July 5, 2001
SHE MEETS ANCESTOR’S ‘KIN-NIBALS’
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amA woman who discovered one of her ancestors was killed by cannibals flew 9,000 miles to meet the tribe that ate him, even though she feared a bit for her...
INTERN’S PARENTS MAY FIGHT TO UNSEAT CONDIT
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The furious parents of missing D.C. intern Chandra Levy are threatening to appear in campaign commercials attacking their daughter's "good friend," Rep. Gary Condit, if he decides to...
AUTO INSURERS CHARGING MORE BUT PAYING LESS
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Auto-insurance companies are keeping more of your money. As New York's rates jumped to the nation's second highest, the gap between the total premiums collected by companies and...
STAR BERTH STUNS REED
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amJoe Torre picked seven of his Yankees to represent the AL in the All-Star Game. Bobby Valentine named just one Met for next Tuesday's game in Seattle - starting pitcher...
CITI TO END ATM BILL PAYMENT SERVICE
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amCitibank customers will no longer be able to pay bills at automated teller machines as of Sept. 3, The Post has learned. The city's second-largest bank, after J.P. Morgan Chase...
STARR REPORT
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amWach to leave WNYW/Ch. 5 Michael Wach is leaving as Vice President/General Manager of Ch. 5 later this summer. Wach joined Ch. 5 in March 1998, replacing Hilary Hendler. Under...
SIZE MATTERS: SEX SHOP SHUT
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amCambodia has shut down its first adults-only shop, saying the sex toys being sold there were "dangerously" large. Police claim some of the toys were so big, they "easily could...
IT’S BOOM TIME FOR CITY HALL LOBBYISTS
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amMore companies are hiring more lobbyists to influence more city officials than ever before. Records filed with the City Clerk's office show that 727 clients signed up with lobbyists last...
NEW SEX RX LASTS, UH, LONGER THAN VIAGRA
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amMONTREAL - A new and improved Viagra-type drug promises to not only let the party begin - but to let it last and last. Phase 3 trials of Cialis, a...
LUCIANO’S HANDLERS TO DO SOME HEAVY LIFTING
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amLuciano Pavarotti plans to make a BIG entrance at his concert next week - the tubby tenor and his limo will be transported to the stage by an industrial jack....
LINDROS: I’D PLAY FOR RANGERS ; FLYER DOES ABOUT FACE ON BLUESHIRTS
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amAnd now there are two marquee players out there who want to play for the Rangers . . . and even, The Post has learned, and though on a different...
WTC LEASE COULD CLOSE JULY 16
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amBREAK out the Cristal. Larry Silverstein and Westfield America are hoping to close on their $3.2 billion 99-year lease of the World Trade Center on July 16, sources said. "They...
STRIKE HASTE MADE WASTE
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amTHE threatened actors' strike never happened, but film audiences will pay the price through next year, faced with a slew of mediocre and rushed movies made in anticipation of drought....
PILOBOLUS DANCE COMPANY DOES MORE THAN THE TWIST
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amAS the Pilobolus Dance Theater turns 30, much of its old method and mystique remain - the intertwining bodies, the sculptural movements, the weight and balance of acrobatic adagio, and...
MORE THAN A PUFF PIECE; IN FACT, THIS SPECIAL WILL STOP WOMEN SMOKING
July 5, 2001 | 4:00am"Women and Cigarettes: A Fatal Attraction" Tonight at 10 on ABC 1/2 WHEN I was in high school, they hauled us all into the auditorium for the anti-smoking movie. You've...
WHY TOP IRAQI DIPLO DEFECTED – HIS KIDS LOVE LIFE IN THE U.S.
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amIraq's No. 2 man at the United Nations defected last week because he had been called home and feared for his life, police sources said. Mohammed al-Humaimidi, the deputy ambassador...
ACTORS ARE WISEGUYS AND VICE VERSA
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amRICHIE "Blue Eyes" Maldone was looking up at palm trees in Miami and was saying: "Look, he's just a kid. He sure as hell wasn't doing it for the money."...
SPY PLANE BACK HOME IN PIECES
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe bulk of the dismantled spy plane whose collision with a Chinese jet triggered a diplomatic crisis three months ago is back on American soil - and it may become...
STRAY BULLET KILLS WOMAN WATCHING TV AT HOME
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amA young woman who loved to baby-sit kids was killed by a stray bullet while in her Brooklyn home watching TV, cops said yesterday. Michelle Moore, 26, had gotten up...
THIS WEASEL HAS NONE OF CLINTON’S STYLE
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN Bill Clinton was facing impeachment, many commentators, recalling the Nixon ordeal, quoted Karl Marx's observation that history appears "the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Marx...
‘DNA SLAY’ CASE ISN’T OVER: BX. DA
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe Bronx district attorney's office, which declined to prosecute an ex-con charged with a decade-old sex slaying despite DNA evidence, insists it hasn't given up. "The case remains open, and...
PUTIN TO BUSH: LET’S GO 4TH
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush spent July 4 cutting loose in Philadelphia after receiving a warm greeting from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said he's full of "optimism" about how the...
SIX SPILL CONDIT SEX SECRETS – FBI PROBE INCLUDES EX-INTERNS
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amSix women claiming to have had affairs with California Rep. Gary Condit have reportedly talked to FBI agents, it emerged yesterday - as Condit ducked media and constituents by canceling...
B’KLYN ROBBERS LEAVE BOXING CHAMP DOWN FOR THE ‘COUNT’
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amChampion boxer Zab Judah lost a bout with a gang of armed robbers in Brooklyn yesterday, police said. Judah, 23, the IBF Junior Welterweight champ, was with his brother Katon...
IT’S A BIG APPLE BLAST
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amHAPPY 225th BIRTHDAY, AMERICA Beaming New Yorkers capped the nation's 225th birthday yesterday by flocking to the East River to see 50 tons of fireworks exploded in Macy's traditional Independence...
JEEP IS GEARING UP FOR ‘DEFECT’ FIGHT
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe U.S. government is investigating a possible defect in Jeep Grand Cherokees that makes them suddenly jump into reverse - but the carmaker is saying, "Put it in park." DaimlerChrysler,...
SHE MEETS TRIBE THAT ATE HER KIN
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amA woman who discovered that an ancestor was killed by cannibals flew 9,000 miles to meet the tribe that ate him - even though she feared a bit for her...
COPS’ BEEF WITH STEW
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amA Malaysian vendor has been arrested for boiling food and dirty underwear - in the same pot. Health officials were about to search the man's stall when he allegedly pulled...
AFTER ALL THE CUB-BUB, V TAPS LIEBER
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amHey, Kerry Wood didn't expect to make the All-Star team anyway. "I pretty much knew it wasn't going to be me," said the Cubs' right-hander, who is 8-5 with a...
VANCE PUTS FIRST TWO IN HIT COLUMN
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amVance Wilson knows all about patience. Now in his eighth year of professional baseball, Wilson was first called up to the Mets in 1998, but yesterday he got his first...
CWEBB STILL KEEPIN’ KNICKS IN THE MIX
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amChris Webber is leaning toward staying in Sacramento, but he's still seriously weighing other possibilities. Webber, after a meeting with his family in Detroit Tuesday, has decided to talk to...
IT’S STARS AND GRIPES ON THE 4TH
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amThere's no crying in baseball - but griping over All-Star snubs, that's another matter. "We have the best record, but it didn't work out that way [on the All-Star rosters],"...
SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE ; SONY TAKES ON RIVALS IN WAR TO REPLACE CDS
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amA war is breaking out over the next generation of music-listening technology. Consumers looking for better-sounding music will soon have to decide whether to upgrade their stereo systems to Sony's...
WYLY HAPPY TO LEAD CA – OR TAKE A VACATION
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe man who wants to take over Computer Associates is sure of one thing: if he loses, he won't try again. "I'll go to the Rocky Mountains and stare at...
SUNTRUST’S REPORTING HASTE HAS A PURPOSE
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amMOST banks won't have their quarterly earnings reports ready for at least another two weeks. But SunTrust Banks is expected to report higher profits tomorrow. Why the rush? Analysts suspect...
‘MILLIONAIRE’ DUCKS BY DON KAPLAN
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amA Muslim holyman's decree that made it a sin to tryout for an Egyptian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" has forced the game's producers to consider changing...
I MISS MY ‘CUTE’ SLOBBO ; ‘RED WITCH’ WIFE BARRED FROM SEEING HIM
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amSlobodan Milosevic's wife says she is lost without her "cute and likable" husband, and she's been barred from seeing him during his trial for war crimes. Mira Markovic, Milosevic's wife,...
THE WIENER! CHAMP DOWNS RECORD 50
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amTHEY say records are made to be broken. Apparently, they're also made to be demolished, abused, humiliated and crushed under the heel like a bug. That's exactly what a 23-year-old...
MIKE ON MARCH FOR S.I. VOTES
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amMedia mogul Michael Bloomberg took his mayoral campaign deep into Rudy country yesterday, hunting for GOP votes on Staten Island, home of some of Mayor Giuliani's most ardent supporters. His...
CHILE-SLAY JUDGE BIDS TO QUIZ KISSINGER
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amA Chilean judge wants to question Henry Kissinger about the 1973 death of an American journalist that became the plot of the movie "Missing." Judge Juan Guzman yesterday sent a...
VIET JUDGE SENDS DRUGGIE GRANNY, 91, TO DIE IN JAIL
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amA 91-year-old grandma will die in jail - after being sentenced to 139 years behind bars. A Vietnamese judge decided to throw the book at frail Pham Thi Ngoc for...
‘HEAVENLY’ PAD MERELY A SCAM
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amAn Italian woman who claims she's a wizard has been busted for allegedly selling an "apartment in heaven" for $6,000. Wacky occultist Franca Onofri, of Teramo, was charged with fraud...
ISRAEL HITS ANOTHER TERROR SUSPECT
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A leading Palestinian paramilitary officer was seriously wounded yesterday as Israel's security cabinet reaffirmed its policy of targeting suspected terrorists. Israeli officials would not say if the shooting...
BIRDS THROW ‘SIGN-STEALING’ MAZ CURVE
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Believing Yankees first-base coach Lee Mazzilli was stealing signs between catcher Brook Fordyce and pitcher Jose Mercedes Tuesday night, the Camden Yards coaching boxes were relocated...
PINSTRIPE 7 EARNED SPOTS, JOE SAYS
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Joe Torre expected to receive grief for naming seven of his players to the All-Star team when the reserves and pitchers were announced yesterday. However, don't expect Torre...
FINE ROLE MODEL HE TURNED OUT TO BE
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amFANS of "The Sopranos" have watched Anthony Jr. go from bad to worse. But the teenage actor who plays him, Robert Iler, had hoped his role in the hit TV...
HILL’S BROTHER MUM ON PARDONGATE $$
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amHILLARY CLINTON'S brother Hugh is stonewalling and refusing to say if he's still holding on to more than $100,000 of the $434,000 he took to push Bill Clinton to pardon...
ISRAEL HITS SUSPECTED TERRORIST
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A leading Palestinian paramilitary officer was seriously wounded yesterday as Israel's security Cabinet reaffirmed its policy of targeting suspected terrorists. Israeli officials would not say if the shooting...
UFO CLONE CULT WARNS FED FOES
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amA strange cult of UFO worshippers - which plans to clone a human being in the next year - is threatening to haul the federal government into court if it...
‘A.J.’ COULD FACE 15 YEARS IN JAIL – TEEN ACTOR ILER IS CHARGED IN $40 MUGGING
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe teen actor who plays the sulky, pot-smoking son of TV mob don Tony Soprano is facing up to 15 years in a real-life prison - all for a $40...
PIAZZA LOOKING LIKE DH VS. YANKEES
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mike Piazza hit in the batting cage yesterday, and today he'll test his broken toe fully by playing catch in the bullpen, crouching and putting himself through a...
RUSCH IS REAL DEAL ; TOPS CUBS TO REWARD WILPON FOR TRADE VETO
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amMets 2 Cubs 1 This is what Fred Wilpon must have envisioned last month when he vetoed a trade that would have sent Glendon Rusch to Pittsburgh. Rusch made the...
BOBBY V: BENITEZ RATED STAR NOD
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S a dirty job picking an All-Star team, but the Mets kept Bobby Valentine's hands clean. "I'll apologize to my guys who I'm not taking, who are a little less...
BOMBERS LAND ESTALELLA
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The Yankees said so long to Brian Boehringer yesterday when they shipped the veteran right-hander to the Giants for catcher Bobby Estalella and right-hander Joe Smith. Boehringer, who...
AND THE ROCKET’S RED GLARE: SO-SO STUFF, BIG EFFORT DRIVE ROGER TO 12-1
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 4 Orioles 3 BALTIMORE - Sit in Joe Torre's AL All-Star chair. You have to name an All-Star Game starting pitcher from a short list that has Roger Clemens,...
‘XTRA’ EFFORT IS DIFFERENCE
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amThere have been many great sprinting fillies over the years, but few have come closer to perfection than Xtra Heat, who ran her record to 14-for-16 with a hard-fought victory...
HOOK, LINE & STINKER ; ‘TOWN AND COUNTRY’ LEADS THE WAY AS H’WOOD CHURNS OUT BAD FLICK AFTER BAD FLICK IN ’01
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amHAVING trouble finding a movie you actually want to see? You have plenty of company.Hollywood seems hellbent on proving H.L. Mencken's famous dictum that "no one ever went broke underestimating...
GOLDEN GOY OF VIOLIN : MILLENNIUM MAN JOSHUA BELL IS PASSIONATE ABOUT BERNSTEIN
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S the rare violinist who cracks People's "50 most beautiful people in the world" list - let alone makes Glamour's six "It Men of the Millennium." Yet Joshua Bell -...
COMIC’S A MISSING ‘LINK’
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amCAUSTIC comic Gilbert Gottfried has emerged as the front runner to host the syndicated version of "Weakest Link," The Post has learned. If Gottfried inks a deal, it would be...
BAM! URICH IS ‘EMERIL’ SPECIAL INGREDIENT
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amSMALL screen icon Robert Urich is the latest ingredient to be added into NBC's new fall comedy, "Emeril." On the troubled sitcom, which has been partially recast in recent weeks,...
AUTO INSURERS TAKE IN MORE BUT PAY OUT LESS
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Auto-insurance companies are keeping more of your money. As New York state's rates jumped to the nation's second highest, the gap between the total premiums collected by companies...
HOLIDAY ‘FARE’ FOR N.Y. POLS IS ON YOU
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - As America celebrates its 225th birthday, some New York members of Congress are globetrotting around the world - on your dime. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Manhattan) and his wife...
NAKED HOOPSTERS GET OK TO SUE
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amTwo former Rutgers University basketball players and a team manager have been given the green light to sue their ex-coaches for forcing them to run naked during practice. A New...
SHERBET EXPLODED IN GIRL’S TUMMY: SUIT
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe parents of a 5-year-old California girl are reportedly suing Baskin-Robbins after a sherbet inspired by the movie "Shrek" allegedly exploded in the little girl's stomach. Chris Janke says her...
INFERTILITY GENE FOUND: DOCS
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amScientists believe they have isolated the gene that causes infertility in men - a discovery that will pave the way for new treatments. The gene, known as ZNF214, is believed...
WILL ‘BIG BRO’ END UP LIKE THIS?
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amIF the hidden cameras of "Big Brother" catch two people having sex and then broadcast their passion on CBS, I will run to check the temperature of hell because it...
NEW YORK POST: FROM JULY 5, 1939
July 5, 2001 | 4:00am"A Tear For All To See," read the headline over The Post's photo of Lou Gehrig trying to compose himself during the doomed baseball star's "luckiest man on the face...