July 19, 2001
THEY PLAY IT VERY SAFE
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amONE thing Carter-Wallace knows about is protection. But the condom-maker's decision to have a pair of Delaware police at its annual shareholder meeting Tuesday did catch dissident shareholder Mario Gabelli...
BET LOSES 15% OF JOBS TO MERGER
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amFifteen percent of the Black Entertainment Television work force were fired yesterday as the company merged its news operations with corporate cousin CBS, which is also owned by Viacom. BET...
IDOL ROLLS DICE AS KASPER CEO
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amJohn Idol is taking a big leap of faith. The former Donna Karan chief exec, paid out $13 million when he left the company, is throwing in his lot with...
GREENSPAN'S GRIM NEWS - BUT HE OPENS DOOR TO NEW RATE CUT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amTake off the party hats. There's more work to do before the ailing U.S. economy recovers. Alan Greenspan gave a gloomy report to Congress yesterday - indicating, in the process,...
TALK OF THE TOWN - BUZZ SENDS TINA BROWN BIO TO 2ND PRINT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe poison pen biography of noted British editors Tina Brown and Harry Evans is heading back to press for a second printing - before it has even appeared on most...
A PEEK INSIDE COSTS 15 CENTS - OR $1,500
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amPenny for your thoughts? Steve Brill launched his micropayments revolution yesterday by charging for articles on his trade mag portal, Inside.com. Readers will now have to pay 15 cents to...
AT&T NIXES COMCAST BID, DELAYS SPINOFF
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amAT&T yesterday postponed its planned restructuring so it can consider bids for its cable assets from Comcast - as well as other possible suitors. Ma Bell's board of directors formally...
RIGHT ON SCHEDULE, AMEX, KODAK ANNOUNCE BIG LAYOFFS
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amWorking stiffs: We're not out of the woods yet. More layoffs were announced yesterday, in line with the Fed's warnings that more job cuts would come. Industry giants American Express...
ANTI-COUNTERFEITER BUSTED AS IPO FRAUDSTER
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe head of a firm that sold anti-counterfeiting technology was indicted yesterday for cooking the books at his company to launch a fraudulent $115 million initial public stock offering. Morris...
STARR REPORT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amLowe's high on 'Bond' role - if offered "West Wing" co-star Rob Lowe is paying attention to Post readers, who recently voted him their first choice as the big-screen's next...
MADE IN KOREA, BUILT TO LAST - BEST OF ASIAN FEST
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN most people think of Asian films, they think of Hong Kong action flicks.The stylized shoot-'em-up kung fu films put Hong Kong cinema on the map and catapulted actors like...
HERE'S WHY 'A.I.' IS GOING M.I.A.
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amPOOR word of mouth has "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" melting faster than the movie's polar ice caps.Industry analysts who predicted a $250 million-plus gross have watched Steven Spielberg's futuristic take on...
THE BAD NEWS BEAR BLUES
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amTOY makers were banking on a hit with a Super Toy Teddy linked to Steven Spielberg's movie "A.I."But the film's poor showing at the box office could keep the bear...
BACK ON TOP, WITH THE KEYS TO SUCCESS
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amR&B's new It girl, Alicia Keys, hit a high note this week, returning to the top of album-sales charts with her 3-week-old CD, "Songs in A Minor." That's pretty good...
A SALARY THE SIZE OF MT. RUSHMORE OR WAS VIACOM BOSS JUST KIDDING?
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amDID talk radio's reigning king Rush Limbaugh leave $250 million on the bargaining table? Or was Viacom boss Mel Karmazin just trying to cause trouble when he said this week...
MORE CNN GOOD NUDES
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amFORMER CNN Headline News anchor Lynne Russell, who's trying to forge an acting career, says she's in talks to pose for Playboy. Russell, who set hearts aflutter with her sultry...
JERI'S KINKS ARE OUT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - Actress Jeri Ryan wants to fit in on "Boston Public" - as long as its her clothes she doesn't have to squeeze into. The sexy former star...
RIP-OFF SUIT ADDS SAD CHAPTER TO MILLIONAIRE'S TRAGIC DEATH
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amA lawyer, a bodyguard and bank officials who were supposed to care for a schizophrenic millionaire plotted to seize control of her $50 million estate, court papers charge. Lawyer Richard...
HERO DUCK AIDS IN GRATE ESCAPE
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amA panicked mother duck knew exactly what to do when her bird-brained ducklings got into a life-threatening flap - she waddled to cops for help. Ray Petersen, the coordinator of...
CARMINE GETS $CRAPPY
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amThis is Part Three of a Post investigation into the racketeering case involving John Gotti's son-in-law, Carmine "The Bull" Agnello. ----THEY'RE called "insurance jobs" - cars and trucks forked over...
JAILED RAPPER ON SUICIDE WATCH
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amPotty-mouthed rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard was put on a suicide watch yesterday after a Queens judge sentenced him to two to four years behind bars for drug possession. Supreme Court...
LEVY'S TRAINWRECK
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amEARLY in "The Best and the Brightest," his account of the Vietnam War's origins, David Halberstam relates a conversation between Vice President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson and then-House Speaker Sam Rayburn....
BLAKE BARS IN-LAWS FROM BABY
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amEmbattled "Baretta" star Robert Blake is refusing to let his slain wife's family visit the infant daughter he had with her because they believe he's the killer, The Post has...
MADONNA'S GOOD IN BID
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amMementos of Madonna's material world went on the auction block yesterday - including a postcard that laid bare her blond ambition long before she achieved superstardom. "If I can get...
GARY'S FARM TEAM IS D.C.'S HOT NEW TICKET
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amThanks to Rep. Gary Condit, the media is going ape over agriculture! The presence of the California Democrat has drawn hordes of TV cameras and reporters to the usually quiet...
COPS BUST UP $40M ECSTASY RING
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amA cache of more than a million tablets of ecstasy - the largest seizure in the city's history - was confiscated from a luxury lower Manhattan apartment in a raid...
GOP FUND-RAISER MOSBACHER QUITS SCANDAL-RIDDEN SUNY UNIT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Prominent GOP fund-raiser Georgette Mosbacher has abruptly resigned from a troubled unit of the State University involved in a blossoming patronage scandal, officials said yesterday. Mosbacher quit as...
KIDNEY-DONOR MOM AND DAD SAVE SONS
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amA big-hearted rural Pennsylvania couple has given the gift of life to their two ailing sons - each donating a kidney to save their lives. Last December, Qaisra Ahmed gave...
TORRICELLI'S N.J. HOME ON MARKET FOR $1M
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amSen. Robert Torricelli has put his New Jersey house on the market for nearly a million bucks - but sources insist it's not because he needs the money. The embattled...
HILL BAGS TWO BUSHES IN COMMITTEE BARRAGE
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton came out swinging at a congressional hearing yesterday, defending Bill Clinton against attacks from the Bush White House and blaming both Bush the father...
N.Y. SCHOOLS NO. 1 - IN SEGREGATION
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amNew York state's public schools are the most racially segregated in the country, with the least mingling among white and minority students of any state, a new Harvard University study...
FBI CLAMS UP ON MISSING SLAY GUN
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The FBI zipped its lips yesterday, refusing to offer any details about how a handgun lost by gumshoes was used to murder somebody somewhere in the South. Spokesmen...
IRS TO KICK DEADBEATS IN ARREARS
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Millions of deadbeats who think they've got a fat refund check coming from the IRS are in for a rude awakening - Uncle Sam is keeping the money,...
LIZZIE VICTIMS' INJURIES 'VERY SERIOUS'
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe victims of p.r. maven Lizzie Grubman's Hamptons car crash have more serious injuries than was originally reported, The Post has learned. Among them are several people with fractured or...
ABSOLVED 'SLAY' CONS SEEK $60M
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amTwo Brooklyn men who spent the past 13 years behind bars for a murder they did not commit are suing the state for $60 million. Anthony Faison, 35, and Charles...
CANADIAN GROUP ROMPS IN BID TO BUY CITY'S OTB
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani is expected to announce today that he intends to sell the Off-Track Betting Corp. to a Canadian-based group. Sources said that Magna Entertainment Corp. of Ontario won a...
CARNEGIE 'TIME BOMB' - PALS BARE TERRIFYING TALES OF DELI SUSPECT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amSuspected Carnegie Deli massacre triggerman Sean Salley was a "ticking time bomb" who once even threatened to shoot famed funkmeister George Clinton, friends and acquaintances told The Post. Sources close...
'SOPRANO' KID WON'T TESTIFY
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe boy Soprano ain't singing. A grand jury is continuing to investigate HBO star Robert Iler and his two young buddies in a July 3 mugging on the Upper East...
KIN FACES GUN CHARGES IN SNACK KID'S DEATH
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe great uncle of a 9-year-old Bronx girl who fatally shot herself while looking for peanut butter has been arrested on child-endangerment and weapons-possession charges, police said yesterday. Johnny Ledbetter,...
GRUBMAN GAME AN E-MAIL HIT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe incident in which Lizzie Grubman mowed down 16 people with her Mercedes-Benz SUV has been spoofed in a sick Internet video game that's making the e-mail rounds. "Lizzie's Hamptons...
NEW YORK POST: FROM JULY 19, 1877
July 19, 2001 | 4:00am"The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway was formally opened today." One section of the road ran from Bay Ridge to Coney Island, where it "connects with the Manhattan Beach...
DEM PICK NIXES BID TO REPLACE CONDIT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amDEMOCRATS have the dream candidate to run if Rep. Gary Condit decides to call it quits over the Chandra Levy mystery. The only problem is that person won't run -...
AT FREEDOM'S DOOR - SLAY CONVICT OVERJOYED PRIEST BROKE SILENCE
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amRuben Montalvo is still behind bars, but yesterday he told The Post he can almost taste freedom. "The moment I've been waiting for all these years is finally here. It's...
DOG DAY AFTERNOON - ACTOR WRESTLES DOWN MIDTOWN MAULER MUTT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amA mean mutt had pedestrians running for cover yesterday as it bounded through the streets, attacking three dogs and leaving New York's Finest in hot pursuit. The menace was stopped...
WEBCAM SUICIDE ATTEMPT ALERTED CYBER-SAMARITANS
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amAnguished that her cheating boyfriend broke up with her by e-mail, a distraught Brooklyn artist broadcast her suicide attempt over the Internet. Stacy Pershall's Web site is loaded with personal...
B'KLYN COMMUTERS ARE FERRY ANGRY
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amIrritated commuters are making waves over plans to cancel ferry service from Brooklyn to Wall Street. City Councilman Martin Golden said his office was deluged with 120 complaints after SeaStreak...
SHOT DOC DRIVES TO OWN HOSP FOR HELP
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amA doctor was shot yesterday in Brooklyn and drove all the way to Manhattan so she could be treated at the Bellevue Hospital emergency room where she works, police said....
AFTER 11 WEEKS, DAN RATHER DISCOVERS IT'S NEWS
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe Chandra Levy story qualified for Dan Rather's "CBS Evening News" for the first time last night - 11 weeks after she disappeared. But Rather seemed as if he couldn't...
DEFENSE LAWYER SMEARS MORGY
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amIn a courtroom shocker yesterday, a defense lawyer accused Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau of helping his defense-lawyer son-in-law by swinging a case. The accusation, which set off a round...
COP KILLS BAT-WIELDING MAIL WORKER
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amA veteran NYPD plainclothes sergeant shot and killed a post-office sorter who was hitting him with a baseball bat early yesterday on a Queens street, authorities said. The fatal confrontation...
W. HUNKERS DOWN ON MISSILE-DEFENSE PLAN
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush began his second trip to Europe yesterday by vowing to stand his ground on hot issues like missile defense and global warming, even if it makes...
STARS $HINING BRIGHT TO KEEP MARK 'GREEN'
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amMayoral candidate Mark Green leads the Democratic primary pack in star power, raking in campaign cash from celebs like Woody Allen, Harvey Keitel and Lizzie Grubman's power-lawyer papa, Allen. The...
BX. SEX-SLAY FIEND FACING 25 DECADES
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amA Bronx man faces up to 250 years behind bars after a jury found him guilty in the savage stabbing death of a grandmother and the rape of her 16-year-old...
LEVY KIN: INVESTIGATE CONDIT BRO
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Missing intern Chandra Levy's family wants cops to find out if Rep. Gary Condit's bad-boy younger brother Darrell played any role in her disappearance, family sources said yesterday....
COPS: DAD, SON PILFERED POWER
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amA Long Island father and son team were charged with stealing more than $450,000 in gas and electricity over a six-year period and now face seven years in jail, prosecutors...
ROCKET RIPS DUQUECITO AS YANKEES GET SPLIT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amGame One Yankees 8 Tigers 5 Game Two Tigers 12 Yankees 4 DETROIT - When is a split not divided equally in half? When your Hall of Fame pitcher wrestles...
LILLY FAILS TO FOLLOW ROG'S LEAD
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES DETROIT - When Ted Lilly found out Roger Clemens was making a pinch start for the Yankees in yesterday's first game of a day-night twinbill at Comerica Park,...
PAYTON THRILLED BY OPPORTUNITY TO KEEP CF JOB
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES When Jay Payton saw the lineup posted in the Mets' clubhouse, he pumped his right fist. Payton, who hadn't started the previous two games, is aware his playing...
UMP SNAFU LEADS TO TONY'S EXIT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amIt's rare enough to see umpires change a call. It's rarer still to see them change one twice. And perhaps rarest of all is to see a crew change a...
V THROWS THE BOOK AT 'EM
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amWITH the possible exception of being a manager lured against one's will into a panel discussion with Bobby Valentine, the next greatest possible nightmare to be experienced in sports would...
SHINJO GIVES METS A WACKY WIN IN 11
July 19, 2001 | 4:00am11 Innings Mets 4 Marlins 3 Tony Perez could only call his team's 4-3 loss to the Mets "unbelievable." He used the phrase because of one of the oddest sequences...
PLAYER SAYING FAREWELL TO OPEN
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amNOTES LYTHAM ST. ANNES - These are emotional days for Gary Player, who's most likely playing in his final British Open after competing in 46 in a row. Despite having...
N.Y. LOWERS TAKEOUT AT SPA MEETING
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amHorseplayers get a welcome break next Wednesday, opening day at Saratoga, when the takeout is reduced on almost all bets. The take drops from 15 to 14 percent on straight...
NORMAN PULLS OUT AFTER FRIEND'S DEATH
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amLYTHAM ST. ANNES - Greg Norman suddenly withdrew from the British Open yesterday, citing the death of a close friend as the reason. Norman, who was scheduled for a morning...
DANE MAY BE BJORN TO WIN JUG
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amLYTHAM ST. ANNES - Expect the unexpected at Royal Lytham & St. Annes this week. Expect a rather unlikely champion to hoist the fabled Auld Claret Jug triumphantly above his...
MONTY KEEPS FULL SENSE OF HUMOR
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amLYTHAM ST. ANNES - There was a time, not long ago, that when the British Open came around, Colin Montgomerie was considered a legitimate favorite. Now, there are so few...
BIG SPOT FOR ANNIKA, LPGA
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amFIRST up, the Sybase Big Apple Classic; then the Battle at Bighorn III. Annika Sorenstam would love to win both and in the process offer a much-needed boost for the...
BYU GUARD ON MISSION ; LEARNING HOOPS AT W. 4TH
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amDaniel Bobik's story, "The Mormon Takes Manhattan," sounds like a comedy but it is not. It is a fascinating journey of one young man's courage and desire to learn about...
'STROS EYEING RUSCH
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amAstro officials have been meeting recently trying to determine if Glendon Rusch is more the pitcher who struggled through his first 13 starts or more the dynamo of his last...
EWING: 1ST TITLE WOULD BE MAGIC
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amIt wouldn't be a Patrick Ewing press conference if "The Big Fella" wasn't talking about winning a championship. Introduced as a member of the Magic yesterday, Ewing claimed his new...
THE 'SIX HEADS' OF ANDREW LEWIS
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe welterweight world champion posed in a meat-locker at Gallagher's yesterday, promoting his title defense later this month. He's an undefeated fighter who hasn't lost a single round as a...
GARDEN MAY HOST AIR'S RETURN
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - If Michael Jordan does come back to play, he'd be coming back and starting against the Knicks at the Garden. Wizard coach Doug Collins, in discussing rookie Kwame...
YANKS SNIFFING OUT DEAL FOR CRIME DOG
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amDETROIT - Not sure that David Justice's return from the DL will add all the muscle needed to improve their lineup or how long Justice can hold up, the Yankees...
GLEN SAYS NO WAY ON ERIC 3-WAY
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amIf the Rangers were supposed to be part of a three-way trade with the Flyers and Oilers that would have brought Eric Lindros to Broadway via Edmonton, it sure is...
WRIGHT STUFF COMES AROUND
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - If first impressions were lasting and irreversible, Knick forward hopeful Michael Wright would be pursuing employment elsewhere right now. Wright's first game in the Shaw's Pro Summer League...
KURT NOT DOUBTIN' HE'LL KEEP HIS JOB
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amKurt Thomas admits to being a little concerned about the logjam at the power forward position following the free-agent addition of Clarence Weatherspoon. As surely as Thomas ended the season...
GILL IS SHOWING SCOTT A WHOLE LOT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Nets were in the process of blowing an 18-point second half lead. There was hope with less than two minutes to go, but then came a pair...
HOUSTON SIGNING CLOSE
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amAllan Houston was close to signing his six-year, $100.4 million contract last night. Houston's signing did not become official yesterday because of an 11th-hour dispute between the NBA and the...
PITCHERS GIVE METS REASON TO BELIEVE
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe Mets' 5-1 start to the second half was ignited by superior pitching, and there's a feeling inside the clubhouse that this pitching resurgence is contagious. "I think [it is],...
'GIVE ME THE BALL': CLEMENS SLAMS SICK DUQUECITY AS YANKS GET SPLIT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amGAME ONE Yankees 8 Tigers 5 GAME TWO Tigers 12 Yankees 4 DETROIT - Minutes after Roger Clemens' emergency start ended in a victory over the Tigers in the opener...
APPIER'S DONE HIS PART
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amOF course, the Mets miss Mike Hampton. He has six home runs, two more than Benny Agbayani, and 11 RBIs, only two fewer than Jay Payton. Heading into last night's...
FLOYD'S OVER V SPAT
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amCliff Floyd says that he has positive memories of last week's All-Star Game, despite what happened between him and Bobby Valentine. Nevertheless, he's ready to move on. "I'm just glad...
'GIVE ME THE BALL' : CLEMENS STEPS IN, TOPS TIGERS AS SUB FOR ILL EL DUQUECITO
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amGAME ONE Yankees 8 Tigers 5 DETROIT - Minutes after Roger Clemens' emergency start ended in a victory over the Tigers, he fired a wake-up call to Adrian Hernandez, the...
FLOYD'S OVER SPAT WITH VALENTINE
July 19, 2001 | 4:00amCliff Floyd says that he has positive memories of last week's All-Star Game, despite what happened between him and Bobby Valentine. Nevertheless, he's ready to move on. "I'm just glad...