August 17, 2002
BUSH ECONOMIC RX: MORE TAX CUTS, RAISE DEDUCTIONS
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amIf Alan Greenspan isn't going to save the economy, then President George W. Bush may have to step up to the plate. Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, chose not...
DOWN & OUT OF $$ - VIVENDI DOWNGRADE BY ANALYST TRASHES STOCK
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amVivendi Universal took another in a long series of hurtful blows yesterday when a Wall Street analyst suggested the company could be bankrupt before the end of the year. Meanwhile,...
WAKSAL'S PAINTED HIMSELF INTO A CORNER
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amFormer ImClone boss Sam Waksal can't seem to get his timing down. First he was charged with insider trading for his sale of stock at ImClone. Now he seems to...
MUSIC COS. AIM AT 'NAPSTER II'
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amRecord companies have launched an attack to kill off the son of Napster. To slay the Chinese-based operation, the record giants are taking legal action against U.S. cable companies, demanding...
DON'T END FRIENDS: PHOEBE
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amOK, so "Friends" is ending after this season - or is it? Series star Lisa Kudrow, who plays ditzy Phoebe, says she'd be willing to do the show for at...
FREDDY FOR HIS CLOSE UP
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amU.S. Senator Fred Thompson, who's acted in 18 big-screen movies, is expected to join NBC's "Law & Order" this season in a starring role. Thompson, a Republican senator from Tennessee,...
NY FILM FEST GETS 'PUNCH'
August 17, 2002 | 4:00am'PUNCH-Drunk Love," starring Adam Sandler, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Emily Watson, will be the "centerpiece" offering at the New York Film Festival, it was announced yesterday. Directed by Paul Thomas...
FREE MUSIC, HIGHBROW AND HOT
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amCENTRAL Park's SummerStage may have wound down for the month, but there's still some great free music on the horizon - if you know where to look. Head downtown for...
'PLUTO' TRASH : EDDIE MURPHY IS LOST IN SPACE
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amTHE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH [Zero stars] Who let this dog out? Running time: 90 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, sexually suggestive language). At the E-Walk, the Chelsea West, the Union...
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amUsually, CMOM stands for the Children's Museum of Manhattan. But for two weeks, starting Tuesday, it just might be called the Children's Museum of ... Mystery. Slip on your gumshoes...
GET YOUR LAST LICKS IN! - ICE CREAM SHOPS WORTH STOPPING FOR
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amThere's no time like now - as stores fill with back-to-school supplies - to savor the summer, which is melting away faster than ice cream on a hot day. And...
THE WILD, WILD BRONX
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amThere's no need to go West to catch some real rodeo action - not when those bucking broncos, raging bulls and cowboys head for Crotona Park in the Bronx each...
AS THE WORLD CHURNS
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amWe're all experts at eating ice cream. But what about making it? Luckily, you don't need a fancy ice-cream machine to make your own: with a little adult supervision, a...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amDinner Party Cheat Sheet is calling off all dinner parties this weekend on the account of the heat. You have air-conditioning? Well, well. Aren't we big spenders? CANINE SPIRIT The...
SWEAT TO THE BEAT
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amOn one hot August night, you can hear a stream of one-hit chart busters. Britain's Dirty Vegas will perform its Mitsubishi-boosted dance-pop hit, "Days Gone By," and Amber will perform...
A FULL GLASS
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe Bar Belles don't normally enjoy hanging out at bars that look too terribly neat. (Truth be told, we believe drinks taste better when quaffed in the same room with...
CHOOSE TO CRUISE
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amEscape from Manhattan: In this sluggish August heat, everyone seems to be doing it. But those traffic-clogged highways can make weekend trips almost as unbearable as staying in your hot...
STRANGER THAN FICTION
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amLike anyone who's bigger than life - and few were bigger than the King, especially in his Vegas years - Elvis Presley attracted a fair amount of myths. But the...
ELVIS' FINEST FLICKS - THE POST PICKS THE FILMS WHERE PRESLEY ROCKS THE MOST
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amElvis Presley's legacy includes no fewer than 31 movies, beginning with his debut in a supporting role in the western "Love Me Tender" (1956). His last acting gig was in...
PARKLIFE
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amFUNK-TASTIC Catch the Neville Brothers as they wind up the first leg of their August tour at Bryant Park. Bring a blanket and groove with the band of brothers as...
AUBERGINE DREAMS
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amIf you don't think eggplant is seasonal, think again. Now's the time for it in all colors and sizes. Those who dismiss this nightshade fruit as bitter have probably never...
MOUSSAOUI TRIAL IS PUSHED BACK
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The judge in the trial of "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui yesterday moved his trial to next Jan. 6 to give him more time to prepare the case, where...
BLOOMY BURNS BEEPS ON ED. BOARD PICKS' PERKS
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amMAYOR Bloomberg has notified the borough presidents that their appointees to the new Board of Education are strictly on their own. In a letter to the five borough officials, Bloomberg...
EMBATTLED INS CHIEF QUITTING
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The head of America's embattled immigration service yesterday said he's throwing in the towel after a series of embarrassments linked to Sept. 11. James Ziglar came on the...
BELL TOLLS ON LEVY'S TENURE
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy was dismissed from class yesterday. Levy rang a school bell to end his stormy 30-month tenure as the city's top educator. "It's liberty for me. I'm...
SCHOOLS WARNED - CAN'T BAR UNMEDICATED KIDS, SAYS STATE ED. DEPT.
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amA TOP state schools boss yesterday ordered educators to stop banning kids from classrooms if parents refuse to medicate them with psychotropic drugs - calling it a violation of children's...
JILTED LOVER TAKES DEATH LEAP
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amA Queens man who threatened to kill himself and the girlfriend who repeatedly spurned him jumped to his death after breaking away from cops who tried to subdue him, police...
TWO-POLL POL TURNS TAIL - MOVES TO CONN. IN BID TO QUIT PRIMARY
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Under investigation for possibly voting twice in the same election, candidate for lieutenant governor Dan Mahony has fled New York for Connecticut, it was revealed yesterday. Mahony this...
'Y' NOT SOME NEW SHELTER?
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amDesperate city officials on a hunt for more homeless housing began looking this week to place families in closed convents and the YMCA, Mayor Bloomberg disclosed yesterday. The effort began...
FAITH FEEDS HER DESIRE TO HELP OUT
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Eileen Hodge retired seven years ago, the feisty Staten Island woman was not about to sit home idle, so she prayed "to God to show me what to do...
RUN 'EM OUT OF TOWN
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amFIRING is too good for them. Instead, Opie and Anthony should be coated in tar, rolled in feathers, tied to a fence rail and transported to the bank of either...
ARAFAT SNATCH-&-DITCH - ISRAEL HAS A SCHEME TO SEND HIM FLYING
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe Israeli army has a plan to snatch Yasser Arafat from his Palestinian headquarters, drop him in the desolate corner of an Arab country - and then inform that country...
MIKE TO COPS: BLAME YOUR UNION, NOT ME
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday told cops clamoring for a pay hike to accept an arbitrator's verdict, even as a stinging anonymous flier circulated at Police Headquarters attacking the mayor's "caviar" lifestyle....
SITTER FACES PUNCH-SLAY RAP
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amA baby sitter accused of killing a 3-year-old Long Island boy angrily punched him in the belly for wetting his bed, Nassau County Police said yesterday. John Wyatt, 42, pleaded...
FIRE KILLS PREGNANT WOMAN, 19
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amA four-months pregnant woman was killed in a Bronx house fire early yesterday - while a baby and toddler who lived in the building were saved by good Samaritans in...
SCHOOL BUS FIRM CRASHES HEAD-ON INTO BANKRUPTCY
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe largest school bus company in the city filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday - raising concerns about whether students will have dependable service in the upcoming school year. Atlantic Express...
$2.5 MIL RIP-OFF RAP FOR 2 MOMS
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amTwo mild-mannered moms working at Columbia University ripped off $2.5 million in students' fees by joining forces with a 69-year-old Manhattan bank manager, the feds charge. Colleagues of Ingrid Rijos,...
GOOD 'HAIR' DAY MAKES B'WAY HISTORY
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amBroadway's new hit musical "Hairspray" is already shaping up to be one of the most successful shows of all time - just one day into its run. The musical, based...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amA plaster bust of Elvis in a tiny Dutch town wept "miracle" tears yesterday on the 25th anniversary of the beloved crooner's death, the statue's owner said. Elvis impersonator and...
'FUZZY' MATH A BIG ZERO: BOARD
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amA rebellious Bronx school board is trying to force its superintendent to overhaul instruction to focus on basic arithmetic instead of what critics call "fuzzy math." "We want standard arithmetic...
TAKE YOUR GAME AND SHOVE IT, GUYS!
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amSKANEATELES, N.Y. I M sitting on the jewel of all Finger Lakes, my feet stirring the water. The sun is competing with the breeze for my affection and I'm supposed...
SHARON AIDE: HURRY UP AND ATTACK IRAQ
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amA top aide to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday warned that a delay in a U.S. attack on Iraq will "serve no purpose" and just give Saddam Hussein a...
TIME TO MAKE A DEAL, LIZZIE
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amPublicity princess Lizzie Grubman has until Friday to decide on a take-it-or-leave it plea deal on charges she mowed down 16 people with her daddy's SUV, The Post has learned....
BEAU QUIZZED IN STAB-SLAY MYSTERY
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amA Lower East Side man was questioned by cops yesterday after he reported finding the dead body of his girlfriend lying on his apartment floor. The man - identified by...
DUNCE DUO IN HOT WATER - OUTRAGE DESCENDS ON OPIE & ANTHONY
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amRadio ratings whores Opie and Anthony offered no on-air apology yesterday for their disgusting sex-in-St. Pat's radio stunt - which led to the arrest of a Virginia couple and a...
QUEENS CONCERT CAUSES NEAR-RIOT
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amAn oversold concert turned ugly last night when ticket holders were turned away, cops said. Promised performances by five Indian and Pakistani bands drew a crowd to Francis Lewis HS...
AMAZIN' SLIDE CONTINUES ON TOWARD CELLAR
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amDodgers 3 - Mets 2 Make no mistake, there is a race going on for the Mets. Depending on whether the players go on strike, they have either two weeks...
FOR SEVERAL, LAST CHANCE TO IMPRESS
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTA - There is virtually no starting job in question, but that doesn't mean there are no important jobs up for grabs. The final score of this afternoon's Giants-Falcons preseason...
'D' TAKES A HIT - WEBSTER, HENDERSON OUT
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amJET NOTES It looks as if both defensive tackle Larry Webster and cornerback Jamie Henderson will be out at least a week or two, according to Herman Edwards. Webster, who...
HACKETT'S OFFENSE STARTING TO CLICK
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amHow about this for an unlikely award: Paul Hackett for Comeback Coach of the Year? Sure, two preseason games in is too early for accolades, but the early assessment of...
SEAVER: STRIKE DATE HAD TO BE SET
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amTwo weeks ago, Tom Seaver was one of 40 Hall of Famers who signed a letter pleading with the current players and owners to avoid a work stoppage. So you...
SELIG IN POSITION TO BE HERO OR HEEL
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amA STRIKE date is not a strike. As angry as many fans are with the players for simply announcing yesterday that the union will strike Aug. 30 without a new...
PHIL COMING UP EMPTY - MICKELSON CAN'T FIND HIS GAME AT PGA
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - Phil Mickelson was trying to stay optimistic amid a look of dejection. Moments earlier, he had bogeyed the 18th hole at Hazeltine National after chunking a bunker...
BELLUCCI LOOKS 'BELLA' IN 'BAMA
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Four of the seven 3-year-old fillies running in today's Grade 1, $750,000 Alabama Stakes are coming off victories in Grade 1 stakes and another took a Grade...
MOORER, TUA LIVE FOR BOXING
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY - They are different in appearance and upbringing; in their style in the ring and their lifestyle out of it. About the only things David Tua and Michael...
GOOSEN READY FOR PRESSURE COOKER
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amPGA NOTES CHASKA, Minn. - Retief Goosen is hoping the experience of winning the 2001 U.S. Open at Southern Hills will help him capture his second major this weekend at...
BOMBERS SENDING HENSON TO FALL LEAGUE
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe Yankees, looking for yet another way to accelerate the progress of Drew Henson, will send him to the Arizona Fall League for a second straight year. "This is nothing...
STRAW HAS EYES ON MUSIC BUSINESS
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amDarryl Strawberry said his colon cancer is in remission and he hopes to embark on a career in music when he is released from prison. He could be let out...
FANS PICK THE MOST AMAZIN' OF THEM ALL
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe most fun aspect of the Mets' 40th Anniversary All-Amazin' Team is the inevitable debate. After looking at who did make it, the question arises: Who should've made it? Before...
FUNK STORMS TO LEAD - WEATHER CUTS SHORT 2ND ROUND
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - The horn blew as lightning flashed in the distance. But Fred Funk didn't want to leave the course at Hazeltine National. He didn't want to abandon one...
PHIL RUNS ON EMPTY
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - Phil Mickelson was trying to stay optimistic amid a look of dejection. Moments earlier, he had bogeyed the 18th hole at Hazeltine National after chunking a bunker...
COURSE-RECORD 66 HAS FORMER SALESMAN BEEM-ING
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amPGA NOTES CHASKA, Minn. - Six years ago, Rich Beem made a living selling cell phones and car stereos after he was convinced his golf career had stalled. Justin Leonard...
CLOCK'S TICKING - STANTON: OWNERS FORCED DEADLINE
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Baseball owners gave their players no choice but to set a strike date of Aug. 30 yesterday. That's the way Yankee reliever Mike Stanton feels. "This is a...
AMAZIN'S ON BOARD TO WALK
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe words were not said across a negotiating table, but they might well have been. "[Bleepin'] liar," was what one Met veteran uttered as he walked away in disgust from...
VETERAN ARIAS PROMOTED TO PINSTRIPES
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - Unwilling to take on salary or trade a body for the likes of Shane Halter, the Yankees promoted veteran utility infielder Alex Arias from Columbus (Triple-A)...
VET ARIAS CALLED UP
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - Unwilling to take on salary or trade a body for the likes of Shane Halter, the Yankees promoted veteran utility infielder Alex Arias from Columbus (Triple-A)...
PIAZZA WRAPS UP INJURY
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES An MRI on Mike Piazza's sore left wrist revealed nothing structurally wrong, and the catcher hopes to be in the lineup today. Piazza said there was fluid buildup...
METS SET TO WALK
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe words were not said across a negotiating table, but they might well have been. "Bleepin' liar," was what one Met veteran uttered as he walked away in disgust from...
CLOCK'S TICKING - YANK REP STANTON: OWNERS FORCED US TO SET DEADLINE
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Baseball owners gave their players no choice but to set a strike date of Aug. 30 yesterday. At least that's the way Yankee reliever Mike Stanton feels. "This...
MOST AMAZIN' OF 'EM ALL - FOR 40TH ANNIVERSARY, FANS PICK BEST METS
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe most fun aspect of the Mets' 40th Anniversary All-Amazin' Team is the inevitable debate. After looking at who did make it, the question arises: Who should've made it? Before...