September 23, 2001
BUSH: ECONOMY WILL BOUNCE BACK
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe U.S. economy can and will recover from the shock of last week's terrorist attacks, President George Bush said yesterday. "The American economy is fundamentally strong," Bush said in his...
BASS; DISNEY FIRE SALE IS ALAMO FOR ONCE HIGH-FLYING TEXANS
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amSid Bass, his three billionaire brothers and their savvy dad Perry knew a year ago they had big troubles. But few on Wall Street ever made a peep. Insiders say...
BLOOD MONEY PROBE BEGUN TARGETS TERRORISTS' STOCK SHORT-SALES
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amFinancial sleuths around the world launched their hunt yesterday for money laundering and stock frauds that bankroll terrorist cells here and abroad. European Union finance ministers dispatched a new task...
FOOD, HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS, DEFENSE ARE BETS NOW
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amWITH the total value of U.S. stocks now $1.38 trillion cheaper than they were a week ago, some investors are naturally thinking about starting to buy. But many others say...
HARD-HIT LEHMAN IS OK: ANALYSTS
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amWALL Street may be hurting right now and business may suffer in the near future, but Lehman Brothers - despite its short-term relocation away from its headquarters near "Ground Zero"...
EVERYONE'S A LITTLE EDGY
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amA SEASON like no other? It wasn't meant to be, but that is what it has become. The 2001-02 TV season was designed like all other ones that have come...
FRENCH TOAST AT N.Y. FILM FESTIVAL
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amMore than 40 years after it was launched by a band of maverick critics at the magazine Cahiers du Cinema, the French New Wave appears as healthy as ever. Just...
'WITCHES' FLIES ON STAR POWER
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amLONDON - What a difference a star makes!When I saw producer Cameron Mackintosh's new musical, "The Witches of Eastwick," last season in London, it struck me as so-so. Obviously a...
WHAT I WATCH
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amARTHUR MARX AUTHOR AND SON OF GROUCHO MARX"SEINFELD." I WATCH THE RERUNS EVERY NIGHT. THERE'S NOT THAT MUCH THAT IS FUNNY ON TELEVISION NOW. THE STORIES ARE SO STRANGE, YOU...
'PARIS' REVISITED FOLLOW-UP FILM RETURNS TO DRAG QUEEN BALL SCENE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amIn 1990, a documentary about the outrageous and insular Harlem and Brooklyn drag ball scene, "Paris Is Burning," introduced the world to voguing, a little-known dance style that Madonna promptly...
REAL PEOPLE,; NOT REAL SMART; THE SCENARIOS ARE SCARILY SIMILAR TO THOSE IN THE PAST. AND WE'VE GOT AT LEAST ONE LINE-FOR-LINE RIPOFF; BETTER LATE THAN NEVER...; ...THE FALL SEASON ARRIVES; LINDA STASI
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amEVEN if our lives will never be the same again, the one thing you can count on to always stay the same are TV sitcoms. In fact, even though the...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: ANGELA FEATHERSTONE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN she was 16, "Soul Survivors" star Angela Featherstone read Marlon Brando's biography and was so inspired, she decided to become an actress.When she was 17, the Nova Scotia native...
WHY MOVIES STINK HOLLYWOOD HAS NEVER BEEN WORSE. HERE'S WHAT'S WRONG
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amEvery summer since "Jaws," which inaugurated the era of the event movie, people who love films have complained about the awfulness of Hollywood's latest efforts. But this summer the movies...
SOLIDARITY MAKES CITY A SPECIAL PLACE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amThere's a disheveled, drunken man who's always sprawled out across the sidewalk on 14th Street near my apartment. Every day since I moved to the West Village, I've seen people...
BURGER MEISTERS: YOU'LL GO CRAZY OVER THE MOST EXPENSIVE PATTIES IN TOWN
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amFew foods are more American than the hamburger. And Manhattan is home to the most expensive ones in the world. The longtime titleholder is the dinnertime entrée at Midtown's '21'...
THE FUN-AYAMA NEVER STOPS AT THIS VILLAGE SUSHI PALACE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe waitress issues some cautionary words before letting you commit to the Monday and Thursday night all-you-can-eat $18.48 sushi specials at Funayama. If you're not really hungry, better order something...
TAILS OF THE HEART: NEW YORKERS RALLY TO SAVE THE PETS LEFT BEHIND
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amAmid the chaos of the last two weeks, New Yorkers' hearts have gone out to the pets of those still missing in the ruins of the World Trade Center. Many...
HOLY SYMBOLS OF HOPE AMID THE RUBBLE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amYOU are looking at what some people believe is a miracle. Two days after the disaster, a construction worker found several perfectly formed crosses planted upright in a pit in...
FEDS SEND $127M TO CITY, WITH $20B TO COME
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Federal authorities have turned over $127 million in disaster relief to the city at unprecedented speed - with nearly $20 billion more yet to come. State and city...
LIFE AFTER THE HORROR HOW TEAMS RESPOND IS ANYBODY'S GUESS
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amFOXBORO - It's the great unknown in every NFL stadium hosting a game today and tomorrow after a two-week layoff. How will the players react to being back on the...
HOW LONG CAN WE BEAR IT? ANALYSTS: MARKET NEAR ROCK BOTTOM
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amLast week's 14 percent stock-market dive left American investors with one question - where's the bottom? The good news from financial pros is that the market slide seems to be...
DON'T EXPECT ANOTHER DRAFT, OFFICIALS SAY
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Despite the mobilization of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia and the call-up of military reserves, the Bush administration says there is little chance of...
FLAG GOING TO FULL STAFF
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - As America gets ready to strike back at terrorists, President Bush today will raise the American flag back to proudly wave at full staff in a ceremony at...
SUDDENLY, ALL OUR 'PROBLEMS' SEEM SMALL
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amLANCE Armstrong was told to hang up the wheels of his bike. He had been diagnosed as suffering from incurable testicular cancer Instead of hanging up his wheels, he started...
LAURA TRULY OUR FIRST MOM SEES ROLE AS CALMING INFLUENCE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - When terror struck, Laura Bush's first instinct was as a mom - to call her twin daughters - but almost instantly she became the First Mom, comforting and...
FROM TRAGEDY COMES A NEW ATTITUDE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amWHAT in the world has become of our great, jaded city? It's been 12 days without road rage. Twelve days without horns blaring, petty anger erupting over massive traffic jams,...
FOREIGN CARRIERS TELL US: WE CAN'T FLY HERE FROM THERE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amHERE'S what you should know about airlines in other countries. My daughter, Jessica, was in India when the WTC disaster struck. Northwest and KLM, the carriers on which she was...
LET BLIGHTFUL BILLBOARDS SHOW OUR TRUE COLORS
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amDRIVING back into Manhattan via the Midtown Tunnel for the first time with my daughter safely back on American soil, we were hit in the gut by the smoking, decimated...
HOLLYWOOD GOES WOBBLY
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amFRIDAY night's all-star telethon, broadcast on every network, was an immensely moving occasion. How could it not be moving to hear Jim Carrey and Julia Roberts and George Clooney and...
MAYHEM MAY HURT FERRER'S CHANCES TUESDAY
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amJust weeks after having an angry battle with Mayor Giuliani over ethics, mayoral candidate Alan Hevesi yesterday promised that Giuliani would play a prominent role in his administration if he's...
EXPERTS: BOUNTY $ WORKED BEFORE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Bounties - like the nearly $25 million that President Bush just put on the heads of Osama bin Laden and his henchmen - can play a key role...
FLAG MEN: DON'T CALL US HEROES
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe three soot-covered firefighters whose Iwo Jima-style raising of Old Glory amid the ruins of the World Trade Center raised the hopes of the nation do not want to be...
I WAS PLANE SCARED FLYING LAST WEEK
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amDESPITE my anxieties and trepidation in the wake of the World Trade Center attack, I jumped back into the normally chaotic elements of my life - including traveling. The lack...
'WING' TACKLES TRAGEDY
September 23, 2001 | 4:00am"The West Wing," NBC's Emmy-winning series about life in the White House, is rushing to finish a special episode about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to air next week. NBC...
BUSH KEEPS PUTIN IN PICTURE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday had a long phone chat with Russia's Vladimir Putin about the global "battle with terror" as the president mapped military plans with his war cabinet....
ARIEL CALLS ARAFAT 'OUR BIN LADEN'
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday halted U.S.-backed cease-fire talks being planned with PLO chief Yasser Arafat, calling the Palestinian leader "our bin Laden," The Post has learned....
TELETHON DREW 89 MILLION VIEWERS
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amMore than 89 million people watched Friday night's "A Tribute to Heroes" telethon, which aired across the nation - and the television dial - and raised money for the families...
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED OUR UNITS TAKE POSITION NEAR ENEMY
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Super-secret U.S. commando teams have begun operations in the Afghanistan region, officials said last night. Military sources told The Post that elite Special Forces units have been moving...
60,000 IN STADIUM PRAYERS TODAY
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe soothing voices of Placido Domingo, the Harlem Boys Choir and patriotic country crooner Lee Greenwood are set to ring out from Yankee Stadium today as the city comes together...
RUDY'S MISSED CHANCE PATAKI CAME CLOSE TO LETTING MAYOR STAY ON
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amGov. Pataki seesawed for days between sharply conflicting advice before making a final decision on Friday to let Tuesday's primary election proceed - thus assuring that Mayor Giuliani leaves office...
WIDOW GRIEVES WITH SMILES & LAUGHTER
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amTHE widow had one request for mourners at her husband's funeral: Don't wear black. Tell silly jokes. Drink champagne. Laugh. Mark Ludvigsen would love that. For one family, yesterday marked...
'DIRECTLY INVOLVED'
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amFederal investigators believe that up to 20 of the people they now have in custody were "directly involved" with the Sept. 11 terror plot that left 6,966 presumed dead, The...
DON'T BET ON EUROPE A TOURIST'S REPORT
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amBEING marooned in Europe on Sept. 11, 2001, and stuck there a week, gave me an unholy hate-on for the whole smug "Continent." Not the Europe of Colosseums and Eiffel...
BIN LADEN'S BIG FAMILY HAS BIG TIES TO BIG BIZ
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amAs U.S. investigators hunt down Osama bin Laden's vast financial network, his family continues to rake in billions annually through a legitimate international conglomerate that still does business here. And,...
ISRAEL'S SPY INFO BOOSTS U.S. PROBE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. IMMEDIATELY after the Sept. 11 attacks that shocked the world, the United States expressed an urgent need to update its profiles of Muslim extremist organizations and individuals. Israel, which...
MYSTERY MULLAH THE REAL POWER
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe key to whether or not Osama bin Laden is turned over to the United States rests with an elusive, half-blind figure no one in the Western world has ever...
CITY SEES OLYMPICS AS REBIRTH
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amAs New York City rises to the task of rebuilding ground zero, there are those hoping a Big Apple Olympics in 2012 will be a finish line for the rebirth...
VALIANT AGENT IS FBI'S FIRST TERROR CASUALTY
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amAn FBI agent who testified three months ago against a follower of Osama bin Laden is among the missing in the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack, and may be...
YOU'VE GOT E-MAIL
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amFROM Incogknito: "Get 'em girl - if those bastards don't like it they can catch a fast kick in the butt outta here." From Dinipoo: "Let's not refer to bin...
N.J. A PERFECT PLACE TO HIDE 'NICE' TERRORISTS BLENDED WITH ARAB COMMUNITY
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amThey wanted what others look for in a nice place to live: proximity to Manhattan, a large and diverse population, apartments with reasonable rents. But the men detained by federal...
GHOULS GO FOR RUBBLE SOUVENIRS
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amSome people have appalled weary rescue workers by snatching ghastly souvenirs - pieces of rubble from the World Trade Center. "It's ghoulish," said one disgusted cop. "A lot of people...
GENEROUS JULIA DONATES $2M
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amA day after Hollywood's firmament shone brighter than ever on a telethon to raise relief funds for the World Trade Center disaster, Pretty Woman Julia Roberts has donated a handsome...
PLAYERS WILL HAVE FINAL SAY
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES KANSAS CITY - Jim Fassel did not want to divulge what he plans to say to the Giants today inside what figures to be an emotionally-charged pre-game locker...
AN ESCAPE FROM REALITY GIANTS TRY TO FOCUS ON CHIEFS
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Inside those lines, Jessie Armstead can escape from the madness and sadness that consumed his and so many lives the past days. This afternoon, Armstead gets to...
BETHPAGE TAKES NO CHANCES WITH OPEN
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amSECURITY measures for the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage State Park won't be finalized for several months, but in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on America, organizers are sure...
BELICHICK NEEDS REFRESHER COURSE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amJET NOTES FOXBORO - When Patriots coach Bill Belichick was asked about Jets defensive end John Abraham the other day, he apparently forgot about the pass-rushing sensation's performances against his...
KRIEGER READY FOR JAMAICA 'CAP
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amOne morning at the Old Spa, Joe Orseno watched his late-developing colt Krieger come off the Oklahoma training track after a routine gallop. "That," Orseno said, "is a very nice...
IT'S GETTING LATE EARLY FOR BIG BLUE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amKEITH Hamilton says if the National Football League wants full playoffs with 12 teams, it will have full playoffs with 12 teams. "The NFL is the biggest, richest thing, you...
TWO MORE CHEERS FOR N.Y.
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amFOXBORO - They put on their shoulder pads and knee braces and helmets again today, buckle their chinstraps, maybe fight back the red, white and blue tears, and try to...
MIKE & MAD DOG EXPOSED AS FRAUDS
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amSINCE Sept. 11, most WFAN hosts have shown up solemn, respectful and quick to acknowledge that they're neither world historians nor experts on current global affairs. Mike Francesa and Chris...
CATALANOTTO PUTS NAME AMONG ELITE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amTEXAS Rangers reserve Bo Porter watched the sweet-swinging lefty sting line drives in every direction during batting practice and asked the hitter a question. "You think you could ever win...
MAKING HUNT DREAMS COME TRUE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amFOR the ninth consecutive year, Buckmasters American Deer Foundation is accepting applications of severely disabled or critically ill children whose wish is to go hunting. "We established what later became...
MAY BE OSGOOD AS IT GETS ISLES HAVE EYES ON WINGS GOALIE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amWITH the Red Wings having no choice but to move Chris Osgood before Tuesday's 2 p.m. pre-Waiver Draft roster freeze takes effect, the Islanders have emerged as the leading candidate...
SYKORA GIVES DEVILS A SCARE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amDevils2Flyers2 PHILADELPHIA - The Devils' "A" Line has become a target. Lucky to escape Luke Richardson's crushing late hit with only a hip pointer, Petr Sykora vowed yesterday to be...
NIEDERMAYER'S THINKING HEADS-UP
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Tie Domi's vicious elbow has left one tangible effect on Scott Niedermayer: he now wears a new helmet. If it does its job, the Devil defenseman may become...
AILING JETER FINALLY TAKES SEAT
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Derek Jeter doesn't know if it's a cold or allergies. All he understands is that whatever it was that slowed his body down to the point...
SO. SHORE MOURNS ITS LOSS
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amFt. Hamilton14South Shore6 South Shore is in the midst of an eight-game losing streak, but yesterday's 14-6 loss to Fort Hamilton hurt even more. "We wanted to win so badly,"...
MANNY GLAD TO GET OUT OF LIMELIGHT
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amIn his fourth training camp - already! - it is more than somewhat of a relief to Manny Malhotra that he has become simply another young Ranger rather than the...
THE BIRDS SWARM HITCHCOCK - NOT SO STERLING ROUGHED UP AS YANKS FALL TO O'S
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The beating put on him by the Orioles wasn't the most difficult thing for Sterling Hitchcock to take yesterday. Being unsure about when he can get the rancid...
HOW YANKS GIVE WILL BE KEPT QUIET
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The Yankees would rather you not keep score when it comes to donating to charities. With major league teams, Mets players included, announcing they are donating one game's...
SPARTAN OK AFTER COLLAPSE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amSOUTH BEND, Ind. - Seconds after Michigan State scored the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter of its 17-10 victory over Notre Dame yesterday, medical personnel made a dash for...
EXPRESS TOUR RUNS AWAY WITH JEROME
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amDespite running hard through extremely fast early fractions, Express Tour, the longest shot of the five horse field at 8-1, still had something left in the stretch drive and drew...
ONE WRITER'S VIEW FROM ND STADIUM
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amSOUTH BEND, Ind. - The bomb-sniffing dogs scoured Notre Dame Stadium yesterday, hours before the Fighting Irish lost, 17-10, to visiting Michigan State. This is the new age of being...
BROTHERLY LOVE FLOWS IN PHILLIES' NY TRIBUTE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The tributes have come from everywhere, but one of the most beautiful is from the City of Brotherly Love. Dan Stephenson, the Phillies manager of video productions, has...
IRISH LOSS LEAVES DAVIE ON HOT SEAT
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amMich. St.17N. Dame10 SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Bob Davie once again is the owner of the hottest seat in college football. And he has no one to blame but himself....
YES, IT REALLY IS HAPPENING
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amFOR the best cause in New York's history, the Mets on Friday night played for free, never mind the irony that finally they are earning their pay. Through mid-August, they...
AILING MADDUX YANKED IN FIRST
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe Mets came into last night prepared to face four-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux, the linchpin of Atlanta's vaunted rotation. But they didn't have to deal with him...
TEAM HAS CLINCHED CITY'S RESPECT
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Mets are winners today, and some of it actually has to do with how well they are playing on the field. It is the 50-year anniversary of Bobby Thomson's...
AMAZIN' MIRACLE METS TOP BRAVES WHILE PHILLIES FALL
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amThis was the game. This was the one that miracle-clinging Met fans worried about, where they said, "Yeah, but they've got Maddux on the hill tonight. "Trachsel hasn't proved he...
LEITER DREAMING ABOUT JOINING THE SENATORS
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Since the events of Sept. 11, Al Leiter has thought long and hard about how we can make our nation stronger. He hasn't given any stronger thought to...
COX GETS TASTE OF WTC HORROR
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amDespite the contentious relationship the Braves have with the Mets and their fans, Bobby Cox will always be a former Yankee and always has loved New York. And when he...
METS, NOT YANKS, NOW NEW YORK'S TEAM
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Mets are winners today and some of it actually has to do with how well they are playing on the field. It is the 50-year anniversary of Bobby Thomson's...
PIAZZA SUPERSTAR: CATCHER'S BIG HEART SETS EXAMPLE FOR TEAMMATES
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe day after rolled around, with little kids commandeering the Shea Stadium outfield for mid-afternoon drills with Mets personnel. The scoreboard sign read, "Welcome to Lunch Box Night." Life moved...
PHILS' VIDEO TRIBUTE SHOWS TRUE BROTHERLY LOVE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The tributes have come from everywhere, but one of the most beautiful is from the City of Brotherly Love. Dan Stephenson, the Phillies manager of video productions, has...
TRADITIONAL NY SAYS ENOUGH FOR TORRE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - While the Yankees continue to wear NYPD and NYFD hats during batting practice and while conducting television interviews and soon may add Port Authority and EMS lids to...
HOT KOLNIK MAY STICK WITH ISLES
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amTalk about longshots to make the Islander roster, and Juraj Kolnik's name may have been at the top of the list a week ago. How times have changed. After the...