October 22, 2001
ON THE NEWSSTAND
WAR, what is it good for? Focusing a magazine's table of contents, apparently. The newsweeklies continue to have much on which to chew this week, and the men's monthlies get...
WALL ST. IS BRACING FOR TOUGH WEEK
Wall Street is poised to slip this week as jittery investors face dismal profit reports and the uncertainties of a ground war in Afghanistan. Analysts said that major stock gauges,...
WALL ST. EXODUS - LEHMAN, SOLLY QUIT DOWNTOWN OFFICES
Financial services giants Lehman Bros. and Salomon Smith Barney are dumping nearly 2 million square feet of space into the battered Downtown sublease market, The Post has learned. Merrill Lynch...
OPPENHEIMER FUNDS LOOKING IN N.J.
Oppenheimer Funds is in serious negotiations to move to a New Jersey office tower to be finished next year. Fidelity Investments is also increasing its space there. Brokers say Mack-Cali...
MAG CONF. BITES APPLE - PUBLISHING BIGS MEETING IN NYC, BUT MOOD GLOOMY
THE American Magazine Conference, which was originally going to be in Phoenix, kicked off last night in the Big Apple instead with a keynote address by Mayor Giuliani. Later today,...
'ROUGE' DIRECTOR [LOVES] NY - HIS SECOND HOME
'MOULIN Rouge" director Baz Luhrmann says he's pressing ahead with plans to buy an apartment here to live in while he produces "La Boheme" on Broadway. While some Hollywood stars...
STARR REPORT
Murdoch, Karmazin are decade's duo News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch has been named as one of the two most important media figures of the last decade by Broadcasting & Cable...
GOING, GOING, GONE? LIVES OF FLEETING FAME
"Fame for 15" Tonight at 7 on TNN 1/2 MAYBE you knew Donato Dalrymple wasn't really a fisherman, but I didn't recall that when I sat down to watch a...
SOOTHING SOLO FLIGHT
'YOU'RE really not mad at anyone, you're just mad at the world," sings Jay Farrar, whose new CD, "Sebastopol," is filled with such mind-tingling moments. The album marks Farrar's first...
BIO-SCARE UPS NETWORK RATINGS
NETWORK news has experienced a resurgence of sorts since Sept. 11. Even pitted against three all-news cable channels, newscasts anchored by Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather and Peter Jennings have become...
A WARDROBE TO DIE FOR : 'FROM HELL' COSTUMER KYM BARRETT KNOWS JACK ABOUT RIPPER-ERA CLOTHES
'FROM Hell" costume designer Kym Barrett needed a strong stomach to prepare for the thriller, set in 1888 in Victorian London. For inspiration, Barrett poured over the actual crime scene...
WHO'S THE VOGUEST OF THEM ALL? MOVIE STARS AND STYLE DIVAS VIE FOR TOP HONORS AT THE VH1/VOGUE FASHION AWARDS
The VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards are the perfect antidote to the depressing news programs that currently dominate prime time television. The high-spirited show, which was taped last Friday at the Hammerstein...
GET TOUGH WITH PAKISTAN
IF it weren't already plain that Secretary of State Colin Powell, for all his virtues, may be the wrong man to be running U.S. foreign policy at this time, then...
DEM POL ADMITS ANTI-FREDDY PHONE CALLS
AN outer-borough Democratic state lawmaker was responsible for at least some of the controversial, racially-charged, pre-mayoral runoff phone calls saying a vote for Freddy Ferrer would put the Rev. Al...
2 BIBLES TURN UP AMID DEBRIS OF TRADE CENTER
ACRID, smoky and biting, the smell of ground zero is like nothing else. So when the two broad-shouldered, dusty men showed up at The Post on Friday, people knew where...
DOCS RUSH TO RESCUE DAPPER DON
Ailing mob godfather John Gotti suffered another medical setback in a Missouri prison hospital last week, causing doctors to perform an immediate, undisclosed procedure on him as he battles the...
DR. GERM: SADDAM'S SCIENTIST BEHIND ANTHRAX OUTBREAK
A cunning woman scientist who heads Saddam Hussein's bio-terrorism team may be the mastermind behind the world's anthrax scare, a leading American germ warfare expert says. Rihab Taha, 45, is...
BACK ON BROADWAY - TOURISTS FLOCK IN ON RUDY'S INVITE
Times Square has taken the terrorists' best shot and is well on its way to kicking on all cylinders. Theatergoers are packing the seats at 90 percent while tourism has...
FEAR STILL STALKS WTC SURVIVORS
Through fire, smoke and fumes, 30 sales members of Network Plus patiently descended a staircase single-file and made it to safety after a hijacked airliner struck a few stories above...
HEADS UP, HUSSEIN: YOU'RE NEXT
IF I were Saddam Hussein, I wouldn't start writing any long books. Look, President Bush didn't increase the CIA budget by $1 billion so the boys can buy more paper...
GROUND ZERO RITES NEXT SUNDAY
An interdenominational memorial service for the families of the more than 5,000 people dead or still missing from the World Trade Center attacks will be held next Sunday at ground...
ANTHRAX CHIC CONTAGIOUS
THE diagnosis is Anthrax Envy. From the halls of Congress to the newsrooms of this city, some twisted minds who haven't contracted the dreaded bacteria anthrax have come down with...
TRAIN TO THE PLANE AT NEWARK IS ROLLING
Getting from New York to Newark Airport just got a lot easier as trains began carrying people to their planes yesterday. Both NJ Transit and Amtrak trains now are making...
'TRAITOR' LOSES LUST FOR JIHAD AFTER TOUGH GRILLING BY FEDS
A traitorous Maine Muslim, who recently boasted to The Post that it would be "noble" to join up with the murderous Taliban, cowered before a federal grand jury in New...
HIJACKER EYED U.S. NAVY BASE
Lead suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta visited a Virginia naval base at least twice this year, perhaps thinking of making an aircraft carrier one of his terror targets, it was reported...
MAIL SORTER IS 'GRAVELY ILL' - HOUSE CHICKENS RETURN TO THE COOP
WASHINGTON - Both houses of Congress open for business this morning, but 19 nearby buildings will remain shuttered for at least one more day, police said yesterday. "The legislative business...
UGLY PICTURE OF KID PROFITEERS
Two young brothers yesterday were seen just blocks from Ground Zero doing dirty work for their father - peddling pictures of the Twin Towers in flames. The 8- and 12-year-old...
BLOOMY: LET'S RUMBLE - WANTS TWO MORE DEBATES VS. MARK
Michael Bloomberg, who took heat in the GOP primary for ducking debates, jumped on City Hall rival Mark Green yesterday for refusing to agree to at least four face-offs. "You're...
CAVES DEEP AND DANGEROUS
American troops could face their deadliest challenge getting into the caves where Osama bin Laden is hiding, military experts believe. Many of the caves date back to the time of...
L.I. POL WOULD GO BALLISTIC ON OSAMA
As "a last resort," a Long Island congressman wants to send a message to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban - a radioactive message. Peter King (R-N.Y.) isn't discounting the...
TOUR OF WTC SITE SHAKES OPRAH
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey toured ground zero yesterday and described the experience as "devastating." Winfrey, accompanied by her friend, journalist Gayle King, got a personal tour of ground zero...
COP TAKES AIM AT ATT'Y
After eight long years, a Brooklyn cop is finally getting his day in court against his old lawyer. "I just want to state my case before a jury of my...
HERO SARGE SAID JOB WAS 'COP HEAVEN'
Sgt. John Coughlin adored the NYPD and enjoyed being in the elite Emergency Service Unit so much he never took the lieutenant's test because he didn't want to leave "cop...
LINING UP WITH BRAVEST OF INTENTIONS
NOT since he was a child playing cops and robbers has Torreano Player given any serious thought to being a police officer or a firefighter. For him, such vocations were...
ISRAEL: GIVE US KILLERS: VOWS TO STRANGLE 6 PALESTINIAN TOWNS
JERUSALEM - Israel yesterday lashed the Palestinian Authority with a deadly ultimatum: turn over the assassins of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi or face continued siege in six of its towns....
LAB TAKES FINE-TOOTH COMB TO POST LETTER
Investigators at a military lab in Maryland yesterday were testing the anthrax-laced letter addressed to "Editor, New York Post" and comparing it to similar letters received by NBC anchor Tom...
BENEFIT ROCKS & ROLLS IN DOUGH
The superstar-studded "Concert for New York" raised more than $14 million - and that's just in ticket sales, officials said yesterday. In all, donations from the Saturday-night event at Madison...
FOUND HIM? POUND HIM!: U.S. HOMES IN ON OSAMA'S BUNKERS
U.S. troops have narrowed the hiding place of Osama bin Laden to a 10-square-mile patch of desert in southern Afghanistan, The Post has learned. But the task of searching underground...
FIREMAN NAILS OSAMA 'BUTT' GOOD
A New York City firefighter's fightin' Irish words for Osama bin Laden were the surprise hit of the benefit Concert for New York. Wild applause shook Madison Square Garden when...
MAIL SORTER IS 'GRAVELY ILL': HE HANDLED PACKAGES SENT TO U.S. CAPITOL
A Washington postal worker who sorted packages destined for the U.S. Capitol is "gravely ill" with inhalation anthrax - and five other employees are sick with suspicious symptoms, officials said...
PHONY COP TAKES A BUST
An auxiliary police officer from Brooklyn's 67th Precinct was busted last night for claiming he was a regular cop, police said. A police officer and a sergeant were driving on...
7 FIREMEN BODIES FOUND IN RUBBLE
New York's Bravest toiling in the rubble of the World Trade Center stood and saluted yesterday as the bodies of at least seven of their fallen brothers were pulled from...
WARY PARENTS ON HIGH ALERT FOR TRICK-OR-TREAT TERROR
Jittery parents are taking extra precautions this year to prevent trick-or-treat terrorism from striking close to home - and experts agree this is a year to be especially alert for...
NEW EMERGENCY CARE ON DYING DAPPER DON
Ailing mob godfather John Gotti suffered another medical setback in a Missouri prison hospital last week, causing doctors to perform an immediate, undisclosed procedure on him as he battles the...
ANDREW'S N.Y. BASH A ROYAL PAIN
Prince Andrew lived up to his reputation as a ladies' man hours before visiting ground zero, partying with Russian hotties in a bash that horrified his brother Prince Charles, Britain's...
PENTAGON AIDS CITY ANTHRAX TESTINGS
The Department of Defense has dispatched a team to the Big Apple to help with anthrax testing so that the days between the testing and confirmation are drastically cut, Mayor...
'TRAITOR' WITHERS UNDER FED GRILLING
The traitorous Maine Muslim, who recently boasted to The Post that it would be "noble" to join up with the murderous Taliban, cowered before a federal grand jury in New...
FEDS TAKE FINE-TOOTH COMB TO POST LETTER
Investigators at a military lab in Maryland yesterday were testing the anthrax-laced letter addressed to "Editor, New York Post" and comparing it to similar letters received by NBC anchor Tom...
RIPPING OFF THE COMMON FAN? PRICELESS
MASTERCARD'S MLB postseason commercials - the ones that show what costs how much as opposed to what's "priceless" - are largely designed to promote baseball. But If you stop to...
CUP RUNS OVER FOR DRYSDALE
Trainers D. Wayne Lukas and Shug McGaughey have won more races in the Breeders' Cup than Neil Drysdale, and those two along with Bill Mott have won more money. Yet...
SLUMPING LUMBER A BOMBER WORRY - WEAK OFFENSE PUTS TITLE BID IN JEOPARDY
Lou Piniella was right. No, not with that guarantee that the ALCS would return to Safeco Field for Game 6 after his Mariners dropped the first two to the Yankees...
JETS GET BELL TRUNG - RAMS, CANIDATE RING UP RANCID GREEN 'D'
Let's be honest. The Jets weren't expected to win this game anyway. The Rams are more talented, deeper and more dynamic than. But the Jets figured to have a puncher's...
JETS: RAMS' ONSIDES KICK WAS OFF SIDES
JET NOTES The Jets were so disgusted and embarrassed by their own performance they could hardly even manage any true indignation about the Rams converting an onsides kick with a...
FASSEL'S FOCUS: FORGET LAST WEEK
GIANT NOTES The best way to make sure his team left behind the frustration of its 15-14 loss last week in St. Louis was for Jim Fassel to pay more...
'SQUIRT' SIZZLES IN HALF-MILE WORKOUT
With kamikaze speedballs like Caller One, Five Star Day and the filly Xtra Heat running in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Sprint, the pace promises to be scorching. But it's hard to...
VINNY PICKS POOR TIME FOR FIRST INT
Vinny Testaverde was a defensive back's best friend last season - 25 interceptions. That's a lot of bonus money. But this year Testaverde had been on the money for the...
BACKS CARRY PREP TO CRUCIAL VICTORY
St. Francis 21 - Farrell 12 With St. Francis Prep marching down the field during its first possession yesterday, the Terriers' Chris Zambrano kept rumbling for four yards on every...
BLUESHIRTS CAN'T LOSE THEIR FOCUS
Tonight's Garden match between the Rangers and Sharks will be consumed by emotion for Adam Graves, who will be honored officially for his 10 years of contributions to New York...
KENYON'S NEXT ON JORDAN LIST - MARTIN TO GUARD MJ TOMORROW
Next. Richard Jefferson and Donny Marshall had their initiations. Now the thankless "honor" of guarding Michael Jordan falls upon the Nets' best defender, Kenyon Martin. The second-year forward, who has...
'SPOON SHOULD MAKE OPENER
Clarence Weatherspoon is in his first training camp with the Knicks, and the team's biggest concern is rebounding. So the last thing either party wanted was for the newly-signed glass-cleaner...
CANIDATE GETS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
No Marshall Faulk. No problem. Second-year running back Trung Canidate made his first pro start yesterday and rushed for 195 yards in the St. Louis Rams 34-14 embarrassment of the...
HOW SOFT DO THE RAMS LOOK NOW?
If the Jets are looking to blame someone other than themselves for the way they were abused by the Rams, 34-14, yesterday at Giants Stadium, they can the blame the...
JINTS-EAGLES NOT JUST ANOTHER GAME
PHILADELPHIA - The Eagles have insisted it makes no difference to them from a motivational or psychological standpoint that the Giants have beaten them in nine straight games dating back...
RACE ON FOR NFC EAST
The future form of the NFC East race will be shaped by what happens tonight. Pay no attention to Eagles coach Andy Reid and his "It's still early" mantra. Pay...
EX-SEN GARDINER SIGNS WITH DEVILS
Confirming yesterday's report in The Post, the Devils have announced the signing of unrestricted free agent Bruce Gardiner. The 29-year-old speedy checking right winger will be best remembered by Devils...
D-BACKS ARE SERIES-BOUND - JOHNSON, DURAZO SLAM DOOR ON BRAVES
GAME 5: D'backs 3 - Braves 2 ATLANTA - A year ago, it was Timo Perez, arms flailing wildly, catching the ball in center field at Shea Stadium, igniting a...
JOE: IN ANDY YANKS TRUST
Confidence is as big a part of athletic competition as talent or matchups. And no matter how poorly Andy Pettitte's pitched against Seattle this season - and he pitched quite...
UNIT COMES UP BIG VS. BRAVES
ATLANTA - Randy Johnson looked like a man who had just pitched his team to the World Series. He looked like a man who had been doused from head to...
YANKS LICK CHOPS WITH SELE ON HILL
After a rousing ninth-inning walkoff homer from Alfonso Soriano that gave them a 3-1 ALCS lead, the Yankees have a lot to be happy about. And with their own personal...
RHODES LEADS TO DISASTER - SOUTHPAW'S FODDER FOR BOMBERS AGAIN
YOU can knock the Yankees down. You can spit in their faces. You can promise to drag them back to your turf and kick the stuffing out of them. Lou...
SMOLTZ ISN'T SURE HE WANTS TO CLOSE CAREER WITH BRAVES
NLCS NOTES ATLANTA - John Smoltz, now a free agent, doesn't know if he will be back with the Braves next year. "My gut feeling is that it is not...
YANKEES PUT M'S IN A SORI-STATE - ALFONSO LAST GIVES BOMBERS 3-1 SERIES LEAD
GAME 4: Yankees 3 - Mariners 1 Every Yankee legend had a beginning. From Babe Ruth to Derek Jeter there was a start. Now comes along Alfonso Soriano, a raw...
JOE: BERNIE CHANGED THE MOMENTUM
Joe Torre says there's a certain magic about Bernie Williams, a tangible aura of success that always shines through when the Yankees need it most. The All-Star centerfielder helped them...
BOSS FINDS MAGIC SPOT
ALCS NOTEBOOK Tired of telling Reggie Jackson his work with the Yankee hitters wasn't producing any results, George Steinbrenner left "Mr. October" and moved to the back of the press...
MARINERS' SUPER PEN MEETS YANK KRYPTONITE
They were airtight during the season, and combustible last night. The Seattle bullpen blew a winnable game and only provided relief to a sellout Yankee Stadium crowd that was biting...
ABBOTT HAD NO CONTROL OVER NO-HIT BID
Talk about not giving a guy anything to hit. Paul Abbott isn't going to strike out 15 in a game, but he had no-hit stuff last night. The Seattle starter...
ROOKIE BECOMES PART OF PINSTRIPE LEGEND
DEREK Jeter has not been his timely self this ALCS, which has made it so important for the Yankees that Alfonso Soriano has been Derek Jeter. In the part of...
ROCKET GIVES HIS ALL
Just like last year, Roger Clemens threw brilliant one-hit ball opposite Seattle's Paul Abbott in the ALCS. But this time around, Clemens lasted just five innings and got a no-decision....
FOR RIVERA, WINNING JUST AS EASY AS 1-2-3
In these trying times, there seem to be precious few constants in life. Death, unfortunately, is one. Taxes are another. And while it's not as inexorable as the first two,...
MARINERS NOT WAVING WHITE FLAG
Lou Piniella's bold guarantee of a Game 6 in Seattle has been reduced to the hope of staving off elimination in The Bronx. "It's one [expletive] game. Our backs are...
YANKEES' PEN AGAIN WINS OUT
THE balance of power between the best team in the American League in 95 years and the three-time defending champions had seemingly tilted on one pitcher. The Yankees went to...
ROCKET THRUST INTO PIVOTAL ROLE
ORLANDO Hernandez turned his back to home plate and stared out into center field as Joe Torre came to relieve him with two on in the sixth inning, none out,...
MCLEMORE TAKING IT ONE AT-BAT AT A TIME
He is not a large man, and he was getting swarmed by cameras and inundated by questions. "Hold on!" Mark McLemore screamed in the moments following Seattle's 14-3 victory in...
RELIABLE 'PEN COULD WRITE A HAPPY ENDING FOR M'S
THE longer the game goes, the better Joe Torre feels. By the seventh inning, Don Zimmer resumes hearing small breath sounds. By the eighth, the Yankee manager's complexion no longer...
ALFONSO'S BLAST GIVES BOMBERS 3-1 SERIES LEAD
Bernie Williams got them even with a colossal eighth-inning homer off Arthur Rhodes. Now, an inning later it was Alfonso Soriano's turn to position the Yankees within one win of...
YANKS CAN'T WALK TIGHTROPE FOREVER CHAMPS' DOMINANCE BEING TESTED AGAIN
BY their very nature, every postseason game is both crucial and meaningless. On the one hand, the postseason doesn't give you very many losses to play around with, and on...
JOE TO YANKS: MEET THE PRESS
ALCS NOTES Joe Torre didn't feel a need to address his team about shoddy play in the wake of Saturday's debacle in Game 3, a 14-3 loss to the Mariners....
YANKS AT BEST WHEN CHUCK LEADS WAY
The momentum in the ALCS may have slipped away from the Yankees just as the ball squirted free of Chuck Knoblauch's glove, a two-RBI single by Bret Boone that opened...
TORRE HAS COMPLETE CONFIDENCE IN PETTITTE
Confidence is as big a part of athletic competition as talent or matchups. And no matter how poorly Andy Pettitte's pitched against Seattle this season - and he pitched quite...
SELE ON THE MOUND BODES WELL FOR YANKS
No matter what happened last night, Yankee fans have reason to feel cocky today. Their own personal postseason BP pitcher, Aaron Sele, is scheduled to take the mound for the...
BIG UNIT WORTH EVERY LAST BUCK
ATLANTA - Baseball history is jam-packed with so many failed five-year plans strewn across generations. The plans, designed by general managers crafty enough to delay their own inevitable firings, centered...
D-BACKS RELY ON WISE COUNSELL
ATLANTA - Not everyone the money-built '97 Marlins dumped after winning the World Championship was dumped because he was making too much money. At least one guy was traded because...
COX HAD NO CONFIDENCE IN BACKSLIDING MILLWOOD
NLCS NOTES ATLANTA - One of the reasons the Braves' dynasty might be coming to the end is the regression of Kevin Millwood. Two years ago, the 26-year-old Millwood appeared...
D-BACKS ARE SERIES-BOUND: JOHNSON, DURAZO SLAM DOOR ON BRAVES
D-backs 3 Braves 2 ATLANTA - The Diamondbacks are the quickest learners in baseball history. In just their fourth year of existence, the expansion club has reached the World Series....
THIS PEN'S IN A 'ZONA: RELIEVERS BOOST D-BACKS
ATLANTA - The Diamondbacks get very insulted if anyone says a bad word about their bullpen, as if the combination of Greg Swindell, Brian Anderson, Mike Morgan, Bobby Witt, Miguel...
MILLWOOD FALLS OUT OF FAVOR WITH COX
NLCS NOTES ATLANTA - One of the reasons the Braves' dynasty might be coming to the end is the regression of Kevin Millwood. Two years ago, the 26-year-old Millwood appeared...
COUNTDOWN TO THE BREEDERS' CUP
RACE 3 THE MILE The Mile 3-year-olds and up. Purse: $1 million. Distance: Mile on Widener turf course. Post time: 2:35 p.m. Bets: WPS, Exacta, Trifecta, Pick 3, Pick 6....
RACE FOR EAST STARTS TONIGHT
The future form of the NFC East race will be shaped by what happens tonight. Pay no attention to Eagles coach Andy Reid and his "It's still early" mantra. Pay...
ROOKIE ATONES FOR EARLIER SINS
ALFONSO Soriano has annoyed his manager in this ALCS. He failed to run hard on a ball in Seattle that turned out not to be the homer he thought or...