December 18, 2001
B'JASUS! ECHO SOLD : TELCO EXEC GETS OLDEST RUNNING IRISH WEEKLY
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe Irish Echo, the oldest continuously published Irish-American weekly newspaper in the U.S., is changing hands for only the third time in its 73-year-old history. The Grimes family reached a...
JOHN GUTFREUND, WALL ST.OUTSIDER, IS BACK
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amTEN years ago John Gutfreund was the top dog on Wall Street, making what was an awe inspiring $1.5 million a year to run Salomon Brothers. Then, in 1991, the...
ANNE KLEIN PLANS TO OPEN 1ST STORE IN SOHO
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amJOHN Idol, CEO of Kasper-A.S.L., just took an edgy step aimed at growing the fashion company into "one of the premier apparel powerhouses on Seventh Avenue," as he told The...
DOWN TO THE WIRE: RETAILERS PULL OUT ALL STOPS TO GET SHOPPERS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amIn the last week of the all-important holiday shopping season, stores are pulling out all the stops - and pulling every stunt imaginable - to get customers to buy their...
HE'S TAKING A PEEK AT CSFB
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amCredit Suisse First Boston's John Mack, who grabbed headlines for reworking outsized contracts for many top executives at his firm, may now be hiring a Wall Street professional who made...
ENRON CHAIR SAYS NO TO FEDS, AGAIN
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amHell no, he won't go. Beleagured Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay backed away from answering lawmakers' questions for the second time since the big energy giant went bankrupt this month. Lay...
MUSIC'S ODD COUPLE
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amTHERE are two kinds of music, Duke Ellington said. Good music - and the other kind.Wynton Marsalis likes the good stuff. So does Leonard Slatkin. Put them together - with...
'BEDROOM' AYES
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amTHE domestic drama "In the Bedroom" and the Somalian war epic "Black Hawk Down" led the field yesterday with five nominations apiece for the first American Film Institute awards. Reinforcing...
PRAISE 'THE LORD'!
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amTHE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING This "Ring" is solid gold.Running time: 178 minutes. Rated PG-13 (fairly intense battle scenes). At the E-Walk, the Lincoln Square,...
5 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT 'RINGS'
December 18, 2001 | 5:00am1. During filming, some of the actors had special pockets sewn into their costumes to hold copies of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," which they called their "bible."...
SINGING ACTORS OF NOTE
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amFILM stars are taking over the international music charts. Kate Winslet, who rode "The Titanic" wave to fame, tops the Irish album sales charts with her debut "What If" recorded...
SONGS OF XMAS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amWHETHER you like your Christmas tunes traditional or prefer your Yule log to snap 'n' crackle with pop, once again there's a sleighful of music to choose from. Here's how...
DOCTORS SLAM NBC BOOZE NEWS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amTHE American Medical Association has slammed NBC for its decision to air ads for brand-name liquor. "The decision by NBC to accept advertising for liquor is shockingly irresponsible and should...
WATCH THIS SPACE
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amTHE world's first TV commercial made completely in space will air next month, The ad, for Japanese TV, shows a Russian cosmonaut grabbing a floating bottle of a sports drink...
REMAINS OF THE DAY; SUN SETS ON TIRED AFTERNOON SHOWS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amREMEMBER daytime TV? You don't? That's not surprising, since fewer and fewer of you are tuning in these days - not even for "Jerry Springer," which on Friday featured a...
ELLEN & RUDY DREAM TEAM
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amELLEN DeGeneres' guest-hosting gig and an appearance by Rudolph Giuliani on "Saturday Night Live" this week brought the show its best ratings in nearly a year. With a 7.6/18 overnight...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amSmith's opus W. Eugene Smith, one of the 20th century's greatest photojournalists, may have been best known for his work with Life magazine. But Smith himself considered the thousands of...
STAR-SPANGLED BALTIMORE: MEETING HISTORY AT EVERY CORNER IN CHARM CITY
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amIF you were wondering, our flag is still there.Fort McHenry, just outside downtown Baltimore, flies the American flag 24 hours a day, by order of the President. During the War...
A MODEL MOMMY TRACK
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amSPORTS Illustrated model. Ford model. Victoria's Secret model. And now, model mom. Long-legged Ines Rivero had her baby, Maia, only six months ago and couldn't be happier. "It's [having a...
FEEL-GOOD GIFTS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amMONEY can't buy health. It can't even guarantee clear-running arteries and firmer thighs. But we can buy our loved ones things to help keep them fit - or, at least,...
NEED THE WHOLE WORLD IN YOUR HAND? HANDHELDS CAN FINALLY HOLD THEIR OWN AGAINST THEIR BIGGER BROTHERS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amHandhelds have come a long way since the days they could all be referred to as Palm Pilots. There are now three flavors of software, or Operating System: the Palm...
FOR PROFESSIONALS ON THE MOVE: FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO TAKE THEIR OFFICE WITH THEM EVERYWHERE: LAPTOPS THAT ARE MORE THAN JUST PORTABLE
December 18, 2001 | 5:00am* Sony VAIO PCG-SR33k: $1,099 (discounts available) Sony makes great laptops - if money is no object. However, there's been some trickledown in the technology and now they make a...
SENSATIONAL STOCKING STUFFERS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amProline Select-A-Disc 60 $??? Anyone who's ever burned a CD knows it takes five tries to get one to work, resulting in a slew of semi-functioning disks and a lot...
MILITANTS DEFY ARAFAT ; 3 MORE ARABS DIE DESPITE 'PEACE' PLEA
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Despite Yasser Arafat's plea to his people to stop attacking Israelis, violence flared in the West Bank and Gaza Strip yesterday, leaving three Palestinians dead and three Israelis...
'SPOT' REMOVAL FOR BUSH: HAS PRECANCEROUS LESIONS TAKEN OFF FACE
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A splotchy-looking President Bush had four lesions - two of them precancerous - removed from his face last week, the White House belatedly revealed yesterday. Bush had two...
TOP DUTCHESS DEM DITCHING MCCALL
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - The Dutchess County Democratic leader defected from Carl McCall's to Andrew Cuomo's gubernatorial campaign yesterday, citing the state comptroller's "mismanagement" of state pension funds. "Simply put, Carl McCall's...
RUDY BRAGS: FBI STATS PROVE NYC'S SAFER THAN EVER
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani got another opportunity to boast about the city's declining crime rate yesterday when new FBI statistics showed that New York is safer than all but 31 cities in...
PERIL STILL LURKS IN CAVES ; RUMSFELD WARNS THAT MOP-UP WILL COST LIVES
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - American commandos launched a dangerous cave-to-cave manhunt for Osama bin Laden and his henchmen yesterday - as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that lives will be lost in...
STOCKS REBOUND ON OPTIMISM
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe markets started the week on an up note, rebounding from last week's lows. The Dow Jones industrial average, the best-watched indicator of U.S. stock market health, rallied 80.82 to...
THE CONS'-SIGNOR ; EMBEZZLE-CASE PRIEST JUST A PUSHOVER FOR CROOKS: DA
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amMonsignor Thomas Gradilone was a "soft touch" taken advantage of by hardened ex-cons - but he wasn't guilty of embezzling $2 million from his parish, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown...
NEW LAWSUIT HITS 'BOTCH' HOSP ; FOUL-UP AT W'CHESTER LEFT DAUGHTER BRAIN-DAMAGED: MOM
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amAn angry mother yesterday accused Westchester Medical Center of botching a routine procedure on her daughter that left the young woman comatose and brain-damaged. Her lawsuit is the newest trouble...
SAUDI KING PRESSURES BUSH
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia's King Fahd yesterday asked President Bush to work a little harder to cool the deadly warfare between Israel and the Palestinians. The message, in a letter...
WAR-FILM 'HERO' IS A RAPIST
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe Army pressured the filmmakers of "Black Hawk Down" to change the name of the war hero portrayed by Ewan McGregor - because the real-life soldier is serving a 30-year...
RUDY BIDS TO SPEED TWEED MUSEUM
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani is rushing to sign a deal before he leaves office to move the Museum of the City of New York into the sumptuous, newly renovated Tweed Courthouse, sources...
BAD NOOSE, MULLAH: THEY VOW TO HANG YOU
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S.-backed Afghan tribal fighters say they're planning to attack a mountain cave fortress where fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is believed to be hiding with 500 of...
JUGHEADS KEEP CASH YOU GIVE TO HOMELESS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amGenerous New Yorkers who toss spare change into plastic jugs set out by the United Homeless Organization are doing little more than supporting organized panhandling, The Post has learned. Despite...
BRITS OK EXTRADITION FOR 3
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amA Saudi man accused of being a top aide to Osama bin Laden lost his fight in the British courts against extradition to the United States yesterday. Khalid al-Fawwaz and...
9/11 BRINGS RECORD JOB LOSS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe attack on the World Trade Center - not the slumping national economy - is responsible for a record one-month job loss in the city, Comptroller Alan Hevesi reported yesterday....
CHURCH SUIT: CITY RUDELY AWAKENS VAGRANTS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amA Fifth Avenue church, surrounded by Midtown's swankiest buildings, sued the city yesterday for rousting homeless people sleeping on its steps at night. "I think wealthy people don't like to...
MTA SET TO RAILROAD $7B BUDGET PAST PUBLIC TODAY
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amTransit advocates are outraged that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's directors are set to approve a $7 billion budget today with little or no prior public discussion. They're also hopping mad...
COPS: CHIMNEY GRINCH BLOWS FAMILY'S STACK
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amSanta won't be coming down the chimney of one Long Island family's home next week - cops said a disgruntled contractor, furious he hadn't been paid, filled it up with...
'GOLDEN' RULE: SPOIL IT FOR NEXT B'KLYN BEEP
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amOutgoing Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden stuck it to his successor yesterday by nominating a new representative to the Board of Education - with just two weeks left in his...
MINE-BLAST MARINES ARE ON THE MEND
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amMarine Cpl. Chris Chandler's family wanted him home for Christmas - but not this way. The 21-year-old soldier lost his foot in a land-mine explosion in Afghanistan on Sunday. And...
BANK TO PAY $606M FOR SWINDLE
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amRepublic Bank and HSBC agreed to pay a record $606 million in restitution after Republic pleaded guilty to helping a crooked New Jersey money manager swindle millions out of Japanese...
LOCAL HEROES BRING CHEER TO OUR BOYS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amWITHIN the next 24 hours, six heroes of Ground Hero at the World Trade Center will be going to Ground Hero in Kabul: three firefighters and two cops who cry...
FEW MAKE 'V' LINE FOR NEW TRAIN ; IT'S STILL CRUSH HOUR ON QNS.-MANHATTAN SUBWAYS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe new V train rumbled into service yesterday carrying a few happy commuters - but others had no idea where the newest letter in the subway alphabet was taking them....
BRAVEST BRAWL RAP DISMISSED TODAY
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amEighteen firefighters charged after a Nov. 2 ground-zero brawl with cops will have their charges dismissed at Manhattan Criminal Court today, law-enforcement sources said. Seventeen expect their misdemeanor trespassing charges...
WEDDING STINGER - DREW SUED FOR DIVORCE
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amDrew Barrymore and Tom Green's bizarre, five-month marriage went kaput yesterday as the gross-out comic filed for divorce against the sexy blond star. Green's surprise move came as he filed...
ED. BOARD BIDS TO BREAK UP TROUBLED WEST SIDE HIGH
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE The Board of Education has proposed busting up trouble-plagued Martin Luther King Jr. HS on the Upper West Side into two smaller schools, amid a staff revolt against the...
SAKS GEM HEIST ON VIDEO
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amA jewel thief who stole a quarter of a million dollars worth of gems from Saks Fifth Avenue was caught on videotape, police said yesterday. Cops are studying the tape,...
'HIT' SUSPECT TO BARE ALL VS. STRIPPER
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amA Bronx man accused of hatching a bizarre murder-for-hire plot with a Manhattan stripper has cut a deal with prosecutors, The Post has learned. James Johnerson has agreed to plead...
TYSON HIT WITH SLUG RAP
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amAn ex-Golden Gloves boxer claims Mike Tyson gave him a beating after he poked fun at the former champ's posse of women. Mitchell Rose yesterday filed a complaint with police,...
HILL SEEKS PROBE OF TOWER FALL
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amRelatives of World Trade Center victims won Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's backing yesterday for a federal study of whether design flaws hastened the Twin Towers' collapse in the Sept. 11...
FORMER COP SHOOTS KIN, KILLS HIMSELF
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amCHICAGO - An 82-year-old retired NYPD detective shot his wife and her son, critically wounding both yesterday, before committing suicide by shooting himself in the head, police said. Cops in...
ANOTHER CAB GOES UP IN FLAMES
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amA taxi burst into flames on Central Park West last night -the latest in a series of mysterious fires that have struck the city's cab fleet. The driver was alone...
SAUDI KING PRESSURES BUSH TO QUELL ISRAELI CRACKDOWN
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia's King Fahd yesterday asked President Bush to work a little harder to cool the deadly warfare between Israel and the Palestinians. The message for Bush, contained...
NEDVED NEEDS TO TAKE CENTER STAGE
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN elephants fly and Peter Worrell plays fair, Petr Nedved will be a No. 1 center. As a guy who can carry a team, it's been said Nedved is in...
TREYS SLOW DOWN NET TALENT HUNT
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe insistence from league sources is that the Nets are looking for another scorer off the bench. And while team brass adamantly maintain there is no search beyond normal, every-day...
BROWNS' COMMENTS IRK MARA
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amGiants co-owner Wellington Mara caught a glimpse on TV of the bottle-throwing incident in Cleveland on Sunday and as dismayed as he was by the actions of the Browns' fans,...
BOSS: PROOF'S IN PINSTRIPE PUDDING
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amGeorge Steinbrenner gave his blessing to mega-money deals for Jason Giambi, Sterling Hitchcock, Rondell White and Steve Karsay, and has goose bumps about getting Robin Ventura from the Mets for...
GIANTS ONLY WORRY ABOUT THEMSELVES
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amIt is simply human nature. Some of the Giants feel better today than they did, oh, about five days ago. Some, however, are not feeling a whole lot better after...
WHITE'S NOW ALL IN FAMILY
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amFor 31 years, Floyd White worked as a line operator for Georgia Pacific Plywood. He understands what hard work is and what it can do for your soul. Today, when...
DUKE, 'CATS GO FOR THE 'V'
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amWith the Jimmy V Classic all but sold out for tonight's games - Temple vs. No. 22 Alabama and No. 7 Kentucky vs. top-ranked Duke in the nightcap - the...
KNICKS LOOKING TO GET DEFENSIVE ABOUT PROBLEMS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe surest sign yet that the Don Chaney Era might be unraveling came when the Knicks gathered on the ground floor of the SUNY Purchase gymnasium yesterday. "Whenever we meet...
THE BOSS COMES TO PRAISE MET MOVES, NOT BURY THEM
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe Mets are never one of George Steinbrenner's favorite topics. His Yankees share the same city, fight for ticket buyers and back pages. Often, Yankee decision makers have heard it...
CROWDED WATERS IN ATLANTIC
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe Atlantic Division is taking shape. Just as most expected, it's going to be the tightest division in hockey. And that's with or without Tony Amonte or Bill Guerin, whose...
BLAME NFL ITSELF FOR CLEVELAND FAN FIASCO
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amFOR years now, the NFL has marketed itself as a form of controlled warfare, fought on 31 bogus battlefields among 31 would-be armies led by 31 pseudo-generals, each sporting its...
GLENN COULD RETURN IN INDY
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amJET NOTES Though there's a flicker of hope that cornerback Aaron Glenn might return to the field this week, receiver Santana Moss' status remains questionable, according to Herman Edwards. Glenn,...
LEITER: MOVES MAKE US NO. 1 ; LEFTY SAYS METS CAN DETHRONE ATLANTA
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amSince Atlanta joined the National League's Eastern Division in 1994, the Mets have had some good years. They've even gotten to a World Series. But they have never been better...
DESTINY BACK IN GANG GREEN'S HANDS
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe playoff picture is crystallizing before the eyes of the hopeful Jets. The 8-5 Gang Green have three games to play, knowing that two wins will guarantee them a postseason...
BLUESHIRTS, ISLES BEATEN TO PUNCH
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amBy acquiring Donald Brashear from the Canucks yesterday afternoon, the Flyers not only added one of the league's most intimidating forwards and feared fighters, but prevented the Rangers and Islanders...
CLUTCH ERVIN LIFTS ROBESON IN OVERTIME
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amHIGH SCHOOL HOOPSRobeson 96 Boys & Girls 89 Gary Ervin is a proud player. So he wasn't about to let some freshman beat him, was he? "There was no way...
CLASSY COSTELLO EPITOMIZED OLD-SCHOOL NBA
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amLARRY Costello, branded old school before preschool was in session, died last week at age 70. Though he starred at Niagara alongside Hubie Brown, Frank Layden and Wally Rooney, peaked...
RANGERS SHOW TRUE GRIT
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amRangers 4 Panthers 2 Old-time hockey. New-age Rangers. In a match that featured brawling, hard feelings, gross officiating incompetence, two shaky goals on two shots going in against Dan Blackburn...
N.Y. BEATEN TO THE PUNCH
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amBy acquiring Donald Brashear from the Canucks yesterday afternoon, the Flyers not only added one of the league's most intimidating forwards and feared fighters, but prevented the Rangers and Islanders...
'D' ZONE WOES WORRY LOW
December 18, 2001 | 5:00amRON Low's dog-eared map of the minefield shows the Rangers all the places at the attacking blue line and the middle of the rink where the puck is not to...