October 19, 2001
CARTIER AIMS TO SHINE AT AOL'S NEW HQ
Get ready to chalk up another 18-carat tenant for the AOL Time Warner Center. Cartier is in negotiations to lease an 11,500 square foot store at what will become the...
BEAR STEARNS TO LAY OFF 830
Bear Stearns Cos. told staffers yesterday that it will be cutting 830 jobs, or 7.5 percent of its work force. In a memo to employees, Chief Executive Officer James Cayne...
WE DIDN'T KNOW JACK; SO SAYS SPURNED HONEYWELL'S BONSIGNORE
Jack Welch is a crummy manager, after all. You may think of the now-retired GE boss as a U.S. business legend, but Michael Bonsignore, the former boss at Honeywell -...
JOBLESS UP BY 6,000; NY LEADS NATION
New claims for unemployment benefits flew up last week, with New York City bearing the brunt of the pain. Initial weekly jobless claims throughout the nation increased by 6,000, to...
TIME INC. CANS MAILROOM
DON LOGAN, president and CEO of Time Inc., the magazine division of AOL Time Warner, has wielded the ax again. This time, Time Inc. has fired the 36 people in...
M'SOFT, SUN EARNS COULD HIT MARKETS
Lousy earnings from Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, released after the markets closed yesterday, combined with high volume due to options expirations, could roil the stock market today. Microsoft reported crashing...
KRAVIS' KKR IS SHAKING UP PRIMEDIA EMPIRE
Henry Kravis and his new team trying to salvage Primedia's waning fortunes face a formidable task of streamlining some 300 magazines and 1,000 Web sites scattered across the U.S. Some...
HONORABLE 'MEN'TION
LAR LUBOVITCH DANCE COMPANYCity Center, W. 55th St. between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Season ends tomorrow.(212) 581-1212. FOR its brief New York season - which opened Wednesday at City Center...
STARR REPORT
WTC special gets History Channel repeat Due to viewer demand (over 300 e-mails and counting), The History Channel will repeat "The World Trade Center," which aired Wednesday night with anchor...
RIPPING GOOD SLASHER
FROM HELL 1/2 An instant classic.Running time: 120 minutes. Rated R (gory violence, sex, profanity). At the Empire, the Chelsea, the Village East, others. 'FROM Hell" is a cut above...
LONG LIVE THE QUEEN; 'VICTORIA & ALBERT' A CROWN JEWEL
"Victoria & Albert" Sunday at 9 on A&E 1/2 THEY call it the most romantic Victorian love story of the day - the marriage between Britain's teen queen, 18-year-old Victoria...
'RIDING IN CARS' STALLED IN SCHMALTZ
RIDING IN CARSWITH BOYS Uneven chick flick.Running time: 132 minutes. Rated PG-13 (adult themes). At the Empire 25, the Lincoln Square, others. BASED on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, Penny...
PUT IT ON! PUT IT ON!
DANCING AT THE BLUE IGUANA FOOTAGE of a scantily clad Daryl Hannah and Jennifer Tilly is inadequate recompense for sitting through this interminable, enervating look at the lives of women...
A FUNKY MACY PARADE
MACY GRAY WITH the grace of Gumby, the sexual appetite of Caligula and the funk lines of Sly Stone, Macy Gray brought her disc "The Id" to life in a...
'CASTLE' ROCKS
THE LAST CASTLE 1/2 Stirring action drama set in a military prison.Running time: 131 minutes. Rated: R (language, violence). At the Lincoln Square, the Kips Bay, others. IT'S a pleasure...
SADLY, A STORY FOR OUR TIMES
FOCUS Well-acted labor of love.Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG-13 (moderate violence and sexuality). At the Cinema 2, the Union Square. 'FOCUS" may be based on playwright Arthur Miller's 1945...
'WANTED' GOES AFTER REAL GERMS
THE U.S. Postal Service and the FBI have tapped "America's Most Wanted" to help try and catch the suspected terrorists who have been mailing letters laced with deadly anthrax to...
ABBA DABBA DO! LEND 'MIA!' AN EAR: 'MAMMA' IS A POP-SOLID SENSATION
MAMMA MIA! 1/2At the Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway. Call (212) 239-6200. 'MAMMA Mia!" finally opened at the Winter Garden Theatre last night, after starting in London two years ago...
BUSH BURNS ANEW ; COMING OUT FIGHTING
BUSH'S frontman, Gavin Rossdale, is one of rock music's most powerful girl magnets.Unfortunately for his smitten female fans, this guy is taken by another heartthrob: Gwen Stefani, singer for the...
ENDURING TALE OF SURVIVAL IN ANTARCTICA
THE ENDURANCE Fine telling of one of the great, inspiring epics of human survival.Running time: 90 minutes. Not rated. At the Empire, the Angelika, the First & 62nd Cinemas, others....
DAN'SNOTNEWSAT CBS; CH. 2 IGNORES ITS OWN ANCHOR ANTHRAX SCARE
A CBS News press briefing regarding an anthrax attack at the network's New York headquarters was carried on all three cable news networks - but didn't make it onto CBS-owned...
A 'PRETTY' SURE BET
'PRETTY Woman" - the 1990 movie that made Julia Roberts a star - is going to be turned into a Broadway musical. Garry Marshall, who directed the movie, will also...
KERIK MIGHT STAY, IF MIKE ASKS HIM
Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik - who earlier said he'll leave when Mayor Giuliani's term is up - would consider staying if Republican Michael Bloomberg captures City Hall, sources said yesterday....
ON TARGET: BOMBINGS NAILING TOP AL QAEDA KILLERS
WASHINGTON - A key disciple of Osama bin Laden was reported yesterday to have been killed during a U.S. airstrike, in a possible sign that members of the al Qaeda...
COPS: DOPEY DAD FORGOT WHERE HE LEFT HIS INFANT
A Long Island father was arrested after he left his 3-month-old child sitting on the trunk of a parked car for more than an hour, police said. Vincent Nuzzi, 36,...
CANADA'S RX PUSH IS 'PATENT'LY ILLEGAL
MONTREAL - German drug manufacturer Bayer be damned - Canada is openly flouting the powerful pharmaceutical company's patent for Cipro. The government has ordered 2 million tablets to be made...
360G BIDDER REVS UP HIS LENO-CYCLE
A rabid Jay Leno fan is in hog heaven today after making the winning bid of $360,200 for the late-night gabmeister's Harley-Davidson. Jay is donating the entire amount to the...
4 NABBED IN UNDERAGE-TRYST TWIST
A Manhattan eye doctor and three other men were arrested for allegedly arranging sex trysts on the Internet with 13- and 14-year-old girls - who were really undercover investigators working...
SURRENDER OR DIE, TALIBAN! - OUR LOUD-AND-CLEAR BROADCAST ULTIMATUM
WASHINGTON - U.S. forces in Afghanistan are sending special radio messages to Taliban fighters warning them they are "condemned" and that their only chance of survival is surrender. The demoralizing...
LAMEST OF THE FAMOUS: CELEBS SKIP OUT IN CITY'S TIME OF NEED
THEY come off tough when defending the rights of farm animals not to be ground into veal. So where are the stars, now that humans need them? That blur on...
CHINA STANDS WITH US: BUSH
China stands "side by side with the American people," President Bush said today at a news conference with his Chinese counterpart, Jiang Zemin. But Jiang expressed some worries about the...
PLO BIG BLOWN TO BITS - ISRAELI REVENGE EYED IN DEATH OF WANTED MAN
JERUSALEM - A militant near the top of Israel's most-wanted terrorist list yesterday was killed with two other Palestinians in a day of renewed violence following the assassination of an...
'LIAR' IS FACING H.I.V. RAP
A Long Island man has been charged with assault and reckless endangerment for allegedly knowingly infecting a woman with the deadly HIV virus. "It's the ultimate domestic violence crime," Suffolk...
'SHE WAS MY BABY' - B'KLYN MOM WEEPS FOR TEEN KILLED ON FRONT YARD
The family of a Brooklyn teen killed over "nonsense" is devastated, but hopeful cops say they will find the gunman who ended a fight between two girls by killing one...
DEADLY SPORES SENT TO MEDIC IN KENYA
Anthrax fears spread to Kenya yesterday when spores of the deadly bacteria were found in a package mailed from Atlanta three days before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade...
HERO COP WOULDN'T PLAY IT 'SAFE'
When Walwyn Stuart learned his wife was pregnant, he decided it was time to find safer work. So he left his job as an NYPD narcotics cop and joined the...
PATAKI DEFENDS HIS HASTE FOR CIPRO
ALBANY - Aides to Gov. Pataki yesterday defended his controversial decision to undergo treatment for possible anthrax without being tested for exposure. Pataki's action, which he publicly disclosed after preliminary...
COPS: B'KLYN EX IN FATAL RAMPAGE
A jealous ex-boyfriend yesterday shot and killed a man he found in his former girlfriend's Brooklyn apartment, then wounded her and their year-old daughter, police said. Sharron Ivory, 24, had...
SPEAKER HASTERT'S DISTRICT WEIGHS IN ON 'WIMP' FACTOR
In House Speaker Dennis Hastert's Illinois district yesterday, there was mixed reaction to his decision to shut the House because of anthrax - with one newspaper editor declaring "it's not...
KERIK TABS CZAR FOR BIOTERROR
A top NYPD investigative boss who is also a chemical engineer has been selected as the department's bioterrorism czar, Commissioner Bernard Kerik confirmed yesterday. He said deputy chief Phil Pulaski,...
DEADLY 'WALL FALL' BUILDER WILL PAY VICTIMS $1M
In a weak, trembling voice, Eugene Ostreicher stood in Brooklyn federal court and apologized for the man killed and people maimed in a wall collapse at one of his construction...
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A WONDERFUL DAY FOR A HANGING
JUDGE Leonard Sand put the law back in law and order yesterday and turned the bench back into a seat of respect. "This is no time for eloquence," he said...
SENATORS GET THEIR GLOAT - STAY ON AS HOUSE 'MICE' FLEE
WASHINGTON - Senators gloated their way through a day of work yesterday, meeting, debating and voting, while their scared House cousins stayed home. Bitter congressmen complained that their leadership overreacted...
ONLY MELODRAMA AT CBS IS THE SOAPS
CALL it "The Dan and Andy Show." Just two regular guys in white shirts and ties. One of their ties was loose. That was Dan, as in Dan Rather, the...
ELECTION BIG BLOCKS WIDOW
The widow of a World Trade Center victim wants to replace her husband on the ballot to "keep his dream alive"-but an election official is standing in her way. Maria...
FDNY FUNERAL UNIT'S DAY OF REST
For FDNY Lt. Walter Dreyer and his men, nothing can dull the pain and heartache - not even a much-needed respite yesterday from the seemingly endless stream of funerals and...
NO FEAR: OUR LEADERS FLED THE HOUSE, BUT LISA BEAMER SETS A DIFFERENT EXAMPLE
As members of the House of Representatives hide in fear of anthrax, the pregnant woman whose husband died a hero fighting terrorist hijackers last month is following in his footsteps:...
NO MERCY FOR BOMB COWARDS - JURORS: DANGER IGNORED
After four murderous lackeys of Osama bin Laden were hit with life prison sentences yesterday in Manhattan federal court, a juror in the case said America ignored the warnings of...
THE MOST HEARTLESS THEFT OF ALL
A Brooklyn woman wept with the family of a friend killed in the World Trade Center disaster - then stole her credit card and went on a $4,600 spending spree,...
ED. BOARD VOTE RENEWS PLEDGE
The Board of Education vowed to boost patriotism in response to the World Trade Center attacks by requiring all schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance - although students and...
POLICE CHECK DURST GUN FOR MURDER CLUES
Los Angeles detectives yesterday examined a gun owned by fugitive real-estate scion Robert Durst to see if it was used to kill a woman friend who was going to be...
THESE CHARITABLE STARS ARE BIG APPLE HEROES
While some stars are fleeing the city, three of Hollywood's sexiest are lining up as late additions for tomorrow's all-star "Concert for New York." Richard Gere, Mark Wahlberg and Halle...
TERROR GERMS SICKEN 2 MORE - ANTHRAX HITS CBS NEWS AIDE AND TRENTON POSTAL WORKER
The anthrax bug stung two more victims yesterday as a CBS News assistant and a New Jersey postal worker tested positive - bringing the number of confirmed infections to six...
TEACHER IS BLASTED FOR 'ANTI-ARAB' COMMENTS
The Board of Education has yanked a Jewish elementary-school teacher from her Brooklyn second-grade class after parents complained she made anti-Arab remarks after last month's terror attacks. Schools Chancellor Harold...
O.J. ROAD-RAGE FOE TELLS OF 'RIP-OFF'
A Miami motorist testified yesterday that former grid great O.J. Simpson reached inside his car and ripped the glasses off his face during an explosion of road rage last December....
MONSTERS DOOMED TO ROT IN A HELLISH 'DUNGEON'
The four embassy bombers sentenced to life behind bars will be shipped to a hellish maximum-security prison that is "brutal beyond compare." Their new home is the infamous federal Penitentiary...
VEEP VOWS VICTORY - CHENEY ROUSES AL SMITH DINNER
Vice President Cheney vowed last night at the annual Al Smith dinner that the war on terrorists will end with "their complete and permanent destruction." At the annual forum for...
STRIKES SOFTEN FOE FOR GROUND WAR
WASHINGTON - The U.S. attacked Taliban positions with newly deployed exotic weapons yesterday - as a defense official said U.S. special forces have begun the first phase of the ground...
KERIK: I MAY STAY, IF MIKE ASKS ME
Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik - who earlier said he'll leave when Mayor Giuliani's term is up at the end of the year - would consider staying if Republican Mike Bloomberg...
W. IN CHINA TO BUCK UP ALLIES
Seeking to shore up support for his war on terrorism at a summit meeting of Asian Pacific nations, President Bush arrived in Shanghai yesterday on his first trip abroad since...
VEEP'S SOMBER VISIT: CHENEY AND FAMILY TAKE GRIM TOUR OF WTC RUINS
Vice President Dick Cheney made a grim pilgrimage to the World Trade Center site yesterday in his first visit to New York since terrorists destroyed the towers and anthrax invaded...
BENEFIT CONCERT STILL ADDING STARS
Three of Hollywood's sexiest stars have joined the all-star lineup as last-minute additions for tomorrow's "Concert for New York." Richard Gere, Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry will take the stage...
TERROR GERMS SICKEN 2 MORE: ANTHRAX HITS CBS NEWS AIDE AND TRENTON POSTAL WORKER
The anthrax bug stung two more victims yesterday as a CBS News assistant and a New Jersey postal worker tested positive - bringing the number of confirmed infections to six...
ENJOY THE FALL CLASSIC AS IT'S HERE
STRIPED BASS continue to capture the headlines along the South Shore with a number of 50 pounders brought to the gaff this week while bluefish and porgies are tops along...
'24' PROMOS ARE TORTURE FOR SENSES
The most difficult thing to endure about Fox's exclusive postseason baseball coverage is its airing of programming promos, over and over and over, until you first swear never to watch...
TWO- TOUGH YANKS ARE HALFWAY HOME: MUSSINA, MO SLAM DOOR ON MARINERS FOR 2-0 LEAD
Game 2 Yankees 3 Mariners 2 SEATTLE - Unable to beat the Yankees on the field, Lou Piniella tried to get into their heads. For all the good it did,...
ROCKET'S CAR NETS FUND $34G
Roger Clemens has pitched a perfect game when it comes to helping the World Trade Center heroes - he auctioned off his prized Porsche for $33,750. The money will be...
YANKS HAVE 'THAT LOOK' ; BRONX SEEMS DESTINED FOR ANOTHER TITLE
SEATTLE - It is a look. It is a look difficult to explain, unless one person who has been around these Yankees at this time of year is talking to...
MO' OF THE SAME IN TORRE'S PEN
SEATTLE - The Mariners stared down Mike Mussina, minus his good changeup, for 103 pitches in their pit, dropped foul ball after foul ball on his forehead trying to make...
GRAVES MAY BE IN SAN JOSE BUT HIS HEART IS STILL IN N.Y.
THE BUSINESS of hockey pulled Adam Graves out of New York, but nothing - nothing - will ever take New York out of his heart and soul. "I was always...
BROSIUS COMES THROUGH
SEATTLE - Scott Brosius proved it only takes one. The Yankees third baseman followed up a 1-for-17 ALDS with an 0-for-3 debut in the ALCS Wednesday. He struck out three...
SHAKY START TOO MUCH FOR GARCIA TO OVERCOME
SEATTLE - The day before he took the mound, Freddy Garcia insisted his arm was strong and his stuff would be fine. Pitching on three days' rest wouldn't be a...
ICHIRO CAN'T GO HOME
SEATTLE - The next best thing to keeping Ichiro off the bases is stranding him there. And that's what the Yankees were able to do in Game 2 of the...
M'S NEEDED MORE THAN JAVIER'S BLAST
SEATTLE - The postseason can make for unlikely heroes like Stan Javier, but championship teams need contributions from most of their regulars. With Seattle's old reliables not doing much offensively,...
IS ROBINSON ON HOT SEAT? CHANGES ON TAP FOR LOSING DEVILS
Someone always pays, and it has already begun with the Devils. Larry Robinson is fully aware that the chain of responsibility rises through him. If he cannot lift the Devils,...
BROSIUS IS FADING OUT OF PICTURE
SEATTLE - Scott Brosius has enjoyed a sense of timing as a Yankee. A good player mostly from April-September, he has elevated his production in October. Brosius has the fifth...
YANKS: MAKE ICHIRO COOL HIS WHEELS - KEEPING HIM OFF BASE BOMBERS' TOP PRIORITY
SEATTLE - If it were football, O.J. Simpson would run between the same guard and tackle until the other team stopped it. If it were the pre-zone era of the...
CANCER STRIKES EAGLES
PHILADELPHIA - The Eagles' preparation for Monday night's game against the Giants got off to a somber start yesterday when the players were informed defensive line coach Tommy Brasher underwent...
KURT'S FUSE STILL SHORT
It looked like Kurt Thomas was going corporate. He had lost the braids, entering camp with a conservative, short haircut and had lost 12 pounds with a new diet. But...
SCOTT FIRES BACK
In the grand scheme, Byron Scott has more important concerns than Stephon Marbury jabbing at his former coach, teammates and organization. Scott, for example, cares more about how Kenyon Martin...
MESS-ING WITH LINES NOT ON TAP
If it's not broken, then don't fix it. That was yesterday's message following the Rangers' workout at Rye. Head coach Ron Low was facing the dilemma of altering line combinations...
D'BACKS SERVE UP AN ACE ; SCHILLING GIVES 'ZONA GAME 3 ADVANTAGE
ATLANTA - The National League Championship Series is like a tennis match between Pete Sampras and Goran Ivanisevic. Whoever has the serve has the advantage. With the Braves and Diamondbacks...
SICKERS WON'T SNEAK UP ON ANYONE THIS SEASON
A YEAR ago, long before anyone picked the 76ers to reach The Finals and John Croce picked some players' pockets, Larry Brown's overachievers busted out of the pack with ten...
COX MAY GO WITH MADDUX, NOT MILLWOOD, IN GAME 4
NLCS NOTES ATLANTA - Perhaps Bobby Cox is just being coy, but he claims he doesn't know whom he will start in Game 4 tomorrow against the Diamondbacks. "We're still...
JETS SEE NEW SIDE OF COLES
One-by-one, significant moves were made during the offseason by the Jets to upgrade their receiving corps. First Matthew Hatchette was signed as a veteran free agent, giving most people the...
SORIANO LEARNS LESSON
SEATTLE - There are very few locks in sports. Those wonderful casinos in Las Vegas were built on Can't-Miss wagers that missed. However, you can bet money you don't have...
NO BULL: BRAVES FINALLY HAVE BIG-TIME PEN
ATLANTA - Mark Wohlers threw a slider to Jim Leyritz in 1996 and from that moment, as October performers, the Braves headed south, while the Yankees turned north. The Braves...
TIKI READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL
Giants RB Tiki Barber went through his first full practice in nearly three weeks, testing his pulled left hamstring and pronouncing himself ready to play Monday night against NFC East...
NO TRICK TO DEVS' FIRST WIN ; ELIAS' THREE GOALS LEAD THE WAY
Devils 6Sharks 1 The leading scorer did more than score. He led. Dragging his team out of its franchise-worst start, Patrik Elias scored the hat trick to lift the Devils...
STEVENSON MAY BE OUT FOR YEAR
It will be two weeks before the Devils even learn whether hard-nosed right wing Turner Stevenson can avoid the major knee surgery he is facing, an operation that would likely...
BOSS SHAKES UP CLIPPERS
SEATTLE - George Steinbrenner's thirst for winning isn't limited to the major leagues. Disappointed with Triple-A Columbus' 67-76 finish in the West Division of the International League, The Post has...
FLAT ISLANDERS SQUEAK BY 'CANES
OT/SUmmary Islanders 2 Hurricanes 1 The Islanders are providing their fans with the best deal in hockey - pay for three periods and you get to see four at the...
TWO-TOUGH YANKS ARE HALFWAY HOME: MOOSE , MO SLAM DOOR ON SEATTLE FOR 2-0 LEAD
GAME 2 Yankees 3 Mariners 2 SEATTLE - Less than a week ago, they were being measured for a Pinstriped baseball coffin and bracing for George Steinbrenner to make sweeping...
CURSE OF BAMBINO INVADES SEATTLE
SEATTLE - It's got to be somebody sticking dolls. Otherwise, there is little explanation as to why the Yankee opponent in each series plays on pins and needles and the...
CAMERON: YANKS, M'S A LOT ALIKE
SEATTLE - Mike Cameron believes the Mariners and Yankees are mirror images of each other. Same great pitching, same airtight bullpen, same offense built on speed and situational hitting. "We...
BOMBERS HAVE GOT ICHIRO'S NUMBER
SEATTLE - Against 11 American League teams, Ichiro is a .300 hitter or better. Against the Yankees - and Kansas City - he's something less. The Japanese sensation, who hit...
HAMRLIK PITCHING IN
It seems that every night there is a new face contributing for the first-place Islanders. One face that seems to chip in night after night is that of defenseman Roman...