November 14, 2001
DOW GAINS IN KA-BULL MARKET !
The bull market came roaring back to life as American-backed forces marched into the Afghanistan capital of Kabul and the Taliban retreated. The Dow rocketed almost 200 points on the...
HUIZENGA'S ALAMO, NATIONAL IN CH. 11
H. Wayne Huizenga's Alamo Rent A Car and National Car Rental are driving right into bankruptcy. Parent company ANC Rental Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization yesterday in Delaware,...
SMALLER FIRMS INK DEALS FAST
ALTHOUGH big boys like Lehman Brothers grabbed hotel rooms to get traders back in action, one medium sized business displaced by the World Trade Center attack acted smaller and nimbler...
CABLEVISION: IT WAS LARRY!
Blame it on the talent. Cablevision Systems, New York's largest cable provider, says its earnings drought last quarter was caused by the early retirement of Knick's star forward Larry Johnson....
$7B LOSSES PUT CARRIERS' FUTURE UP IN THE AIR
At least two airlines may go bust by New Year's as a result of the public's travel slowdown - while other carriers may merge to stay aloft. Aviation experts said...
DOW JONES SUES CANTOR OVER $12M OF BOND DATA
Dow Jones filed suit against Cantor Fitzgerald yesterday in a bid to get out of paying the Sept. 11-ravaged bond-trading powerhouse $12 million for bond data it once sold through...
TINA SCOUTING WEST POINT
TALK Chairwoman and Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown was thwarted when she tried to stage a star studded conference in New York City this month to debate issues that we're confronting in...
FAMILY GUY - ONLY PROBLEM IS THESE AREN'T HIS KIDS
The Bernie Mac Show [ ] Tonight at 8:30 -------- NOT all stand-up or even sit-down comedians make funny television. Take HBO's "Mind of the Married Man," starring Mike Binder,...
STARR REPORT
Morning glory for FNC's 'Friends' They're uncorking the champagne (OK, pouring the orange juice) at Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends." a.m. show. For the first time, "Fox and Friends"...
IT'S THE MI DECADE
MI [] 60 MADISON AVE. (AT 27TH STREET) (212) 252-8888 ----- 'WHY does the samurai helmet have antlers?" we puzzle over one of the colorful Asian tchotchkes at Mi. But...
TROTTER NOT HOT TO TROT
ONE of the country's top chefs, Chicago-based Charlie Trotter, says he won't open a branch of his eponymous restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton under construction on Central Park South. Hotel execs...
CITY RESTAURANTS TALK TURKEY BECAUSE LOTS OF NEW YORKERS WILL BE . . . HOME FOR THE HOLIDAY
THIS Thanksgiving will be different for some New Yorkers, who'll be staying home rather than jetting away. But what to do about dinner when you don't know a basting bulb...
IF OSAMA WAS O.J.
COURT TV is putting Osama bin Laden on trial. The world's most-wanted criminal hasn't been caught ("dead or alive"), but Court TV and ABC News will stage a mock "trial"...
ALL THE WARS, BUT THIS ONE
I am obsessed with war. I love it. I can't get enough of it. And these days, that makes me cable TV's best customer. War - most notably World War...
NUTTY AND SWEET TAWNIES ARE THE PERFECT TREAT
DESSERT wines can be just that - something a little sweet to drink with friends after a meal. They also can be drunk with dessert. Some sweet wines have developed...
'PHANTOM' OF THE BOOTH? - SHOW MAY OFFER DISCOUNTED TKTS TIX
NEVER mind the weak economy, the fear of another terrorist attack and the plunging tourist trade. What really has Broadway producers quaking is the prospect of "The Phantom of the...
THIS GIANT ISN'T VERY JOLLY
THERE'S much about "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" to frighten the kiddies - but nothing as scary as a brush with Hagrid the giant's off-screen alter-ego. "It's weird having...
CHUNG SHOCKS RATHER
CONNIE Chung shocked and delighted her former co-anchor Dan Rather last night - serenading the CBS newsman to the tune of "Love and Marriage." Chung, who co-anchored the "CBS Evening...
BRIDGET'S GOT A HALL-UVA SECRET
MODEL Bridget Hall earned her angel wings last night at the taping of the world's longest television commercial, "The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show," airing tomorrow night on ABC. Hundreds of...
PARENTS 'AIR' GRIPES ABOUT GROUND-ZERO HS
Angry parents say their kids are getting sick breathing at Stuyvesant HS - but Board of Education officials insisted last night that the air is safe at the school, four...
HORRIFIED HIKERS DISCOVER SKULL
Hikers at a Long Island nature preserve made a grisly discovery - a human skull protruding from the ground. The horrified hikers alerted police, who later unearthed the skull and...
RUDY 'REINS' SUPREME FOR HOLIDAYS
A new window of opportunity is opening for Mayor Giuliani - a trophy head of Hizzoner as "Rudolph the Right-on Reindeer" will be the glowing star of Barneys' famous Christmas...
BEYOND KABUL
THE recapture of Mazar-e-Sharif by the Afghan Northern Alliance - aided by U.S. and British special forces advisers - closely followed by the Taliban's withdrawal from Kabul, are cause for...
LIZZIE'S OUT OF LINE - BYPASSES SECURITY QUEUE AT COURT
Publicity princess Lizzie Grubman got special treatment from courthouse security yesterday when she arrived for a brief hearing on the vehicular-assault charges filed against her for running down 14 people...
NEW TOP DEM GIVES AL COLD SHOULDER
ALBANY - The state's incoming Democratic boss said yesterday the Rev. Al Sharpton is "extraneous" to the party and shouldn't be considered a Democratic leader. Manhattan Democratic Chairman Herman "Denny"...
WONDERFUL COUPLE CUT DOWN IN THEIR 'PRIME'
YOU can say many things about Helen and Thomas Concannon. You can say they doted on their five kids and 14 - soon to be 15 - grandkids. You can...
MIKE'S FIRST MISSTEP - ROOKIE IS SENDING SIGNALS THAT WILL HAUNT HIM LATER
Just nine days into his mayoralty back in 1994, an incident let Rudy Giuliani send an important signal to New Yorkers about the direction his administration was headed. Responding to...
TOP COURT OFFICIALLY BOOTS BILL FROM LAWYER LIST
WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton's name was formally removed yesterday from the list of lawyers who are allowed to argue before the Supreme Court - another reprimand to ripple in from...
'MUSLIM CNN' SAYS OFFICE BOMBED
The Kabul offices of the Al-Jazeera TV channel were destroyed by what the station said was a U.S. missile, but Pentagon officials yesterday would not confirm the claim. Al-Jazeera, which...
SANTA'S MAIL TO BE ZAPPED FOR INFECTION
The U.S. Postal Service is trying to keep anthrax worries from ruining the Christmas spirit. The agency said yesterday that thousands of letters addressed to Santa Claus - which volunteers...
FALLEN HERO MOURNED ON HIS BIRTHDAY
Fire Lt. Joseph Leavey was remembered yesterday, on what would have been his 46th birthday, as a "courageous model for other firemen." The heroic father of three, who worked with...
BISHOP EMBRACES MIGRANTS IN MASS
On the feast day of a Catholic patron saint of immigrants, Brooklyn Bishop Thomas V. Daily offered Mass yesterday in memory of the 265 victims of the American Airlines crash...
WHY MIKE LIKES RAY SO MUCH
Ray Kelly is the perfect choice to lead the NYPD through our perilous times. Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg raced through Kelly's overwhelming law-enforcement history yesterday in naming the 60-year-old as 41st...
HOW PRIEST HELPS: JUST BEING THERE - HE PRACTICES 'THEOLOGY OF PRESENCE'
THE calm, yet desperate, young man walked into the rectory of St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic Church in Washington Heights seeking help. He wanted a priest to immediately go to his...
WARLORDS STAGING MUTINY VS. MULLAH
WASHINGTON - The Taliban's grip on power was unraveling across Afghanistan last night as uprisings were reported in the southern strongholds where new groups of local warlords appeared to be...
B'KLYN MOM HELD IN BABY'S DROWNING
A 21-year-old Brooklyn mother whose baby drowned in a tub of Epsom salt was ordered held on $50,000 bail yesterday after she was indicted for manslaughter in the child's death....
SCHOOL BEHAVIOR BETTER SINCE 9/11
Like crime on the streets, mayhem in the schools has dropped since the World Trade Center attacks. The number of students suspended from school has plummeted 79 percent, Schools Chancellor...
PAY UP, PHIL: RONETTES NO LONGER SING FOR A SONG
An appeals court yesterday ordered legendary record producer Phil Spector to fork over $3 million in back royalties to the girl group the Ronettes - about $3 million more than...
NORTHERN REBELS EXECUTE TALI-FOES
WASHINGTON - Victorious Northern Alliance fighters are hunting down and executing Taliban and al Qaeda soldiers in Kabul and other newly captured cities - raising concern that the already chaotic...
REPORT HITS CITY'S DROPOUT RATE AND CITES RACE DIVIDE
The New York City Board of Education has one of the worst high-school graduation rates among major cities in the country, a report released yesterday found. The city ranked 39th...
STUDENTS' 'BIO' EXAM MESS - HIGH-SCHOOLERS' SAT SCORES LOST IN ANTHRAX MAIL FRENZY
Anthrax has claimed thousands of new victims - high-schoolers whose SAT answer sheets were lost in the bacteria-induced postal pandemonium. The College Board said yesterday that 1 percent of college-bound...
BUG SCARE AT POLICE ACADEMY
Anthrax jitters hit the NYPD yesterday. Cops at the department's Police Academy were unnerved by reports that traces of anthrax were found in four detectors recently bought by the NYPD....
PLEA DEAL FOR MAN WHO LED COP ON FATAL CHASE
A man who led a Staten Island cop on a fatal highway chase 16 months ago pleaded guilty yesterday, and will serve no more than six years behind bars. Guido...
SHAKEN ROCKAWAY KIDS GET COUNSELING AT SCHOOL
Youngsters in Belle Harbor have learned all too well that tragedy can hit home - and school officials sought yesterday to comfort boys and girls fearful after Monday's plane crash....
PILOT HAD STARED DOWN WTC FEARS
American Airlines pilot Sten Molin stared down his fears after witnessing the attacks on the World Trade Center, his grief-stricken father said a day after the plane his son was...
BUSH'S VISION THING: A MULTI-ETHNIC GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON - President Bush, who joined Russian President Vladimir Putin in a joint plea for "restraint" by the Northern Alliance, yesterday stressed his vision that "all people will be treated...
NEIGHBORS SCOFF AT THEORY CRASH WAS ACCIDENT
PEOPLE who live around Rockaway's own ground zero are not swallowing the story that this was an accident. Kevin McKeon, who has an engine in his back yard, puts it...
BELLE HARBOR HORROR KILLS SAILOR BACK FROM TERROR WAR
U.S. Navy sailor Ruben Rodriguez returned home Sunday after a dangerous seven-month stint in the war zone in Afghanistan - only to die the next day in the Rockaways air...
PILLS PUT POUNDSTONE BEHIND BARS
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - A Los Angeles County judge slapped handcuffs on comic Paula Poundstone and sent her to jail - very briefly - yesterday for popping pills while in...
CO-PILOT REFUSED TO QUIT AFTER 9/11
American Airlines co-pilot Sten Molin stared down his fears after witnessing the World Trade Center attacks, his grief-stricken father said a day after the plane his son was piloting crashed...
OSAMA & CO. FACE DEATH IN BUSH TRIBUNAL
WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday signed an order to let a special military commission put Osama bin Laden on trial if he's caught alive rather than dead. It makes terrorists...
COPS: MOM DROWNS GIRL, 4, IN EXORCISM
A Washington Heights woman drowned her 4-year-old daughter in a bathtub because she thought the girl was possessed, police said yesterday. The girl, Signifagance Oliver, and her twin sister, Ellagance,...
HAZ-MAT TEAMS SEARCH PAKISTANI HOMES IN PA.
About 30 FBI agents and hazardous-material experts searched two homes owned by native Pakistanis near Philadelphia yesterday, but officials refused to say if they were looking for biological or chemical...
HEARTBREAK HIGH - B'KLYN STUDENTS LOSE LOVED ONES TO WTC & CRASH
The close-knit Bishop Kearney school in Brooklyn was transformed into Heartbreak High yesterday - for the second time in two months. Students, their eyes bloodshot from crying, wandered through the...
DOOMED PLANE'S FINAL SECONDS - TAPE BARES ODD NOISE JUST BEFORE JET'S CRASH
The cockpit voice recorder from American Airlines Flight 587 has yielded crucial clues about the doomed jet's final moments - including a mysterious rattling sound soon after takeoff and the...
BUSH, PUTIN TO CUT NUKES - THEY'LL SLASH STASH BY WHOPPING 66 PERCENT
WASHINGTON - After a friendly mini-summit, President Bush and Russia's Vladimir Putin yesterday vowed a whopping two-thirds cut in nuclear weapons. "You are the kind of guy I like to...
ENGINES HAD BEEN A WORRY FOR YEARS
For five years, air-safety inspectors have feared that engines like those powering American Airlines' doomed Flight 587 could explode and trigger a catastrophe. So far, investigators see no sign a...
BUSH OFFERS HUGE NUKE CUT : IN TALKS WITH PUTIN TO SLASH STASH OF U.S. AND RUSSIA
WASHINGTON - After a friendly mini-summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin, President Bush yesterday vowed a whopping two-thirds cut in U.S. nuclear weapons - from 7,000 down to 1,700 to 2,200...
COPS: 4 TEENS SHOOT JOGGERS WITH BB GUN
Four teens have been arrested for using a BB gun to shoot two joggers near the Central Park reservoir during an attempted robbery, police said. The quartet -Frankie Rosado, 16,...
MOTHER KILLS 'POSSESSED' KID: COPS
Police yesterday charged a Washington Heights mom with drowning her 4-year-old daughter because she thought the girl was possessed. Sabrina Wright told police she heard her own mother's voice coming...
FBI IN HAZMAT RAID ON PENNSYLVANIA HOMES
About 30 FBI agents and hazardous-material experts searched two homes owned by Pakistani natives near Philadelphia yesterday, but officials refused to say what they were seeking. Some of the experts...
RETURNED SAILOR KILLED FLYING TO SEE HIS FAMILY
U.S. Navy sailor Ruben Rodriguez returned home Sunday after a dangerous seven-month stint in the war zone in Afghanistan - only to die the next day in the Rockaways air...
MOM AND DAUGHTER FLEE WALL OF FLAMES
Gerry Pompanio was drying her hair when the terrible blast shook her home on Beach 131st Street in Belle Harbor, Queens. For one brief moment, she thought a short-circuit in...
TAPE BARES FINAL SECONDS OFF DOOMED JET
The cockpit voice recorder from American Airlines Flight 587 has yielded crucial clues about the doomed jet's final moments - including a mysterious rattling sound soon after takeoff and the...
ALEX TAG TEAM PINS DEVILS - KOVALEV, MOROZOV GET PENS' FIVE GOALS
Penguins 5 - Devils 1 They took turns all night, these dueling Devil killers. First one Alex, then the other, a tag team that left their favorite victim in a...
C-SPOON SHOWS FIRE - AND IRE
With center Felton Spencer in a foul-plagued funk and talent-laden Portland coming to the Garden, Knick coach Jeff Van Gundy gave Clarence Weatherspoon his first start of the season last...
SPREE'S TIME RUNNING OUT
THE Knicks married Latrell Sprewell shotgun style. They were too giddy from a run to the Finals in 1999 to pause before his history in Golden State, where long before...
EISLEY TO THE RESCUE - THIRD-STRINGER IGNITES RALLY IN KNICKS' DEBUT
The Garden cheers reached a crescendo as Howard Eisley entered the game - and the Knicks' season - with 3:34 left in the third quarter. The Knicks were caving in...
THESE ANIMAL-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARE TOTAL HYPOCRITES
SINCE Sept. 11, there have been fire-bombings in northeastern California, another in New Mexico and several break-ins in Iowa that have been attributed to animal-rights organizations that have angered and...
FRASCHILLA: I NEVER WANTED TO TAKE THE ST. JOHN'S JOB
ALBUQUERQUE - Never was Fran Fraschilla more crushed than that day in May of 1998 when he went to a meeting thinking he was getting a contract extension and instead...
GIANTS NEED ANOTHER MINNY HA-HA
TEN months later, the Giants again look to the Vikings to define what they are all about. Ten months after they danced and hugged and held aloft a prized trophy,...
LINDSTROM SIGNED TO PUNT
GIANT NOTES The Giants mercifully ended the Owen Pochman punting era yesterday when they signed Gabe Lindstrom to handle the duties for Monday night's game in Minnesota. Pochman, a rookie...
REVENGE PRIME MOTIVE FOR BOTH IN IGLOO BATTLE
PITTSBURGH - The last time the Islanders faced the Penguins here, they came back from a 3-1 deficit, scoring five unanswered goals to close out a 6-3 win, facing a...
QUIETLY, MARTIN'S MAKING MVP RUN
CURTIS MARTIN lives his life in the kind of unassuming anonymity that would make a bashful monk look opulent. He does everything quietly and without fanfare, including his job, which...
PIAZZA'S BATTLE CRY: BUY BONDS!
Mike Piazza has never been one to abuse his clout outside the playing field. He isn't one of those superstars who barges into the front office and makes demands. It...
ERIC: IT'S JUST ANOTHER GAME - PLAYING EX-MATES IS NOTHING SPECIAL
Eric Lindros really wants you to believe that tonight is just another game for him, just like any other night. "It's a hockey game," Lindros said after practice yesterday at...
BORAS: BARRY SIPS FROM FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Agent/author Scott Boras has prepared a 45-page book that shows why 37-year-old Barry Bonds will maintain his super abilities as he ages. Last night, Boras gave The Post a sneak...
OAK: I'D LOVE TO GO TO KNICKS
If the Bulls decide they want a quick divorce with from Charles Oakley, the ex-Knick harbors a desire to play for Jeff Van Gundy again. Oakley was fined $50,000 for...
SCOOTER MOURNS MESSER'S PASSING
Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer always worked well together in the Yankees' broadcast booth, and so The Scooter fondly recalled his old partner after learning Messer passed away yesterday at...
JALEN: JERSEY TOPS IN AREA
INDIANAPOLIS - The Nets know who they are. The Knicks remain snarled in a major identity crisis. That's a viewpoint offered by Indiana's Jalen Rose, who in the early stages...
MARCUS MAKING STRIDES
KNICK NOTES The Knicks may be giving thanks for the return of their 6-11 center, but only after the Thanksgiving holiday. Marcus Camby said yesterday he hasn't ruled out playing...
NETS PASS BIG TEST - POP PACERS AS DEFENSE RULES
Nets 91 - Pacers 82 INDIANAPOLIS - This game, said Byron Scott, would be "the toughest test thus far" for the Nets. This week, predicted Jason Kidd, could be the...
ELIAS EYES HUGE PAY HIKE
The plan, the expectation for Patrik Elias, is nothing less than the largest pay raise - negotiated or arbitrated - in NHL history. When it appears this inevitable, the Devils'...
FRASER LEANING TO 'NOVA
Barring a last-minute change of heart, Amityville star center Jason Fraser is strongly leaning towards Villanova, which would end an intense recruiting battle, several sources told The Post. But Fraser's...
VG: WE CAN WIN WITHOUT MARCUS
KNICK NOTES Marcus Camby said yesterday he hasn't ruled out playing during next week's West Coast trip, but admitted it may be doubtful since he's not due back at practice...
MARTIN'S MOVING FORWARD: NETS' STAR TAKES PRIDE IN IMPROVING DEFENSE
INDIANAPOLIS - No matter what the numbers show, Kenyon Martin prides himself on his defense. That part, he says, is all effort. And so what about opening night? Indiana's Jalen...
CHEEKS WANTS BLAZERS TO START HAVING MO FUN
Mo Cheeks had heard the word, and the word wasn't good. The Trail Blazers were as tempestuous as they were talented, with more dogs that a kennel. Coaching them was...
OAK STILL LOVES N.Y.: UNHAPPY CHARLES WOULD WELCOME RETURN TO KNICKS
If the Bulls decide they want a quick divorce with embattled Charles Oakley, the ex-Knick harbors a desire to play for Jeff Van Gundy again. Oakley was fined $50,000 for...
ELIAS AIMING FOR RECORD HIKE: DEVILS WINGER WANTS $7.5M IN ARBITRATION
The plan, the expectation for Patrik Elias, is nothing less than the largest pay raise - negotiated or arbitrated - in NHL history. When it appears this inevitable, the Devils'...