April 10, 2001
OFFICIAL JOBS NUMBERS GROSSLY UNDERSTATE REAL HORROR
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amTHE loss of 86,000 jobs in March was startling to America. But here's the part that's even more shocking - the number of jobs that disappeared from our economy last...
STELLA'S STORE-Y - GUCCI BAGS MCCARTNEY, WILL OPEN OUTLETS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amComing soon to a location near you - Stella McCartney stores. Designing daughter Stella McCartney has entered into an agreement with Domenico De Sole's Gucci Group NV to create a...
MILSTEIN MELEE: HOWARD STRIKES BACK
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amFRIENDS of Howard Milstein, fed up with the way he's been portrayed as the bad guy in the Great Milstein Dynastic Struggles, are counter-attacking. For months, they have stood by...
VARNEY VAULTS TO RIVAL CNBC - LIKE DOBBS, EX-CNNER WILL DO GUEST STINTS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amStuart Varney is pulling a Lou Dobbs. Varney, the former co-host of CNN's "Moneyline," who quit the network last month because he was fed up, is heading over to rival...
CUSHMANS COMING BACK TO C&W
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amTwenty-three years after leaving the brokerage firm founded by their grandfather, Cushman Realty's owners are returning to the Cushman & Wakefield fold. A privately owned national brokerage, Cushman Realty is...
COMPOSTING ORGANIC GARDENING?
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amIs Rodale Inc. about to pull a "Rosie" with Organic Gardening? The company said it plans to launch a new magazine called Organic Style - conceived by company Vice Chairwoman...
IS AMAZON REINFLATING? - PREDICITING LOSS OF $255M SENDS STOCK UP 34% IN BUYING FRENZY
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amAmazon.com waved a good-news flag about its upcoming earnings, and Wall Street bit - sending its shares soaring 34 percent. Many analysts think Amazon.com still has troubles ahead, but it...
THE MASTERS' REAL WINNER WAS NIKE GOLF
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amNike executives were grinning ear-to-ear yesterday as they basked in the glow of their endorsers' 1-2 finish at The Masters, sure that their five-year plan to dominate the world -...
AT&T MOVES TO SELL $2B CABLEVISION STAKE
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amAT&T is mulling a plan to sell its stake in rival cable TV operator Cablevision in a deal valued at about $2 billion. The telecommunications giant said in a filing...
PEACOCK EATS CROW - NBC TO BUY BACK REST OF NBCI TO FOLD IT
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amNBCi.com will not, after all, replace AOL and Yahoo! The TV company NBC said yesterday it is offering $85 million in cash for the remaining shares of NBC Internet, and...
JURY MATH MISTAKE MAY ADD UP TO A BREAK FOR MP3
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amA Manhattan jury in a copyright case against online music provider MP3.com got hung up on numbers- telling the judge yesterday their $296,873 verdict was really supposed to be $2.9...
ALASKA ON ICE - EXPLORING DRAMATIC FJORDS AND GLACIERS OF THE INLAND PASSAGE ABOARD A SMALL YACHT
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amIT SOUNDED like the crack of a rifle shot. Instantly a wall of ice, the size and shape of the Empire State Building, sheared away from the Tracy Arm portion...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amBright ideas An illuminating exhibition that showcases the biggest names in light from the worlds of art and science is on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh...
4 STARS FOR COSTELLO'S 'FOR THE STARS'
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amELVIS COSTELLO and ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER "For the Stars" () Universal Classics For many rock stars, success is followed by a life sentence of repetition - as they replay...
DIPPED IN CHOCOLATE - HERSHEY'S NEW SPA SWEETENS THE USUAL MENU OF TREATMENTS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amTHE birthplace of America's most famous chocolate bar is a Willy Wonka sort of town. In Hershey, Pa., there are street lamps fashioned after silver-wrapped Kisses, a prancing mascot in...
THE STARR REPORT
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amSub invasion: Rosie out another weekRosie O'Donnell's hand infection kept her out of action yesterday and off "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" - where she won't return until next week. "We...
SUPPLEMENTAL 'PDR' BURSTS BUBBLE OF THE QUICK FIXERS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amFOR years, the PDR - Physicians' Desk Reference - has been required reading for doctors and hypochondriacs alike. Now there's "The PDR for Nutritional Supplements" (Medical Economics, $59.95), which does...
THE THIRD DEGREE - HOW TO GET THE INNOCENT OT CONFESS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00am"The System" premiere episode: "The Interrogation of Michael Crowe" Tonight at 10 p.m. on Court TV ( ) --------- IMAGINE if you can, the worst thing in the world. If...
CBS ROARS WITH TIGER
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amTIGER Woods' record-setting Masters victory on Sunday will likely score a ratings hole-in-one on CBS. While preliminary ratings for Woods' thrilling victory won't be available until later, indications are that...
CHURCH SHOWS WELSH OF TALENT
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amCHARLOTTE CHURCH CHARLOTTE CHURCH has sung for her queen, our president and even the pope. So the biggest question left for the littlest soprano was: Is she ready to solo...
BRITNEY, CHRISTINA ARE A LITTLE TOO RACY FOR CHURCH
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amWHILE Charlotte Church doesn't sing in the same pop category as other teen queens, the adolescent soprano thinks Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera go too far. "I think Britney looks...
MYSTERY OF THE 'VANISHED' VALLONE VOTE
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN you're running for mayor, you should be able to count on your campaign manager's vote - unless you're City Council Speaker Peter Vallone. Karen Persichilli, who is in charge...
BX. FIEND STABS BOY, THEN LICKS THE BLOOD OFF HIS KNIFE: COPS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amAn apparently deranged Bronx man licked the blood off his knife and laughed after stabbing an 8-year-old boy who accidentally bounced a basketball against his door, horrified witnesses said yesterday....
16G TIP MAITRE D'LIGHTFUL - ASTONISHING GRATUITY FOR SAME WORKER WHO GOT $1,000 LAST YEAR
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe suave Italian maitre d' at the upper-crust Upper East Side eatery Nello's - who landed a $1,000 tip last year - scored a $16,000 gratuity last night from a...
TAX-CUT SCOREBOARD - A SWING AND A HIT
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amIN December, it was an opinion universally held in Washington and among the pundits: George W. Bush's massive tax cut was dead, killed off by the uncertain outcome of the...
BLEAK LEATHER FORECA$T - EURO COW DISEASES DRIVE UP THE PRICE OF LUXURY ITEMS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amNEW YORK leather lovers may soon be getting tanned at the cash register, thanks to the devastating livestock illnesses battering Europe. The twin terrors of mad cow and foot-and-mouth disease...
'BLOW' GIFT REFLECTS POORLY ON HIT MOVIE
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amA little souvenir to promote a new movie is usually a good idea - but critics are saying the new movie "Blow" crossed the line with replica cocaine-cutter mirrors. Many...
DRUG PLEA GETS HEIDI OUT OF JAIL
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A contrite Heidi Fleiss admitted yesterday she has a drug problem, and copped a plea to get out of jail and into rehab. The 35-year-old one-time Hollywood...
REMEMBER CHRISTIE? WATCH OUT, GOV!
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki, like former New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman, could find himself in political danger because of skyrocketing auto-insurance rates. That's the view of leading experts, who say...
LAB DOCS 'HEAL' STROKE DAMAGE
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe possibility of stem cells being used to repair the damage caused by strokes is one step closer to reality after successful lab tests with rats. The experiments, by researchers...
AN AFRICAN PILGRIMAGE - THE REV. AL GOES WHERE JESSE FEARS TO TREAD TO SEE FOR HIMSELF THE HORRORS OF MODERN SLAVERY
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amZURICH THE Rev. Al Sharpton departed this European city yesterday en route to strife- torn Sudan, where he expects this morning to observe a harsh African reality that would test...
H'WOOD IN SORRY STATE - BUT NOT ENOUGH OF ONE
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amWE'RE waiting. The Hollywood gang, which collectively pretends to stand up for the ordinary guy - while stealing his wallet and sticking a middle finger in his face - has...
GOV ON VIEQUES IN BID TO GET THE BOMBS 'AWAY'
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amGov. Pataki toured the controversial Navy installation on Vieques, Puerto Rico, yesterday vowing to use his political clout to halt future bombing exercises there. "I will do my best to...
PREZ SWEETENS BUDGET PILL
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush released a budget yesterday that trims scores of programs - but softens the blow with dozens of proposed new tax cuts. The tax reductions are diverse:...
MESSINGER ENDORSES FERRER AND RIPS ALAN
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amIn a bit of a political payback, one-time mayoral candidate Ruth Messinger endorsed Fernando Ferrer for mayor yesterday - and then slammed Alan Hevesi for not speaking out enough against...
AIDES IGNORE MAYOR'S WRATH BY BETTING ON HEVESI
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amA large number of Mayor Giuliani's appointees are placing their bets in this year's mayoral sweepstakes on Comptroller Alan Hevesi - the Democratic candidate who infuriated Giuliani last week. Sources...
CULT MAY BE FORCED TO REVEAL FINANCES
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amA controversial upstate cult, accused of forcing children to work in its factories, may have to reveal its murky finances. Oswego County Family Court Judge Samuel Sugar has ordered Twelve...
COPS COLLAR SUSPECT IN 11 B'KLYN ROBBERIES
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amBrooklyn detectives said yesterday they have stopped the "A-Train," an ex-con who's allegedly been on a wild robbery spree, attacking women at gunpoint. Kelvin "A-Train" Beckles, 36, of Herkimer Street,...
BUSH HINTS AT CHINA IMPASSE - SEES LONG STRUGGLE TO FREE DOWNED FLIERS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday signaled that the U.S-China crisis over the seized crew of an American spy plane could drag on, warning that "diplomacy takes time." Bush also warned...
MOST ON HILL BACK DUBYA
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amMost members of Congress were standing by President Bush on Day Nine of the U.S.-China standoff - and Sen. Chuck Schumer called on ex-President Bill Clinton to cancel his upcoming...
SCHOOLS HAVE NO RIGHT TO TELL KIDS WHAT TO THINK
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amIN A New York City suburb earlier this year, police twice grilled a terrified 10-year-old boy about his alleged plan to blow up his parochial school, based on an anonymous...
VEGAS BETS ON EDISON
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amEdison Schools Inc. crapped out big-time in New York, but it hit the jackpot in Las Vegas. The Clark County-Las Vegas school board unanimously approved a contract for Edison to...
NEW YORK POST: FROM APRIL 10, 1865
April 10, 2001 | 4:00am"The Glorious Consummation," read The Post's headline above a story describing the final days of the Civil War. "On Thursday morning, April 6th, the rebel army of Virginia fought its...
RUDY'S PLANNING TO TURN OFF TAPS AT CITY'S STREET FAIRS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe party's over. Mayor Giuliani is proposing a new citywide booze ban that would outlaw liquor at all outdoor events - from the popular Feast of San Gennaro to tiny...
'PUFFY' HAS DESIGNS ON FASHION PRIZE
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amDress-to-impress impresario Sean "Puffy" Combs may have lost Jennifer Lopez, but he's won the heart of the fashion establishment. For the second consecutive year, the multitalented mogul has been nominated...
VEGGIE-EDGY EATERS IN SALAD DAZE OVER TAINT
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amIt isn't easy being green. Last week's supposedly scatological salad-bar attacks - in which a homeless man allegedly tossed urine and fecal matter onto open food trays in a dozen...
SLAY PUTS TUNNEL IN TROUBLE AGAIN - POLS TALK SHUTDOWN AFTER TEEN TRAGEDY
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amCity Hall is renewing its campaign today to padlock the notorious nightspot the Tunnel - after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a fight that erupted in the...
PAYING A 'PREMIUM' FOR ALBANY ACCESS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - The state's trial lawyers and insurance companies - battling over auto-insurance reform - have spent $15 million to influence legislation over the past two years, a Post probe...
HEIDI'S DRUG PLEA KEEPS HER OUT OF JAIL
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A contrite Heidi Fleiss admitted yesterday she has a drug problem, and copped a plea to get out of jail and into rehab. The 35-year-old one-time Hollywood...
'GAFFER' WORKED OVERTIME ON ERROR-FILLED 'GLADIATOR'
April 10, 2001 | 4:00am"Gladiator" may have conquered the Oscars - but the blockbuster flick falls on the sword for an astounding number of bloopers. Film buffs have discovered 124 mistakes in the epic,...
FIEND STABS BOY, LICKS KNIFE: COPS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amAn apparently deranged Bronx man licked the blood from his knife and laughed after stabbing an 8-year-old boy who accidentally bounced a basketball against his door, horrified witnesses said yesterday....
FREE 'BLOW' MIRRORS GO OVER THE LINE
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amA little souvenir to promote a new movie is usually a good idea - but critics are saying the new movie "Blow" crossed the line with replica cocaine-cutter mirrors. Many...
'BLOW' SOUVENIR REFLECTS POORLY ON PROMOTER
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amA little souvenir to promote a new movie is usually a good idea - but critics are saying the new movie "Blow" crossed the line with replica cocaine-cutter mirrors. Many...
AMAZIN' FLAG DAY AT SHEA - METS HOIST PENNANT, BEAT BRAVES IN HOME OPENER
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe Mets stuck it to the Braves in more ways than one yesterday. First, they raised the National League championship flag. Then, they clobbered their arch rivals off good pitching...
HOLIK WANTS TO SETTLE SCORE WITH OLD TEAM
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe indictment is significant, especially since Bobby Holik believes it still echoes in the team the Devils face first. The Devils center holds little regard for the Hartford Whalers franchise...
POSADA, YANKS GIVE K.C. ROYAL BEATING
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - He is thinking line drive the other way from the time he leaves the on-deck circle. Stay back, he instructs himself. Don't get caught trying to pull...
PARKER PLACED ON DL
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - The Yankees yesterday placed 25-year-old righty Christian Parker on the 15-day disabled list with inflammation of the throwing shoulder, a problem Joe Torre says has been bothering...
REAL CHASE BEGINS NOW FOR WOODS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Let the real chase begin. Now that Tiger Woods has accomplished what no other golfer on the planet has dared to dream of achieving - securing all four...
REY PROVIDES UNEXPECTED PUNCH
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe sellout crowd of 53,640 stood and watched as the shortstop drove in the first run for the Mets in their home opener. There were cheers all around. The batter...
OMMADON OUT OF WOOD MEMORIAL
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amWhen Ommadon, winner of last year's Nashua Stakes at the Big A, won his only start this year, taking a March 28 allowance mile in a sharp 1:35.3, trainer Tommy...
WATCH YOUR TIGER'S ON
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - By now, the four trophies that represent his victories in the last four major championships should be on the coffee table for Tiger Woods to admire. But don't...
HOPKINS LOOKING TO EXECUTE MIDDLEWEIGHT CLASS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amKeith Holmes answered reporters' questions softly and quickly. Bernard Hopkins is probably still preaching to the masses. The two middleweights will square off Saturday night at Madison Square Garden as...
A 'PRETTY GOOD' APPIER MORE THAN SATISFIES METS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amAll eyes were on the National League Championship banner, which was hoisted up the flagpole during a pre-game ceremony. Out in the right-field bullpen, Kevin Appier was craning his neck...
PIAZZA'S THE REAL MR. MET
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amTHE BEST hitter in Met history was recently a fugitive in Florida and their second-best pitcher helped raise the World Series championship banner in The Bronx last week. So to...
NUTBALL FAN CHUCKS BOTTLE AT KNOBLAUCH
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - Yell all you want, but keep your beer bottles in your mouth or hands. That's the way Chuck Knoblauch felt last night after a Kauffman...
GROIN MAY LAND TIMO ON THE DL
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Timo Perez' strained groin kept him out of yesterday's game and there is a chance he could join Benny Agbayani on the disabled list. "I would think it's...
TRINIDAD K'S 12 TO POWER MONROE
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amMonroe 5 - Manh. Center 0 When his team lost to Clinton last week, Pedro Trinidad wasn't on the field. He was in the school making up classwork. "The next...
BONE CHIP COSTS BENNY 2-4 WEEKS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amBenny Agbayani, hit by a pitch by the Expos' Chris Peters on Sunday, is expected to miss two-to-four weeks due to a small chip fracture on the bone between his...
BRAVES POOH-POOH AMAZIN' TITLE
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amLeave it to John Rocker to put this National League pennant deal into perspective. When Rocker was asked if it was difficult to watch the Mets, a team he hates,...
LOSS OF 'FAM-A-LEE' MEMBER - POPS WAS ALWAYS FATHER FIGURE FOR PIRATE CLAN
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amHIS mother Vera at his side, Roberto Clemente Jr. was standing at the new statue of Willie Stargell outside PNC Park when his cellular phone rang yesterday afternoon. The call...
OPENER AT SHEA IS JUST AMAZIN' - PIAZZA (TWICE) AND SHINJO HOMER AS METS BOP BRAVES
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amMets 9 - Braves 4 As the Shea Opening Day party wound down and the 53,640 exited the building, the feeling that started last week had a new breath of...
SAN OF A GUN! TSUYOSHI TAKES SHEA BY TSUNAMI
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amAS THE Mets' right fielder stood behind a partition of black vinyl, awaiting his turn at the podium, he just couldn't resist the temptation. After all, there was a mirror...
BLAME IT ON THE RAINMAN
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI-As a time-honored, at large humanitarian, it's probably politically correct I be sympathetic to Shawn Kemp's plight as a cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, womanizing, baby-making, over-eating addict. Though you can't convince...
WARY DEVILS ON HURRICANE WATCH
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe Devils fear failure even more now that they're defending Stanley Cup champs. They swear they will not strut themselves into early summer. They recall too well that at this...
BERGTRAUM GUARD SIGNS WITH UMASS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amIf Cindy Gonzalez' history means anything, then watch out for UMass next season. Gonzalez, a 5-foot-8 guard from Bergtraum, signed with Massachusetts yesterday. She averaged 18 points as a senior...
MORE WORK FOR DIPIETRO
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amIslanders goaltender Rick DiPietro, 19, will play for Team USA in the IIHF World Championship in Germany, The Post has learned. Team USA has not officially announced its roster for...
MASH WANTS A SHOT AT RILEY AND THE HEAT
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amEven before the Hornets were spanked by the Knicks last night, Jamal Mashburn was saying that his first-round playoff choice is the Heat, not the Knicks. His preference is based...
BANGED-UP KNICKS BUZZ BEES - CAMBY, BENCH MAKE SHORT WORK OF HORNETS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amKnicks 113 - Hornets 98 Allan Houston and Larry Johnson both were out. Marcus Camby was in, but just barely, with a right knee that in size, resembled the state...
ACHY ALLAN EXPECTS TO RETURN TOMORROW
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Looking back, Allan Houston shoulda stayed in bed Sunday in Miami. But he played. And last night, he couldn't. But Houston, who sat out last night's 113-98 victory...
BERNIE GOES HOME TO VISIT AILING FATHER
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - Joe Torre didn't have center fielder and cleanup hitter Bernie Williams last night and doesn't know when the All-Star will return to the lineup. After...
AILING WING PUTS PARKER ON THE DL
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Christian Parker's ego wasn't the only thing damaged in his major-league debut against the Blue Jays hurting. His right shoulder didn't make out too well either. Yesterday...
DEVILS HOT TO DEFEND TITLE - AVOIDING PAST ERRORS KEY TO CUP
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe Devils fear failure even more now that they're defending Stanley Cup champs. They swear they will not strut themselves into early summer. They recall too well that at this...
GIMPY CAMBY TAKES SWAT AT HORNETS
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES One of the keys to success for Marcus Camby, Jeff Van Gundy stressed, is how he plays early. And how the team plays around him. Going into last...
KNICKS LIMPING INTO PLAYOFFS - HOUSTON, JOHNSON SIT; CAMBY AND SPREE STILL NOT AT FULL STRENGTH
April 10, 2001 | 4:00amWell, they are only a river away from the Nets. So maybe the Knicks are catching whatever it is that ails (curses?) their geographical rivals. So in what Jeff Van...