October 28, 2001
$1 TRILLION SAFETY HIT: SECURITY COSTS WILL SOCK CORPORATE PROFITS
Securing American business against terrorism has a huge price tag, and investors are going to help pay it. The costs of doing business have risen sharply since Sept. 11. Keeping...
DIRECTV TALKS ZAPPED: NEWS CORP. DROPS BID TO ACQUIRE SATELLITE FIRM
News Corp. has walked away from talks to acquire Hughes Electronics and its DirecTV satellite operation from General Motors. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch announced last night he was through...
SITE OF THE WEEK: ADVICE, AND PLENTY OF IT
WWW.LIFEADVICE.COM Life is tough. Sometimes it's hard to get through the day without asking for a little advice. You can get that advice from your in-laws, or you can turn...
BULL'S EYE
CNBC ANCHOR ISDECKED BY GAFFE The Anti-Terror bill passed handily through Congress and is on its way to Bush's desk for signing - despite consistent reports that both high and...
IRON MOUNTAIN ROCK STEADY AS DATA STORAGE NEEDS RISE
Stability is something that might be expected from a company called Iron Mountain. The firm, which is expected to report its quarterly profits on Wednesday, offers off-line and off-site storage...
FUND MANAGER IS SERIOUS ABOUT RETURN ON EQUITY
AT a time when everybody seems to have their eyes glued to what's going on in the stock market, Bob Millen readily admits that he doesn't really pay a lot...
WHAT I WATCH
DANNY AIELLOACTOR, "DINNER RUSH" FOR THE NEWS, I WATCH FOX NEWS CHANNEL. AND, FOR SPORTS, I GO TO ESPN - I'M A BASEBALL AND YANKEE FANATIC. BILL NYEHOST, "THE SCIENCE...
SHE WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF
In "Ginger Snaps," Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins portray repressed, loner teenage sisters - Ginger and Brigitte, respectively - living in a bland Canadian suburb. Their lives are thrown into...
SMORGASBORD OF GLOOM BLOOMING
Prescriptions for stress are as individualized as individuals themselves. One person's sense of escapist fare might surprise the person sitting next to him on the subway. Who would have thought,...
'MONSTERS' BATTLE: NEW DISNEY ANIMATED FLICK, 'MONSTERS, INC.,' LOOKS TO LICK 'SHREK'
Disney opens its latest animated extravaganza, the highly anticipated "Monsters, Inc." on Friday - and there's a whole lot more riding on it than the reported $100 million budget. Arch-rival...
4 QUESTIONS FOR BILLY ZANE: SILLY BILLY KEEPS THINGS UNDER HIS HAT
Who are your heroes? My Dad, Myiamoto Musahahi (he devised the Samurai practices) and the inventor of the FrisbeeWhat was the worst day of your life? The day the music...
REBA'S OKIE DOKIE
THERE'S more than one TV exec out there kicking themselves for poo-poohing Reba McEntire when she tried pitching a network series about three years ago. Had they known that McEntire's...
GENTLEMAN JACK, THE RIPPER
As we approach the most frightening night of the year - when ghouls and goblins arrive at our doorsteps begging for votes - it's a comfort to know that movies...
WHY I CAN'T SEEM TO ACT MY OWN AGE
The problem with getting older, my mum once said to me, is that you don't feel any older inside. Even when you're 60, she said, you'll think you're 25. Judging...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: JOHN LEGUIZAMO
John Leguizamo has gone from a loud-mouthed comic who tackled Hispanic issues in one-man shows like "Spic-O-Rama" and "Freak" to svelte hunk with amazing abs and sex appeal with his...
A DIFFERENT STROKES: BAND READY FOR MAJOR VENUE ON HALLOWEEN
Only two years ago, the Strokes played its first gig ever, at the now-defunct Lower East Side dive the Spiral. Only three people - besides the band - were there....
GIGINO: INSPIRING DINNER AND A MOVIE
Gigino Trattoria 323 Greenwich St. (between Duane & Reade Streets) The movie "Dinner Rush" is a plot-twisting tale of a trendy downtown restaurant. But the real-life TriBeCa eatery it was...
GETTIN' FIZZY WITH IT: OLD-FASHIONED SODAS CHANGING THE FACE OF 'POP' CULTURE
Yamira Rivera tasted an old-fashioned soda for the first time recently. The 26-year-old master degree candidate from Astoria, Queens, raised the glass bottle to her lips, took a swig of...
HEAR YOU GO: WHILE AWAY FROM HOME, COMFORT YOUR COMPANION WITH VOICE MESSAGES
When we have to leave our animals home alone and they give us those heartbreaking "leaving so soon?" looks, it seems we'll give them anything to alleviate our guilt: chew...
HAVING PANIC ATTACKS? GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK
Take it from Tony Soprano - panic attacks ain't pretty. Those bouts of unexplained dread, dizziness, chest pain and sheer unadulterated panic were what sent the TV mobster to a...
VICTORIA GOTTI
HAVE you seen those advertisements for gas masks and Cipro that have popped up in various publications over the past week? "Shipped within 24 hours," they promise! Are these people...
SCHOOL SAFETY MAN BUSTED ON DWI RAP
A school safety officer was charged with drunken driving early yesterday morning in The Bronx, police said. The officer, identified as Walter Frazier, was busted at 168th Street and Webster...
THIS SMALL CHANGE WOULD HONOR OUR UNIFORMED HEROES
TODAY'S giant service at "Ground Hero" for the fallen warriors assures that memories of the past will never fade. But even in mourning, State Assemblyman Tom Kirwan (R-Orange County) wants...
FAMILY, FRIENDS PAY HOMAGE TO WTC 'ANGEL'
Saying she's "now an angel to us," hundreds of mourners filled a Brooklyn church yesterday to bid a tearful farewell to Jennieann Maffeo, who valiantly battled for 41 days to...
BUSH LETS FLY WITH 'TOUGH' AIRLINE SCAN PLAN
President Bush yesterday pressed Congress to pass his plan for tougher and "disciplined" airline security - so airport screeners who goof can be fired quickly. Bush wants Uncle Sam to...
COLD COMFORT FROM D.C.
The mixed messages are beginning to get me all mixed up. First, in an effort to ease our jitters and get the economy moving, the president told us to get...
WHAT A RAIL-IEF FOR N & R RIDERS
The N and R train were scheduled to get back on track today. Since the World Trade Center disaster, the N and R lines have been closed below Canal Street....
A FOND FAREWELL TO FDNY PRANKSTER
From the time he was a little boy playing with toy firetrucks, Jonathan Ielpi dreamed of following in his hero father's footsteps. And, for the past six years, he was...
RELIANCE ON NORTHERN ALLIANCE A BAD STRATEGY: MILITARY EXPERTS
America must now rely on its own efforts - and not the Afghani opposition - to topple the Taliban, analysts have concluded, as U.S. warplanes pounded Taliban front lines yesterday...
VIOLENCE PUSHES BACK PULLOUT
JERUSALEM - Israel suspended its withdrawal from Bethlehem and a neighboring West Bank town yesterday after fierce fighting broke out just hours before the pullback was to begin. The Palestinians...
BOMBERS MAY LEAVE 'CANYON' TO THE REAL HEROES
City officials may consider alternative routes for any Yankees World Series victory parade, amid concerns it would be insensitive to stage the celebration in the "Canyon of Heroes" - one...
STEFFI SERVES UP BABY BOY TO ANDRE
Tennis newlyweds Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi have served up their first son - a smashing baby boy. The newborn, Jaden Gil - born three weeks early at Valley Hospital...
SACRED SITE GOES SILENT FOR ALL-DAY MEMORIAL
The sun will rise in silence over ground zero today for the first time since Sept. 11, as all work pauses in preparation for a massive memorial service. The thrum...
RUDY: MIKE'S THE ONLY MAN TO FILL MY SHOES
Mayor Giuliani officially threw his political clout behind Republican mayoral hopeful Michael Bloomberg yesterday - saying the billionaire media mogul has "the kind of varied background" that could help him...
WTC EXEC GOES MI$$ING: TOOK INVESTORS' MILLIONS WITH HIM, FEDS SAY
All the employees of First Equity Enterprises managed to flee safely from the company's 15th-floor offices before the south tower of the World Trade Center vanished in a roar of...
BRET MAVERICK TAKES ON JERSEY JIM
JACKSON, N.J. - A day after a prickly debate with rival Jim McGreevey, New Jersey Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bret Schundler made a strong case for his outsider credentials at a...
CONDOLEEZZA'S NOTEWORTHY SOFTER SIDE
Look out Taliban, it's Condoleezza Rice showing that women can fight the war on terror - and be stunningly elegant. As the Bush administration's national security adviser, Rice is one...
OFF TO SEE THE YANKEES : WIZARD MIKE'S RETURN FALLS TO 2ND PLACE
New Yorkers are taking the air out Michael Jordan's return to the basketball court Tuesday evening, pledging their allegiance to the Bronx Bombers' World Series baseball stand on the same...
DIABOLICAL DUST GAVE GERM EXTRA KICK
The discovery that the anthrax sent to Sen. Tom Daschle was mixed with a powder to make it disperse more easily has only deepened the mystery of who is mailing...
MDS WORRIED SICK ABOUT PILL-POPPERS
Health authorities estimate up to 10,000 Americans could now be taking Cipro on a daily basis as a result of the epidemic of fear created by anthrax-tainted letters. And those...
TOUGH SELL: MAD AVE. WHIZ PITCHING DEMOCRACY ABROAD
The Madison Avenue whiz who gave us Uncle Ben's rice and Campbell's Soup has a new product to sell - America - and advertising executives say she'll have to do...
E-MAIL FROM THE FRONT : BRAVE MARINE'S MESSAGE HOME
His e-mail to loved ones from the war zone is a simple note his mother describes as "the things he may never get to say again." Yet the powerful, heartfelt...
SPORE-SPOOKED NYERS SEEKING SHOT IN THE ARM
Doctors, clinics and hospitals are bracing for a stampede of panicky patients who are already lining up for flu shots to ease growing fears of anthrax exposure. Although the flu...
SPECIAL-ED KIDS MISSING OUT ON AID $$ FOR TUTORS
The Board of Education is paying for private tutoring services for some students with learning disabilities - but critics charge it's a well-kept secret. The board last year classified 77,552...
GOOD SAMS PLEAD WITH UNCLE SAM FOR EQUAL HANDOUT OF WTC CHARITY
Several charities that have raised millions for families of cops and firefighters killed on Sept. 11 have begun lobbying to cut the red tape that restricts the distribution of donations....
CITY TAPS $30M FOR UPSTATE WATER SAFETY
City officials have signed off on a $30 million plan to further secure the New York water-supply network and to increase testing for biological and chemical agents, The Post has...
BUSH EYES OLD-SCHOOL SPIES FOR WAR EFFORT
WASHINGTON - When President Bush pumped an extra $1 billion into the CIA after Sept. 11, he not only wanted new covert operations to nail Osama bin Laden, but the...
FRETFUL FLIERS FLOCK TO FIGHT CLUB
A support group for nervous fliers plans to issue advice on how to handle unruly fellow passengers when its courses resume at LaGuardia airport next month. Carol Gross, director of...
SUICIDE-BULLET SHARD HURTS COP
A Manhattan cop was hit in the face by a bullet fragment when he responded to an attempted murder-suicide in Harlem yesterday. Doctors don't know if the injury will affect...
RIDGE'S BLUNDERS PUTTING HIM ON THE SPOT AS FALL GUY
WASHINGTON - New homeland security czar Tom Ridge is trying to avoid becoming the latest victim in the anthrax scare. Just three weeks into the job, the former Pennsylvania governor...
DIAL-'N'-DRIVE BAN SET TO ROLL
Forget about dropped calls. New York drivers who use their cell phones in their cars have bigger things to worry about. Starting Thursday, the nation's first statewide handheld-cell-phone ban goes...
MOOSE MET HIS MATCH
PHOENIX - Moose laid an egg. Mike Mussina, the second-hottest pitcher in the majors right now, spit the bit in his first World Series appearance last night. The Yankee right-hander...
HOT HERM TO JETS: SMARTEN UP, FAST!
HERMAN Edwards admitted this week that he's frustrated by the Jets' lack of execution in key situations during the team's 3-3 start. In last week's 34-14 loss to the unbeaten...
RODNEY: I BLEW IT VS. EAGLES
LANDOVER, Md. - Nearly every one of the Giants felt lousy following last week's 10-9 loss to the Eagles. Rookie punter Rodney Williams believes he felt lousier than most. "I...
BECHT'S CATCHING ON FOR GREEN
CHARLOTTE - Guess who's leading the Jets in receiving? No, not Wayne Chrebet. He's fourth on the team with 15 catches. Not Matthew Hatchette, the ballyhooed offseason acquisition. He's caught...
MIGHT BE DANGER IN LAST YEAR'S TREESTAND
IF YOU'RE a hunter, chances are you know or know of someone who has been injured in a treestand accident. So says Jackie Bushman, the founder and CEO of Buckmasters,...
CZERKAWSKI JOINING THE ISLES' PARTY
Bring on the Stars. The Islanders had a five-day break last week before they stormed Carolina for a 3-2 OT win Friday night. They had five days to lick their...
ESPN SWITCHES TURN OFF FANS
BOSTON - Thousands of empty seats in St. Louis on Thursday. Thousands of empties at the Garden on Oct. 10 for Jaromir Jagr and the Caps. What do these games...
LAKERS LOOK THREE-MENDOUS
First of two partsBARRING last-second plans by Jerry Buss to break up Shaq, a command decision by David Stern to brand Kobe dead meat or inoperable injuries to either one,...
TEMPERA'S BIG FINISH TOPS JUVENILE FILLIES
Godolphin Racing stable, owned by Sheikh Mohammed and his brothers from Dubai, ran a phalanx of heavy hitters from Europe in yesterday's Breeders' Cup. But a pair of longshot 2-year-old...
SPREE SEES TOUGH ROAD FOR JORDAN
Latrell Sprewell calls him the best to ever play the game. But he still doesn't feel Michael Jordan is great enough to lift the moribund Wizards to a playoff berth....
'VAL' TURNS IN ROYAL MILE
Val Royal, a $90,000 supplemental nominee to the race, overtook Forbidden Apple in the stretch and won the Grade 1 $1,044,240 Breeders' Cup Mile. Forbidden Apple held on for second,...
'BANKS' HITS JACKPOT
Foreign forces ruled the roost in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf yesterday, as English-bred Banks Hill, owned by Saudi Arabian Prince Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farm, and...
'SQUIRT' TAKES SPRINT, SNAPS FRANKEL'S HEX
Bobby Frankel finally broke the jinx, perhaps the longest, most embarrassing in Breeders' Cup training history, when his lightly fancied Squirtle Squirt stormed from off the pace to win the...
'JO' COMES UP SMELLING LIKE ROSES IN JUVENILE
Officer was supposed to have the torch handed to him yesterday. Instead, he got burned. On the same track where the great Secretariat raced his way to racing immortality, Officer...
DETTORI TRIPS THE 'LIGHT' FANTASTIC TO WIN TURF
Battered horseplayers, hammered to the canvas by six straight favorites who could not hit the board, much less win, finally got some much needed relief when short-priced favorite Fantastic Light...
EXOGENOUS INJURY PUTS DAMPER ON THE DISTAFF
The hard-luck Belmont Park racetrack launched its Breeders' Cup yesterday with a fearful horse accident that stunned the crowd and the huge television audience watching it live. Just as the...
AN EPIC STRUGGLE ENDS A CUP DAY LIKE NO OTHER
IN one of the great storybook endings in recent turf history, the gallant, temperamental warrior Tiznow roared through the gloom of a late fall afternoon to win for a record...
GRAEME HALL TAKES STUYVESANT
Graeme Hall took charge turning for home and drew off to win the Grade 3 $107,700 Stuyvesant Handicap by 61/4 lengths yesterday. Country Be Gold closed for second and Cat's...
NOW CAMBY FEELING HE WILL BE OK
Rejoice, Knick fans. Felton Spencer may not have to take the opening tip to the season Tuesday night after all. Marcus Camby again was very optimistic about playing in the...
WELCH IS BACK IN THE BIG TIME
PHOENIX - In the 23 years between his most famous World Series moment to his job this weekend as Diamondbacks pitching coach, Bob Welch has seen glory and despair like...
BIG UNIT HAS ACE IN THE HOLE AFTER CALLING ON PAL MOYER
PHOENIX - Like a kid copying his friend's homework, Randy Johnson held up the fax from Jamie Moyer in the Diamondbacks clubhouse. Coming into the World Series, Moyer was the...
YANKS AGAIN MUST COUNT ON PETTITTE
PHOENIX - Andy Pettitte's job is not impossible. He simply must hit against Randy Johnson tonight - perhaps as the only lefty in the lineup - and figure out a...
WILLIE: TALKS WITH TWINS GM GO WELL
PHOENIX - A three-hour meeting with Terry Ryan left Willie Randolph believing the Twins GM was sincere about interviewing him for the Minnesota managerial vacancy. "He was honest and up...
FOR YANKS, A DISASTER IN DESERT
Game 1 D'backs 9 Yankees 1 PHOENIX - Tanned men with rings on their pinky fingers and plastic-surgery patients on their arms strutted to their seats well before first pitch....
GONZALEZ & GRACE GO BATTY
PHOENIX - Mark Grace smoked a cigarette in the Diamondbacks clubhouse Friday, looking and spouting off one-liners as if he were Dennis Leary in concert. Could you see any trace...
TORRE'S MOVES DIDN'T WORK
JOE Torre had a tough decision to make before last night's World Series opener against the Diamondbacks. Go with his heart and start Paul O'Neill in right field against Curt...
COUNSELL QUIETLY OWNING OCTOBER
PHOENIX - His Diamondbacks teammates call Craig Counsell "Rudy" because the second baseman is an underdog who hails from South Bend, Indiana - the home of Notre Dame. But the...
JUSTICE CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT
PHOENIX - Joe Torre said the matter of David Justice or Paul O'Neill in right field was more or less a "coin toss." The coin landed on tails, which is...
IT'S BOTTOMS UP FOR D'BACKS
PHOENIX - The Diamondbacks' lethal tail relentlessly whipped the Yankees last night, dealing poisonous blows in two big innings. Damian Miller and Mark Grace knocked the Yanks for key run-scoring...
WTC TRAGEDY GETTING LOST IN VALLEY OF SUN
PHOENIX - The tease for the noon news here in the Valley of the Sun promised reports on the World Series, a NASCAR race and advice on what kind of...
NOTHING 'OLD SCHOOL' ABOUT THIS SERIES
PHOENIX - The topic is major league baseball, 1968. The speaker is Randy Johnson, co-ace of the Diamondbacks. The mound was higher and so was the strike zone back then....
YANKS CLOSING IN ON ALL-TIME DYNASTIES
PHOENIX - When the World Series finally got started last night at The BOB, the Yankees were not only looking to cop their fourth straight World Championship, but further cement...
THANKFULLY, A SERIES HOW IT OUGHT TO BE
PHOENIX - Forget all the baloney about how baseball can heal the nation's wounds, or how the Yankees, a bunch of athletic mercenaries from all over the country, can somehow...
THERE'S A LOT 'MO' TO KIM THAN YOU KNOW
WORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK PHOENIX - What will it be like for the Yankees to face Diamondback closer Byung-Hyun Kim? "It will be like us facing [Mariano] Rivera," Arizona catcher Damian...
CHOATE'S THE CHOICE
WORLD SERIES CONFIDENTIAL PHOENIX - Joe Torre finally tinkered with his postseason roster when he added lefty reliever Randy Choate to the bullpen and deleted Mark Wohlers before Game 1...
A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE FOR BRO
PHOENIX - Scott Brosius is one of the best World Series hitters of all time. Scott Brosius was the worst hitter on the Yankees through two rounds of the playoffs....
THE NAKED TRUTH ON CASHMAN
PHOENIX - For two games - and two hours - it looked as if Brian Cashman would have nothing to wear to the World Series. The calm and even-keeled Yankees...
SUPPLEMENTAL GAMBLES DON'T PAY OFF MUCH AT CUP
RICH owners, speculators - or just plain gamblers - coughed up an amazing $1.5 million to get their 10 horses into the starting gate for yesterday's Breeders' Cup. The biggest...
GRACE NOT CHI ABOUT SPEAKING HIS MIND
PHOENIX - Mark Grace smoked a cigarette in the Diamondbacks clubhouse Friday, looking and spouting off one-liners as if he were Dennis Leary in concert. Could you see any trace...
MADDEN'S MOVING UP: DEVILS HOPE PROMOTION SPARKS OFFENSE
One move seems to have led to another, and perhaps there will be more than that. First, the Devils started their spree of signing three NHLers in a week, and...
SOMEONE HAD TO PAY: RANGERS AX HEISTEN, SMREK
BOSTON - Barret Heisten is going to get more than his five minutes a game, only they're going to come in Hartford. And Peter Smrek is going to be the...