October 30, 2001
NOMURA BUYS INTO WEISEL - GETS $75M STAKE; PUTS $125M IN BANK'S FUNDS
Japan's Nomura Group plans to acquire a minority stake in Thomas Weisel Partners and invest as much as $125 million in the technology-focused investment bank's private equity funds, people close...
MARKET PLAYERS TOOK A TREAT THE TRICK'S ON US
WHAT really made the stock market go down sharply yesterday? If you listen to the spiel of the gurus on Wall Street, investors suddenly became concerned about the health of...
WEIGHT WATCHERS IPO WILL RAISE UP TO $400M
It could be described as a "fat deal." In a larger offering than originally proposed, Weight Watchers' non-employee shareholders are looking to raise between $365 million and $400 million by...
MCCOURT, PHOTOGS PLAN BRAVEST BOOK
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, Mayor Giuliani, Fire Commissioner Thomas von Essen and more than 60 prominent photographers are coming together to produce "Brotherhood" - a photo-intensive tribute book to...
SCORING WITH DEFENSE - SAFETY STOCKS DOING WELL AS MARTS TANK
The stock market fell yesterday, according to the Dow and the Nasdaq, but one of every three U.S. stocks rose. And 124 stocks actually hit new highs, despite the selling...
PRICE IN TALKS WITH EVERCORE
Michael Price, one of Wall Street's leading telecommunications specialists, is in talks to join Evercore Partners, a New York-based investment boutique founded by Roger Altman. Price, a former partner of...
LEIBER GROUP WORE THIN - RUZOW ENDS STORMY TENURE, GOES DOWN-MARKET
Stephen Ruzow's bumpy tenure at the helm of the struggling Leiber Group has come to an end. Having been pushed aside for Susan Sokol, Ruzow is leaving the company for...
MTV ROCKS STAFFERS WITH NEWS OF LAYOFFS
The MTV generation has been hit with a harsh reality: layoffs. The MTV network said yesterday it would cut 8 to 9 percent of its work force, or about 450...
THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES - SECRET PLAN TO DUMP UNITED AIRLINES CEO
The plot to fire the embattled head of United Air Lines unfolded in secret just moments after he adjourned his last board meeting. Chairman CEO James Goodwin had wrapped up...
NYC NEWSPAPERS REEL IN READERS
Newspaper circulation in the Big Apple is up over the last six months - with The Post logging by far the biggest gain. For the six-month period ending Sept. 30,...
ABT DANCES OUT ON NEW LIMB
AMERICAN BALLET THEATERCity Center, 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Through Nov. 4 ------ AMERICAN Ballet Theater always packs its annual fall season at City Center with a healthy...
BIG APPLE COULD USE A LITTLE POLISHING
BIG APPLE CIRCUSLincoln Center's Damrosch Park, 63rd and Broadway. (212) 721-6500. Season runs through Jan. 6. ----- THE Big Apple Circus, directed, as ever, by Paul Binder and Michael Christensen,...
BUMPY RIDE
JUST how frantic is "Noises Off"?The action is so fast and furious in Michael Frayn's farce - about a poorly rehearsed group of actors - that the actual troupe's been...
HE'S GOT A SECRET - PETER GALLAGHER PLAYS A SCAMP, BUT HE'S A SWEETIE
THE eyebrows have it. Black, bushy and imperious, they've helped define Peter Gallagher as the yuppie scum of "sex, lies, and videotape" and the oily real-estate salesman of "American Beauty."...
TWIN PEEKS - CUTTING-EDGE ART AND FINE DINING IN MINNEAPOLIS
MINNEAPOLIS may be twin to neighboring St. Paul, but it's no secret that the arrangement is nowhere near fraternal. But more than the usual reasons given, the defining factor might...
THE SKINNY ON LOSING FAT
CALL it "the tough-love diet": Miss a meeting or fail to keep a log of everything you've eaten, and you're kicked out of the club. Only the most determined will...
NEW PANTY LINER - WILL IT STICK?
JUST in time for Halloween, Carefree introduces black panty liners for those who have a dark side. "Black is a favorite color for underwear among women, so this is a...
YANKEES RATE 2-0 - VIEWERS LOVE LOSING GAMES
IT feels as if the whole world was watching when the Yankees dropped two World Series games to the Arizona Diamondbacks this past weekend. Both games were seen by an...
HOW DIANE STOLE BIN LADEN SCOOP - LAST-MINUTE SWOOP BLINDSIDES RATHER
THERE was a major behind-the-scenes skirmish between the news divisions of CBS and ABC before last week's high-rated Diane Sawyer interview with Carmen bin Laden - the sister-in-law of Osama...
STARR REPORT
Jane air: Fonda pegs 'Squares' stint Five words you thought you'd never see in the same sentence - Jane Fonda and "Hollywood Squares" - will become a reality later this...
NBC CHOPPER LINES UP FOR MARATHON
CH. 4 could get permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly news choppers over the five boroughs this Sunday to cover the New York City Marathon. However, station officials...
SEX OFFENDER WITH A SCALPEL
"Nova, "Sex: Unknown" [ ] Tonight at 8 on WNET -------- OVER the past year, David Reimer, a male twin who'd been changed into a female when he was 22...
IN THE EYE OF THE STORM - WITNESS WEATHER AT ITS MOST SPECTACULAR DURING A TORNADO TOUR OF THE MIDWEST
'NOW is the time to take cover," commands the electronic voice of the National Weather Service. "Tornado warning! Tornado warning! Stay away from windows. Move to your basement." Not us....
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
Sweet chair-ity Far from being just another city with a silly name, Sheboygan, Wis., is known as a center for furniture manufacturers. This celebrated history inspired the John Michael Kohler...
THE BODY ELECTRA
Do you think Carmen Electra wakes up every morning and just naturally looks sexy and stunning? While the "Scream" star is not busy reading movie scripts, hosting odd programs like...
ISRAEL: 3 ABDUCTED SOLDIERS LIKELY DEAD
JERUSALEM - In a rare move, Israel said yesterday three soldiers seized by Hezbollah guerrillas a year ago were probably dead. The fate of the three, captured on the Israeli...
J.LO TURNS TO JELL-O:TOO SCARED TO COME HERE FOR FASHION PROMO: INSIDERS
EXCLUSIVE Bronx-born beauty Jennifer Lopez is so scared of New York following the World Trade Center attacks that she's refused to promote her new clothing line here, sources have told...
NEW OFFICE SET TO EASE MAYORAL TRANSITION
City officials have put the finishing touches on a state-of-the-art transition office for the next mayor - and it even includes a bird's-eye view of City Hall, The Post has...
DOG GONE IN POUND BURGLARY
Police on Long Island are investigating a burglary at a dog pound - where a crook broke into a cage and freed a pit bull that had been confiscated seven...
THE 'KINK' OF CLUBS - L.I. COPS BREAK UP LEATHER-SEX GROUP
Cops on Long Island raided a "floating swingers club" filled with more than 100 kinky members - some wearing leather gear and others nude - engaged in sex acts, police...
MORE GOV'T BUILDINGS INFECTED
The nation's anthrax nightmare yesterday spread to the U.S. Supreme Court, State Department and Health Department after traces of the deadly bacteria were discovered in some of their buildings. The...
WIDOW: LEAVE US ALONE
Speaking for the first time publicly since her estranged husband's murder, Generosa Ammon yesterday said she's unhappy about the intense media scrutiny directed at her and her family. "I am...
BUSH AIMS A 'STRIKE' VS. TERROR AT STADIUM
WASHINGTON - President Bush wants to throw out the first pitch tonight at Yankee Stadium in an act of defiance in the face of terrorism, sources told The Post. But...
BRITS WANT WORLD COURT FOR BIN LADEN
Some British politicians are reportedly considering a proposal to set up an international terrorism tribunal where members of al Qaeda would be put on trial. In London, Parliament members who...
RUDY'S 'BYE' LINE: BIDS FAREWELL IN NEW AD BOOSTING BLOOMY
Mayor Giuliani puts politics aside for a moment to give a heartfelt farewell to New Yorkers in a new ad boosting Republican mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg. "It's been an honor...
CELEBS MOURN SLAIN TYCOON: LINCOLN CTR. SERVICE DRAWS HIGH ROLLERS AND L.I. DETECTIVES
Some of Wall Street's biggest names rubbed shoulders with Suffolk County homicide detectives yesterday at a memorial service for Theodore Ammon, the wealthy financier mysteriously murdered at his East Hampton...
DEADLY 'SEINFELD' EPISODE IS YANKED
Now "Seinfeld" repeats have their own anthrax scare. The show's syndicator, Columbia Tristar Television, has yanked the famous "deadly envelope" episode out of rotation in the wake of ongoing anthrax...
SECURITY RUNNING HIGH ON MARATHON ROUTE
An intense security screen will be thrown over the New York marathon on Sunday - with runners facing rigorous searches at the starting line and hundreds of extra armed cops...
BUSH: GET TOUGH ON STUDENT VISAS
WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday asked a new task force to crack down on terrorists who slip into the country as students or through lax border points along Canada and...
MARK LASHES OUT IN NEW TV SPOT
Mark Green launched a major attack yesterday, unveiling a hard-hitting ad that charges rival Michael Bloomberg is "wrong for our kids, wrong for New York." In his strongest blast against...
FIREFIGHTERS BATTLING WTC COUGH
About 4,000 firefighters working at the World Trade Center site have been stricken with a heavy, persistent cough prompting a new round of medical exams, Fire Commissioner Tom Von Essen...
POSTAL WORKERS FILE LAWSUIT TO SETTLE THE SPORE
The city postal-workers union yesterday sued to try to shut down Manhattan's massive Morgan processing center - as scared employees said they were still toiling just feet from anthrax-tainted sorting...
COLLEGE IN HOLY WAR AS PATRIOT IS BOOTED
DID A conservative Catholic college kick out an undergraduate for publicly defending America against far-right campus extremists in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks? Or is he a chronic...
FDNY CAPT. PROMOTED TO CHIEF - AND THE ANGELS
FDNY Capt. Louis Modafferi, missing since the Twin Towers collapsed, was promoted to battalion chief yesterday at his memorial service. The congregation at St. Clare's Church in Great Kills in...
GREEN'S DE-MERIT - TEACHERS TAKE CREDIT FOR YANKING 'PAY' AD
The teachers union yesterday boasted of getting Mark Green to yank a campaign ad in which he appears to support merit pay, The Post has learned. "Some members have expressed...
JURY'S OUT IN FORMER CAPTAIN'S SLAY TRIAL
The fate of a dishonored Army captain, accused of bludgeoning to death a young Brooklyn couple he'd swindled in a real-estate scheme, is now in the hands of a Brooklyn...
DOW BOMBS AMID NEW WAR FEARS
Stocks took their biggest plunge in more than a month yesterday as jittery investors - eyeing a long, cold winter for the nation's war efforts in Afghanistan - pulled back,...
U.S. EYES AFGHAN FOOTHOLD: PENTAGON MULLS PLAN TO SET UP A STAGING BASE
WASHINGTON - Under pressure to get results, the Pentagon may set up a forward base inside Afghanistan as a staging area for helicopter attacks and commando raids on Taliban leaders...
JESSE: LET'S JUST CANCEL HALLOWEEN
The Rev. Jesse Jackson says it's too soon after the Sept. 11 terror strikes to put on masks and go trick-or-treating - and he's calling for a nationwide Halloween boycott....
HACKMAN CRASH SPURS FISTICUFFS
Gene Hackman proved yesterday that, at age 71, he's still as tough as any of the characters he plays on the silver screen. Hackman was driving in the right lane...
IN-FLIGHT THREAT FORCES LANDING
An American Airlines jet from New York made an unscheduled stop at Washington's Dulles Airport and disgorged passengers on emergency chutes after a written bomb threat was found on board...
WATCH OUT: NEW TERROR 'WITHIN A WEEK,' FEDS WARN
WASHINGTON - The FBI warned jittery Americans last night to be on high alert - once again - for terrorism on the home front, but offered no details on where...
ANTHRAX IN MORE D.C. BUILDINGS
The nation's anthrax nightmare yesterday spread to the U.S. Supreme Court, State Department and Health Department after traces of the deadly bacteria were discovered in some of their buildings. The...
SUBWAY CRUNCH EASES
Staten Island commuters who had to jam into the Bowling Green subway station since the Twin Towers attack had a lot more elbow room yesterday with the reopening of the...
THERE'S HISTORY IN THE AIR TONIGHT - CAMBY OUT AS KNICKS BRACE FOR MR. JORDAN
Michael Jordan is in the house tonight - one in growing disorder and one in which His Airness has performed his greatest torture acts. As the Knicks brace for Jordan's...
SEASON ON BRINK
GIANT REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: B- This is not the way Giants want to operate, with Kerry Collins (32 of 52, 346 yards, 3 TDs, 1 INT) chucking on every play. Very...
HEY, IT'S A 'W'
JET REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: D Vinny Testaverde (21-34, 181 yards, 3 INTs) has had better days, though two of his three INTs were at least partially the fault of his WRs.RUNNING...
UNIFORM'S DIFFERENT BUT NUMBER 23 IS STILL THE SAME
THIS is what makes Michael Jordan so special. He has no fear of failure even when his new team is sure to fail. Trying to put tonight's Jordan's Comeback II...
DEVILS LOOK TO BUST OUT IN BOSTON
The Devils are uncomfortable. At the bottom of the Atlantic Division standings with a record of 4-3-0-1, the defending Eastern Conference champs are in an uncharacteristic position, one point behind...
AWFUL GIANTS CAN STILL CAPTURE EAST
Thanks to the company they keep, the Giants know all their recent lousiness could not put them out of touch in the NFC East, where the supposed contenders (Eagles and...
HOU: WE CAN MAKE PLAYOFFS
KNICK NOTES In the on-going saga of "Latrell Sprewell says one thing and Allan Houston says the opposite," the Knicks new $100-million man stated yesterday it was off base to...
O'NEILL BACK IN LINEUP
WORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK After not starting the first two games of the World Series, Paul O'Neill will be in right field for the Yankees tonight against lefty Brian Anderson. Beyond...
SNAKES RATTLING YANKEES
PHOENIX - Through four World Series runs in five seasons, we thought we knew what the Yankees were made of. After all, a champion is a champion is a champion...
COTTRELL'S 'D' DOIN' JUST FINE
Several times this season, usually after a loss during which the defense had been scorched for big plays, reporters have requested to speak to Jets defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell. While...
HOPE FOUND IN ALL ISLES
Usually the coach is the one that inspires the players. But on the good ship Islanders, the players are the ones that have their coach charged up - for the...
NETS STILL PLAY SECOND FIDDLE
And in local sports news not involving players in pinstripes or Michael Jordan . . . With the Yankees in the Bronx and the Knicks playing host to Jordan's comeback...
MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR ANDERSON
Almost four years ago, Arizona made pitcher Brian Anderson the top pick in the expansion draft, the first player on their major league roster. Tonight is the night he was...
PUMPED ROCKET LOVES CHALLENGE
Be reassured that whatever the real condition of Roger Clemens' right hamstring, it can't be strung any tighter than he will be tonight. The last time he pitched in a...
BUCKS ARE BEASTS OF EAST - ALLEN, MASON & ROBINSON MAKE MILWAUKEE TOP DOGS
OERATIONALLY and cosmetically, the NBA is edging closer to the high life again. By all accounts, the Collective Bargaining Agreement is working seamlessly. More union guys are getting richer and...
BRENLY SHOULD GO 4TH WITH CURT
ANALYSISGOOD guy Bob Brenly, seeking to become the first rookie manager since Ralph Houk in 1961 to win the World Series, will have a decision to make for a Game...
D'BACKS EXPECT BRONX ZOO
The Diamondbacks may be a young franchise, but they are hardly an inexperienced ballclub. To a man, Arizona says the club may not have a well of playoff experience, but...
D'BACKS GRIEVE AT WTC
Sunday night, the Arizona Diamondbacks were standing in Bank One Ballpark celebrating their World Series Game 2 win and thinking these were the most intense emotions they could possibly be...
AT GARDEN, THERE'S EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR
THE two great sports winners of this era - Michael Jordan and the New York Yankees - play our city tonight, trying to prove the magic still is within them....
JOE TO BOMBERS: FIRST THINGS FIRST - YANKS MUST TAKE IT ONE WIN AT A TIME
Joe Torre finished a team meeting yesterday by reminding his wounded Yankees to be more aggressive tonight in Game 3 of the World Series against the Diamondbacks at what will...
DEREK: 'THE HITS WILL COME' ... AND YANKS NEED 'EM TO START TONIGHT
He can feel it coming, eventually. Problem is, the Yankees need it from Derek Jeter sooner than eventually, like probably as soon as tonight. "I felt good the first two...
SCOUTS: IT'S A NEW MICHAEL
The Post spoke to three NBA talent evaluators that scouted Michael Jordan multiple times during the preseason to get their analysis on how His Airness matches up against the Knicks....
JORDAN HAS ZERO REACTION
A roar went up on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday and it had nothing to do with bears or former bulls. It had to do with...
FAN GIVES TIX TO RESCUE WORKERS
LOS ANGELES - A California baseball fan is going to bat today for a couple of lucky WTC rescue workers - handing out a pair of World Series tickets as...
RANGERS MAKE THEIR POINT - FLEURY NOTCHES SCORING MILESTONE IN WIN OVER STARS
Rangers 4 - Stars 2 At the end of the season, when the top eight teams in each conference advance to the playoffs, no one is going to particularly care...
LOW DOWN ON RANGER FRONT LINE
Not that anyone else was either, not after surrendering 46 shots to the Bruins in Boston on Saturday, but Ron Low sure wasn't fooled by the Rangers' 2-1 victory. "You...