cameron Diaz walk...
WHAT A RELIEF: NEW DEVICES MAKE WASTE MANAGEMENT EASY FOR CAT AND DOG OWNERS
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amWhen you live with animals, mandatory waste management comes with the territory. For cats, that means a litter box that requires daily scooping, and for dogs, regular walks. But two...
THE KING HE PLAYS CHANNELS REAL HISTORY
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe Scorpion King portrayed by The Rock may sound like some grandiose Hollywood myth, but new evidence suggests that he actually existed. Archeologists claim that such a king ruled Egypt...
EAT FOR FREE: FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MADONNA, OUR REPORTER FILLS UP WITHOUT SPENDING A DIME
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amAre you a starving artist - for real? Have you skipped a meal or two because, well, you just didn't have the budget to cover it? Could you use a...
A GOOD REASON TO LOWER YOUR STANDARDS
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amAt Taste of the Lower East Side, LES is more. The event Thursday from 7 to 11 p.m. is an opportunity to make a one-stop graze through this culinary hotbed...
CHECK IT OUT! HERE'S HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR REFUND
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Even if you wait until the very last minute to file your taxes, there's still a way to speed up your refund by seven days. "You can save...
MARIJUANA LEAVES BACK IN BLOOM
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amTHE city is going to pot! Or maybe it's just the mayor. Last week, Mayor Bloomberg, who spends more time in the subway than a homeless man, saw himself coming...
WERID BUT TRUE
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amA Dutch employment agency is advertising for the position of prostitute. The owner of Sexclub Tiffany's in Amsterdam said he can no longer find girls who want to work in...
NO FREEZING MEANS LOTS OF SNEEZING & WHEEZING
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amBeware, New Yorkers - miserable sneezers and wheezers will be riding next to you on the subway a little ahead of schedule this year. Due to a record warm winter,...
S.I. MAN EYED IN SLAY OF AFGHAN BIG
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amTerror probers say an alleged aide to blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman may have helped in the assassination of a key Afghan leader just before Sept. 11, The Post has learned....
POWELL: PEACE TALK IS CHEAP : WILL TELL ARAFAT TO FIGHT TERROR
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Secretary of State Colin Powell will demand "effective action" to end Palestinian terror attacks against Israel in his meeting with Yasser Arafat today. Powell decided yesterday to go...
9/11 WIDOW REMARRIES : JOY & SHOCK AT L.I. WOMAN'S DECISION TO START ANEW
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amIt was a day of joy amid a time of grief. Wearing white and beaming broadly, Laura Mardovich married family friend Robert Balemian Friday. People exchange their wedding vows every...
AFGHAN RIVALS FIGHT FOR HILLS
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amTwo Afghan groups controlled by rival commanders continued battling for control of lands close to the war-torn country's capital yesterday. Minor skirmishes erupted in Khoja Kotkai, 25 miles outside Kabul,...
B'KLYN MAN SHOT IN HEAD BY VILLAGE MUGGERS
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amA 25-year-old construction engineer who went out for an evening of fun in Greenwich Village with his girlfriend was fighting for his life after being shot in the face during...
CAN'T COUNT ON YASSER: DIPLOS
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amAmerican diplomats have been through it before, often. At the last minute, Yasser Arafat finally takes a small step forward, but doesn't follow through. "At the best of times, [Arafat]...
HAITI MASS MURDERER WAS ON DISNEY PAYROLL
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amA former Haitian general convicted of murdering and torturing his countrymen worked for Walt Disney World for five years, a new report says. Jean-Claude Duperval was an hourly Disney World...
MAN HUNTED FOR ABUSING GIRL IN SCHOOL
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amA man is being sought for fondling an 8-year-old girl inside an East Harlem school while classes were taking place, police said. The incident occurred at 2:30 p.m. Friday inside...
GOODBYE TO A HERO
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amSeveral hundred mourners gathered in Long Island yesterday to bid farewell to FDNY firefighter Richard Muldowney Jr. - a Sept. 11 hero they called "a fireman's fireman." "He knew his...
CATHERINE'S WALES OF DISCONTENT
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amThere's tension brewing in the Douglas household. Welsh-born Catherine Zeta-Jones, despite lapping up the Hollywood high life, wants to pack her son off to boarding school in Wales so he...
SMILING KILLER SAYS IT WAS AN ACCIDENT
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amA Long Island beauty expert who killed her boyfriend with a toxic milkshake claims it was an accident because she only intended to weaken the hulking Bronx butcher. Anne Perry,...
MOM RUSHES TO 'DRUG MULE' SON'S SIDE
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe 12-year-old Nigerian boy who flew to the United States with 87 heroin-stuffed condoms in his stomach was reunited with his mother yesterday, under police guard at a Queens hospital....
HIT-RUN DRIVER KILLS DIALYSIS PATIENT
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amA man on his way home from dialysis treatment was stuck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on Baisley Boulevard in Queens, police said yesterday. Howard Thornton, 69, was crossing...
SUVS ARE WHY WE'RE GETTING LOW MILEAGE OUT OF OIL WAR
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amCHRIS Portera has a big flag on the back window of his Ford Explorer. Just don't ask him to choose between his country and his gas-guzzling sport utility vehicle. "I'd...
MOMS' HOPE: HEAR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amWHAT would Rosie O'Donnell say? In the eyes of his two mommies, Baby Boy Gauvin Hughes McCullough was born imperfect. But his moms are trying to fix that. Like countless...
TRAGIC DAD SAYS COMPLAINTS WERE BRUSHED ASIDE
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe parents of a 13-year-old cancer patient who died at Mount Sinai Hospital nearly three years ago blame a "monstrous breakdown in care" - similar to the fiasco cited in...
DYING BOY'S CRITICAL CARE : BLASTED MOUNT SINAI DOCS FOR BAD TREATMENT
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amTwo weeks before he died unexpectedly at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toby Stein sent his doctor a blistering letter, saying he suffered more in his fight against cancer because of incompetent...
TEARS AND HUGS AS WTC LIGHTS SHINE FOR LAST TIME
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amNew York remembered the Sept. 11 attacks all over the city yesterday, the last time the switch was thrown on for the "Tribute in Light" memorial. Near Ground Zero, approximately...
WANG, KUMAR RESCUED ISLES FROM THE DEPTHS
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - They came in thinking that they knew better than everybody, that they would do it their way, and, whoo boy, for a while there did we ever have...
THUUUUUH MAN'S A FRAUD : FRANCESA'S GUSHING OVER STERLING IS LESS THAN HONEST
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S inconceivable that Mike Francesa, a classically raised and trained baseball fan, would be a closeted John Sterling fan, let alone a big fan in public. Yet, remarkably, both he...
DEC GETS INTO FLOW AS WATER LEVELS SINK
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amTHE New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and members of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) have reached a one-year agreement to improve water releases out of New...
BRAVES IN ARMS' WAY
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amDURING the first nine games of the season, Atlanta started a one-time high school cricket player and a guy who was 6-8 at Single-A last season. Since these are the...
DUNWOODIE MOURNS LOSS OF BEVACQUA
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe 10th hole at Dunwoodie Golf Course in Yonkers will never be the same. John Bevacqua died Friday at the age of 89. Anybody who knew him was in tears...
CHANEY PLOTTING CHANGES - JUST IN CASE
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amMIAMI - Don Chaney is convinced he will coach the Knicks next season even if some around the league aren't. "Is he really coming back?," one scout asked recently. "They've...
AUGUSTA SAYS GOODBYE TO ARNIE
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - If you were privileged enough to be at Augusta National yesterday or you were watching the Masters on television, you're not human if you didn't shed a tear...
KENYON: LET'S PLAY IT SAFE : WOULD RATHER SIT NOW THAN RISK PLAYOFF BAN
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And it may also be worth having Kenyon Martin around for the start of the playoffs for the...
NEW HAMPSHIRE CENTER HAVING BALL WITH DRAFT
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amJason Ball is an admitted draftnik. Each year he parks his 6-foot-2, 300-pound 4-X-4 of a body in front of the TV set and tunes into the NFL Draft. He...
CHRISTENSEN KEEPS SCOUTS ALL FIRED UP
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amXaverian8 Tottenville4 The sight, already a familiar one, will likely become even more common as the season goes on. It's the sight of upward of 40 major league and college...
WITH JINTS OR NO, IKE PLANS TO GO BIG
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amThis is what Ike Hilliard wants the Giants to know: If they keep him around they will have a fiercely motivated receiver who vows to make them or any other...
JETS MUST DRAFT LIKE IT'S 1979 : DEFENSIVE-MINDED PICKS ARE WAY TO GO
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe model for the 2002 Jets draft is the 1979 Jets draft. Walt Michaels had drafted right tackle Marvin Powell in the first round of the 1977 draft. WR Wesley...
INDY BUCKING FOR PROMOTION : PACERS GETTING LITTLE RESPECT IN RACE WITH MILWAUKEE
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - We begin with a public service announcement: Don't fall for the NBA line that the playoffs get underway next weekend. For The Mysterious J. and her dozens of...
ORDONEZ' GOLD GLOVE TURNING TO LEAD
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amFans that remember Rey Ordonez' Gold Glove run and record-breaking defense can only look at the Met shortstop this season and ask: What's wrong with him? Ordonez was wondering the...
GRYDER, BAILEY HIT THE GROUND
April 14, 2002 | 4:00am2ND RACE - Race was marred by breakdown of Bullet Buzz. When field was turning for home, Bullet Buzz broke down in left front. Aaron Gryder was thrown to ground...
BUDDHA WINS BIG A'S WOOD
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amAnyone in the crowd of 20,103 at Aqueduct yesterday expecting the Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial to clear up the muddied Kentucky Derby waters instead walked away more confused. In...
VALENTIN'S FIRST SHOT ENDS BADLY
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amBefore joining the Mets, John Valentin had never played first base. This makes him feel like "a rookie in a sense." After making the most unusual of errors in the...
IN FIELD, YANKS JUST D-PLORABLE
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - You won't find an "E" in the Yankees' box score because the official scorer at Fenway Park yesterday was putrid. Yet that doesn't mean they played flawlessly yesterday....
BOMBERS IN TROUBLE IF PEDRO REGAINS OLD FORM
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees and Red Sox are playing, and it is Boston showing all the poise and magic. That does not fit a script honed through eight decades in...
WATCH OUT, TORRID TIGER'S ON THE PROWL
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - After watching his 8-foot putt for birdie on the 18th hole yesterday disappear into the cup, Tiger Woods pointed his right index finger at the ball, then pumped...
GUERRERO GOES YARD
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe slider, the one Vladimir Guerrero sent into the left field bullpen for the game-winning homer yesterday at Shea, was supposed to be in the dirt. New Met reliever Scott...
ROBBIE'S RIGHT MAN FOR JOB
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amFOUR innings into it, the Expos had a seven-run lead and Javier Vazquez was no-hitting the Mets. Even so, the Expos had to come from behind to win 9-8 in...
MICKELSON NOT FEELING PRESSURE
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Nobody in the world is more starved to win a major championship than Phil Mickelson. As per Mickelson's pattern in majors, he finds himself in contention in the...
BERNIE'S BAT STILL MISSING IN ACTION
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Bernie Williams' glove wasn't the only piece of equipment that hurt the Yankees yesterday at Fenway Park. Williams' bat didn't produce a hit in four at-bats in a...
ANOTHER BEANTOWN BUMMER FOR YANKS :MO GIVES UP HR TO HILLENBRAND AS PINSTRIPES FALL AGAIN
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amRed Sox7 Yankees6 BOSTON - It will return but the feeling of invincibility that surrounded the Yankees since Opening Day has vanished. The moment Shea Hillenbrand's two-run homer in the...
TIGER VERSUS THE GOOSE : IT'S WOODS AND RETIEF IN SUNDAY SHOWDOWN
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Here he comes again. Tiger Woods is charging at the Masters again and it's going to take a Herculean effort on someone's part to stop him from winning...
GARCIA READY TO CHALLENGE
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Sergio Garcia, who craves to beat Tiger Woods and become champion of a major, said again yesterday that he believes the gap between Woods and the next group...
UNH CENTER HAVING A BALL
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amJason Ball is an admitted draftnik. Each year he parks his 6-foot-2, 300-pound 4-X-4 of a body in front of the TV set and tunes into the NFL Draft. He...
AT LEAST LINDROS SURVIVED
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Yesterday's game was his 72nd of the season, second most in his career to the 73 he played six seasons ago when the future seemed unlimited. And yet,...
DIVISION GONE, ISLES LOOKING TO FINISH FIFTH
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe Islanders aren't playing the Flyers for the Atlantic Division title this afternoon. Instead, because of the Rangers' 2-1 loss in Philadelphia yesterday, the Isles are going to play the...
NOW, DEVILS WAIT
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amOT - SUMMARY, P. 71 Devils4 Capitals3 WASHINGTON - It is irony that borders on tempting fate. Scott Niedermayer's NHL-record fourth overtime goal of the season kept alive the chance...
ROBBIE KNOWS TEAM PLAY
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amTEAM is the most overused word in sports. A collection of players who wear the same colors, fly the same charter, and turn giddy over the same $50 gift certificate...
ONE BALL FOR ALL! IT'S TIME
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Arnold Palmer's final plea as a competitive player at the Masters was an endorsement of the growing notion a standardized golf ball should be used on the PGA...
CUT WAS NOT KIND TO DUVAL
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK AUGUSTA - Once the second round was completed yesterday, there were a number of surprising names that ended up on the wrong end of the cut line, but none...
PART 2 OF THE POST'S ANNUAL LOOK AT NEW YORK SPORTS' ... ACES & JOKERS
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe Post concludes its two-part review of the best and worst qualities of the city's sports personalties by spotlighting guys who are underachievers, overachievers, immature, classy, paranoid, tough, soft, and...
VANDER WAL GETS NOD OVER SLUMPING SPENCER
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Looking for every advantage against Pedro Martinez yesterday, Joe Torre used John Vander Wal's left-handed bat in right field and sat the slumping Shane Spencer. "Every...
'SORE'-IANO PUT ON ICE BY JOE
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - When the leadoff hitter is batting .360 and isn't in the lineup against Pedro Martinez with the Yankees on a three-game losing streak, alarms go off. That was...
MOVING DAY AT AUGUSTA: GOOSEN, ELS, TIGER OUT TO CATCH SINGH
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - When Augusta National went to bed on Friday night the 66th Masters looked in danger of becoming an anticlimactic weekend run-away, thanks to Vijay Singh's lights-out second-round 65....
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amHoosier daddy won't watch his kids play Bobby Knight apologists praise The General for not phoning successor Mike Davis and his players to congratulate them on the Hoosiers' run to...
STEVENS HAPPY HE DUMPED ZERO
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Devils were back last night where they opened this roller-coaster season, hoping to fashion a thoroughly different finish from the way it began. It was on Oct....
ALL-PSAL HOOPS
April 14, 2002 | 4:00amPLAYER OF THE YEAR GARY ERVIN Robeson, 6-0, Sr, G Gary Ervin had a tremendous senior season and although he didn't lead Robeson to the PSAL title, he's more upset...