November 22, 2001
WELD MAKES A BIG SPLASH WITH SOUTH SHORE HOME
POLITICAL lion William Weld will now be summering in New York. The former two-term Massachusetts governor, who skidaddled out of the liberal-minded state after losing a bid for the U.S....
THIS STOCK LIST HAS NO TURKEYS
IT'S Thanksgiving and hopefully among the things you are grateful for is still having a little bit of money to invest. With that in mind I asked the Philadelphia investment...
TURKEY TURNDOWN - MARTS FALL DESPITE BETTER JOBLESS REPORT
A chink in the economic gloom appeared briefly yesterday, but the good news wasn't enough to stop the two-day buyer's strike on Wall Street. An upbeat consumer confidence report and...
TRIBECA, HERE COMES MORGAN STANLEY
Morgan Stanley has inked a lease to take 150,000 square feet in TriBeCa at 1 Hudson Square. With the five-year deal, worth some $50 million, the financial services giant will...
TINSELTOWN TURKEYS - FEAST YOUR EYES ON OUR MENU OF FORGETTABLE FILM FLOPS
ONCE again, Hollywood has produced a crop of turkeys this year - many of them stuffed with some of Tinseltown's biggest names and garnished with tens of millions of wasted...
ARE THEY KIDDING? TALIBAN CLAIM IT'S TIME TO FORGET 9/11
WASHINGTON - A Taliban official said yesterday the destruction caused by U.S. military attacks on Afghanistan has eclipsed the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon....
THE MUD FLIES IN RACE FOR SPEAKER
Political dirty tricks have dragged the behind-the-scenes contest for City Council speaker into the mud, The Post has learned. Anonymous fliers are being distributed attacking Brooklyn Councilman Angel Rodriguez, one...
TALIBAN TO SURRENDER KEY CITY OF KUNDUZ
Taliban forces in the besieged northern Afghan city of Kunduz have agreed to surrender - a victory that will let U.S. forces focus more on hunting Osama bin Laden. Taliban...
FEDS OK PATCH LIKE 'THE PILL'
First, it helped you quit smoking. Now, the patch is going to keep you from getting pregnant. An American company yesterday got the green light from the Food and Drug...
VICTIMS' KIN CAN GET 'SAMMY BULL' BLOOD MONEY
Arizona officials have placed ads in The Post, trolling for Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano's victims to share in more than $400,000 of the mob rat's money. Arizona state Attorney General...
POLISHING THE BADGE - NYPD LAYS DOWN THE LAW FOR UNIFORMS
New York's Finest are getting a dressing down for not dressing up. A detailed, three-page memo obtained by The Post lays out a head-to-toe dress code for the city's 39,000...
SPORE DEATHS MAY HAVE BEEN MISSED
People may have been killed over the last several years by inhalation anthrax - with officials never detecting the cause of death, medical experts told The Post. "By and large,...
HIJACK TRIALS UNLIKELY HERE
WASHINGTON - Attorney General John Ashcroft is leaning toward Virginia over New York as the site for terrorism trials stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks, it was reported yesterday. The...
SHARON WORKS ON TRUCE PLAN FOR PREZ
JERUSALEM - Israeli commandos tracking down terrorists seized two Palestinian brothers in a West Bank village yesterday while Prime Minister Ariel Sharon prepared to present "new ideas" for Mideast peace...
OPENING ARGUMENTS - SONDHEIM SUES PRODUCER OVER MUSICAL
A not-so-funny thing has happened to legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim - he's claiming in a $5 million lawsuit that megaproducer Scott Rudin is trying to scuttle his new musical....
BARGAINS GALORE TO JUMP-START THE $EASON
Get ready, get set, shop! The all-important holiday shopping season is set to kick off bright and early on the day retailers call "Black Friday." And because retailers have had...
THANKFUL PREZ TALKS TURKEY WITH THE TROOPS
President Bush gave a big Thanksgiving thank-you to the "fearless hearts" of America's warriors yesterday as he flew to a famed Army base and got exuberant cheers and whoops from...
DEDE TESTIFIES: THE FEDS PRESSURED ME TO LIE
The feds tried to pressure Sotheby's former CEO Diana "DeDe" Brooks into accusing her old boss Alfred Taubman of an even bigger fraud scheme, but she refused, she testified yesterday....
SUV OWNER: LIZZIE'S ACT WAS 'CRIMINAL'
The owner of the car that Lizzie Grubman drove into 16 people outside a Hamptons nightclub says the publicity princess acted criminally that night. Mercedes-Benz Credit Corp.'s shocking claim came...
TERROR BAIL BID ON ICE
The brother of a jailed terror suspect served up his ice-cream truck yesterday as part of a bail offer to free the San Diego student. Osama Awadallah has been in...
SUSPECT SURRENDERS IN CROSSFIRE SLAYING OF KID
A Bronx man surrendered yesterday to face charges of killing a 5-year-old boy and a Mexican visitor who were caught in a crossfire during a wild gun duel. Paul Stan,...
'VICIOUS' ABUSE KILLS GIRL, 7
A battered 7-year-old Bronx girl who suffered "vicious, vicious child abuse" - including broken arms that were clumsily splinted on cardboard notebooks - died yesterday, a police official said. Her...
WALLS ARE A REAL TURKEY FOR CPW PARADE-GOERS
Upper West Side residents are crying fowl at a trio of posh apartment houses on Central Park West - charging the managers put up plywood walls in front of the...
PARKING GARAGE OWNERS FUMING OVER RULES THAT HAVE STALLED BIZ
Parking garage owners say driving restrictions imposed since the World Trade Center attack have so decimated their business that they may have to sue to stay afloat. "In the face...
2 NABBED IN $10M COCAINE BUST
Two men were charged yesterday with drug possession after they were caught with 85 kilos of cocaine valued at $10 million in an undercover sting operation, the Bronx District Attorney's...
NON-ARAB STATE MAY BE NEXT TARGET IN TERROR WAR
TEAM Bush keeps making it clear that "eventually" it will go after Iraq's Saddam Hussein, but there's growing talk that the president wants his next target in the terror war...
GROUND ZERO OPENING TO PUBLIC
The haunting World Trade Center site, seared in the memory of a shaken city and nation, will soon be open to the general public, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. Giuliani said...
COP DUMPED 'POWDER' LETTER
A Midtown cop was suspended last week for allegedly ditching a suspected anthrax letter into the garbage, The Post has learned. Police were called to the Bates advertising agency on...
JEWEL HEIST AT THE CARLYLE
Up to $150,000 in jewelry was snatched from the Carlyle Hotel suite of two Houston socialites, police said yesterday. Philanthropist Caroline Law, 82, a board member at the Houston Museum...
NEW WTC WILL RISE NEXT YEAR: BUILDER
Real-estate mogul Larry Silverstein yesterday promised Mayor-elect Mike Bloomberg that he'll break ground as soon as next year on rebuilding the World Trade Center. Calling their private meeting at Bloomberg's...
LOUIMA-COP JUDGES SEEK 'RETRIAL' INFO
A federal court of appeals asked for more information yesterday to decide if convicted Abner Louima-torture cop Charles Schwarz deserves a new trial. The judges are weighing Schwarz's claims that...
PATRIOTISM ON PARADE - FLOATS WILL SALUTE THE U.S. HEROES
Warm sunshine, stars-and-stripes and plenty of patriotic fervor - all the usual ingredients for a typical July 4 - will be the prime ingredients for Thanksgiving Day and the annual...
OSAMA WANTED DEAD, NOT ALIVE - RUMSFELD MINCES NO WORDS ON PREFERENCE
Forget about the U.S. wanting Osama bin Laden "dead or alive" - the Pentagon boss yesterday made it clear he wants the terrorist mastermind dead. Asked whether he prefers bin...
ANTHRAX KILLS GRANNY - BAFFLED PROBERS EYE ROADSIDE MAILBOX
A 94-year-old widow from the Connecticut countryside yesterday became the fifth person to die from inhalation anthrax since the bioterror crisis began - and puzzled investigators zeroed in on her...
LOTTERY BETS ON DRAWINGS TWICE A DAY
ALBANY - Players of two of the state's most popular lottery games will have twice as many chances to play and win beginning next month. The Lottery Division announced yesterday...
LOTTERY'S BETTING ON TWICE-DAILY DRAWINGS
ALBANY - Players of two of the state's most popular lottery games will have twice as many chances to play and win beginning next month. The Lottery Division announced yesterday...
LOOK WHO'S AT THE RAP PARTY
The rap was hot and there were bad girls and bad boys aplenty as hip-hop czar Russell Simmons hosted a bash to promote his new autobiography. Sean "P. Diddy" Combs,...
A VERY GENEROUS HELPING - FREE MEAL FOR CITY'S HOMELESS
Many New Yorkers will not have a plateful of hot turkey and mashed potatoes to devour today - and that's why some of their neighbors are spreading around generosity like...
SPORE DEATHS MAY HAVE BEEN MISDIAGNOSED
People may have been killed over the last several years by inhalation anthrax - with officials never detecting the cause of death, medical experts told The Post. "By and large,...
JUDGES WANT MORE DATA IN SCHWARZ CASE
A federal court of appeals asked for more information yesterday to decide if convicted Abner Louima-torture cop Charles Schwarz deserves a new trial. The judges are weighing Schwarz's claims that...
DA WON'T RETRY DUO FREED IN '87 SLAY
The Bronx district attorney's office said yesterday it would not appeal a federal judge's decision to release two men who were wrongly jailed for more than a decade. Jose Morales...
THANKS FOR NOTHING! - KNICKS' 'REBIRTH' SNUFFED BY SUNS
Suns 96 - Knicks 72 PHOENIX - Five minutes into last night's Phoenix fiasco, Shawn Marion leaped into space and slammed the ball through the rim with his right hand...
DUANY (24), ORANGE 'D' MAUL MSU
NIT SEMIS: Syracuse 69 - Mich. St. 58 Syracuse's game-winning run ended as it started, with junior Kueth Duany - in the midst of his career night - going to...
'SPOON ON SHELF; 'BIG O' GETS NOD
KNICK NOTES PHOENIX - With starting power forward Clarence Weatherspoon out for at least one game and possibly more, the Knicks desperately need Othella Harrington to reverse his slow start...
WAKE DUNKS FRESNO STATE JUST IN TIME
NIT SEMIS: W. Forest 62 - Fresno St. 61 When Wake Forest head coach Skip Prosser arrived in New York before the Preseason NIT, he was met with a shock....
YONAGUSKA EYES FALL HIGHWEIGHT
Jockey Jose Santos has seen enough of Yonaguska to know the D. Wayne Lukas-trained 3-year-old is no turkey in today's Thanksgiving Day feature at the Big A, the Grade 2,...
HERM TO JETS: DON'T GET FAT AND HAPPY
As they gathered at the far end of the indoor bubble practice facility following practice yesterday, Herman Edwards left the players with a simple message before he allowed them to...
JOHNNIES ARE STORMIN' INTO ALASKA SHOOTOUT
ANCHORAGE - Ever hear of Vancouver? Not the city in Canada, the town in Washington? No? Ever been to Mount Vernon? Not the one in Westchester County, the Mount Vernon...
COLLINS TRYING TO GET A GRIP
GIANT NOTES The numbers are alarming and shockingly bad. In the past five games, Kerry Collins has fumbled the ball 11 times. He lost the ball three times last Monday...
FASSEL STILL BELIEVES - JINTS WILL 'DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO'
He knows how it looks. It looks bad for the Giants. "If you're on the outside looking at us, I wouldn't say I disagree with you," Jim Fassel admitted yesterday....
BOSS SET TO WOO GIAMBI
George Steinbrenner wants to know where he stands with Jason Giambi by the end of next week. That means his management team will try to throw down a plate of...
SLAVA'S SHUFFLE PAYS OFF
Their goal drought wasn't only affecting the scorers who couldn't, it made a mess of the Devil defense, too. "When we're not scoring, everyone analyzes every goal-against. That's a lot...
DETERMINED ISLES HOLD OFF CHAMPS
Islanders 5 - Avalanche 4 The Islanders got their Thanksgiving party going last night in front of a sold out Coliseum crowd, knocking the stuffing out of the Avalanche and...
KEITH GLAD TRADE TO JAZZ DIDN'T FLY
SALT LAKE CITY - Keith Van Horn still receives hero treatment whenever he comes back here, where folks continue to bow heads when discussing his college career at the U....
'BIG O' ENJOYS BREAKOUT GAME
KNICK NOTES PHOENIX - He's not one of the bigger names who has underachieved during the Knicks' 5-7 start, but his failure to make an impact has hurt them at...
VAN HORN HEROICS CAP HEATED BATTLE
SALT LAKE CITY - Looking back, maybe the Jazz wished a trade for Keith Van Horn had gone through last summer. Van Horn sunk a 17-footer with 2.3 seconds left...
SHOW AND 'TRELL - SPREWELL & KNICKS DELIVERIN' AT LAST
PHOENIX - The comments flowed in preseason about the Knicks lacking size. Latrell Sprewell even wondered if this was a playoff team. His gloomy forecasts made you wonder if he...
BOSS TELLS INNER CIRCLE TO PIN DOWN GIAMBI
George Steinbrenner wants to know where he stands with Jason Giambi by the end of next week. That means his management team will try to throw down a plate of...
'CHOW' TIME NOT FAR AWAY
Coming into the season, Mariusz Czerkawski was a prime candidate for having a breakout season, riding shotgun with a playmaker like Alexei Yashin. But through 20 games, Czerkawski, the Islanders'...
WILLIAMS REBEL WITH A 'CUSE - OVERCOMES OFF-COURT WOES, SWITCH TO POINT
Before this season even started, Syracuse guard DeShaun Williams had already been faced with some tough lessons, confronting off-court mistakes and shouldering new on-court challenges. The way the junior from...