February 1, 2002
JUST REGULAR VOLK - CSFB'S MACK TAPS LEGAL EAGLE AS CHAIRMAN
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amCSFB Chief Exec John Mack rewarded top flight legal eagle Stephen Volk tapping him as chairman of the Swiss-owned investment bank yesterday. Although the firm also warned yesterday that its...
BIG TOPIC AT WEF: WHAT'S FOR DINNER
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amIt's the biggest gabfest ever held here for big names in business, but a lot of the talk centered on - yes, food. More than 2,500 of the world's economic...
JFK JR. PAL DISHES - BOOK WOULD COVER MARITAL WOES, POT IN FRIDGE
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amA new book proposal on the life and times of John F. Kennedy Jr. has been making the rounds for weeks - but nobody appears to be jumping at the...
DOW ADDS 157 FOR 2-DAY WIN STREAK
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amStocks rebounded for the second day in a row after Tuesday's sell-off, on positive economic indicators. Personal income rose for the first time in four months, government data showed, increasing...
JERSEY JOURNAL AT 11TH HR.
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe Jersey Journal is on the brink. Yesterday afternoon the Newhouse family that owns the 135-year-old daily said it had been unable to reach major concessions with the drivers union...
DON'T CALL ITA COSTUME: THE BLUFFER'S GUIDE TO SUPER BOWL XXXVI
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amYOU'VE never given a darn about football and don't care about it now - except you're going to a Super Bowl party Sunday, and you don't know a free safety...
RETURN TO SENDER - KIDMAN HAS POSTAGE DUE IN 'BIRTHDAY GIRL' BLOWOUT
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amBIRTHDAY GIRL [] Not a cause for celebration, Nicole excepted. Running time: 93 minutes. In English and Russian with English subtitles. Rated R (violence, sadomasochistic sex, profanity). At the Empire,...
CZECHS AND THE CITY, WITH SUBTITLES
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amLONERS [] Delightfully warped take on twentysomething lovers in Prague. Running time: 104 minutes. Unrated (sexual situations, profanity.) In Czech with English subtitles. At BAMcinematek, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn. -------------...
1 'ROOM' TOO MANY
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amTHE SON'S ROOM(La Stanza del Figlio) [ 1/2]Running time: 99 minutes. In Italian with English subtitles. Rated R (profanity, sexuality). At the Lincoln Plaza, the Angelika. --------------------- THE Italian family...
GRAMMY WHAMMY - CRAIG DAVID GOES UP AGAINST SOME GOLIATHS
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amIN a year that will be remembered for the emergence of such great new R&B singers as Jill Scott, India. Arie and Alicia Keys, Craig David is a standout. This...
'ANGELS' FLIES WAY TOO CLOSE TO THE GROUND
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amA RUMOR OF ANGELS [] Predictable, shameless tearjerker with New Agey overtones. Running time: 95 minutes. Rated PG-13 (nothing offensive). At the Sunshine Landmark Theater, East Houston Street, between First...
CUT 'SLACKERS' LOOSE
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amSLACKERS [ 1/2] Uninspired campus comedy. Running Time: 87 minutes. Rated R (masturbation, obscene humor). At the 42nd Street E Walk, the Lincoln Square, others. ---------------- NOT only is "Slackers"...
CADILLAC TVS SELLING AT CHEVY PRICES
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amTHE price of those in-your-dreams, flat-screens and high definition TV sets is plunging so fast, you might want to throw one into your shopping cart this weekend along with the...
GRAVE NEW WORLD ; ANNE RICE MEETS JOHN EDWARD IN A DEATH-DEFYING SPECIAL
February 1, 2002 | 5:00am"Crossing Over with John Edward"with Anne Rice Sunday night at 8 on SCI FI 3 ghosts WHAT do you do if you're not into football? Well, if you are dead,...
KNITTING FACTORY REMAINS A PEARL
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amBECK played his first New York gig there. P.J. Harvey hung out there, practically nightly, while she wrote her last album. Yoko Ono shared the stage with Sonic Youth's Thurston...
STARR REPORT
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amCh. 7 workers vote to strike, talks continue Writers Guild of America East members at Ch. 7 have authorized a strike at the station. The vote was taken Wednesday night...
LONDON BRIDGE - PALTROW'S 'PROOF' ON STAGE MAY LEAD TO MOVIE
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amSTARRY news from London yesterday: Gwyneth Paltrow will play the enigmatic girl in David Auburn's "Proof" at the Donmar Warehouse for six weeks beginning in May. But there's more here...
HELMERS WILLING & ABEL
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amWHEN the organizers of a festival of short films about Sept. 11 compiled a wish-list of the world's most prestigious directors, they zeroed in on New York legends Martin Scorsese,...
TEACHER BUSTED IN ATTACK ON KID, 10
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amA gym teacher at a Queens school who allegedly threw a 10-year-old special-education student against a cafeteria table and tried to choke him was arrested yesterday, police said. Thomas Campolettano,...
ENRON BOSS TOUTED BUSH ENERGY HIRES
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe White House disclosed last night that Enron honcho Kenneth Lay recommended eight people for the federal energy commission - and President Bush appointed two of the favored candidates. Lay,...
COPS GAVE NOELLE AN RX BREAK
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amFlorida police are defending their decision not to test Noelle Bush for impairment after she admitted having taken a prescription drug before a September 2000 car crash. The woman, daughter...
ALONE WITH HIS THOUGHTS: TALI-YANK IN SOLITARY
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amALEXANDRIA, Va. - American Taliban John Walker Lindh is being held in solitary - with only the Koran for comfort as he awaits trial on terrorism and conspiracy charges. The...
IRON MIKE CHEWING OVER CALIF.
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Mike Tyson is California dreaming for another shot at the title. After getting turned down for a boxing license in Nevada, Iron Mike's handlers are about to...
HUBBY-SLAY SUSPECT TELLS HOW SHE HATCHED PLOT WITH LOVER
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amA woman told a jury yesterday how she plotted with her childhood sweetheart to kill her husband, then wed her lover, moved him into her house and blew $140,000 of...
ARREST BLOTTER IS RALLY SHORT
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe group of demonstrators in town for the World Economic Forum hasn't yet lived up to the NYPD's worst fears. Protesters were active yesterday, but they hadn't caused any major...
OF ALL THE GALL! HIS KID IS A VANDAL - AND HE'S SUING?
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amWHEN you think of what passes for parents these days, I should nominate Silverio Moreno as Father of the Year. At least he's ambitious. I had to lie down after...
THUG BUSTED IN 1995 SLAY
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amA Bronx hood nicknamed "Fat Face" faces the death penalty after being charged with a vicious killing that took years to solve. John Petrucelli was busted yesterday for allegedly stabbing...
RAPE RAP DROPPED AFTER HOOKER RUSE REVEALED
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amA Long Island man charged with rape beat the rap after his lawyer and a private eye exposed his accuser as a lying prostitute who "shakes men down" after having...
ROE IS ME! CAVIAR DEALER OFF TO PRISON
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The owner of a New York caviar company was sentenced to two years in jail for trying to pass off American Paddlefish eggs, found in the Mississippi River,...
RED CROSS $HINES AGAIN
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amReeling from accusations that it raised money under false pretenses, the Red Cross yesterday announced that 90 percent of the funds it collected for its Liberty Fund will go directly...
SHARON: WE SHOULD HAVE KILLED ARAFAT IN '82
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel should have "eliminated" Yasser Arafat 20 years ago when it had the Palestinian leader under siege in Beirut, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview...
HILL'S 'IOWA' $$ BASH STIRRING UP PREZ BUZZ
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton said yesterday that her decision to host a fund-raiser this month to drum up money for an Iowa politician is not a sign of her...
POLS WANT IN AT 'GROUND' LEVEL
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amFrustrated at being shut out of Ground Zero redevelopment, several City Council members are trying to form their own commission for improving lower Manhattan. They are pushing for a nine-member...
STAY ALERT, AMERICA - RUMSFELD WARNS OF EVEN DEADLIER ATTACKS
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Americans must be prepared for new terrorist attacks that could be "vastly more deadly" than the Sept. 11 atrocities, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned yesterday. In a grim...
KIDNAPPERS: 24 HOURS MORE, THEN HE'S DEAD!
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe kidnappers of a Wall Street Journal reporter extended the deadline for killing him by 24 hours, and U.S. officials said they're working to free him, but ruled out meeting...
BUSH: VOLUNTEER TO DEFEAT EVIL
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday told crowds across the South that they could do their part in the terror war by becoming volunteers - while his national security adviser toned...
HARLEM WRITER IS HONORED ON POSTAGE STAMP
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe life and work of Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes is being immortalized by the U.S. Postal Service in a 34 cent stamp to mark the beginning of Black History...
L.I. FIREMAN SET BLAZE IN BID TO BE HERO: COPS
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amA volunteer firefighter admitted secretly torching a Long Island flower shop in a twisted attempt to become a hero by putting it out, authorities said. Ryan Lifton, 19, of Williston...
DOC IS RULED INSANE IN PARENTS' MURDER
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amA New Jersey doctor who smothered her elderly parents was found not guilty by reason of insanity yesterday after a state judge heard evidence of her spiral into madness -...
COMMISH NAMES TOP COP FOR SCHOOLS
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly has appointed a new school-safety chief, three weeks after two students were shot inside Martin Luther King HS, The Post has learned. Kelly promoted 21-year NYPD...
GOTTI IN HOSPITAL WITH LOW BLOOD-CELL COUNT
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amMob boss John Gotti - who is battling the final stages of throat and neck cancer - is back in the hospital after suffering his third medical setback in four...
CLERIC'S UPSTATE FOLLOWERS SEEN AS THREAT
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amA secluded Muslim settlement in upstate New York is an outpost for a terrorist group founded by Sheik Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, the radical Islamic cleric Daniel Pearl was trying...
COPS COLLAR SUSPECT IN B'KLYN, BX. RAPES
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amCops believe they have captured the gunman who raped a Brooklyn woman after forcing her to withdraw money from an ATM. Hasin "Sean" Mathews, 24, is also a suspect in...
SELF-DEFENSE? NICE TRY, IF IT WASN'T SO LAUGHABLE
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amROBERT Gottlieb is a superb lawyer, but perhaps an even greater athlete. On the ninth floor of 111 Centre St., he showed he could be the only counselor in this...
TEAMSTERS YANK DONATION TO CUOMO
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Teamsters boss James P. Hoffa says he has canceled a "significant" contribution to Andrew Cuomo's gubernatorial campaign from his union - because Cuomo criticized Gov. Pataki's controversial new...
ELLE BANKING ON A 2ND MARRIAGE
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amSupermodel Elle Macpherson is getting ready to tie the knot for the second time - she's engaged to her partner of six years, banker Arpad Busson. Earlier this week, Macpherson,...
BIN LADEN MOCKS U.S. IN INTERVIEW
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amIn his only TV interview since the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden ridicules suggestions that his videos contained hidden messages to call his terrorist cells into action. "They made...
GOV TOUTS NEW SAN JUAN-WAY TRIPS
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amGov. Pataki yesterday played ambassador to Puerto Rico, announcing that Jet Blue airways will start flying from San Juan to Kennedy Airport on May 30, breaking American Airlines' monopoly on...
IT'S GORE GALORE IN LANDLORD SLAY TRIAL
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amEvery morning at 8, spinster librarian Barbara Kenna would leave her Upper East Side garret apartment and push her luggage cart full of books and belongings with a steady "thunk,...
NO-PROTEST WIMPS ALL WET - COMRADES ARE FURIOUS AS RAIN DETERS CROWD
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amWith world financial leaders warm and dry inside the Waldorf-Astoria, protesters turned on themselves yesterday, decrying the dearth of activists willing to brave the cold drizzle in order to overthrow...
ATTENDANCE MESS - HS RECORDS SHOW 'SHOOT' KID 'PRESENT'
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe teenager charged with shooting two students in Martin Luther King HS on Jan. 15 was marked "present" two days later while cops were still looking for him, school-attendance records...
COP SHOT TRYING TO BREAK UP FAMILY SPAT
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amAn Emergency Service cop was shot in the leg last night when he went to a Rockaway home where a "depressed and angry" 18-year-old had barricaded himself in the bathroom,...
NOT A JEALOUS BONE IN THIS BODY
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amChristy Turlington has revealed she's not at all jealous that hunky filmmaker fiancée Edward Burns was once hot and heavy with Heather Graham. "I think you'd have to be crazy...
MIKE DOUBTS QUICK WTC JOB
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday that "nobody really knows" when the clean-up of the World Trade Center site will be completed. The mayor cautioned that it was premature to assume the...
REBUILD PANELS IN THE DARK
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe commission charged with overseeing the rebuilding of lower Manhattan yesterday announced a long-awaited list of advisory committees to encourage public involvement - but it was far from clear what...
DOCS: LOVE A MANY SPLENDORED THING
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amHere's some good news just in time for Valentine's Day - falling in love is good for your health. Doctors claim love causes chemical changes in the brain that can...
BIRTH WEIGHT, POVERTY DID ELVIS IN: DOC
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amElvis Presley's death may not have been caused by his outrageous junk-food diet that included fried peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches, new research shows. Rather, his low birth weight and impoverished childhood likely...
AIRLINES SUED FOR BLOOD $$
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amAir travelers who say cramped seating on flights caused them deep vein thrombosis have been cleared to proceed with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against 30 international airlines. The suit, given the...
GORE GALORE ON FIRST DAY OF LANDLORD'S MURDER TRIAL
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amA millionaire Upper East Side landlord went on trial yesterday in a murder case that's every rent-controlled tenant's worst nightmare. It's a gruesome shooting that Manhattan prosecutors said amounts to...
DA DETAILS 'MURDER' MOTIVE STEP BY STEP
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amEvery morning at 8 o'clock, Barbara Kenna would leave her Upper East Side garret apartment and push her luggage cart with a steady "thunk, thunk, thunk" down five flights of...
NUKE PLOT: TERRORISTS WANTED TO FLY JET INTO PLANT
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - An al Qaeda terror leader told U.S. interrogators of a horrifying plot to fly a commercial jetliner into an American nuclear reactor, a government memo reveals. The Nuclear...
NETS SHOW BUCKS WHO'S THE BOSS
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amNets 125 Bucks 100 The large fan-held sign behind the home bench at the Meadowlands last night proclaimed the Nets "America's Team." Right now, the Nets will settle for being...
NYRA RIPS GULFSTREAM
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe heated rivalry between the New York Racing Association and Canadian mogul Frank Stronach's Magna Corp., which is trying to buy New York City OTB from under NYRA's nose, got...
NO 'D' IN RANGERS
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amTHAT there are two Ranger teams - the one with a dynamic Eric Lindros and the one without him - is problematic enough. But with 27 games to go and...
DEER TAKE DROPS AS MERCURY RISES
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amTHE weather played a big part in the outcome of this past deer season, not only in New York but throughout the northeast. New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation...
MIDNIGHT FOR CINDERELLA ; UPSTART PATS NO MATCH FOR RAMS' STARS & 'D'
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amIT'S stunning to see how many prognosticators are not only forecasting a close Super Bowl XXXVI, but going so far as to pick the two-touchdown-dog Patriots outright. It's hard to...
NETS OFFENSE IS PURE KIDD STUFF
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amSo often, success is a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Want proof? Check out the Nets' offense. With Jason Kidd arriving from Phoenix, the...
MILLROSE SET TO BLOOM AT MSG
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe field for tonight's Millrose Games will be one of the best ever at the Garden, and is clearly not short on confidence or competitiveness. Distance ace Regina Jacobs is...
WALLY'S WORLD IS FULL OF STARS
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amThere won't be any Knicks in the All-Star Game in Philadelphia Feb. 10, but there will be a New Yorker. Wally Szczerbiak, the Timberwolves' shooting guard and Cold Spring Harbor...
BRANTON WOODS: BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amLOCAL GOLF With spring time just around the corner, golfers looking for a head start on the 2002 season might be wise to check out Branton Woods, a new "high-end"...
JONES SET TO TACKLE PATS ; RAMS OT HANDED SUPER START
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - Rod Jones took his seat in the ballroom of the Rams' hotel yesterday, expecting to spend the final media session doing what he'd done the day before,...
JASON GETS BIG PRAISE FROM 'THE BIG O'
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amTO SO many pairs of eyes, the letters on the jersey say far more than the numbers in the standings. Best record in the Eastern Conference, you say? N-E-T-S. Nets!...
NAME-GAME RUMORS BRING RADIO DOWN
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amTHE proliferation of sports radio has been accompanied by show hosts who have little or no sense of their position nor the power of the medium. Monday's firing of Larry...
VINATIERI'S FEARLESSNESS ALL IN FAMILY
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - Thank goodness for kickers. In the regimented world of the NFL, they add spice. Check out New England's Adam Vinatieri. His kicking has been the stuff of...
BLEDSOE'S READY TO ROLL AT DROP OF A QUARTERBACK
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - His dream of Redemption Sunday was snatched away by Bill Belichick, but deep in Drew Bledsoe's heart, the dream lives. Bledsoe believes he can be a Super...
MARTZ MAKES HIS MARK ON RAM SIDELINE
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - The man knows arrogance. Kim Herring last season played safety for the Ravens, which means he got an up-close look at the way Brian Billick operates, which...
CONWELL COMEBACK COMPLETE
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - Ernie Conwell prayed. With his right leg a mangled, shattered mess, he asked God to take away his desire to play football. Conwell was a rising star...
RAMS: IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO STARTS
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - The Rams greeted the news that Tom Brady and not Drew Bledsoe will start at quarterback for the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI with a collective shrug....
LJ SHOULD RIDE TO KNICKS' AIDE
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amWITH a week to go before the NBA gets phat in Philly for the All-Star Game, I found myself pacing the parquet debating and debasing the following: If Knick players...
MEMORIES OF A SUPER CRASHER
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - There has never been a security presence like the security presence at this Super Bowl, but Dion Rich, the greatest gatecrasher of them all, said he is...
TYLER'S 41 POWER JUDGES
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amCardozo 78Bayside 73 Cameron Tyler went to Rice hoping to become one of the best players in the city, but the only way for him to fulfill his potential was...
KNICKS LOOKING TO FORT-IFY 'D'
February 1, 2002 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Seems Knicks GM Scott Layden loves the entire Warriors' front line. The Post has learned Layden has shifted his focus from Golden State's Marc Jackson and Erick Dampier...