January 17, 2002
IVANA DOWNTOWN CONDO FOR MY KIDS
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amUPTOWN girl Ivana Trump is looking for some Downtown real estate. Sources say they saw the beehive-haired socialite with broker in tow, checking out SoHo area condos with multimillion-dollar price...
CITI WILL HAVE TO 'FESS UP TO LOAN PROBLEMS
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amTODAY we find out how badly Citigroup has been hurt by Argentina, Enron and all the other little nuisances going on in the banking world. And while analysts say they...
DOW SINKS 211 ON LOUSY PROFITS - AMD, INTEL & BANK EARNINGS FALL SHORT
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThe stock market plummeted on poor corporate profits and concerns the U.S. will take a long time to recover from this economic downturn. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 211.88...
FINGERED BY SEC - BUT TRUMP BEATS FINE IN ACCOUNTING PROBE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission slapped down Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts for violating its anti-fraud provisions, but with a limp wrist. The SEC concluded its first-ever investigation into so-called...
NERVOUS INVESTORS DUMP TROUBLED KMART
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amKmart continued to unravel yesterday, with the company's shares plunging 34.7 percent as the markets waited for word on whether the retailer will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The stock...
CPAS RACE TO DO MAJOR DAMAGE CONTROL
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThe heat is on scandalized Arthur Andersen, and the Big Five accounting giant is scrambling to keep its tony clients and best employees in the fold. To manage the public...
TOP EXEC AT FT'S U.S. UNIT OUSTED
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThe top business executive at the pink paper has been handed a pink slip. The Financial Times is searching for a new president to head its United States operations, a...
RUNNING FOR COVER - ANDERSEN BOSSES RACE TO SAVE SKIN AMID ITS COLLAPSE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amA shield made of 800 lawyers and $1 billion is being thrown up around the bosses at embattled Arthur Andersen. The executives running the global accounting firm at the center...
CABLEVISION'S DOLAN STRIKES OUT IN DEAL FOR RED SOX
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amCablevision chief Chuck Dolan appears to have struck out in his last-minute effort to buy the Boston Red Sox. Despite Dolan's sweetened bid that's $90 million higher than a rival...
ANDERSEN RACES TO DO DAMAGE CONTROL
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThe heat is on scandalized Arthur Andersen and the Big Five accounting giant is scrambling to keep its tony clients and best employees in the fold. To manage the public...
MOLLY BOWLES 'EM OVER
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amCABARET []Roundabout Theater Company at Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, (212) 239-6200. -------- IT is a very happily - and naughtily - reinvigorated "Cabaret,"...
STARR REPORT
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amWill 'Enterprise' trek into gay territory? "Enterprise" star Scott Bakula (Capt. Archer) is speaking out about the dearth of gay characters (how about none?!) on all five "Star Trek" series....
NO MORE SEX: ZAHN
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amPASADENA, Calif. - I'm no "flavor of the month," says CNN anchor Paula Zahn - who yesterday broke her silence on the embarassing flap over her own network promoting on...
'CHAMBER' HORROR
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amIT was only a matter of time - but it appears that a contestant on the controversial new game show "The Chamber" has been hurt in only its first week...
IT'S A SUPER PAUL; MCCARTNEY MUSIC MVP AT FOX'S BIG GAME
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amPAUL McCartney will perform live during next month's Super Bowl - adding unprecedented superstar wattage to TV's biggest annual event. McCartney will perform an anthem called "Freedom" to commemorate those...
KING TUT: MURKY MYSTERY OF LARRY'S SALARY: WHO LEAKED A LIE?
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amIF Larry King was the one who puffed up his new salary and then leaked that false information to the press, then alarm bells should be ringing all over CNN....
PAINTING AWAY PAIN
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amLIKE many New Yorkers, multimedia artist John Planas -best known for his hand-painted Absolut bottles -went in and out of a surreal slumber post-Sept. 11. He chose to ease the...
NO MORE MR. NICE GUY: ROBIN WILLIAMS TELLS THE POST WHY HE'S DEVELOPING A NEW IMAGE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah Forget Patch Adams. Robin Williams is developing his dark side as a dangerously obsessed camera-lab technician in the creepy "One Hour Photo," which is playing well here...
'ARCH' ENEMY IS INDICTED - SHOE-BOMB JAIL TERM WOULD NEVER WEAR OUT
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amSuspected shoe bomber Richard Reid is facing more than four lifetimes in jail after a grand jury charged him with trying to use a weapon of mass destruction to blow...
EVIDENCE PULLED FROM WTC RUINS BAGS 37 IN DRUG CASE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amA massive drug probe, nearly ruined after the Customs Service office in the World Trade Center was destroyed, ended successfully yesterday when 37 suspects were rounded up in an international...
HATS OFF TO CITY'S HS SCIENCE WINNERS
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThirty-six city high-school students - including 15 from Stuyvesant HS - were awarded $1,000 semifinal prizes yesterday in the Intel Science Talent Search contest. Stuyvesant kids won nearly half the...
MONEYBAGS MAYOR: IT'S MY DOUGH
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday vigorously defended paying $850,000 in bonuses to campaign staffers on New Year's Eve by declaring: "Well, it was my money." Bloomberg's latest campaign filing shows he wrote...
BLOOMY PUSHING CROWN HTS. APPEAL
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amA push for the Justice Department to appeal a ruling tossing the convictions of two men in the Crown Heights riot killing of Yankel Rosenbaum got a powerful boost yesterday...
SETBACK FOR MCCALL AS B'KLYN POL BACKS CUOMO
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - State Comptroller Carl McCall's gubernatorial campaign suffered another defection yesterday as Brooklyn Assemblywoman Diane Gordon backed Andrew Cuomo. Gordon, who like McCall is black, called former federal Housing...
U.S. GETS A FIX ON OSAMA'S $$ - DRUG-DEALER WARLORD RATS ON AL QAEDA
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - American spy masters were "jumping with joy" last night after a shadowy druglord walked up to the gates of a U.S. Marine base in Kandahar and began spilling...
ARAB MAN, MISTAKEN AS JEW, SLAIN IN W. BANK
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces tightened their grip on West Bank towns yesterday and arrested nine suspected terrorists after another Israeli was killed in the West Bank. But authorities said the...
HERE'S THE LITTLE DOUGH GIRL
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amMeet Kirk Kerkorian's multimillion-dollar baby. She's 3-year-old Kira, seen here with mom Lisa Bonder Kerkorian, who this week stunned her billionaire ex-hubby by demanding $320,000 a month in child support....
HEALTH PLAN NEEDS DO$E OF FED TLC
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - A key element of Gov. Pataki's controversial health-care initiative faces an "uphill battle" in Congress, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer warned yesterday. Pataki and the Legislature...
MONEYBAGS SCHUMER GIVES BACK BUCKS
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday returned Enron's campaign contributions, joining a growing number of lawmakers racing to give back the company's money. With the Enron scandal mushrooming, Schumer (D-N.Y.)...
9/11 ATTACK DEMOLISHED PROPERTY-TAX BASE, TOO
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThe city will take a whopping $200 million hit in property taxes this year because of the Sept. 11 attacks. The massive drop in the World Trade Center's value is...
HOLES IN NEW LUGGAGE SCREEN
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amA slew of measures for screening all checked airline baggage for explosives take effect tomorrow - but there's no guarantee they'll thwart a committed terrorist, experts say. "This is by...
LIZZIE SUFFERS ANOTHER LEGAL REVERSE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amIt's a brand new year with the same old problems for Lizzie Grubman. The publicity princess was blindsided with yet another lawsuit yesterday stemming from her Hamptons smashup last summer,...
HERALD SQ. CRASH KIN HINTING AT $50M SUIT
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThe family of one of the seven people killed in the Herald Square van crash last month put the city on notice yesterday of a potential $50 million lawsuit related...
RAT RATTLES PARENTS BY NIXING LAWYER
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Justice officials said yesterday they're puzzled that American rat John Walker rejected a lawyer and voluntarily admitted to fighting with the Taliban against the United States. Walker's parents...
A LIBERAL DOSE OF LUNACY IN THE NAME OF DIVERSITY
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amTHE political correctness of this year, 2002, is about to make me puke. This limousine liberals' approach to ethnicity divides, it does not unify. And in dividing, it conquers. The...
HOSPITAL GAS MIX-UP KILLS TWO
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amTwo women died at a Connecticut hospital after they were accidentally given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen, hospital officials said yesterday. Both were undergoing cardiac catheterizations at the Hospital of...
LOTTO WINNER MUST SHARE LOOT WITH EX
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman has a Lotto to be happy about - a jury ordered her ex-boyfriend to give her $3.2 million from the jackpot. Ivymay Johnson, 51, and Derman Spence,...
RUDY TOOK 'ACTION!' ON LAST DAY - SIGNED LAST-MINUTE DEAL FOR S.I. MOVIE STUDIO
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amFormer Mayor Rudy Giuliani squeezed in another last-minute deal on his final day, approving a Staten Island movie studio backed by his pal, actor Danny Aiello, it was revealed yesterday....
PALS CALL 'AIDS THIEF' SAINT JOHN
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThey say he paid for their AIDS medications and hospital stays. He promoted their careers. When eviction notices were tacked to their doors, he footed the tab for their back...
MAC ACES TV RIVALS IN RATINGS RACE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amWatch out, Regis. Tennis tyrant John McEnroe hit a grand slam Tuesday night as the host of ABC's new torture-TV game show, "The Chair." The show - in which contestants...
MAN KILLED IN RUSH AT COPS
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amA crazed man armed with a kitchen knife and a sharp metal hook was shot dead yesterday afternoon after he charged cops on a Brooklyn street. Police said he had...
RING OF LOVE: AMAZED PALS HAIL MIRACLE RELIC FOUND AMID WTC RUBBLE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amAmong the relics found in the ruins of the World Trade Center was a simple designer silver ring worn as a symbol of enduring friendship among celebrity friends. It is...
BODY-HUNT IN '81 S.I. KIDNAP
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amCold-case detectives bulldozed a Staten Island back yard yesterday, looking for the body of a 7-year-old girl who disappeared in 1981. But they found only pig and dog bones, police...
COUNCIL SPEAKER 'SPOILS' QUEENS COLLEAGUES
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amDespite all the talk of reform, it was politics as usual yesterday when Council Speaker Gifford Miller doled out the bulk of committee chairmanships to Queens members who backed his...
SECURITY SCRAMBLE AFTER HS SHOOTING
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amNew York City schools were put on red alert yesterday in the wake of the Martin Luther King HS shooting, as evidence mounted that students' safety at the troubled Upper...
KIN DEMAND NOTHING BUT A MEMORIAL
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amDefiant relatives of Sept. 11 victims vowed yesterday to fight to set aside the entire World Trade Center site for a memorial to the terror dead. "That site, the 16...
MONICA: I HATE BEING DIRTY JOKE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amPASADENA - An emotional Monica Lewinsky choked back tears yesterday when asked about her role as national punch line - but said a healthy sense of humor has been her...
JUDGE NIXES PORNOGRAPHER'S PLEAS FOR COURT-US INTERRUPTUS
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn judge put the screws to Screw magazine's Al Goldstein yesterday when he told the porn king he's going to trial on harassment charges, whether he likes it or...
FIRE BOSS TRIES TO SCULPT STATUE SOLUTION
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amFDNY boss Nicholas Scoppetta will meet today with the man who commissioned a controversial statue, FDNY officials said yesterday, as the flap over the possible tribute raged on. Mayor Bloomberg...
COPS PUSH LIE TEST FOR FATHER OF SLAIN WRITER
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amMassachusetts police have again questioned an ex-prostitute in the death of Christa Worthington - and a new report says detectives want to give the slain fashion writer's father a lie-detector...
TROUBLED ANT IN BUGHOUSE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amForgotten '80s pop star Adam Ant has been locked up in a mental hospital in London after being busted twice in three days - once for whipping out a gun...
BX. BOTANICAL GARDEN CLEANS UP ITS ACT
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amState Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday blamed pollution of the Bronx River on a different kind of "greenhouse effect." He said the New York Botanical Garden had dumped up to...
L.I. GYM TEACHER MOLESTED KIDS: COPS
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amA male Long Island teacher has been charged with sexually molesting seven young girls during gym classes in front of other students in the past year at an elementary school...
HOSPITAL GAS MIX-UP KILLS 2 PATIENTS
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amA mistake at a Connecticut hospital killed two elderly women after they were accidentally given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen, hospital officials said yesterday. Both women were undergoing cardiac catheterizations...
SALOMON BIG OWES US $20M: BANK SUIT
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amA top executive at Salomon Smith Barney allegedly made more than $160 million of his own money disappear, court papers charge. Officials at the Bank of New York say in...
'ARCH' ENEMY IS INDICTED: SHOE-BOMB JAIL TERM WOULD NEVER WEAR OUT
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amSuspected shoe bomber Richard Reid is facing more than four lifetimes in jail after a grand jury charged him with trying to use a weapon of mass destruction to blow...
MILLENNIUM PLOTTER GETS 24 YEARS
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amA smiling Algerian terrorist was slammed with the maximum 24-year sentence yesterday in Manhattan federal court for his role in a failed al Qaeda plot to bomb Los Angeles International...
NEW SHRED OF EVIDENCE FROM ENRON-CASE AUDITOR
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amAn Arthur Andersen auditor fired for destroying documents in the Enron Corp. scandal told congressional investigators yesterday he was just following the advice of the accounting firm's lawyers. Andersen partner...
NEW TEAM BUSH TANGLE IN ENRON'S $$ DEBACLE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThe Enron Corp. whistle-blower who warned higher-ups that the energy giant's shady accounting could ignite a major scandal also told an auditor at Arthur Andersen about her concerns, it was...
ONE MORE LOSS, CHANEY MUST GO ; MR. NICE GUY TOES THE FIRING LINE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amBOSTON - If the Knicks can't break their losing streak Saturday night in Philadelphia, GM Scott Layden must break ties with Don Chaney. There never has been a bad word...
'SPOON SAYS HE'S NOT READY
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES BOSTON - Call him Mr. Durability. That's what GM Scott Layden cited as one of Clarence Weatherspoon's greatest attributes in July when they handed him a five-year, $27...
JACKETS ZIP ROTTEN RANGERS: NOW IT'S EIGHT GOALS IN EIGHT GAMES
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amBlue Jackets 2 Rangers 0 COLUMBUS - Closeness doesn't count when the puck is heavier to lift than a horseshoe and being passed on the power play like a live...
KNICKS DROP 6TH STRAIGHT
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amCeltics 101 Knicks 100 BOSTON - The Knicks played hurt and played hard and it wasn't enough. It's never enough during the desolate Don Chaney era because it's always something....
RONDELL'S RIDE ; YANKEES' WHITE LONG WAY FROM GRAY, GA.
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Jason Briley of Gray, Ga., got a chuckle out of the coincidence. A reporter from New York was on the phone asking him questions about native son Rondell White...
FOX HAS COMPANY IN CAROLINA
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amJohn Fox interviewed Tuesday for the vacant Panthers head-coaching position, and although he's believed to be a serious candidate, he will have to fight off stiff competition. Jets defensive coordinator...
THIS STRAHAN HONOR NO GIFT ; JINT SACKMASTER TOPS ON DEFENSE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThe last sack, the record-breaking one, may have been a cheapie given up by Brett Favre, but the fact that Michael Strahan put together a sensational season for the Giants...
DEVS GET KAMENSKY ... AND DANEYKO RUMOR HEATS UP
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThis wasn't the blockbuster the Devils are expecting, the big deal that could follow tonight's Showdown of the Low-Down with the Rangers. The Devils remain on alert, even after yesterday's...
ISLES ADD NEW FACES FOR SHARKS
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amThe Islanders yesterday signed Kip Miller - younger brother of assistant coach Kelly Miller - and veteran Ted Donato to free-agent contracts for the rest of the season. Both are...
TUNA'S ACTS OF PIRACY - WILL LAND SOME JETS IN TAMPA
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amWith Bill Parcells now assembling his Buccaneers' staff from his personal headquarters in Sea Girt, N.J., before it's even been made official that he'll take over in Tampa, the Jets...
HE WON'T VIN THIS ONE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amDon't count on Bill Parcells wresting Vinny Testaverde away from the Jets the way he slipped Curtis Martin out from under Bob Kraft's unsuspecting nose in New England. Testaverde is...
SJU SLATES UCLA GAME NEXT YEAR
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amCHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - St. John's and UCLA, two of the most stories programs in NCAA basketball history, have agreed to rekindle their rivalry, several sources have told The Post....
EAGLE NEST TOUGH STOP FOR STORM
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amCHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - This had become a terrible place for opposing teams to play, even in basketball. The Conte Forum, home to perennial hockey power Boston College, was gaining...
VALENTIN COULD KO ZEILE DEAL
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amJohn Valentin may now be the unwitting X-factor of the Mets' master plan. The Mets need Colorado in a three-way trade that would land them Milwaukee outfielder Jeromy Burnitz and...
METS LAND ASTACIO : RIGHT-HANDER AGREES TO PACT
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amA $10 million payday awaits new Met Pedro Astacio. All he has to do is pitch despite a torn labrum in his right shoulder and anchor the starting rotation for...
SCOTT: WIN CAME ON PERFECT STAGE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES Byron Scott knew it would come. He just didn't know the Nets' victory that equaled last season's entire total of 26 would arrive in such a perfect setting...
MESS TO ERIC: STEP BACK UP
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amCOLUMBUS - It's not easy these days being Eric Lindros. The recovery from another, albeit mild, concussion inhibits his abandon while his team's losses pile up recklessly. The Rangers have...
TRAGEDY STRIKES CARDOZO CAGERS
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amTifford Gibbs was supposed to be helping Cardozo knock off Boys & Girls yesterday in a key PSAL matchup. Instead, he was in Maryland, where his father, former Cardozo hoopster...
TAKE AIR OUT OF WASHINGTON WITH 44-POINT ROMP
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amNets 111Wizards 67 The sellout crowd, the first of the Net season, came out to see the greatest ever, Michael Jordan. So the Nets were once again the undercard in...
KIDD SHOWS MJ WHO'S MVP
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amTHIS was the Nets' Perfect Storm. Riding the wave of Jason Kidd's flowing talents, they sent Michael Jordan and the Wizards to the bottom of the NBA ocean last night...
HEY, NO KIDD-ING, JASON FOR MVP
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES Ask coaches such as Doc Rivers or the obviously slanted Byron Scott who the MVP of the league so far is and the answer is simple: Jason Kidd...
'SPOON NOT QUITE READY TO HIT COURT
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES BOSTON - Call him Mr. Durability. That's what GM Scott Layden cited as one of Clarence Weatherspoon's greatest attributes in July when they handed him $27 million over...
NETS & WIZARDS PROVE TO BE NEWEST BEASTS OF THE EAST
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amJason Kidd watched the first quarter of the Wizards' home defeat to San Antonio Tuesday night before turning the TV off with a sinking feeling. Michael Jordan was shooting 0-of-5....
BREAKING THE CHANEY: KNICKS MUST MULL AXING COACH
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amBOSTON - If the Knicks can't break their losing streak by the weekend, GM Scott Layden must break ties with Don Chaney. There has never been a bad word said...
CELTICS DEEP SIX DON'S DREARY CREW
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amCeltics 101 Knicks 100 BOSTON - The Knicks played hurt and played hard but it wasn't enough. It's never enough during the desolate Don Chaney Era. Some opponent is always...
METS, ASTACIO AGREE ON DEAL
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amShaking off the disappointments of losing out on Juan Gonzalez and Gary Sheffield, the Mets reached agreement on a one-year deal last night with free-agent righthander Pedro Astacio. Astacio reportedly...
VALENTIN SIGNING COULD KO THREE-WAY TRADE
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amWith Pedro Astacio the newest Met, John Valentin is now the unlikely fulcrum of the club's master plan. The former Red Sox infielder could indirectly have a hand in whether...
CAPTAIN TO LINDROS: STEP BACK UP
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amCOLUMBUS - It's not easy these days being Eric Lindros. The recovery from another, albeit mild, concussion inhibits his abandon while his team's losses pile up recklessly. The Rangers had...
STORMS FACE TEST AT EAGLES' NEST
January 17, 2002 | 5:00amCHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - This had become a terrible place for opposing teams to play, even in basketball. The Conte Forum, home to perennial hockey power Boston College, was gaining...