January 30, 2002
THE FEAR FACTOR - MARTS TANK ON SCANDALS, BAD EARNINGS
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amStocks plunged yesterday on fears that accounting scandals and corporate bankruptcies will continue to engulf big companies. Investors were also worried that economic recovery won't prop up corporate profits. The...
LIFE'S A BICE: 3RD EATERY IN YR. AT WOLF'S SITE
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amNuevo Latino pioneer Douglas Rodriguez is going to Midtown. The chef, along with the Bice Restaurant Group, is forming a partnership to bring his cuisine to the recently opened, and...
OVITZ SAYS UCLA CHECK IS IN THE MAIL
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amHollywood super agent Michael Ovitz says he's not in arrears in paying his $25 million pledge to his alma mater UCLA. Ovitz made his gift in 1997 to help build...
ABBOUD MAY BUY BACK DESIGN FIRM
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amValentino is not the only division of HdP with a suitor. Joseph Abboud, a division of Holding di Partecipazioni Industriali's Gruppo GFT, is looking to buy back the menswear designer...
TURNAROUND GURU IS NEW ENRON CEO
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amEnron yesterday named a corporate restructuring guru to steer it through the biggest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history. Stephen Cooper, the charismatic managing principal of New York-based Zolfo Cooper, will...
WILLIAMS COS. ENRON EFFECT
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe Enron effect wiped out almost one fourth of the share price of like-minded energy trader Williams Cos. yesterday. The Tulsa, Okla.-based rival to Enron said it would delay releasing...
ARTS CENTER SEEN AT WTC SITE
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amTHE New York City Opera is being courted to build a theater as part of the next incarnation of the World Trade Center site, sources have advised us. Both Trade...
ZOETROPE GOING TO FRISCO
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amFRANCIS Ford Coppola's award-winning Zoetrope: All Story magazine is laying off four magazine staffers as it pulls up roots in New York and moves into the Sentinel Building in San...
PNC FORCED TO RESTATE ITS EARNINGS
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amAnother auditor is getting tagged with helping its client hide bad news. PNC Financial Services Group yesterday was forced to restate its 2001 earnings by about $155 million after regulators...
RHONE HOME FOR A WARM RED WINE THIS WINTER
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amTHE mild winter is cheating New Yorkers out of a simple pleasure: a hearty meal and a big, warming red wine, as the snow falls outside. If it ever gets...
GIVE 'EM AN @ FOR EFFORT
January 30, 2002 | 5:00am@SQC [] 270 COLUMBUS AVE. (BETWEEN 72ND AND 73RD STREETS) (212) 579-0100 ---- THE city's most awkwardly named American bistro, @SQC, turns out the best $23 venison dish in town....
GETTING THE RING-AROUND
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amIt's not easy to get the 411 on @SQC. The trick to getting the number is dispensing with the @ - or look for SQC Food Production in the phone...
GO WILD OVER SHRIMP
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amFOR a wild time at your Super Bowl party, try some special shrimp.The Great Southern Shrimp Co. has been supplying New England's top chefs with wild American shrimp for almost...
FOR A SUPER 'BOWL OF RED'
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amFOR some, if there's no chili, it's not the Super Bowl. The just-out "Ultimate Chili Book" by Christopher B. O'Hara (Lyons Press) rounds up 30 traditional and creative recipes for...
A 'STAGGERING' CINEMA PROJECT
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amPROLIFIC producer Scott Rudin has taken on the job ofturning Dave Eggers' best-selling memoir, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," into a film. New Line Cinema, which bought the film...
'THE CHAMBER' IS SENT TO ITS ROOM
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amFOX'S "The Chamber" got a dose of TV reality - it's been shelved after only three episodes due to low viewership. Fox decided to yank "The Chamber" until a later...
WHAT ARE THESE KIDS THINKING? - EVEN SCIENCE CAN'T CRACK THE CODE OF 'TEENAGE BRAIN'
January 30, 2002 | 5:00am"Frontline: Inside The Teenage Brain" [ ] Tomorrow at 9 on WNET/Ch. 13 -------- WHAT happened when scientists were given grants to study the teenage brain? They learned startling facts...
PARTY GRAS! - HOW TO COOK UP A SPICY SUPER BOWL SUNDAY
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amSUPER Sunday is one of the year's biggest party days. And New Orleans is arguably the nation's No. 1 party town.Put them together this weekend, when the St. Louis Rams...
ENOUGH ALREADY WITH YOUR MOVE
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amNEW York 1's new look is so similar to the old one that you might not have realized New York 1 had moved into a brand-new studio unless they told...
LET'S DO A $20.02 LUNCH
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amWINTER Restaurant week is here with $20.02 lunch specials - but it's not always easy to get reservations. Here's what we found yesterday when we called around: * BOOKEDCafe BouludChanterelle...
SAG SKIPS NICOLE
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amNICOLE Kidman was snubbed yesterday as the Screen Actors Guild announced nominations for its annual awards, led by "A Beautiful Mind" and "In the Bedroom" with three apiece. The vote...
DIRECTOR LOOKS, LISTENS IN 'DOMESTIC VIOLENCE'
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amDOMESTIC VIOLENCE [] The latest documentary from a master. Running time: 196 minutes. Not rated (violence, profanity, sexual references). At Film Forum, Houston and Varick streets. ------ IN an era...
PAY FOR 'SPRAY' - SMALL CAMPY SHOW BLOWS UP INTO BIG PRODUCTION
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amA workshop last month of the musical "Hairspray" generated plenty of excitement in the theater world. Here was a new show with a snappy score, a funny book and lots...
OLYMPICS SEARCH FOR NEW HEROES
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amSPEED SKATING could turn out to be the surprise hit of the Salt Lake City Olympics. And the improbable household name of the Games? Apolo Ohno. Really. American speed skaters...
STARR REPORT
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe write stuff: Ch. 7 staffers vote on strike Members of the Writers Guild of America East will vote today on whether to authorize a strike at Ch. 7 -...
INTERNAL AFFAIRS COP SUSPENDED
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amIn a highly unusual move, a police Internal Affairs detective has been suspended from his job. The only reason given was that it's "for the good of the department," the...
TRAGIC DAY FOR PEDESTRIANS
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amA 61-year old man was killed in a Brooklyn hit-and-run, and a Bronx boy was left clinging to life in separate car accidents yesterday, police said. Giuseppe Pappa-Andre was struck...
EERIE ENCOUNTER WITH LADY BOMBER
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - The salesladies at Freimann and Bein, a shoe store on Jerusalem's busy Jaffa Road, remember the young Arab woman with a vacant look who walked in with a...
CHENEY'S RIGHT, BUT HE'LL LOSE
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amNO doubt President Bush and Vice President Cheney are on solid legal and principled footing in their adamant refusal to turn over information on Enron's White House contacts. But that...
NEW TARGET: A VILLAGE FULL OF AL QAEDA
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. and Afghan military forces are preparing to assault a newly formed al Qaeda stronghold in eastern Afghanistan where hundreds of hard-core terrorists are holed up. Afghan military...
COP WIDOW'S 'FRIENDLY FIRE' SUIT TOSSED
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge has thrown out a police widow's wrongful-death lawsuit against the NYPD for her hero husband's "friendly fire" death almost 14 years ago. Elizabeth McCormack had charged in...
STATE GETS NEW TERROR-ALERT SYSTEM
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday unveiled a rapid "counterterrorism network" designed to alert hundreds of local police departments to possible terrorism threats. James Kallstrom, Pataki's director of the Office of...
ARROGANT IMBECILES BITE HANDS THAT FEED THE POOR
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amYOU want to look in the eyes of these little radicals as they rail against capitalism, militarism, deregulation and Bill Gates, and yell: Get a job! Overwhelmingly white, well-fed and...
FOX CLEANS CNN'S CLOCK IN ALL-DAY NEWS BATTLE
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe Fox News Channel is now the undisputed king of cable news. FNC broke records across the board in January, beating its competitors in total viewers in both prime time...
BUBBA WILL HOST N.Y. DEMS BASH
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amFormer President Bill Clinton will be hosting a $1 million Manhattan fund-raiser for congressional Democrats in March, The Post has learned. It will be only the second major fund-raiser Clinton...
LAWSUIT BIDS TO TRUMP STATE'S CASINO PLANS
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Opponents of legalized gambling yesterday filed a long-awaited lawsuit to block the creation of six Indian-run casinos and other betting initiatives approved by the state last year. The...
CUNY TO SOLICIT PRIVATE $$
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amCity University will pass the hat to raise millions of dollars in private donations to help fund its 20 campuses, officials said yesterday. It's the first time CUNY is conducting...
PA FIENDS' HANDS IN 9/11 TILL: DA
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amThey escaped the World Trade Center attack safely, and never missed a paycheck - but that didn't stop 12 more Port Authority workers from stealing some $20,000 in charity aid,...
PEACEFUL OVERTURES - $UMMIT PROTESTERS SAY THEY DON'T PLAN VIOLENCE
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amProtesters set to converge on the World Economic Forum insisted yesterday their rallies will be peaceful, even while the NYPD, citing violence and vandalism that has plagued similar meetings, continued...
TIME FOR A BREAK: RAMIREZ QUITTING AS BRONX DEM BOSS
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amAfter leading Bronx Democrats for seven years, Roberto Ramirez announced yesterday he was stepping down and taking a break from politics. "If I don't leave now, I will never leave....
RAY OF HOPE FOR HOMELESS SIBS
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe odyssey of two homeless schoolgirls bounced from school to school will be investigated in the City Council, where some members yesterday urged Mayor Bloomberg to throw out Giuliani-era policies....
'STRAPHARANGUERS' RIP GAS-GUZZLING CITY HALL STAFF
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg is winning raves for taking the subway to work like any average Mike - and now, his top officials should follow in his tracks, community groups say. But...
BRAVE FACE - WTC 'MIRACLE' SURVIVOR LEAVES HOSP BURN UNIT
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amWith her clothes burned to her skin and her hair still smoldering, World Trade Center blast victim Elaine Duch lay down and heard the priest read her the last rites....
RUDY LOOKING FOR $20M TO PAY FOR 'GIULIANI CENTER'
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amFormer Mayor Giuliani wants to raise a hefty $20 million to fund an extensive library and urban center at a "leading" city university, an aide revealed yesterday. Saul Cohen, president...
PATH REBUILD PLAN ON THE FAST TRACK
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amTaking the first step toward rebuilding lower Manhattan since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Port Authority officials will meet tomorrow to award a $300 million contract for the reconstruction of...
STATE GOP SENATORS FORM OWN WTC PANEL
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amState Senate Republicans, miffed over being excluded from panels overseeing the World Trade Center redevelopment, created their own oversight panel yesterday. Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Rensselaer) said his new Task...
REOPEN DATE SET FOR PS 89
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amPS 89 in Battery Park City near the World Trade Center disaster site will reopen on Feb. 28, Schools Chancellor Harold Levy and parents announced yesterday after weeks of acrimonious...
GREEN LIGHT FOR COUNCIL RIP AT RUDY
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amCity Council Speaker Gifford Miller is giving a resolution condemning former Mayor Rudy Giuliani the go-ahead today. "This resolution will go through the committee process, where it will be considered,"...
FDNY KIN ARE URGED TO WAIT ON FEDS' $$
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amUnion leaders are urging families of the 343 firefighters who died in the World Trade Center not to rush into settlements with the federal government. "Under the current statute, the...
BLOOMY SPEECH WILL BE BY THE (EMERGENCY) NUMBERS
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg will propose a new 311 phone service to divert non-emergency calls from the overburdened 911 system in his first State of the City speech today, aides said. On...
MUGGER SHOT BY HIS VICTIM DIES
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe teen mugger who was shot two weeks ago by a food deliveryman he was trying to rob in East Harlem died last night at New York Hospital, officials said....
IT'S TIME TO CHILL OUT AGAIN
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amDon't put away that winter jacket just yet. Yesterday's balmy 60-degree weather broke a 27-year record of 55 degrees for the day, but Old Man Winter will make a mean...
MAD PLOT: BUSH REVEALS U.S. TERROR TARGETS
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush last night rallied the nation, urging Americans to stay motivated for a just-beginning terror war, and claiming that "tens of thousands" of potential killers still threaten...
VEGAS KOS TYSON - NO LICENSE FOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHUMP
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - First, Mike Tyson tried to chew off ears. When that didn't work, he tried to quit on his stool. But in the end, this was one fight...
A CALL TO HONOR - BUSH IS BETTING ON A BETTER AMERICA
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amTHE boldest moment in President Bush's State of the Union address came at its opening, when he said that "the state of our union has never been stronger." How, only...
WE'VE ONLY BEGUN TO FIGHT - WE MIGHT SHOOT FIRST, BUSH WARNS
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amANALYSIS WASHINGTON - President Bush told Americans in clear and sobering words last night to brace for potentially dangerous confrontations with rogue powerhouses North Korea, Iran and Iraq. Bush branded...
TRUE GRIT FROM GIVE 'EM HELL DUBYA
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amTHE nation heard war drums beat from Washington last night - as President Bush came out slugging. If another generation knew a president as "Give 'Em Hell Harry," last night...
N.Y. POLS THINK BIG APPLE SNUB WORTH MENTIONING
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - New York lawmakers praised President Bush last night for a patriotic speech - but most were angry that he offered no words of encouragement for the city's devastated...
GREAT 'WALL' OF JERUSALEM IS PLANNED TO FIGHT TERROR
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel is planning to build a massive anti-terrorist shield around Jerusalem that could cost as much as $200 million, authorities said yesterday. The protective belt would use fences,...
'RAPE' GUARD IS DENIED BAIL
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amA 300-pound prison guard nabbed for allegedly raping a 23-year-old inmate from London at a Brooklyn federal prison, where she was waiting to be sentenced for ecstasy smuggling, was held...
WE MUST KEEP OUR GUARD UP, W. WARNS
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A high-flying President Bush last night rallied Americans to stay motivated - and to be on guard - for a far-from-over terror war, claiming "tens of thousands" of...
PART-CELLS - WIFE CANS COACH TUNA
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amAfter 40 years of marriage, Bill Parcells has been sacked by his wife. Coach Parcells, aka "Tuna," who led the Giants to the Super Bowl crown in 1987 and 1991,...
ILLEGAL LIVERY CABS INFEST CITY: STUDY
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amThere's an epidemic of livery cabs illegally picking up passengers who hail them on the street -the supposed domain of yellow taxis -says a new study. Livery drivers are restricted...
VEEP TRIES TO STOP 9/11 SPY PROBE
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle yesterday said he backs an immediate top-to-bottom review of the failure of U.S. spies to prevent the Sept. 11 strikes despite a personal...
BUDGET AX THREATENS MTA AID
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe MTA faces a potential new budget problem resulting from a proposed cut of nearly $400 million to New York in federal highway funding. State Transportation Commissioner Joseph Boardman yesterday...
KNICKS DO IT WITH 'D' - STONEWALL SIXERS TO CAPTURE FOURTH STRAIGHT
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe buzz is back at the Garden, and so is the defense. When it was over, the Garden stood as one and gave Don Chaney's Knicks a standing ovation. On...
- AND INCI-DENTAL-LY ...
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amTooth be told, Mike Tyson did bite Lennox Lewis at that infamous Manhattan melee last week. Lewis said as much yesterday, breaking his silence on all matters Mike. "The fact...
IVERSON: I FELT LIKE A ROOKIE
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amAllen Iverson complained that he felt like a rookie. For one night, the Knicks made him look like one, too. For 43 stifling, frustrating minutes, Iverson could do little against...
HALL HANDS STORM THIRD LOSS IN ROW
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amOn the night President Bush delivered his State of the Union address, the state of St. John's could only be described as pitiful. The Red Storm lost their third straight...
IRON MIKE HAS ONLY HIMSELF TO BLAME
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - In the end, the decision not to license Mike Tyson did not come down to money or corruption or hypocrisy. It came down to the one question...
RISING STARS READY TO CLIMB
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amTHE moguls course at Whiteface Mountain has had the best in the world stomp down its bumps and launch off its kickers and the tradition will continue this week during...
MARTIN'S STAR SLIGHT MIFFS NETS
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amJason Kidd was upset about it, as was Byron Scott. It seemed the two Nets' representatives for the All-Star game were more unnerved that Kenyon Martin didn't get selected for...
RAMS HAVE A TOUGH SIDE - DEFENSE MORE THAN JUST FLASH
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - It did not come from any of their 62 touchdowns during the regular season, was not produced by any of Kurt Warner's laser passes or Marshall Faulk's...
ANDRUZZI BROTHERS HEAL 9/11 WOUNDS
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - 9/11 came to the Super Bowl yesterday. It was already everywhere in the form of Secret Service security but it found its way inside the Superdome in...
ERIC OUT, BUT MARK MAY PLAY
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amAfter spraining his right MCL during Monday's 1-0 loss to the Lightning, Eric Lindros will be forced to sit out tonight's clash with the visiting Islanders and Saturday's All-Star game...
GIANTS' LOSS TURNED INTO PATTEN'S GAIN
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - He was a great story when he stuck with the Giants. A too-small receiver from a nondescript school (Western Carolina). Never drafted. Cut after a tryout in...
WARNER'S BACKUP IS SUPED UP
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - Jamie Martin has his own Super Bowl XXXVI dreams. He's not sure how it all begins, but the ending has him leading the Rams to victory Sunday...
WARNER HAS FAITH IN A HIGHER AUTHORITY
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - Kurt Warner says his life's motto comes from the book of Matthew, Chapter 6, Verse 33 of the Bible. It reads: "Seek first the kingdom of God...
SECRET SERVICE SCORES ON SAFETY
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - There was noticeably heightened security yesterday during media day, as everyone attending the event at the Superdome had to pass through metal detectors. Players have been warned...
RICE SHOWS VERSATILITY IN DOMINATING DISPLAY
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amHS HOOPS: Rice 67 - Xaverian 36 There are a lot of ways to describe Rice this season, but Xaverian's Chris Taft did it as well as anyone. "We didn't...
YANKEE MOVE OPENS DOOR FOR DUQUE DEAL
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amIn a signing that further pushes Orlando Hernandez out the door - and he was on the street already - the Yankees yesterday finalized a minor league deal with Mike...
THAT'S MORE LIKE IT - DEVILS DOMINATE IN CONSTANTINE'S DEBUT
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amDevils 3 - Isles 1 Maybe the Devils should fire their coach before every Islander game. The last time they made a change behind the bench, the Devils replaced Robbie...
NEW DEV COACH TAKES 'A' TRAIN
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe first difference with Kevin Constantine's Devils is that the A Line played. And played. And well. "Fresh start? I don't know how long we're going to stay fresh, playing...
ISLES 'STICKING' IT TO FOES
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amImagine Mike Piazza being allowed to use an aluminum bat. In hockey there's a similar innovation brewing that's changing the game. Michael Peca is the most recent Islander to start...
CONSTANTINE FACES 1ST TEST
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe Devils' new tough guy has a sense of humor about himself, at least. Kevin Constantine was asked a general question about his first foe as New Jersey's new coach,...
BROWN: NO INTEREST IN KNICK JOB
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amPhiladelphia coach Larry Brown knows his reputation as the ultimate coach-for-hire. With his 76ers struggling and his hometown Knicks even worse, he understands why his name crops up as a...
KNICK RATING: NO STARS - ALLAN, SPREE, MARCUS LEFT OUT
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amA new $100 million contract was not enough to vault Allan Houston into the All-Star Game. Houston, who had made it the last two seasons, will remain home as will...
JARVIS TURNS TO WALK-ON IN START-LING STATEMENT
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amIn a shocking move clearly designed to shake up his slumping team, St. John's coach Mike Jarvis started walk-on Andre Stanley in last night's game against Seton Hall at the...
KNICKS DO IT WITH 'D': STONEWALL SIXERS TO CAPTURE FOURTH STRAIGHT
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amKnicks 78 Sixers 71 The buzz is back at the Garden and so is defense. On a night Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell couldn't throw the ball in the ocean,...
SHANDON PROVIDES LATE LIFT
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amShandon Anderson hadn't scored a point in nearly a week, and for most of the season he hadn't been anywhere near the player Knick GM Scott Layden traded for this...
TYSON ONLY HAS HIMSELF TO BLAME
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - It took John Bailey one afternoon to figure out what it has taken the rest of the boxing establishment 15 years to recognize. That nothing is ever...
HALL HITS STORM WITH 3RD LOSS IN ROW
January 30, 2002 | 5:00amOVERTIME Seton Hall 63 St. John's 61 On a night when President Bush delivered his State of the Union address, the state of St. John's could only be described as...