June 11, 2001
UBS DROPPING INTO 101 PARK
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amA Midtown skyscraper where a daredevil nighttime rappelling scene was filmed for the movie "Entrapment" is snaring another major tenant at a likely higher rent. Sumitomo Mitsui Bank Corp. is...
WHAT'S OLD IS NEW ; BRANDS OF YORE ARE TRENDY AGAIN
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe new "Keds for Jeffrey" collection of high-end sneakers is literally walking out of the store. After three weeks of selling at Jeffrey New York and Jeffrey Atlanta, more than...
EDS MULLS HIKING BID FOR UGS
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amElectronic Data Systems Corp., the No. 2 computer services provider in the U.S., plans to sweeten its bid to buy the 14 percent of Unigraphics Solutions Inc. it does not...
ORGANIC STYLE'S SOUR GRAPES
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amCRAB grass growing at Organic Style? A new gardening, fashion and lifestyle title is in the works from Rodale Press, but it looks like chaos behind the scenes. The project...
STARR REPORT
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amO'Reilly cites 'Factor' in his success Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, cable's prime-time ratings king with "The O'Reilly Factor," is the cover story for TV Guide's upcoming (June 16) issue....
'WITCHBLADE' SUMMONED TO CAST TNT RATINGS SPELL
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amTNT is banking on a new fantasy series called "Witchblade" to cast a positive spell on its image. The new show, about a New York homicide cop named Sara Pezzini...
MET OPENS GELMAN GALLERIES
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN they weren't making Mexico's hottest movies, dining with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo or having their portraits painted, Jacques and Natasha Gelman were buying art - serious art. Works...
STRIPES BECOME STARS
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amWHITE Stripes fever has hit Manhattan.The band may be garage rock, but this southwest Detroit brother/sister duo got their start in the family attic. Lead singer/guitarist/songwriter Jack White picked up...
MUST-SEE SHOWS ON DISPLAY
June 11, 2001 | 4:00am* FASHIONABLE history buffs can head to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years" - a smash hit that drew more than 120,000 visitors in...
EAT 'RUNT' ONLY WHEN STARVING
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amEAT THE RUNT At American Place Theater, 46th Street and Eighth Avenue; TeleCharge, (212) 239-6200. 'EAT the Runt" by Avery Crozier, as directed by Matthew von Waaden, has an amusing...
DUMB & DREADFUL: 'FEAR FACTOR': SO BAD IT'S SCARY
June 11, 2001 | 4:00am"Fear Factor" Tonight at 8 on WNBC/Ch. 4 Rating: 4 garbage cans I TAKE it back. "Kristin" is not the dumbest show NBC ever thought up. "Fear Factor," NBC's new...
SHARK SUIT MAKES WAVES
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amIF you've got a budding Britney Spears on your hands, here's a bathing suit for her. Your daughter won't be baring much in the new Shark Suit, designed to be...
STATEHOUSE STANDUP LEAVES 'EM LAUGHING
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amGOV. PATAKI was a bumbling ethnic panderer, Carl McCall and Andrew Cuomo were obsessed with beating Pataki, and Mayor Giuliani was consumed with pornography. And that was just for starters...
SUBWAY MAVEN BIDS TO SAVE THE RAIL BIRDS
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amSTAN FISCHLER has a dream. OK, so it's no Martin Luther King kind of dream, but it's a dream, nonetheless. Fischler, that ornery Brooklynite best known for six decades of...
THIS KILLER'S EXECUTION UNWORTHY OF PROTESTS
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amTERRE HAUTE, Ind. DAVID SMITH from Albany, N.Y., was waggling a sandwich board mourning the death penalty for venom-meister Timothy McVeigh, and I suddenly thought about little Tevin Garrett, whose...
HOW TO BE THIN AS A 'WEED'
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amMarijuana may give you the munchies, but it won't make you fat, researchers say. According to a new study, regular marijuana users consume up to 40 percent more calories than...
COPS SEEK PAIR IN 3 BROOKLYN STABBINGS
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amThree homeless people were stabbed in Brooklyn yesterday in two incidents that cops believe were the work of the same attackers, police said. The violence began at about 4 a.m....
'WRONG' MAN FINALLY FREE: COURT TOSSES CONVICTION AFTER HE SERVES 10 YEARS
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe conviction of a Brooklyn man who spent 10 years in prison for setting a woman on fire has been tossed by an appellate court that accused the DA's office...
MOZART DIED FROM PIGGING OUT ON POISONOUS PORK, DOCTOR SAYS
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amA pork cutlet may have changed the course of music forever - by cutting short the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Theories on what killed Mozart at age 35 in...
SHARON'S HUBBY'S TOE NAILED BY LEAPING LIZARD
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amA giant lizard couldn't control its basic instinct, attacking the husband of actress Sharon Stone at the Los Angeles Zoo. The Komodo dragon, apparently bored with its regular menu of...
BLOOMBERG EAGER FOR MCCAIN BY TOM TOPOUSIS AND DAVID SEIFMAN
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amNewly minted mayoral candidate Mike Bloomberg is counting on a campaign boost from one of the nation's most popular politicians - Sen. John McCain. "That would be great," Bloomberg said...
BUSH GETS MIXED SENDOFF ; HEADS FOR EUROPE WITH GOP SALUTE, DEM WARNING
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - GOPers predicted smooth sailing for President Bush's first European trip, although Democrats warned that he'd better reach out to allies who are feeling "alienated." Bush leaves tonight on...
TWINS LIKELY GOT TALKING-TO: AIDE
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush and his daughters spent the weekend on the family's Texas ranch, where a top official speculated the teenage twins got an earful about illegal drinking. White...
MOST KEEP THEIR COOL DURING THE LAST WALK
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amSome laugh, some cry, some pray - and some put up a fight. But in the waning hours of life, most death-row inmates are, as Timothy McVeigh was, ready to...
MOTHER-TO-BE KILLED BY HOME INVADERS
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amA pregnant woman was murdered in her Washington Heights apartment yesterday by robbers who pushed their way in, police said. The woman, in her mid-20s, was shot once in the...
'I'M THANKFUL FOR THAT DAY'
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHOUGH Randy Ledger was mangled beyond recognition in the Alfred P. Murrah building, he considers April 19, 1995 to be the best day of his life. "Before that day, I...
HER SCARS ARE 'BADGES OF HONOR'
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amFOR six weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, Susan Urbach couldn't clean the dried blood off her face. The doctors warned her that soap and water would aggravate the sensitive...
SUPREME COURT REJECTS VIDEO BID
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court yesterday opted to make sure the only way people remember Timothy McVeigh's execution is via memory, not videotape. The court let stand a lower-court ruling...
A MOVING 'MEMORIAL' DAY FOR VICTIMS' KIN
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amOKLAHOMA CITY - Those whose lives were changed forever by the Oklahoma City bombing spent the last hours of Timothy McVeigh's life remembering his victims at the site of the...
CRUEL KID TESTS BARED AFTER 60 YRS.
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amScientists conducted a hideous experiment on Iowa orphans in the late 1930s - teaching them to stutter in an effort to better understand the affliction, it was reported yesterday. Most...
TENET-TIVE PEACE STALLS
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - CIA chief George Tenet's plan to nail down the shaky Mideast cease-fire hit a snag yesterday with Palestinians balking at the blueprint as new violence erupted. A three-way...
DANGEROUS KOOKS STILL PLAGUE US
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe threat of deadly terrorist attacks from racist anti-government extremists will not go away with today's execution of Timothy McVeigh, counter-terrorism officials warn. There may be scores more McVeighs drifting...
WARNING: MORE DANGEROUS KOOKS POISED TO STRIKE
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe threat of deadly terrorist attacks from racist anti-government extremists will not go away with today's execution of Timothy McVeigh, counter-terrorism officials warn. There may be dozens more McVeighs drifting...
GOOD RIDDANCE - NOW LIFE CAN GO ON
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amTERRE HAUTE, Ind. THE THREE hard men from the plains of Indiana gave six thumbs up for Timothy McVeigh's fast-track to hell - then went back to drinking their beer....
EXECUTION HAS U.S. ON WATCH FOR TERRORISM
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amU.S. government agencies are going on high alert today - bracing for possible attacks from anti-government extremists trying to avenge the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Security has been beefed up...
KILLER A MARTYR TO SOME ON FAR RIGHT
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amTo a hard-core cadre of hate-mongers, Timothy McVeigh has already become a beloved martyr. "We must mark this date in history," writes "Sister" Lisa Turner, a member of the white-supremacist...
NICHOLS MAY STILL FACE DEATH PENALTY
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amWhile Tim McVeigh was being sent to his maker, co-conspirator Terry Nichols was hundreds of miles away in his prison cell praying he doesn't have to join his ol' Army...
DI'S BROTHER: DODI JUST A SUMMER FLING
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amEarl Spencer, the brother of Princess Diana, says his sister would never have married boyfriend Dodi Fayed. Speaking for the first time about a letter he received from Di days...
ZOO ELEPHANT MAKES BREAK
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amAn elephant getting washed behind the ears behaved like a bad schoolboy yesterday, escaping from his pen and toppling over a baby in a stroller at the Denver Zoo. The...
U.S. ON ALERT FOR REVENGE STRIKE
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amU.S. government agencies are going on high alert today - bracing for possible attacks from anti-government extremists trying to avenge the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Security has been beefed up...
'TOUCH & GO' AT PUERTO RICAN PARADE: A FEW GROPES AT COP-HEAVY EVENT
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amWolf whistles, video cameras - and, yet again, sick gropers - greeted women at yesterday's raucous Puerto Rican Day Parade. Police said at least seven women reported being victims of...
TEXAS' DEADLY DELUGE ; TROPICAL STORM KILLS 16 AS HOUSTON BAILS OUT
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amHouston continued to bail out of a killer weekend flood that took 16 lives across parts of Texas and Louisiana, forced thousands of people from their homes and shut down...
HOW MCVEIGH SPENT LAST HOURS: FINAL MEAL: MINT CHOCOLATE-CHIP ICE CREAM
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amTimothy McVeigh was "calm" as the hour of his death approached, spending his last day on earth in a stark 9-by-14-foot cell, watching TV, enjoying a last meal of ice...
DONNA KARAN'S HUSBAND DIES
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amStephan Weiss, the husband and business partner of designing woman Donna Karan, died yesterday of lung cancer. He was 62. Weiss, who was also a sculptor and painter, married Karan...
WHEELCHAIR DAREDEVIL BUILDS ADVENTURE BOAT
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amA wheelchair-bound British man is building a sailboat capable of taking him around the world on his own. Mike Browne, 52, will be able to sit in his wheelchair and...
HAVING A SIBLING WILL MAKE YOU SMARTER, BRIT STUDY DISCOVERS
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amForget about tutors and after-school study groups. There's a new way for parents of struggling students to boost their kids' grades: making them a new brother or sister. Results of...
HOW MCVEIGH SPENT LAST HOURS : WATCHED TV, PHONED FAMILY GOODBYE
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amTimothy McVeigh was "calm" as the hour of his death approached, spending his last day on earth in a stark 9-by-14-foot cell, watching TV and saying goodbye to his family...
HE DIED WITH EYES WIDE OPEN: BOMBER'S FATHER LEFT WITH LEGACY OF SHAME
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amPENDLETON, N.Y.- As Tim McVeigh took his last breaths this morning, his hometown's thoughts rested more with his father, who will wear the shame of his son's action forever. "Tim...
HE DIED WITH EYES WIDE OPEN: BUT BOMBER REFUSED TO SPEAK A WORD
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amDefiant to his final breath, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh died today with his eyes open and his mouth shut. In a statement written in his own hand, he declared,...
MCVEIGH JOINS INFAMOUS CLUB
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amTimothy McVeigh's journey to oblivion was a gruesome circus - and a fitting end - for the nation's biggest mass murderer. This morning he became the first federal prisoner to...
WHO'S NEXT ON FED DEATH ROW
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amTwenty other men await the same fate as Timothy McVeigh - a date with death in the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. The next federal execution is slated for...
YOU CAN'T REST AND WIN ; THOSE WHO SKIP PREAKNESS HAVE NO CHANCE AT BELMONT
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amPOINT Given's dazzling conquest of the Belmont Stakes did more than stamp him the leader of the band; it offered powerful evidence of one of racing's great truths and vindicated...
THERE MUST BE SOME REBUILDING IN THE SWAMP
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE were going to have to be significant changes, win or lose. The way the Devils struggled against themselves both on the ice and within the walls of their locker...
'POINT' BEST BY FAR
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amIn the wake of Point Given's Belmont Stakes performance, no one should be embarrassed for predicting back in April that he would sweep the Triple Crown. Except for the Kentucky...
NETWORKS DROP THE BALL; ABC GIVES YOU NOTHING, NBC GIVES YOU TOO MUCH
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amLET'S face it. The only essential service that sports TV/radio critics provide is confirmation to readers that they weren't alone in watching and hearing the same ridiculous stuff. Yep, you're...
SCHROEDER GRABS DOYLE'S FUMBLE
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amHaving won the NFL Golf Classic here two years ago, Allen Doyle cherishes the Upper Montclair Country Club. After yesterday's final round, however, Doyle might like to see the 17th...
HOLE ON 'D' DOOMED DEVILS ; FAILURE TO GET HELP COST ULTIMATE PRIZE
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amONE short. Besides victories, that's what the Devils were on defense. While they were beaten in every department by the Avalanche, they would have won their third Stanley Cup if...
ONE FOR THE PROFESSOR
June 11, 2001 | 4:00am1st RACE - Trainer Dennis "The Professor" Brida sent out a good-looking, state-bred first-time starter as Flake O came off the pace with a wide move on the turn and...
JOHNSON LEAVES HIS MARK AT FIRST
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - It took Mark Johnson 18 at-bats to match Todd Zeile's home run total. Zeile's hit two in 219 swings this year. Yesterday, starting at first...
POWER FAILURE HITS AGAIN VS. CYBER RAYS
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amPower 0 C'Rays 0 The scoreless tie returned to haunt the Power last night as the WUSA's top-scoring team did not score a 0-0 tie against the Bay Area Cyber...
MAJORS AIN'T HARD TO BEAR; JACK SAYS PLAYERS PSYCH SELVES OUT OF SLAM DANCES
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amWinning one of golf's major championships is one of the most difficult achievements in sports. At least that's what we've been led to believe. The elevated rough, the fast greens...
'ALBERT' STILL GREAT AT BELMONT
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amAlbert the Great continued his dominance over the Belmont main track with a 31/4-length victory over Perfect Cat in the Grade 2 $250,000 Brooklyn Handicap. It was another three lengths...
VAN HORN TO JAZZ?
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The Jazz want to bring Keith Van Horn home to Salt Lake City. And so, according to separate league sources last night, the Nets and Jazz have continued...
KEVIN'S 7 A GEM DANDY ; APPIER STOPS MET AGONY OF D-SWEEP
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amMets 10 D-Rays 0 ST. PETERSBURG - Lenny Harris' blood is laced with honesty. Although he is in his 13th season, he answers questions directly without cliché-ridden player speak. So...
ALL HE NEEDS IS A FEW RUNS ; MADDUX ESCAPES .500 TERRITORY
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amGreg Maddux can empathize with Mike Mussina's lack of run support. Just don't expect him to feel sorry. Maddux, the right-handed Braves ace, came into Sunday night's start with a...
PETTITTE LIKELY TO GO THURSDAY
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre and the Yankees don't feel a pressing need to save Andy Pettitte for the Mets next weekend. One day after saying Pettitte would pitch Friday or...
HORRY-BLE ENDING FOR PHILLY
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 3 Lakers 96 76ers 91 PHILADELPHIA - The Diesel roared into Dikembe Mutombo like a runaway train with a caffeine-laced engineer at the controls. Offensive foul. The clock at...
MADDUX KNOWS NON-SUPPORT
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amGreg Maddux can empathize with Mike Mussina's lack of run support. Just don't expect him to feel sorry. Maddux, the Braves' ace, came into last night's start with a 2.32...
PETTITTE POSSIBLE THURSDAY STARTER
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre and the Yankees don't feel a need to save their best starter for the Mets in this weekend's Subway Series Lite. One day after saying Andy...
YANKS' SLIP SHOWIN' ; RED-HOT BRAVES ZAP STRUGGLING BOMBERS AGAIN
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amBraves 4 Yanks 1 Panic Time hasn't arrived. However, the Yankees have reached a juncture in the season when they must take a serious glance at several ways to improve...
MOOSE UNDER GUN ; RIGHTY'S RECORD (5-7) SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amOUT of the frying pan shrugged Mike Mussina, thrown into the fire. Refusing to demand of his manager of four months - who wasn't going to change his mind anyway...
ROTTEN ROCKER JUST WON'T GO AWAY
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amAbout the only person John Rocker could beat out in a popularity contest is Timothy McVeigh. But for the second straight day, he helped beat the Yankees. A lot of...
TORRE GETS PASS ON MUSSINA MOVE
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHAT sniveling Mike Mussina, who didn't have the guts to demand of a manager who has been his boss for four months the opportunity to pitch against Pedro Martinez for...
TORRE KNOWS HIS GAME: RECORD EARNS MANAGER BENEFIT OF DOUBT
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amOUT of the frying pan shrugged Mike Mussina, right into the fire. Refusing to demand of a manager who has been his boss for four months the opportunity to pitch...
IMPERFECT STORM: MADDUX, BRAVES CAPSIZE YANKEE YACHT
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amBraves 4 Yankees 1 The Yankee yacht isn't sinking. But it's certainly not sailing smoothly, either. Assembled with former ship builder George Steinbrenner's money, the vessel is one of the...
TORRE: POSADA WON'T WEAR GEAR FOR AWHILE
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Jorge Posada has thrived as a pinch-hitter and a DH since suffering a sprained left thumb a week ago yesterday that has kept him from catching. However, despite...
MARQUIS TAKES ON HIS HEROES: S.I. STAR BATTLES HOMETOWN YANKS
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amVisualization is such an important concept in sports. Ask Jason Marquis about it. The first time the Braves' reliever took the hill at Yankee Stadium, he was a high school...
PETTITTE: I'M READY - AILIN' YANK LEFTY EXPECTS TO FACE EXPOS THURSDAY
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amJoe Torre and the Yankees don't feel a pressing need to save arguably their best starter for the Mets next weekend. One day after saying Andy Pettitte would pitch Friday...
SIXERS WON'T HACK SHAQ, FOR NOW
June 11, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The Sixers swear they won't do it. No way. Resort to Hack-a-Shaq? They'd rather drink anti-freeze. So it'll never happen. Unless it's real necessary of course. So the...