April 21, 2001
PRADA IPO WILL FUND WAR CHEST
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amPrada's Patrizio Bertelli is arming himself for all-out war with arch-rivals Bernard Arnault of LVMH and Domenico De Sole of Gucci. Prada, a relatively minor player on the luxury conglomerate...
NEW DOT-COM CASUALTY: MRSHOWBIZ
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amThere are hardly any Web portals owned by media conglomerates anymore. Disney said yesterday it would shutter MrShowbiz.com and music news sight WallofSound.com as part of its effort to consolidate...
WITH BIZARRE TIMING, HARPER'S LAUNCHES SITE
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amBetter late than never. Harper's Bazaar is finally entering the Internet fray with its harpersbazaar.com Web site, scheduled to launch Tuesday. Rival Style.com, the site of Vogue and W, has...
WILD WEEK ENDS RATE RALLY OVER AS DOW, NASDAQ SKID
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amA jubilant week of triple-digit gains for Wall Street ended on a sour note yesterday as mixed earnings news shut down the Fed-inspired stock rally and dealt the Nasdaq its...
BACH TO THE BAR FOR A SUITE SIX-PACK
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amBACH has been played in salons . . . But in saloons?Stay tuned tomorrow, when Matt Haimovitz plays all six unaccompanied Bach suites at Joe's Pub. The lounge is a...
WATCHDOG WARNS NICK: GIVE CHYNA THE FLICK
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amA TV advocacy group is blasting kiddie network Nickelodeon for including buffed-up WWF wrestler and Playboy pinup Chyna on tonight's "Kids' Choice Awards." "Shame on you, Nickelodeon," Parents Television Council...
LEADING LADIES IN NEW LIGHT : H'WOOD MOMS FOCUS OF BOOK
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amWE'VE seen them on the big screen, in the social pages, strolling the red carpet on Oscar night - but rarely like this.A new coffee-table book, "Hollywood Moms," features some...
HELLO, MOON
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amThe only thing better than reading a terrific book is seeing it as a movie. You can enjoy several classics this weekend, when the BAMkids Film Festival screens "Goodnight Moon,"...
HERE'S TO YOU, MS. ROBINSON
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amThere was a time when Sharon Robinson kept quiet about her family. She wanted to be known as Sharon - not merely as the daughter of Jackie Robinson, the man...
FOR LOVE OF THE GAME: HOW COACHES AND PARENTS CAN KEEP THEIR COOL
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amMaybe you've seen him - red-faced, veins popping, as he shouts orders to the kids. Or perhaps you've heard her screaming herself hoarse on the field. Coaching kids' sports shouldn't...
COLUMBINE KIN IRKED BY LOW-KEY MEMORIAL
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amLITTLETON, Colo. - Some relatives of the Columbine HS victims expressed annoyance at yesterday's brief, low-key memorial marking the second anniversary of the massacre. "There were no prayers. Nobody from...
LATEST FIGURES MAY SEND RENTS SOARING
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amA KEY indicator used to establish rent hikes for a million rent-stabilized apartments has come in even higher this year than last - when the largest rent increases since 1996...
YASSER EYES JOINT CALL FOR END TO VIOLENCE
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat says he is ready to join Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in calls for an end to months of Palestinian-Israeli violence, but Sharon says he...
GREEN LAPS DEM FIELD IN EARNINGS
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amPublic Advocate Mark Green and his wife earned nearly twice as much as any of his Democratic mayoral rivals, tax returns show. Green and his wife, Denisse Frand, reported an...
SIX PERISH IN PAIR OF GRISLY B'KLYN CRASHES
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amA veteran Brooklyn cop's parents, brother, sister and aunt were all killed when their minivan rammed the rear of a city bus - one of two horrific fatal accidents to...
E-THREATS SHUT L.I. SCHOOLS
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amA Long Island school district canceled classes yesterday after several high-schoolers got threatening e-mails referring to the second anniversary of the Columbine massacre. "We are taking it seriously," said Southold...
CON ED: NEW PLANTS WOULD SPARE US $PIKES
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amCon Edison's boss boldly predicted yesterday customers won't face big rate increases this summer, but only if new power plants are built soon. Con Ed Chairman Eugene McGrath also warned...
BIDDER END FOR JACKO & CHIMP
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amIs any contemporary household complete without a multimillion-dollar sculpture of Michael Jackson and his main mammal, Bubbles the Chimp? Officials at Sotheby's expect to find out May 15, when a...
JUDGE RULES SKAKEL MUST STAND TRIAL IN MOXLEY SLAY
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amSTAMFORD, Conn. - A judge yesterday brushed aside credibility questions about a heroin-using witness and ruled there is enough evidence for the murder case against Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel to...
FEDS SLAP CHUCK FOR '98 CAMPAIGN VIOLATION$
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Federal election investigators yesterday ordered Sen. Charles Schumer to refund $850,000 in contributions, accusing his 1998 campaign of some of the biggest fund-raising violations in a decade. The...
SPITZER: NIX : TIX-SELLING RULES HE'D ALLOW A FREE MARKET IN DUCATS
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday sold out the state's anti-ticket scalping law and said it should be scrapped - leaving ducat-deprived fans in the hands of the...
NEEDLE DOC GETS 2 YEARS
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amThe Bronx doctor who forcibly injected his pregnant nurse girlfriend with a drug in an unsuccessful attempt to cause an abortion was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison. Stephen...
MADONNA BRA BAGGED BY BIG-BUCK E-BIDDER
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amMadonna's unmentionables went for big bucks in an online auction yesterday - but Sir Elton John's jumpsuit stayed on the shelf. A provocative black leather bra-and-panties outfit the Material Mom...
THE NEW YORK POST FROM APRIL 21, 1828
April 21, 2001 | 4:00am"Splendid lottery to be drawn on Wednesday," read the headline above an advertisement. "The Grand New York State Lottery will positively be drawn Wednesday afternoon in front of the City...
KERIK YANKS EIGHT COPS FROM POLICE MUSEUM
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Bernard Kerik is pulling the ranking cops out of the city's Police Museum for forgetting they work for the NYPD, not the museum. Kerik yanked Sgt. Thomas Gambino,...
SAME THUGS MUGGED SEATTLE
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amThe black-garbed protesters who stormed a security zone around the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City yesterday include anarchists and Marxists like those who staged the Seattle protests. The...
'PRODUCERS' RAKES IN $2.5M
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amIt's the hit Max Bialystock always wanted. "The Producers" - the new musical comedy by Mel Brooks - sold more than $2.5 million worth of tickets by 5 p.m. yesterday,...
FANS ROOT, ROOT FOR REPEAL
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amScalpers, sports fans and theatergoers said yesterday they'd cheer for an end to anti-scalping laws. "It goes on all the time, so why hide it?" said Rich Weksberg, 45, a...
PROTESTS TURN QUEBEC TRADE SUMMIT SOUR
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amViolent protesters yesterday turned the start of Quebec City's Summit of the Americas, President Bush's first international outing, into a day of rage. They smashed through barricades and battled police...
COPS: QNS. 'QUACKS' NAILED IN OP BOTCH
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amA botched liposuction that sent a woman to the emergency room in terrible pain led to the arrest of two phony doctors on charges of running an unlicensed Queens plastic-surgery...
'LINK' HOSTESS PUSHING BOOK
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amAfter barely a week on NBC, game-show Queen of Mean Anne Robinson, the icy Brit hostess of "The Weakest Link" is already shopping her life's story to U.S. publishers. According...
KNICK COURTS JEWISH HOLY WAR
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amBible-thumping Knicks guard Charlie Ward - as steeped in religion as he is in pro ball - claims in a magazine interview that Christians are "persecuted by Jews every day."...
CHESS KING VS. COMPUTER
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amThe new world chess champion, Vladimir Kramnik, will play a computer this fall in the biggest man-against-machine battle since Garry Kasparov lost to IBM's Deep Blue in 1997. The eight-game...
SUBWAY 'SUICIDE' A HAPPY KID: KIN
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amA Queens honor student who died under a subway train's wheels was looking forward to summer camp and delighted in the brand-new bike he boasted he had pedaled all the...
BEER IS GREAT EQUALIZER IN BATTLE OF SEXES
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amWomen who drink beer have a better chance of matching men drink for drink, a new study shows. A team led by Dr. Charles Lieber, a pathologist at Mount Sinai...
DOC GETS 2 YRS. FOR NEEDLE ATTACK ON PREGNANT GAL PAL
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amThe Bronx doctor who forcibly injected his pregnant nurse girlfriend with a drug in an unsuccessful attempt to cause an abortion was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison. Stephen...
'SUICIDE' KIN WANT NEW PROBE
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amA Queens honor student who died under a subway's wheels was looking forward to summer camp and delighted in the brand- new bike he boasted he had pedaled all the...
ROBINSON ISN'T PANICKING
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amNOT all of the 37 shots the Devils fired at Arturs Irbe were screamers. Nevertheless, his pillow pads suffocated more rubber than Larry Robinson could melt with his locker-room breath,...
COUNTRY HIDEAWAY EYES BED O' ROSES
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amQuietly, the Shug McGaughey stable is having a very good year, clicking at a 27-percent clip including six winners from 25 starters at the Aqueduct spring stand. Today McGaughey, who...
JINTS AIMING AT ORANGE'S ALLEN
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amAs deep as this particular draft is in cornerback depth, the Giants realize that sitting where they are in the first round, way down at No. 30, even considerable depth...
MOSS LIKELY PICK IF JETS CAN'T MOVE UP
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amAfter an exhaustive succession of long days, meetings and pre-draft preparation, the Jets closed up shop early yesterday satisfied that they're ready to attack today's NFL Draft and walk away...
RAPTORS: WE WON'T GET SWEPT
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Toronto's venture into the playoffs against the Knicks last year was swift. It was ruthless. It was an inglorious sweep. So, perhaps still stinging from the embarrassment of...
VICK HAS FALCONS JUMPING FOR JOY
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amDisbelief, shock and joy swept through the Falcons' organization and the capital of the South when yesterday's blockbuster deal with the Chargers was announced. The Falcons sent their first round...
VG: CAMBY'S SOLID AS OAK
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy said yesterday that neither Charles Oakley's words nor his sculpted body can stop his starting center Marcus Camby from dominating in the middle when the Knicks and...
JEFF: GOTHAM GUNS GOTTA STEP UP
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy called on the three Gotham Guns to get it together for the playoffs. Allan Houston, Latrell Sprewell and Glen Rice each were underwhelming following the All-Star Break....
JACKSON'S PREPARED TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amWhile the "barking dog" has put a muzzle on this week, Jeff Van Gundy took a swipe yesterday at ex-Knick Chris Childs, who will be booed out of the Garden...
CHURCHILL TO HOST ANOTHER BIG DAY
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amChurchill Downs' Grade 2, $750,000 Stephen Foster Handicap will serve as the centerpiece of a rich day of competition on Saturday, June 16, that has been dubbed "Stephen Foster Super...
WARY CHARGERS SEND VICK PICK TO ATLANTA
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amToday's NFL Draft figured to be a chaotic affair, but the San Diego Chargers and Atlanta Falcons couldn't wait for the fun to start. Yesterday afternoon the teams pulled off...
EL DUQUE: NO DIAGNOSIS YET
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amOrlando Hernandez, who was knocked out of Wednesday's game with a sore right elbow, was examined yesterday by Yankee team physician Dr. Stuart Hershon and Dr. Peter McCann at Beth...
DUQUETTE'S IN LINE FOR DODGERS JOB
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - Mets assistant GM Jim Duquette is going to be on the Dodgers' short list to replace Kevin Malone, sources said yesterday. Indians GM John Hart is expected to...
INSPIRED BY HIS DAD, BERNIE RETURNS TO ACTION
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE are many reasons why the Yankees have won four World Series Championships in the last five years, including their current streak of three straight. Talent, team work and George...
IRIBE SPRINGS INTO ACTION FOR 'CANES
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amThe overworked goaltender, who seemed spent in Game 1, has developed a sudden case of rejuvenation. In fact, the condition is serious enough to have forced Game 6 Sunday against...
AMAZING BUT TRUE: METS IN BASEMENT
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amReds9 Mets5 CINCINNATI - After last night's 9-5 loss to the Reds, Al Leiter didn't use his sore throat from earlier in the week as an excuse. He did, though,...
DEVS FAIL 'CANE TEST
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 5 Hurricanes3 Devils2 If some Devils played scared, the rest of the team will make it unanimous tomorrow. One more like these last two and the champs will be...
THE YAWNING AFTER TINO AND ANDY POWER WEARY BOMBERS TO WIN
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amYankees6 Red Sox1 The Yankees' 6-1 win over the Red Sox at the Stadium last night was exactly the catharsis the Bombers needed, on so many levels. First, their struggling...
CHAMPS FACE SURPRISE TEST
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amEVERYTHING we assumed to know about the Devils will be tested in the next 24 hours, if not the next 72. Everything the Devils thought they knew about themselves, too....
STEVENS SEES RED OVER HIS HARD HITS
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amScott Stevens threw a vicious verbal shoulder into reporters yesterday, saying that he's incensed over the endless talk about his concussion-causing hits. "I've been playing for 19 years and I...
OAK ON MJ: SEEING IS BELIEVING
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The reunion with his former coach Doug Collins has jump-started the speculation that Michael Jordan will play again. Charles Oakley says he'll only believe it when he sees...
SCOTT'S FEELING THE STRAIN
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amThe scary knee re-injury that Scott Niedermayer ignored last night is more than just the bruise the Devils claim. Niedermayer told The Post yesterday that his knee was strained when...
MARTY'S HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE THE REST
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amHE surrendered one goal in the first three games of the series, yet Martin Brodeur was hardly claiming credit for the 3-0 lead the Devils had achieved in their first-round...
LOW-KEY LARRY GETS MESSAGE ACROSS
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amAS controlled fits of feigned temporary insanity go, this one was barely a whisper. Coaching tirades generally come in two styles, foamy or regular. Compared to the full scale, smoke-rising-from-the-ears-faster-than-a-Senators-season-can-blow-up...
PAYTON PINS HOPES ON BACK LEG
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - In batting practice before last night's game, Jay Payton shifted his weight slightly on his back leg, spraying line drives into the Cinergy Field outfield as if he...
WHITE RETURN SHOULD COME BY TOMORROW
April 21, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - Reliever Rick White, on the disabled list with a sore right elbow since Opening Day, said he will have a full read on his right arm...