November 1, 2001
STREISAND TO SPLIT CPW? - FED-UP BABS MAY DONATE ; UNSELLABLE DIGS
IS Barbra Streisand giving up on trying to sell her apartment? Insiders are telling us that Babs is considering donating her historically unsellable apartment to one of her favorite charities....
FORD PREPARING MASSIVE JOB CUTS TO SAVE BILLION$
NOW that he's in charge of great granddaddy's company, what is William Clay Ford Jr. gonna do first? Job cuts, what else! A source who is familiar with the situation...
BONDS SOAR; GOV'T. STOPS 30-YR. SALES
Bonds rallied to their biggest one-day gain in 14 years after the U.S. government said it would stop selling 30-year Treasuries. Many investors rushed to buy the 30-year bonds that...
POINTED REACTION BRINGS MANOLO BLAHNIK TO HEEL
Talk about being dressed to kill. Manolo Blahnik has taken a sexy new stiletto heel to such a dangerous new level that he has had to pull the shoe from...
ONE STEP CLOSER TO RECESSION
It's official: the first leg of a U.S. recession took place in the third quarter. The government said yesterday that gross domestic product for the U.S. dropped by 0.4 percent...
BANKER FILES $100M SPA SUIT
An attractive Wall Street investment banker is suing an East Side spa for $100 million for allegedly horribly disfiguring her face in a hair-removal beauty treatment. Kim McMillon, 34, said...
RODALE CLOSES THE BOOK ON MH-18 MAG.
Troubled Rodale is roiled again. The company yesterday shut down teen title MH-18 magazine only two weeks after a corporate downsizing axed 148 people in its book division. Rodale President...
EDGAR'S MISTAKE - MESSIER WANTS TO TAKE BACK USA'S TELEVISION STUDIOS
Edgar Bronfman Jr. gave it away - and now Jean-Marie Messier wants to take it back. Vivendi Universal Chairman Jean Marie Messier is looking to restructure his arrangement with Barry...
VH1 TO GET H'WOOD HANGOUT
Taking a clue from MTV's hot studio in Times Square, the over-30 crowd's VH1 is ready to open a similar live hangout in Hollywood. VH1 said it is in talks...
CHAO DOWN, OUT AT USA NETWORKS
Ciao, Chao! Stephen Chao, the head of Barry Diller's USA Networks cable properties, resigned yesterday after failing in his attempt to spark a ratings bonanza at the company. He will...
HAIR-RAISING SUIT: BANKER WANTS $100M FOR DISFIGUREMENT
An attractive Wall Street investment banker is suing an East Side spa for $100 million for horribly disfiguring her face in a hair-removal beauty treatment. Kim McMillon, 34, said she...
STARR REPORT
Sept. 11 alters focus of November sweeps One of the casualties of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, at least for now, are sweeps stories - those alarming news segments on...
JOHN SPRINGER, P.R. GENIUS, DIES
JOHN Springer, often called the king of press agents because of his star-studded list of clients, died Tuesday at New York Hospital. He was 85. Among the show-biz superstars he...
'FRIENDS' FOREVER; EIGHT YEARS LATER IT STILL DOESN'T SUCK
AT a time when the networks can't do anything right in terms of new shows, "Friends" has emerged as the No. 1 comedy in the land. Again. "Friends," whose cast...
NEXT ON ABC: THE WAR SHOW
THE war on terrorism now has its own primetime, network show. ABC is rushing out a magazine show called "America '01" starting tomorrow night (8 p.m. on Ch. 7) ....
CNN: THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS
CNN, accused by some of having a liberal bias, is warning its staff not to "focus excessively" on casualties inflicted in Afghanistan by U.S. forces. "As we get enterprising reports...
'BAND'S' QUIET VICTORY
IF not for the onset of a new, contemporary war, HBO's miniseries about World War II might have made an even bigger splash. As it was, "Band of Brothers" -...
FANTASTIC FEATS FOR ABT FEET
AMERICAN BALLET THEATERCity Center, 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues; (212) 581-1212, Season runs through Nov. 4. --------- THE sheer virtuosity of American Ballet Theater - in depth from...
WRITING AFTER 'MIDNIGHT' - JERRY STAHL IS AT IT AGAIN
HOW could writer Jerry Stahl possibly up the outrageousness ante after "Permanent Midnight," the infamous and unflinching account of his drug-addled days in Hollywood? His new novel "Plainclothes Naked," a...
DIAL H FOR HANDS-FREE
GET hooked up or locked up. Beginning today, New Yorkers must use hands-free headsets while talking on their cell phones while driving. Until Dec. 1, drivers caught with their phones...
THE NEW DRESS CODE: BLACK IS BACK ON THE ONCE-COLORFUL PARTY SCENE
IF local partygoers want to have fun this fall, they don't always look like it. Over the last few weeks, guests at galas and dinners and other dressy events have...
PROMOTION COMMOTION : HOW TO GET PAID TO PARTY WITH PALS
WITH looming layoffs and overall uncertainty, you may be worrying about having to move in with your parents. Or you could become a party promoter. From the looks of things,...
TRAIN ROLLS OVER WOMAN ON TRACK
An unidentified woman was rushed to Bellevue Hospital last night after breaking a basic rule of subway safety - she jumped down to the tracks to retrieve a dropped cell...
FEDERAL FOLLIES
THE administration's announcement of an imminent terrorist threat seems like a public-relations disaster. Why are Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller scaring Americans with "specific and credible"...
DON'T FORESEE PSYCHIC CALLS - TELEMARKET VIOLATIONS LEAD TO N.Y. LEGAL ACTION
Television psychic Miss Cleo couldn't have predicted her latest predicament - 100 violations of New York's "do not call" telemarketing law. New York state's Consumer Protection Board yesterday issued a...
HAMAS HONCHO SLAIN - ISRAEL BUMPS OFF 'MOST WANTED' TERRORIST
JERUSALEM - Israeli missiles yesterday blew up a top Hamas operative, and troops killed five other Palestinian militants in a series of confrontations with suspected terrorists. The Hamas commander, Jamil...
'VICTIM' KILLS WOULD-BE THIEF
A 30-year-old man trying to snatch a gold chain was stabbed to death on a Brooklyn street when his intended victim pulled a knife and fought him off, police sources...
BLOOMY WANTS KERIK IN HIS CORNER
Republican mayoral candidate Mike Bloomberg has personally asked Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to remain the city's top cop if the billionaire wins election next week, The Post has learned. Bloomberg...
BUSTED OWNER: IT'S NOT SEX CLUB
The operator of a private club on Long Island that cops call a "sex club" yesterday denied any members had sex in his club and claimed his patrons were being...
U.S. MAGIC 'CARPET' - B-52S RAIN BOMBS ON THE TALIBAN
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon dramatically escalated the air war against the Taliban yesterday, "carpet bombing" the regime's front-line troops north of Kabul for the first time. U.S. B-52 bombers were...
WE'VE FOUND JITTERY J.LO - IN MIAMI
Scaredy-cat J.Lo is still laying low and keeping far away from New York City - holed up in sunny South Beach with new hubby Cris Judd (above). The Bronx-born beauty...
TRUMP GRUMBLES AS GOV ROLLS DICE AND PASSES GAMBLING BILL
ALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday signed a sweeping new law expanding gambling - as Donald Trump warned the measure would turn New York into "a juggernaut for casinos." The new...
MARATHON MAN CARRIES PALS' SPIRIT
Firefighter Mike Tobin plans to dedicate every mile of his New York City Marathon run to a different friend lost in the rubble of the World Trade Center. There's Mike...
CHUCK, HILL PUSH INFO-SHARING BILL
WASHINGTON - Sens. Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton want the FBI to start sharing confidential information about terrorism with the New York Police Department and other law-enforcement agencies. Schumer and...
A HOUSE DIVIDED TO VOTE ON AIRPORT SECURITY
WASHINGTON - The House is set for a showdown today over a historic vote on an aviation security bill - with Democrats and Republicans deadlocked over whether luggage screeners should...
SWISS, SAUDIS FREEZING UP TERROR FUNDS
Switzerland froze $12 million in terror-linked bank funds, and Saudi Arabia has also issued an order to bottle up terrorist bucks, officials said yesterday. It wasn't clear if the Saudi...
PRE-9/11 'TERRORIST' MAIL CAME FROM INDY
Threatening letters mailed to the media before the World Trade Center attacks - bearing striking similarities to the current anthrax-tainted letters - were mailed from Indianapolis, where the deadly bacteria...
PERSONAL TEST KITS HIT HOME - FEARFUL FOLK ORDERING THEM IN DROVES, MAKER SAYS
Home anthrax test kits could turn out to be the Tickle-Me-Elmo of our troubled time, with demand far outstripping production. Pro-Lab, a Florida manufacturer of home-test kits for radon and...
NATIONAL GOP TAKES $WING AT JERSEY'S DEM GOV HOPEFUL
The national Republican Party rode into the New Jersey gubernatorial race yesterday, unleashing a battery of TV ads attacking Democrat Jim McGreevey's record on taxes. National Republicans are racing to...
CAPTURED AL QAEDA SUSPECTS TO BE TRIED IN D.C. - NOT APPLE
Any al Qaeda terrorists captured in the Sept. 11 terror probe will be tried in Washington and not New York, sources said yesterday. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, in...
ABSENTEE LEVELS AT CITY SCHOOLS FRIGHTENING
Halloween mischief plus fears of terrorism turned city schools into ghost towns yesterday. Schools Chancellor Harold Levy reported that a frightful 57 percent of high school students were no-shows yesterday,...
'CAVEMAN' CHENEY HAS LOTS OF COMPANY
TURNS out the "new normalcy" doesn't just mean Veep Dick Cheney hides out in what he jokes about as his "cave" - he's got company to make sure there's someone...
ARMY CAPTAIN GUILTY OF SLAYING COUPLE
A dishonored Army captain was found guilty of first-degree murder yesterday for beating a young Brooklyn couple to death, and will spend the rest of his life in prison. Prosecutors...
MAD RUSH TO TAKE A SHOT ON FLU FIGHTER
Anthrax fears appear to have set off a minor stampede for flu shots. A doctor with four clinics in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan said calls have skyrocketed as much as...
VISA RULES GIVE SYMPATHIZERS THE HEAVE-HO
WASHINGTON - The feds will give the boot to terrorist sympathizers - and keep them from entering the country - under tough new immigration rules announced yesterday by Attorney General...
MIKE'S 'SHAMEFUL' FLIER - USES GREEN-BACKER FRED
In a "shameful" pitch for Hispanic votes, Mike Bloomberg has mailed out thousands of glossy fliers featuring a full-page portrait of Fernando Ferrer on the cover - although Ferrer has...
BUSH TELLS CONGRESS: $PEED IT UP
WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday came close to scolding Congress for sitting on the economic stimulus, saying lawmakers must "get something done" and pass it by the end of November....
ANOTHER POSTMAN OF THE DISEASE
A mail handler at a second regional postal facility in New Jersey appears to have skin anthrax, officials said yesterday. Word of the suspected case came as Attorney General John...
BOARD STALLS SCHOOL HIT LIST
The Board of Education is dragging its heels in closing a projected $2.8 billion shortfall in its school construction plan - leaving the fate of dozens of projects in limbo....
SOCCER-MOM TERRORIST COPS A PLEA IN '70S BOMBING PLOT
A former Symbionese Liberation Army militant who hid out for years as a suburban soccer mom pleaded guilty yesterday to a quarter-century-old bomb plot that targeted police for death. Sara...
SHARPTON: ARAFAT VISIT CERTIFIED AS KOSHER
The Rev. Al Sharpton, calling his controversial Mideast trip "an absolute success," yesterday insisted Israel officials encouraged him to visit Yasser Arafat. He also denied he claimed he was sent...
A HOLLOW-EEN - TERROR FEAR KEEPS THOUSANDS FROM VILLAGE PARADE
Real-life terrors made this Halloween the scariest ever - keeping thousands away from the annual Greenwich Village parade and putting a damper on neighborhood trick-or-treating. One police official estimated the...
THE LAST MYSTERIOUS DAYS OF ANTHRAX VICTIM KATHY NGUYEN
At 2 p.m. last Thursday, Kathy Nguyen told a friend she had sore eyes. By Saturday, the 61-year-old Bronx woman had aches, chills and fever. On Sunday night, she was...
MARK RIPS GOPER'S 'INSENSITIVE' WORDS IN RAPE-SUIT CASE
Mayoral candidate Mark Green yesterday blasted rival Michael Bloomberg for making "ill-informed and insensitive comments" in a 1998 deposition for a sexual-harassment case involving his company. "I think his comments...
N.Y. ANTHRAX DEATH: MYSTERIOUS LAST DAYS OF KATHY NGUYEN
Puzzled investigators are hoping that a colleague's possible case of skin anthrax will solve the mystery of how and where a hospital worker contracted her fatal inhalation case. Kathy Nguyen,...
TA TESTING AIR IN SUBWAYS
The Transit Authority has been conducting air-quality tests at subway stations, The Post has learned. The tests, some of which began before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, are conducted every...
BRENLY ROLLS SNAKE-EYES
DARING Diamondback manager Bob Brenly didn't even give himself time to take a bow for his smart and gutsy decision to start Curt Schilling on short rest last night before...
DEREK, TINO MAKE YANK MAGIC: CLUTCH HOMERSDEADLOCK SERIES
GAME 4/10 innings Yankees 4 D'backs 3 If you don't believe today, you never will. As Derek Jeter's fly ball arched toward the right-field corner, Yankee Stadium inhaled. An inning...
DUQUE: I DIDN'T RIP THE UMPIRE
Orlando Hernandez may not understand much English, but he has a pretty good idea of the strike zone. After failing to get a called strike in the third inning last...
ARMSTEAD STREAK IN JEOPARDY
GIANT NOTES Just spending time in the trainers room gives Jessie Armstead the creeps. "One thing about me, I hate being in there," he said. It's the place he has...
DHANI GETTING THE CALL
No one denies that Dhani Jones looks, acts and actually is one of the more interesting people you're likely to meet. Now comes the part that truly interests the Giants:...
HERM: I'M HERE TO WIN, NOT IMPRESS PEOPLE
With the reviews of the Jets' first seven games having been sketchy, to say the least, Herman Edwards took umbrage yesterday in a spirited, if feisty, news conference at Weeb...
TUPA GETS BOOST FROM A LITTLE FATHERLY ADVICE
JET NOTES It's been a long and frustrating road for Jets' punter Tom Tupa, who missed the entire offseason program after sports hernia surgery, and then missed all of training...
MICHAEL SHOULD DEMAND A TRADE
ONLY 8,173 days have passed since the Washington Wizards last won a playoff series. But who's counting? Certainly, not Michael Jordan. That was painfully obvious in Game 1 of Comeback...
DEVILS COULD BE DEALIN'
The buzz comes from all sides that Lou Lamoriello is on the verge of a deal. While sources insist that the Devils' GM has been working hard at trying to...
GREAT SCOTT! $7M PACT ON WAY
The Devils may finally be joining the 21st century, and it might be YankeeNets spurring the belated financial modernizing. Hard on the heels of Martin Brodeur's $7 million-plus annual deal,...
AIR'S THE SITUATION . . . JORDAN'S MEDIOCRE; KNICKS ARE JUST BAD
LATRELL Sprewell trudged down the court, shaking his head in disgust. Othella Harrington had just committed an offensive foul, the Wizards led by nine and a smattering of boos could...
CHECKETTS: KNICKS IN TROUBLE
KNICK NOTES Former Garden prez Dave Checketts sees lean times ahead for the Knicks and he's not surprised. In Checketts' mind, the NBA's cyclical nature is running its course. Checketts...
LONGSHOTS STEAL SHOW IN BIG A'S OPENER
A pair of improbable longshots lit up the board yesterday at Aqueduct, opening day of the fall meet, topped by Evening Attire, the rank outsider in the field of seven...
UPSTART ISLANDERS SNUBBED BY NHL OFFICE
The Islanders may be one of the best teams in the league, but according to the NHL, they aren't as chock-full of talent as other squads. The NHL released its...
NETS GET LUCKY IN ROAD WIN
Nets 95 - Celtics 92 BOSTON - Sometimes, it's better to be lucky than good. The Nets were good, darn good, in building a staggering 25-point lead last night against...
MAC BACKS UP HIS BOAST
NET NOTES BOSTON - Todd MacCulloch knew it was put up or shut up. He had been bragging to Jason Kidd, his practice free-throw partner, about his prowess on the...
RANGERS ROBBED AT GARDEN - BUT THEIR OFFENSE REMAINS BAD JOKE
Panthers 3 - Rangers 1 So the Rangers almost certainly were jobbed last night, losing 3-1 to the Panthers with the winner at 13:35 of the third period coming on...
MUSSINA, BATISTA SET FOR MOUND MATCHUP - MOOSE BURIES GAME 1 MESS
Location, location, location. It's the first rule of real estate - and pitching. In Game 1 of the World Series, the Yanks' Mike Mussina had about as much prime location...
TORRE STAYING PUT
WORLD SERIES CONFIDENTIAL Just because his contract expired at midnight - just minutes before Derek Jeter struck the dramatic home run which drew the Yankees even in the World Series...
BLAST OR FAMINE FOR YANKEE BATS
Forget manufacturing runs. The Yankees are doing all of their work via the home run, and there are no complaints after a game like last night. The Bombers used three...
AGAINST KIM, IT AIN'T OVER TILL IT'S GOPHER
Even after the game, Byung-Hyun Kim was emotionless. Kim was the first Korean ever to appear in a World Series game. But he couldn't finish it how he wanted. After...
ACE? NO, ONE OF A KIND
Miguel Batista is the handy/renaissance man of the Diamondbacks' pitching staff. If they need a starter, it's Batista. If they need a reliever, it's Batista. A poet? Batista. A novelist?...
ONCE AGAIN, SPENCER COMES UP HUGE
From a personal perspective, Shane Spencer had a decent night. From a team perspective, it was one of the best ever. Spencer rewarded Joe Torre's faith in him by slamming...
BRENLY ROLLS SNAKE-EYES - SHOULD HAVE LET SCHILLING FINISH THE JOB
DARING Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly didn't even give himself time to take a bow for his smart and gutsy decision to start Curt Schilling on short rest last night before...
SNAKES: WE AIN'T DONE YET
Growing up in South Carolina, Reggie Sanders remembers seeing Yankee teams do things like they did last night. He remembers them creating magic out of losses. But when he was...
DEREK, TINO MAKE A YANKEE MIRACEL: CLUTCH HOMERS KNOT THE SERIES
Game 4/10 innings Yankees 4 D'backs 3 How deep inside the Yankees' body is the horseshoe hidden? To call them lucky doesn't begin to describe the Yankees' toughness and talent....
BULLET BOB: MY HOOK WAS RIGHT
Before the eighth inning last night, with the Diamondbacks up 3-1 in Game 4, Curt Schilling pleaded with his manager, Bob Brenly, to allow him to finish. Brenly denied Schilling...
LET TINO LEAVE? GET OUT! OLD FAITHFUL'S STILL GOT IT
ALMOST nobody had left the Stadium. That was both the remarkable and by now, fully expected. Two games down going back to Oakland, down to four outs in Game 5...
DEREK, TINO MAKE A YANKEE MIRACLE: FORGET OCTOBER, JETER OWNS NEW MONTH
TO the array of honorofics, titles and awards expected to be amassed by Derek Jeter by the time his major league career is over, add one more: Mr. November. The...
EVERY WITCH WAY, THIS IS THE YANKS' FINEST HOUR
HALLOWEEN brings out all the creatures that won't die. Jason. Freddie Krueger. The Yankees. For six years, they have perfected the art of the great escape. Yet, even for the...
STEP TO THE FOUR: RIGHT OR WRONG ON CURT, BRENLY'S A WILY COYOTE
YOU don't have to agree with Bob Brenly's decision to like that he had the guts to make it. And you don't have to agree with Brenly's decision to choose...
SCHILLING LOVES TO BE IN TRENCHES
THE president of a company that produces board and war games for a toymaker, Curt Schilling has studied the great battles, a number of bloody ones he fought personally with...
SKIPPERS STEP TO THE FOUR : TORRE BENCHES KNOBBY, MOVES JETER TO LEADOFF
Pitching and defense have defined the Yankees ever since Joe Torre surfaced. But if the Yankees wanted to even the World Series at 2-2 last night and avoid falling into...
NO SHANE, NO GAIN: SPENCER'S CATCH KEYED YANK REVIVAL
He broke onto the scene like he broke on that Matt Williams liner on Tuesday night - charging hard, a little unsure of himself and determined to make it. The...
WOMACK'S BEEN REAL WOE-MACK
This season, Tony Womack was the least reliable shortstop in the National League. His 22 errors in 485 chances produced a .955 fielding percentage - worst in the league. In...
MOMENT OF DOUBT COSTS GONZALEZ
Indecision hurt Luis Gonzalez with two out in the bottom of the sixth inning of Game 3. With the scored 1-1 and Yankee runners on first and second, the end...
PRIMO! MARIANO IS BEST CLUTCH PLAYER TODAY - IN ANY SPORT
HE is Tiger Woods making every championship putt at a major. Tap-in. Thirty-footer with a break. From the fringe. He is Kobe Bryant sinking every decisive playoff basket. Lay-in. Fall-away...
JEFFERSON 'FOULS' UP HIS DEBUT
NET NOTES BOSTON - Before he took the court for his first NBA game, Richard Jefferson confided a bit of a failing to Jason Kidd. "He told me he always...
KIDD REFUSES TO LOSE
BOSTON - The Nets, Byron Scott insisted, are not demanding everything from Jason Kidd. Just a little bit of everything. Oh, and help change the whole attitude around the organization...
ZONA'S BATISTA HAS RHYME AND REASON
Miguel Batista is the handy/renaissance man of the Diamondbacks' pitching staff. If they need a starter, it's Batista. If they need a reliever, it's Batista. A poet? Batista. A novelist?...
MOOSE PUTS GAME 1 MESS BEHIND HIM
Location, location, location. It's the first rule of pitching, like the first rule of real estate. In Game 1 of the World Series, Mike Mussina had about as much prime...
LOW: WE CAN'T BE ZONING OUT: SAYS RANGERS NOT AGGRESSIVE ENOUGH
So let's see. They are 29th in penalty killing and 25th on the power play, yet tied for eighth in victories. Let's see some more. They have not held the...