July 13, 2002
BLACK AND BLUE CHIPS SLIDE 117
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amStocks tumbled as jittery investors bailed out of the Dow for the fifth straight day, ending a gruesome week of trading that pummeled blue chips to their biggest weekly declines...
FLEET SINKS ITS ROBBIE UNIT
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amFleetBoston Financial Corp. has pulled the plug on its once high-flying Robertson Stephens investment banking unit. After haggling for weeks with Robertson executives over a planned management-led buyout, Fleet decided...
BANKS SUE WORLDCOM OVER $2.65B IN LOANS
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amA group of angry banks sued WorldCom, trying to recover more than $2.65 billion in loans made shortly before the accounting scandal broke that has brought the troubled telecom to...
JAM TURNS INTO WORLD WITHOUT END
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amONE WORLD JAM UNFORTUNATELY, the planet got a little smaller at Radio City Music Hall Thursday night at the One World Jam concert - an international variety show where top...
CH. 4 BOSS SWANSON STEPS OUT OF THE PICTURE
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amCH. 4 vice president/general manager Dennis Swanson is retiring after six years of running the NBC-owned station. Swanson will be replaced by Frank Comerford, currently executive vice president of sales...
CONNIE HASN'T HEARD THE BAD WORD (FROM THE CRITICS)
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - CNN's Connie Chung insisted she doesn't read critics - and said her embattled show is right where she wants it to be. "Connie Chung Tonight," while pulling...
'NEWS' BREAK: BRAVO RUNS WITH TNT CASTOFF
July 13, 2002 | 4:00am'BREAKING News" missed its deadline, but still hopes to scoop up viewers - even a year after it was supposed to debut. The drama, set at a mythical 24-hour TV...
FISHING FOR A PRIZE
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amThey've got the poles, the bait and the lake: All they need are the kids. So saying, the Prospect Park Alliance wants you - kids ages 15 and younger -...
BERT AND ERNIE TELL ALL .... OR SHOULD IT BE ERNIE AND BERT?
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amThey're like peanut butter and jelly, Abbott and Costello. They're Bert and Ernie, the inseparable team from "Sesame Street" - and they've just gotten their own video. In "Bert &...
DJANGO FOR IT!
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amJazz aficionados may gasp but, until now, all we knew about the legendary gypsy guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt we learned from Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown." Thanks to the new...
MO' ETTA BLUES
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amR&B legend Etta James has been singing professionally since she was a teenager, when she was discovered by bandleader Johnny Otis in 1955. Now 64, the larger-than-life artist isn't nearly...
KING DAVID: RETRO SALUTES CULT LEGEND CRONENBERG
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amDavid Cronenberg says it is appropriate that his first complete New York retrospective in a decade is at Anthology Film Archives, the East Village mecca of alternative cinema. "It's so...
HOIST A FRENCH TOAST! SOME REVOLUTIONARY WAYS TO CELEBRATE BASTILLE DAY
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amHIP, hip, beret! It's time to bust out of that jail cell you call an apartment and whoop it up for Bastille Day. The French holiday commemorating the fall of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amA Florida couple who met in a 7-Eleven married at the shop at 7:11 a.m. on 7/11. "I figured if I got married at 7:11 on 7/11 in 7-Eleven, it'd...
NEW TACTICS KEEP BOMB TERROR AT BAY IN W. BANK
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Three weeks ago in Israel, in a single day, there were 58 terror alerts - some "very hot" - of planned Palestinian attacks. But none was carried out...
NO TREAT
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amHALLOWEEN RESURRECTIONZero stars Michael Myers is ready for early retirement.Running time: 89 minutes. Rated R (moderate gore, violence, profanity, drug use). At the Astor Plaza, the Sutton, the Chelsea, others....
DNA EFFORT MAY CLOSE WITH 800 NEVER ID'D
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe remains of more than 800 victims of the World Trade Center attack may never be identified, the medical examiner's office said yesterday. The arduous process of sifting through nearly...
GETTING 'WISE' TO HIDDEN TERROR PLOT : 'MASTERMIND' ROUSING U.S. SLEEPERS: FEDS
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Investigators believe an al Qaeda "wise man" in the United States is secretly directing hundreds of Osama bin Laden's sleeper agents, it was revealed yesterday. U.S. counterterrorism officials...
PREZ WILL TRY TO RALLY INVESTORS
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush is planning a major economic speech on Monday to restore investor confidence, while his chief corporate crime fighter vowed yesterday to be aggressive in going after...
PLUCKY MOTHER AND CHILD SURVIVE WILD WEEK IN WILDERNESS
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amA mother and son from California survived a harrowing week in the Oregon wilderness, living off berries and tree sap and fighting off wild animals. Diana Annette Hoofard and her...
TOPS IN TELE-TRASH : 'SPRINGER' WORST STINKER ON TV GUIDE LIST
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe guests are unruly hotheads with twisted tales of betrayal, the audience is ruthless and bloodthirsty and the host is a former mayor with a knack for pushing the right...
INCENSED BLOOMY NO LONGER A BETSY ADVOCATE
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amTHE big chill has set in between Mayor Bloomberg and Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum. The two were once so close that Bloomberg helped Gotbaum raise funds two years ago for...
ACCUSED COCAINE KINGPIN NAILED IN $7M BUST
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amCops have seized more than 525 pounds of cocaine and busted a Colombian national they believe is one of the main coke distributors in Queens, authorities said yesterday. John Freddy...
FEDS BUY MORE TIME TO PROBE MARTHA TRADES
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amTroubled domestic diva Martha Stewart has two more weeks of sweating it out as federal prosecutors put the squeeze on her pal, ex-ImClone chief Sam Waksal. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jim...
LONG WAITING GAME ADDS TO WTC RELATIVES' AGONY
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amPatricia Reilly wasn't surprised by the news. Reilly, who lost her sister Lorraine Lee in the World Trade Center, has been hearing for months from the city medical examiner's office...
HUBBY HELD IN WIFE SLAY
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was charged with murder yesterday after stabbing his wife to death following a violent argument, cops said. Police were called to a second-floor apartment at 15 Woodruff...
FLIP THESE FLOPS, AND YOU'D COME UP WITH 50 JUST AS BAD
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amTHE toughest challenge the editors of TV Guide must have faced in compiling their list of the worst TV shows of all time was whittling the list down to just...
REV. DEADBEAT BOUNCED : MARSHALS EVICT SHARPTON FROM EMPIRE STATE BLDG.
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton has been evicted from his Empire State Building offices for failing to pay six months of back rent totaling $40,000, The Post has learned. A city...
S.I. BEEP MAKES BOARD OF ED PICK
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amStaten Island Borough President James Molinaro tapped the borough's parent leader as the first appointment to the new 13-member Board of Education. Joan McKeever-Thomas said she's eager to work to...
MIKE'S SURPRISE PARTY : TAPS FULANI ALLY FOR NONPARTISAN-ELEX PANEL
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday named 13 members to a panel to institute nonpartisan city elections - and it included the lawyer for radical activist Lenora Fulani. Attorney Harry Kresky said he...
DNA FINGERS 'ROBBER RAPISTS'
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amDNA evidence and a tipster helped cops capture two Bronx men who allegedly committed 10 robberies and four sexual assaults in four months in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, police said...
NYU JUDGE TRIED TO SHIELD ALMA MATER IN RAPE CASE
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge is coming under fire for trying to let his alma mater, New York University, hide its involvement in an embarrassing $20 million lawsuit. The lawsuit was brought...
VICE SQUAD NAILS COP ON 'JOHN' RAP
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amA veteran cop was suspended without pay after he was arrested for soliciting a prostitute - a woman who was actually an undercover cop working on a vice-enforcement detail, police...
PHILLY IN FURY AT FREE MAN IVERSON
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA. THROW the rich bum in jail. The common folks here are seething because NBA superstar Allen Iverson was charged Thursday with four felonies and 10 lesser offenses, but the...
JURY FURY: NOTE PUTS SCHWARZ TRIAL IN TURMOIL
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe trial of ex-cop Charles Schwarz was thrown into turmoil yesterday after a juror revealed he believes some of his fellow panelists may be biased - raising the specter of...
FAT SIBLINGS WANT AIRLINE ON HOT $EAT
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amAn overweight brother and sister plan to sue Southwest Airlines after they were told they couldn't get on a flight home from Indianapolis unless they bought extra seats because they...
NBA STAR STILL PLAYING BY 'STREET' RULES
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amCharges that basketball bad boy Allen Iverson forced his way into a cousin's apartment with a gun suggest he's "falling back into his old ways," a top NBA official said...
CHARTER SCHOOL IN B'KLYN FACES A FISCAL EXAM
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy is looking into financial irregularities at a Brooklyn charter school that a probe found to be in debt and facing tax trouble. The situation is so...
TARASCO, MAIER MEET AGAIN
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amMets outfielder Tony Tarasco worked a baseball camp in New Jersey yesterday morning. In a delicious twist of irony, Jeffrey Maier also was coaching at the camp. Maier, entering Wesleyan...
NEW YORKERS ARE MAX-IMUM DOGGY LOVERS
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amNew York may be a dog-eat-dog world, but how tough can it be when the most popular name for a pooch here is Max? That's what the Health Department reported...
TYCO GUY BLASTED AS CAPE CLOD
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amNANTUCKET, Mass. - Ex-Tyco chief Dennis Kozlowski was the talk of Nantucket yesterday after The Post revealed the former CEO has carried on his luxurious lifestyle while shareholders suffered. A...
DEATH SPIN ON BOOZER'S BAY : 'DWI' BOAT DID 360S BEFORE ITS FATAL CRASH
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe teen charged with causing a fatal boat crash off Bayside Marina in Queens had alcohol on his breath and was doing wild, 360-degree spins in his family's Sea Ray...
QUEENS BUS STRIKE OVER
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amDrivers at three private Queens bus companies will be back behind the wheel today. The agreement, brokered by Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and the Transport Workers Union, involves the...
TREES BREAK JUMPER'S FALL FROM 19TH FLOOR
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amA tree yesterday saved the life of a high-rise jumper who plunged 19 floors from a Manhattan housing project, but was left smiling after hitting the ground, cops and witnesses...
SUSPECT WHO ESCAPED N.Y. COPS CAUGHT IN CALIFORNIA
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amJust as Mayor Bloomberg was offering excuses yesterday for the recent rash of escapes from the NYPD, cops in California gave city police a hand by nabbing a man who...
MIKE MAKES EXCUSES FOR BREAKOUT YEAR BY COPS
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg, who on Wednesday described an escape from police custody as "inexcusable," yesterday began offering excuses. "The trouble is most of these escapes - not all, but a chunk...
S.I. BEEP'S CHOICE FOR ED. BOARD
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amStaten Island Borough President James Molinaro tapped the borough's parent leader as the first appointment to the new - and mostly powerless - 13-member Board of Education. Joan McKeever-Thomas said...
MET RALLY JUST A TEASE : TO LITTLE TOO LATE LEAVES 'EM 13 ½ BACK
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe Mets almost survived yet another terrible outing from struggling starter Jeff D'Amico, and nearly overcame a six-run, seventh-inning deficit. But almost and nearly are like moral victories that bad...
VAUGHN KEEPS TORRID STREAK GOING
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amMo Vaughn went 2-for-4 with a single in the fourth inning and a 409-foot solo shot to center in the sixth in the Phils' 9-8 victory over the Mets last...
PLAYING ROTATION ROULETTE
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amEVERY non-contending team needs a true stopper to embellish its basic mediocrity. And Jeff D'Amico came through again. Thursday night, Al Leiter ground and grimaced through eight gutsy innings before,...
JEFFERSON HAS STARTING ON MIND
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amQuick, name the Nets' starters. Jason Kidd, Kenyon Martin . . . Stop. According to coach Byron Scott, who may be prodding and pushing the likes of Keith Van Horn...
EWING CONSIDERS CALLING IT QUITS
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe end is near for Patrick Ewing. John Gabriel, the Magic GM, told The Post yesterday Ewing is "leaning toward retirement." However, a report out of Orlando that Ewing spoke...
WELLS LOWERS BOOM ON FANS
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - David Wells knows he is going to absorb severe abuse tonight when he goes to the Yankees' bullpen to warm up for his start against the Indians at...
FONZIE NOT FAZED BY DEAL RUMORS
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amMike Piazza is the Mets' franchise, and Al Leiter has increasingly become their public face. But the longest-tenured Met - other than injured John Franco - is Edgardo Alfonzo. However,...
BURNITZ RIDING PINE THANKS TO SICKLY STICK
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amJeromy Burnitz has done it before: hit the baseball with authority, hit it with consistency and - most importantly - hit it out of the park. It's just that, at...
KNICKS MULLING SPREE'S FUTURE
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amWhile 7-1, 285-pound free-agent center Jerome James flew in from Sacramento late last night to start his recruiting visit with the Knicks, GM Scott Layden still has a bigger issue...
POWER HAVE BEEN LEFT DEFENSELESS
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amTo say that new Power coach Charlie Duccilli has his hands full would be a serious understatement. After taking over for Pat Farmer two weeks ago, Duccilli has watched his...
MACH THREE, MCARDLE IN RUBBER-MATCH PACE
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amTonight's $1 million Meadowlands Pace sets up as a rubber match for two top three-year-old colt pacers Mach Three and McArdle. The two rivals first hooked up at the Meadowlands...
AMAZIN' INCOMPETENCE LIGHTS PHILS' WAY OUT OF CELLAR
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe Mets are now only 3½ games out - of last place in the NL East, that is. The last-place Phillies beat up on the Mets 9-8 last night at...
MONDESI, CLEMENS HURTING IN LOSS : TRIBE SCORES IN 10 AFTER RAUL HITS WALL
July 13, 2002 | 4:00am10 INNINGS Indians2 Yankees1 CLEVELAND - The Yankees lost a lot more than a game to the Indians last night at Jacobs Field. During the course of a 2-1, 10-inning...
WHITE TURNS TO GRAY: HOMETOWN VISIT HELPS OUT RONDELL
July 13, 2002 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - In terms of miles, you can get a lot farther away from New York than Gray, Georgia. Yet in terms of lifestyle, Gray is light years away from...