November 13, 2001
LUXE COS. FEEL POOR: LVMH, RIVALS DIM FORECAST
The outlook is getting dimmer for luxury goods companies. For the third time since Sept. 11, Bernard Arnault's LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton has cut its earnings estimate for the...
CONSUMERS TOO AFRAID TO SPEND
CONSUMERS are talking tough and optimistic, but acting weak and glum. That's the big problem in the American economy right now. And things like yesterday's plane crash - whether caused...
REPORT: NBC INKS SASSA TO CONTRACT
Suddenly, everything "out" is "in" again. Scott Sassa, the NBC West Coast president rumored to be leaving the Peacock network as a result of several programming mishaps, has reportedly signed...
VICTORIA'S SECRET SHOW GOING PRIMETIME
This week's Victoria's Secret runway show, broadcast for the first time on network television from a 60-foot high tent in New York's Bryant Park, came together in minutes. "I flew...
JITTERY MARTS PLUNGE & RECOVER
Stocks fell sharply yesterday after an airplane crashed near JFK airport, but pared the losses in late-day trading when terrorism was called a less-likely cause of the crash. The Dow...
ONE BLOOMIN' NEIGHBORHOOD
IN Bloomingdale's country, all eyes are on Vornado's new headquarters tower for Bloomberg L.P. on the long-dormant Alexander's site across the street. And the blocks along Third Avenue near 59th...
FEAR OF FLYING: TRAVEL, AIRLINE LEISURE STOCKS FALL AFTER CRASH
Airlines, travel and leisure stocks fell after the crash of an American Airlines jet in Queens yesterday sparked new fears over air travel. But as the day wore on and...
MCQUEEN, STELLA SHOP UP NEW YORK
The Gucci Group's newcomers are wasting no time spending the company's green - even though luxury firms are facing an uncertain future. Designers Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney are both...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
Warm wishes If the nip in the air is signaling that it's time to start planning a way out of the cold, the United States Virgin Islands hopes to tempt...
BLONDE MARKET ; HAIR'S TO A NEW CROP OF HOT RELEASES
TODAY belongs to the ladies, so get in touch with your sugar 'n' spice side with new releases from momma Madonna, the elusive Jewel, Latina heartthrob Shakira and the headbanging...
STARR REPORT
Sold! An online auction with SothebysKidsCharities.org is teaming with Sothebys.com for an online auction showcasing many TV-related items. KidsCharities.org, founded by Sue Shifrin-Cassidy, will launch the 10-day auction on Dec....
MASSAGE TO SELF: RELAX AND ENJOY
DOES it feel as though boulders are knocking around inside your skull, and muscles that you didn't realize you had are aching? Find out how you can recharge your mind,...
GOOD ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU FORGET...BUT NOT FORGIVE MICHAEL
IT'S hard to separate Michael Jackson, the innovative and great artist of the '80s, from the nightmare he and his life became. From his addiction to plastic surgery which turned...
SUPER BOWL LOTTERY WON BY 'MALCOLM'
FOX's hot, young comedy "Malcolm in the Middle" has been given the most coveted spot on TV - the hour following this year's Super Bowl. The football championship is typically...
POTTER CHEAT SHEET ; EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO FOOL YOUR FRIENDS
IT'S three days until "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" opens - do you know what a Muggle is? Even if you've never opened a "Harry Potter" book, there's no...
STYLE TIPS FOR MIKE'S GAL PAL: DIANA TAYLOR SHOULD DITCH THE DRABS AND RAID JUDI'S CLOSET
A First Girlfriend's road to City Hall isn't paved with sequins or plunging necklines.But the mayor's gal pal doesn't have to dress like a school marm, either. Outgoing mayor Rudy...
DEATH OF 3 REPORTERS MAKES TV PAUSE
NETWORK news divisions are reverberating with the deaths of three European journalists killed in Afghanistan late Sunday by the Taliban. News chiefs say, however, that they are not barring their...
NEW YORKERS FLOCK TO CHRISTIAN BOOK
JONATHAN Franzen, author of "The Corrections," New York's literary light du jour, has been toppled from the top of Manhattan's best-seller list by the latest in a wildly popular Christian...
EYEWITNESSES BARE TERRIFYING GLIMPSES OF HELL AS BEACH HAVEN IS SCARRED BY FIRE AND DEATH
First, they heard a thunderous crash - then residents of the quiet beachfront community of Belle Harbor found themselves in a nightmare of fire rolling down the street and body...
DUNNE DEAL: NYPD'S NO. 2 COP WILL RETIRE
NYPD veteran Joseph Dunne, twice passed over for police commissioner, will retire Jan. 1, the day Ray Kelly is expected to return to run the department. Dunne, currently the well-liked...
BEACH 128TH ST. MIRACLE: FAMILY OK AFTER ENGINE PLOWS INTO HOUSE
Kevin McKeon was having his morning coffee in the kitchen of his Belle Harbor home with his 4-year-old daughter, Shannon, yesterday, when an engine smashed into the back of his...
CELEBRATING FIREFIGHTER'S 'STELLAR LIFE'
A firefighter revered by colleagues and hailed as everybody's best friend was buried yesterday following a funeral Mass in Queens. The Rev. Jack Rathschmidt recounted the life of firefighter Robert...
AND STILL THE WINNER ...
SO it turns out that the rules of the game were the right rules. If everybody had just agreed to follow them instead of plunging the nation into a brave...
KID-DING ASIDE, SEINFELD AND WIFE 'MAD'LY IN LOVE
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld and wife Jessica took a breather from life with baby Sascha yesterday to stroll along Madison Avenue on a cool autumn afternoon. Jerry was all zipped up...
ROCKAWAYS ARE LIKE THE BIBLICAL JOB
MONSIGNOR Martin Geraghty was saying 9 o'clock morning Mass at the beautiful St. Francis De Sales Church, a place of worship that has seen much misery since Sept. 11. "Suddenly,...
'TESTED ONE MORE TIME': ANGUISHED APPLE REELS
Enough! A city coping with the aftershocks of the Twin Towers attacks that left over 4,000 people dead - and an anthrax scare that took one life and threatened scores...
JOY TURNS TO GRIEF FOR KIN BACK HOME
The sounds of heartbreak echoed through the Santo Domingo airport yesterday as dozens of Dominicans arriving for long-awaited reunions with relatives learned they would never see their loved ones again....
FUNERALS SICKENINGLY FAMILIAR: COMMUNITY LOST 100 AT TWIN TOWERS
Gary Toms, who types up obituaries for a local Rockaways newspaper, had only one question yesterday: "When is it going to end?" Since Sept. 11, the associate editor of The...
TALES FROM ONE MORE TRAGIC DAY
Paul McCartney saw tragedy unfold before him in New York yesterday for the second time in two months and vowed: "We have got to get behind America." The former Beatle...
BUSTED JERSEY KIDNAP SUSPECT'S WEIRD PLOT
Weeks before he allegedly snatched a 6-year- old girl from the front yard of her New Jersey home, Barry Sherman brainstormed with fellow customers of a local coffee shop about...
THOUGHTS OF WTC SEND THEM FLEEING
'THE street was on fire." That's how 15-year-old Jason Shorr described the horrific scene that greeted him when he fled from his house at Beach 130th Street and Newport Avenue....
CLASSMATES' KIN PERISH ON GROUND
Three teenage athletes from the same Brooklyn high school narrowly escaped the deadly inferno on the ground ignited by Flight 587 - but are mourning family members who perished in...
CRASH KILLS 2 WHO FLED WTC: CITY'S DOMINICAN COMMUNITY MOURNS LOST LOVED ONES
Two of the passengers who perished aboard American Airlines Flight 587 narrowly escaped death two months ago at the World Trade Center. Friends said Felix Sanchez, 29, a broker at...
YANKEES STILL FRONTRUNNERS FOR GIAMBI
MARK McGwire has cleared a path for Jason Giambi in St. Louis, but the Yankees still appear to be the frontrunners in the Great Giambi Chase. McGwire, 38, stunned the...
OSAMA HAS 11 KIDS WITH CHILD BRIDE
Osama bin Laden is a family man - literally! The terror chief who masterminded the Sept. 11 terror attacks that left more than 4,000 people dead married his cousin when...
FLASHBACK FOR FDNY: NEW TRAGEDY HITS FIREFIGHTERS' 'BACK YARD'
Firefighters and cops who rushed to the scene of yesterday's horrific crash said the tragedy brought back all the nightmare memories of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. "I raced here...
TALIBAN'S FOES CONQUER KABUL ; ALLIANCE REBELS GRAB CAPITAL AS THUGS FLEE
WASHINGTON - Taliban fighters and officials abandoned Kabul today, allowing Northern Alliance rebel forces to roll into the Afghan capital unchallenged. Northern Alliance troops moved into a military barracks that...
DEATH RAINS DOWN ON THE ROCKAWAYS: JET-CRASH DEATH TOLL AT LEAST 265; 'BLACK BOX': CREW HAD NO WARNING; TERRORISM STILL CAN'T BE RULED OUT
A "black box" from doomed Flight 587 revealed last night the pilots had no warning before the jet carrying 260 people nose-dived into a Rockaways neighborhood - leaving a scorched...
TALIBAN ON RUN AS REBELS ROLL: THUGS FLEE FAR TO SOUTH AS ALLIANCE NEARS KABUL
WASHINGTON - Afghan opposition forces were "at the gate" of Kabul yesterday in a significant turning point of President Bush's war on terrorism. In a rapid sequence of events, the...
DON'T CHALK UP A VICTORY JUST YET
ANALYSIS WASHINGTON - Despite the spectacular success of the Pentagon's "northern strategy" in the last 48 hours, the war in Afghanistan is far from over, military analysts warned last night....
HOSP WAITS IN VAIN FOR SURVIVORS
Reminiscent of the frustration hospitals felt during the WTC tragedy, staffers at Jamaica Hospital's trauma unit geared up yesterday to treat dozens of seriously injured victims from Flight 587 -...
CRASH THEORIES
NTSB investigators will be looking at the following four scenarios in the crash of Flight 587: * TERRORISM: Although there are no outward signs of a terrorist attack - no...
FEDS WARNED OF ENGINE 'CATASTROPHE'
Federal officials warned a year ago that a problem with the kind of engine on the plane that crashed yesterday could cause a "catastrophic accident." But the manufacturer, General Electric,...
OUR CITY'S ETERNAL CALLING: WRITE ON!
James Brady: Twenty-five years ago, Brady introduced New York to the Post's Page Six - where both readers and celebs still go for their gossip fix. He has written many...
THE BARE MINIMUM
QUARTERBACKSThe burden was off Kerry Collins (15 of 24, 155 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT) with the running game working so well. Perfect play-fake on only TD pass. Bad overthrow...
NO CHIEF CONCERNS
QUARTERBACKSVinny Testaverde (17-of-27, 170 yards, 1 INT, 65.4 rating) was efficient. The INT came in garbage time.RUNNING BACKSCurtis Martin (20-for-113 yards, 3 TDs) was terrific again and FB Richie Anderson...
IT'S TIME FOR KERRY TO BE A SPARKPLUG
KERRY Collins took his game to another level over the second half of the 1996 season when he led the Panthers to the NFC Championship Game. Kerry Collins took his...
TICKED KNICKS LOOK FOR ANSWERS
Knick fans let their opinions be known during the final moments of Saturday's loss to Golden State, cascading the team with a loud, prolonged chorus of boos. The players aren't...
CAMBY ON SLOW ROAD TO RECOVERY
KNICK NOTES If Marcus Camby's absence is the main reason the Knicks have gotten off to such a slow start, they could be in trouble. Camby, who had hoped that...
ORR'S READY TO GIVE HALL A FAMILY VIBE
This is the second in a seriesof local hoop previews.College Hoop Preview The first time Louis Orr addressed his players as Seton Hall coach, he underlined a simple theme that...
BIG A CLERK AT CRASH SITE
Despite the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 just a few miles away - the smoke was clearly visible from the press box yesterday morning - racing went on as...
HERM HAS CONFIDENT JETS ON THRESHOLD OF SUPERIORITY
BY late afternoon Sunday in Miami, the Jets will have sabotaged the psyche of the Dolphins and seized control of the AFC East. They'll leave Miami with sole possession of...
CEDENO WAITING FOR METS TO CALL
The Yankees already have made a call, but the Mets have yet to contact Roger Cedeno's agent to express an interest in the speedy free-agent outfielder. "I expect to hear...
MINAYA FAMILIAR WITH TRAGIC FLIGHT
Mets assistant GM Omar Minaya has flown American Airlines Flight No. 587 from Kennedy to the Dominican Republic countless times. "I lose track of how many times I've been on...
GANG'S GREEN WITH GREATNESS: UGLY REPUTATION NOT SLOWING DOWN EDWARDS' 'TEAM SHREK'
It began when the Jets won ugly against the Panthers three weeks ago, leaving them looking at the time like an unconvincing 4-3 team. That's when the players and coaches...
LINDROS: NO TURNING BACK ; JUST HAPPY TO BE IN NYC
IN ANOTHER life that seems so much farther away than a 90-minute drive down the Turnpike, Eric Lindros would likely have been willing, if not eager, to verbally engage the...
NETS SAY THEY'LL BE FOCUSED
The pitfalls have already been dug, the excuses - some more legitimate than others - for losing tonight at Indiana are ready-made and packaged for the Nets. The Nets could...
RED-HOT DEVILS HOST MARIO AND COLD PENS
After back-to-back fight fests against the turtling Maple Leafs, the Devils host a division foe this evening in the struggling Pengiuns. Both teams reside in the cellar of the turned-up-side-down...
ISLES NEED OLD INTENSITY TO HALT TWO-GAME SLIDE
The Islanders have some leaks, and after consecutive losses to the Rangers and Canadiens, they're running out of thumbs to plug up the holes. "It wasn't a good effort for...
NEGATIVE KNICKS IN A SPREE-FALL
OBVIOUSLY, I had more respect for the Knicks coming into this season than they had for themselves. Clearly, Latrell Sprewell talked them out of believing they're a competitive tournament team....
CONTRACTION TIMETABLE WON'T WORK, LEITER SAYS
Besides being the Mets' ace, Al Leiter is also their player representative so his feelings on contraction are important as they provide an inside look into the Players Association. With...
FRASCHILLA FEELS FOR OLD 'HOOD
ALBUQUERQUE - Fran Fraschilla, Brooklyn-born and former coach at Manhattan College and St. John's, had his eyes fixed on the television. So did his assistant coaches: Darren Savino, who played...
YANKEES LOSE IF JASON SAYS YES TO ST. LOO
WHAT the Boss wants, the Boss usually gets. The Boss in this case may be Mark McGwire, though, and that could leave the Yankees out in the free-agent cold. McGwire...