June 7, 2001
WHY DRUG DEALS WILL RISE THIS MONTH
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S everyone out of the pooling by the end of June. That's when the Financial Accounting Standards Board will no longer permit companies to use the sometimes-favorable pooling-of-interest method of...
H-P, J.P. SOCK STOCKS ; DOW OFF 105 ON EARNINGS FEARS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amBlue chips suffered triple-digit losses yesterday as chilling earnings forecasts from two big industrials spurred a sell-off that stopped a four-day rally. Technology giant Hewlett-Packard Co. confirmed yesterday what many...
NYC MUSEUM SITE IS NOW A HOT PROPERTY
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amThe scrimmage is on to take over the landmarked Museum of the City of New York building. The New York Road Runners Club, the Cab Calloway Harlem Renaissance Institute and...
IDEALAB! CUTS GOTO.COM STAKE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amPortals appear not to be a good idea right now. Idealab! yesterday filed to sell 5 million shares of GoTo.com, the Internet portal that charges companies a few cents to...
A.G. EDWARDS DENIES SALES RUMORS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amA.G. Edwards Inc. swears that it wants to remain independent, but the stock market apparently thinks differently. Stock of the St. Louis-based regional brokerage firm shot up yesterday on revived...
EXCITE SHUTS PORTALS IN 10 EUR. NATIONS ; LATEST BLOW TO HURTING ISP
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amThe woes are piling up fast at Excite@Home. The company announced yesterday it is shuttering three of its European offices - in France, Spain and Germany - as well as...
EARLY EXIT FOR FRANK LALLI, DAILY NEWS SUNDAY EDITOR
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amIn the latest upheaval at the always tumultuous New York Daily News, the paper's Sunday editor, Frank Lalli is out after less than three months on the job. "I spent...
DANZIGER BACK IN CONDE NAST NEST
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amLucy Danziger is back inside the Conde Nast building, this time as the new editor-in-chief of Self. She starts Monday, the same day incumbent Self Editor Cindi Leive moves into...
CONFLICT PROBE; AG LOOKS AT WALL STREET ANALYSTS' CONDUCT
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amThe spotlight on Wall Street's beleaguered research analysts just got brighter. The New York state attorney general's office said it has begun an investigation into conflicts that analysts may have...
YO, HOT MAMA! LADIES IN WAITING SHOW OFF THEIR ASSETS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amJUST look at those sexy curves! Moms-to-be are flaunting their big bellies in stylish clothes that lovingly grace their bulging bellies. No more maternity muumuus - think leather microminis, camouflage...
THE DOG IS NOT THE PROBLEM
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amTHE DOG PROBLEMAtlantic Theater Company, 336 W. 20th St. Through July 1. Tickets: (212) 239-6200. THERE is in the play a yellow Labrador retriever called Buddy. He squats on a...
HANDOUTS MAKE MIDTOWN MESS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amEVERYWHERE you walk these days, you find people passing out on the street - that is, fliers for everything from restaurants and clothing stores to jewelry shops and strip joints.Maneuvering...
DEATH OF A DRUG LORD
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amEIGHT years after the manhunt for the world's biggest drug lord, Pablo Escobar, his violent death is suddenly news again. What luck for CNN. The all-news channel next week is...
'SEX' AND 'SIX' BREAK RECORDS ON HBO
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amSEX and death sells. Just ask HBO. The pay cable channel dug up some serious ratings Sunday night for the premiere of "Six Feet Under," the dark comedy about a...
PIT-STOP MOMMA: KELLY RIPA PLANS TO HAVE HER BABY AND BE BACK WITH REGIS IN JUST ONE MONTH
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amTOMORROW is Kelly Ripa's last day on "Live with Regis & Kelly" before she takes a four-week maternity leave. That's right - four weeks. Not the usual six weeks, eight...
READING A BETTER NEWSLETTER
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amSOME of the junk in Surfer gURL's e-mail box is my own doing. I subscribe to newsletters, neglect them (never open them, ever) and can't be bothered to unsubscribe. Many...
THE STARR REPORT
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amWill Rose or Denise be 'Charmed' by WB? With Jennifer Love Hewitt out of the picture, the producers of "Charmed" are said to be eyeing Rose McGowan or Denise Richards...
QNS. TEEN PLUNGES TO DEATH AFTER ELEVATOR STUNT: COPS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amA 14-year-old honors student died in a seven-story plunge down a Queens elevator shaft last night, police sources said. Patrick Fanor fell from the 10th floor of 98-23 Horace Harding...
POL JABBED OVER FREE FIGHT TIX
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amRep. Nydia Velazquez grabbed free tickets to last month's Felix Trinidad title fight at Madison Square Garden from promoter Don King - possibly violating congressional rules on receiving gifts, The...
BLOOMBERG CAN'T 'BUCK' THE SYSTEM
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amMIKE BLOOMBERG has announced for mayor in two television commercials. In the English-language version, he wore a dress shirt and tie, and wrapped himself in Giuliani-ism. But in the Spanish-language...
DRUNKEN RAGE LED TO ROYAL MASSACRE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amA top member of Nepal's royal family has finally admitted for the first time that the country's deceased crown prince was responsible for last week's palace bloodbath. In a bid...
BANG-BANG BACKSTOPS: POSADA, GREENE LIFT YANK 'B' TEAM
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner arrives today. In between watching the Devils go for the Stanley Cup tonight and the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, The Boss has questions about his up-and-down Yankees. The...
RUSSIAN COSMO-NETTES FACE MARS 'BAR'
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amMen are from Mars, women are from Venus - and Russian space officials want to keep it that way. Russia will ban women from its first mission to Mars, saying...
COPS NAIL JANUARY-SLAY SUSPECT
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amAn odd phone call by a man suspected of raping and killing a 17-year-old auxiliary police officer in January led to the man's arrest early today. Eladio Pena, 27, of...
COST OF HEALTH COVERAGE IS SOARING, STATE POLS FIND
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Health-insurance rates for many New Yorkers have skyrocketed by double-digits over the past two years, figures released yesterday show. Many of the increases exceeded 20 percent and some...
ABORT GROUP SUES GOV'T.
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amAn abortion-rights group filed a federal lawsuit yesterday trying to get the courts to overturn the Bush-administration decision to yank funding for abortion-counseling overseas. President Bush rescinded the funding just...
PARADE TO HONOR THE 'VIEQUES 4'
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amPleas went out to the jailed "Vieques Four" to end their weeklong hunger strike yesterday, while supporters said Sunday's Puerto Rican Day parade will be in their honor. "We are...
DOC: I WAS DOUBLE-CROSSED: SUES BLUES OVER REFUND
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amA Chinatown doctor filed a $7 million suit against Empire Blue Cross-Blue Shield yesterday, saying the health-insurance giant dropped him for refusing to make a huge refund for care it...
CANADIAN VANISHES ON W. SIDE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amCops are baffled by the disappearance of a leading Canadian theater director who vanished in the Big Apple last month. Terry Costa, 27, artistic director of the UNI Theater in...
PHOTO CAN'T FRAME TEEN IN CAB ROBBERY
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amA picture may be worth a thousand words, but "indictment" isn't one of them, a Queens grand jury has determined in the case of a teen accused of robbing a...
MELISSA HOT FOR YOUNGER GAL
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amLesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge has finally mended her broken heart - by dating a hot young actress 14 years her junior. Etheridge, who just turned 40 and is on the...
TIX-SCALP CAP SET TO GO UP
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - The Legislature yesterday voted to ease restrictions on ticket scalping, but not throw buyers on the mercy of the free market. The Senate, Assembly and Gov. Pataki agreed...
BLACK BIZ A RACIAL HOSTAGE TO JESSE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amONE of the country's leading black broadcast executives says Jesse Jackson and his cronies have held his business hostage for three years because he refuses to kowtow to them. "They...
NYPD TRIAL JUDGE HITS 2 COPS OVER 'INACTION' IN PARK RIOT
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amAn NYPD trial judge has convicted two cops of failing to help a woman being molested by a crowd in Central Park after last summer's Puerto Rican Day Parade, The...
YANKEENETS INK DEAL FOR NEW ARENA IN NEWARK
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner's YankeeNets organization has finally landed its lucrative Newark arena. Under the deal with New Jersey, the Devils and Nets will move from the Meadowlands into their $355 million,...
BERMUDA'S BATTLE ROYAL OVER $2.7B
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S A vicious battle pitting the royal children of a playboy baron against their father and his glamorous fifth wife. The scene: a courtroom the family had built specially for...
CHUCK AND HILL STILL BACK BYRD, EVEN AFTER SLUR
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amTHANKS to the Democratic takeover of the Senate, the guy who's third in line to be president is now a senator who used a racial epithet, the hated N-word, on...
STRIP-CLUB WITNESS ASKS: WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SEX?
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTA - The government's star witness against a swank strip club that catered to sports stars was battered by defense lawyers yesterday and ripped by the judge. Thomas "Ziggy" Sicignano...
ED. BOARD PLANS ELITE HS-COLLEGE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amThe Board of Education announced yesterday it is creating a combined high school-junior college that will enable students to obtain an associate's college degree in four years. The students would...
3RD JEWEL HAS WARD WORRIED
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amJOHN Ward, the blunt-spoken trainer of Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos, issued a startling warning at his Belmont Park barn yesterday. "Monarchos and Point Given - we're both set up to...
DEM DASCHLE GRABS SENATE REINS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - For the first time since 1994, Democrats yesterday regained control of the U.S. Senate, with Sen. Tom Daschle insisting he had a "clean, clear majority" to lead. The...
TORCH WANTS INDEPENDENT GRAFT PROBE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) yesterday asked for his federal corruption probe to be turned over to a special counsel, a move that could delay any possible indictment. Torricelli...
JUDI KNOWS FIRSTHAND ABOUT UGLY BREAKUPS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amBELIEVE it or not, the Rudy-Donna war of words is nothing compared to the battle six years ago between Judi Nathan and her ex-husband, Bruce. Back in 1995, Judi and...
EMERGENCY VROOOM? HEVESI'S SIREN WAILS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amCity Comptroller Alan Hevesi was seeing red yesterday after he was caught rushing to a TV interview using lights and sirens. The Democratic mayoral candidate was nailed on the Long...
ASIAN KIDS IN FEAR AT B'KLYN HS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amMore than 100 Asian-immigrant students at Lafayette HS in Brooklyn signed a petition yesterday, complaining that their school isn't safe - after a Pakistani native was beaten by bullies. The...
TURLINGTON YEARNS TO HAVE KIDS WITH BURNS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amChristy Turlington plans to go from supermodel to supermom - by having four or more kids with her hunky hubby-to-be, Edward Burns. "We would love the idea of even more...
IMMIGRANT SEX RING BUSTED
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amBrooklyn cops yesterday busted a Russian prostitution ring that authorities said forced newly arrived immigrant women to become hookers. The prostitutes turned tricks in empty apartments above stores and on...
MIKE HITS THE TRAIL: LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN WITH MEDIA AND MAILBOX PUSH
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Bloomberg spent his first day on the stump hitting the streets and facing the press yesterday, as his campaign flooded voters' mailboxes with leaflets touting him as the Big...
RUDY GETS HIS 'EASY' $39.6B BUDGET DEAL
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and the City Council hammered out a $39.6 billion budget yesterday in what one official called the "smoothest" round of negotiations he's seen in a dozen years. With...
'BABY KIDNAP' MOTHER SURRENDERS AFTER 21 YRS.
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amWith the man she allegedly snatched as a toddler pushing her wheelchair into the courtroom, Judy Smiley pleaded not guilty to kidnapping charges yesterday. Smiley, in the wheelchair because of...
JURY BURNS CIG MAKER FOR $3B IN CANCER CASE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A jury burned Big Tobacco yesterday and slapped cigarette king Philip Morris with a more-than-$3 billion award - believed to be one of the largest individual judgments...
MISSING INTERN SLEPT AT POL'S APT.
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amA California congressman admitted to cops that missing D.C. intern Chandra Levy has slept over at his Washington apartment, it was reported today. The report, in The Washington Post, also...
HILLARY'S COLLEGE THESIS ON EBAY
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is in the middle of another hot publishing deal - a Republican consultant has somehow obtained her under-wraps college thesis and put it on the auction...
MADONNA TO GET IN DEEP PUNK FOR HER WORLD TOUR
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amMadonna is swapping her cone bras and corsets for safety pins and torn T-shirts. The Material Mom will kick off her new world tour this weekend in a wild '70s-style...
YANK HOSTAGE HURT IN PHILIPPINE RAID
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amAn American missionary kidnapped by Islamic extremists in the Philippines was injured by a grenade in a furious firefight with government forces, his captors claimed yesterday. A spokesman for Abu...
PROFILING LATEST OF HILL'S BILLS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday introduced a bill to ban racial profiling - a measure that stands a good chance of becoming law this year since it is...
CUOMO & CARL GET DOWN IN THE MUCK
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Simmering tensions between Democratic rivals Carl McCall and Andrew Cuomo erupted yesterday as the two gubernatorial candidates exchanged angry charges of negative campaigning. Former federal Housing Secretary Cuomo...
FBI BURNS $8M QUEENS FRAUD RING
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amIn the language of law enforcement, a credit-card account that's been sucked dry by greedy criminals has been "busted out," "banged" or "burned." Yesterday, FBI officials announced that there's been...
L.I. LAW TARGETS CAR-PHONE USERS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amNassau County has enacted a ban on hand-held cellular phones while driving in a new law that also bans dialing while the car is in motion. The law is more...
LOVE NEST MASSACRE: TWO FIRED OVER RUDY, JUDI LEAK; ST. REGIS PROBING STAFFERS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amHeads began to roll yesterday in the wake of The Post's bombshell report that Mayor Giuliani and girlfriend Judith Nathan have used The St. Regis hotel for quiet getaways. Two...
MAN OR MOUSE? ROGER CAN ANSWER BY BATTING VS. METS --- OR HIDING BEHIND TORRE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amIF ROGER Clemens were capable of shame, his face right now would be as crimson as the numbers on the Red Sox uniform he once claimed he would wear forever....
MOUNT STAR FINALLY GETS THE CALL ON 48TH ROUND
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amAfter his team was eliminated from the CHSAA playoffs last Saturday, Mount St. Michael catcher Collin Mahoney was able to take some solace in the fact that the major league...
SORIANO LEARNS LESSON
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amAlfonso Soriano came back to the dugout after being thrown out at second base on a ball he drove off the right field wall with one out in the seventh...
MARIST'S MAGARITY MAY JOIN HORNETS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amCHICAGO - After 15 years in Poughkeepsie, Marist coach Dave Magarity is mulling taking a job with the Charlotte Hornets in a scouting/personnel capacity, The Post has learned. Magarity has...
GREENE IS HAPPY TO HELP
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amJorge Posada's sprain is Todd Greene's gain. The Yankees purchased Greene's contract on Tuesday and recalled him from Triple A Columbus to assist at catcher until Posada's sprained left thumb...
IKE, JINTS CLAM UP ON WR'S FUTURE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amAt long last, Jim Fassel had his sit-down meeting yesterday with Ike Hilliard. It lasted two hours and when it was complete the bizarre saga grew not only more mysterious,...
'POINT' OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: DRAWS WIDEST 3RD RACE IN ROW
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amPoint Given, the massive chestnut supercolt who finished a puzzling fifth in the Kentucky Derby before winning the Preakness by 21/4 lengths, can't win the Triple Crown this year. But...
THIRD CUP MEANS DYNASTY
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amThey stand on the eve of dynasty tonight, at the brink of becoming the greatest NHL team in a decade. Yet the Devils stand 14 months removed from crashing in...
BOOMER MILL SPINS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner has no qualms about bringing David Wells back to The Bronx. And that was before Ted Lilly gave up homers to the first two Orioles last night. The...
LILLY NOT THE ANSWER: BOMBERS NEED TO FILL HOLE IN ROTATION WITH MENDOZA
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amTED Lilly took the ball for his eighth start of the season last night against the Orioles, putting the Yankees on notice to bring their offense to the ballpark. A...
FAB FOURTH OFFERS TRUE GRIT
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amIN SOME circles, calling three guys the best fourth line in hockey might be tantamount to telling your friend in high school that his blind date has the best personality...
BUGGED BY RIDER SWITCH
June 7, 2001 | 4:00am2ND RACE - When entries were drawn for this race Sunday, John Velazquez, meet's leading rider, was originally named to ride favored Nikita. But Velazquez had to take off all...
WIN-IT-NOW DEVILS GET A STAR-TLING REMINDER
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amThey have been here before, just last season. With a chance to win the Stanley Cup at home, the Devils failed to finish off their foe. "It was the best...
INSIDER MILLS TO BE NAMED KNICK PREZ
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amSo much for Cablevision's "nationwide search" to replace the ousted Garden prez Dave Checketts. In a surprising inside job, executive VP Steve Mills will be promoted to Knicks president, The...
COOK SHOOTING TO HIT LOTTERY
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amCHICAGO - New York point guards Kenny Satterfield and Omar Cook have been friends since age 13 when they played in the Riverside Church League. They were together again last...
BOMBERS REMAIN IN THE MIX FOR WELLS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner has no qualms about bringing David Wells back to The Bronx. And that was before Ted Lilly gave up homers to the first two Orioles last night. The...
METS THE UNDERDOGS? THAT'S A JOKE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - You have to love the Mets' creativity, if not their game. Over the last few days they've painted themselves as gutty little underdogs, valiantly trying to hold onto...
GREENE BLAST EARNS BIG-TIME STADIUM WELCOME
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amJorge Posada's sprain was Todd Greene's - and the Yankees' - gain. On Tuesday, the Yanks purchased Greene's contract from Triple-A Columbus, recalling him as an insurance policy at catcher...
AMAZIN'S GET BUM-RUSCHED: GLENDON STINKER, ANEMIC 'O' STYMIE MOMENTUM VS. PHILS
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - On Tuesday, Bobby Valentine implored his team to stick together. Everyone must sacrifice and everyone must contribute, he said. No one should "jump ship." Man overboard! Glendon Rusch...
ORDONEZ RETURNS TO STARTING LINEUP
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - After being scratched right before the past two games, Rey Ordonez didn't have his name erased from the lineup card last night. Ordonez' sore right shoulder felt good...
IN A PINCH, IT'S JORGE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amCOME TONIGHT, Jorge Posada will be a disgruntled ball player again. His name won't be in the starting lineup when the Yankees and Orioles meet in the final game of...
MAN OR MOUSE? ROGER CAN ANSWER BY BATTING VS. METS - OR HIDING BEHIND TORRE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amIF ROGER Clemens were capable of shame, his face right now would be as crimson as the numbers on the Red Sox uniform he once claimed he would wear forever....
A PAIR OF WELCOME BACKS : AMAZIN'S OFFENSE SET TO GET BOOST FROM FONZ, BENNY
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - After missing six-straight starts, both Edgardo Alfonzo and Benny Agbayani are expected to return to the lineup tonight against lefty Bruce Chen. Both Alfonzo and Agbayani have been...
POSADA ON THE MEND
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Jorge Posada took a small step toward returning to the lineup yesterday when he strapped a plastic guard to his injured left thumb, worked in the bullpen and...