October 16, 2001
'WONDERBUM' HOSIERY TO LIFT BUNS & SPIRITS
Wonder-full! Your bum is about to become as perky as your Wonderbra-clad breasts. Dupont Lycra has created a new hosiery product, known internally as "Wonderbum," which "lifts, separates and shapes,...
WARTIME INVESTING
CAN the stock market get through this earnings period without a major decline? Over the last two trading sessions the stock market is acting nervous again - and it isn't...
ESG HEADING DOWNTOWN
WHEN One Liberty Plaza reopens Monday, one tenant move-back will have particular symbolic meaning. The Downtown headquarters of commercial brokerage Insignia/ESG will reclaim its space in the somber black steel...
MARTS END BIG SELL-OFF WITH A RALLY
The markets started the week with a big sell-off, but a late-day rally left major U.S. market averages relatively flat for the day. A mixed bag of profit reports left...
CIBC PAYS TOP DOLLAR ON 3RD AV.
CIBC's brokerage unit is paying a premium to keep its operations running after its offices at One World Financial Center were damaged on Sept. 11, The Post has learned. Sources...
IT'S OVER, FOLKS - PRIMEDIA PULLS THE PLUG ON BRILL MEDIA HOLDINGS
Steve Brill, media watchdog, has been defanged. The media entrepreneur told a demoralized staff yesterday that Brill's Content will fold and 38 people who work on the magazine and the...
J&R MUSIC WORLD TO REOPEN NEXT WEEK
An anchor of Downtown retailing will be reopening not far from the ruins of the World Trade Center next week. J&R Music World, which is about six blocks from Ground...
MAGAZINES ARE VALUABLE IN BREAKUP
Some Wall Streeters think Henry Kravis is quietly making plans to break up his Primedia media empire to sell it piece-by-piece and recoup some of his investment in the money-loser....
SEX HARASS CHARGE HITS SENIOR PARTNER
Michelle Sloane, a former receptionist and bride-to-be, has filed a complaint alleging that a partner at Park Avenue law firm Morgan & Finnegan repeatedly leered at her breasts and kissed...
EMI SOURS ON KEN BERRY: REPLACED BY LEVY AMID FAILED MERGERS, FALLING SALES
The music has finally stopped for Ken Berry. In a surprise ouster, the star-maker head of EMI's recording group has been replaced by rival music chief Alain Levy for a...
LOST BEAR-INGS
IT WAS during an early autumn hike deep in the heart of Alaska's Denali National Park that we discovered a rather large grizzly bear blocking the way back to our...
LIT'S 'ATOMIC' BLAST
* LIT"Atomic" [ 1/2] Dirty Martini/RCA Records While most bands from California's Orange County are rehashing played-out sugar-pop styles, Lit has welded its love for crunch metal to scruffy three-chord...
BAD HAIR DAY ...BUT FREAK SHOW GETS 'WOLF' WHISTLE
"Wolf Girl" Tonight at 9 on USA IF the last thing you think you want to do is watch anything called "Wolf Girl," you should think again. This very strange,...
NEWARK, NEWARK ; N.Y.'S ONCE-POOR COUSIN BOUNCES BACK WITH A WEALTH OF WORTHY OFFERINGS
I BLAME the Sopranos.Why else should my heart skip a beat as I gaze out the window of the speeding PATH train, as it winds along the banks of the...
NATURALLY GORGE-OUS - A DRIVE TO NIAGARA FALLS OFFERS MORE THAN A SPECTACULAR VIEW
* The drive to Buffalo from New York takes about 7½ hours. For info, call the Buffalo-Niagara Chamber of Commerce, (716) 852-7100, www.buffaloniagara.org. For Canada info, call Ontario Tourism at...
BUZZ
Gals at risk Sixty percent of New York women say they're loath to visit a gynecologist - even when they need to. A survey by the American Social Health Association...
STARR REPORT
Hunter green: Tylo 'still negotiating'Hunter Tylo is still on "The Bold and the Beautiful" - despite Internet rumors that she's broken off contract negotiations with CBS and is leaving the...
ALL THE BARD THAT'S FIT TO SKIT
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)At the Century Center, 111 E. 15th St. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. SHAKESPEARE, dude. You remember him from high school, right?Preposterous plots, incomprehensible language,...
GIVE THE KIDS A BREAK! ; AMC A PICTURE OF GREED
A FEW years ago, when Bravo made the disheartening decision to disrupt its movies with commercials, I asked if the company would ever consider doing the same thing with its...
ABBA A TO Z
LET the ABBA-mania begin.Get set for a renewed onslaught of glam-rock bodysuits and dancing queens when the musical "Mamma Mia!" opens on Broadway Thursday. The show is chock-full of the...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
Head games Arkansas can claim distinction as the birthplace of our last president - and as the venue of the 19th annual Bean Fest and Championship Outhouse Race. Held in...
SEE JOY RUN
JOY Enriquez is either consoling her boyfriend Derek Jeter today or celebrating with him. Aside from dating one of New York's most sought-after hearthrobs, the 21-year-old, high-energy beauty is a...
D.C. IS NEW ANTHRAX TARGET: SENATE DEM LEADER'S AIDE EXPOSED
The nationwide anthrax scare hit new heights yesterday as it terrorized Congress - when Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office on Capitol Hill got a letter laced with the bacteria....
WHOA-FUL APPEAL HORSEFEATHERS
A Manhattan appeals court said neigh yesterday to a New Jersey man's bid to overturn his conviction on a police-horse-punching charge. A three-judge panel of the state Supreme Court's Appellate...
BRITS MAKE RUDY HIZZONER-ARY KNIGHT
Call him Sir Rudy of New York. Mayor Giuliani has been dubbed an honorary knight for his "heroic leadership" following the World Trade Center attack, Prince Andrew said yesterday during...
THE OTHER BLOWBACK - WE'RE ALL HAWKS NOW
MANHATTAN has now been attacked twice - once on Sept. 11 and once with the NBC anthrax. This choice of target may have been a gross miscalculation on the part...
ISRAELI COALITION SPLITS ISRAELI COALITION SPLITS - 2 MINISTERS QUIT TO PROTEST PULLOUT
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's seven-month-old government suffered its first major setback yesterday when two cabinet ministers resigned, hours after Israeli tanks were pulled back from strategic West...
GYNO GETS 7 YEARS - 'DYNO' DOC TO PAY $3M
Disgraced "Dyno Gyno" Niels Lauersen was sentenced to seven years behind bars yesterday for insurance fraud as weeping former patients cried out, "We love you Niels!" in court and waved...
VALLONE TELLS FERNANDO TO GIVE IT UP
Mark Green yesterday picked up the endorsement of Peter Vallone - a onetime supporter of Fernando Ferrer who urged the Bronx borough president to "throw the towel in" on becoming...
ANTI-U.S. PROTESTS ROCK ASIAN COUNTRIES
Vicious anti-U.S. unrest rocked Pakistan, India and Indonesia yet again yesterday as cops tried to control protesters waving posters declaring President Bush "wanted by the Islamic people for murder." In...
PS 194 GOES THROUGH A LESSON IN FEAR
SHORTLY after 9 a.m., the principal charged into classrooms on the fourth floor of Harlem's PS 194. "Line up the children, and bring them down to the auditorium," barked Principal...
CONCORDE SOARS AGAIN ON NOV. 7
Fifteen months after being grounded by a freak accident, Concorde jets are set to fly again - a soaring "tribute" to New York City and the terror-battered aviation industry, officials...
JETS WALLOP TALIBAN BASES: SOLDIERS ON GROUND GET 'BETTER' TARGET INFO
WASHINGTON - Taliban forces were hit with an intense barrage of around-the-clock U.S. airstrikes yesterday as rebel troops closed in on a key city in a battle that could signal...
DEM CHIEF IN TOWN TO AVOID VOTE FIASCO
In a bid to prevent a Florida-style election disaster, Democratic National Committee boss Terry McAuliffe came to the city yesterday and met with Mark Green and a top aide to...
JUDGE: BOMB TRIAL GOES ON
LOS ANGELES - A judge yesterday refused to push back the trial of an accused 1970s terrorist who had requested a delay due to the Sept. 11 hijackings and bombings....
HARLEM SCHOOL HIT BY POWDER PANIC
Pandemonium erupted at a Harlem elementary school yesterday after a teacher came into contact with a substance he feared was anthrax. Health officials said they did not believe the powdery...
U.S. WOOS MUSLIMS ON ARAB CHANNEL
The State Department is considering buying ads on the Arab world's all-news channel to explain that the United States' war on terrorism is not a crusade against Islam. Charlotte Beers,...
JURY HEARS OF TOXIC MOLD 'LIES'
The owners of a Kips Bay housing complex used "lying" and "deceit" to cover up deadly toxic molds in their buildings that have made seven residents sick, the tenants' lawyer...
KOOKS USING TALCUM AS A THREAT
From babies' bottoms to terrorist threat - talcum powder has emerged as the new instrument of fear. Scores of packages containing the harmless substance have been reported around the country....
'DEVIL' KILLED WTC HEROES
Terrorists who took the lives of heroes like Thomas Gambino Jr., on Sept. 11 were inspired by "the devil - Satan and his demons," a priest said at the firefighter's...
GIRL'S GIFTS GIVE GRIEVING KIDS THAT 'FUZZY' FEELING
An 8-year-old Massachusetts girl is making life more bear-able for the kids of firefighters, cops and rescue workers lost at the World Trade Center disaster - cheering them up with...
MIKE COMES A COURTIN' FOR RANGEL, DINKINS AIDE
Republican mayoral hopeful Michael Bloomberg moved quickly yesterday to court two of Fernando Ferrer's most important backers in hopes of gaining support among divided Democrats. Bloomberg met with Rep. Charles...
HOMELESS PAIR JUMP IN FRONT OF LIRR TRAIN
A husband and wife - distraught because they had no place to live - tried to kill themselves yesterday by jumping in front of a Long Island Rail Road train,...
BUG TEST AS EASY AS A SIMPLE SWAB
A swab in the nose or a syringe of blood is all that's needed to see if people have been exposed to anthrax. Scientists at the city's health laboratories on...
TERROR TRACED TO TRENTON AGAIN: 2 AT POST OFFICE GET ANTHRAX TESTS
Trenton became the latest battleground in the nation's germ-warfare crisis yesterday when it was revealed a second poisoned letter was postmarked there on Sept. 18. Two ailing postal workers from...
IT COULD AD UP IN BLOOMBERG'S FAVOR
ANALYSIS Any delay in the mayoral election would provide an unexpected boost to Republican Michael Bloomberg, whose TV-driven campaign has taken a back seat in recent weeks to a vastly...
JETS WALLOP 'EMERGING' FOES: READERS HAVE JIHAD IT WITH TRAITOR
Patriotic Americans want a fellow citizen who says he'd like to join the jihad to get out of the country - and they're prepared to personally pay for his one-way...
CITY MAY SEEK DELAY IN ELECTION: RUDY WILL BACK PLEA TO ALBANY
City Board of Elections officials - backed by Mayor Giuliani - are considering seeking a two-week postponement of the Nov. 6 election, The Post has learned. Board Deputy Executive Director...
BUSH BIDS TO BOOST $$ FOR BIO-DEFENSE
WASHINGTON - President Bush is asking Congress to OK an extra $1.5 billion to combat bio-terrorism - and stockpile enough antibiotics to treat 12 million people for anthrax for two...
DESIGNER'S WTC QUIP CREATES STINK
Wolfgang Joop has a little p.r. problem. The German fashion designer - who sells his men's and women's fashions and fragrances in the U.S. - was quoted in a German...
COPS: EURO CELL PLANNED GAS ATTACK
Wire taps by Italian police helped break up an al Qaeda-linked terror cell that planned to use a chemical - believed to be cyanide - to suffocate a large number...
HAZMAT COPS SCOUR POST'S OFFICES
Police hazardous-materials experts combed the offices of The Post last night for possible signs of the bioterror germ anthrax in a citywide blitz of major media outlets that may have...
MYSTERIOUS FUMES FELL 7 AT UPTOWN SUBWAY STOP
New York's bioterror panic spread to the city's deepest subway station last night, where several people were overcome by mysterious fumes, authorities said. Seven people were taken to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital...
ANTHRAX TARGET: D.C. - SENATE DEM LEADER'S AIDE EXPOSED
The nationwide anthrax scare hit new heights yesterday - as U.S. Senate chief Tom Daschle's office got a letter laced with the potentially killer bacteria and the infant child of...
BIO-MENACE PUTS CAPITOL ON EDGE
WASHINGTON - Terror's deadly poison hit the nation's Capitol, closing down tours, shuttering the gift shop, and even preventing congressmen from getting mail. "It's hitting home," said Sen. Charles Grassley...
WTC QUIP CREATES A BIG STINK
Wolfgang Joop has a little p.r. problem. The German fashion designer - who sells his men's and women's fashions and fragrances in the United States - was quoted in a...
BROKAW: I TOUCHED DISEASE-TAINTED LETTER
NBC anchor Tom Brokaw yesterday revealed that he handled the anthrax-laced hate letter that infected his assistant with the deadly bacteria. Brokaw, who has been tested for anthrax and is...
VALLONE TELLS FREDDY: GIVE IT UP
Mark Green yesterday picked up the endorsement of Peter Vallone - a onetime supporter of Fernando Ferrer who urged the Bronx borough president to "throw the towel in" on becoming...
NO NET INJURY BUG YET
Byron Scott swears there are no flashbacks. He sees strains and sprains, bumps and bruises, not breaks and fractures. "No flashbacks," Scott said, referring to last year when serious injury...
PLENTY OF GUTS WITHOUT GLORY
It was no better the day after. In fact, it was worse. "It's gut-wrenching to lose a game like that," Jim Fassel declared yesterday. "It tears your heart out." It...
KNICKS SIZING UP PURSUING THORPE
Otis Thorpe is waiting for the Knicks' call. Desperate for size with Marcus Camby's foot injury and Larry Johnson's retirement, the Knicks have had internal discussions on whether to pursue...
TORRE'S GOT MAGIC TOUCH
A FEW WORDS to the wise: If you happen to see Joe Torre at the racetrack (and you very well might), sneak up behind him as he goes to the...
CTK LINEMAN QUICK TO QB, QUICKER STUDY
Willie Miller remembers the first time he suited up in a football uniform. "I couldn't even figure out how to get the pants on over my pads," the Christ the...
WILL REAL JETS STAND UP?
The Jets are tied for first place in the AFC East with a 3-2 record. If the season ended today, based on their win over the 3-2 Dolphins Sunday, the...
PRIME TIME DEREK'S LEGEND KEEPS ON GROWING
WE SAW him run from out of nowhere to make a play that turned around an ALDS that was heading the way of the A's. That sideways pass from a...
JUST A FEW QUESTIONS
WE CAN do this right here or we can go downtown for some questioning, it's up to you. Following a road game, where will Michael Jordan sit on the team...
MACHO-MENTAL PITCHING DUEL
PHOENIX - They should add a weigh-in before this afternoon's Game 1 of the NLCS to give this classic matchup between the Diamondbacks' Randy Johnson and the Braves' Greg Maddux...
BOMBER COMEBACK GETS STRAIGHT A'S: YANKS CAP HISTORIC CLIMB FROM 0-2 HOLE
GAME % Yankees 5 A's 3 Will you ever doubt them again? Better yet, will you ever bet against them in your life? The smart answer is, "no." Joe Torre's...
JUSTICE WON'T BE DENIED
Bit by bit, the Yankee clubhouse - a strangely sedate clubhouse, considering they had just made history - began to clear out last night. David Justice stood by his locker,...
MARINERS SAIL INTO ALCS ; MOYER HURLS SECOND PLAYOFF WIN VS. TRIBE
Game 5 Mariners 3 Indians 1 SEATTLE - The Mariners are at 119 wins and still counting. "Good things have happened to us as a club this year and you...
M'S RED-HOT NELSON: WE WANT THE YANKEES
SEATTLE - Jeff Nelson wants the Yankees. And after striking out four of the six batters he faced in the seventh and eighth innings of yesterday's 3-1 ALDS clinching victory,...
FOR OAKLAND, A BAD ERR DAY
It took a few games, but the Yankees finally capitalized on the A's shoddy defense. After a botched double-play grounder opened the door for a Game 4 victory, the Bombers...
GIAMBI RIPS TEAMMATE TEJADA FOR BIG BASERUNNING BLUNDER
Jason Giambi and Miguel Tejada kissed and made up, so to speak. But Tejada's inability to go from first to third on a single by Giambi last night may have...
TORRE'S MOVES PAY OFF
Say this for Joe Torre: He doesn't scare. When Paul O'Neill and David Justice didn't hit in Games 1 and 2 of the ALDS against the A's, Torre inserted Shane...
THERE IS CRYING IN BASEBALL ; BOSS MOVED BY YANK RECOVERY
HE slammed the desktop in front of him, clapped with fury, clenched his jaw tight and ordered a couple of club executives out of Brian Cashman's box because he thought...
AILING ROCKET DOES WHAT HE CAN
Roger Clemens himself called it the most important start of his career. Despite his 20-win season, and his record five Cy Youngs, he has been suspect in the postseason. And...
CHOKE-LAND HAS NO EXPLANATIONS
Art Howe said the Yankees would have to play their best to have "a shot" at beating Oakland. That wasn't quite accurate. The Yanks just had to wait for the...
ROGER MOSTLY A DUD IN OCTOBER
ROGER Clemens won 20 games this year, for the sixth time in his career. He struck out over 200 - 213, to be exact - for the 11th time in...
THE ELITE OF THE ELITE: JETER, RIVERA AMONG POSTSEASON'S BEST
OAKLAND - Three of the four Division Series needed the maximum five games to be settled and four of the game's very best were central figures in those series. What...
DON'T MEAN A THING IF YANKS AIN'T GOT RING: BOMBERS FORCED GAME 5 - BUT AIM WELL BEYOND
Give the Yankees points for dragging themselves out of huge 0-2 hole to force an ALDS Game 5 last night against the A's at Yankee Stadium. It makes for a...
JOE THE GAMBLER : TORRE RESTS FATE IN SHANE & RANDY
ALDS NOTEBOOK Say this for Joe Torre: He doesn't scare. When Paul O'Neill and David Justice didn't hit in Games 1 and 2 of the ALDS against the A's, Torre...
THESE YANKS ARE DYNASTY DARLINGS
EIGHTEEN innings in Oakland reminded us all again just how clutch these Yankees have been and still are. With their dynasty on the brink, this team refused to blink. They...
O'NEILL BEGINS ON BENCH AGAIN
Paul O'Neill, expected to retire at season's end, knew last night's ALDS Gave Five against Oakland could've been one of his last, if not his last, in a Yankee uniform...
OAK'S 'D' SHOWS ITS TRUE SELF
It took a few games, but the Yankees finally capitalized on Oakland's suspect defense on Sunday. Whether they could do so in Game 5 would likely determine their fate. "We...
ANDY, HITCH READY TO GO IN ANY JAM
The Yankees knew Roger Clemens would start last night's climactic ALDS Game 5 against Oakland. But his questionable right hamstring, not to mention his shady postseason resume, left questions as...
GANT IN TO CLEANUP FOR DYE
Imagine if the Yankees lost Bernie Williams on Sunday. Or if they had lost David Justice during last year's playoffs. That's the plight of the A's, who lost cleanup hitter...
BEER BLAST HELPED MARINERS REBOUND FROM GAME 3 ROUT
ALDS NOTES SEATTLE - It turns out the Mariners, who faced the sudden blowup of their 116-win season bravely and, from all outward appearances, stoically on Sunday, did have a...
MOYER AND M'S MOVE ON - SEATTLE IN ALCS AS LEFTY TOPS TRIBE
GAME 5: Mariners 3 - Indians 1 SEATTLE - The Mariners are at 119 wins and still counting, almost like they counted on all along. With 20-game winner Jamie Moyer...