November 10, 2002
HE'S THE BOY DOWN THE HALL
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amThe office of AOL Time Warner's Kevin Conroy is like a mini rock 'n' roll hall of fame. Gold records from Martina McBride, Toni Braxton, Annie Lenox and Moby line...
INCREASING YOUR INDEX FOR PAIN
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amREMEMBER that 1980s' hit song "Hurts So Good"? John Mellencamp's classic rock ditty comes as close as anything to explaining what's driving investors in today's topsy-turvy markets. Whenever they are...
STREET'S REVENGE - BANKS NOW SCOFF AT SWALLOWING RADICAL REFORM
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amAfter months of being beaten down by securities regulators and congressional committees, Wall Street is starting to bite back. Emboldened by the Republican victory in Tuesday's elections and chairman Harvey...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: DENIS LEARY
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amDenis Leary is in pain. "I tore my left shoulder rotator cuff playing hockey," the comedy king told The Post. "It feels like someone drew a knife into the edge...
A DIRECTOR FIGHTS BACK
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amMexican director Carlos Carrera has a message for those who have been dumping on his movie "El Crimen del Padre Amaro": "The main threat to the Catholic Church is not...
IS THIS CHEATING?
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amNow that Aaron is in my life, I've stopped hunting for guys.But when a friend begged me to go with him to a new eight-minute speed dating night, I reluctantly...
MONSTER BASH : LIKE THE WWF, BUT COOL
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amIn this corner of the ring: A man in a red, white and blue leotard, topped with a giant bug head. In the opposite corner: A six-foot-tall can of soup...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amCandy-coated truth: Forget the married vs. brother-sister debate about the White Stripes' Meg and Jack White. A clever Internet scribe knows the truth: Meg is a robot. Wilhelmina Wonka supports...
SHARIF ATKINS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amALMOST FAMOUS CHICAGO native Sharif Atkins went all the way from the Windy City to Los Angeles to get a part in "ER," a show set in his deep-dish pizza...
DEREK JETER GRABS THE REMOTE
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amDEREK JETER New York Yankees Shortstop I don't watch a lot of television, but my favorite shows are "Comic View" on BET and "Saturday Night Live." "Comic View" is really...
DEM-OLITION DERBY
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amNO wonder the Democratic Party's out of luck and the Liberal Party's nearly out of business - they were both out to lunch when they should have been out getting...
STICKY-FINGERED CELEBS' GREATEST 'PINCH' HITS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amNOW we know why defense attorneys always want to make female defendants show up in court dressed like misguided nuns. As Winona Ryder proved last week, if you waltz into...
ALL 'JACKED' UP
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amPARENTS were up in arms last week over the stunts in "Jackass the Movie," or as the Parents Television Council calls it, "the Jackass franchise" (see Democrats, left). They say...
$PERM SOLUTION
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amSPURRED on by a feasibility study, workers at a Romanian car factory last week came up with a scheme to relieve their company's $20 million debt. Their solution? One thousand...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amA pack of monkeys stormed into a governor's mansion in Nigeria and ransacked the place. Fifteen monkeys invaded Government House in the city of Awka and destroyed the governor's teapot...
CLEAR SKIES FOR QUEENS MOURNERS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amResidents of the peninsula near Kennedy Airport find it ironic that they will get a brief respite from the roar of jets Tuesday when air traffic will be diverted to...
EGYPT TV RECYCLES 'ZIONIST PLOT' SAGA FOR ARAB BELIEVERS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Arab TV fans across the Middle East are getting a special hate-filled dessert after a day of Ramadan fasting - with an anti-Semitic TV series produced in Egypt,...
RUDY REJECTS MEX COPS SAYS 'GRACIAS, BUT NO GRACIAS' TO POLICE PROTECTION OFFER
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amRudy Giuliani may be the man to take a bite out of Mexico City's notorious crime and cop corruption. But when he heads south of the border to wage his...
COPS HUNT 'LOOKOUT' IN DJ JAY SLAYING
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amCOPS want to question an acquaintance of slain disc jockey Jam Master Jay because they think he may have been the lookout for the hit man who executed the pioneer...
COUNCIL ASKS BLOOMY TO AIM LOW ON PROPERTY-TAX HIKE
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amNew Yorkers are going to see some sort of a property-tax increase by the end of the year - but hopefully not the whopping 25 percent the mayor is suggesting,...
1-TON CRANE CABLE HITS BYSTANDER
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amA rope on a construction crane snapped over a busy uptown sidewalk yesterday, sending a 2,000- pound cable ripping into an elderly man and breaking his leg. Workers at the...
SOTHEBY'S CONVICT IS SPRUNG
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amDisgraced auction empress Diana "DeDe" Brooks laid low yesterday, a day after she completed her six months of house arrest for her role in a price-fixing scheme. The 51-year-old former...
NEIGHBORS FEARING WEST SIDE STADIUM
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amEllen Chrystal, who just this year bought a co-op a block from where Mayor Bloomberg's proposed West Side stadium would sit, isn't happy. The 55-year-old legal secretary recently sunk "half...
HERO FIREMAN STILL CRITICAL
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amThe fire lieutenant who was critically burned in a Queens blaze last week remained in critical condition and under sedation yesterday after being transferred to the New York Hospital burn...
HOMELESS ARE WHERE HEARTLESS NYPD IS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amThe city is violating a federal court order by harassing and intimidating homeless men legally sleeping on the steps of a Fifth Avenue church, lawyers and advocates charge. The homeless...
'PLEASE DON'T GO OUT': MOM OF FDR CRASH VICTIM HAD EERIE PREMONITION OF TRAGEDY
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amThe distraught mother of a Yonkers girl who died along with two friends in an apparently booze- fueled car wreck yesterday had a premonition that something bad would happen -...
UNION HITS FDNY IN 9/11 RADIO PROBE
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amAn FDNY union official yesterday blasted the city and Fire Department brass for not fully investigating the communications apparatus used during the World Trade Center attack, in which 343 of...
HOSPITAL BED$ORES : 6G FOR ONE-NIGHT STAY AT LENOX HILL
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amThe Lenox Hill Hospital patients guide shows what appears to be an average room - complete with one of those ugly curtains between the beds. What it doesn't mention is...
TATTLETALE IN TOWN TO DUMP DIRT
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amPrincess Diana's former butler is taking his case to the American people. Paul Burrell brought his tell-all tour to the Big Apple yesterday, ducking photographers at Kennedy Airport as he...
ARAB ENVOY REPORTING PROGRESS ON IRAQI ARMS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amIraq may be taking steps to comply with U.N. resolutions after one of their officials met with Arab foreign ministers in Cairo yesterday. Although no final decision was made, Egyptian...
SAD FAREWELL TO SLAIN DAD
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amFamily and friends gathered yesterday at the wake of a Brooklyn restaurant worker who was killed last week when a homeless man plunged a knife into his heart. Dressed in...
HE FED DI'S BULIMIC BINGES: HELPED HER GORGE AMID MARRIAGE'S BREAKDOWN
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amWITH Princess Diana's marriage crumbling and deep depression setting in, it was Paul Burrell who fed the troubled royal's eating disorders. The embattled butler, in a tear-filled confession airing today...
PRINCESS DI VIDEOTAPE
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amIn a stunning poke at Prince Charles from beyond the grave, a newly revealed video tape of Princess Di shows the late royal baring "innermost feelings" about her loneliness, isolation...
CAMELOT SUNSET
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amOVERSHADOWED by the GOP juggernaut last Tuesday is another significant outcome of Election 2002: The end of the fabled Kennedy mystique in American electoral politics. Not that this is a...
STRIKE DI'SPIRIT'ING :LIQUOR SUPPLY DRYING UP
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amA strike by two major liquor distributors could turn into an Absolut bombshell for discerning city drinkers, as the labor strife is causing local lounges to quickly run out of...
MALVO SAYS HE FIRED GUN: REPORT
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amPsycho Sniper sidekick John Lee Malvo admitted to investigators he was the shooter in at least one of the Beltway rifle murders, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. Malvo, 17,...
VICTORIA GOTTI
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amDON'T expect Dubya's niece Lauren Bush to follow in the family business. While the rest of her clan was gearing up for Tuesday's midterm elections, the First Niece Monday was...
FISCAL AGONY LINGERS LONG AFTER SURGICAL PAIN
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amLenox Hill Hospital helped repair a 22-year- old woman's broken neck. Now, it may break her back - financially. The Manhattanite fell and broke a neck vertebrae in April while...
REAL SWING MUSIC DEBUT CD FOR GORILLA SONGWRITER
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amShe's friends with Leonardo DiCaprio, reads Vogue, has been the subject of documentaries and just released her first CD. She's Koko, the "talking" gorilla. The 31-year-old lowland gorilla, who lives...
PARADISE-BOUND
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amI'M outta here - off to the Punta Cana Beach Resort in the sunny Dominican Republic - so I won't be here next Sunday. Here's what I'm packing: "Dead End,"...
CODDLED WHITE-SHOE ATTORNEYS SPEW FORTH FROM THE WHINE CELLAR
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amWHAT would you do if you nailed a $125,000 starting salary right out of school? Aside from getting down on your hands and knees and making a giant novena, that...
VOTING AMID SPECTER OF SCUDS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM. THE U.N. Security Council's resolution on Friday setting a timetable for the dismantling of Saddam Hussein's arsenal of weapons of mass destruction means that Israelis may be going to...
KIN'S AIRLINE FUROR 'CRASH' JETS STILL USED FOR LATIN FLIGHTS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amMembers of New York's Dominican community, still reeling from the devastating, mysterious crash of Flight 587 that killed friends and family, said the airline involved treats them like second-class citizens...
'WIDOWS' IN COURT: DUELING 'HEIRS' TAKE $QUABBLE TO JUDGE
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amThe marital mystery of a World Trade Center victim who lived with one woman but was secretly wed to another is going to court. At issue is who are the...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amQUEENS A 28-year-old woman was found dead in her bed yesterday after her husband noticed she had mysteriously stopped breathing, police said. Sylvia Kiernan was discovered dead in her bed...
W. GIVES U.N. HIGH MARKS ON IRAQ 'TEST'
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amPresident Bush, pleased with U.N. action on Iraq, said yesterday that Saddam Hussein faces "a final test" to surrender his weapons of mass destruction. "This was an important week for...
BIOTERROR ATTACK CONCERNS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amConcerns over a bioterror attack in New York City are leading doctors to see smallpox where there is none. According to health department sources, at least four false reports of...
NEIGHBORS' IRE RISING AT W. SIDE STADIUM
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amEllen Chrystal, who just this year bought a co-op a block from where Mayor Bloomberg's proposed West Side stadium would sit, isn't happy. The 55-year-old legal secretary recently sunk "half...
3 DEAD IN FDR CRASH: WRONG-WAY SPEEDER SMASHES STOPPED AUTO
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amThree Yonkers women were killed and a fourth critically injured yesterday when their speeding car made a wrong turn, careened out of control, struck a parked car and smashed into...
WHERE'S THE MONEY? SHODDY CITY TAX RECORDS HINDER HUNT FOR DEADBEAT MILLIONS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amCash-strapped New York City is owed tens of millions in back taxes, but the Dept. of Finance is so plagued by faulty records, it may never collect a dime from...
OILERS' SLIPPERY SLOPE WILL LOWE AX FRIEND?
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amCOLUMBUS - It's great to be in the position where you can hire a friend, but what happens when it becomes necessary to fire him? That's the difficult scenario now...
MIAMI'S NO. 1 PRIORITY SLOPPY 'CANES HAVE TO IMPROVE
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amKNOXVILLE, Tenn. - For a team that has won 30 straight games, the longest streak in college football in 45 years, the Miami Hurricanes came into Neyland Stadium yesterday talking...
'EVENING' WARMING UP
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amJockey Club Gold Cup winner Evening Attire, a candidate for either the Cigar Mile at the Big A on Nov. 30 or the Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs on Nov....
PAWN OF A NEW DAY GMS LOOK TO DUMP TRASH
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amTUCSON - They come from the city of the "$20 Rolex," so Yankee GM Brian Cashman and his Met counterpart Steve Phillips should be familiar with the idea of pawning...
OVERPAID KNICKS NOT WOR$T
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amCONTRARY to reports, the Knick players are not the NBA's most overpaid ($91 million), though, if it pleases James Dolan, Camp Cablevision does lead the league in exhibiting the least...
TOTTENVILLE WINS ONE IN CRUNCH TIME
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amPSAL PLAYOFFSTottenville 28Bayside 20 Tottenville was used to playing in close games. It just wasn't used to winning them. The Pirates suffered two last-minute losses during the regular season and...
OH, BABAE! CHAVEZ TAKES ATHENIA 'CAP
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amThe 6-year-old mare Babae, favored at 8-5 under highweight of 120 pounds, pulled away to a daylight lead on the far turn under Jorge Chavez and easily held off the...
AND THEY'RE OFF...BUT ALL ODDS ARE STILL ON
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amAMERICA'S racetracks finally moved yesterday to deal with the most damaging scandal in parimutuel betting--their practice of misleading bettors by posting phony odds on the tote board. While the ongoing...
FOOTBALL'S STILL FIRST FOR SHOWBIZ SEHORN
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amWE'VE grown accustomed to seeing as much of Jason Sehorn off the field as on it in recent years. There was the credit card commercial where he tried to outrun...
NAILON DENIES SPAT WITH SILAS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amLee Nailon is tired of talking about facing New Orleans tonight in the Garden, tired of being asked about any ill will toward the team that waived him last month....
ASKING PRICE NOT HIGH TO HUNT PRIVATE PROPERTY
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amSINCE 85 percent of New York state is privately owned, many hunters rely on private landowners for hunting opportunities. Nearly two-thirds of the hunting in the state is on private...
NO ARTIFICIAL MOTIVATION IS REQUIRED
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amOn the eve of last week's possible season-turning victory over the Chargers in San Diego, there were some emotional words spoken during the Jets' Saturday-night team meeting. Defensive coordinator Ted...
BELL MAY SOUND END FOR HENSON, VENTURA
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amTUCSON - In a sign the Yankees are not only ready to move away from Robin Ventura in the present, but also perhaps Drew Henson for the future, GM Brian...
DISRESPECT THIS! MIFFED MIAMI PUMPS UP THE VOL-UME
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amMiami 26Tennessee 3 KNOXVILLE - Angered by a perceived lack of respect; insulted by a drop in one bowl and in the BCS ratings; frustrated by their own inconsistent play,...
DAYNE HOPES HE DIDN'T FUMBLE CHANCE
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Ron Dayne said he hopes his fumble in the fourth quarter last week does not erode the confidence Jim Fassel showed in him against the Jaguars. Fassel, calling...
FAB FIVE FIX MAKES ROSE MAD
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amCHICAGO - If you want to slam the Michigan basketball program for improprieties involving a booster after guilt has been proven, fine. But don't do it because of allegations against...
ISLES MAY BE STAR-STRUCK
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amSnapping their losing streak may quiet trade rumors swirling around the Islanders, but it doesn't make the schedule any easier. They'd barely had time to savor their victory over Edmonton...
FUN NIGHT? NOT FOR THE DEVILS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amThis, apparently, is the alternative to methodical, boring, victorious Devils hockey. The wildest, most entertaining evening of Meadowlands pucks this season broke out last night simply because the Devils broke...
IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM . . . BLOWN-OUT RANGERS PICK FIGHT
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amCOLUMBUS - An amateurish and uninterested Ranger performance turned somewhat interesting with 2.8 seconds to play here in last night's slothful 6-3 loss to the Blue Jackets, but not for...
NFL HONCHO ISN'T SELLING IT LIKE IT IS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amWELCOME, again, to the Idiots' Picnic. The NFL's otherwise credible sergeant at arms, Gene Washington, on ESPN during the week, dismissed as untrue the fact that the NFL punishes players...
SINK-OR-SWIM TIME FOR JETS VS. FISH GANG CAN'T AFFORD TO BE GREEN AROUND GILLS AGAIN
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amWhether they deserve this chance or not, given their ugly underachieving first half of the season, is not the issue. The reality is that, with a win over the Dolphins...
COWART HAS A 'SCORE' TO SETTLE WITH RICKY
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amLook for a lot of gang tackling from the Jets' defense tonight as their primary focus will be stuffing Dolphins' running back Ricky Williams. Williams, who's third in the AFC...
HERMAN'S HEROES BETTER NOT BLOW IT
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amHERE is some unsolicited advice for the Jets tonight: Don't blow it. Your season should have been ruined. You should have been dead and buried. Some of you played like...
JINTS WELL AWARE OF PURPLE POTHOLE LAST SEASON'S LOSS TO HAPLESS VIKINGS FRESH IN THEIR MINDS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - There was an edge in his voice, a tone that suggested Shaun Williams did not care to be trifled with. Not anymore, anyway. The subject-matter was the state...
FASSEL'S GOT LOT MORE ON HIS PLATE
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - When he gave away the play-calling duties late in the 1999 season, Jim Fassel freed himself up to concentrate on the entire Giants football operation. He was not...
OLD-MAN KITTLES GLAD TO CONTINUE JERSEY JOURNEY
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES CHICAGO - He is 28, still relatively young by any standards. And yet Kerry Kittles is ancient in terms of Nets longevity. Of the 12 Nets who suited...
FIRST OFF, NETS NEED TO WAKE UP
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amCHICAGO - Maybe it's the security of having Jason Kidd on your side. Maybe it's the ocean-deep supply of talent. Whatever the reason, Byron Scott and the Nets are trying...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amDEBUSSCH: REBUILD NOW! Ex-Knick great Dave DeBusschere, who won the Patrick Ewing lottery when he was GM, would tear it down and rebuild the Knicks immediately if he were the...
NO BREAK FOR MARTY
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amTheir prize thoroughbred is still the Devils' workhorse and Pat Burns is riding him as hard as he can. Martin Brodeur was expected to continue his streak of starting every...
'WOOZY' MIKE OK
November 10, 2002 | 5:00amCOLUMBUS - The Rangers kept using terminology such as "cloudy" and "woozy" to describe the way Mike Richter has been feeling in the aftermath of being kneed in the head...