October 6, 2002
NAKED TWINS' 5-YEAR PLAN
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amLane and Kyle Carlson, the twins who typically show up wearing their birthday suits in the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, have started dabbling in real estate. The cutie-pie brothers have...
COMPANY PENSION FUNDS FACING DRASTIC DEFICITS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amAttention investors heaving a sigh of relief that the corporate earnings recession appears to have ended. A new twister is about to be unleashed. This tempest is the result of...
LEVITT SPEAKS UP FOR THE LITTLE GUY
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amInvestors bruised and befuddled by a host of Wall Street scandals and plummeting stock prices take heart, Arthur Levitt, the longest-serving chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1993-2001) is...
E*TRADE PULLS ANOTHER SWITCH
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amThese lean years can easily change attitudes. In this case, the switch in mind-set belongs to E*Trade Chairman Christos Cotsakos, who once crowed that individual investors didn't need analysts to...
SHAREHOLDERS SHOULD CONTROL THEIR OWN FUNDS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amCORPORATE scandals have certainly not been good news for this market. But they could bring about good things for investors - eventually. "If we've learned anything from Worldcom and Enron,...
BULL'S EYE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amTHE WEEK'S WINNERS & LOSERS Winners Eliot Spitzer, New York attorney general, and Harvey Pitt, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, joined forces to clean up Wall Street. James...
SERIOUS GUNPLAY: NETWORKS TURN UP THE HEAT ON CABLE-SHOW VIOLENCE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amIt's barely two weeks into the new fall season and already the weapons procurers are working overtime. On "Robbery Homicide Division" on CBS, machine guns are the show's true stars....
HEY, PAL, WHERE'S MY HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER?
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amWhen you consider the nightmare of being stuck with an incompatible date, you'd think hooking up with a friend would be a breeze. You're already good at spending time together...
STRIKE 'OUT,' HOT 'BURN'
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amThat crucial difference between art and artifice stands up to be counted in the first two major productions of the new off-Broadway season: Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out" and Lanford...
SCARFACE COMES TO QUEENS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amFeb. 5, 1919, is an important date in Hollywood history. That's when Tinseltown legends D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin announced the formation of United Artists. The...
FIELD OF VISION: AFTER 30 YEARS, PAT'S 8TH ST. SHOP CLOSES
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amIt's the end of an era. Patricia Field's ancient clothing shop on Eighth Street officially closed its doors last week, and the only thing remaining is the stylist's purple signature...
ELECTRIC AVENUE: BROOKLYN'S DANCE CLUB CULTURE THRIVES IN FIVE-DAY FESTIVAL
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amElectroclash, the budding music scene born in Brooklyn, celebrates its second anniversary next weekend with a four-day festival. But what, exactly, is it? Take '80s music made by groups with...
HAPPY HARVEST
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amFall's here and food lovers know what that means - chunky soups, stews and all those other rib-sticking treats that have been on summer hiatus, move on up to the...
PHONY PHYSICIAN HE'LL MAKE ; YOUR SKIN CRAWL FRAUD DOC PERFORMS DANGEROUS LASER OPS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amA phony physician is brazenly breaking the law, practicing laser surgery on hundreds of patients at his swank Manhattan clinic, The Post has learned. Dean Faiello, CEO of Skin Ovations...
TRYST TEACHER'S BABY STUDENT, 18, IS THE DAD IN LATEST SCHOOL SCANDAL
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amA 29-year-old high-school teacher has given birth to a child fathered by one of her teenage students in the latest sex scandal to rock the city's schools system, The Post...
SAILOR FALLS 6 FLOORS TO HER DEATH AFTER FIGHT WITH SHIPMATE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amA Navy sailor who had just returned from service in the Middle East plunged to her death from a Midtown hotel balcony yesterday as she struggled to fight off the...
AGAIN LIKE A VIRGIN 'SHY' MADONNA IN HUBBY'S NEW FLICK
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Madonna, shy about sex? The Material Girl, who wrote the show-all book "Sex," says she almost felt like a virgin when she filmed love scenes in front...
YOU'VE GOT E-MAIL
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amFROM Glenn1151: So the "dynamic duo" (Brian Florence and Loretta Lynn Harper) allegedly had sex in a taxi, an ATM vestibule, the Carnegie Deli, FAO Schwarz, a Disney store, and...
A BUNCH OF DEM QUITTERS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amHAVE you heard about the new Democratic strategy? If it looks like you're going to lose, quit instead. First, it was Andrew Cuomo who bagged it against Carl McCall. Then...
SABOTAGED CHUTES SCANDAL BILLOWING
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amInvestigators are looking into the suspected sabotage of parachutes at a North Carolina military base where dozens of in-training Marines routinely jump from planes. Three leathernecks escaped injury using the...
RIDING THE RAILS TO SLEAZEVILLE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amCAN someone explain why only unattractive people insist on having sex in public? Why don't, say, Cindy Crawford and Brad Pitt have sex in Macy's window instead of the miskites...
COMING UNGLUED ALL OVER AGAIN
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amARE there any "gruntled" postal workers left? Yes, last week yet another disgruntled postal worker went postal, this time taking pot shots at the 18th and 20th floors of United...
COSMETIC CHANGES COULD SMACK QUACKS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amDean Faiello could find himself the new poster boy in a stepped-up campaign to crack down on the phony doctors and unlicensed laser-wielders cashing in on New York City's burgeoning...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amA Canadian man in arrears on his rent has been told he can stay in his apartment but has to get rid of his pet Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, Edgar. Jean-Francois...
GETTING SOME WAS SO EASY - OR SO MY FRIENDS TELL ME
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amBECAUSE of the cruel, unforgiving gallop of the calendar, the name "Museum of Sex" appears apt for so many of us. But before we became museum pieces, there were the...
'SIXTH MAN' IN MALAYSIA
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amThe United States has asked Malaysia to track down a suspected member of an Oregon terrorist cell who tried to join al Qaeda after the Sept. 11 attacks. Ahmed Ibrahim...
GRIEVING KIN BACK L.I. CRASH-TRAGEDY DRIVER
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amThe heartbroken family of Luis Ramirez - charged with drunken driving in a crash on the Long Island Expressway that left his mom, sister and grandfather dead - insist the...
DEADLY LOVERS' QUARREL IN QNS.
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amA 25-year-old woman was fatally stabbed inside her Queens home early yesterday after getting into an argument with her live-in boyfriend, police said. At 3:46 a.m., cops responded to an...
FALLEN WTC HERO GETS ROAD TRIBUTE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amNYPD Officer Vinny Danz, who was killed in the World Trade Center attack, had a road named in his honor yesterday in Southampton. Road D, off Dune Road, was named...
MCCALL: I FOLLOWED LETTER OF THE LAW
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amCarl McCall yesterday said he had crossed no ethical lines in any of his official letters released Friday - including helping more friends with job hunts and taking Knicks tickets...
NEIGHBOR NABBED IN BOTCHED SLAY PROBE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amA man who died from what was thought to have been natural causes was actually killed by a neighbor, police said yesterday. Villa Aguedo, 21, was taken to Kings County...
SEXHIBITION BARES ALL: CHEAP THRILLS FOR $17 AT MUSEUM OPENING
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amHundreds of people paid for sex yesterday, shelling out $17 to get a first peek inside the new Museum of Sex. But could they have gotten a bigger bang for...
9/11 SURVIVOR'S PAINFUL, INSPIRING JOURNEY BACK
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amIt's been more than a year since Lauren Manning narrowly cheated death in the World Trade Center attack - but her fight for life has only just begun. "I'm a...
WEST NILE REALLY BUGGED THE NATION THIS YEAR
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amThe 2002 West Nile virus season was a late bloomer, but still proved the most lethal to date. In New York City, where the first human infection wasn't recorded until...
WINONA SCOFFS AT PLEA OFFER
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Reality is about to bite for Winona Ryder. Legal counsel for the actress say she is not interested in cutting a plea deal and is ready...
BUSH WARNS OF HUSSEIN 'HORROR'
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday warned that Saddam Hussein could strike without warning and unleash "massive and sudden horror" as Bush sought to rev up support for getting tough on...
B'KLYN TEEN SHOT DEAD
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amAn 18-year-old man was found mortally wounded on a Brooklyn street early yesterday in an incident that left a second man wounded, police said. The victim, whose identity was not...
ACTIVISTS SOUND THE NOISE ALARM
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amThe city is turning a deaf ear to Mayor Bloomberg's noise crackdown amid the Big Apple's usual cacophony of blaring horns, hissing steam pipes, roaring buses, screeching trains and ear-splitting...
RUDY & BILL CALLED INTO WILD N.J. SENATE TILT
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amBoth sides in the wild New Jersey Senate race yesterday called in some big guns - like former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former President Bill Clinton - as they waited...
I WON'T LET 'THEM' WIN
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amLearned the cyst on his forehead was anthrax when treated at St. Clare's Hospital on Oct. 28. Took himself off Cipro after a month. Vindication, and the odd spot of...
STEPSON TALKED OF 'POPPING' SLAIN DAD: WITNESSES
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amCops want to question the teenage stepson of a Brooklyn man shot to death Friday before the eyes of his 11-year-old boy - after three witnesses said the teen railed...
POST TRIO SPEAKS OUT A YEAR AFTER MAIL KILLINGS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amLast fall three New York Post employees contracted the anthrax virus through contact with tainted mail. One year later, they have different perspectives on their experiences, the disease and the...
BOMBERS' BUMMER: FANS WAIL AT SEASON'S PAINFUL END
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amStick a pinstriped pitchfork in 'em - the Yankees and their dream of a fifth straight World Series appearance are done. The Bombers were embarrassed by the Angels, 9-5, in...
SNIPER'S SLUG FOUND IN VICTIM'S MINIVAN
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amThe sniper who cops believe acted alone when he murdered six people in a two-day shooting spree in a Washington suburb laid low yesterday - as a police search found...
VICTORY PUTS ECSTATIC ANGELS FANS ON CLOUD 9
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amAngels fans were in seventh heaven yesterday. The sea of red-shirted Halo's fanatics were in rapture as they watched their team reach the gates of baseball paradise with a 9-5...
DRIVER NABS CARJACKER
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amA Queens auxiliary cop turned the tables on an armed ex-con who tried to rob him in his car - by making the gunman drop his weapon and stabbing him...
12 HURT AS CAR, FIRE TRUCKS CRASH
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amTwo fire trucks collided with a car carrying a mother and her 4-year-old boy in The Bronx yesterday, injuring 12 people, police said. The accident took place around 7:30 p.m....
VICTIMS FEAR THAT NO ONE REALLY CARES
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amThe phone calls have stopped, but the blood tests have not - and frustration is spreading like spores. A year has passed since the first anthrax victim died, and the...
TORRE QUESTIONS OWN PITCHING
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amJust days after making a political pitch for Gov. Pataki, Yankee manager Joe Torre is disputing the call. It turns out that the 10-second commercial featuring Torre and the governor,...
BROKER'S RISE & FALL IN HIDING AFTER MARTHA MESS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amDouglas Faneuil used to live a fairly privileged life. His father is independently wealthy. He grew up in a well-to-do Massachusetts suburb. He graduated from Vassar College. And then he...
HURLEY IS ONE HOT MAMA
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amLIZ Hurley is upset. About her sex life. Again. And it's all her baby's fault. According to the tabloids in Britain, Hurley's been whining that motherhood has ruined "it" for...
VICTORIA GOTTI
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amHEY Tony, it's time for that much-anticipated sit-down! The women in your life are, as my step-grandmother would say, focia brutia (ugly) and a far cry from reality. "The Sopranos"...
GUIDE FOR FLIRTY-SOMETHINGS N.Y. GUY PENS HOOKUP HOW-TO
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amIt could be the book you need if you don't have a little black book. New York's desperate and dateless men can now get some tips on how to improve...
OUR FAIL-SAFE SCHOOLS: KIDS PROMOTED DESPITE FLUNKING
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amAbout 95 percent of public elementary and middle school kids were promoted to the next grade by the Department of Education this year, although most kids flunked their English and...
N.Y. GUY MIGHT MOP UP AWARD
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amThe old cartoon face of Brawny paper towels may be wiped away by the real mug of a Brooklyn social worker. Rycklon Samora Stephens was one of five finalists chosen...
JAIL GUARD HELD FOR BEATING KIN
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amA city correction officer was arrested for assaulting his cousin during a dispute at the officer's Bronx home, police said yesterday. Marco Gonzalez, 34, who works at Rikers Island, allegedly...
BILLOWING SCANDAL OVER SABOTAGED PARACHUTES
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amInvestigators are looking into the suspected sabotage of parachutes at a North Carolina military base where dozens of in-training Marines routinely jump from planes. Three leathernecks escaped injury using the...
DARING DRIVER NABS CARJACKER IN QNS. DRAMA
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amA plucky Queens man turned the tables on a gunman who forced him to go on a terrifying joy ride - forcing the attacker to drop his weapon and then...
LOAFING'S BRED IN BASEBALL
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S 6-3 Yanks, bottom of the third, Game 3, Friday night. The Angels have a man on second, one out, when Garret Anderson hits a grounder to second. Alfonso Soriano...
JINTS' GOAL IS DIVISION & CONQUER
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amIRVING - Just how important is this game for the Giants? After a full month of the season, this is their first NFC East game, and divisional games always carry...
SWIMMIN' WITH THE STINGRAYS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amGRAND CAYMAN ISLAND, B.W.I. - What you notice most are the colors; the water is clear blue and the beaches so white that natives spread the sand around their front...
MAC DADDY WANTS BITE OF BIG APPLE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amCHARLESTON - Perhaps the Knicks should be less concerned about Antonio McDyess' knees and more concerned about how their star power forward handles the New York nightlife. Especially in wake...
KIDD MAY STILL BE SPUR-ED TO LEAVE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amSHEER genius on Jason Kidd's part, I thought, to establish the Nets as his first choice come July 1 without making any kind of firm commitment. His cunning declaration got...
HALOS ARE 'YANKING' THIS ALDS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The talk of Times Square is about how the Yankees could have arrived at such a perilous position, down to their last breath in the ALDS for the...
TOCCET ROLLS TO CAPTURE CHAMPAGNE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amToccet got through on the rail in midstretch to overtake Icecoldbeeratreds and win the Grade 1, $500,000 Champagne Stakes for two-year-olds by 1½ lengths at Belmont Park yesterday. It was...
KELSON KEYS WAGNER ROMP
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amPSALWagner 42Lehman 0 When Wagner lost to Fort Hamilton earlier this season, few people were more upset than Tim Kelson. The senior running back has been the key to the...
POLY PREP STUNS FOE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amCraig Jacoby has only been head football coach at Brooklyn's Poly Prep for five games, but he'll be hard-pressed to top the win his team earned yesterday. P.J. Hill's 35-yard...
MULDER OAKLAND'S MAN ON THE SPOT
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Only Mark Mulder stands between the A's and the abyss this afternoon, but he says he won't fall for any of the self-defeating psychological clutter that could only...
TWINS KILLING A'S DREAM BIG INNING FORCES GAME 5
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amGAME 4Twins 11A's 2 MINNEAPOLIS - Pressure? Terrence Long, the center fielder of a team that today will attempt for the sixth time in the last three years to finally...
HALOS HIT THEIR WAY TO THE WIN
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - In the end, Joe Torre and the Yankees ran out of miracles . . . and pitching. In the end, it didn't matter if Shawn Wooten, Scott Spiezio...
TORRES SHOWS ISLES HE WANTS A JOB
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amAll of you Islanders fans with Pat LaFontaine jerseys from back in the day may want to get Raffi Torres' name stitched on above that old No. 16. It's come...
BUCK TO MEET METS WILL INTERVIEW FOR SKIPPER SPOT NEXT WEEK
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amBuck Showalter will meet with the Mets regarding their managerial opening early next week. In contrast to Seattle's Lou Piniella and San Francisco's Dusty Baker, Showalter is a high-profile name...
NO CHAMPAGNE THIS YEAR
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The latest Yankee dynasty is 3-D, as in definitely done dancing. For an organization that admits anything short of a World Series title is a failure, this season...
JASON: IT'S TOO SOON
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Jason Giambi's first season in pinstripes ended yesterday when the Yankees were ushered out of the ALDS by the Angels. From a statistical standpoint, Giambi did everything asked...
NIGHTMARE SERIES WILL HAUNT SORIANO
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Alfonso Soriano had an MVP season to remember and postseason to forget. He has the entire off-season to ponder his ineptness at the plate (he hit just .118),...
MESS HAS SOME INCENTIVES
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amRangers4Bruins3 BOSTON - If Mark Messier is able to hit the incentives that trigger an automatic contract extension into 2003-2004, the Rangers will be delirious with joy. Because no matter...
EVEN EDISON INVENTS WAY TO END YANKS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The Angels had everything going for them in the ALDS against the Yankees. Even their Disneyland-like baseball park worked in their favor in a 9-5 series-clinching win yesterday....
IRATE BURNS CANCELS DEVILS' DAY OF REST
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amIsles 3Devils 1 For the first time last night, the Devils really saw how Pat burns. "He was upset," Joe Nieuwendyk said. "I don't think he had any reason to...
EXPECT MAJOR CHANGES
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - This was supposed to be a new beginning for the Yankees. But it sure felt like an end. A Yankee roster reconfigured after a Game 7 World Series...
SCIOSCIA'S GAME 1 GAFFE JUST A FOOTNOTE NOW
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - In just four days, Mike Scioscia went from fool to genius. Funny what a few huge playoff victories - and a thorough dismantling of the Yankees - can...
BLOOP BEGAN BOOMER'S DOWNFALL
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - David Wells had exactly what he wanted yesterday: a chance to save the season for the team whose memorabilia he treasures. Now he has the memory of running...
WRATH OF BOSS WILL BE FELT
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - George Steinbrenner didn't rant and rave on the phone from Tampa. Yet there was firmness to The Boss' tone shortly after his Yankees were ousted from the ALDS...
DECK STACKED AGAINST GREEN'S NEW DEALER
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Jets cannot hide behind the Yankees' October today. Because this is Sudden Death Sunday. This is the equivalent of Game 7 of the World Series for Herm Edwards and...
VINNY TAKES CLIPBOARD WITH CLASS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amIt's going to be an odd sight seeing Vinny Testaverde on the sideline wearing a baseball cap today. For Testaverde, who was benched in favor of Chad Pennington, it'll likely...
IKE LIKES CATCHING TDS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amIRVING - The identity of the Giants' best touchdown-maker is a well-kept secret. In the past two seasons, Tiki Barber has 13 touchdowns. Amani Toomer has 12. The team leader...
GIANTS KNOW THE SCORE STRUGGLING OFFENSE MUST GET THE POINTS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amIRVING - It's the scoring, stupid. Cutting through all the rhetoric, the mind-numbing jargon, the babble about the red zone and short yardage, and paring down the offense and streamlining...
PENNINGTON'S TURN IN JET COCKPIT NOW CHAD GETS CHANCE TO SAVE THE SEASON
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amEnter Chad Pennington. The two-plus-year backup quarterback, a 2000 first-round draft pick, will either be the secret weapon to the Jets turning their once-promising, now-reeling season around or he'll be...
VERMEIL: HERM WILL GET IT TURNED AROUND
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amAs much as he cares deeply for Herman Edwards, Dick Vermeil has no time for feel sorry for his favorite former player when his Chiefs come to Giants Stadium to...
EXPECT MAJOR CHANGE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte produced rotten starts. Ramiro Mendoza, Orlando Hernandez and Mike Stanton coughed up leads. Rondell White broke down and Raul Mondesi showed again he...
JUDGMENT DAY: BOOMER, BOMBERS TAKE ELIMINATION GAME IN STRIDE
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - If the Yankees' season ended yesterday in Game 4 of the ALDS against the Angels, it wasn't because they were tight. Three hours prior to David Wells' attempt...
BOSS COULDN'T BUY PASSION
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - If you're a member of the Yankee nation, there's nothing scarier than a fear of the unknown. The one big question mark that accompanied these retooled Yankees into...
ANGELS UNVEIL A PRODIGY
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The Angels had hoped Francisco Rodriguez would be their postseason secret weapon. The bad news for Anaheim: He's no longer much of a secret. "He's got a big...
GEORGE NOT GIVING TORRE A HARD TIME
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - You know George Steinbrenner privately was seething after watching the Yankees flush a five-run lead and lose Game 4 Friday night to go down, 2-1, in the best-of-five...
LEARNING FROM LOOIE: COACH'S TEACHINGS INFLUENCE ANGEL SS ECKSTEIN
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amIn every disciplined move made by Angels 5-foot-8 shortstop David Eckstein, Lou Carnesecca's teachings are present. At St. Ann's Academy - where Carnesecca was a phys. ed. teacher before he...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amBOSS TO GO FROM BINGE TO PURGE Our Pinstripe moles say George Steinbrenner is so obsessed with the luxury tax that as soon as the Yankees' postseason ends, whether they...
BEWARE OF SHARK: IN 2002-03, SAN JOSE WILL HOIST STANLEY CUP UNLESS...
October 6, 2002 | 4:00amYou probably jumped ahead, anyway, so you know that the Sharks are our pick to win the Stanley Cup next June. But since the boss wouldn't allow us an asterisk...