January 19, 2002
ANDERSEN ATTY. ON THE HOT SEAT
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amNancy Temple, a top-flight legal eagle with beleagured Arthur Andersen, may be in lawmakers' crosshairs next, staffers said. Temple, 37, a top-drawer legal brain who graduated cum laude from Harvard...
CANNON ADDED TO FOX NEWS ARSENAL
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amFORMER "Dateline" correspondent Len Cannon has bolted NBC and is joining Ch. 5. Cannon will co-anchor Ch. 5's 10 p.m. weekend newscast with Linda Schmidt and will also be a...
SORRY 'STATE' OF AFFAIRS
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amSTATE PROPERTYHalf a star Let them keep it.Running time: 98 minutes. Rated R (graphic violence, nudity, profanity). At the Empire, the Nova, the Coliseum, others. 'STATE Property" is a low-end...
FRETFULLY GOOD: THIS GUITAR MARATHON STRIKES ALL THE RIGHT CHORDS
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amANDY Summers is just one of 16 guitarists slated to strum at the New York Guitar Festival's All-Star Guitar Marathon tomorrow.But don't expect the Police man to break out "Roxanne"...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amOh. Sorry. Blacked out there. These pretzels should have a warning label. SNACK ATTACK President Bush blacked out this week after a pretzel became lodged in his throat. The leader...
GERBER'S LATEST IS WHISKEY BUSINESS
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amHaven't checked out Rande Gerber's bar at the new W Times Square Hotel yet? Well, get a wriggle on, drinkers. Andrew Wintner - the deejay regular readers may remember we...
DO THE MASHED POTATO - WITH A TWIST
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amA creamy cloud of mashed potatoes never fails to satisfy. The ultimate comfort food is simple to whip up, and a few tricks will guarantee the silky forkfuls you desire....
WEB-POSTED PARTY PIX A NEW 'CANDID CAMERA'
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amYou don't have to be "someone" to get your picture in the society pages these days. You just have to be someone who goes to parties. There's a host of...
CHEAP THRILLS, OLD AND NEW
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amEven in New York City, where museums, music, art galleries and gourmet food-shopping can keep us busy for weeks at a time, parents constantly hear the refrain: "I have nothing...
OPERA FOR ALL
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amMagic flutes, conniving barbers, singing devils. Through the years, composers have sought all kinds of things to base their operas on - things you don't have to be an adult...
CELEBRITY AND EGO COULDN'T FIX SLICK BUT MEDIOCRE RAG
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amLavish parties dripping with models and Italian photographers, buzz you couldn't ignore no matter how hard you tried, new-agey blather about a "conversation" with its readers, and Gwyneth, Gwyneth, Gwyneth....
ISRAELIS BLOW UP YASSER'S RADIO HQ
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli troops blew up the Voice of Palestine radio station early today in apparent retribution for a Palestinian shooting attack that killed six at a Jewish bat mitzvah...
OSAMA KIDNEY HUNCH ; AILING ORGAN LIKELY KILLED HIM: MUSHARRAF
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf believes Osama bin Laden is dead of kidney disease because he was unable to get vital medical treatment while hiding in caves. Musharraf acknowledged...
WTC CONTRACTOR DUG DEEP IN FUTILE BID TO AID GREEN
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amTOP executives of a major World Trade Center excavation contractor poured at least $30,000 into the mayoral race just days before the election. Six officials of Tully Construction Corp. each...
UNION GETS HEALTHY PAYBACK ON 76G GIFT
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Just 17 days before the state Legislature passed a controversial health-plan package, the powerful hospital-workers union donated $76,500 to the state Democratic Party, The Post has found. The...
TEARFUL TRIBUTE TO 'TOUGH GUY' HERO
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amSaying they'll love him "until the end of time," grieving family, friends and a sea of New York's Bravest packed an upstate church yesterday to say a wrenching farewell to...
POLICE BUST 1979 'KILLER' AT BROTHER'S FUNERAL WAKE
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amCops revealed yesterday they discovered Amerigo Vespucci - a fugitive wanted on charges of murdering a friend 22 years ago - by staking out his brother's wake on Long Island....
THIS IS HOW SLA TERRORIST SARA OLSON REACTED WHEN SHE GOT 20 YRS.
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - SLA terrorist Sara Jane Olson bid a tearful goodbye to her family yesterday as a judge sentenced her to more than 20 years behind bars for conspiring...
U.S. GRABS 6 AL QAEDA SUSPECTS IN BOSNIA
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. forces launched a bold snatch operation outside a prison in Bosnia yesterday to prevent six members of Osama bin Laden's terror network from being freed. In a...
DURST'S BIZARRE LINK TO TEXAS SLAY VICTIM
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amJust weeks before his death, the Texas man allegedly butchered by Big Apple real-estate heir Robert Durst said he knew someone who had "a lot of money." Morris Black, 71,...
WE'LL FINALLY BE IN SNOWMAN'S LAND TODAY
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amLet it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Forecasters predict New York will be a winter wonderland today as a fast-moving storm is expected to dump 4 to 6...
ANOTHER DIVORCE PUNCH AT IRON MIKE
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amMike Tyson's doctor wife says the ear-chomping champ can't keep his hands off other women - and now she wants a divorce. Monica Tyson is hoping to take a bite...
CITY SCHOOLS EYE GADGETS TO MONITOR KIDS IN HALL
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amThe NYPD and school officials are looking to install video cameras and other high-tech surveillance in Martin Luther King HS and other dangerous schools in the wake of this week's...
CAB DRIVER TAKES HACK OF A LEGAL BEATING
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amA cabby whose alleged "brutal beating" by city inspectors led to an anti-brutality protest featuring the Rev. Al Sharpton was charged yesterday with being a con artist who fabricated every...
JUDGE KOS BID FOR TV TERROR TRIAL
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amA federal judge yesterday rejected Court TV's request to televise the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, labeled the "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks. Alexandria, Va., Judge Leonie Brinkema said...
APPEALS COURT: HEART-ATTACK SUITS VS. VIAGRA DON'T STAND UP
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amAn appeals court has dismissed three lawsuits by Viagra users who claimed the love drug gave them heart attacks. In a unanimous decision made public yesterday, a four-judge panel of...
THIS LAUGHABLE 'LOCKDOWN' IS ALL FOR SHOW
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amTEDDY Roosevelt HS in The Bronx was in a "lockdown" mode yesterday. Students were forced to empty their lockers as school safety officers searched for weapons. Security at three city...
BUSH ON A 'WING' AND A FLAIR FOR NBC VISIT
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Did President Bush pad his schedule so that a documentary team trailing him would find his White House just as interesting as President Josiah Bartlet's on "The West...
OLD FOLKS AT HOME CHEER THIS DRUG BUST
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amThe senior-citizen residents of a Long Island assisted-living complex cheered when cops battered down the door to unit 904A and hauled off 58-year-old Andrew "Butch" Soldo and his two buddies....
MIKE BREAKS THE ICE ; ENDS 8-YEAR MAYORAL FREEZE-OUT OF REV. AL
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amFor the first time in eight years, the mayor will attend the Rev. Al Sharpton's Martin Luther King Day breakfast on Monday. "We were invited," Mayor Bloomberg told reporters, speaking...
DA THROWS BOOK AT 'GOOD THIEF'
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amA Manhattan grand jury has indicted accused Robin Hood embezzler John Loan on charges of stealing $3 million from a Midtown money management firm - meaning he faces up to...
FIRST BUST IN ATTACK ON WTC HUSTLERS
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amThe NYPD's new "Operation Hallowed Ground" - designed to recover stolen World Trade Center debris and prevent its sale on the Internet - has snared its first suspect, The Post...
SOME TIPS TO GET OVER TERMINAL INSECURITY
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amA federal regulation mandating all airlines check passenger cargo-hold luggage went into effect yesterday, meaning longer lines and waits for sky commuters. Carriers will now search, sniff or scan every...
ED. BOARD EMBRACES SOUNDS OF SILENCE
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amNew York schools are permitted to hold a "moment of silence" at the start of the school day under state law - as long as there's no promotion of religion,...
TRAITOR'S RETURN TO START LEGAL FIREWORKS
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - American Taliban John Walker will be flown to the United States tomorrow - and transformed from a holy warrior in Osama bin Laden's jihad to an ordinary criminal....
DOG VICTIMS MAY SUE CITY
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amLawyers for the Rockaway dog-pack attack victims plan multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the city. A lawyer for Marlene Fils-Aime, 51, whose leg was chewed to the bone during the Dec. 26...
'HS-SHOOT' KID GETS JUST DESSERT
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amVincent Rodriguez turned 18 yesterday, and cops gave him a cake - after charging him with shooting two classmates Tuesday at Martin Luther King HS. Rodriguez was nabbed at 3:15...
THE FUTURE IS STILL BRIGHT FOR BAD, BAD TINA BROWN
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amDeep down, Tina Brown now wants to go wild. If her prophecy about herself is true, her next role will be as a knockdown writer out to trash just about...
CITY FIGHTS FOR $$ INVESTED IN ENRON
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amWith the Enron collapse wiping out at least $1 billion nationwide from public employee retirement funds, New York City is leading the charge to win back some of the money...
TALK SHUTS UP: TINA'S MAG DROWNS IN A SEA OF RED INK
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amThe buzz was abruptly silenced for legendary magazine editrix Tina Brown yesterday, when Miramax Films and Hearst Corp. unceremoniously pulled the plug on her money-hemorrhaging Talk magazine after just two...
COURT: VIAGRA SUITS DON'T STAND UP
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amAn appeals court has dismissed three lawsuits by Viagra users who claimed the love drug gave them heart attacks. In a unanimous decision made public yesterday, a four-judge panel of...
GOV, HILL DONATING ENRON $$
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki and Sen. Hillary Clinton announced separately yesterday they would donate Enron-related campaign contributions to a special charitable fund. Pataki spokesman Michael McKeon, after initially saying the...
ISRAELIS TIGHTEN SIEGE ON YASSER
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinians braced for another round of retaliation today after Israeli jets destroyed a West Bank security compound and tanks tightened an iron ring around Yasser Arafat's headquarters. Officials...
SHE TURNED ON THE CHARM BUT JUST COULDN'T TURN IT AROUND
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amThe end came suddenly for Tina Brown, who dazzled the media world in two countries for more than three decades before hitting the wall with Talk. She could work any...
TUNA TURNS DOWN BUCS: PARCELLS TELLS TAMPA HE'S THROUGH COACHING
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amIn a stunning development that unfolded late yesterday, Bill Parcells did an about-face, turned down the Buccaneers' head-coaching job and declared he is finished coaching forever. "I can't make the...
JET GM: VIN WILL BE BACK
January 19, 2002 | 5:00am"Vinny's back." Those were the definitive words of Jet GM Terry Bradway yesterday with regard to Vinny Testaverde's future with the Jets. Earlier in the week, a cloud hung over...
CUMMINS' IRE STOKES ISLES' FIRE
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amJim Cummins, making his Islander debut Thursday after being traded Monday for Bridgeport farmhand Dave Roche, made a special impression on the Sharks' Shawn Heins. Heins had to leave the...
SPOON SET FOR RETURN IN PHILLY
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PHILADELPHIA - "Mr. Durability" is ready to play in the city that once nicknamed him "Baby Barkley." For the first time this season, the Knicks will have their...
HOUSTON BEGS GM TO MAKE DEAL NOW
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Knicks captain Allan Houston sent out an SOS to GM Scott Layden yesterday, saying "we need some help" and endorsed bringing in new blood to transform the club...
URLACHER CAN BEARLY CONTAIN ENTHUSIASM
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amCHICAGO - Michael is back and so are the Bears. It's no contest here in the Second City as to which event is more important. You got it: Da Bears....
AQUEDUCT HANDICAP ON TAP
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amThe first time Rich Migliore rode Balto Star, as the 4-5 favorite in the Queens County Handicap over the Big A's main track Dec. 1, the speedy gelding didn't run...
PARK WEST STILL NOT AT ITS BEST
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amPark West 62Urban Peace 58 Ramel Bradley has spent quite a bit of time watching other teams play. While he and his teammates have made Park West a relatively formidable...
A RUST-WIN SITUATION? RESTED PATS ANXIOUS TO GET BACK TO ACTION
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amFOXBORO - They've played exactly one game since three days before Christmas, and that was a 38-6 scrimmage against the 1-15 Panthers. Sure, the Patriots were delighted to win the...
BOSS FUMING OVER POSADA LEAK ; CATCHER'S DEAL WITH YANKS IN JEOPARDY
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amFurious that terms of a potential long-term contract with Jorge Posada had leaked out, George Steinbrenner has slowed negotiations on an accord that would make the switch-hitter the second-highest paid...
FRANCO HIGH ON BURNITZ
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amJohn Franco thinks Mets GM Steve Phillips has more deals up his sleeve. And if acquiring Jeromy Burnitz is one of the pending moves, Franco gave his seal of approval...
METS MOVE CLOSER TO ZEILE DEAL
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amThe 10-player, three-team trade that would bring Jeromy Burnitz to the Mets has moved even closer to completion because the Rockies have learned Todd Zeile is willing to reconfigure his...
TODD'S GAME GOES CANADA DRY
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES TORONTO - As one of only four Canadian-born players in the NBA, Net center Todd MacCulloch was treated here yesterday like he was Steve Nash, Rick Fox and...
NETS MISS SHOT AT LUCKY SEVEN
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amRaptors 89Nets 77 TORONTO - How did they lose this? Let us count the ways. There were rushed shots, there were bad shots. There were rotten rotations, there was a...
TODD REAL RARITY: CANADIAN IN NBA
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amTORONTO - There are only four in the world. And Todd MacCulloch is one, one of just four Canadian-born players in the NBA. So yesterday, after the Nets finished their...
KENYON'S HANDED EASIER ASSIGNMENT
January 19, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES TORONTO - Figure Net forward Kenyon Martin loves chewing on tin foil, walking barefoot on broken glass and puncturing his flesh with red hot knitting needles. After all,...