November 6, 2002
MERRILL'S JUNK-BOND EXPERT STEPS DOWN
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amMartin Fridson, Merrill Lynch's well-known junk-bond guru, has left the building - for good. Fridson, 50, a prolific author and star high-yield bond strategist, was the managing director heading up...
MOST EXPECT RATE CUT; MARTS RISE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amInvestors are expecting a Fed rate cut today, but a small, vocal minority of Wall Street pros say investor hopes will be dashed. Instead, these pros say, the Fed will...
AMERICAN AIRLINES APPEALS TO EMPLOYEES FOR $4B IN CUTS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amAmerican Airlines is asking employees for ways to cut at least $4 billion from their pay and other costs - one-third more than expected. The carrier's embattled Chairman-CEO Don Carty...
RATTNER TAKES $75M CABLEVISION STAKE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amIn a vote of confidence in beleaguered Cablevision's future, New York investment bank Quadrangle made a $75 million investment in the company yesterday. The deal, which still needs to be...
NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR IBM
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amTECH giant IBM has been looking in Midtown but decided there is no place like home - even if they have to take less of it. Sources tell us Big...
DIAMOND RUSH IN ICY CANADA
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amDiamonds are a girl's best friend, eh? Especially if they're conflict-free and come from Canada. A newly discovered vein of diamonds, running through Canada's Northwest Territories, has created a gold...
PEOPLE COPS $30K SPEARS SHOT
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amPPEOPLE has outgunned Us Weekly in another wild photo bidding war. Sources say the Time Inc. magazine spent $30,000 for a picture of Britney Spears wearing a T-shirt that says...
WORLDCOM FRAUD NOW ADDS UP TO $9B PLUS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThe SEC slapped two new fraud charges on WorldCom yesterday after the firm admitted it found another $2 billion in phony revenues. The move comes as ongoing settlement negotiations heat...
TOP EDITOR IS LEAVING TV GUIDE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amSteve Reddicliffe has resigned as the editor-in-chief of TV Guide, ending a seven-and-a-half year run in the top spot. The magazine, while still the best-selling weekly, with circulation in the...
NEWS CORP. SHINES - CABLE, TV UNITS DRIVE SURGE IN Q1 PROFITS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amNews Corporation reported a surge in first-quarter earnings yesterday, driven by stronger advertising and subscriber growth at its cable news channel and regional sports networks. The media giant reported operating...
WHY PITT QUIT - CHIEF PUSHED OUT IN SURPRISE EXIT
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amHarvey Pitt is outta here. The embattled Securities and Exchange Commission chairman resigned under fire last night, driven out by repeated gaffes and lawmakers' calls for his ouster. Pitt, the...
PROBE EXAMINES WHETHER GRUBMAN PUMPED FAILING STOCK
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amJack Grubman was in WorldCom's pocket - so says a preliminary report prepared by an independent examiner into the bankrupt telecom's failure. The former high-flying Salomon Smith Barney telecom analyst...
WORLDCOM FRAUD NOW UP TO $9B
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThe SEC slapped two new fraud charges on WorldCom yesterday after the firm admitted it found an additional $2 billion in phony revenues. The move comes as ongoing settlement negotiations...
TOP EDITOR SWITCHES OUT OF TV GUIDE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amSteve Reddicliffe has resigned as the editor in chief of TV Guide, ending a seven-and-a-half year run in the top spot. The magazine, while still the best-selling weekly with circulation...
STARR REPORT
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amLet's go to the tape: Madonna, 'GMA' mix it up So what's the deal between Madonna and "Good Morning America"? Madonna scolded "GMA" Monday during a call-in interview on L.A.'s...
CHYLER'S STILL A LEIGH-GAL
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amCHYLER Leigh, the best part of TV wunderkind David E. Kelley's ill-fated legal drama "girls club," will pass the bar on "The Practice" instead. Leigh (pictured right) joins "The Practice"...
A HAUNTING TUNE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amSTRANGE FRUIT []ONE GIRL AGAINST THE MAFIA [} Two fascinating documentaries. Running time: 113 minutes (total). "One Girl" is in Italian, with English subtitles. Not rated (references to violence). At...
MAKING THE CASE OF JUSTICE DENIED
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amJUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE [] A mother's crusade. Running time: 86 minutes. Not rated (gore). At Anthology Film Archives, Second Avenue and Second Street, East Village. ----------- THE documentary "Justifiable Homicide" is...
DE PALMA'S 'FEMME FATALE' A FATAL MISTAKE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amFEMME FATALE [ 1/2] Flaky film noir. In English and French, with English subtitles. Running time: 110 minutes. Rated R (strong sexuality, violence and language). At the Empire, the Lincoln...
FASTA PASTA THAT WON'T BREAK THE BANK
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amPastaBreak [] 235 W. 42nd St. -------- CALL it the poor man's San Domenico. It's PastaBreak, a quick-serve spaghetteria from Tony May, the celebrated owner of that ritzy Italian eatery...
SHANGHAI & LOW
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amLOZOO [ 1/2] 140 W. HOUSTON ST. (MACDOUGAL & SULLIVAN) (646) 602-8888 ------- LOZOO is confused up the wazoo. For one thing, a soundtrack of '70s disco anthems like "Macho...
CLOTHES ARE KEY TO THIS PIANO MAN
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amFROM his turquoise taffeta tux down to his Ferrari-red sneakers, Jean-Yves Thibaudet is a classical pianist who's also a fashion plate. Which is why fans in New York - where...
NAKED AGGRESSION - 'BURNING' GOES DOWN IN FLAMES
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE was plenty of drama at "Burning Blue," D.M.W. Greer's off-Broadway play about the hot-button issue of gays in the military. Unfortunately for the critics and audiences who found its...
DIRECTOR TO RE-BUTT 'R'
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amGEORGE Clooney's bare butt is causing trouble for his new movie, the sci-fi adventure "Solaris." The Motion Picture Association of America has given the Steven Soderbergh-directed flick an R rating,...
MANTLE'S SWINGS AT A.C.
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amMICKEY Mantle always loved the action in Atlantic City. Now a branch of Mickey's Central Park South restaurant will open next year in Atlantic City's Tropicana Hotel. The Mantle family...
THERE GOES AN OSBOURNES' EXCLUSIVE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amNO wonder Barbara Walters was upset about the timing of an all-new "Osbournes" special on MTV that aired Monday night. On the half-hour show - titled "Catching Up with the...
HBO HOPS INTO BED WITH A MARRIED COUPLE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amAFTER tackling sex, death and mobsters, HBO is moving on to marriage. The cable network says it has hired "NYPD Blue" creator Steven Bochco to produce a new series -...
'SOPRANOS' RATINGS BACK WITH A BANG AND... PAULIE'S FINGERED
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amCALL it the Paulie Walnuts factor. For the first time in the nearly two months since "The Sopranos" new season began, viewers are flocking back to the show. Ratings for...
NIGELLA REALLY DOES BITE - BRITS MAY LOVE THIS COOKBOOK, BUT WE DID A SLOW BURN . . .
November 6, 2002 | 5:00am'THREE cups dried beans," the recipe begins. "Five cloves of garlic, one knee-high hosiery sock . . ." Clearly, this isn't your average cookbook. Nor is Nigella Lawson - whose...
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE BOOK
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amEVEN if you've watched Nigella Lawson cutting up on "Nigella Bites," her Style Network cooking show, you may still be stymied by "Nigella Bites," the cookbook. Here's what caused havoc...
HUE'VE NEVER SEEN PIZZA LIKE THIS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amIN a world of purple ketchup where kids' cereals change color the moment they hit milk, it was only a matter of time before Crayola got into the food business....
DONE DITHERING?
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amNOW re-elected, Gov. Pataki needs to get real about rebuilding at Ground Zero. As recently as last week, the governor has said a memorial must drive the reconstruction process. But...
WINNERS AND LOSERS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amWINNERS Here are some of the other winners and losers to emerge from yesterday's elections:Mayor Bloomberg, who keeps his badly needed-in-these-times-of-fiscal-troubles good friend, Gov. Pataki, in office. Whether the friendship...
GOV ROMPS TO A THREE-PEAT - VOWS UNITY AS CITY VOTE HELPS BURY HIS 2 FOES
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amGov. Pataki, riding the crest of his post-9/11 popularity and benefiting from a dramatic political makeover, scored a landslide victory last night over Carl McCall and Tom Golisano. "We have...
ISRAEL GOV'T FALLS - ARIEL RIPS 'BLACKMAILERS,' CALLS FOR NEW ELECTIONS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stunned his rivals yesterday by dissolving Israel's parliament and triggering three months of political jockeying that will end with new elections. Sharon blasted "political...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amTyson vs. Lewis it's not - except for the bluster. A senior-citizen Michigan construction boss has challenged his business rival to a boxing match to settle their differences - and...
2 BUSTED AS BALI BOMBING SUSPECTS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amIndonesian authorities detained two possible suspects in the Bali bombings that killed nearly 200 people last month, the national police chief said yesterday. One man was detained yesterday in the...
NEW SEX ATTACK AT HOFSTRA: COPS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amA woman was raped on the campus of Hofstra University, cops said yesterday - just days after one of the Long Island school's football players was arrested for raping a...
GOPER BEATS KENNEDY KIN IN MARYLAND GOV SHOCKER
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amKathleen Kennedy Townsend, once viewed as the Kennedy family's shining new star, suffered a stunning defeat yesterday, losing the Maryland governor's race to Republican Robert Ehrlich. Townsend's campaign - which...
DRUGGIE 'CAR' TROUBLE - FEDS: RING HID 'ECSTASY' IN AUTO PARTS AND 'REMBRANDT'
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amA Bronx-based Dominican drug ring used heavy-duty auto parts and a Rembrandt print to smuggle up to 100,000 "ecstasy" pills into New York from the Netherlands - but the "ingenious"...
ALL NETS ARE OFF AS CABLE IS A WINNER
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amWHO needs the broadcast networks? Certainly not anyone in search of news on a night like last night. Election Night 2002 provided yet another example of how the traditional broadcast...
HEVESI EKES BY FASO - BUT RECOUNT LOOMS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amCOMPTROLLER --- Former city Comptroller Alan Hevesi last night won a close battle with Republican John Faso after a contentious race for state comptroller. The Associated Press declared Hevesi the...
'TORCH' SONG ENDS IN SILENCE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThe Torch has finally flickered out. Robert Torricelli, the New Jersey Democrat whose bright mind impressed the Senate but whose seamy gifts scandal sunk his re-election campaign, was nowhere to...
WIFE SLAIN HOURS AFTER HER 911 CALL
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn grocery-store owner killed his wife and then committed suicide early yesterday - less than 10 hours after she had called 911 to report her fears about him, police...
CITY LOSING 'SITE' OF FLT. 587 KIN'S GRIEF
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amNOTHING has ever been easy when it comes to the doomed American Airlines Flight 587. The victims' relatives have complained that the government investigation into the crash that claimed 265...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amMANHATTAN * A woman was critically injured last night when she was struck by a city bus on the Upper West Side. The woman, whose name was being withheld pending...
COPS: THIS MAN GOT GIRL, 9, PREGNANT
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amA man who was recently cleared in a seemingly open-and-shut robbery case is now facing 25 years in prison for allegedly raping - and impregnating - the 9-year-old daughter of...
HILLARY ANGLES FOR PARTY POWER
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amWHO was New York's big winner yesterday? Among the Democrats, Hillary Rodham Clinton. That is, look for New York's junior senator to make a move to take custody of her...
DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD RUMSFELD WANTS THE NATION'S EDUCATORS TO SUPPORT THE WAR ON TERROR
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amDefense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wants the nation's educators to support the war on terror by making it easier to recruit high-school students. "For more than 25 years, the armed forces...
VISIT FROM 'HELL' - YEMEN SPIES PAINTED BULL'S-EYE ON TERRORIST
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThey had been watching him for months. As Osama bin Laden's main man in Yemen got into his car for his final ride, local spies working hand-in-hand with U.S. forces...
MANY NEW YORK VOTERS ELECT TO STAY HOME INSTEAD
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amYawn. It was a sleepy day at the polls yesterday. "It doesn't seem to be terribly busy anywhere," Lee Daglian, a state Board of Elections spokesman, reported at midday. Rick...
KLEIN NIXES 'DOUBLE DIP' - FORBIDS HIRING NEW RETIREES AS SCHOOL CONSULTANTS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein has banned the practice of putting recently retired administrators back on the payroll as pricey consultants - otherwise known as "double dipping," The Post has learned....
RAPE SUSPECT'S SQUALID HIDEOUT
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amSuspected serial rapist Luis Acosta lived in plain sight during much of his six months on the lam - in a squalid, $80-a-week Brooklyn room no bigger than a prison...
EXIT-POLLING SYSTEM BREAKS DOWN
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThe group of news organizations that performs exit polls across the country last night said it would be unable to provide any results because its operation was riddled with internal...
COLUMBIA'S ISRAEL-BASHERS MUST BE LOSING THEIR FACULTIES
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amIN THE academic sub-specialty of Israel-bashing, few match the impressive credentials of Rashid Khalidi, Ph.D.: * Professor of Middle East history at the University of Chicago. * Former adviser to...
SNIPER LINK EYED IN ARIZ. GOLF-COURSE GUN SLAYING
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amArizona cops are re-examining an unsolved murder on a Tucson golf course for possible ties to the Beltway sniper suspects, police said. John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo were...
CAMERA-SHY WINONA'S GOT A BAD 'CASE' OF STAGE FRIGHT
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Winona Ryder was clearly a star interrupted yesterday as she nervously awaited the verdict in her shoplifting trial, sporting dark circles under her eyes and fighting...
JUDGE BLASTS LOUIMA COP
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amAn ex-cop who claims prosecutors in the Abner Louima case broke their promise not to charge him as part of the "Blue Wall of Silence" scored no points with a...
FORGET FINGERPRINTS, WALK IS NEW ID IDEA
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThe way a person walks may soon be used as positive identification. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta are developing a security system to recognize people by...
FAREWELL TO A RAP TRAILBLAZER - TEARS AND CHEERS AS THOUSANDS CELEBRATE SPINNER JAY'S 'LAST GIG'
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amJam Master Jay's family and friends wore black hats, leather jackets and unlaced Adidas shoes in his honor yesterday at a Queens funeral that included plenty of praise, too many...
SAX MAN'S SURGERY CANCELS BOSS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amBruce Springsteen canceled a concert scheduled for tonight in Austin, Texas, after his sax-playing sidekick, Clarence Clemons, underwent surgery for a detached retina. Clemons had the operation - which was...
FIREMEN SUE CITY OVER WTC BUSTS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amEight firefighters, busted while protesting plans to cut the number of Bravest recovering human remains at Ground Zero, are suing the city for false arrest. Assault, riot and criminal-trespass charges...
BEHIND 'STEEL' BARS - LIZZIE'S LIFE IN LOCKUP
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amJailed p.r. princess flack Lizzie Grubman is whiling away the long hours in jail by reading a Danielle Steel novel that revolves around a car crash. And, unable to stomach...
MCCALL'S HAT WAS IN RING, BUT HIS HEAD WAS NEVER IN THE GAME
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amCarl McCall never turned his résumé into a rationale. His career was a Horatio Alger story come to life: A poor black boy from Massachusetts who works hard, goes to...
PATAKI SAID NOTHING, FOES DID NOTHING
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amIN the end, it was the triumph of the bland over the blunderers. Wrapped in an American flag that was knitted Sept. 11, 2001, Gov. Pataki coasted to victory last...
DI'S WHORE-ABLE SECRET: A FONDNESS FOR HOOKERS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amPrincess Diana's former manservant, who was acquitted last week of stealing from the late royal's estate, told cops the princess had a warm spot for prostitutes - and a hot...
EVEN FLA. DODGES A FIASCO THIS TIME
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amWith hundreds of new machines in place, better-trained workers and new rules, voting for the most part was smooth yesterday - a far cry from the chaos surrounding the Florida...
BUSH WINS - AGAIN
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amPERHAPS now, at last, for their own sakes, Democrats will cease comforting themselves with the false notion that George W. Bush is an ill-prepared idiot and begin confronting the plain...
CONCORDE SURVIVES PANIC DIVE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amPassengers aboard a Concorde bound from New York to Paris got the most expensive fright of their lives yesterday when engine trouble made the supersonic jet plummet 27,000 feet over...
THANKS, DOUG - FORRESTER LOST - BUT STILL OUSTED TORRICELLI
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThe biggest mistake a candidate can make is peaking too early. And it's fair to say that no one in U.S. political history ever peaked as early as did Doug...
THROUGH IT ALL, CARL HEARD HIS MOTHER URGING HIM ON
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amCARL McCALL's mother couldn't be with him on Election Day, but she spoke to him through a poem.Well, son, I'll tell you:Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. Langston...
FRANK SPANKS DOUG - LAUTENBERG SAVES DEMS' N.J. SENATE SEAT
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amNew Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg, who came off the bench as a late-inning substitute for scandal-sunk Sen. Robert Torricelli, easily defeated Republican candidate Doug Forrester last night. Lautenberg led 54...
GOP ON A ROLL IN SENATE FIGHT - BUSH GIVES BIG BOOST IN UPSET VICTORIES
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThe president's popularity boosted his party with a big Bush bounce yesterday as Republicans held control of the House and won several key seats in the battle to control the...
JEB WINS A BIG ONE FOR HIS BRO
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amFirst Brother Jeb Bush won a landslide re-election as Florida governor yesterday - in a triumph for the president's family and an embarrassment for Democrats who made him No. 1...
'TV STAR' GEORGE JUMPS GUN
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amIt was a last-minute game of one-upmanship, with Gov. Pataki the winner - of the race to get on the 11 p.m. news. After waiting 10 minutes for Carl McCall's...
SPITZER CRUSHES NO-NAME
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amATTORNEY GENERAL --- Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who generated widespread publicity for his investigations into Wall Street, cruised to an effortless re-election victory last night over a little-known and little-funded...
RUDY TOPS HILL AS NO. 1 POWERBROKER
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThe surge of Republican congressional victories last night marked a setback for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - even as it offered fresh proof that Rudy Giuliani can influence a race....
MIKE WINS ON CHARTER CHANGE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amTHE QUESTION ---- Mayor Bloomberg, 1. Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, 0. Bloomberg scored a victory over Gotbaum in last night's elections as city voters overwhelmingly supported his push to change...
GEORGE IS GOING TO PAY FOR BIG HOLE HE DUG
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amGOV. Pataki scored a smashing electoral victory last night, but he could come to regret his cakewalk win, political insiders agree. All indicators point to Pataki's third term at the...
SILENCE THE CABS? - VOTE NOW ON TALKING TAXIS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amHI. This is the people of New York. If you tell me to buckle up one more time, puppet boy, they'll be calling you 'Strangle-Me Elmo.'" The Taxi and Limousine...
GOLISANO'S MONEY CAN'T BUY ANY LOVE FROM VOTERS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg recently hit upon the one remaining point of intrigue surrounding billionaire Tom Golisano's failed - and sometimes bizarre - bid for governor. "How much will Tom spend per...
WINONA'S BAD 'CASE' OF NERVES
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Winona Ryder was clearly a star interrupted yesterday as she nervously awaited the verdict in her shoplifting trial, sporting dark circles under her eyes and fighting...
CELEBRITY JUSTICE IS A JOKE OUT THERE IN LA-LA LAND
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amIF Winona Ryder was found guilty of using her fancy light fingers in Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, she'd face seven years in the slammer. "Any larceny over $3,000...
GOV COASTING TO THREE-PEAT - WOOING CITY VOTERS PAYS OFF FOR PATAKI
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amGov. Pataki, riding the crest of his post-9/11 popularity and benefiting from a dramatic political makeover, was headed for victory last night over Carl McCall and Tom Golisano. Pataki, who...
PREZ PUTS HOPE IN SENATE GAIN - SUSPENSE HIGH AS HE VOTES IN TEXAS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amPresident Bush gave a thumbs-up as he voted in Texas yesterday - and then wiggled it from side to side as if to underscore that yesterday's election was up in...
CONFIDENT JEB SCENTS VICTORY
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amAn upbeat First Brother Jeb Bush said yesterday he'd hit his stride at just the right time as he cast his ballot for re-election as Florida governor with polls showing...
SPITZER CRUSHES NO NAME ATTORNEY GENERAL
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amATTORNEY GENERAL Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who generated widespread publicity for his investigations into Wall Street, cruised to a re-election victory last night over a little-known and little-funded Republican opponent....
HEVESI-FASO RACE GOING DOWN TO THE BITTER END
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amCOMPTROLLER Former city Comptroller Alan Hevesi was in a tight battle last night with Republican John Faso after a contentious race for state comptroller. Hevesi and Faso were tied at...
HARD TO FIND AND HARDER TO PREDICT
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amTHE QUESTION Mayor Bloomberg scored a victory in last night's elections as city voters overwhelmingly supported his push to change the City Charter so that a mayor unable to serve...
HEVESI'S HIGH HOPES - TRYING TO REBOUND FROM MAYORAL FLOP
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amCOMPTROLLER Former city comptroller Alan Hevesi was trying to score a political comeback last night after a contentious race for state comptroller. As of 10:30 p.m., the race between Hevesi...
BUSH TRIED TO BE THE MID-TERMINATOR FOR GOPERS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amANALYSIS President Bush bet that a Bush bounce could boost lots of Republicans to victory yesterday - and he put his personal prestige on the line to try to do...
FRANKLY, A WINNER - LAUTENBERG SET FOR COMEBACK TO SENATE SEAT
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amDemocrat Frank Lautenberg appeared headed for an out-of-retirement return to the Senate, as polls yesterday showed him leading Republican candidate Doug Forrester in New Jersey. Lautenberg, 78, entered the race...
PREZ PROVES HIS METTLE AS A MID-TERM-INATOR
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amANALYSIS THE Bush Bounce did it. President Bush bet that he could boost lots of Republicans to victory yesterday - and he put his own prestige on the line and...
HILLARY, RUDY IN BATTLE OF SUGAR DADDIES
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThe bitter political battle between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani ended yesterday, capping a campaign in which the two leaders competed with one another to help elect like-minded...
NETS NOT AWED BY PERFECT START
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amSo what if the Nets win tonight in Milwaukee and start the season 5-0 for the first time in team history? There are still bigger fish to fry. "There won't...
KNICKS: IT'S TOO EARLY TO PANIC
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amWith an 0-4 record heading into tonight's game at the Garden against Sacramento, the Knicks are living down to everyone's low expectations. Still, the team isn't worried. "We've still got...
LUNDMARK SENT PACK-ING - DEMOTION DESIGNED TO SPARK FORWARD
November 6, 2002 | 5:00am"Don't forget about me," is what Jamie Lundmark told Bryan Trottier on Monday when the Rangers' head coach informed the team's lone blue-chip young forward he'd been demoted to the...
IT'S GAME TIME FOR GARDEN STATE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amNEW JERSEY'S Division of Fish and Wildlife reminds hunters that the season for pheasant, bobwhite quail, cottontail rabbit, red fox and coyote will open on Saturday. Approximately 50,000 birds will...
3RD PERSON TIED TO WIDENING BC PICK 6 SCANDAL
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThe suspected conspiracy by two fraternity brothers to collect $3 million by rigging this year's Breeders' Cup Pick 6 has widened to include a third person, according to Don Groth,...
CHAMBLISS COULD END UP BUSHWHACKED
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThe Mets are planning to ask Chris Chambliss to finish his two-year contract as a roving minor-league hitting instructor next season, a well-placed source told The Post yesterday. It was...
DEVILS STAY IN LINE - LANGENBRUNNER OK WITHOUT NIEUWENDYK
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThe Devils clearly are testing the conventional wisdom that Joe Nieuwendyk and Jamie Langenbrunner each play their best when they play together. It didn't take Pat Burns long to break...
S.I. GRIDDER ALL ABOUT COURAGE
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amAgim Bajramovic remembers the day last February when he was working out and began having a pain in his stomach. "I didn't think anything of it - who would?" recalled...
DON'T GIVE UP ON NO. 88
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amERIC LINDROS' new post-practice pickup linemate sent him back onto the ice last night against the Oilers with another new combination and not an ounce of malice or rebuke, of...
VILLANUEVA GIVES NOD TO ILLINOIS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amCharlie Villanueva yesterday made a nonbinding oral commitment to play college basketball at Illinois - and insisted he's serious about it. "I'm definitely planning on going there," said Villanueva, a...
NAILON IMPRESSES
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES One bright spot in the Knicks' fourth straight loss was the play of new forward Lee Nailon. The forward, signed last week, impressed coach Don Chaney with his...
RANDOLPH LOSES OUT WITH M'S
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amWhen Willie Randolph answered the phone yesterday morning in his New Jersey home and heard Pat Gillick's voice on the line, Randolph understood his desire to manage a big league...
TROTTIER LEARNS LESSON
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amERIC LINDROS'S new post-practice pickup linemate sent No. 88 back onto the ice last night in his rightful place with Pavel Bure, lesson from Sunday night's benching learned, of course....
RANGERS CAN EXHALE - ROLL PAST OILERS TO END SKID
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amRangers 5 - Oilers 2 Anyone who thinks the Rangers weren't carrying an inordinate amount of pressure into a 15th game of the season just hasn't been paying attention. Mark...
NO ALIBIS FOR ELIAS - BURNS BENCHES FORWARD IN LOSS
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amFlames 3 - Devils 2 The net was empty. Martin Brodeur was on the bench, and, remarkably, so was the Devils' reigning three-time leading scorer. Pat Burns finally relented and...
RED SOX' RADAR HITS ON ROCKET
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amNever mind all that talk of Ranger owner Tom Hicks battling George Steinbrenner over free-agent Roger Clemens. Here's a hot-stove story that's even hotter. Clemens returning to the Red Sox?Could...
SOMEHOW JETS, JINTS STILL ALIVE AND KICKING
November 6, 2002 | 5:00amThis Jets' 2002 season has already been electrifying, exhilarating, devastating, infuriating, disappointing, embarrassing, exasperating, heartbreaking and hopeful . . . and the season is only half over. Here's a look...