October 23, 2001
GOOD EARNINGS AREN'T AS GOOD AS THEY SEEM
COMPANIES are regularly falsifying their corporate earnings reports, and it is misleading investors. That's the shocking - but not surprising - conclusion drawn by the Jerome Levy Institute, an economics...
AN OLD BAG GETS A BRAND NEW LOOK
There's a new "old" name making the rounds with fashionistas - Le Sportsac. The 26-year-old maker of nylon ripstop bags is making the scene right now, having refashioned its product...
DOW ZOOMS ON PROFITS
Stocks rallied after a spate of better-than-expected earnings reports lifted hopes that the economic recovery will take place soon. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 172.92 points, or 1.88 percent,...
BROOKFIELD HAS ITS HANDS FULL
IN the hours following the World Trade Center attack, Brookfield Properties CEO J. Bruce Flatt raced from his Toronto office to the disaster site. In the days that followed, Flatt...
METLIFE CUTS 1,900; SEARS MAY AX 1,500
Companies are cutting deep into staff rosters as the flatlining economy continues to siphon profits. Among a slew of layoffs in various industries yesterday, word of massive layoffs at Sears,...
SCREEN SAVER: GATES TO GUEST ON 'FRASIER'
Being the world's richest man probably causes a fair amount of anxiety. Bill Gates, who holds the title, may be able to get some help from his favorite TV psychiatrist...
EISNER & JOBS THROW TANTRUM OVER 'TOY STORY'
Call it Moguls Inc. - a cartoon tale of two titans in a bitter standoff over control of their fantasy worlds. Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner and computer titan Steve...
AOL TRIES TO DUMP SOME MAGS
AOL Time Warner is said by knowledgeable industry sources to be quietly talking about selling off some of the magazines that its Time Inc. division picked up when it purchased...
SANDLER O'NEILL ENTERS NEW HQ
Investment banker Sandler O'Neill & Partners - almost wiped out in the World Trade Center attack - has opened its new home in Midtown and begun hiring new staff. The...
COSTA EUREKA! - THIS HOT LITTLE COUNTRY OFFERS RAINFORESTS, RIDES ON HORSEBACK & VOLCANIC SPRINGS
IT'S terrifying to fly through the air at 40 mph over the rainforests of Central America with birds flapping by and monkeys swinging just feet away. But like many of...
EVERYBODY INTO THE POOL ...
THE METAMORPHOSESSecond Stage Theatre, 307 W. 43rd St., (212) 246-4422. ------- THERE'S a humongous, 27-foot-wide pool in the center of the stage, around which - and, whenever possible, in which...
OUT OF AFRICA - GET A TASTE OF THE SERENGETI AT DISNEY WORLD'S ANIMAL KINGDOM LODGE
WE'RE about an hour and a half into the Magic Kingdom. We've done Buzz Lightyear, Thunder Mountain Railroad, Goofy's Barnstormer and now we're having an ice cream on Tom Sawyer's...
LOOK SHARP, NEW YORK. WHEN IT COMES TO FIT CITIES . . . WE'RE #5!
NEVER mind anthrax or terrorism attacks: New York is one of the healthiest cities in America. Healthier than Honolulu, more stout-hearted than San Francisco, sturdier than granola-crunching Portland and Seattle...
STARR REPORT
Heroic Juarbe honored with fund The creators and executive producers of last summer's "Murder in Small Town X" have created a charitable trust aiding the family of Angel Juarbe -...
HILLARY'S SWANK
BASED on the outfits she wore over the weekend, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is going glam.Hill made her first fashion splash at Friday night's VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards show, where she...
IS THE PARTY OVER? - OLD FASHIONED DRAMA STEALING THE REAL DEAL
IF ratings are any indication, we seem to be witnessing the death of reality TV. Blame it on the reality of Sept. 11 or chalk it up to overzealous network...
BYRON, SHELLEYS LIVE IN MAGICAL 'POETRY'
BLOODY POETRYConnelly Theatre, 220 E. Fourth St. Through Sunday. Call SmartTix (212) 206-1515. --------- THEY'RE mad, bad and dangerous to know. They're the Romantics, who seduced everybody and called for...
SOUL IS AT THE HEART OF SPIRITUALIZED CD
SPIRITUALIZED's new album, "Let It Come Down," is an exercise in luscious excess. More than 100 musicians, including strings, horns and a gospel choir, teamed up for the British group's...
AMC SO SILLY IT'S SCARY
THOSE aren't commercial breaks you're seeing during the movies on American Movie Classics - they're INTERMISSIONS. At least, that's the laughable spin AMC is putting on the new, intrusive spots....
Q TIPS TO JAZZ JOINT
* Q-TIP" Kamaal the Abstract [] Arista He was born Jonathan Davis, rose to fame in St. Albans, Queens, as Q-Tip, but now just call him Kamaal. What hasn't changed...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
Counterfeit culture In these days of artifical sweetners, fake Rolexes and plastic body parts, it had to happen. Last week, the New Rochelle Council on the Arts opened "Fabulous Fakes,"...
HOW CUTE IS THIS?
TURN your baby's tush into the cutest one in the neighborhood (we know, it already is) with NoahzArk's new ZooFitters diaper cover. ZooFitters come in washable, brightly colored fabrics, in...
SHE'S ONE HOT "MAMMA"
LOUISE Pitre, who plays the lead role of Donna Sheridan in Broadway's "Mamma Mia!" exudes a healthy, go-get-it vibe that makes you want to jump out of your seat and...
'DURST, COME HOME'
A lawyer representing wealthy real-estate scion and accused killer Robert Durst yesterday begged his client to turn himself in. High-profile defense lawyer Michael Kennedy - retained by the Durst family...
RAPPER'S PAL IN FOOD-FIGHT SHOOT
A man living at the Long Island home of a popular rap star got into a fight over leftover Chinese food with another guest - whom he then shot, police...
ANTHRAX: WHY WE'RE UNREADY
THERE have been so many health scares over the past 20 years - anybody remember Time magazine's cover story in 1982 called "Salt: A New Villian?" - that America is...
BIN LADEN'S 'P.R. MAN' FIGHTS TO AVOID N.Y. TRIAL
A reputed top aide to Osama bin Laden, now jailed in London, began a desperate final bid yesterday to avoid trial in New York. Lawyers for Khalid al-Fawwaz and two...
DA: TEACHER CASHED IN ON PAY MISTAKE
A former math teacher at a Long Island school has been charged with larceny for accepting paychecks that mistakenly continued to be sent to her bank account. Sharnett Morgan, 24,...
TALIBAN TROOPS POUNDED
WASHINGTON - U.S. warplanes bombed large concentrations of Taliban troops, tanks and artillery positions along the front lines near the Northern Alliance yesterday, aiming to clear the way for a...
DISPLACED KIDS MOVE TO ROOMIER SCHOOL
Battery Park City students, upended by the World Trade Center disaster, moved from crowded quarters in Greenwich Village to a more spacious facility on the Lower East Side. PS 89...
DOWNTOWN BIZ BOUNCING BACK
J&R Music and Computer World was covered in thick dust and broken glass after the terrorists struck Sept. 11. Thousands of dollars worth of inventory became garbage. But yesterday, a...
HAMAS 'ENGINEER' KILLED IN CAR BLAST
JERUSALEM - A top Hamas bombmaker was blown to pieces yesterday in the fifth "targeted killing" of a suspected Palestinian terrorist this month. The death of Hayman Halaweh, 33, came...
HOAXERS COULD GET LIFE IN JAIL
Two disgruntled employees of a Manhattan carpet company face a possible life sentence in prison after being charged yesterday with making a fake anthrax threat - allegedly because one of...
HEAT'S ON PARENTS TO MEET TEACHERS
Schools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday that in the wake of the Twin Towers disaster, it's more necessary than ever for parents to attend upcoming conferences with their kids' teachers....
N.J. BRIDE-SLAYER GUILTY
A jilted lover was convicted of murder yesterday for blowing his ex-girlfriend's brains out - just minutes before she was to wed another man. Agustin Garcia, 49, claimed he temporarily...
THESE TOUGH NY'ERS STAMP OUT FEAR
DARIO TEDESCO, a letter processor for the post office, first noticed the name: Dan Rather, CBS News. Then, he noticed that the Los Angeles return address didn't jibe with the...
MUFFIN-SHOP MURDERER GETS 50 YRS.
A remorseless thug who gunned down two SoHo muffin-shop workers during a botched robbery and then tried to shoot his way out past cops was sentenced yesterday to 50 years...
INSURE FIRM HAS $770M QUESTION
An insurance company that now owes $770 million on a policy for the World Trade Center disaster filed a lawsuit in Manhattan yesterday, asking a judge to tell it exactly...
ADAMS URGES IRA FAREWELL TO ARMS
Sinn Fein, the longtime political ally of the Irish Republican Army, yesterday took the historic step of calling on the terrorists to start taking their guns off the streets to...
FARE'S FAIR: MTA CHIEF PLEDGES NO PRICE HIKE
The MTA doesn't need a fare increase to cover its big projected deficit, agency chief Peter Kalikow said yesterday. A combination of insurance payouts, federal funds, cost-cutting, a hiring freeze...
$$-LAUNDER MAMA BACK IN U.S. FOR TRIAL: COPS
The matriarch of an alleged mother-and-sons money-laundering team was extradited from Spain yesterday and ordered held without bail. Luz Alzate, 42, was arraigned before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice William Wetzel...
FATHER-SON TRAGEDY: 'JUNIOR' LAID TO REST MONTH AFTER DAD
Doubly heartbroken mourners yesterday saluted firefighter Joseph Angelini Jr. - just a month after services were held in the same church for his dad, who also died saving lives in...
COPS: GREEN CAMP ASKS FOR GAS MASKS
One of the cops who guards mayoral candidate Mark Green last week asked the NYPD for gas masks and an antidote for nerve gas, police sources told The Post. A...
FINEST FINDING MORE 'PATRIOTS' TO JOIN UP
Terrorism hasn't frightened away NYPD recruits - the bravery of New York's Finest on Sept. 11 has helped boost police-force applications 10 percent, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. "All these people...
EXPERT: ATTACKS WILL PROBABLY GET WORSE
The terrorist behind the murderous anthrax epidemic will strike again - and the next round of attacks could be even deadlier, a former top FBI profiler told The Post. Clint...
MIKE DYING FOR RUDY'S HELP
Where's Rudy? There's what Republicans around the city and state are asking as GOP mayoral contender Mike Bloomberg enters the last two weeks of an uphill campaign without Mayor Giuliani...
ANTHRAX SCARE ON YANK TRAIN
Thousands of straphangers bound for Yankee Stadium missed the first minutes of last night's game because of a subway anthrax scare. An envelope containing white powder was found at about...
U.S. CZECHS OUT ATTA'S TRIP: HIJACKER MET WITH IRAQI AGENT IN PRAGUE
Investigators are focusing on repeated meetings that skyjack ringleader Mohamed Atta held in Prague with Iraqi intelligence officers during the planning of the suicide strikes on America. Czech police said...
RUDMAN: U.S. MUST TIGHTEN UP ITS BORDERS
A former U.S. senator said yesterday that America's battle against terrorism has to be fought at home as well as overseas - and the first step is improving security along...
ANTHRAX TOLL MOUNTS: TWO WORKERS AT 'CAPITOL HILL' POST OFFICE DIE
Two Capitol Hill mail handlers, who went to their doctors this past weekend complaining of flu-like symptoms, have died of apparent anthrax poisoning, federal officials said yesterday. The men worked...
IT MIGHT BE WORSE NEXT TIME: EXPERT
The terrorist behind the murderous anthrax epidemic will strike again - and the next round of attacks could be even deadlier, a former top FBI profiler told The Post. Clint...
POSTAL WORKERS DIE: HANDLED CAPITOL HILL'S ANTHRAX-TAINTED MAIL
Two Capitol Hill mail handlers, who went to their doctors this past weekend complaining of flu-like symptoms, have died of apparent anthrax poisoning, federal officials said yesterday. The men worked...
GUILTY PLEA SPARES KILLER
A Long Island man who sexually abused and murdered a 29-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and will serve a life sentence to avoid the death penalty, authorities...
'A' LINE NO ROAD WARRIORS
OTTAWA - With Patrik Elias' selection as NHL Player of the Week comes the cry: Break up the "A" Line. But it's not just the rest of the league raising...
CAN'T GET WORSE
JET REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS D Vinny Testaverde (9-of-13, 74 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT) never really got untracked and his first INT after 175 passes without one was extremely ill-timed and...
CHAVEZ: ALBERT'S A WINNER
HOT jock Jorge Chavez drilled Albert the Great through the early fog at Belmont Park yesterday, then jumped off and told trainer Nick Zito, "We're gonna win Saturday." Albert the...
FLOYD BAFFLED BY MET OUSTER
Considering the Mets changed their coaches after going to the 2000 World Series, it really shouldn't have surprised anyone that they did it again after finishing third this year. But...
THEY'RE ALL SALUTING 'SUPA-STAH' OFFICER
Of the 29 workouts turned in yesterday morning for Saturday's Breeders' Cup at Belmont Park, the most impressive took place 3,000 miles away at Santa Anita. Prepping for the Breeders'...
JORDAN'S NO WIZARD OF WINS
WHAT DO yours truly, Wes Unseld and four starting Wizards have in common? We all get paid to sit or stand around and watch Michael Jordan do his thing -...
YANKEES AIM FOR FINISHING TOUCH : FLAG IN REACH AS ANDY TAKES HILL
Nine innings away from their fourth straight World Series and 38th in franchise history, the Yankees yesterday talked like they - not the Mariners - were in a 3-1 hole...
BAFFERT DUO WORKS OUT KINKS
BREEDERS' CUP NOTEBOOK Besides Officer, trainer Bob Baffert sent his other two candidates for Saturday's Breeders' Cup through five-furlong workouts yesterday at Santa Anita. Unbeaten Habibti zipped :59.2 for the...
HALL'S BARRETT, ORR SMOOTH THINGS OUT
As a 5-foot-8 basketball player from the Bronx, Andre Barrett has had to prove he's tough enough every time he takes the court. But a few months ago, the former...
SCHIZOPHRENIC JETS LEAVE MO SPEECHLESS
With the hangover from the Jets' embarrassing 34-14 loss to the Rams Sunday still rattling around in the heads of the players like too many shots of tequila downed the...
YANKS PUT ANOTHER FLAG IN THEIR BAG: CHAMPS PROVE THEY'RE FALL GUYS AGAIN
Game 5 Yankees 12 Mariners 3THIS is what winning in October looks like. Andy Pettitte, laser-dark eyes peeking out from beneath a tugged-down cap, holding the Mariners scoreless last night...
GAME 5
Yankees 12 Mariners 3 They fly under the radar that follows the Yankees. One believes he is just another member of Joe Torre's orchestra. The other would be happy tuning...
EAGLE WIN FIVE YEARS IN MAKING
GIANT NOTES Before last night's 10-9 triumph, the last time the Eagles beat the Giants was Dec. 1, 1996, a 24-0 Philly victory at Veteran's Stadium, back when Dan Reeves...
MINNOWS VS. SHARKS - RANGERS NO-SHOWS FOR GRAVES' RETURN
Sharks 5 - Rangers 1 The Rangers were so bad last night, so utterly deficient in every meaningful aspect of the game, they somehow managed to overshadow Adam Graves' return...
YANKS PUT ANOTHER FLAG IN THEIR BAG: CRUSH M'S TO BRING 38TH PENNANT TO BX.
Game 5 Yankees 12 Mariners 3 If you listened closely, you could hear them. Down on sports' most hallowed turf, Yankee players were singing "New York, New York" along with...
GIANTS DOMINATE, THEN ARE DEFLATED
Eagles 10 Giants 9 The Giants last night played a strange game, dominating on the field for prolonged stretches while struggling to pull away on the scoreboard. In the end,...
IN END, M'S A BUNCH OF LOU-SERS
Reportedly, Lou Piniella rallied his troops by declaring nobody on the Yankees was Superman, and there's no tabloid called the Daily Planet in this town. Maybe New York isn't Metropolis,...
FOR SELE, IT'S SAME FOLD SONG
There are always excuses and explanations. And then there is this: Aaron Sele lost for the sixth time in seven postseason starts last night, remaining a winless playoff pitcher. The...
BERNIE'S BLASTS A BOON FOR YANKS
When the ball jumped off Bernie Williams' bat last night, there seemed to be little doubt: Little doubt that he had just homered for the third straight night, and little...
SNAKES WAITING TO PREY ON YANKEES
Diamondbacks owner Jerry Colangelo thinks this Saturday will be so big it will make the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals look smaller. "I think this World Series will be...
YANKEES TO APPLE SAY BOSS AND RUDY
George Steinbrenner has never been shy to voice his opinion, or one to hide his feelings. But after his Yankees rolled to a 12-3 ALCS Game 5 win over Seattle...
HERE LIES THE REGULAR SEASON
TO THE five commemorative stones and 17 bronze plaques standing beyond Yankee Stadium's left-field fence in the area known as Monument Park, you can add one more: "Here lie the...
BOMBERS: SCHILLING, UNIT ARE TALL ORDER
Throughout this Yankee run for the ages, these four World Series championships in five years, it has always been about the pitching. It has been the arms that have always...
TO SLUMPING JETER, ONLY THE W'S MATTER
ALCS NOTEBOOK A thin smile washed over Derek Jeter's face. In the middle of celebrating the Yankees' fourth straight ALCS title last night, Jeter was asked if perhaps the reason...
ICHIRO'S MYSTIQUE TAKES HIT
Elvis has left the building - without much of a performance. Seattle right fielder Ichiro Suzuki, dubbed "Elvis" among other nicknames because of his worldwide popularity, finished the ALCS 4-for-18...
THE BEST STAFF MONEY CAN BUY
THE Mariners, 116 wins not-so-strong, didn't even do as well as last year. The dream matchup between the dynasty and the best team in baseball in 95 seasons was a...
PAULIE O' GETS LAST WORLD TOUR
He came to Yankee Stadium pretty sure it wasn't his last hurrah in front of fans who aren't bashful about showing how they feel about the heart of the latest...
COUNTDOWN TO THE BREEDERS CUP
The Post continues its profiles of each of the eight Breeders' Cup races to be run Saturday at Belmont Park. The Countdown to the Cup spotlights some potential nice-price winners...
SORE KNEE SHELVES NETS' WILLIAMS - FOR NOW
Aaron Williams claimed his tendinitis-stricken right knee is better. Not good, just better. But until better becomes good, Williams will remain a major Net concern. "This is something that can...
BIG O VAN'S NINTH MAN
Since Othella Harrington arrived last January, Jeff Van Gundy has raved about his work ethic, seriousness and professionalism. Now Van Gundy actually will play him. Van Gundy announced yesterday The...
HEARTWARMING RETURN: GRAVES' COMEBACK A NIGHT OF TEARS AND THANK-YOUS
Adam Graves walked right out of an Edgar Alan Poe story and into Madison Square Garden yesterday morning. "My heart," the longtime and much adored Ranger said while patting the...
READY-TO-ROLL TIKI EAGER TO CONTRIBUTE
Last Sunday in St. Louis, Tiki Barber knew in his heart and especially in his still-aching left hamstring that he was not able to play and contribute the way he's...
JINT TASK: KEEP 'EM GROUNDED
GIANT NOTES Several factors came together to help the Giants complete a clean sweep of the Eagles last season, but no factor was more important than the way the Giants...
EDGAR'S SWINGING LIKE ACHING MARINER
Edgar Martinez's bio reads like a player who may be destined for Cooperstown. "2001: Baseball's best designated hitter ... Hit over .300 for the 10th time in his career ......
MARINERS NO LONGER IM-'PEN'-ETRABLE
Kazuhiro Sasaki was still in a crouch as NYPD storm troopers sprinted in from the outfield. It was the type of body language that suggested the impossible had just occurred....
JETER'S NUMBERS FALLING SINCE DIVE
ALCS NOTEBOOK The day after he went into the stands to make a sensational catch in Game 5 of the ALDS against the A's, Derek Jeter said he felt like...
MEL JUST ENJOYING THE RIDE
When the Yankees talk of narrow escapes, of do-or-die, of nearly "not being here," most are referring to their five-game ALCS win over Oakland. Mel Stottleymre is talking about something...
SILLY LOU, WHEN WILL YOU LEARN?
SYSTEM of survival for an out-of-town baseball manager lost in the South Bronx: Just keep repeating to yourself, "They're only a baseball team. They're only a baseball team. They're only...
IN POSTSEASON ACTION, ANDY'S NO HOMEBODY
IF THE YANKEES wanted to avoid a long flight to Seattle for Game 6, perhaps they should have sent Andy Pettitte ahead. Even if he wasn't pitching in it. Problem...
BOSS: BERNIE IS TRUE YANKEE LEGEND
As Sunday night drifted into Monday morning - shortly after Bernie Williams' eighth-inning, game-tying home run had drifted over the right-field wall to help the Yankees to a 3-1 ALCS...
SORIANO TOOK SCENIC ROUTE TO STARDOM
JOE Torre and his staff were watching too many Scott Kamienieckis, Todd Williamses and Carlos Almanzars, and not enough of the rehabilitating Ramiro Mendoza. Early in spring training, Yankee officials...
CHAMPS PROVE THEY'RE FALL GUYS AGAIN
Game 5 Yankees 12 Mariners 3 THIS is what winning in October looks like. Andy Pettitte, laser-dark eyes peeking out from beneath a tugged-down cap, holding the Mariners scoreless when...
CRUSH M'S TO BRING 38TH PENNANT TO BX.
They manage to fly under the radar that follows the Yankees. One believes he is just another member of Joe Torre's orchestra. The other would be happy tuning the instruments...