December 11, 2001
STOCKS FALL BEFORE FED BULL SESSION
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amU.S. stocks sold off in advance of today's meeting of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee, as investors found themselves unable to predict its stance on interest rates. Economists...
CNBC WILL OPEN SHOPS IN AIRPORTS
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amIt'll take more than cute dolls of CNBC stars Maria "Money Honey" Bartiromo and Joe "Big Kahuna" Kernen to boost the cable network's popularity. To help rebuild a broader audience...
KORN/FERRY CANS JOBDIRECT.COM
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amKorn/Ferry International - the largest worldwide executive recruitment firm, has bailed out on college students. After only 18 months in the grad market, JobDirect.com was shuttered by the big global...
IT'S A GIRL THING FOR J.LO AND ; NEW CLOTHING LINE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amJ.Lo is following her ex into the kids' market. The designing diva's fashion company is less than a year old and her first collection has just hit stores, but she...
PARSONS SHOCKER: NEW AOL-TW BOSS WANTS TURNER BACK IN FOLD
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amIn his first big bombshell at the helm, incoming AOL Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons says he wants to bring back ousted loudmouth Vice Chairman Ted Turner. It took more...
DOWNTOWN OFFICE VACANCIES SOAR
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amDowntown office occupancy is sinking like the Titanic, and there is no federal lifeboat in sight. Reports from Merrill Lynch and Grubb & Ellis predict nearly one-fifth of the remaining...
COAL IN THEIR STOCKINGS: STREET YEAR-END BONUSES TO BE DOWN 40-60%
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amBankers, traders and other Wall Street executives will start getting a sense this week of how large - or small - their annual bonuses will be. And, according to industry...
REDSTONE OUSTS MCCLUGGAGE FROM UPN
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amDespite his huge TV hits "Star Trek Enterprise" and "Entertainment Tonight," the head of Paramount Television was ousted in a move to save his boss Sumner Redstone as much as...
LET WORKERS TAP THEIR RETIREMENT PLANS TO BOOST ECONOMY
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amTO: Mr. Paul O'Neill (Or Current Occupant) Office of the Secretary U.S. Treasury Department Re: Relaxing Rules on Retirement Funds to Help The Economy Yo, Paulie! Hope this letter finds...
UNNAMED POLS PUSHED FOR 42ND STREET DEAL
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amRICHARD Maidman, whose family finally sold its ugly-duckling building on West 42nd Street to the Durst Organization last week, says unnamed "public officials" played a role in his decision. But...
FLOJO FLIES AGAIN
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amALVIN AILEYCity Center, 130 W. 55th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, (212) 581-1212. Season runs through Dec. 31. WHEN the Salt Lake City Olympic Arts Festival commissioned Judith Jamison...
10TH HOUR 'PLEX PUSH SHAPES OSCAR RACE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amHOLLYWOOD'S Santas are swooping down multiplex chimneys, carrying a sack full of last-minute Oscar contenders that may brighten the most blighted movie year ever. More than a dozen major films...
TESTING YOUNG METTLE ; COPPER MOUNTAIN: THE COLORADO SKI RESORT THAT PUTS KIDS FIRST
December 11, 2001 | 5:00am'WHEE!" That's not the sound children usually make on the way out of the ski lodge, bundled up as they are in thick parkas and gloves and unfamiliar boots that...
STARR REPORT
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amKevin kneelin' in the 'Zone' on TNN Ex-"Saturday Night Live" member Kevin Nealon, late of ABC's "Hiller and Diller" (1998) is returning in a new series. "TNN's Conspiracy Zone with...
NEW YORK - IT'S A WRAP!
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amWHO isn't in a New York state of mind this season?Show your hometown spirit by giving one of these gifts from the heart - of the Big Apple. WHO'S THE...
HALLE BERRY REVEALS HER . . . SECRET TO HOT SEX ON SCREEN
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amANYONE who's heard Angelina Jolie gush about her husband's charms can guess Billy Bob Thornton has something special.Halle Berry doesn't have to guess. "He's very sexy," Berry says of her...
TINY TIM'S SUNDAY BLESSING
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amTHERE'S a tongue-in-cheek debate raging in Washington D.C. these days. Who is really the most influential man in the nation's capital: "Meet The Press" moderator Tim Russert or President Bush?...
LOIS LANE GETS TO BE SUPERMAN
December 11, 2001 | 5:00am"JANE DOE" Tonight at 9 on USA Absolutely no stars THERE'S no doubt about it. I was definitely Osama bin Laden in a former life. There is no other reasonable...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amWingtips of desire The Musee de la Civilisation in Quebec City explores the bewitching power of footware in "Head over Heels," an exhibit of nearly 300 shoes. Cinderella's fairy godmother...
CAN'T KNOCK KID 'COCKY'
December 11, 2001 | 5:00am* KID ROCK "Cocky" Lava/Atlantic Atomic flash, towering rhythms and honed songcraft makes this a monster of an album that'll scare kids, disgust liberals - and rank as the greatest...
KNIFE SCARE PUTS JFK IN TURMOIL
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amChaos reined at the Delta Airlines terminals at Kennedy Airport last night when a passenger found a knife near a departure gate and 2,300 people had to be evacuated and...
FOUND: A REALLY GOOD APPLE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amAn Orthodox Jew from L.A. celebrated the first morning of Hanukkah in Midtown yesterday - reuniting with the Muslim fruit vendor who found and returned his money-packed wallet a month...
WISEGUY TWIST IN MOGUL SLAY
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe estranged wife of murdered millionaire Ted Ammon once warned him her new boyfriend - a Long Island electrical contractor - knew mobsters, family sources told The Post yesterday. Another...
BIKE-CRASH INJURIES WON'T KEEP 'TERMINATOR' DOWN
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amArnold Schwarzenegger is laid up in a Santa Monica hospital after a motorcycle accident fractured several of his ribs. "Arnold is resting and healing - there is not much else...
ASHCROFT WAS RIGHT
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amOOOH, are they mad at John Ashcroft. The media chorus sang a threnody of denunciation after the attorney general's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee last week. From the left,...
REP: PARKINSON'S HELP ON THE WAY
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amJust days away from a congressional vote that could mean $143 million in funding to fight Parkinson's disease, Rep. Carolyn Maloney yesterday said a cure or medicine capable of halting...
FDNY'S BLONDS HAVE MORE FUNDS
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amFive Rockaway firefighters showed a different kind of bravery yesterday - they fearlessly walked into Saks Fifth Avenue to have their hair dyed blond. It was for a good cause...
PLO HURLS HATE AT 'MAFIA' MIKE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amMike Bloomberg hasn't even taken office, but he's already received the standard greeting that the PLO reserves for New York City mayors: undisguised hostility. A Palestinian spokesman yesterday blasted the...
SOUND ADVICE FOR JETS: HIGH-TECH TESTS COULD DETECT FLAWS, EXPERTS SAY
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amAirlines flying the model Airbus that crashed in the Rockaways should conduct military-style ultrasonic tests on their fleets to detect flaws in composite parts, aviation engineers and safety experts said...
SUING TENANTS VENT RAGE AT RENT RULES
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amDozens of angry tenants protested outside a Brooklyn courthouse yesterday where a judge will consider whether state rent-stabilization rules give landlords too much power. Several tenants' groups are suing the...
GRAND JURY TAKES UP STRIPPER CASE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amA Manhattan grand jury began hearing evidence yesterday in the murder-for-hire conspiracy case against a Swiss stripper and her ex-boyfriend. Line Grosjean, 19, and James Johnerson are accused of plotting...
STUDENT PRAYER UPHELD ; TOP COURT OKS INSPIRATIONAL 'MESSAGES'
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court sent a message on religious freedom yesterday, allowing student-led prayers in Florida and letting a Jewish inmate sue prison officials for forcing him to cut...
OVER AND DUNNE WITH AT THE NYPD
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe NYPD's popular No. 2 cop has accepted a job as director of security for one of Wall Street's biggest financial institutions. First Deputy Commissioner Joseph Dunne - widely respected...
'GUNMAN' HELD IN HEIST
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amTwo robbers pulled off a brazen daytime armored-car heist in Queens yesterday and fled with $140,000 - but one of the men was quickly nabbed clutching the bag of money,...
OSAMA'S FLEEING FAMILY EXPOSED
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amThis innocent-looking family is the product of the most hated man in the world. It's Osama bin Laden's second wife and four of his angel-faced kids. These photos were left...
REV. AL NOW COZYING UP TO CUOMO IN GOV RACE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE ALBANY - The Rev. Al Sharpton and Andrew Cuomo have held secret talks in recent weeks, with Sharpton warming to Cuomo's race for governor, The Post has learned. The...
DEDICATED TO DUTY ; FALLEN HERO ALWAYS PUT HIS LIFE ON THE LINE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amFDNY Capt. Frank Callahan was remembered in a dramatic Lincoln Center ceremony yesterday as a man who lived and died by the creed of firefighters - first in and last...
MEGABOMB HEADS OSAMA'S WAY
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. military forces have unleashed the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in their arsenal on a cave complex where officials believe Osama bin Laden and his diehard fighters are...
DONORS PAID FOR RUDY TRIP
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani said yesterday "several donors" footed the bill for his quickie trip to Israel on Donald Trump's luxury jet. Giuliani, who brought girlfriend Judi Nathan along, said he cleared...
DIOCESE OFFERS A DEAL TO AVERT TEACHER STRIKE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amAverting a potentially crippling strike with its largest faculty union, the Archdiocese of New York yesterday announced a tentative three-year labor contract providing an 11 percent salary increase to 3,200...
GREEN RAILS AT CAMPAIGN FINANCE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amMark Green's campaign chairman yesterday charged that the city's system of publicly financing campaigns "failed completely" in his unsuccessful race against billionaire Michael Bloomberg. "New York City does not now...
HILL: HELP'S ON WAY FOR WTC FAMILIES
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe families of World Trade Center victims will each be assigned a "family advocate" to help them get relief services, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday. The relief agencies will...
GETTING IN SHAPE FOR 'SEX'
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amShe never seems to have a problem with athletics in the sack on TV, but put "Sex and the City" star Kristin Davis on a running track and watch what...
KNOCK HIM OFF HIS HIGH HORSE!: FIGHTERS CLAIM BIG ADVANCES IN TORA BORA
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S.-backed fighters launched a massive assault on Osama bin Laden's Tora Bora stronghold yesterday and claimed to have captured a key ridge, a supply tunnel, and a command...
SLAY SUSPECT TELLS OF SEX WITH OLD LADY
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe suspect begins his videotaped police statement by leaning forward in his chair at Sing-Sing prison, and professing his shame. "How would that look for a 37-year-old man, having sex...
AX LOOMING FOR LAZY LEVY: ED. BOARD PREZ
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe president of the Board of Education warned yesterday Schools Chancellor Harold Levy could get his walking papers for failing to tackle the school-construction fiasco. Ninfa Segarra said a chief...
BUSH'S 12/11 RALLY CRY: WORLD UNITED VS. TERROR
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe White House is asking nations "to stand as one world against terror" today, as the third-month observance of Sept. 11 is marked from ground zero to outer space. President...
MISSILE ERROR KILLS TWO KIDS: ISRAELI ATTACK ONLY WOUNDS TERROR-BOSS TARGET
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli helicopters fired three missiles at a top Islamic Jihad commander when his car stopped at a red light yesterday, but only wounded him - and instead killed...
PUT A STOP TO THESE SICK CHILD MOLESTERS
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amTHE picture on Page 1 is pure pornography. Here is a little boy barely out of diapers. But hard lines surround the child's mouth and eyes, which he presses into...
SHEIK IS 'GUEST' STAR IN MONSTER'S VILE VIDEO
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A mystery sheik is Osama bin Laden's guest of honor on the video showing the terror kingpin gloating about the Sept. 11 attacks over dinner with top aides,...
UTILITIES AND MTA FIGURE BILL AT $5B+
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amA clearer financial picture of the rebuilding of lower Manhattan emerged yesterday, with Verizon, Con Ed and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority tallying their combined costs at well over $5 billion....
HOUSE GOP BIG ARMEY IS HINTING HE'LL RETIRE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - No. 2 House Republican leader Dick Armey - a true-believer conservative who has often pushed for tax cuts - has told allies he may retire when his term...
HORROR ACCIDENT ON SUBWAY
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amAn 18-year-old girl might have to have her leg amputated after it got caught between the platform and an incoming subway train, police said. Shueh Huang, of Elmhurst, Queens, was...
BOMBS 'R' US: TERROR THUGS GROOM FUTURE SUICIDE KILLERS
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amThis shocking photo shows a little Palestinian boy, who should be playing with toys, being cruelly robbed of his childhood. He and other kids - as young as 4 and...
TRIBE HAS NO INTEREST IN GONZO
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amBASEBALL NOTES BOSTON - The Indians surprisingly offered Juan Gonzalez arbitration last week, but they have no desire to keep the slugger. According to officials from other clubs, Cleveland only...
MONDESI'S IN AMAZIN' CROSS HAIRS
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amBOSTON - He's temperamental. He keeps late hours. He has been known to sulk. He carries a hefty price tag. All that notwithstanding, Raul Mondesi would instantly become the Mets'...
MARA TELLS TROOPS: KEEP PLAYING HARD
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amJim Fassel did not have it in him to provide any shred of encouragement to the Giants, not after three consecutive losses sapped him of his pep-talk capability. And so...
ALEXEI HAS OTTAWA BURIED IN THE PAST
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amAlexei Yashin would rather not talk about Ottawa or injuries. Heck, Yashin would rather not talk about himself altogether. But while captain Michael Peca has already played against his former...
HEY, VG: THANKS FOR THE MESS!
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amEVER since the night Ernie Grunfeld had his last supper with Dave Checketts, the Knicks have been Jeff Van Gundy's team. By firing Grunfeld, Checketts was telling Van Gundy, and...
CROUCH: NO APOLOGIES
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amEric Crouch knows a lot of people are upset that his Nebraska Cornhuskers will play for the national title on Jan. 3, but he isn't apologizing. "There are some teams...
GOOD TO C-WEBB YOU ; AILING KING RECLAIMS COURT
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amIT was an honor and a privilege to eyeball Chris Webber in Sacramento's seven-point win vs. Miami Sunday, as he graced us with his presence for the first time after...
IRISH RECRUIT HAS 2ND THOUGHTS
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amChris Olsen was supposed to be at Notre Dame last weekend, finalizing his plans to sign with the school in February. Instead, he was in Raleigh, North Carolina, checking out...
NETS SET TO TAKE NEXT STEP
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amSaturday's loss in Milwaukee answered a few questions about the Nets, showing just how far the gap is between a good and an elite. But this week's games in Chicago...
DON SIGNS ON, BUT MAY BE LAME DUCK
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amAt Don Chaney's introductory Garden press conference, GM Scott Layden had never seemed giddier. Layden tried to crack jokes and called Chaney "a fantastic coach," saying repeatedly how "excited and...
STORM WARY OF FALLING AT NIAGARA
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amCall it a test, a quiz, an exam, a crossroads. Call it whatever you like but know this: St. John's will learn a lot about itself and the season it...
POP: LAYDEN'S DOING FINE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amBrooklyn-born Frank Layden knows his son doesn't need his public support. But when asked yesterday about criticism Scott Layden has received recently for failing to make offseason upgrades, the former...
'O IS ME' - HACKETT TAKES BLAME
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amFrustrated and angered Jets fans everywhere are uniting in stadium parking lots, taverns and on the sports talk radio airwaves. They all want a piece of Paul Hackett, the Jets'...
KNICKS MUST WIN TO KEEP NEW DON
December 11, 2001 | 5:00am"Now it's up to us to make sure that he keeps it." You can hear the pressure Marcus Camby feels. There's a certain degree of pressure on Camby and his...
SPREE'S SPEW DOESN'T ROCK NEW BOAT
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Don Chaney handled his first potential controversy with aplomb, showing he has much thicker skin than Jeff Van Gundy. On Sunday, Latrell Sprewell questioned whether Chaney's laid-back style...
WINTER WHISPERS ; GIRARDI MAY WEAR PINSTRIPES AGAIN
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amBOSTON - Study hard, journalism students, and you, too, one day might be able to cover baseball's annual Winter Meetings. Walk into the hotel lobby and this is what you...
GIAMBI DEAL NEARS WIRE
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amJason Giambi is expected to be in New York today and the only thing standing between the Yankees and him agreeing on a seven-year deal for $119 million is the...
YANKS NAME DOWN NEW HITTING COACH
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amIf the Yankees had Jason Giambi last year, it's not likely that Rick Down would have been announced as the team's new hitting coach yesterday. But Giambi was in Oakland,...
METS BURN FOR JEROMY ; DEAL CLOSE FOR BREWER SLUGGER
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amBOSTON - Finding they had no match for Detroit outfielder Bobby Higginson, and that obtaining Roberto Alomar is an extreme long-shot, the Mets focused yesterday on more feasible possibilities with...
DEVILS LOSE - AND ELIAS LOSES TEMPER
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amBlue Jackets 3 Devils 1 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Disgraced in defeat, the Devils' self-destruction continued after the final buzzer, reaching into the locker room, where first-team NHL All-Star Patrik Elias...
RANGERS GET POINT ACROSS
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amOVERTIME Hurricanes 4 Rangers 3 It is their work ethic and commitment to one another that stands as this Ranger team's greatest attribute, better even than the goaltending, the force...
TRIBE'S INTEREST IN GONZO A SHAM
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amNOTEBOOK BOSTON - The Indians surprisingly offered Juan Gonzalez arbitration last week, but they have no desire to keep the slugger. According to officials from other clubs, Cleveland only did...
METS CHASE ROBBY, BRET: BUT DEAL MAY NOT BE IN $TAR$
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amBOSTON - Despite well-chronicled financial constraints, the Mets are aggressively pursuing options to upgrade their offense, including Roberto Alomar, Brett Boone and Bobby Higginson, but more likely Jeromy Burnitz or...
LOW READY TO SCROOGE RANGERS IF NECESSARY
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amThey're home now through Christmas, seven straight games at the Garden beginning with last night's match against the Hurricanes, all but one within the Eastern Conference. "The one part about...
ELIAS TRYING HARD TO KEEP HOLIK IN CZECH
December 11, 2001 | 5:00amCOLUMBUS - Devils' leading scorer and A-Line winger Patrik Elias says he lobbied loud and long to get Bobby Holik as his center - for the Czech Olympic team. Larry...