November 23, 2002
FEDS SAY DAYS INN EXECS DODGED TAXES ON $32M
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amA fugitive father and his son have been slammed with new federal charges that accuse the hotel operators of ducking taxes on more than $32 million funneled to them through...
MEDI-HUT RAIDED COMPANY'S RECORDS SEIZED IN SEC PROBE
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amFederal agents raided the offices of a medical supply company whose questionable accounting tactics were uncovered earlier this year by The Post. The Post's articles on Medi-Hut were followed by...
THE 'EYES' HAVE IT
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amPETER GABRIEL ---- IF you left Peter Gabriel's Madison Square Garden concert at its midpoint, you'd have to wonder why no one has bothered to bury this old Brit. But...
LIGHT'S OUT FOR JOAN COLLINS
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amJOAN Collins is turning off her role on "Guiding Light" a few months earlier than expected. The former "Dynasty" diva, who joined "GL" as manipulative Alexandra Spaulding only two months...
DON'T TRUST DAILY NEWS ... OR ANY LATE SHOW, SAYS HOST STEWART
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amCOMEDY Central cutup Jon Stewart thinks people should stick to legitimate news sources - instead of going to programs like his "Daily Show," "The Late Show" and "The Tonight Show"...
GMA [LOVES] THE BACHELOR
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amWEDNESDAY'S two-hour finale of "The Bachelor" paid huge dividends for "Good Morning America." Thursday's show, which welcomed "Bachelor" Aaron Buerge, new fiancee Helene Eksterowicz and spurned runner-up Brooke Smith, beat...
JORDAN GOES CROSS-EYED
November 23, 2002 | 5:00am'CROSSING Jordan" is crossing over to cable's A&E. A&E and NBC struck a deal yesterday in which NBC's "Crossing Jordan," starring Jill Hennessy, will air in reruns on A&E beginning...
REAL KIDS REVEAL... THANKSGIVING IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR?
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amVincent Hueca, 11, The Bronx "I'm thankful for my cousin because she's nice to me and she just bought me a tool set." Anna Perez, 8, Brooklyn "Everything - my...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Mike Bloomberg is pushing forth with his commuter tax idea. Oh well, I guess I can always live on a cruise ship. DROWN AND OUT According to reports, New...
GREAT ESTATE
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amThe Bar Belles believe that drinking can be a semi-religious experience. So we were tickled like Elmo to hear that after a major nine-month renovation, the stained glass in the...
KINDEST CUT
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amOnce Tom Turkey's left the oven, brown and fragrant, most cooks feel their Thanksgiving Day worries are behind them. Not quite. There's still one daunting task left to do -...
SOME LIKE IT HOT: DRINK AND DINE ALFRESCO, WITHOUT FREEZING YOUR BUTT OFF
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amCold weather's here, and that means waiting quite a while before you can party outside, chowing down or draining cocktails, right? Actually, no. You don't have to stay cooped up...
AN ODD COUPLE OF FRIENDS
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amMaybe you've read the books - Arnold Lobel's wonderful tales about the charming Frog and his worry-wart friend, Toad. But even if you haven't - and you're somewhere over age...
FREE FOR ALL
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amFair and Square You might not find any Gamecubes or Harry Potter vibrating broomsticks, but the Union Square Holiday Market, running through Dec. 24, is chock-full of offbeat gift ideas...
CELL-MATES : ELECRO-PIONEERS SOFT CELL BRING THEIR 'TAINTED LOVE' TO GOTHAM
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amNo two musical notes are more instantly recognizable and representative of a certain time than the opening of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love," the 1981 smash single which stayed on the...
MANY EYE EXIT FROM CLASSROOM CHAOS
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amAFTER 25 years as a teacher, Kevin Bain can't wait to grab a parachute and bail out of the system. "It's a shame, because I love the profession, but when...
RIOTS BOOT BEAUTIES: PAGEANT FLEES NIGERIA AMID MOB HORROR
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amThe Miss World pageant was abruptly shifted yesterday to London from Nigeria, where more than 90 contestants had been holed up in fear at a hotel while machete-wielding Muslim mobs...
INCOMING: ANOTHER TAX-HIKE BOMBSHELL
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amBATTERED New York City taxpayers could be facing a double whammy in the next seven months - not only a monumental increase in the property tax but also a hike...
BUTTING HEADS ON CIG BAN
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amNew Yorkers, by 54 percent to 41 percent, back Mayor Bloomberg's sweeping plan to ban smoking in all bars and restaurants, a new poll shows. But the survey of 1,004...
TEAM BUSH SLAPS GORE AS 'DISLOYAL'
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amPresident Bush's spokesman yesterday slapped Al Gore and said he's violating the norms for a "loyal opposition" by blasting Bush's Iraq policy while the president is traveling overseas to rally...
HOMELESS MAY TAKE CRUISE
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amThe homeless might want to start preparing for rooms with river views. Mayor Bloomberg yesterday pronounced the idea of housing the homeless on mothballed cruise ships both legal and "economically...
STATE SLAMS FONDLING DOC
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - A Manhattan doctor was censured by the state and told he can't examine women without another person in the room for five years after he was found to...
CANADIAN LEADER KEEPS 'MORON' AIDE
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amCanadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien yesterday said he'd rejected his chief spokeswoman's offer to resign after she sparked an international furor when she was quoted calling President Bush a "moron."...
CHILLING AL QAEDA SLAY PLOTS
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The newest prize al Qaeda captive has given U.S. intelligence agents chilling details about massive terrorist plots to attack commercial and military ships in the Persian Gulf region...
ISRAELIS LEVEL BUS BOMBER'S HOME
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces retook Bethlehem yesterday and blew up the home of the homicide bomber who killed 11 bus riders - including four children - in Jerusalem on Thursday....
CITY URGES SCHOOLKIDS WALK OUT
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amHey kids - take a hike! That's the message to schoolchildren from the city Department of Transportation, which is hiring a consultant to find the best routes to walk to...
FEDS EYE $AUDI LINK TO PALS OF HIJACKERS
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The FBI is looking into whether the Saudi government - using the bank account of the wife of its U.S. ambassador - sent thousands of dollars to two...
SPITZER SET TO LEAD STATES IN DIRTY-AIR WAR ON BUSH'S EPA
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - New York and eight other northeastern states plan to sue the Bush administration over new regulations they say will gut standards for clean air. The lawsuit, spearheaded by...
MIKE'S SHUFFLE ON 9/11 CARDS
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amThe controversial World Trade Center "Heroes" trading cards may be "sick," but they're probably not illegal, Mayor Bloomberg conceded yesterday - two days after instructing city lawyers to try to...
TEEN KEEN TO BE KILLED: CYBER-PERV
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amCyber-pervert Beth Loschin testified yesterday a teenage girl she and her lover tortured wanted to be their sex slave - and then be killed. "Crystal said that before she met...
GRIM CHRISTMAS FOR 66,000 UNEMPLOYED
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Uncle Sam has a lump of coal in store for 66,000 out-of-work New Yorkers - yanking away their jobless benefits three days after Christmas. The reason? House and...
MULTIPLE MEMORIAL PROPOSAL FOR WTC
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amSeveral of the architectural teams working on new plans for Ground Zero have proposed creating multiple memorials around the 16-acre World Trade Center site. Anita Contini, who runs the memorial...
MIKE TO TRANSIT UNION: YOU STRIKE, YOU'LL PAY THE PRICE
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg predicted yesterday there won't be a transit strike when the union contract expires Dec. 15. He also warned the city would demand "very severe" penalties if transit workers...
PUTIN PUMMELS PAKISTAN, SAUDIS
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amRussian President Vladimir Putin yesterday joined President Bush in demanding that Iraq disarm "fully and completely" - but also pointedly suggested that U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan aren't...
UPPER E. SIDE MUGGER LOOSE
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amPolice are investigating whether a woman mugged on the Upper East Side last night is the latest victim of a vicious thug who has been preying on women in the...
COUNCIL HELPING HOIST MIKE'S AX
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amThe City Council is prepared to go along with 90 percent of the $780 million in service cuts proposed by Mayor Bloomberg in his latest plan to cope with the...
AL IN THE MIDDLE : SHARPTON TAKES STAND AT LAWYERS' LOUIMA FEE FIGHT
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton said he had been forced by subpoena to testify yesterday about two legal teams fighting over how much each should get of police-torture victim Abner Louima's...
UN'SEASON'ED COPS NYPD CALLS OFF ROOKIES' HOLIDAY PATROLS
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amFor the first time in years, the NYPD will not be sending thousands of rookie cops onto the streets from the Police Academy to beef up police protection during the...
SEAGAL PI HAD ARSENAL: COPS
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The private eye accused of hiring a thug to threaten a reporter on actor Steven Seagal's behalf had an arsenal in his Sunset Boulevard office strong enough...
EDUCATION BLOODBATH CHANCELLOR SLASHES 550 STAFF JOBS
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein announced yesterday that he's laying off 550 administrators throughout the school system to help slash $200 million and address the city's budget crisis. The pink slips...
HAMPTONS HORROR: BROKER BUSTED IN DEADLY HIT-RUN COVER-UP
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amThis time a Leslie, not a Lizzie, was behind the wheel; the vehicle was a late-model Jeep, not a Mercedes; and the setting was a Hamptons highway, not a Hamptons...
DISTAFF HALF SURRENDERS IN B'KLYN SLAY
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amThe female half of a Bonnie and Clyde duo accused of killing a Ukrainian immigrant as he defended his wife on a Brooklyn street has surrendered, police said. Naquasia Pollard,...
'STOP THE VIOLENCE' : FEARFUL TEACHERS PROTEST STUDENTS' REIGN OF TERROR
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amFed-up teachers at Norman Thomas HS in Manhattan rebelled against their students yesterday. "Enough is enough. Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Violent students must go," 60 teachers and staffers chanted as...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amThere's a novel requirement for the residents of an $8 million, 75-unit housing development proposed for Seattle - chronic alcoholism. And a lot of locals are against it, claiming the...
SECOND TRACK WORKER KILLED
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amA transit worker was struck and killed by a subway train at Canal Street and Sixth Avenue last night - the second track worker fatality in less than a week,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amMANHATTAN A thief walked into a Chelsea bank yesterday, slipped a note demanding money to a teller and escaped with an undetermined amount of money, police said. The robbery occurred...
SAUDI CABINET BIGS ACCUSED IN 9/11 SUIT
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims yesterday accused the Saudi ministers of Health and the Interior - and a bank partially owned and managed by Citibank...
LAYDEN'S ON MARK ABOUT YAO
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES NEW ORLEANS - Not every GM claimed to adore 7-5 Yao Ming, feeling he'd be a risk, wondering about his adjustment and eligibility. Knick GM Scott Layden never...
DOLAN: WE'RE GOOD - KNICKS OWNER EYES PLAYOFFS FOR 'UNDERDOGS'
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - Either James Dolan is trying to sell tickets or the live jazz and Cajun cooking emanating from Bourbon Street has the Knicks' owner feeling especially giddy. Laying...
FANNING NETS' FLAME
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amIn discussing the Knicks' attendance problems, Cablevision's James Dolan yesterday took a slap at the mighty Nets, who are struggling to draw, too. Of the Knicks' seven home games, two...
HERMAN'S HOPING TO PASS TEST
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amHe has a right to be excited, very excited, for himself. And he is. It's just that Herman Moore is more excited when he ruminates about contributing to a cause...
PIRATES FACING ROUGH WATERS AGAIN
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amHOOP PREVIEW (Fifth of a series) Here's the problem with quick turnarounds - Seton Hall isn't Siena and the Big East isn't the MAAC. Of course, nobody needs to tell...
BUCKEYES PUT SEASON ON LINE
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amCOLUMBUS - This never happened under Woody Hayes. It's never happened in the history of Ohio State football. The Buckeyes are 12-0 and one win away from a share of...
KNICKS CHALK UP ANOTHER COLLAPSE
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - The complete collapse did not come in the fourth quarter this time. The Knicks waited until overtime, though Allan Houston had a head start. Yes, the Knicks...
FASSEL DOESN'T LIVE ON MARGINS
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES With the expansion Texans up next tomorrow in Houston, could this be the week for the rare Giants blowout victory? Of the Texans' eight losses, five have been...
COWART MAKES HIS MOVE - SET TO LEAD JETS VS. OLD TEAM
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amThe questions that collided in Sam Cowart's head have vanished now. But during Week 1 against his old team, the Bills, uncertainty ruled. After a ruptured Achillies ended his Bills'...
LUCK, HARD WORK KEEP GANG GREEN HEALTHY
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amJET NOTES While the Giants have nine players on injured reserve, the Jets have just two. Is it because of condition or luck? "I think it is a little bit...
PRICE TIERS FOR SHEA TIX
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amThe Mets will raise some ticket prices in 2003 depending upon their opponent, while simultaneously dropping others as part of a plan to begin a controversial "tiered" pricing system. Dave...
JOCK FINED, SUSPENDED FOR SHOW OF TEMPER
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amJockey Victor Carrero was fined $2,000 and suspended 15 days by the stewards yesterday for a "gross display of temper" after his mount broke down and died at the end...
ISLES ARE EAGER TO RENEW HOSTILITIES
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amIf you thought the Rangers-Islanders series was good last year, wait until this year's edition hits the ice. A season ago, the brutal five games between the two New York...
SCOTT SPARKS NETS
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amNets 120 - Cavs 79 At yesterday's pregame shootaround, Byron Scott gave his Nets a thorough tongue-lashing. The coach told them they hadn't been playing hard, and warned he'd bench...
FINE SENDOFF BEFORE TRIP
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES Byron Scott didn't arrive at the Meadowlands until 6:30 last night, as his 20-minute commute turned into an hour because of massive delays. "Route 280 kicked my butt,"...
WORKHORSE MARTY HEADIN' FOR A REST
November 23, 2002 | 5:00amWhile tonight looms as a battle of rebounding superstar goaltenders, it appears that Martin Brodeur's streak of starting every Devils game this season will end next week, probably Friday in...