February 16, 2003
LOVE PUTS PIANO MAN RIGHT BACK IN TUNE
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amBilly Joel is singing a happier tune these days: He's making sweet music with his gorgeous new gal pal and is set to get back on the road. The troubled...
NEIGHBORHOOD PRIDE: YET ANOTHER WAY TO MARK YOUR STATUS IN NEW YORK
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amWhere you live says reams about you. Lower East Side? You're a liberal trust-fund baby with an artistic bent. Upper West Side? You have a dog, two perfect children and...
LITTLE BLACK BOOK... YOUR GUIDE TO THE GOODS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amMagnificent Seven: Fashionistas know the drill at Showroom Seven, where you can get wholesale prices on labels like Ghost, Jiwon Park, Imitation of Christ, Fever jeans and more. This one...
GUILTY WITH AN EXPLANATION
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amCLARA HARRIS, who acted like Jean Harris when she mowed down her lowdown, no-good orthodontist of a husband, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday. How a jury...
LATE-NIGHT RISK OF BREAST CANCER
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amWomen who work on the night shift or who like to stay up late may have an increased risk of breast cancer because their body clocks become confused by artificial...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amBeethoven and Bach have been recruited for law enforcement. A bus station in Charlotte, N.C., is planning to play classical music and smooth jazz to discourage loitering teens. "We know...
TRAGEDY ON THIN ICE; BOY, 13, DIES IN BX. PARK
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amA 13-year-old Bronx boy who couldn't swim was plucked from the icy waters of Van Cortlandt Lake yesterday, but the NYPD's dramatic rescue was not in time to save the...
'WE WILL CHOP OFF YOUR HEADS': DEFIANT IRAQ VOWS LONG FIGHT
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amBaghdad is ready and willing to fight a decade-long war and its troops will chop off the heads of anyone who tries to attack Iraq, one of Saddam Hussein's top...
THE ACTRESS WHO WANTS TO BE A $5B COLLEGE GIRL
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amShe looks like any other grungy New York student and aspiring actress when she leaves the stage door of the Broadway theater where her play is in previews. But 18-year-old...
PANEL PUSHES LOUD PARENT VOICE IN SCHOOL OVERSIGHT
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amA state panel will recommend that parent-controlled "district education councils" replace the city's 32 elected community school boards in monitoring the 1,100 schools starting next fall, The Post has learned....
DEVILS CHASING DRURY STAR SNIPER BEING SHOPPED BY FLAMES
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amBUFFALO - He may not be the biggest name among those who are being shopped, but make no mistake about it, Chris Drury is the prize commodity on the market....
MEXI-WOE CITY TERROR THREATS HAVE METS WORRIED ABOUT TRIP SOUTH OF THE BORDER
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - As the nation braces for a potential war with Iraq and terror alerts remain at an all-time high, the future of the Mets-Dodgers two-game exhibition trip...
REYES ON TO SHEA
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Shortstop prospect Jose Reyes arrived from the Dominican Republic yesterday sounding humble about his chances of making the Mets and hopeful he can learn...
WILL TYSON BOUT BE KO'D?
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amMike Tyson's reliability as a heavyweight contender will be on the line over the next few days as promoters pray he gets healthy enough to avoid postponing his Saturday fight...
THIRD-MAN STATUS WON'T FAZE FAXON
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amLA JOLLA, Calif. - If you look really hard, squint maybe, you'll find a third player in today's final group of the Buick Invitational. As difficult as it may be...
MASTERS PROTESTS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amAT THE EXPENSE of the usual tranquillity that typifies Masters week, I hope there is no resolution to this very public feud between Martha Burk and Hootie Johnson over Augusta...
TRADES, TRUTH & BLOWHARDS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amWITH the NBA's Trade Show scheduled to close Thursday at 6 p.m. (EST), we wish to apologize to counterfeit columnists, dot-com dopes and imitation TV analysts everywhere if we haven't...
DOLLAR DIVES, SMALL-CAPS THRIVE: SEE SMITH BARNEY
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amHISTORY shows that in times of a declining U.S. dollar, small-cap stocks usually outperform their larger-cap brethren. So now is a good time to find a good small-cap fund for...
THE LECHER & THE NYMPHET
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amThere he is, Fernando Rey, the screen's perfect lecher, on the platform of a train about to pull out of the sta tion. Suddenly, a much-younger woman (Carole Bouquet) appears....
TOP DOG: MEET MICK: BEST IN SHOW
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amABSTRACT On Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, one dog beat out 2,604 others to take the prestigious purple ribbon for Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog...
A TOAST TO DONNA'S GUY
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amIT was a baker's two dozen when 24 of Donna Hanover's girlfriends and one surprise guest got together Monday at Bouterin on 59th to celebrate her 53rd. Almost to a...
TEA-RIFFIC RX FOR ARTHRITIS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amDrinking green tea may help stop arthritis, scientists say. The tea, first consumed in China nearly 5,000 years ago, has long been thought to be beneficial to health. It has...
PEARL OF WISDOM : FATHER OF SLAIN WRITER WARNS EUROS ABOUT HATE
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amEuropeans must take some responsibility for the spread of radical teachings that have given rise to international terrorism, the father of slain reporter Daniel Pearl said yesterday. Speaking out a...
MARCHERS' MIDTOWN STREET THEATER
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amThey dressed in black robes and carried effigies of dead children, donned paper masks smeared with red paint, chanted anti-war slogans and waved signs, as the city's neighborhoods and grass-roots...
FACEOFF: SCORES ARRESTED AS ANTI-WAR PROTEST STRANGLES MIDTOWN
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amThe worldwide battle for peace hit New York yesterday, as hundreds of thousands of anti-war demonstrators crowded the streets to deliver a one-word message to a nation on the brink...
KOREA'S 'DUFFER' DESPOT TURNS 61
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amForget Tiger Woods, and Jack Nicklaus, nuke-loving North Korean president Kim Jong-il is the real king of the links - or at least his officially controlled media would have you...
WEDDED EXCESS COMES FULL CIRCUS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amTHE only thing missing was the Elvis impersonator. Even in a city where celebrity exhibitionism is a competitive sport, the wedding of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones in November 2000...
HACKERS' NEW WAY TO CHEAT 'PAY-VIEW'
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amCable-television pirates claim a $10 device sold on the Internet gives free access to pay-per-view programs. The 2-inch device, called a descrambler or filter, purportedly blocks the signal from the...
YOU'VE GOT E-MAIL
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amFROM shmuly t: " 'How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days' should be renamed 'How to Lose a Captive Audience in Ten Minutes.' " From LisaDoll: "If a German...
ISRAELIS: EUROPE IN DENIAL
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM.DO the French and German governments really believe the United States is so wrong about Saddam Hussein? That's the question Israeli intelligence experts debated - knowing as they did that...
NEW VIEW OF CABLE TV THEFT
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amCable television pirates claim a $10 device sold on the Internet gives free access to pay-per-view programs. The 2-inch device, called a descrambler or filter, purportedly blocks the signal from...
MCNAMARA'S 3 LIFTS SYRACUSE
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amSyracuse82N. Dame80 SYRACUSE - The chance to move Syracuse into first place in the Big East West was in Gerry McNamara's hands. McNamara might only be a freshman, but the...
SMOKING CUBAN CONTRERAS' FASTBALL DAZZLES IN EYE-OPENING PEN SESSION
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - A bullpen session in the middle of February means very little when evaluating talent. However, when you heard Jose Contreras' fastball pop catcher Omar Fuentes' mitt yesterday morning...
WILPON'S NOT DONE WITH DEALS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - There's no mandate to cut the second-highest payroll in baseball. In fact, Mets owner Fred Wilpon might even OK an addition or two before Opening Day....
SHOWDOWN: TIGER VS. PHIL RIVALS READY FOR FINAL-ROUND DUEL AT BUICK TOURNEY
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amLA JOLLA, Calif. - Golf does not produce better theater than today's final round of the Buick Invitational at majestic Torrey Pines. This is masterpiece theater, a heavyweight bout between...
ELIAS WANTS EXPLANATION
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amPenguins4Devils1 Mystified and upset, the Devils' perennial leading scorer says he will question Pat Burns about being benched in last night's debacle. "I was just wondering why, what was the...
PETA'S PRINCIPLES SHOW DISREGARD FOR HUMANS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amJUST when you thought you heard it all, the animal rights folks keep coming up with something even more bizarre. A recent story in the Jewish World Review printed a...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amRoad rules: Roseanne Cash ruled Joe's Pub on Wednesday as she performed songs from "Rules of Travel," her first studio album in 10 years. "I wrote this song when I...
MIDEAST DEVILS GET A 'PEACE' OF THE ACTION
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amPRESIDENT Dubya managed to accomplish in just half a term what presidents, kings, prime ministers, rabbis, imams, popes, soldiers, diplomats and assorted U.N. windbags have never been able to do....
BON JOVI A $TIFF: HOUSEKEEPER
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amA New Jersey cleaning woman has a no-nonsense message for Bon Jovi: You give rockers a bad name. So says Maria Sliwinska, who's suing the dashing hit-maker in small-claims court,...
ALARMING TALE OF JACKO IN THE SACKO
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amWacko Jacko rigged up an alarm to warn him if anyone approached his bedroom as he slept with kids, a new report said yesterday. Former Los Angeles Police Detective Bill...
JOKE MILLIONAIRE: BAD HEIR DAY LOOMS FOR WINNER
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amIt's the end of the line for Fox's "Joe Millionaire" reality show, but it's uncertain whether that will mean the boot for lying construction worker Evan Marriott. The make-believe millionaire...
EAST END OUTLAW DROWNS: FLED FROM OFFICER INTO ICY L.I. CANAL
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amA career criminal drowned yesterday after he accidentally drove a stolen car into an icy canal in the Hamptons while trying to elude a cop, police said. Bradley Gaines, 42,...
THEIR LUXE RUN OUT: GAGGLE OF GLITTERATI DOWNSIZING DIGS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amBigger is not always better in Manhattan's shrinking real-estate market. Some of those fearful that the real-estate bubble is about to burst - as many experts have long predicted -...
'BEATEN-UP' BLIND MAN SUES COPS FOR $45M
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amA 73-year-old blind man is suing the NYPD for $45 million, claiming cops assaulted him last month and kept him handcuffed to a hospital bed for nearly 10 hours. "These...
LADY PROF JOINS SHUTTLE PROBE PANEL
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amThe space board investigating the mysterious crack-up of the shuttle Columbia has added the first woman to its ranks - an expert in high-altitude flight who could help solve whether...
MILLIONS THRONG WORLD CAPITALS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amPeaceniks the world over filled the streets of their capital cities in unprecedented numbers yesterday with banners, balloons and ballyhoo to demonstrate against U.S. plans to attack Iraq. Cops said...
'WE WILL CHOP OFF YOUR HEADS' : DEFIANT IRAQIS MARCH
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amThousands of American troops massed in Kuwait in preparation for a possible invasion of Iraq yesterday, while Baghdad said it was ready for a decade-long war and warned it would...
KNICKS TAKE AIM AT KOBE
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amKNICKSatLAKERSTonight9:30 - MSG WFAN (660) Everybody remembers what happened the last time Kobe Bryant faced the Knicks. How could you possibly forget? On Feb. 6, Bryant authored perhaps the virtuoso...
TRUTH, TRADEWINDS AND BLOWHARDS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amWITH the NBA's Trade Show scheduled to close Thursday at 6 p.m. (EST), we wish to apologize to counterfeit columnists, dot-com dopes and imitation TV analysts everywhere if we haven't...
CASTELLANO FINED $500
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amJavier Castellano, leading rider at Aqueduct's winter meet, was fined $500 by the stewards yesterday for "misuse of the whip" following Friday's seventh race. Castellano was returning to the paddock...
STORM BLOWN AWAY
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amThe end of the game became a mockery, with fans calling for classy St. John's walk-on Jon Scheiman to get 30 seconds of playing time. When the horn sounded on...
THIS STORY WON'T DIE NO ONE ANSWERS FOR LATEST WRESTLING TRAGEDY
February 16, 2003 | 5:00am"DID YOU SEE in the paper where that wrestler died?" I certainly did. Read it Wednesday in the papers. Even heard it on the radio. Curt "Mr. Perfect" Henning, 44,...
MACARCHUK SUCCEEDING AT STONY BROOK
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amDON'T even bother asking. Nick Macarchuk doesn't want to touch Fordham, not even with the 53-mile pole it would take for him to reach the Bronx campus. Friends say he...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amAnger Management NCAA warns coaches to behave March Madness is coming, but coaches like Mike Krzyzewski, Bob Knight and Rick Pitino better not get too mad. The Insiders have obtained...
KOVALEV'S BEEN BIG HELP : HOMECOMING KEYS RANGER REVIVAL
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amAnother big-ticket mercenary with no defensive conscience of the type that has had the Rangers spinning their wheels for almost six seasons scored a goal to win a game 1-0...
ISLES MISS POWER TRIP
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amAround and around the puck goes; where it stops no one knows. But when it comes to the Islanders' power play, there's a good chance it won't be in the...
STARR REPORT
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amTooth or dare: 'Daredevil' Duncan on 'Montel' Montel Williams had an unexpected run-in with actor Michael Clarke Dun can last Friday morning. Williams was at a Satellite Radio Tour at...
RETHINKING THE RULES OF THE GAME
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amI've always scorned the Rules. I like to think there's only one rule when it comes to dating and that's don't play games. If you feel like calling someone, call....
MOD, MINIS, AND MINK
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amFebruary 16, 2003 -- Not a fan of the '60s? Then you're out of luck next fall, when the funky, Mod-inspired looks that dominated the collections shown at Mercedes-Benz Fashion...
TERROR-FASHION WEEK
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amYES, while skinny socialites and phat rappers were trampling each other to be the first to lay down cold cash for dopey designer duds during Fashion Week, we real people...
ARROGANCE FROM A-TO-ZETA
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amPOOR Catherine Zeta-Jones. She testified in court about how horrified and upset she was to see unauthorized wedding photos of herself and her nearly 60-year-old husband published in Hello! magazine....
TORTURE CHAMBERS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amEXCUSE me, but didn't anyone in the Department of Correction notice that they were releasing killer and rough-sex aficionado Robert Chambers on Valentine's Day? Couldn't they have waited until, say,...
PIANO MAN IN TUNE AGAIN WITH NEW LOVE AND TOUR
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amBilly Joel is singing a happier tune these days: He's making sweet music with his gorgeous new gal pal and is set to get back on the road. The troubled...
WHEN DOVES CRY: DOZENS BUSTED IN ANTI-WAR PROTESTS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amThe worldwide battle for peace hit New York yesterday, as hundreds of thousands of anti-war demonstrators crowded the streets to deliver a one-word message to a nation on the brink...
VICTORIA GOTTI
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amB-GRADE BACK FLIP: It was no secret that my father had charisma. Was it because of his impeccable attire, his movie-star looks, or his charm? I'd say all of the...
SALE OF GREEDY ZETA : STAR MILKS OWN PRIVATE LIFE WHILE SUING 'INVADERS'
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amTHOUGH she is charging otherwise in a public courtroom in London, Catherine Zeta-Jones is the one who has relentlessly invaded the privacy of Catherine Zeta-Jones. The Hollywood beauty is an...
IT'S STRAIT-LACED LADY VS. TIED-UP TEMPTRESS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amMY mother, who knew a helluva lot about men, although I never knew exactly why or how, was fond of saying (always about someone else's daughter, sister, friend, of course),...
TEEN DIES IN TRAGEDY ON THIN ICE
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amA 13-year-old Bronx boy who couldn't swim was plucked from the icy waters of Van Cortlandt Lake yesterday, but the NYPD's dramatic rescue was not in time to save the...
WIFE DUMPS TEEN-TRYST SLAY SUSPECT
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amThe anguished wife of the man accused of killing a 13-year-old Connecticut girl he met over the Internet said yesterday she has filed for divorce. Tatiana Dos Reis is seeking...
MARTIN JUMPS BACK INTO NETS LINEUP
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amSIXERSatNETSToday1 p.m. - Ch. 7 WOR (710) The blue-and-black brace Kenyon Martin wore during Nets practice yesterday was a sign his strained left knee still isn't 100 percent. No matter....
KARSAY'S BACK WITH SOLID DAY
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Steve Karsay's first full mound appearance since undergoing back surgery last Nov. 7 went very well yesterday. "I expect to be a little stiff [today], no...
SETON HALL STUNS PITT
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amS. Hall73Pitt61 Moments after Seton Hall's upset of Pittsburgh yesterday, John Allen danced around with a banner that read "Upset," then dashed into the stands to hug his mother. Greg...
IT'S TIME FOR JARVIS TO SHARE IN BLAME
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amTIME WAS, it was easy to explain away St. John's chronic miseries, to assess blame for its slow, steady decline in the realm of legitimate college basketball powers. Time was,...
FEELING RIGHT AT HOME STANTON: MET SERENITY BEATS BOSS' BLUSTER
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - After only two days of wearing Belt Parkway road-worker orange, Mike Stanton has found a new New York home with the Mets. Call it a feeling...
ANDY'S INSTINCT: SURVIVAL
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - In our last episode of "Yankee Survivor," Ramiro Mendoza was voted off Steinbrenner Island, leaving just five players who have endured the entire Joe Torre era. And, boy,...
AN ELS OF A MATCHUP REAL SHOW WILL BE ERNIE-TIGER CLASH WEEK AFTER NEXT
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amLA JOLLA, Calif. - The only element missing from this weekend's climax of the Buick Invitational is Ernie Els. Els' presence at Torrey Pines would, quite simply, make this the...
DEPTH KEEPING DEVS DOMINANT
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amSo far, the Devils have managed to survive significant injuries by giving their farmhands a chance. While the River Rats refugees have been showing Pat Burns he can rely on...
TYSON FIGHT LIKELY DEAD
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amWhat little credibility Mike Tyson has as a title contender may have been lost yesterday when his fight this Saturday against Clifford Etienne in Memphis faced postponement amid a circus...
THE DEAL OF THE CENTURY: 30 TEAMS - THE POST MAPS OUT MONSTER 30-TEAM BLOCKBUSTER THAT'S FUN FOR ALL
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amDon't try this at home. Don't even think of making the first 30-team trade in major league history. Don't try to move 71 players here and there. Not when the...
HER CLUB LAUNCHES LOTS OF LAUGHS
February 16, 2003 | 5:00amCaroline Hirsch, the owner of Caroline's Comedy Club, is giving us the nickel tour of her famed facility. Our tour stops at the stage. Asked if she'd ever wanted to...