January 20, 2002
TRAGIC ENRON LESSON : EVADING TRAPS OF 401(K)S
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amIf you have Palm Beach retirement plans, you'll want to learn from the sad situation faced by thousands of Enron employees. The collapse of the energy giant destroyed many of...
NAVIGATING FUND WORLD
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amwww.mfea.com As the market gets more unpredictable for the average Joe, mutual funds gain appeal as a way to reap the higher returns associated with securities investing without having to...
BULL'S EYE
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amTHE 'KINDER' SEC HAS BIG P.R. PROBLEM The pressure is on new SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt - and the musical chairs in the commish's press office is a good reflection...
10-YR TREAS. NOTES ARE DUE
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amIN 2001, the place to make money in the bond market was in short-term Treasuries. In 2002, according to one bond guru, the big money will be made in intermediate...
MCD'S STOCK MAY BE MEATIER
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amQuick, name one of the top brand names in the world. There's a high probability you just said McDonald's. After all, the fast-food company has 29,000 restaurants in 121 countries...
PETTICOAT BOARDROOMS
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amIf you're stuck in the Dark Ages, you may be concerned that Lucent has just appointed a woman, Patricia Russo, to be its CEO. It is unusual: Out of all...
MOJO RISIN' : JIM CARROLL AND EX-DOOR RAY MANZAREK TO LET IT ALL HANG OUT ON THE SAME STAGE
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amOne is an L.A. rocker from the psychedelic '60s who writes. The other is a New York writer from the beat-punk '70s who rocks. But on Wednesday, Ray Manzarek, whose...
CHINESE CHECKERS
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amWang Xiaoshuai, whose supporters include Quentin Tarantino and Atom Egoyan, has directed five films in mainland China. They have won praise at international festivals and received theatrical runs in other...
CABLE REVEALS 'NAKED' TRUTH
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amIf there's one thing America has learned from the tragic and senseless events of recent months, it is to closely monitor our favorite cable news network because, sooner or later,...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: TALISA SOTO
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amMove over, Julia Roberts. Meet Benjamin Bratt's newest arm candy, Talisa Soto.The brown-eyed Latina beauty stars with the hunky actor in his latest movie, "Piñero," as his prostitute girlfriend, Sugar....
PLAY, PLAYER BOAST STAYING POWER
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amHow long can a play, or even a player, remain relevant? The question wandered into my mind after I saw the Atlantic Theater's sprightly staging of Harold Brighouse's amiable, 86-year-old...
DOCS NOT ALL THEY'RE QUACKED UP TO BE
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amI'm rarely ill, so I've never given much thought to doctors. But since suffering from an achy back, I've begun to wonder: When you have an ongoing problem, how do...
GILT TRIP : THE GOLDEN GLOBES' LIKELIEST WINNERS? ALMOST ALL AUSSIES
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amWill tonight's Golden Globes turn into the night from Down Under? That's a distinct possibility, mate. It turns out that films shot in New Zealand and Australia, and two big...
RAT POWER: PET RODENTS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amRecent news reports of a rat infestation in the Bedford Park area of The Bronx have many New Yorkers more terrified than usual of rodents. But some city dwellers see...
EXOTIC MOROCCAN FULL OF FUN, CULINARY THRILLS
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amZitoune 46 Gansevoort St. (212) 675-5224 Heading to the Meatpacking District for a taste of the exotic has taken on a whole new meaning since Zitoune's moved in. Now adventurers...
WHAT I WATCH
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amBENEDICT MORELLI Attorney and star of "Power of Attorney" "Boston Public." I like to follow which teachers are in, how they help the students to develop. And "The Practice" is...
POLITICALLY CORRECT DEFECT
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amJUST when you thought it was safe to commit art again, here comes the politically correct police - the PCP. In the course of one lousy week, a queen was...
INSIDE THE BOIES ROOM : BIAS ACCUSERS TELL OF FREEZE-OUT FROM MEN-ONLY PAY CONFAB
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amTwo female lawyers who once worked for legal titan David Boies have told The Post the sexual discrimination they allege took place in his office began in a men-only meeting...
ED BD. SHOULD JUST SHUT UP!
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amTHE venerable Mark Twain said in 1893: "First, God made idiots. Then he made school boards," adding, according to one biographer, "there is not enough lightning to go around." In...
YEAR 1: BUSH BEAT SHAKY START TO LEAD A COUNTRY AT WAR
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's first year began with some Americans unsure of his "legitimacy," progressed into a debate about tax cuts that Bush ultimately won, and reached a dark, clear...
MAN NABBED IN LARGE-SCALE REPTILE RIP-OFF
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amLeapin' lizards! Long Island cops have arrested a man they say lizard-napped more than $2,000 worth of scaly creatures from the Long Island Reptile Museum Oct. 27. Michael Padilla, 22,...
DUTCH DRIVERS' PHOTO FINISH
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amSpeeding drivers caught on camera in the Netherlands can now buy the photo as a souvenir. Police in Amsterdam are being flooded with requests from drivers caught speeding by police...
BAIL DENIED FOR SCHOOL SHOOT SUSPECT
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe youth charged with shooting two classmates at Martin Luther King Jr. HS was held without bail at Rikers Island after his arraignment on attempted-murder charges yesterday. Vincent Rodriguez, 18,...
SHOE BOMBER LEFT E-MAIL CLUES
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amAccused shoe bomber Richard Reid allegedly sent an e-mail to supporters across Europe in which he revealed his plan to blow up a Paris-to-Miami airliner and die a "martyr in...
OFF-THE-HOOK WTC 'RADIO-TERROR' MAN DEMANDS APOLOGY
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe man wrongly accused of being a terrorist suspect may be thrilled to be free - but he hasn't forgiven the U.S. government for putting him through "a waking nightmare."...
ANDERSEN DIGS UP ENRON FILES BURIED IN COMPUTER
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amArthur Andersen, the giant accounting firm caught in the Enron scandal, has recovered thousands of electronic files relating to the bankrupt Houston energy company, a new report says. The recovery...
WOMAN NABBED IN BOYFRIEND SLAY
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman was arrested on murder charges early yesterday after stabbing her live-in boyfriend to death during a domestic dispute, police said. Gladis Threadgill, 49, was charged with stabbing...
'COLD' BRIDE FROSTS HUBBY
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amAn American groom wanted to abandon his bride just hours into their marriage - saying she had grown "cold" fast. Michael Shiels and Rose Henry, who had been dating for...
FIDEL'S BRO: TERROR CAPTIVES NO PROBLEMA
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amCuba has no immediate objection to the United States using the Guantanamo military base to hold Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners, Gen. Raul Castro said yesterday. "Relations with the United...
SILENCED TALK-ERS' SOB-FEST
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe staff of shuttered Talk magazine mourned their loss with an impromptu wake at a staffer's flashy East Village home. More than 60 members of the newly defunct glossy gathered...
NYPD'S TURN TO DEAL WITH INT'L PROTEST
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amLeery of demonstrators who've plagued past summits, the NYPD has a sweeping plan to protect people and property during a World Economic Forum meeting this month, The Post has learned....
ISRAEL SENDS LOUD AND CLEAR SIGNAL TO ARAFAT
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said yesterday Israel's attack on the Voice of Palestine building was "extremely dangerous" - but Israel stood its ground, saying the attack was necessary....
CHICK FLICK TAKES TOP PRIZE AT SUNDANCE
January 20, 2002 | 5:00am"Personal Velocity," Rebecca Miller's drama about three troubled women, took the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival last night in Park City, Utah. Besides the grand jury prize for...
ANGUISH OF K-9 COP KIN AS NYPD TAKES HERO DOG
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amLost his canine partner.They were partners for two years and barely survived the World Trade Center destruction together. Now an NYPD decision has come between Officer Everett Ulmer and his...
TYSON MAY BE FLOORED WITH NEW RAPE RAP
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amIron Mike Tyson, being sued for divorce by his wife for adultery, now may be floored with a brand-new rape rap. Las Vegas cops say they've just concluded a four-month...
WRITE MOVE FOR BOMB-THREAT JET
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amA jumbo jet heading from London to Orlando, Fla., made an emergency landing in Iceland yesterday following a bomb threat. A flight attendant on Virgin Atlantic Flight 27 found anti-American...
DINKINS MAY GET A NEW FRAME OF FAME
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe new City Council is pushing to move the official portrait of former Mayor David Dinkins from the mayor's side of City Hall to a "prominent place" in the council...
ENRON & MAD LIBERAL SYNDROME
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amBEWARE, you Enron fanatics and conspiracy theorists. Let me warn you: This way lies madness. My Tuesday column pronouncing the Enron scandal dead as a political issue (if very much...
BIG 'BLIZZARD' IS JUST SOUND & FLURRY
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe Sanitation Department was ready to rumble with Old Man Winter yesterday - but the main event quickly turned into an undercard. Early forecasts had as much as 7 inches...
ALLERGIC REACTION TO CANDY KILLS RIKERS ISLAND OFFICER
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amA seemingly innocent piece of candy proved fatal for a Rikers Island guard who died after snacking at the city jail yesterday, officials said. Richard Sobrino, 38, of Levittown, L.I.,...
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME : 'ALTRUISTIC' EMBEZZLE SUSPECT LIVED THE HIGH LIFE: DA
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amHe may have acted like a Robin Hood, but suspected embezzler John Loan liked to live like a hearty lord. His glamorous lifestyle and plump expense account were more akin...
STROKE CAN'T STOP TIRELESS HARLEM REV.
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE is, of course, no convenient moment to suffer a stroke. But for Wyatt Tee Walker, the venerable Harlem minister, the timing could not have been worse. This is Walker's...
WTC SURVIVOR MEETS RESCUERS
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amA man pulled from beneath the rubble at the World Trade Center was reunited with his firefighter rescuers yesterday for the first time since Sept. 11. "They're all heroes," said...
U.S. CAGE AWAITS TALI-RAT
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amAmerican Taliban John Walker is on his long way back to the United States for the first time since being branded a rat and a traitor, according to Pentagon officials....
BUNCH OF BANANA SELLERS IN A 'FIX'
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amSometimes a banana isn't just a banana. A veteran produce wholesaler is claiming in a lawsuit that the price of New York's bananas has been artificially inflated in trades at...
CRIME-BUSTING KELLY OFF TO STRONG START
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Raymond Kelly's crime-fighting era is off to a solid start - with serious crime down more than 9 percent for the new year. And Kelly has taken to...
'HOSTAGES' TO RED TAPE : ADOPT AGONY FOR STRANDED U.S. PARENTS IN VIETNAM
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amFor six weeks they have nurtured their new babies amid the bustle and grime of downtown Ho Chi Minh City, but a group of American parents say they will not...
SHORTAGE OF ORGANS LEAVES FEW OPTIONS
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe shortage of available organs has forced surgeons to rely on living donors, even though the delicate transplant procedure is still fraught with medical and ethical concerns, doctors said. "No...
VICTORIA GOTTI
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amSHE was born a princess, the golden child of Hollywood royalty. The silver spoon in her mouth was platinum rather than sterling, and her home was a palatial Beverly Hills...
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE : LIVER-DONOR REPORTER SAVED SIBLING'S LIFE - BUT LOST HIS OWN
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amMike Hurewitz had a snack drawer that his co-workers at the Albany Times Union liked to raid. It was filled with cellophane bags of fortune cookies left over from Chinese...
'COVER-UP' OF VIOLENCE IS PROBED AT BRANDEIS HS
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amSchools Investigator Ed Stancik is probing allegations that serious incidents are being swept under the rug at troubled Brandeis HS on the Upper West Side, The Post has learned. "We...
ROLLING IN SNOW: CITY TACKLES BIG STORM
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe Sanitation Department was ready to rumble with Old Man Winter yesterday as snow fell on the Big Apple. An army of 353 salt spreaders and 1,400 plows was ready...
HOT-GRUDGE SUNDAY IN PITTSBURGH
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - One man's trash is another man's treasure. The garbage-mouthed Super Bowl champions, yesterday's feast and today's bones, are sitting on the curb, waiting to be disposed of by...
SLASH VS. ELVIS: THE OTHER QB DUEL
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH -There is much more to Pittsburgh versus Baltimore today than Kordell Stewart versus Elvis Grbac. It just so happens that the weight of each respective city rests unbearably on...
SHEFF ADDS SPICE TO BRAVES LINEUP
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amEVERY third year, the Yankees and Braves meet in the World Series. It happened in 1996, 1999 and now thanks to the latest Braves trade, it very well could happen...
BLUES WANT RICHTER IF RANGERS COLLAPSE
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amOTHER than Glen Sather, no GM has his eyes more trained on this Ranger spin cycle than Larry Pleau of St. Louis. For if the Rangers fall out of the...
MAYBE CLARKE ISN'T SO DUMB : PHILLY MIGHT NET BELFOUR IN THREE-WAY
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amA WEEK after chiding Bob Clarke for rushing to sign Roman Cechmanek to a three-year contract extension, Slap Shots has learned that there might actually be a method to the...
STORM EYE WRIGHT PLAN
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amBy this time of the season, there are no secrets. St. John's is the worst shooting team in the Big East and Villanova is the worst ball-handling team in the...
FOX, PANTHERS CLOSE TO DEAL
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amHe's not the new coach of the Panthers just yet, but there's a good chance Giants defensive coordinator John Fox will be before long, perhaps by the end of the...
DA BEARS AND BIRDS; DREAM OF EASY ST. :PHILLY AND CHI-TOWN BOTH SET SIGHTS ON NEW ORLEANS
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amCHICAGO - This time of year it is all about Super dreams. This is only the second round of the playoffs, but both the Bears and the Eagles are thinking...
BLUE SKILES CAN'T SHAKE SUNS : COLANGELOS WON'T LET SCOTTY BEAM OUT OF PHOENIX
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amSCOTT Skiles' attempt to become the fourth NBA head coach to resign this season (if you insist on buying the story sold by the Nuggets and Bulls that Dan Issel...
DEVS: IT'S ONLY ONE POINT
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amDevils3 Hurricanes3 Standards are crumbling. Accustomed now to catastrophe, the Devils are beginning to rationalize it. Forced to accept yesterday's 3-3 tie with Carolina at the Meadowlands, they seemed all-too-willing...
CHICAGO SPORTS AN AIR OF GREATNESS AGAIN
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amCHICAGO - The Windy City felt like a real sports city again yesterday with Michael Jordan playing in the United Center and the Bears hosting an NFL playoff game in...
EVENING ATTIRE LOOKS DAPPER IN AQUEDUCT 'CAP
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amWhen Evening Attire's flat-racing days are over, trainer Pat Kelly might want to try him over the jumps. Twice down the stretch in yesterday's Grade 3, $100,000 Aqueduct Handicap, the...
DRIVE TIME FOR TY : TOUR'S NEWEST PHENOM SET TO GO
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe PGA Tour's policy board voted in September to set the minimum age for membership at 18. The 9-member board that includes players Hall Sutton and Brad Faxon wanted to...
HEAD BUTLER DOES IT ALL FOR HUSKIES
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amWhen we last saw the Big East Conference's preseason Player of the Year, Boston College's Troy Bell was looking to the rafters in Conte Forum, hoping to find his shot....
BEARS GOOD - BUT STILL LACK THAT AIR OF GREATNESS
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amCHICAGO - The Windy City became a real sports town again yesterday, with Michael Jordan playing in the United Center and the Bears hosting an NFL playoff game at Soldier...
KNICKS COME UP SHORT: MUTOMBO TOWERS OVER CHANEY'S CREW
January 20, 2002 | 5:00am76ers97 Knicks89 PHILADELPHIA - The 76ers' Eric Snow shot an airball from the right baseline midway through the fourth quarter and Philadelphia's 7-foot-2 Dikembe Mutombo soared up and over the...
HUGH'S HIT ON MILLER CALLED DIRTY
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amCHICAGO - The Bears were growling about the second-quarter hit by Eagle DE Hugh Douglas that knocked Bear QB Jim Miller out of the game with a separated right shoulder....
LAYDEN STIRS POT ON SEVERAL DEALS
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Knicks GM Scott Layden may have been at Jim Dolan's wedding in Florida yesterday, but his cell phone certainly was on. Yesterday, Golden State center Marc...
NETS KEEP ON ROLLING : SWAMP ROCKETS FOR WIN NO. 26
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amIt took the Nets all of last season - an injury-plagued disaster of a campaign - to muster 26 wins. Last night, less than halfway through what promises to be...
PATROITS' TITLE HOPES ARE SNOWBALLING : WIN ON FG IN OT AFTER REPLAY FLAP
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amOVERTIME Patroits 16 Raiders 13 FOXBORO - The white-out snow conditions for last night's AFC Divisional Playoff game between the Patriots and Raiders were eerily reminiscent of the 1982 "Snow...
REF'S REVERSAL LEAVES RAIDERS OUT IN THE COLD
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amFOXBORO - In Oakland, it'll forever go down as the "Great Snow Job." In New England, it'll go down as payback for the infamous "Sugar Bear" Hamilton phantom roughing-the-passer call...
ORGANIZE YOUR LOCAL KIDS' FISHING DERBY NOW
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amLAST year more than 100,000 youngsters fished, many for the first time, in a Kids All-American Fishing Derby. In 2002 the number of young derby anglers will grow to nearly...
VIN-DICATION FOR PACK; SABOL SAYS '60S G.B., NOT '58 GIANTS-COLTS, LED TO TV REVOLUTION
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amNOTIONS, repeated often enough, always stand a good chance to eclipse reality. For as long as we can recall, we've read and heard - over and over - that the...
IT'S THE SHOWDOWN IN ST. LOO : TOP GUNS FAVRE AND WARNER LOCK & LOAD
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Brett Favre has won it three times. Kurt Warner has claimed it twice. Never before in the history of the NFL has there been a playoff game...
AWFUL STADIUM . . . AWESOME COACH : FAREWELL TO FOXBORO HOUSE OF HORRORS
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amFOXBORO - Last night was almost certainly the end of an era. Not for the Patriots, who entered last night's AFC Divisional Playoff game against the Raiders riding a six-game...
AWESOME COACH: BELICHICK REWARDED FOR GUTSY QB CALL
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amFOXBORO - Tedy Bruschi is as much a company man as there is on the Patriots. He's an overachieving, self-made NFL linebacker who this week agreed to a three-year contract...
SCOTT: WE HAVE LONG WAY TO GO
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amSomewhere along the way, the Nets have picked up a traveling companion, one they'd rather not have along for the ride - a reality check. See, so many times when...
JACKSON AND VAN EXEL TOP LAYDEN WISH LIST
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Scott Layden may have been at Jim Dolan's wedding yesterday in Florida, but his cell phone certainly was on as he danced. Yesterday, Golden State center...
SPREE STILL BELIEVES: LATRELL: WE'RE AS GOOD AS ANY TEAM IN EAST
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Latrell Sprewell said his piece about the team's frontcourt shortcomings in the preseason. Now with the Knicks in the throes of their worst crisis in more than a...
WORN HEELS WEAK MATCH FOR HUSKIES
January 20, 2002 | 5:00amSTORRS, Conn. - The matchups we were hoping to see have faded like the blue in an old North Carolina jersey. When the Tar Heels and Connecticut Huskies agreed to...