January 16, 2002
W'CHESTER HAT TRICK FOR MSG
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amHOW do you get to Madison Square Garden? In this case, practice, practice, practice. By next fall, the Rangers, Knicks and Liberty should be handling dribbles and slap shots in...
SANDY PICKS HEIR - ROBERT WILLUMSTAD TAPPED AS CITI'S NO. 2
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amRising star Robert Willumstad was tapped as president of Citigroup, Inc. and is now heir apparent to run the nation's largest financial services company when Citigroup titan Sandy Weill retires....
VULTURES CIRCLING TAINTED ANDERSEN TO NAB ITS CLIENTS
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amBeleaguered Big Five accountant Arthur Andersen is on the ropes as competitors circle top-shelf clients and employees and billions of dollars in legal settlements loom. Yesterday Andersen fired a top...
CANDIE'S IS MAD ABOUT 'SEX'
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amDon't be ashamed of your Candies. The controversial shoe maker came out swinging yesterday after its shoes were ridiculed on HBO's smash hit "Sex and the City." In the episode...
THERE'S BAD BUZZ AT TALK
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amSPECULATION is rampant inside Talk that funding from the Hearst half of the joint venture will cease at the end of the first quarter - March 31. With the clock...
GRUNTAL NEARS SALE - DEAL WITH PACIFIC LIFE ESTIMATED AT $60M
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amAfter eluding a deal for years, Gruntal & Co. may finally get sold. Gruntal, one of the nation's oldest independent regional brokerage houses, is close to a deal to be...
ZIFF DAVIS DODGES BOND DEBT DEFAULT
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThe banks cut troubled Ziff Davis some slack, allowing Willis Stein to pump enough money for the company to meet its $15 million interest payment on a $250 million bond...
KMART FALLS AS FRANTIC BOARD MEETS
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amKmart's stock continued to fall yesterday, as it board met and tried frantically to come up with a way to save the company. Wall Street is losing patience with the...
KMART'S ON EDGE - BOARD LOOKS FRANTICALLY FOR A SOLUTION
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amKmart's stock continued to fall yesterday, as it board met and tried frantically to come up with a way to save the company. Wall Street is losing patience with the...
DOIN' IT UP BROWN
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amWHAT has a big white cowboy hat, an awful dirt-brown suit and seven fingers on each hand? Honky-tonk crooner Junior Brown. Brown wasn't much to look at during his performance...
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amTHE FAREWELL [] A day in the life of Bertolt Brecht. In German, with English subtitles. Running time: 91 minutes. Not rated (sex, nudity). At the Film Forum, Houston Street,...
WE 'SMELL' TROUBLE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amCHICAGO - "You go on the road to get a progress report. We got a B-minus and now we've got to get it to an A." Give Marty Bell, the...
HE'S NO SAINT - WHAT TONIGHT'S SPECIAL ON CBS DOESN'T REVEAL ABOUT CHAMP ALI AT 60; A PERSONAL VIEW BY THE POST'S BOXING COLUMNIST WALLACE MATTHEWS
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amA COUPLE of years ago, when he was just beginning his latest incarnation as America's Favorite Invalid, Muhammad Ali told me a hilariously profane joke about Allah that no doubt...
CARMEN AND SEE HER
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amFORMER "Baywatch" beauty Carmen Electra is establishing a beach head in syndication. Electra (pictured left) is reportedly being considered for two fall projects, one an NBC-produced show called "B.A.I.T." and...
STARR REPORT
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amOn the Daljit beat: She's looking for work British news anchor Daljit Dhaliwal, one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People," has quit ITN and is looking for a job -...
TELL RUDY YOU'RE SORRY
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amAn open letterto Jay Leno: Dear Jay, Instead of being your usual phony-baloney self - acting like you love everybody and making silly jokes all the time - why don't...
GORY GLORY HALLELUJAH
January 16, 2002 | 5:00am"Glory Days" [ ] Tonight on WPIX/Ch. ll at 9 ----- IF you are a teenager, particularly if you are a girl teenager, have I got a show for you:...
TRYING HARD IN TRYING TIMES
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amTouché 306-308 E. Sixth St. (between First and Second avenues) (212) 979-8787 TOUCHÉ is not an Indian restaurant. This alone makes it stand out on East Sixth Street, the East...
TAN DO!
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amTanDa 331 Park Ave. S. (212) 253-8400 IF you're over 35, clip and save the following tips for TanDa, the entertaining pan-Asian duplex restaurant launched by the former Moomba partners:...
PREMATURE EVALUATION
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amARE some critics using a crystal ball or just guessing? Every other month, The Shuttle Sheet - a little info guide strategically placed at every passenger seat on the Delta...
TAINTED LOVE : SUNDANCE ABUZZ OVER THESE EDGY ROMANTIC COMEDIES
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - Two controversial comedies about taboo love - an affair between a 15-year-old boy and his stepmom's best friend, and a sorority girl's seduction of a severely...
THE CELEBRATED 'ROOTS' OF A LIE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amON Friday, NBC will air a special commemorating the 25th anniversary of the landmark miniseries based on Alex Haley's book "Roots." Ironically, the original series aired on ABC - but...
BACK TO SCHOOL FOR 'WINDOWS' CHEF
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amSuper chef Michael Lomonaco - who lost his famous Windows on the World restaurant in the Twin Towers attacks - is returning to his alma mater to teach this spring....
LAPP NAMED MTA DIRECTOR
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amState criminal-justice director Katherine Lapp yesterday was appointed the new executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority by MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow. Lapp is expected to be approved by the...
BLOOMY PLANS BIG BASH FOR MLK DAY
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg has scheduled a major event at City Hall for Martin Luther King Day as part of a "very ambitious" plan to honor the slain civil-rights leader, a senior...
STATE EDUCATION BOSS SAYS LEVY'S A CLASS ACT
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThe state education boss yesterday gave Schools Chancellor Harold Levy a thumbs-up as Mayor Bloomberg and the Board of Education consider whether to save his job. "I think Harold Levy...
RED TAPE SNARLS L.I. ADOPT COUPLE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amA group of heartbroken adoptive American parents, including a couple from Long Island and an upstate minister, have been stranded in Vietnam with their new children because the U.S. government...
RUDY INC. TAKES ON THE WORLD
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amRudy Giuliani is taking his management skills global to help foreign governments, the former mayor said in his first interview about life after City Hall. The primary focus of his...
CHILD-KILLER STEINBERG NIXED IN 5TH PAROLE BID
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Convicted child-killer Joel Steinberg lost his fifth attempt at parole yesterday for the 1987 beating death of his adopted daughter, Lisa. Steinberg, 60, sought release from a state...
MAN JAILED IN TICKET BOTCH SUES CITY
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amA Manhattan businessman locked up for 15 hours because of a traffic-ticket glitch filed a federal lawsuit against the city yesterday. Dominick Russo, 44, was jailed after being pulled over...
STUDY: APPLE'S A ROTTEN PLACE TO BE HOMELESS
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amNew York City is just plain "mean" to its homeless population - and will hassle and arrest vagrants instead of offering them shelter, a new study has found. More than...
CHANDRA PROBE IS HOT AGAIN
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A federal grand-jury investigation into the disappearance of Chandra Levy has intensified in recent weeks - and the conduct of Rep. Gary Condit is a growing focus of...
B'KLYN BEEP DUMPS PIC OF 'OLD WHITE MAN' GEORGE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThe new Brooklyn borough president said "diversity" is making him take down a portrait of "old white man" George Washington that's hung in the office for years. Brooklyn Beep Marty...
FLIGHT 587 PROBERS HIT THE JUNKYARD
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amInvestigators searching for answers to the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 are now scouring junkyards. After two months of examining wind turbulence, suspicious rudder movements and tail design, officials...
NON-PAYMENT STOPS THE PRESS AT 'JUNIOR' GOTTI'S CELL
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - John "Junior" Gotti no longer finds the local paper outside his cell every morning - it canceled his subscription for non-payment. Gotti, residing in the federal lockup in...
KABUL CHIC - FASHIONISTAS HAIL NEW AFGHAN LEADER AS RISING SARTORIAL STAR ON WORLD STAGE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amHamid Karzai, Afghanistan's interim leader and a highly unlikely fashion plate, has been cited as the most elegant man on earth by one of the most influential designers in the...
JUDGE TOSSES PILOT EVIDENCE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amIn a blow to prosecutors' case against an alleged phony Egyptian pilot, jurors won't know about the homemade pilot's uniform and posters of plane cockpits Wael Kishk carried on a...
38G BUYS DINNER WITH SIZZLING STAR
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amA lucky California businessman has shelled out $38,000 for a candlelit dinner date with sexy actress Charlize Theron. Josh Judd won the opportunity to wine and dine the film star...
NEW SPEAKER HACKS AWAY AT COUNCIL MEMBERS' $$
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amCouncil Speaker Gifford Miller is slashing the stipends that City Council members get for participating in committees, a belt-tightening measure that also reduces his salary by 25 percent, The Post...
RAT KNEW SUICIDE SQUAD WAS HERE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Taliban rat John Walker, who was charged yesterday with helping terrorists, has admitted to federal investigators he learned in a terror camp last summer that Osama bin Laden...
BOARD EXEC'S ROLE IN 2ND STOX SCANDAL
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThe president of a renowned cancer hospital who came under scrutiny because he's on the board of Enron Corp. has ties to another embattled firm - a biotech company buffeted...
FLYING IN THE FACE OF JUSTICE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amWOULD you sit next to this guy on a cross-country flight? Call me a profiler. But I wouldn't fly with this character, Wael Abdel Rahman Kishk, if he were stored...
ANTHRAX PROBERS EYE N.J. COPIERS
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThe FBI has been comparing the four anthrax-laced letters mailed from Trenton to photocopies made on copy machines at two New Jersey colleges. Two agents arrived unannounced at the Waksman...
LAWSUITS MAY ADD $6.8B TO WTC TAB
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThe city could be facing more than 1,200 lawsuits related to the World Trade Center tragedy - with a dollar value of almost $7 billion, The Post has learned. Every...
BIG-BUCKS PATAKI MAKES DEM DUO LOOK LIKE SMALL CHANGE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo topped rival Carl McCall in campaign fund-raising by a 2-1 margin over the last six months - but Gov. Pataki came out way...
CAPTIVE COP'S NIGHTMARE - HELD AT GUNPOINT NEARLY FOUR HOURS
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amIt was only seconds, but it seemed like a lifetime to Detective Michael Ahearn. For three hours and 45 minutes, Ahearn stayed cool - lying on his left side as...
MOB PLOTTED 'BULL HIT'
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amSalvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano was a sitting duck in an Arizona jail, where fellow inmates with allegiance to the "Mexican Mafia" secretly plotted to kill the mob turncoat on a...
WTC STATUE MAY SOON BE FOTO-FINISHED
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThe owners of a photograph showing three firefighters raising an American flag amid the World Trade Center ruins are threatening legal action to prevent a bronze statue from being built...
'FRIENDS' STAR ANISTON JOLTED AS CAR RAMS HER JAGUAR
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amJennifer Aniston escaped serious injury yesterday when a vehicle broadsided her sports car on a busy Hollywood street. The sexy "Friends" star, who's married to Brad Pitt, suffered neck and...
DON'T OPEN GROUND 0 PS: PARENTS
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amParents of students at Battery Park City's PS 89 - which shut down in the aftermath of Sept. 11 - voted last night to oppose a Board of Ed plan...
PLO ARRESTS TERROR-SLAY BIG - BUT ISRAEL CALLS IT JUST ANOTHER 'CRACKDOWN' SHAM
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian police said yesterday they had arrested Ahmed Sadat, the leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who was wanted for planning the assassination...
2 SHOT AT M.L. KING HS - GUNMAN GOT PAST BUILDING'S 16 GUARDS
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amA gunman sneaked into Martin Luther King Jr. HS yesterday through a side door - evading 14 safety agents, two cops and metal-detectors - and shot and seriously wounded two...
CHARITY BEGAN AT HOME FOR 'ROBIN HOOD': PROBE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThe "Robin Hood" accused of embezzling a fortune - supposedly giving it to charity - was ordered held on $1 million bail yesterday amid questions about whether any of the...
MIKE'S 850G BONUS BABIES
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg doled out an eye-popping $850,000 in bonuses to 11 top campaign aides the day before he took office, according to records released last night. The checks, written from...
STADIUM DEAL BEANS MAYOR - SAYS RUDY NOT BALLPARK FRANK ABOUT LEASE DETAILS
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg revealed yesterday he was never told about key clauses in new Yankee and Met leases before then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani's administration inked the deals. Former Giuliani Deputy Mayor Robert...
GORE LAWYER'S FIRM AN OLD BOIES' CLUB, WOMEN CHARGE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amTop New York lawyer David Boies ran into some legal trouble of his own yesterday when two female attorneys sued him for alleged sexual discrimination, saying he runs an old-boys-club...
SHOCK TWIST IN FASHION-WRITER MURDER CASE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amA young woman grilled by cops last week in the murder of slain fashion writer Christa Worthington has a shocking secret in her past - she is a heroin-using, AIDS-infected...
MARINES DESTROY 'PHANTOM' TALI-BASE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. forces yesterday blew up an al Qaeda nest where terrorists were launching attacks on an American base - but the guerrillas had already fled as the war...
ENRON AUDITOR WILL SPILL BEANS
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amAn Arthur Andersen partner, fired for ordering the destruction of documents in the Enron Corp. scandal, will meet today with congressional investigators to be grilled about the energy giant's tangled...
KELLY PLANS CITY FORCE TO FIGHT TERROR
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Raymond Kelly will announce today that he's forming an anti-terrorism bureau fashioned after the federal Department of Homeland Security, sources said. Kelly is expected to appoint Frank Libutti,...
JUDGE GETS RAPPED OVER ETHICS RULES
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn judge linked to an explosive patronage scandal has been reprimanded for inserting himself in a legal tangle involving his co-op board, officials said yesterday. Judge Richard Huttner was...
THE $750M HANDSHAKE - GOV GIVES HEALTH WORKERS A BOO$T
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - The Legislature this morning passed a stunning $3.5 billion health-care plan that will boost health-care salaries while hiking cigarette taxes by 39 cents a pack. The plan, brokered...
'NORMAL DAY' AT WORK FOR WHISTLEBLOWER
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThe "courageous" Enron whistleblower whose blockbuster memo added fuel to the firestorm around the energy company's collapse spent yesterday where you'd least expect to find her - in her 46th-floor...
CANYON-CRASH VICTIM BACK IN N.Y.
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman - the sole survivor of a horrific helicopter crash that killed her husband and five others and left her near death - is making "a miraculous recovery,"...
HARRY LET PALS TURN POLICE CARS INTO BOOZER CRUISERS
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amPrince Harry turned the police force into a private taxi service for his boozed-up pals, forcing cops to drive them home after drinking sessions, it was reported yesterday. The young...
BRAVE CANYON COPTER CRASH VICTIM BACK HOME IN N.Y.
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman - the sole survivor of a horrific helicopter crash that killed her husband and five others and left her near death - is making "a miraculous recovery,"...
AUCTION WINNER PAYS 38G FOR DINNER DISH
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amA lucky California businessman has shelled out an astounding $38,000 for a candlelit dinner date with his favorite actress, Charlize Theron. Josh Judd won the opportunity to wine and dine...
'INNER' SECRETS REVEALED
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amAside from the speed bias that dominated much of the racing at Aqueduct last week, especially when the track was wet, one of the most important handicapping factors was a...
'GOLDEN' BOYS TOP GATEWAY FIELD
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amGOLD medalists Eric Bergoust and Jonny Moseley, fresh from World Cup victories over the past weekend, return to Lake Placid this weekend to headline the Gateway Freestyle Challenge, a stop...
FOX & COTTRELL GO HEAD-TO-HEAD
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThere may be an unusual competition brewing in Carolina for the Panthers' head coaching job. John Fox, the Giants' defensive coordinator, has already interviewed for the job and Ted Cottrell,...
RAFALSKI IS IN DEV DOGHOUSE
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThe Devils' benchings build, expanding from punishment for needless penalties to making examples of players who make mistakes. A good idea, a necessary step, is nearly getting out of hand....
IT'S GUT-CHECK TIME FOR SCHIZOID STORM
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amSHARIF Fordham turned off his television with about five minutes remaining in the Red Storm's 78-57 loss at Providence on Saturday. The St. John's co-captain didn't make the trip because...
BILL HAS ALL THE TRUMP CARDS
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amHe's sitting in the biggest catbird seat of all, gazing out the windows of his custom-built, pride-and-joy Sea Girt home on the Jersey Shore. From there, Bill Parcells has been...
LIGHTNING, CIGER ZAP DEVS IN OT
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amOVERTIME: Lightning 5 - Devils 4 Paralyzed, then energized, and ultimately vaporized, the Devils look as if they're playing their last games together. With rumblings rampant that Lou Lamoriello is...
SLUMP-RIDDEN RANGERS: WE'RE NOT PANICKING
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThe Rangers have seen this before. A prolonged winless streak spirals out of control and, before you know it, their playoff hopes are doomed. And although the team remains in...
CHANEY LEFT IN DARK ABOUT 'SPOON'S RETURN
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amIt's been just that kind of season for the slumping Knicks, that even their good news is clouded with doubt. Just when Clarence Weatherspoon was expected back for tonight's game...
HEY, SHAQ: YOU'RE A COWARD - BLINDSIDE PUNCH OF MILLER WAS REAL CRIME
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amFOR two days now, I have been wading through the numerous columns written about the attempted assault committed by Shaquille O'Neal the other night. There have been a ton of...
KNIGHT SET FOR KNEE SURGERY
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Travis Knight elected to have surgery on his right knee and is expected to miss six weeks. Knight tore his right lateral meniscus in last Tuesday's loss at...
ZEILE: I'D GO TO ROCKIES
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amTodd Zeile said he is very willing to go both a Mile High and back to the hot corner, a double approval that could trigger a three-way trade in which...
AIR BATTLE COULD BE HEADACHE FOR MARTIN
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES It's just a coincidence that forward Kenyon Martin missed yesterday's practice due to a migraine as the Nets prepared for tonight's visit from Michael Jordan. Right? Or maybe...
NETS PRIMED FOR JORDAN REMATCH
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThis is more important than answering why we are here. It goes beyond life and death. Secrets of the universe? Who cares? Hey, Michael Jordan is coming to town for...
STOMACH TURNER - NEW-LOOK METS FEEL SICK AFTER SHEFF TRADE TO BRAVES
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amA DREARY sky cast a pall over Flushing yesterday afternoon, and that was before the worst New York baseball news of the winter broke. The words "Gary Sheffield has been...
GM: SHEFFIELD DEAL SHIFTS POWER
January 16, 2002 | 5:00amThe general manager of a team not in the NL East said that before 4 p.m. yesterday he was predicting the Mets were going to unseat Atlanta and win the...