April 22, 2003
DOWNTOWN FEARS A MOVE BY LAW FIRM
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amKEEP your eyes on Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Landlords and brokers say the law firm's decision whether or not to stay downtown will be a crucial barometer of the wounded...
K-Y JELLY: NOT JUST FOR SEX ANYMORE
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amWondering what to do with that tube of K-Y Jelly tucked away in the nightstand? Try blending it with crushed eye shadow to make body paint, or rubbing it in...
COFFEE, TEA, OR CHAP. 11?
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amEmbattled American Airlines chief Don Carty is offering an olive branch to his angry employees in a desperate bid to keep them from deserting his financial rescue plan. Facing a...
REALITY BITES DUST: NETWORKS DUMP SHOWS AFTER ADVERTISERS GRIPE
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amAdvertisers have had their fill of reality television. After flooding the airwaves with unscripted reality television shows, networks are planning a fall season loaded with scripted dramas and comedies, executives...
SENATOR DEMANDS SEC SPILL TERMS OF BANKS' DEAL
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amLawmakers are demanding that the Securities and Exchange Commission lift the veil of secrecy around Wall Street's $1.4 billion deal to settle its worst-ever stock-hyping scandal. The SEC is voting...
NYSE DIRECTORS TAPPED TRADERS DESPITE REVIEW
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amThe New York Stock Exchange nominated two execs from specialist firms to join its board of directors - after initiating a review of its specialist trading practices last fall. Three...
HERE'S MY PLAN TO INJECT SOME LIFE INTO THE ECONOMY
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amTHE next war will be in Washington. The battlefield will be the sickly economy, which threatens to make this George Bush a carbon copy of his dad: a one-term president...
STARR REPORT
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amYou've got to wonder . . . . . . If Susan Sarandon's bashing of President Bush and the war in Iraq had anything to do with the poor showing...
NBC DENIES POW PAYOFF
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amDID NBC News pay the family of former POW Shoshana Johnson $5,000 to use their house for interviews? NBC execs vehemently deny it - a spokeswoman said all their interviews...
PURR-FECTION
April 22, 2003 | 4:00am* ATOMIC KITTEN "Atomic Kitten" [ 1/2] Virgin There's no such beast as a sure thing - especially in pop music - but if you were to make a wager...
INTERNET SPOILS FUN AS... BUFFY BITES DUST
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amWITHOUT bothering to come up with alternative endings to keep fans guessing, "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" finished taping its final episode late last week. "I gave up about a year...
BANDLEADER INSTRUMENTAL FOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amTHE boy genius behind Scotland's Mull Historical Society is Colin MacIntyre, a virtual one-man band. On "Us," the follow-up disc to last year's pop wonder "Loss," the artist again writes,...
FOX TRIES CLASS ACT
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amFOX is turning the popular website Classmates.com, which helps old schoolmates reconnect with each other, into a TV show. Fox-owned stations in select cities, including Ch. 5 here, will begin...
TRIBECA CHATS FOR FILM FEST
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amNATHAN Lane will team up with "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to debate comedy in film as part of the Tribeca Film Festival's slate of panel discussions...
HIGH-IQ ANXIETY
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amCALL it the Hannibal Lecter Syndrome. A new Stanford University study says Ph.D.s and other highly educated people may have more mental health problems than the rest of us. "I...
SHOW MISSED A 'PERSONALITY' - MONICA AND MASKED MEN DON'T MIX
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amIF EVER a woman needed a marriage bro ker, it's Monica Lewin sky - and yet, there she was last night, in the role of marriage broker, helping another woman...
MOM KELLY BANGS OUT A NEW LOOK
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amKELLY Ripa returned to "Live with Regis & Kelly" yesterday after a seven-week maternity leave - sporting a new hairdo and looking svelte in a slinky black dress. Ripa's new...
AIR JORDAN TV SEND-OFF - SPIKE SPEAKS TO MIKE IN 'FAREWELL' AD
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amTHAT "Farewell Michael Jordan" Nike ad which began airing the other day is something of a first. The ad - which stars film director Spike Lee - is intended not...
PRE-'VIEW' OF MONICA JUST ONE-DAY WONDER
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amMONICA Lewinsky received high marks from the folks at "The View" yesterday following her first-ever stint as guest host. But don't look for her to assume a permanent role on...
HELP ME, I'M BROWNING - BRITNEY'S HAIR-RAISING NEW 'DO
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amMADONNA has done it. So have Gwyneth Paltrow and Mandy Moore. What's behind Britney Spears' decision to go brunette - and trade in her flowing goldilocks for a perky chocolate...
GIMME SOME SUGAR - EVELYN KANTER TAKES A SWEET BREAK IN NEARBY ORANGE COUNTY
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amNEW York's Orange County is often overlooked as the place the Thruway passes through on the way to somewhere else. But this beautiful region, an hour north of Columbus Circle...
BRUNO BESIEGED; FISCAL FLIP-FLOP COULD CAUSE COUP
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY A FEW years ago Republicans were distributing bright bumper stickers at the Capitol urging Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to "Remember Ralph" - or risk being ousted from office. The...
MTA INSPECTOR LASHES BACK
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amMTA Inspector General Matthew Sansverie yesterday lashed back at accusations his office is not independent, saying he feels "no constraints" when trying to dig up wrongdoing at the agency. "No...
VICTIM'S TEARS AND RAGE AT VID-SHOP 'SEX ABUSER'
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amAn employee at a Bronx video store broke down in sobs yesterday as she described months of alleged sexual abuse she and her colleagues suffered at the hands of their...
MONEY-SCRUBBERS WASH UP IN JAIL
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amThree members of a money-laundering family who deposited $20 million in drug money into 26 different accounts at a small Manhattan bank have been thrown in the slammer for up...
ACID VICTIM RIPS 'CRAZY' TRIAL DELAY
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amA schizophrenic woman set to go on trial for allegedly dousing her boyfriend's face with acid won a last-minute postponement - to the dismay of her disfigured ex - after...
IRAQ MUSEUM LOOT SHOWS UP HERE
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Ancient art stolen from a Baghdad museum already appears to be rolling up on U.S. shores, the head of the FBI's art-theft unit said yesterday. Lynne Chaffinch said...
PAY-HIKE BILL MAY BAN POLS' MOONLIGHTING
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amEXCLUSIVE The Republican leader of the City Council plans to introduce a bill that would bar local legislators from receiving any outside income - but could give them a pay...
PUSHING PALESTINE
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amTHE language of foreign affairs is often circumspect. When you hear someone saying that two leaders had a "frank exchange of views," you can be sure they were screaming curses...
YANKEE $EATS A GRAND SLAM
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amThe city is getting swamped by phone calls from Yankee fans desperate to get their hands on one of 1,000 vintage seats from Yankee Stadium that are going on the...
MTA 'WATCHDOG' LOOKS MORE LIKE PATAKI'S POODLE
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amIT DIDN'T take long to ex- pose the MTA inspector general for what he really is - a patsy for the governor. Matthew Sansverie, the watchdog whose teeth could use...
BOGUS TIFFANY 'RING' IS CRACKED
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amThe folks at Tiffany & Co. were as blue as their trademark boxes - until the FBI busted a team of shady peddlers who were hawking knockoff sterling-silver jewelry over...
JAYSON IN BID TO OUT-RACE JURORS
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amEx-NBA star Jayson Williams yesterday asked to know the racial makeup of the grand jury that indicted him on manslaughter and other charges - a move suggesting he might seek...
STATE LOST 293,000 JOBS IN 2-YR. SLUMP
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - New York lost 293,000 jobs statewide in 2001 and 2002 in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a bear market and the nationwide economic downturn, a report...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn Cops yesterday said they've arrested a woman in connection with the murder of a man at an East New York apartment last Friday. Tilee Dunchie, 20, and three men...
HEAT'S ON ARAFAT TO END WAR WITH PM
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Global pressure intensified on Yasser Arafat yesterday to back a newly reformed Palestinian government to avert a severe setback to chances for reviving the Mideast peace process. But...
QUANTITY OF LIFE IN N.Y. TOPS NATION
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amNew Yorkers know that living well is the best revenge - but we're not only living better than the rest of the country, we're living longer. According to statistics released...
GATIEN ONE STEP NEARER DEPORTATION
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amDethroned club king Peter Gatien lost his latest bid to stave off deportation yesterday when a judge rejected his argument that while he may be a felon, he's not so...
JAZZ GREAT NINA SIMONE DEAD AT 70
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amJazz and soul singer Nina Simone, known as the "high priestess of soul," died yesterday at her home in France. She was 70. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, N.C.,...
SCHOOL BIGS THREATEN WHIZ KID'S DAD OVER 'NEGLECT'
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amState education officials have urged the Bloomberg administration to investigate whether a defiant dad has committed parental neglect by having his 14-year-old whiz-kid daughter skip high school and go straight...
GIS ARRESTED IN $1M SWAG SNAG - ARMY: 4 DIPPED INTO $700M STASH
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amFOUR sticky-fingered GIs have been arrested for trying to steal nearly $1 million of the $700 million in cold cash found hidden on the grounds of several estates in Baghdad,...
OLD FARE'S IN STILE; CLASSIC TOKEN STILL GOOD FOR A RIDE ON ROOSEVELT IS. TRAM
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amYou don't have to log on to eBay to get a subway token -there's still one place in town that can accurately be called a token booth. One week after...
TROOPS DIG UP WITCHES' BREW OF CHEMICALS
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An Iraqi scientist has led U.S. forces to a secret new trove of ingredients and equipment to make chemical weapons - the most promising discovery to date in...
IN A 'DOOR' JAM; PORTER-UNION STRIKE LOOMS AS TALKS STALL
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amAbout 1 million city apartment dwellers may soon have to haul their own trash, open their own doors and hail their own cabs - the doorman union and building bosses...
KID-SEX CHARGE FOR HORSE MAN
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amA riding instructor who draws his students from tony Westchester horse country has been arrested for sexually abusing a minor, authorities said yesterday. The suspect is Jimmy Doyle, a prominent...
ZETA-JONES HAS A CARYS-MATIC BABY GIRL
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amIt's a bona-fide "love" child for Catherine Zeta-Jones. The Oscar-winning actress gave birth to a girl on Sunday morning and promptly named the bouncing baby Carys - from the Welsh...
FRANKS SET TO CLAIM VICTORY
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amGen. Tommy Franks - the lead U.S. commander in Iraq - might declare the war won as early as today, defense sources say. Such a declaration is a technicality which...
FIREHOUSE RESCUE $QUAD
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amAn ambitious grass-roots effort to save eight city firehouses from being shuttered is under way, with a goal of raising $10 million. Manhattan public-relations guru Adam Brecht said his campaign...
NEW SARS CALAMITY FEARED IN RURAL CHINA
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amThe Chinese government, which over the weekend came clean about the extent of SARS cases in Beijing, yesterday reported even more cases of the dread disease in the capital. The...
CITY I. DROWN KIN FILE CLAIM NOTICE
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amThe family of a teen who apparently drowned with three friends off the coast of City Island took the first step toward filing a wrongful-death lawsuit yesterday. Alexander and Karina...
TEARS & RAGE AT VID-SHOP 'RAPIST'
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amAn employee at a Bronx video store broke down in sobs yesterday as she described months of alleged sexual abuse she and her colleagues suffered at the hands of their...
FIREHOUSE 'RESCUE SQUAD' SETS $10M FUND-RAISE GOAL
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amAn ambitious grass-roots effort to save eight city firehouses from being shuttered is under way - with a goal of raising $10 million. Manhattan public-relations guru Adam Brecht said his...
2 JERSEY MOBSTERS ADMIT BUMPING OFF 'FAT LOU' IN '91
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amTwo DeCavalcante wiseguys 'fessed up to their role in the 1991 murder of family capo Louis "Fat Lou" LaRasso yesterday, only moments before their federal trial was due to begin....
TNT-TOTING ARABS NABBED IN MICH.
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amTwo Arab-Americans were busted in Detroit after cops saw them videotaping the Ambassador Bridge - the busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing - and found dynamite, a collapsible baton and shotgun shells...
FINAL RESPECTS FOR FALLEN HEROES
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amAnguished tears and solemn prayers were offered during a funeral service for Marine Staff Sgt. Riayan Tejeda - a 26-year-old father, son and soldier - killed in Iraq and eulogized...
BIDDER-SWEET AUCTION BOOSTS AUDREY'S CHARITY
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amA group of items belonging to one of Hollywood's fairest ladies fetched a fair amount of money last night, as Sotheby's held a charity auction of items from actress Audrey...
HIGH COURT TO REVIEW MIRANDA RIGHTS
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to take a new look at easing the famous Miranda warning, which begins, "You have the right to remain silent." The high court...
HIGH COURT SAYS IT WON'T REMAIN SILENT
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to take a new look at easing the famous Miranda warning, which begins, "You have the right to remain silent." The high court...
LONG LIVE NYERS! LIFE EXPECTANCY HERE NOW TOPS THE COUNTRY'S
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amNew Yorkers know that living well is the best revenge - but we're not only living better than the rest of the country, we're living longer. According to statistics released...
MAYBE HE'S A POOR, MISUNDERSTOOD GUY (JUST LIKE O.J.)
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amHE MUST have a rea son. While the corpses of his wife and never-born child lay rotting, Scott Peterson must have had a very good reason for growing a little,...
OLD FARE IS STILL IN 'STILE' AT TRAM
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amYou may not be able to use tokens for the subway anymore, but there is still a place in the city where they will be welcome. The token booth at...
SILVER COMES TO BRUNO'S DEFENSE IN GOV 'ATTACK'
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday accused Gov. Pataki of plotting an "all-out attack" on Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno because Bruno backs higher state taxes and more spending. "I think...
BYRON KEEPING HIS WORDS TO HIMSELF
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amI WAS wrong. And it's killing me. Fifty-five days ago, Byron Scott, the coach of the Nets who also happens to be more opinionated than any 50 talk-radio callers put...
COLLINS IS CENTER OF MILWAUKEE ATTENTION
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES Before the playoffs with the Nets began, Bucks coach George Karl admitted he was worried about Dikembe Mutombo. If Game 1 is an indicator, he was looking at...
BRODEUR'S BATTLING A BUG
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amA little bug is a big worry to the Devils when it strikes Martin Brodeur. Already off five days, the Devils now could use more time before starting the second...
FROM RUTGERS TO NFL - N.J. KID'S DRAFT DREAM ABOUT TO COME TRUE
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amSometime Saturday afternoon, with L.J. Smith sitting in his mother's living room in Highland Park, N.J., his life will change. The NFL draft starts at noon that day in the...
ANGRY JOE STICKS TO HIS GUNS - DON'T LOOK FOR TORRE TO RETURN NEXT YEAR
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amJOE Torre loves managing the Yankees. It has transformed him from loser to winner, rich to super rich and regular Joe to Father Joe. He would do plenty to retain...
'SEEK AND DESTROY' - MARTIN'S GROWING GAME POWERS NETS
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amThe Bucks may change their starters tonight in Game 2 against the Nets and send Tim Thomas at Kenyon Martin. No matter, Martin said. Tim Thomas, Marcus Haislip, whoever, it...
WON'T 'PRETEND' BOSS SPAT DIDN'T HAPPEN
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - With whispers floating through the Yankees' universe about George Steinbrenner saying he never left the final decision on Jose Contreras' destination up to Joe Torre, the manager insisted...
KARSAY HITS REHAB SNAG
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Steve Karsay's comeback from right shoulder bursitis suffered a serious setback in Tampa yesterday when the reliever had to stop throwing off a mound after 11...
JINTS MAY BE RAISING 'CANE
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amHe's seen first-hand the way Jeremy Shockey goes about his business. "He's the kind of guy who will run you over and then he'll come back and tell you about...
CONFIDENT RAUL SPARKS SWEEP
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 15 - Twins 1 MINNEAPOLIS - It may have been the seductive cologne Raul Mondesi sprayed on his neck. Or the smoking wood he packed for the trip to...
WALTON ALL HOT AIR
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amTALKING Typo Bill Walton either rants in counterfeit superlatives or raves in the bogus plu-imperfect. Rarely is there any gray matter in between, either. Like Charles Barkley, he's always one...
AMAZIN' ATTACK COMING TO LIFE
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amThrough the first 15 games of the season, only the Double-A Detroit Tigers were a bigger offensive joke than the Mets. But in a brief cross-section of the last four...
MCDYESS TO HAVE SURGERY TODAY
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amAntonio McDyess' left knee goes under the knife for the third time in 18 months today at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The viability of the Knicks' future hangs...
KARL: BUCKS NEED GLOVE WORK TO WIN
April 22, 2003 | 4:00amAs the Bucks tinkered in preparation for tonight's Game 2 against the Nets, Gary Payton stewed. Saturday's series opener at the Meadowlands brought out one of Payton's poorest postseason performances....