March 9, 2002
PINK SLIP SPECIAL KMART CUTS 22,000 JOBS, SHUTS 284 STORES
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThere's more bad news for Kmart shoppers. The beleaguered retailer, currently operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, will close 284 stores across the country, eliminating some 20,000 jobs. Global Crossing...
SUN BURNS M'SOFT WITH $1B ANTITRUST SUIT
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amComputer billionaire Scott McNealy took another swing at his archenemy Bill Gates with a $1 billion lawsuit. McNealy, head of Sun Microsystems, charged yesterday that Gates and his Microsoft empire...
SEC DOWN ON ENRON INTERIM CEO
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amEnron's interim CEO, Stephen Cooper, could be ousted by regulators only weeks after taking the helm to bring the troubled energy trader out of bankruptcy because he's too expensive. Cooper's...
NY1'S GIGI GONE GONE
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amGIGI Stone is out at NY1. Stone, one of NY1's most recognizable on-air reporters, quit the Time Warner-owned cable station yesterday. Stone will become a reporter for BizNet TV, a...
NORDIC TRACK: SAMPLE THE BLONDE AMBITION OF SWEDISH POP FEST
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe Swedish pop music scene began with Abba, the most successful group of the '70s. But it doesn't end there, as resourceful music fans can discover at "Swedish Pop, Non...
THE NEW FACE OF BEAUTY
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe Bar Belles have been huge fans of Beauty Bar, the East Village salon/saloon, for years now, so imagine our excitement when we learned it had been given a face-lift....
THROUGH THICK AND THIN
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amWhen fish or cutlets are on the menu, portions of even thickness will cook more uniformly, preventing dried-out ends. Folding thin tails back over the fillet usually does the trick...
MUSIC TO THEIR EARS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amYou don't have to be able to read music to write it. Just ask Paul McCartney - or the kids from PS 199 on the Upper West Side. With a...
TOURS DE FORCE: CRAWL INTO THE YANKS' DUGOUT, GET A WHIFF OF CAMBY'S SNEAKERS AND MORE
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amYou don't need to hurl a 90 mph pitch or slug a baseball over the center field wall to get a seat in the Yankee dugout. And you can get...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amYou may know which spoon to use, but unless you're up-to-date, you'll end up - gasp! - a ghastly dinner-party bore. Here are the current events to study to show...
REBUILDING AFTER 9/11 ATTACKS ARE STILL WEIGHING ON APPLE
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amSix months after the World Trade Center was destroyed, more than half of New York City residents are afraid terrorists will strike again, a new poll showed yesterday. And almost...
BUSH GIVES PEACE ENVOY NEW CHANCE
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amANALYSIS After two months of watching and waiting, the United States has suddenly returned to the role of Mideast peacemaker. President Bush ended a debate among top advisers on Thursday...
POST READERS' FAVORITE DESIGN
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amPost readers have spoken loud and clear about what kind of building design they want at the World Trade Center site - and the overwhelming verdict is: Keep it realistic....
VESPUCCI MAPS OUT L.I. MURDER DEFENSE
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe lawyer for Amerigo Vespucci - a man charged in a 22-year-old murder on Long Island - says testimony from the abused ex-wife and the former lawyer of another man...
BLOOD RUNS IN THE STREETS ; 64 DIE IN TERRORIST AND MILITARY STRIKES
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - It was the deadliest day in the Mideast in nearly a year and a half. Fifty-eight Palestinians and six Israelis were reported killed yesterday - by far the...
SHARON POLICY CHANGE OPENS THE DOOR
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the United States yesterday he is dropping a key demand - a move that will allow the Bush administration to advance its...
HILL: $21B TO REBUILD JUST ISN'T ENOUGH
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday the $21.4 billion aid package for New York won't be enough. "There's no doubt we're going to need more money for the actual rebuilding,"...
SLAIN HERO'S FINAL FAREWELL SEAL RECALLS A 'BLESSED' LIFE IN LAST NOTE TO WIFE
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe slain Navy SEAL who fell from a helicopter in Afghanistan wrote a poignant, patriotic "if I should die" letter to his wife to tell her he had a "blast"...
'BUSH LEAGUE' BALDWIN IN 9/11 INSULT
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amActor Alec Baldwin raised eyebrows at the '21' Club yesterday when he compared the Sept. 11 attacks to President Bush's victory, referring to the election results as "the other catastrophic...
HOLY HORROR IN QUEENS: SIKH TEMPLE FIRE LEAVES 3 INJURED
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe city's oldest Sikh temple - in Richmond Hill, Queens - burned to the ground yesterday, leaving hundreds of worshipers devastated at their loss and religious leaders trying to quash...
'BOOB' BOSS SUED FOR SEX HARASS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amA Manhattan woman filed suit yesterday charging her ex-boss, a Madison Avenue realty honcho, was a lascivious lout with roaming hands and a filthy mouth. Eleanor Laurin says her boss...
LANDLORD GUILTY: KILLED TENANT WITH 6 SHOTS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amA jury convicted a millionaire Upper East Side landlord of murder yesterday - minutes after taking a final look at the revolver he'd used to blast six holes in his...
SAFE AT HOME: TEAMS STRIKE BACK AT TERROR
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe NYPD is planning a massive security presence for baseball's Opening Day - to make sure that Met fans are safe at home and Yankee sluggers are the only bombers...
LIZA NOW LICENSED TO THRILL IN MARRIAGE
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amLiza Minnelli and hubby-to-be David Gest applied for their marriage license yesterday, but were already acting like newlyweds. Smiling from ear to ear, the starry-eyed couple got the royal treatment...
POL WANTS TO BE UMPIRE IN YANK CABLE BRAWL
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe battle between Cablevision and the Bronx Bombers' new YES network heated up yesterday - with both a state assemblyman and fans joining the fray. With 10 days until the...
MYSTERY CRASH KILLS FOUR ON L.I.
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amFriends and family of four youths killed in a head-on crash in Patchogue were in mourning yesterday as police tried to figure out what caused the tragedy. The four were...
SUNY OPENS CITY CENTER TO STEM TEACHER EXODUS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe head of the State University of New York yesterday said he has opened a new "urban teacher center" at Board of Education headquarters to help address the city's teachers...
CUNY'S NEW CONTRACT
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe City University and its faculty union yesterday announced a new labor contract that will boost salaries for professors by 9 percent over 27 months. The tentative pact appears to...
BIZARRE FEUD RAGED ON FOR 34 YEARS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThis was no garden-variety landlord-tenant dispute. This was war. Over the course of 34 years - almost from the day Barbara "Bobbi" Kenna moved into the fifth-floor garret atop rent-controlled...
NO WAY IN HELL HE WAS GOING TO BEAT THE RAP
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amTHE real annals in criminal history of laughable defenses go back to something that probably was really just a bar joke. You know the one. The kid kills his parents...
WIDOW SUES CITY IN BOXER'S DEATH
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe widow of a boxer who died after a nationally televised bout on board the USS Intrepid says her husband would have lived if officials hadn't allowed him "to be...
QUATTRONE REHABILITATED IN SHAKE-UP AT CSFB
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amChalk up another coup for CSFB's Frank Quattrone. The veteran investment banker and rainmaker is a big winner in an investment banking shake-up by new banking chief Adebayo Ogunlesi. The...
SEX-FLAP EDITOR RESIGNS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amHad affair with GE mogul. The editor of the Harvard Business Review stepped down yesterday after admitting to colleagues she had a romance with a married business mogul, former GE...
THE JOKE'S ON KOPPEL IN QUEENS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amABC "Nightline" host Ted Koppel's fans last night caught the $8 million-a-year broadcaster off guard with some gentle ribbing about his future at the Mickey Mouse network. Minutes before the...
STAPLES THUGS ADMIT QNS. HEISTS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThree suspects in the Staples robbery and hostage standoff in Long Island have confessed to two big heists in Queens, police said yesterday. Danita Brown, 22, Kevin Grant, 23, and...
YANKEL'S BRO SLAMS FEDS' 'BIZARRE' MOVE
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe brother of a Jewish scholar slain in the 1991 Crown Heights race riots blasted the Justice Department yesterday for "tying the hands" of prosecutors in the contentious case. Solicitor...
OLYMPIC HERO A 'DRUNK' GOAT
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThat's the bizarre message Olympic gold medalist Jimmy Shea dished out to high-school kids yesterday - despite the fact his Olympic champ grandfather was killed in January by a drunken...
MERRY CHRISTMAS! BELATED YULE FOR CHUCK AND WIFE
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amCHUCK and Andra Schwarz are still falling off the floor, which is pretty hard to do, given the elevation. But last night was a bungee jump as they celebrated Christmas...
MOM ADMITS NEWBORN SLAY
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman who kept her pregnancy a secret told cops she stabbed her newborn girl to death because she panicked when the baby started to cry, investigators said last...
TEARY BUSH HONORS FALLEN GIS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday surrendered to his emotions and cried openly as he saluted the families of two Army Rangers who died in fierce combat in Afghanistan. Biting his...
DEAL NEAR ON A NEW 7 WTC
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amCivic leaders and planners have resolved some major concerns about developer Larry Silverstein's plans for a new 7 World Trade Center, but it's still not a done deal with some...
RUDY HONORED BY REAGAN AWARD
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Rudy Giuliani was named Time's "Man of the Year," dubbed "America's mayor" and given an honorary knighthood by the Queen of England - but none of...
LINDROS MUST LEAD HIT PARADE
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The challenge has been issued by Ron Low, the good man who could be in his final days as head coach of the Rangers if the team doesn't...
JETS INK EX-JAG CORNER BEASLEY
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amIt wasn't long ago that the Jet defense looked as depleted as an expansion roster. Now, they look like they're champing at the bit to start the season tomorrow. Continuing...
JINTS MAY LOSE SAFETY WILLIAMS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amNever expecting to be a major player in free agency this time around, the Giants stated their priority this off-season was to re-sign Shaun Williams, their unrestricted starting safety. Even...
NO KIDDING, JASON'S FEELING STRAIN OF LEADING NETS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amPORTLAND - Late in the third quarter in Phoenix Wednesday, Byron Scott noticed something in his Nets' team makeup that he had rarely observed this season. Jason Kidd was on...
NO BREAK FROM ACHES: ANDY (ELBOW) JOINS YANKS' SORE CORPS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amPirates 3Yankees 2 BRADENTON - Add Andy Pettitte's balky left elbow to the growing list of Yankee hurts involving high-profile names. Twenty pitches into his warm-up yesterday for a start...
SUPER KNIGHT FOR PITT
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amPitt 76Miami 71 When point guard Brandin Knight and coach Ben Howland arrived at Pittsburgh three years ago, they clashed immediately, like fire and ice, or Ike and Tina. But...
KNICKS SILENCE JAZZ : SPREE, SPOON STAND UP TO MAILMAN & CO.
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amKnicks 85Jazz 79 SALT LAKE CITY - Even when the Knicks were Jeff Van Gundy-good or Pat Riley-rough, this franchise was never competitive here at Utah's Delta Center. But last...
SLUMPING NETS DROP 3RD STRAIGHT OUT WEST
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amBlazers 82 Nets 73 PORTLAND - OK, it's official now. This isn't a real good road trip for the Nets. As the fatigue of a season sets in and as...
BUTLER CARRIES UCONN TO FINALE
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amUConn 82ND 77 No. 1, meet No. 1. Big East Conference co-players of the year, say hello to one another. It will be an all-No. 1 seed Big East Conference...
DEVILS' HELL RIDE CONTINUES
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amDucks 2Devils 1 ANAHEIM - He's already fired one coach this year, and now the Devils are dying again for lack of goals. There can be no more debate. Lou...
GUARANTEES? NOT ANYMORE
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amBIG EAST NOTES There have been certainties in the Big East for the past two decades - that either Georgetown or Syracuse would reach the Big East semis, and that...
PANTHERS LEAN & MEAN: PITT FLEXES MUSCLES AS BIG EAST BEAST
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe players always know best, and Boston College's Troy Bell knew the Big East coaches had made a major blunder back in the fall. "I was shocked when they picked...
KNICKS' DAFT DRAFTS: GARDEN GURUS BLEW IT LAST THREE YEARS
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The Knicks' current three-game set - in Denver on Thursday, Utah last night and at the Lakers tomorrow - has highlighted how horrifically the club's management...
DEVILS HAVEN'T HAD TIME TO TURN ON THEIR POWER
March 9, 2002 | 5:00amANAHEIM - The Devils' power play has deteriorated into a three-ring circus because of the five-ring one, their top extra-man point-getter says. "Almost all of us were away at the...