July 17, 2002
FULLER TARGETS TIME STAFF
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amBONNIE Fuller, the new editor of the upstart US Weekly, is trying to raid her arch-rivals at Time Inc. once again. Regardless of whether the raids are successful, they are...
HOUSE OKS STIFF JAIL TERMS FOR CEO CROOKS
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush cheered from the sidelines yesterday as the GOP-run House abruptly flipflopped and backed 20-year jail terms for CEO crooks - doubling the 10 years just OK'd...
WORLDCOM GETS $2B; CH. 11 LOOMS
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amEmbattled telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. has lined up as much as $2 billion from lenders, suggesting a Chapter 11 filing may be right around the corner. Citigroup Inc., J.P. Morgan...
GREENSPAN SLAM - DOW SKIDS 166 AFTER FED BOSS' UPBEAT REMARKS
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amStocks hurtled to triple-digit losses as investors shrugged off an optimistic report from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and drove blue chips down for the seventh straight day. Greenspan spoke...
THE END IS NEAR - MOST PROS SAY MARTS CAN ONLY GO UP FROM HERE
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amFavored blue-chip stocks plunged almost 900 points in the last seven days and all three leading stock indices have now fallen into the clutches of a singularly irascible bear market....
WHOLE FOODS WANTS BIG BITE
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amWHOLE Foods is shopping for large new store locations in town. The Austin, Texas-based natural and organic grocer is doing so well at its 37,987-square-foot site in Chelsea that it's...
NIGHT & DAZE
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amNOCHE [] 1604 BROADWAY (AT 49TH STREET) (212) 541-7070 --------- PERUSING the 49 different items on Noche's sprawling, Nuevo-Latino menu, and wondering where to look first, we jokingly asked if...
STARR REPORT
July 17, 2002 | 4:00am'Morning' guy Surratt jumps to CNNWilson "Wil" Surratt, the first and only executive producer of "The WB11 Morning News" in its two-year history, is bolting for CNN's "American Morning with...
KITCHEN & BAR CLOSES
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amSOHO and South Beach pioneer Tony Goldman has closed his Wall Street Kitchen & Bar at 70 Broad St. after five years. "We have done our best to remain open...
GOT TO GO TO CITARELLA TO GO
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amCitarella To Go [] 1250 Sixth Ave. (at 49th Street) (212) 332-1599 ----------- THE woman clutching the soft-shelled crab sandwich grew wide-eyed when she spotted the daily specials at Citarella...
FOLLOW ME HOME... I WANNA BE THE NEXT OZZY - P. DIDDY LEADS THE PACK WITH A REAL DEAL ON MTV
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amNOW it's Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' turn to be an "Osbournes" copycat. Combs and MTV will announce a new reality show today that will presumably entail following the rap impresario...
VIVA VEGAS! - HERMAN, TUNE TALK TEAM
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amHERE'S a pairing that should make fans of the musical theater sit up and take notice: Jerry Herman and Tommy Tune. The two Broadway legends, who've never worked together, are...
BAD BOY MAKES GOOD WITH 'CSI'
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - David Caruso, who bitterly left "NYPD Blue" after one season - only to see his hoped- for movie career tank - says he's eager for another comeback...
SUPER FREAK
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amEIGHT LEGGED FREAKS [1/2] Entertaining semi-comic creature feature. Rated PG-13 (violence, brief sexuality, language). Running time: 98 minutes. At the AMC Empire 25, Chelsea West, Kips Bay, others. ------------- PERHAPS...
AT LAST - HAVE I GOT GREAT 'NEWS' FOR YOU
July 17, 2002 | 4:00am"Breaking News" [ ] Tonight at 8 p.m. on Bravo ---------- SEEING how I am in the news business, I always get a kick out of shows that pretend they...
BERT AND ERNIE WON'T GET AN HIV+ BUDDY
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amTHE news that an HIV-positive Muppet is headed for "Sesame Street" has been greatly exaggerated. While it is true that the new character is being developed for a version of...
NYPD NABS MAN SOUGHT IN '71 ATLANTA COP SLAY
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amA former Black Liberation Army soldier wanted for the coldblooded 1971 slaying of an Atlanta cop is behind bars today, thanks to two dogged New York cops. NYPD Detective Chris...
NEW PREZ TAKES OVER FIRE UNION
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe new president of the firefighters union was sworn in yesterday, after winning a narrow runoff election. Stephen J. Cassidy, 46, takes over the Uniformed Firefighters Association post held for...
TERROR IN DISGUISE - THUGS DRESSED AS ISRAELI SOLDIERS IN DEADLY BUS AMBUSH
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - At least three Palestinian terrorists wearing Israeli army fatigues staged an elaborate and deadly ambush yesterday, killing seven Israelis on a bus outside an ultra-Orthodox West Bank settlement....
PUT 'BRIBE' JUDGE'S SHAME ON TV: HYNES
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amJudge Victor Barron, accused of taking an $18,000 bribe in his chambers, should enter a guilty plea under the glare of the media, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes argues in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amA singing parrot that does a dead-on impersonation of Ethel Merman has cut her first CD. "Bird Beat," by a yellow-headed Amazon parrot named Carla, was released this month by...
SECRET LIZZIE PLAN: CLAIM PROSECUTION WITNESS WAS DWI
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amLizzie Grubman has a secret defense plan to discredit the prosecution's star witness, Andrew Sasson: claim he was drinking and driving the night he spirited Lizzie from the Southampton nightclub...
INSPIRING 1ST DRAFTS GIVE HOPE OF GRAND REVIVAL
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amTHE unveiling of six rough design proposals for the World Trade Center site is an exciting milestone. For all their obvious - and predictable - shortcomings, they are a stirring...
POST POLL: LINDH GOT OFF EASY
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - New York Post readers overwhelmingly condemn as too lenient the 20-year prison deal for American Taliban John Walker Lindh, with many saying in an online poll that the...
HILL'S $$ FLOOD FUELING DEMS
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is spreading campaign cash across New York, helping Attorney General Eliot Spitzer build his war chest and aiding Democratic legislative candidates, according to reports...
TRIPLE-SLAY SUSPECT TAKES WHACK AT 'SMACK'
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amCaught red-handed fleeing the scene of a Lower East Side triple-murder and burglary, the suspected thug insisted to cops he wasn't on heroin, court papers revealed yesterday. Pot, yes. Cocaine,...
RUDY: KEEP OFF THE FOOTPRINTS
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amFormer Mayor Rudy Giuliani yesterday gave a thumbs-down to those Ground Zero plans that call for building on the Twin Towers' footprints, saying the swaths of land are a "burial...
POP BOZO GEORGE TUNES UP FOR 2004 OLYMPICS
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amWashed-up pop pervert George Michael - who slams America's fight against terrorism in his latest song and video - says he's been tapped to write the theme song for the...
MOUSSAOUI ZINGS JUDGE'S PRAISES
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amFIGHTIN' WORDS 'Don't forget it's the landing that is difficult. (Trust me, I am a pilot).' - ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, ADDRESSING A FEDERAL JUDGE IN A MOTION UNSEALED YESTERDAY --------- WASHINGTON...
GOPERS PONY UP FOR PATAKI
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amA dream team of Republican heavyweights - from former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to statesman Henry Kissinger - were among the most prominent donors to Gov. Pataki's bulging campaign coffers, according...
CELEBRATED NYERS WILL BESTOW POST'S LIBERTY HONORS
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amSome of New York's most prominent citizens will be among the judges who select the 10 winners of the Post's Liberty Medals for being extraordinary "ordinary" New Yorkers. The judges...
'GUNMAN' HAD PHANTOM ARMY
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe accused racist gunman who opened fire on an East Village bar last month imagined he had a whole army of kindred kooks behind him. "My peeps are out there,"...
NEW LAW LETS ARMY GET INFO ON HS KIDS
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amU.S. military recruiters have the authority to demand that education officials turn over the names, addresses and phone numbers of high-school students under a new federal law. President Bush's "No...
WEALTHY TWA VICTIM'S KIN THE $OLE HOLDOUTS
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amOn today's six-year anniversary of the TWA Flight 800 crash off Long Island, 226 claims have been settled against the airline and the plane's manufacturer - all except for one...
'THEY'LL NEVER BREAK ME,' HE VOWS AFTER VILE VERDICT
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amCHUCK SCHWARZ said last night: "They tried to screw me over the past five years, but they'll never break me." Chuck continued in a strong, calm voice: "They have jailed...
BOMB DOG SEALS DEAL WITH CITY
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe city has retained a private security firm to provide a full-time bomb-sniffing dog to screen for terrorist bombs in mail to City Hall and other lower Manhattan city offices,...
IVERSON 'GUN' RANT: NBAER SWORE HE'D 'HURT SOMEBODY'
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amAn armed Allen Iverson spewed murderous, foul-mouthed threats at two men during an angry hunt for his wife, prosecutors charged yesterday as the NBA superstar was booked and made bail...
SIX DESIGNS PAVE WAY FOR REBIRTH
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amDeclaring that "we will rebuild," planners yesterday unveiled six designs for Ground Zero - featuring office buildings that reclaim the skyline, memorials to honor the victims, nearby apartment complexes, and...
BIKER RELIVES ROAD-RAGE NIGHTMARE
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amA Queens motorcyclist who was stabbed in the chest in a horrific road-rage incident says his attacker was "very aggressive, very angry and very hateful." Balasz Botocska, 37, said truck...
QUEENS BOAT-CRASH VICTIM HAD POT AND COKE HISTORY
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe boater killed in a horrific collision in Little Neck Bay was on probation for drug possession, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Law-enforcement sources described John Kondogianis, 35, as a druggie...
TED WARMED UP TO FREEZE IDEA AFTER WRITING HIS WILL: PAL
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe executor of Ted Williams' will says the baseball legend wanted to be frozen - even though the document itself specifies that the slugger be cremated. The Hall of Famer's...
MIKE: STOCK WOES WILL TAX BUDGET
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg warned yesterday that the collapse of the stock market was adding a new "burden" to the city's battered budget. "Nobody should think for a second that we are...
GUILTY: SCHWARZ JURY'S SPLIT DECISION
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amA troubled Brooklyn jury yesterday slapped ex-cop Charles Schwarz with a perjury rap for lying about his role in the infamous Abner Louima brutality case - but failed to convict...
JUDGE NIXES N.Y. LAWYER IN SEX SLAY
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amConnecticut judge yesterday rejected a New York lawyer's bid to represent a man charged with sexually assaulting and killing a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet. "I am stunned,"...
BASEBALL OWNER EXPOS-ED IN SUIT
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amA New York art dealer is accused of putting a squeeze play on baseball's Montreal Expos and its minority owners in a scheme to eliminate the team. A group of...
TERROR IN DISGUISE: THUGS DRESSED AS ISRAELI SOLDIERS IN DEADLY BUS AMBUSH
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - At least three Palestinian terrorists wearing Israeli army fatigues staged an elaborate and deadly ambush yesterday, killing seven Israelis on a bus outside an ultra-Orthodox West Bank settlement....
NO POWER LEAVES SUBWAY COMMUTERS STRAP-HANGING
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amA subway power outage turned the afternoon commute into a nightmare for thousands of stranded straphangers yesterday after three train lines in three boroughs screeched to a standstill. "This is...
STOCK MARKET WOES WILL TAX CITY BUDGET: BLOOMY
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg warned yesterday that the collapse of the stock market was adding a new "burden" to the city's battered budget. "Nobody should think for a second that we are...
ACHING ELBOW KEEPS MENDOZA ON THE SHELF
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - When Joe Torre warmed up Mike Thurman in the fifth inning, it was an indication something wasn't right with Ramiro Mendoza. After the Yankees took a...
NICK'S HR BIG BLAST FOR YANKS
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - On a night when Nick Johnson won a game for the Yankees with a homer to right field, Joe Torre admitted the left-handed hitting rookie won't be out...
KNICKS IN NO HURRY TO SIGN NEW CENTER
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - How average is the free-agent crop of centers? Knicks brass yesterday was more in a tizzy over former Lincoln standout Jamel Thomas' impressive summer-league than today's start of...
FRACTURE KOS SARAVA
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amSarava, whose victory at 70-1 in this year's Belmont Stakes was the biggest upset in the race's 134-year history, fractured his left hind cannon bone in a workout yesterday at...
PIAZZA IS GIVEN THIRD DAY OFF
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets say they are exercising caution and good sense with Mike Piazza, but the catcher's back injury bears watching. If Piazza doesn't start in Montreal tonight -...
VIAGRA OR NOT, METS' BATS ARE BOOMING - OFFENSE EXPLODES TO PRODUCE 3-GAME WIN STREAK
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amMets 10 - Marlins 5 Yesterday morning, Bobby Valentine explained the Mets' second straight game in 1986-era uniforms by declaring, "It's a two-day Viagra-fest." The Met hitters have been scoring...
BY GEORGE, THORN LIKES EX-LAKER
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - Devean George is a talent. And that's the bottom line. So the Nets will consider and weigh options about pursuing George, the Lakers' unrestricted free agent...
JEFFERSON EJECTED FOR WRESTLING ROOKIE
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - If only Richard Jefferson showed this fire against the Lakers. Jefferson, the Nets' swingman, nearly took the head off Gonzaga golden boy Dan Dickau during the Nets-Hawks bout...
MUIRFIELD HOLDS MAGIC FOR FALDO
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amMUIRFIELD - Shortly after logging an impressive fifth-place finish in last month's U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, Nick Faldo flashed a sly smile and said he knew "the secret" to...
IT WOULD BE AN AMAZIN' MISTAKE TO LET LEITER GO
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amYOU have to get up pretty early in the morning to see the Mets playing as they are capable. At noon yesterday, with the Mets at a break-even .500, Josh...
HE'S A HYPOCRITE WITH GUTLESS STANCE
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amGULLANE, Scotland - Tiger Woods, who champions himself as a man vehemently against exclusionary policies for reasons of race or anything else, should be ashamed at the gutless straddle-the-fence answer...
DUVAL STRUGGLING TO RECAPTURE GLORY
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amGULLANE, Scotland - A year ago, David Duval came to the British Open seeking his first major championship. In capturing the Claret Jug with his win at Royal Lytham, Duval...
TRIBE OWNER: BOSS BAD FOR GAME
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amIndians owner Larry Dolan yesterday went out of his way to blame George Steinbrenner and the Yankees for baseball's dire economic problems. The Yanks' recent acquisitions of Raul Mondesi and...
CHARGE: WEAVER HAS POT IN PAST
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe Yankees knew they were picking up a right-hander with a dazzling fastball when they landed Detroit's Jeff Weaver - but they weren't told he'd been accused of smoking marijuana...
CHARGE: WEAVER GOT HIGH ON PLANE
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe Yankees knew they were picking up a right-hander with a dazzling fastball when they landed Detroit's Jeff Weaver - but they weren't told he'd been accused of smoking marijuana...
MO SAYS IT'S NOT TOO LATE
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amEarlier this season, Mo Vaughn had games like the one he had yesterday. He's even had stretches similar to the one he is going through now. But rather than being...
STRUGGLIN' KARSAY STILL SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - What's happened to Steve Karsay? On June 27, the righty set-up man provided the Yankees with 1 innings of scoreless relief in a 3-2 win over...
HERNANDEZ' 'MESSAGE' IS WELL-RECEIVED BY BOMBERS
July 17, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - If Orlando Hernandez wasn't throwing at Carlos Delgado on Monday night at SkyDome, why did his Yankee teammates appreciate the pitcher watching their backs? Nobody in pinstripes said...