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October 23, 2002

POOR PROFITS STOP MARKET RALLY

A spate of bad profit reports took down the markets, breaking a rally that had pushed stocks higher for seven of the last nine days. But U.S. markets could not...

NYU GETS DOWNTOWN SITE

NEW York University is taking a giant step by expanding its School of Continuing and Professional Studies into a new downtown location at the Woolworth Building. The deal was made...

IT'LL BE A VIDEO-HO-HO-HO FOR TOYS THIS XMAS

It will be a very video Christmas. Toy and game retailers expect video games, computer games and DVDs to lead the way for holiday gift-giving this season. "The biggest consumer...

COURTING CLIVE - BMG WANTS TO BRING BACK OUSTED MUSIC PIONEER

German executives at Bertelsmann, BMG's parent, have approached music legend Clive Davis about buying out his stake in his music label J Records, The Post has learned. If a deal...

BUMMER FOR STEWART, BUT BOOST FOR MSO

Investors drove up shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia 13 percent yesterday on word that her legal woes were a step closer to being resolved. MSO shares rose $1 to...

THERE THEY GO AGAIN - EBBERS BACKED CITI LOAN WITH WORLDCOM STOCK

Citigroup may have had yet another reason to hype the stock of now-defunct WorldCom. The banking giant apparently made unspecified loans to the company's former CEO Bernie Ebbers that were...

MARTHA STEWART'S QUICK CHECK-OUT

EMBATTLED home entertainment diva Martha Stewart beat a hasty retreat from the annual magazine pow-wow in Phoenix yesterday. She bolted just after the latest twist over her involvement in the...

VIVENDI TO SEPARATE U.S., NON-U.S. UNITS FOR SALE

As it scrambles to sell its giant publishing unit, Vivendi Universal SA is taking one step forward and two steps back. After receiving low-ball bids for the sale of its...

POOR PROFITS SNAP STOCKS' WIN STREAK

A spate of bad profit reports took down the markets, breaking a rally that had pushed stocks higher for seven of the last nine days. But U.S. markets could not...

'PRUNE' PLUM ROLE FOR JACKIE MASON

PRUNE DANISH []At the Royale Theater, 242 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. ------ JACKIE Mason returned to Broadway last night with a program called, for some inexplicable reason, "Prune Danish."...

GOOD INITIAL IMPRESSION - BIG HAND FOR THE LITTLE LETTERS

RM [] 33 E. 60TH ST. (212) 319-3800 ------ RICK Moonen's rm is the most tantalizing opening of the year. Already better than good, it is within hailing distance of...

A LIGHTBULB EATER AND A CAT HERDER, OH BOY!

"Extreme Variety" Tonight at 8 on WNBC/Ch. 4 I'VE never tried to deny it, even though I should. I'm hopelessly addicted to dopey circus-y variety shows - the dopier, the...

DOUBLE YOUR FUN

GARBAGE/NO DOUBTNassau Coliseum. This tour comes to the arena at the Meadowland's Sports Complex tonight. Tickets are $37.50. ------- IN the age of Britney, girl-powered rock faces more than a...

NEW BRAZILIAN FARE A FESTIVE TREAT

ZEBU GRILL [ 1/2] 305 E. 92ND ST. (BETWEEN FIRST & SECOND AVENUES) (212) 426-7500 -------- THERE was an unexpected big welcome my first trip to Zebu Grill.The guy on...

THINKING MAN'S DOCUMENTARY

DERRIDA [] Philosophy light. In English and French, with English subtitles. Running time: 85 minutes. Not rated. At the Film Forum, Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue. ------- 'DERRIDA," a...

STARR REPORT

Much to crow about: Manson at Penn Plaza Goth rocker Marilyn Manson will be at 11 Penn Plaza tomorrow at 5 p.m. to tape a MuchMusic USA Halloween special. Plans...

SHE CAN SING! - PRODUCERS HOT TO SIGN DIVINE MARISA TOMEI

WHO knew she could sing? Marisa Tomei, a fine actress who has been coasting on her "My Cousin Vinny" Oscar for too long, "blew out the back wall" during her...

PUTTIN' PUDDIN' FIRST

SPECIALTY stores are nothing new - but how about a store just for rice pudding? Rice to Riches, opening in December, will satisfy all your rice pudding needs. "We're going...

HOW TO GET ON 'IDOL': TRY-OUTS ARE TOMORROW AND YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WEAR, RIGHT?

THOUSANDS of hopefuls are going to show up tomorrow at a hotel in downtown Manhattan to try out for "American Idol 2" - where they might find a huge surprise....

'THE WEST WING' ; THE GREAT DEBATE

WHERE'S the suspense? On "The West Wing," it's non-existent. President Bartlet and his Republican opponent are running practically neck-and-neck in the polls going into next month's election, but the outcome...

HELLO, TERRIFIC 'YELLOW'

YELLOWMANAt the Manhattan Theatre Club, 131 W. 55th St. Through Dec. 15. Citytix, (212) 581-1212. ------ OCCASIONALLY, a play arises that is so beautifully written and so compassionately staged that...

RANSOM DEMAND 'BALONEY': EXPERT

The sniper's bizarre demand for $10 million may not be a genuine bid to fill his pockets - just another way to torment cops, an expert said. "It sounds ludicrous...

UPSTATE AFLAME

ALBANY JUST two weeks to Election Day, Rochester billionaire Thomas Golisano has transformed Upstate into "Golisano Country" with an audaciously expensive media campaign and a tough anti-Pataki message widely seen...

'CRASH FOR CASH' COP GOT PAINKILLERS AS PAYOFF PERK: AUTHORITIES

An officer busted in the $1.5 million "Crash for Cash" insurance-fraud probe that snared three Brooklyn cops and 27 civilians accepted the prescription painkiller Vicodin as her payment, authorities said...

GOP POL: SLASH OUR CASH FOR CAMPAIGNS

Before cutting vital services to close a $5 billion budget gap, the city should slash campaign-financing funds to save more than $20 million, a councilman proposed yesterday. Dennis Gallagher (R-Queens)...

911 UPGRADE WILL HELP COPS NAIL WIFE-BEATERS

Digital technology is giving prosecutors a new weapon in the war against domestic violence: the 911 tapes of abuse victims pleading for help. Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that the city...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Centuries-old gunpowder found in an antique-weapons exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago was still powerful enough to have blown the building to smithereens. Staffers cleaning a collection of 300...

200G FINE IS AT&T'S WRONG NO.

ALBANY - AT&T and its lobbyist agreed to pay a $200,000 fine yesterday after the state charged the telecommunications giant secretly financed an advertising campaign in violation of lobbying laws....

GI BUSTED IN FT. BRAGG SLAY

A Fort Bragg soldier was arrested for the shooting death of an off-duty military police officer on the North Carolina base - the latest in a five-month string of violent...

BUFFALO 'CELL'MATES CRY INNOCENT

Six upstate men accused of running an al Qaeda sleeper cell pleaded not guilty yesterday after a federal grand jury indicted them Monday. Each of the six, all of Yemeni...

DEM FOE MAKES LIGHT OF RUDY'S N.J. GOV AD

WASHINGTON - Frank Lautenberg's campaign yesterday belittled Rudy Giuliani's latest TV endorsement as a weak, substance-free "pit stop" for Republican Doug Forrester. The Giuliani spot for Forrester "mentions no issues"...

ANOTHER PENSION BLOW TO CITY

ALBANY - Cash- strapped New York City got hit with a new financial punch yesterday after the state's top court ruled it must give millions of dollars in extra pension...

AGUILERA LIKES 'FLAVA' GUYS

Christina Aguilera has made a confession sure to disappoint some of her male fans - she'd rather not date white guys. "I want the boys with the 'flava!' He's got...

SCHUMER TOPS AT RAKING CASH

WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer has taken more special interest money from top donors than any other member of the Senate, a new study revealed yesterday. Schumer has pocketed more...

JEB HOLDING ON IN FLORIDA

A new poll shows Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is holding onto a 5-point lead in his re-election race, in which Democrats are seeking to exact revenge for losing Florida to...

WENDY'S CASE JURY PICKED

The 12 jurors selected in the death-penalty trial of alleged Wendy's massacre mastermind John Taylor are scheduled to begin hearing testimony in the tragic case next week. "We have a...

'YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT SAFE' * NOTE THREATENS KIDS * FBI'S 'DEADLY' BOTCH * MD. BUS DRIVER SLAIN

The Psycho Sniper has revealed the depths of his sick mind in a chilling threat made in a letter to cops: "Your children are not safe anywhere, at any time."...

MOB BOSS TO SQUEAL AT SLAY TRIAL

Former acting Luchese boss Joseph "Little Joe" Defede is testifying against the mob for the first time, at the murder trial of a Bronx gang member who killed a 17-year-old...

'REAL' CENTRAL PK. RAPIST DIDN'T LEAVE 'CALLING CARD'

The serial rapist who now says he attacked the Central Park jogger did not leave his sadistic trademark on the victim - cutting her under the eyes - casting doubt...

EVIL TEENS TORTURED HAWK: COPS

Two sicko teen brothers set a beautiful hawk on fire, urinated on it and dragged it on the pavement with their bicycle, Long Island cops said. The two, aged 14...

B'WAY BIG CHARGED IN CANADA

After a four-year investigation, the slow-moving Royal Canadian Mounted Police yesterday indicted disgraced Broadway producer Garth Drabinsky on charges of corporate fraud. The Mounties accused Drabinsky of bilking investors and...

BUSH BRISTLES AS U.N. 'ALLIES' BALK

WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday warned the United Nations he won't wait forever for get-tough action against Saddam Hussein, after Russia and France balked at the latest U.S. draft resolution...

MOUSSAOUI PAL MAKES A DEAL

A former roommate of Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged "20th hijacker," will be sprung from jail at the end of the year. Hussein al Attas, 24, apologized to Judge Michael Mukasey...

GROWN-UP NADIA STILL A PERFECT 10

Look how little Olympic princess Nadia Comaneci has grown up! The pixieish Romanian gymnast, who ruled the 1976 Montreal games with three gold medals, and the 1980 Moscow games with...

SUIT CHALLENGES TERM-LIMIT CHANGE

It looks as if a judge is going to decide whether the City Council acted legally when it voted last month to amend the term-limits law. Two candidates and Councilman...

LOUIMA'S LAWYERS BLASTED

Wealthy "Dream Team" lawyers who took over Abner Louima's case are "wicked, evil men . . . ruled by demons of greed," according to the widow of Louima's first lawyer,...

BLOOMY VS. BODEGAS IN BATTLE OVER CIG TAX

Mayor Bloomberg yesterday lit into bodega owners who griped on the steps of City Hall that their businesses will soon go up in smoke because of a dramatic drop in...

QNS. TEEN STABBED IN HS HALLWAY

A student at Springfield Gardens HS in Queens was stabbed in the chest yesterday in apparent revenge for beating up a fellow student who had stolen money from him, police...

SCREAMS HELP NAB 'KILLER'

A hard-working Bronx home attendant was fatally stabbed outside her house by a robber, and several people - drawn by her frantic screams - chased the fleeing suspect and pointed...

$80M IN FED 9/11 AID TO SCHOOLS

The Bush administration announced yesterday it is providing $80.5 million to the city public school system to make up for lost instructional time resulting from the World Trade Center attacks....

'GOING AWAY' PARTY - SLEEPOVER BUDDIES FETE OFF-TO-JAIL LIZZIE

The saga of Lizzie Grubman and her wild SUV ride is set to reach its dramatic courtroom climax today - when the p.r. princess is to be sentenced for assault...

UNDER SIEGE

A small white light in the dispatch room at Silver Spring Taxi Inc. lights up when drivers have a busy day. It's glowed constantly since Oct. 2. "We've been getting...

KLEIN'S $10M OUTLAY FOR PRIVATE TUTORS

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's office has awarded a total of $10 million in funding to 27 firms to provide free English and math tutoring to thousands of struggling students stuck...

WILPON OUT ON HIS OWN - BAKER, PINIELLA LOOK BAD

WORLD SERIES CONFIDENTIAL SAN FRANCISCO - This is Fred Wilpon's game. The Mets get the right manager or their owner has failed. Wilpon finally excised a man he despised, Nelson...

ICE-CREAM 'PERVERT' - W'CHESTER FIEND SOLD GOODIES TO PREY ON KIDS: DA

In every parent's worst nightmare, a Westchester man took dozens of jobs that gave him access to children - including camp counselor, ice-cream truck driver and kids' DJ - and...

NEIGHBOR MISTRUSTS NEIGHBOR IN LAND WHERE FEAR IS KING

WASHINGTON. I WAS standing at the Shoppers Food Warehouse on Randolph Road and made the idiotic mistake of eyeballing an olive-skinned man in a pickup truck with a bulky leather...

MCCALL PUMMELS PATAKI ON STUMP

Carl McCall yesterday unleashed a blistering attack on Gov. Pataki, calling him "terribly unprincipled" and a governor who refuses to be held accountable for his "inept" and "unethical" agencies. "If...

COUNCIL'S $QUEEZE PLAY - NO PROPERTY-TAX HIKE UNLESS COMMUTER FEE RETURNS

Mayor Bloomberg's budget woes grew yesterday after City Council members threatened to derail a property-tax hike if Gov. Pataki and state lawmakers refuse to approve a new commuter tax. "Why...

MARYLAND'S MOOSE A N.Y. KID

The head of the Psycho Sniper task force is a native New Yorker and diehard Yankee fan. Charles Moose, police chief of Montgomery County, Md., was born in Manhattan 49...

NETS STAR ROBBED AT GUNPOINT

A beefy band of armed street thugs mugged Nets star Chris Childs early yesterday morning after staking him out at a Chelsea club owned by rap mogul P. Diddy, cops...

ISRAEL'S GRIM TASK - MUST ID VICTIMS BY BODY PARTS

JERUSALEM - Israel yesterday began burying its dead from Monday's horrific bus bombing, while a terrorist group boasted about the two young "martyrs" who carried out the attack. Islamic Jihad...

PARTY-PLANNER HAD A BALL FILCHING WELFARE, SAYS DA

A Brooklyn landlord and party-planner with a whopping $85,000 in the bank was busted yesterday for accepting $11,617 in welfare and food stamps - while collecting $11,500 a month from...

FEDS DOG DOC IN ANTHRAX CASE

FBI agents are building a "growing circumstantial-evidence case" showing that former government scientist Steven Hatfill is America's anthrax terrorist, a new report says. Three specially trained bloodhounds - working separately...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

THE BRONX * Cops said yesterday they were hunting for the killer of a 22-year-old man who was found dead by his girlfriend inside his Morrisania apartment. On Monday, Chauncey...

'MATE' OF GOLISANO TWO-TIMED VOTERS: DA

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau yesterday charged Tom Golisano's former running mate with voting twice in two elections - the first such vote-fraud prosecution in many years. Dan Mahony, 47,...

ISRAEL'S GRIM TASK: MUST ID VICTIMS BY BODY PARTS AS FIENDS HAIL TERROR YOUTHS

JERUSALEM - Israel yesterday began burying its dead from Monday's horrific bus bombing, while a terrorist group boasted about the two young "martyrs" who carried out the attack. Islamic Jihad...

ARREST IN FT. BRAGG GUN SLAY

A Fort Bragg soldier was arrested for the shooting death of an off-duty military police officer on the North Carolina base - the latest in a five-month string of violent...

$10M DEMAND A BID TO TWEAK POLICE: EXPERT

The sniper's bizarre demand for $10 million may not be a genuine bid to fill his pockets - just another way to torment cops, an expert said. "It sounds ludicrous...

COPS DUST OFF VIETNAM-ERA PLANE FOR 'RECON' MISSION

Cops used an old stand-by surveillance plane - a Vietnam War-era Cessna P 337 (photo right) - yesterday in their hunt for the Psycho Sniper. Though the Skymaster is no...

'YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT SAFE' : NOTE THREATENS KIDS; SCHOOLS CANCEL CLASS; MD. BUS DRIVER KILLED

The Psycho Sniper has revealed the depths of his sick mind in a chilling threat to the police: "You're children are not safe anywhere, at any time." The brutal sentence...

CALL 'EM ANGELS OF NO MERCY

GAME 3Angels 10Giants 4SAN FRANCISCO - All is forgiven, Roger Clemens. We understand fully now, Andy Pettitte. You are exonerated, Mike Mussina. No further explanations necessary, David Wells. We know...

ANGELS' HITTERS FIND LIVAN EASY ; ANAHEIM CRUSHES GIANTS' HERNANDEZ

GAME 3 Angels 10 Giants 4 SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds is the World Series stud but the Angels are two wins away from leaving with the best looking girl...

PLENTY OF TUNA MAKES ROUGH RIDE WORTHWHILE

TUNA fishing this time of year is usually at its best, but you can't say that about the weather and all you can do is roll the dice and hope...

JET 'D' NOW NOT SO OFFENSIVE

THE bold headlines highlighting this mini-turnaround for the Jets have chronicled the emergence of Chad Pennington. Indeed, the Jets appear to have found a quarterback in Pennington, who not only...

BLAZING FURY OUT OF TURF

BREEDERS' CUP NOTEBOOK ARLINGTON HEIGHTS - Blazing Fury, a fast-closing second last out in the Turf Classic for trainer Jimmy Toner, was scratched yesterday morning from the Breeders' Cup Turf...

LACKEY'S RELIEVED TO BE STARTING GAME 4

WORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK SAN FRANCISCO - John Lackey equates a relief stint with between-starts bullpen work and insists he won't be affected tonight, when he starts Game 4 for the...

PENALTIES KILLING RANGERS

The Rangers' new coach is faced with restoring discipline and accountability - two tenets of hockey that have been absent for the better part of the past five years. Bryan...

FRANKEL-LY SPEAKING, HE'S READY

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Bobby Frankel, who has run up the most dismal record of any top trainer in the Breeders' Cup - he's 1 for 42 - served notice...

BIG BLUE HUNGRY FOR PHILLY STAKE

No one could argue with the logic of Dan Campbell as he ran scenarios around his head. "We win this game and we're sitting pretty good," the Giants' tight end...

THIS FLEET FILLY IS XTRA SPECIAL

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Of the nearly 100 horses entered today for Saturday's eight Breeders' Cup races at Arlington Park, only one is already a sure thing for the Hall...

M'STARS TAB BRADLEY

After a late-season collapse led to finger-pointing, a fractured locker room and the dismissal of the coach, the MetroStars found themselves reduced to a dysfunctional mess. They may have regained...

SUPER BARRY OUTNUMBERED ; HAMMERIN' HALOS GANG UP ON KING OF CLOUT

SAN FRANCISCO - One big bat does not equal eight. Never has, never will, even if it is the mighty maple of Barry Bonds. That is the lesson the Giants...

DON: WE NEED SPREE

Playing the role of good cop, Don Chaney said yesterday the Knicks "need" Latrell Sprewell back, though a timetable was not set for the end of the All-Star guard's banishment....

MAYS TAKES SWING AT SMALL PARKS

SAN FRANCISCO - In this town, it's not a World Series until the Say Hey Kid shows up. Willie Mays threw out the first ball last night at Pac Bell...

IT'S ALL FALLING APART

Hurricanes 4 - Islanders 1 With everything that's wrong with the Islanders right now, there should be a telethon dedicated to finding a cure. Last night, in a stinker of...

YANKEES SHUFFLING AAA STAFF

SAN FRANCISCO - The Yankees are shuffling their staff at Triple-A Columbus for the second straight year, following another disappointing season from their top farm club. After firing manager Brian...

SOUND OF FURY COMES FROM VAN HORN

NET NOTES TRENTON - Keith Van Horn said he wanted to hear criticism directly from Byron Scott. Instead, others told him or he read about it in the papers. Then...

PINIELLA GETS OFFER FROM RAYS

As expected, the Devil Rays presented Lou Piniella with an offer to become their next manager yesterday afternoon. In the first bit of good news the Mets have received in...

THESE ANGELS RAISING HOLY HELL

SAN FRANCISCO - All is forgiven, Roger Clemens. We understand fully now, Andy Pettitte. You are exonerated, Mike Mussina. No further explanations necessary, David Wells. We know now it wasn't...

GIST: MAY BE TIME TO DEAL SPREE

KNICK NOTES Latrell Sprewell's agent put the pressure on the Knicks yesterday to either allow Sprewell to join the team or consider trading him. "The wounds are getting larger and...

BARRY QUESTION STILL OUT THERE: HALOS HAVE NO FIRM PLAN FOR FACING BONDS

SAN FRANCISCO - The World Series shifted from Anaheim's Edison Field to Pac Bell Park for Game 3 last night after the Angels and Giants split two in Southern California....

RODRIGUEZ POSES A GIANT PROBLEM

WORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK SAN FRANCISCO - The Giants were trying to talk themselves into hitting unhittable Angels rookie Francisco Rodriguez heading into Game 3 last night. Rich Aurilia stood in...

GIANTS' LINEUP OUT OF ORDER: TOP 3 AREN'T HELPING

SAN FRANCISCO - This World Series is All About Barry. That's why the Angels are pitching All Around Barry. That strategy is a flawed one, however, and Mike Scioscia is...

FLAB-BERGASTING! CHILDS SUSPENDED, DOCKED PAY

NET NOTES TRENTON - All in all, not a good 24 hours for Chris Childs. The Nets' 34-year-old backup point guard, who was a midtown Manhattan mugging victim Monday night,...

VAN'S SCORNED: EX-NET FIRES BACK AT SCOTT

TRENTON - Keith Van Horn said he wanted to hear criticism directly from Byron Scott. Instead, others told him or he read about it in the papers. And after his...

FLAB-BERGASTED! CHUNKY CHILDS SUSPENDED BY NETS

TRENTON - All in all, it was not a good 24 hours for Chris Childs. The 34-year-old back-up point guard, who was a midtown mugging victim Monday night, was suspended...

VERSATILITY HELPS ISLES GO FORWARD

Say what you will about the Islanders lacking a bona-fide scoring winger or the paucity of goals they're likely to see from the personnel they've assembled for this season. But...

WILLIAMS SORE, BUT SET TO GO

KNICK NOTES Last time we saw Frank Williams play he was falling on his wrist during a Knicks' summer-league game in July. Last week, Williams said his left wrist was...

COUNTDOWN TO THE BREEDERS' CUP

Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare turf profile, for Wednesday ANALYSIS: A formful race over its first three runnings, as winners Soaring Softly, Perfect Sting and Banks Hill were top-class grass...