March 4, 2003
DITCH STOCKS, BONDS FOR MONEY-MARKET SAFETY
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amI never thought I'd get excited about a money market fund that is paying a 2 percent annual interest rate. But I am. cmhere2And you know what? That's probably the...
BIG TROUBLE AT DISNEY - WEINSTEIN WEIGHS SPLIT AS FEUD GROWS
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amRiding high as the king of Hollywood, Harvey Weinstein is ready to bolt from Walt Disney over a deepening profits dispute with Disney chief Michael Eisner. Weinstein, who brought in...
SOLOW DOWN BUT NOT OUT IN BATTLE WITH J.P. MORGAN
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amUNDAUNTED by two courtroom setbacks, Sheldon Solow isn't giving up his battle to make J.P. Morgan pay him $28 million for failing to restore its space at 9 W. 57th...
PROXY GIANT GEORGESON COULD SELL FOR $300M+
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amGeorgeson Shareholder Communications, a firm that built its reputation on soliciting proxies on behalf of corporate clients, is now soliciting bids for itself. The New York-based proxy solicitation firm, which...
YES NETWORK RADIO ADS MOCK CABLEVISION'S YANKS BLACKOUT
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amAn advertising war of words - ranging from "stupid" to "unlawful" - is escalating over the cable TV blackout of Yankee games. The Yankees' cable network, YES, is blitzing the...
MALONE PUTS COMCAST IN BIND ON QVC
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amWhen it comes to home shopping crown jewel QVC, minority owner John Malone claims he wants all or nothing. Yesterday, Liberty Media Corp., the media investment vehicle controlled by billionaire...
STARR REPORT
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amA 'Life' lesson: It works on Sunday, too Forget all the puns on the show's title - week #2 of "My Big Fat Greek Life" has proven this show is...
SAINT WITH PAINT
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amRADIANT BABY At the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street. At the Public's box office or at TeleCharge (212) 239-6200. ------- THE '80s in downtown New York were a feverish period:...
LIL' KIM'S A BELLA DONNA
March 4, 2003 | 5:00am* LIL' KIM "La Bella Mafia" [] Atlantic Records When Christina Aguilera wanted a plan to get down for her "Dirrty," she looked no farther than her "Lady Marmalade" video...
INTERPOL TURNS ITS 'BRIGHT LIGHTS' ON OUR CITY
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amINTERPOL is the hottest thing to happen to New York since the Strokes. The bands are part of the same post post-punk rock scene, but Interpol, founded in 1998, filters...
FUR-GETTABOUT THIS WOOLLY BULLY
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amHE'S not only a terror mastermind - he's one hairy guy. If your husband or boyfriend looks like newly captured Al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 1) be glad his...
PRISONERS OF LOVE; 'MARRIED' SINGLES LOCKED UP WITH NO TV OR PHONES
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amIS reality TV the new indentured servitude - or a set of golden handcuffs that the contestants willingly clamp on in exchange for fame and money? A rare glimpse behind...
OFF WITH HIS ED!
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amTHE only real royal television studio is going out of business. Ardent, a production company run by Prince Edward, the younger son of Queen Elizabeth, has been shut down. In...
MADONNA'S BEDTIME STORIES
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amMOVE over Dr. Seuss - Madonna is writing children's books. The Material Mom has just inked a big-bucks deal with Penguin to write five books for kids. The first, titled...
VERY GOOD HEIR DAY
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amMEET the new "Bachelor" - tire heir Andrew Firestone. As The Post reported last week, Firestone is, indeed, the new star of ABC's reality and was introduced on yesterday's "Good...
NEW YORK HILLBILLIES; FAMILY BEHAVING BADLY FOR $1M
March 4, 2003 | 5:00am"The Family" Tonight at 10 on ABC/Ch. 7 1/2 ITALIANS take it on the chin once again in ABC's new reality series "The Family." This is the show that takes...
WHAT JOE'S BUTLER COULD SCORE
March 4, 2003 | 5:00am'JOE Millionaire" butler Paul Hogan is trying to parlay his reality-show fame into a new career. And there seems to be no end to the possibilities that are open to...
THIS WEEKEND IN...LAKE PLACID, N.Y.
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amYOU don't have to be Picabo Street to enjoy Lake Placid, which hosted the 1980 Olympics. During the annual "Almost SpringFest," which runs Sunday through March 16, all Olympic venues...
WHAT IF...
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amQ: I have tried three times to rent a car to get out of Manhattan for the weekend, and it's always one of two things - nothing available, or way...
FRIENDLY FIRE: WAR TALK TEARING EVEN THE BEST OF PALS APART
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amDON'T mention the war! New Yorkers are finding solid friendships suddenly on shaky ground when the thorny subject of Iraq comes up. Lisa Rosman, 32, a Brooklyn writer, said half...
I'M GOING ON BREAK: READY TO GO WILD? YOU'LL FIND FEWER CROWDS AND MORE FUN AT THESE FIVE ALTERNATE PARTY SPOTS
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amDETOURS Bimini Islands, Bahamas If you're looking for a Bahamas vacation with a little more class than the Margaritaville ambiance of Nassau or Freeport, head to the Bimini Islands, popularized...
WISE UP: THIS SPRING, SKIP THE DRUNKEN DEBAUCHERY AND GO BACK TO SCHOOL, WRITES DAVID LANDSEL
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amEXTRACURRICULAR IF you want a really alternative spring break, check out these educational trips that are far from boring. Listed by appropriate major, there's guaranteed to be something you can...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amSome of the hookers in Germany are real dogs - honestly! If you don't believe it, just visit the new Berlin brothel for sexually frustrated pooches, where owner Karl-Friedrich Lenze...
'TREASURE' HUNTER GIVES CITY 'NET GAIN
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amThe city employs thousands of people to raise revenue, but none thought of scouring the state's Web site for unclaimed funds, where $610,940 in 350 dormant accounts was just waiting...
3RD 'HIT MAN' WITNESS IN BLAKE CASE
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - A reclusive Hollywood stuntman yesterday became the third witness to testify that Robert Blake solicited him to kill his wife. Ronald "Duffy" Hambleton, 65, said Blake approached...
WILE E. DEMOCRATS - ANOTHER 'GOTCHA' PLOY FAILS
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amPERHAPS you remember the extremely well-spoken Road-Runner-chaser who uttered these immortal words: "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius." The arrogant Coyote's efforts to trap...
WHY WOMEN ARE WORRYWARTS
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amYes, girls, you do get more stressed out than guys - and there's a perfectly good reason for it. The biochemistry of women's brains actually makes them more vulnerable to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amMANHATTAN * A homeless person stabbed a man on a Harlem subway platform early yesterday after making racial remarks to a friend of the victim, police said. Elijah Bell, 38,...
RIKERS JAILBIRD PLOTTED 'HIT' ON WIFE: DA
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens house painter accused of attacking his wife twice last year - one time splitting her skull with a hammer - is now charged with trying to hire a...
JERRY GOES GAGA OVER BABY BOY
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amThere's a new master of Jerry Seinfeld's domain - a bouncing baby boy born to the comic and his wife, Jessica, over the weekend. Julian Kal Seinfeld arrived without a...
BUDGET 'GAP' JUST BECAME AN ABYSS
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amThe city's budget gap for the upcoming fiscal year could be a whopping $3.9 billion - $500 million more than Mayor Bloomberg has predicted, City Comptroller Bill Thompson said yesterday....
MIKE BACKS 'DAY AFTER' PILL BILL
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - The Bloomberg administration yesterday sided with the Democrat-led state Assembly in support of a bill that would give women easier access to the "morning after" emergency contraception pill....
HILL'S WAR ADVICE: LET'S WAIT AND SEE
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amWATERVLIET - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday said she could support war with Iraq - just not yet. After touring an upstate arsenal, Clinton said before America goes to war,...
THUG GETS 11 ½ YRS. IN VILLAGE SHOOTING
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amThe remorseless thug who badly maimed a young engineer in a botched Greenwich Village robbery landed 11 ½ years in prison yesterday under a plea deal. Bloods gang member Chan...
DANCE ICON WINS $16M IN MED SUIT
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amA Bronx jury has awarded $16.3 million to a break-dancing pioneer after finding Montefiore Medical Center and two of its doctors repeatedly missed a bacterial infection that led to the...
MOM DIES AFTER KITCHEN BLAZE
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens woman died after accidentally setting her kitchen ablaze yesterday, authorities said. Rosemarie Jarrett, 48, was cooking bacon when a flare-up apparently ignited a potholder. Jarrett ran outside the...
WTC VID REVEALS PLANNING OF ATTACK
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amEerie surveillance videos of the World Trade Center - made by an al Qaeda planning team in 1997 - show an ominous blueprint for the Sept. 11 attacks. Excerpts from...
KHALID'S SECRETS: NEW CLUES PUT CIA HOT ON OSAMA'S TRAIL
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amIntelligence agents struck gold with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's arrest - uncovering fresh leads on Osama bin Laden, a list of 200 al Qaeda operatives in the United States and elsewhere,...
'NET PERV GUILTY IN GIRL SLAY
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amA Brazilian immigrant pleaded guilty yesterday to strangling and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old Connecticut schoolgirl he met on the Internet - crimes that could send him to prison for 30...
NON-NYERS FLOCK TO NYU
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amA record number of high school graduates applied to attend New York University this fall despite the 9/11 attacks and continuing concerns about terrorism threats in the Big Apple. NYU,...
N. KOREA 'LOCKS IN' ON U.S. SPY PLANE
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amNorth Korean fighter jets intercepted a U.S. Air Force spy plane over the Sea of Japan and "locked in" on the plane with radar in a threatening manner that indicated...
'KANGAROO COURT' HAS GOTTI LAWYER HOPPING MAD
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amA defense lawyer for John "Dapper Don" Gotti's nephew told a jury that the evidence against his client "wouldn't pass the sniff test" in "the worst . . . kangaroo...
ISRAEL NABS HAMAS FOUNDER
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli commandos killed 10 Palestinians yesterday as they arrested a founder of the Hamas terrorist group and three of his sons during a post-midnight blitz on a Gaza...
LYING ANNA REALLY WAS MARRIED
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amIt turns out that rumors of their marriage weren't greatly exaggerated. Hockey hunk Sergei Fedorov confessed in an interview published yesterday that he and tennis nymph Anna Kournikova had been...
THIS TIME, BUBBA DOESN'T GET 'COURT' IN THE ACT
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amHOW times have changed. Not long ago, all the Democrats in Washington and a powerful woman named Hillary couldn't keep Bill Clinton at home, out of trouble or out of...
SCHOOLS TO FIRE & REHIRE
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein is looking for dozens of top administrators - and is offering first crack at the positions to staffers who stand to lose their jobs because of...
SON MEETS MOM AFTER 52 YRS.
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amAn 80-year-old Staten Island woman had a heart-wrenching reunion yesterday with the son she gave up for adoption 52 years ago - and hadn't seen since. Catherine Nix, a retired...
JACKO'S VOODOO CURSES
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amJust when you thought Wacko Jacko could not get any more bizarre, a new report says Michael Jackson hired an African voodoo chief to put a death curse on Steven...
MILITARY STEPS UP PACE FOR BAGHDAD BLITZ
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Pentagon's military tempo stepped up sharply yesterday as warplanes blitzed five targets in Iraq's no-fly zones, a force of B-52 long-range bombers flew to Britain, and the...
ARTFUL DODGER: WAKSAL: I DUCKED TAX ON $15M IN PAINTINGS
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amIn a final blow to his shredded reputation, Martha Stewart's prison-bound pal, Sam Waksal, admitted yesterday he connived his way out of paying big bucks in tax on $15.3 million...
THRILL-KILL HUNT - COPS TIE FOURTH SLAY TO 'SATURDAY SICKOS'
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amPolice believe a fourth coldblooded slaying may be the work of thrill killers who are responsible for two fatal store stickups last month and under investigation for a third on...
WARTS-&-ALL RUDY - TV MOVIE DOESN'T PULL ANY PUNCHES
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amUNLESS you've been in solitary confinement, you know that USA Network has made a movie about the ups, the downs, and the ups again of Rudy Giuliani - perhaps our...
B'KLYN PALESTINIAN TRIED FOR JEWISH-HATE E-MAIL
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn Palestinian who wrote a hate-filled e-mail message threatening to blow up Jewish businesses went on trial yesterday. "If you kill an Arab today over there, we will kill...
VICTIM'S BLOODY MOVE COULD MARK END FOR 'GAY-BASHERS'
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amProsecutors are following through on a gay-bash victim's brave effort to mark his three attackers with his own blood - seizing as evidence the accused men's splattered clothing. Even as...
MOB RAT SQUEALS ON KIN, TOO
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amThe decision of a longtime Mafia underboss to turn informant and rat out his Bonanno family associates - including his brother-in-law - had his recently axed lawyer "flabbergasted" yesterday. "I...
MISSING L.A. MODEL FOUND DEAD
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Hikers yesterday found the body of a 22-year-old model missing for more than two weeks after going out to meet a man who claimed to be a...
HE'LL SPILL HIS GUTS, OR ELSE: YOUNG SONS' FREEDOM IS THE BAIT FOR 9/11 BEAST
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A CIA team will use "all appropriate measures" to convince the just-captured mastermind of the 9/11 attacks to talk - including dangling freedom for his two young sons,...
AIR-CRASH MIRACLE - 3 BOYS SURVIVE ICY ORDEAL
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amThree young brothers and their dad miraculously survived a deadly small-plane crash and a frigid night in a snowy Massachusetts forest before being rescued yesterday, amazed authorities said. But the...
SPREE'S EX CRIES FOUL ON KID SUPPORT
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amLatrell Sprewell is Knickel and diming his daughter on child-support, court papers charge. In papers filed in Manhattan Family Court, Sprewell's high-school sweetheart, Mitralene Maclin, 31, alleged that the Knick...
ANTIWAR 'PRESIDENT' SHEEN: NBC WON'T GIVE ME ANY 'PEACE'
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amOutspoken "West Wing" star Martin Sheen says NBC is worried his antiwar stance will hurt the series. But NBC says that's nonsense. Sheen, who plays liberal President Josiah Bartlet on...
MILITARY QUICKENS PACE FOR BAGHDAD BLITZ
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Pentagon's military tempo stepped up sharply yesterday as warplanes blitzed five targets in Iraq's no-fly zones, a force of B-52 long-range bombers flew to Britain, and the...
OLD RIVALS FLY HIGH - BUT FISTS DON'T
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amCan we get a little bloodshed, already? There has been a grand total of zero fighting majors in the last four games between the Islanders and Rangers, dating back to...
DUNHAM DELIVERS
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amMIKE Dunham has been in the Rangers' goal 32 games and we still don't know anything about him. Not really, not with 13 to go and a playoff spot still...
SOME DEVILS MAY NOT RETURN
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amST. PAUL - For some Devils, this trip could be bon voyage. The March 11 trade deadline will pass before the Devils play at the Meadowlands again, with all the...
HOBBLED WARD STILL HAMPERED BY STRAIN
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Don Chaney was kicking himself 11 days ago when he felt he may have prematurely put Charlie Ward on the injured list. After Ward had worked out on...
DON: STILL HAVE SEED OF HOPE
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amWith Cleveland in the house tonight, it's more appropriate to look down at the lottery seedings than up at the playoffs' eighth seed. However, the Knicks won't let themselves. Not...
DISNEY TABS ESPN HONCHO FOR ABC GIG
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amWhatever significant distinctions remained between Disney-owned ABC and Disney-owned ESPN were further reduced, yesterday, when Howard Katz resigned as president of ABC Sports, and was replaced by George Bodenheimer, who...
WELLS 'WAIVERS' ; UNDER PRESSURE ; BOOK FLAP PROMPTS DAVID TO SAY HE'LL FORGO NO-TRADE
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - If the Yankees want to trade David Wells to avoid a summer of potential angst, The Post has learned the club has the pitcher's blessing. Even though George...
METS' HAPPY CAMPERS DON'T ENVY BOMBERS
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amJUPITER - They offered sympathy, advice, consternation. But when it came to what is going on in Yankee camp these days, Al Leiter best captured the Mets' feeling: "Better them...
NOW NETS GET WEST'S BEST
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amThe last three weeks were supposed to be easy, the stretch where the Nets fattened up at home against bad teams. It didn't happen. Now they embark on a tough...
CONE SET GAME STINT
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amMET NOTES JUPITER - The Mets' No. 5 starter competition heats up tomorrow when David Cone pitches in his first game since October 2001. Cone is slated to work one...
TIME TO SAY BYE-BYE BOOMER
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - George Steinbrenner was in a light-hearted mood yesterday as he continued his Sgt. Schultz routine regarding David Wells, going so far as to draw this amusing analogy at...
GIANTS EXPECT HUGE RETURNS FROM MITCHELL
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amBrian Mitchell can often be counted on to add fuel to an already blazing fire. Two years ago, he suggested his Eagles go after the broken left arm of Tiki...
CLARK NOT LEFT OUT ; OUTFIELD SHOT HAS VET WORKING HARD FOR METS
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amCards 7Mets 1 JUPITER - The opportunity to ponder life's mysteries often presents itself in the outfield, but Tony Clark isn't the type to ask himself, "How did I get...
YANKS, SOX BATTLE TODAY
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amBlue Jays 9Yankees 8 TAMPA - The Evil Empire invades Ft. Myers today when the Yankees play the Red Sox. In light of comments made by Red Sox president Larry...
BROWN & SIXERS HAD ONE HILL LEFT TO SIGN
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amSHORTLY after yesterday's firing of Alvin Gentry, the NBA forwarded his address, home phone number and unlisted birth sign to Charles Oakley. According to someone incurably tapped into the Clippers'...
AARON, MORGAN LOWER THE BOOMER
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amWith disdain in their voices, Hall of Famers Hank Aaron and Joe Morgan spoke yesterday about David Wells' upcoming book: "Perfect I'm Not." True or not, both Aaron and Morgan...
STORM, HATTEN STILL SKY HIGH
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amMarcus Hatten said he's only seen three replays of his free throw that beat Duke 72-71 Sunday in the Garden. Once when the Red Storm went over film yesterday, once...
NEPTUNE FINDS A WAY TO HELP HIS FRIENDS
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amH.S. HOOPS: B. Friends 46 - Packer 44 Kyle Neptune knows what it's like to play against the best competition in the city. During the summer, he plays AAU ball...
JETS, GIANTS MAY BATTLE FOR LANDETA
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amMichael Jordan can still tear it up at age 40. David Cone still has some life left in his right arm at 40. And Sean Landeta has enough life left...
SOURCE: CHILDS GETS BOOT
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES DALLAS - The second Chris Childs tour of duty in New Jersey is over. The Nets are expected to announce, possibly as soon as today, that they are...
POINT WELL TAKEN - GRITTY BLUESHIRTS GAIN TIE ON DRAMATIC LEETCH GOAL
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amSlowly they come, step by step, still creeping forward even if unable to take the bounding leap they so desperately sought against the Islanders last night at the Garden. The...
DUNHAM'S TIME
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amMIKE DUNHAM has been a Ranger for 47 games and they don't know anything about him. Not really, not with 13 to go and a playoff spot still lying there...
POINT WELL TAKEN: GRITTY BLUESHIRTS GAIN TIE ON DRAMATIC LEETCH GOAL
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amRangers 1 Islanders 1 Slowly they come, step by step, still moving forward even if they couldn't take the bounding leap they so desperately sought against the Islanders last night...
CHILDS LEFT HOME ALONE
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES When the Nets embark on their four-game road trip through Texas and New Orleans, Chris Childs won't be on it. The backup point guard was not at practice...
SHOWDOWN ON B'WAY: RANGERS DESPERATE TO EXTEND MINI-ROLL
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amThey had not met in a regular-season game as meaningful as last night's in almost 10 years, since Apr. 2, 1993, when the Islanders defeated the Rangers 3-2 in overtime...
ISLANDERS NEED WIN AS SKED
March 4, 2003 | 5:00amWith one loss in their last eight games going into last night's monumental rivalry game with the Rangers, the Islanders have been playing well. But looking at the month ahead,...