January 5, 2002
SIGNS OF RECOVERY - SLOWDOWN IN DEC. LAYOFFS BOOST DOW 87
U.S. companies fired fewer workers in December than in the previous three months - further indication the economy may be starting to recover. Economists say the unemployment rate, which rose...
CHENEY CASHED OUT - 'BIG TIME'
Dick Cheney cashed out his Halliburton stock at the right time. Otherwise, he would be holding worthless Halliburton shares, which sank yesterday to a 15-year low. Halliburton spent much of...
STAR OF INDIA: 7 GRAMMY NODS FOR NEO-SOUL NEWCOMER
U2, which has dominated concert halls and radio waves for the past year, yesterday stormed the Grammy nominations, with eight nods for "All That You Can't Leave Behind." The Irish...
'SEX' & THE SPIRITS
"Sex and the City" is back tomorrow and, in honor of the most stylish lushes on TV, we suggest raising a toast tailored to your fave character. Dale DeGroff, a...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
I once opened a dinner party invite addressed to someone else. Bad idea. I soon started hallucinating and grooving to tunes only I could hear. RAVE ON When a schoolteacher...
HOT STOCK & TWO SMOKING BOWLS
The legend of stone soup isn't far from the truth. You can make soup from practically anything - anything edible, that is. Meat and poultry bones, potato skins, even squash...
'SEX' AND THE SPIRITS
"Sex and the City" is back tomorrow and, in honor of the most stylish lushes on TV, we suggest raising a toast tailored to your fave character. Dale DeGroff, a...
SONG AND DANCE
There's a lot of live entertainment on tap this weekend - including a couple of tap dancers and a boatload of singing sea captains. "H.M.S. Pinafore" sails into New York,...
TA$TY TREAT FOR LAWYER OF HEIRESS' DOG
A Manhattan judge has thrown a bone to the lawyer for Doris Duke's beloved mutt Robert - a $100,000 legal fee. Lawyer Raymond Dowd said he fought three years to...
FAMILY MOURNS 'WONDERFUL SON & PROUD FATHER'
The first American soldier killed by enemy fire in Afghanistan was remembered yesterday as a loving son who called the army "his second family." Sgt. Nathan Ross Chapman, 31, a...
GROUND ZERO HOAXER GOING TO JAIL
A New Jersey woman will serve at least a year in prison for a cruel ground-zero hoax - inventing an imaginary Port Authority cop "husband" and pretending he was calling...
BLOOM IS OFF THE ROSE FOR MIKE BACKER CAREY
FORMER Gov. Hugh Carey, one of Mike Bloomberg's prominent supporters, is upset the new mayor didn't reappoint Carey's son to run the city's economic-development agency. "The word I'd use is...
CITY RAIDS POSH GRAMERCY CLUB OVER 'TAX DODGE'
The quiet area around Gramercy Park looked like a scene from a crime movie yesterday, as city officials and the district attorney's office launched an early morning raid on the...
KELLY TAKES HELM AGAIN AS NYPD FACES TEST
Raymond Kelly officially regained a familiar title yesterday when he was sworn in as the city's 41st police commissioner by Mayor Bloomberg. Calling his return to Police Plaza the "opportunity...
LET'S TELEVISE HIS DEPARTURE TO MEET ALLAH
ZACARIAS Moussaoui - who authorities say is a failed terrorist and would-be killer - is now a media gasbag. He isn't content to be treated and tried like every other...
'20TH HIJACKER' A TV WANNABE PREENING DEFENDANT ASKS TO LET CAMERAS IN
The accused 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks wants to have TV cameras present at his conspiracy trial next fall, clearly hoping to use the proceeding as a political...
HIZZONER IN THE SWIM WITH FISH
One of the most lavish touches at Mayor Bloomberg's media company - giant fish tanks filled with lush, tropical sea life - has made its way to City Hall. The...
'SORRY' BEAU-SLAYER DUCKS HARD TIME
A Brooklyn woman who stabbed her live-in boyfriend to death during an alcohol-fueled argument last year declared her love for him yesterday, apologized to his mother - and walked off...
'DUI' GUY'S DAD POSTS 50G BAIL - IN CASH
A Brooklyn man thrown in a Poconos jail on charges of drunken driving and threatening police was bailed out by his father - who showed up in court carrying a...
U.N. 'ARSONIST' HAS ASSAULT HISTORY
A German U.N. employee charged with nearly burning down his Jewish neighbor's apartment last month in a potentially deadly anti-Semitic attack was convicted of assault two years ago - and...
MERCURY RISING IN GROUND ZERO BLOOD LEVELS
Unions have upped their demands for legislation to protect ground zero workers after four Port Authority cops were found to have higher than normal levels of mercury in their blood....
HALLE MAY BRING OUT THE BREAST IN BOND
Talk about your double agents. The producers of the new James Bond flick have said the inevitable love scene in the upcoming 20th installment will feature full toplessness - a...
FEDS HOT ON THE HEELS OF $5M IN STOLEN ATM CASH
FBI agents yesterday searched the getaway van stashed in Florida by the late Jersey City man suspected of stealing $5 million - and said their search was "positive." Agents spent...
DAMP FORECAST LEAVES OUT THE WHITE STUFF
First the bad news: You can put the sled, the skis and the snowboard back in the closet - there's no white stuff on the horizon for the Big Apple....
O.D. MAY HAVE KILLED 'WILD' SASSOON HEIR
LOS ANGELES - The troubled wild child of celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon was buried yesterday while the coroner eyed her mysterious New Year's death as a possible drug overdose. Catya...
KIN MAY BE VOLUNTEER STAFF: MAYOR
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday spent a second straight day peppered with questions about putting his relatives on his staff and said his daughter and sister would work as "volunteers" in his...
MAIL UNION WANTS ANOTHER CLEANUP
The postal workers union asked a judge yesterday to order the government to retest and reclean the city's main mail-processing center after new anthrax traces were found on a sorting...
RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO CITY: GIVE IT A REST
HERE'S a message to City Hall from some of New York's most prestigious churches: Back off. Nearly all churches contacted by The Post gave the city a thumbs-down in its...
S.I. TEACHER THREATENED STUDENT WITH KNIFE: COPS
A Staten Island public-school teacher was arrested and suspended on allegations of threatening a 12-year- old girl student with a small knife, authorities said. Jerry Selkowitz, 55, was arrested at...
BEAU RATS OUT SWISS MISS, THEN TAKES OFF WITH BLONDE
There was more bad news yesterday for the young Swiss stripper who tried to frame her married sugar daddy for murder: The boyfriend who ratted her out copped a no-jail...
DASCHLE RIPS W.'S TAX CUT: IT'S DRAINING OUR ECONOMY
WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle yesterday kicked off the 2002 political wars by charging that President Bush's tax cut - not the costly war on terror - made...
AGNELLO & MOLL FORCED TO PART
Carmine Agnello and his paramour Debra DeCarlo will have to put their relationship on ice - at least for five years - after a federal judge shot down her bid...
LIZZIE CASE TO GET NEW PROSECUTOR
New Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota said he'll ask a judge to appoint a special prosecutor in the Lizzie Grubman case because Spota has hired the publicity powerhouse's private...
JANITOR DUNCES' DIRTY WORK
EXCLUSIVEBronx High School of Science staff and students are in an uproar after the custodial maintenance crew tossed test papers and other valuables from classrooms during a scorched-earth cleaning of...
BRO CAN'T DE-LIVER FOR AILING SIBLING
A Long Island father of two tragically won't be getting a lifesaving liver transplant from his younger brother because their tissues don't match and the transplant can't succeed. Javier Lopez,...
EURO YOKEL STIFFS ELAINE'S
The euro is now a hot currency used by 12 European nations and 300 million people, but it's plumb worthless when you're trying to pay your tab at Elaine's. That's...
POLICE HUNTING THUG IN SEX ATTACKS ON LOWER EAST SIDE
This man is sought in two knife-point attacks upon Asian women in a Lower East Side apartment building last month. An elevator surveillance camera caught the suspect in his second...
ISRAEL'S BOLD ARMS RAID GRABS IRAN-MADE ROCKETS BOUND FOR PALESTINIANS
JERUSALEM - Israeli commandos in rubber dinghies captured a ship on the Red Sea and seized 50 tons of Iranian-made weapons being smuggled to the Palestinian Authority, Israel said yesterday....
COPS QUIZ SLAIN MOGUL'S WIDOW
The widow of slain financier Ted Ammon has been interviewed by Suffolk County homicide detectives, The Post has learned. The lawyer representing Generosa Ammon confirmed she has spoken with the...
JUDGE 'ALTARS' THE RULES FOR HOMELESS AT CHURCH
Homeless people can sleep on the steps of a Midtown church - but not on the sidewalks around it, a federal judge ruled yesterday. The closely watched decision came as...
AMBUSH: GREEN BERET IS 1ST U.S. COMBAT DEATH
America suffered its first combat casualty in Afghanistan yesterday when an elite Army Green Beret - whose parents didn't even know he was in Afghanistan - was ambushed and killed...
TERRORIST TWOSOME OURS; OMAR SURROUNDED
WASHINGTON - Pakistan has agreed to turn over to the United States the Taliban's former ambassador to that country and has given up one of the "top 20" al Qaeda...
FLYNT SEEKING NAKED TRUTH
Porn potentate Larry Flynt was in federal court yesterday fighting for his Hustler magazine's right to get a firsthand look at the Afghanistan front - and he didn't mean just...
SOLDIERS MIGHT HAVE TERROR TITAN OMAR CORNERED
WASHINGTON - One-eyed Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is cornered in the mountains of Afghanistan near Baghran where Afghan and U.S. troops are closing in, Afghan officials claimed yesterday. Some...
DEVILS NOT LETTING MADDEN DO THINGS HE DOES BEST
RALEIGH - His crucial specialty is being utterly unused, but that's only partially how sparkplug John Madden is being underutilized. Those are major blunders for a Devils team that needs...
BLAKE'S BECOME MORE THAN A PEST
It's been a good week for American-born goal scorers. Dallas' Mike Modano scored his 400th NHL goal, only the fourth American to do so, joining Joe Mullen, Pat LaFontaine and...
BIG TEST FOR D'COACH
Trainer Shug McGaughey hasn't run a horse in the Kentucky Derby since his entry of Easy Goer and Awe Inspiring finished 2-3 in 1989, but already this year he has...
THERE'S NO NEED TO RUSH ERIC BACK
PITTSBURGH - This isn't so much about erring on the side of caution as it is about using common sense. Which is to say that even if Eric Lindros is...
SACKS AND THE CITY : GASTINEAU VISITING TO WATCH STRAHAN CHASE HISTORY
HE WILL gaze out at the old familiar field of dreams where 17 seasons ago he terrorized quarterbacks like no one else ever had, and the flashbacks will start rushing...
MARCUS, JAX SEE BETTER DAYS AHEAD
The Knicks had been waiting for this raw piece of emotion from Don Chaney since he took over a month ago. And it came flowing out during a timeout Thursday...
BCS FOULED UP BOWLING SEASON
THERE is a difference between March Madness and December Dementia. Nobody cares about the latter. This is the poison which the BCS has injected into college football. It has made...
STORM LOOKING FOR SOME 'O'
When you're 11th in the league in scoring, there's only one thing that can be cause for optimism. Prepare to face the team that's last in the league in defense....
WELLS PASSES PHYSICAL
Boomer is officially back with the Yankees. The new David Wells passed his physical yesterday and will be welcomed back into Yankee Pinstripes on Monday at a press conference at...
SEASON'S ON LINE AS JETS FLY WEST FOR CRUCIAL FINALE
The Jets departed New York after yesterday's practice, heading for Oakland and the most important game of their season. Tomorrow's crucial tilt against the Raiders could be either the defining...
SOME GIANTS FACING LAST HURRAH
Lomas Brown is 38 years old and knows the Giants have to consider replacing him at left tackle. "They would be wise to start looking into that," Brown said. "That's...
METS SET TO OPEN VAULT FOR GONZO
Fred Wilpon has heard the request, and Steve Phillips has been given the conditional green light. The vault is open, the final hurdle cleared. The $95 million budget that Wilpon...
FLAGRANT KENYON FACING ANOTHER BAN AS NETS FALL
Losing a game will be the least of the Nets' worries. They're probably going to lose Kenyon Martin for at least one game, if not more, following his second flagrant...
MCGRADY TALL ORDER FOR NETS
NET NOTES Byron Scott had a very simple one for his game plan against Orlando's Tracy McGrady last night. "Throw everybody at him, plus the kitchen sink," Scott said. And...
SCOTT MAKES HIS POINT ON ADDING BACKUP GUARD
The Nets have been looking, are looking and no doubt will continue looking for a backup point guard, one who can push the ball in those excruciating minutes when reality...