March 12, 2002
WARNING! WALL STREET IS READY TO PICK YOUR POCKET
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amSIX months ago, nobody would have guessed that the stock market's biggest problem would be accounting terrorism. But that's how it has turned out. When the World Trade Center was...
HEY PREZ, TARIFF-IC IDEA! - COS. LINE UP FOR TRADE HANDOUTS FROM REPUBS
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amFarmers and semiconductor chip manufacturers are next in line to win a competitive edge over international producers, courtesy of the Bush administration. One week after President George W. Bush set...
ALWALEED'S $1B MOVE ON U.S. MARKETS
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amSpurned as a philanthropist, billionaire Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal showed renewed conviction in U.S. markets by purchasing $1 billion worth of stock in Citigroup, AOL Time Warner and...
450 PARK AVE. DRAWS CROWDS FOR AUCTION
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amIt seems as if just about every real estate investor out there is looking to acquire 450 Park Ave. Eastdil is advising some of the possible buyers that more than...
CFDA DECIDES SMALLER IS BETTER AT UPCOMING AWARDS
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amThe Council of Fashion Designers of America is scaling back its Fashion Awards, signaling the return of minimalism and intimacy. The 2002 CFDA Fashion Awards, scheduled to be held June...
DURST'S NEXT ACT ON 42ND
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amDOUGLAS Durst looks to be in "Let's Roll" mode for his One Bryant Park project on West 42nd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues - perhaps the best situated, and...
KMART KO'S MARTHA'S PAL
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amMartha Stewart's best buddy has been booted, giving her one more reason to take her "good things" elsewhere. Martha pal Chuck Conaway was pushed out of bankrupt Kmart yesterday after...
END OF THE LINE - ARTHUR ANDERSEN MULLS BANKRUPTCY, QUICK SALE
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amArthur Andersen is scrambling against the clock to line up a deal with one of two prospective merger partners in the hopes of filing a pre-arranged bankruptcy plan, a source...
TINA'S SELLING NAMES TO AOL
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amMedia giant AOL Time Warner has agreed to buy the circulation list of Tina Brown's shuttered Talk magazine from Hearst and Miramax, the joint-venture owners of the title. A spokesman...
WAL-MART DOUBLES UP ON THE OLSENS
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amLook out Martha - Mary-Kate and Ashley may soon be stomping on your turf. The twin titans of merchandising have added cosmetics, hair care products and hair appliances to their...
GENTLEMAN JACK - WELCH SAVED GAL PAL WETLAUFER'S HBR JOB
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amGE's former chairman, Jack Welch, has helped rescue the $277,000 job of a female editor at the Harvard Business Review who faced dismissal for having a romance with him. Suzy...
ARTHUR ANDERSEN MULLS BANKRUPTCY, QUICK SALE
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amArthur Andersen is scrambling against the clock to line up a deal with one of two prospective merger partners in the hopes of filing a pre-arranged bankruptcy plan, a source...
FREE OPERA AT MET
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amSOME of the biggest stars in opera - Bryn Terfel, Carol Vaness and Veronica Villarroel, among them - will sing for free tonight, courtesy of Richard Tucker. The late Brooklyn-born...
'DUBLIN' ROCKS, OF CORRS
March 12, 2002 | 5:00am* THE CORRS "Live in Dublin" [] Lava/Atlantic Celtic music used to be a narrow form built on "Danny Boy" and dusted off each year for St. Paddy's Day. On...
BUFF AND TOUGH COOKIE
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amThe Shield" [ ] Tonight at 10 on FX ---------- WITHIN the first five minutes of tonight's premiere of "The Shield," you will see: a stiff with large breasts and...
SALLY JESSY'S LAST CALL:SHOW GETS TEARS INSTEAD OF BEERS JUST SHORT OF 20 YEARS
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amSALLY Jessy Raphael's 19-year run on afternoon TV is over. "She really wanted to make it to her 20th anniversary," said a friend. "It was a milestone she wanted to...
STARR REPORT
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amIt's Showtime for this cable luncheon Showtime has an array of bold-faced names lined up for original productions this year. Stockard Channing, Danny Glover, Laura Dern, Paul Reiser and Vanessa...
'SURVIVOR' WHIZ KID
March 12, 2002 | 5:00am'SURVIVOR' is wrestling with a taste problem in this week's episode: How much do they show of a home-remedy for sea urchin stings? The remedy? Human urine. In the scene,...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amStorm ahead Visitors to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science will be blown away by the new exhibit, "Powers of Nature," which unravels the mysteries of Mother Nature through...
ALL DAVE REALLY WANTED WAS A LITTLE; LOVE; WE KNEW HE WAS A BIG BABY ALL ALONG
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amALL you need is love. That's the lesson network executives should take away from the just-concluded drama over David Letterman's future. It turns out that Dave's latest contract wrangle wasn't...
GRAFT FOR THEIR CRAFT: OSCAR NOMINEES' CUPS RUNNETH OVER WITH DIAMOND BRAS, COSMETICS AND OTHER PRICY GOODIES
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amAN Oscar is something money can't buy. But even the losers at this year's Academy Awards are being deluged with graft, from diamond bras to must-have cell phones. "Ah yes,...
BID TO NIX SMOKE SCREEN
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amAN anti-smoking group is making waves in Hollywood with its campaign to kick butts off the silver screen. The San Francisco-based Smoke Free Movies - which has taken out full-page...
SARAH A NO-SHOW
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amUNASSUMING viewers watching yesterday's "Today" show saw a clip of Sarah Jessica Parker at Sunday night's SAG Awards. The only problem? Parker wasn't actually at the awards show. The clip...
WHY 'JEOPARDY?'
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amSEATS for a "Jeopardy!" tournament at Radio City Music Hall are the hottest tickets in town. The quiz show, which will be taping in New York from March 24 to...
CONNIE SINGS $OUR NOTE OVER 'PORN'
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amWho's Suing Now? Connie Francis, that's who. And her record label, Universal, may be very sorry after getting slapped with a $45 million lawsuit yesterday by the singer. Francis, whose...
L.I. 'HOSTESS' BUSTED OVER KIDS' BOOZE-&-DRUGS BINGE
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amA Long Island woman who hosted an overnight beer and drug party for three teenage boys was busted after one of her stoned guests overslept and his mom discovered where...
HERO WILL BE HAUNTED BY MEMORIES FOREVER
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amTHE firefighter looked like a statue - traumatized stiff. He sat alone in a sea of blue chairs for long minutes staring at the "Sphere," a battered piece of metal...
O, NO! OPRAH TALKS OF RETIRING
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amIt looks like Oprah Winfrey is calling it quits - in 2006. The omnipresent talk-show queen, who is one of the wealthiest women in the United States and among the...
ART SNOBS PITTING JEW AGAINST JEW
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amTHE Nazis would have enjoyed this. The squabble over what I call Holofest! - the Jewish Museum's whimsical art show inspired by the slaughter of 6 million Jews - has...
BLOOMY NOT PLAYING FAIR: TEACHER UNION
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amThe head of the teachers union yesterday filed an unfair-labor charge against Mayor Bloomberg for "illegally" holding pay raises hostage to City Hall's campaign to abolish the Board of Education....
'DOOMSDAY MIKE' EYES ANOTHER $500M IN CUTS
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amThe Bloomberg administration unveiled a doomsday budget proposal yesterday that requires city agencies to slash another $500 million under a gloomy contingency plan that could include layoffs. Bloomberg's budget chief,...
ALLIES SET FOR FINAL ANACONDA PUSH
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. and Afghan forces massed tanks, artillery and troops in the Shah-e-Kot valley for the final assault of Operation Anaconda yesterday, as planning intensified for similar campaigns against...
BUSH'S CONDEMN-NATIONS FORESHADOW IRAQ SHOWDOWN
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday vowed that the next step in the war on terror is to make sure terrorists have "no place to hide" anywhere in the world -...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amThe young Italian mom who stunned the world last year by claiming to have conceived triplets when she was already six-months pregnant confessed yesterday: It was all a fake. Flavia...
CARL'S SWEET M-16: MCCALL TRIED HAND AT ASSAULT-RIFLE PRACTICE ON ISRAEL VISIT
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - State Comptroller Carl McCall's whirlwind visit to Israel last week included some unexpected instruction in high-powered shooting, The Post has learned. McCall, 66, a one-time U.S. Army second...
LANDLORD'S SUIT: CORRUPT ASSESSORS RIPPED ME OFF
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE An honest property owner will announce today he intends to sue the city over the tax-assessors scandal, charging he paid more than his fair share of property taxes because...
HE BLEW HIS 'COVER': NET JAYSON & TWO PALS CHARGED IN 'FAKE' SUICIDE
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amNew Jersey authorities yesterday put a full-court press on ex-Net Jayson Williams, accusing him of trying to cover up his role in last month's shooting death of a limo driver...
B'WAY DIVA CALLING IT QUITS OVER 'AIDS' FLAP
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE "Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone quit the hit Broadway comedy "Noises Off" over the weekend after clashing with cast members and management about asking audiences to contribute to a theater...
PANEL RIPS BUBBA BRO'S BID FOR DRUGGIE PARDON
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A bombshell new report contends that Bill Clinton's brother, Roger, used the then-president's name to lobby the U.S. Parole Commission to free a mob-linked heroin trafficker. The report...
WIFE GETS 2 TO 6 YRS. IN BEAR STEARNS EMBEZZLING
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amA secretary who used erasable ink to embezzle $800,000 from one of the city's savviest brokerages was sentenced to two-to-six years in prison yesterday, although she's hoping to be sprung...
A DAVE SAVE AT CBS: LETTERMAN SAYS HE'LL STAY
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amDave is staying put at CBS and Ted is spitting mad at his Mickey Mouse bosses. Shortly after David Letterman told a packed Ed Sullivan Theater that he has decided...
BX. JUDGE QUITS UNDER DEAL TO HELP DA IN BRIBE PROBE
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE A Bronx judge has abruptly quit his post as part of a deal he made with Manhattan prosecutors to cooperate in a suspected bribery investigation, The Post has learned....
BILL BOO$TS DEMS IN MIDTOWN
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amFormer President Bill Clinton was the star attraction last night at a $1 million fund-raiser to help Democrats build their war chest to try to win back the House in...
STATE POLS SQUABBLE OVER 9/11 HOLIDAY
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amWhile New Yorkers called for peace and unity at Sept. 11 tributes yesterday, Republican and Democratic state lawmakers passed dueling bills on how to best mark the date in the...
TEACHERS UNION CLAIMS MAYOR DOESN'T PLAY FAIR
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amThe head of the teachers union yesterday filed an unfair-labor charge against Mayor Bloomberg for "illegally" holding pay raises for teachers hostage to City Hall's campaign to abolish the Board...
SCHWARZ FAILS IN BID TO GET NEW TRIAL JUDGE
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amCharles Schwarz tried and failed yesterday to get a different federal judge assigned to his new trial in the torture attack of Abner Louima. Four days after Judge Reena Raggi...
GLOWING TRIBUTE IS A LIGHT FANTASTIC
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amA "Tribute in Light," two ethereal blue beams aimed at the heavens, last night marked the passage of six months since airliner terrorist attacks claimed nearly 3,000 lives. Valerie Webb,...
RUDY AGAIN LEADS THE WAY AT TRIBUTES TO WTC VICTIMS
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amRudy Giuliani, the man who led New York through its blackest day, said he relived much of the pain and horror of Sept. 11 as he went from one tribute...
DOWNTOWN DELIGHTS ONCE MORE IN DINING OUT
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amSix months after the terror attacks, more and more bright spots are appearing in lower Manhattan - small businesses opening their doors, confident their neighborhood is coming back. Co-owners Jose...
THE LIGHT FANTASTIC: GLOWING TRIBUTE 'SHOWS WORLD WE AREN'T GIVING UP'
March 12, 2002 | 5:00am"Tribute in Light," two ethereal blue beams aimed at the heavens, last night marked the passage of six months since airliner terrorist attacks claimed nearly 3,000 lives. Valerie Webb, 12,...
WEEPY SLAY-BY-DOG DEFENDANT:
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amThe woman accused of murder-by-dog broke down in tears yesterday, telling jurors in Los Angeles that she's sorry her massive animals fatally mauled a Long Island native last year. Marjorie...
]]PILOT SHOT DOWN IN GULF WAR MAY BE ALIVE IN IRAQI PRISON
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amA decade-long mystery about a Navy pilot - shot down on the Persian Gulf War's opening night in 1991 - deepened yesterday amid reports that he's alive and languishing in...
WINONA WAS BEING WATCHED
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amThis is troubled actress Winona Ryder like you've never seen her before - caught by a Saks Fifth Avenue security camera on the day she's accused of shoplifting from the...
STUDENT GUN RAPE A SHOCK IN SOHO
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amA 23-year-old NYU student was abducted off the street, forced to withdraw money from a cash machine and then raped at gunpoint in a SoHo alley late Sunday, police said...
ISRAEL KILLS 12 IN RAID ON GAZA
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces, winding up military moves before the arrival of a U.S. diplomat, raided the largest Gaza Strip refugee camp last night in a sweep that the Palestinians...
17 DIE IN FIERCE ISRAEL GAZA RAID
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces, winding up military moves before the arrival of a U.S. diplomat, raided the largest Gaza Strip refugee camp last night in a sweep that killed 17...
SCHWARZ NIXED IN BID FOR NEW JUDGE
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amCharles Schwarz tried and failed yesterday to get a different federal judge assigned to his new trial in the torture attack of Abner Louima. Four days after Judge Reena Raggi...
CHILD GIVES YASSER PEACE OF HER MIND
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - A 5-year-old Israeli girl made her own plea for Mideast peace, writing Yasser Arafat - and getting a warm reply. "Mr. Arafat, make peace with us, please," Kim...
LIZA'S NUTTY NUPTIALS : GUEST LIST MIXES HOT AND HAS-BEEN STARS
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amLiza Minnelli has unveiled the bizarre guest list for her upcoming wedding - and it brings brand-new meaning to the term "flash and trash." The quirky "Cabaret" star, who'll wed...
'NO NEUTRALITY': TO LEAD AMERICA, W. MUST KEEP REMINDING US OF 9/11
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amPRESIDENT Bush yesterday marked the six-month anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by reminding the civilized world of the bitter foe we now face. "The terror that targeted New York...
MAGIC: I'M HOT FOR KNICK JOB
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amMagic Johnson is ready. Are the Knicks? Back on March 3, Post columnist George Willis quoted a source close to Johnson as saying that Mr. Showtime himself would be interested...
'THIEF' RUBEN GONE - YANKS CUT RIVERA FOR LOCKER-ROOM LARCENY
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - There is no room in the Yankees' clubhouse for a thief. That message was sent loud and clear to Ruben Rivera last night when GM Brian Cashman released...
WELLS, EL DUQUE LEAVING HITCH IN DUST
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Joe Torre's Three-For-Two-Spots pitching derby continued last night when Orlando Hernandez went three innings in a 9-2 loss to the Phillies at Legends Field. And while...
ESPN2 VIEWERS AMBUSHED BY SALTY TALK ON 'BRINK'
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amESPN's original primetime movie about Bobby Knight, "A Season on the Brink," Sunday night, was so filled with what ESPN called "intense adult language," that the network chose to simultaneously...
REGIS STAR SHINES FOR DAVIDSON
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amPeter Anderer didn't give his basketball future much thought as his senior year wound down at Regis High three years ago. "I figured I was pretty much done," Anderer said....
RED ALERT: BEWARE THE BADGERS
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amBo knows hoops. How else do you explain the Wisconsin basketball coach's success? As the head man at Wisconsin-Platteville, William 'Bo' Ryan won four NCAA Division III national championships. That's...
CHANEY'S MESSAGE HAS NEW MEANING
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amDon Chaney's week-old, one-year, $2.5 million contract extension so far has served its motivational purpose. The players and their coach have stopped being the laughingstocks of the league. Allan Houston...
MIXED BAG AT MET CAMP - LEITER'S HIP SORE, BUT TEAM SOLID IN WIN
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amMets 5 - Dodgers 0 PORT ST. LUCIE - If Yankee camp over in Tampa has looked like Camp X-Ray, given all the injuries, the Mets' spring has been Camp...
KARL'S COMMENTS NOT BLACK & WHITE
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amWHEN first told about George Karl's untoward, uncalled for comments about Doc Rivers, I figured he'd finally pulled the pin on self-destruction. However, after reading the 5-month-old interview in the...
PECA WON'T REGRET RATTLING SABRES
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amMichael Peca says he would do it again. If he could go back in time and find himself across the table from Sabres GM Darcy Regier during contract talks, the...
NETS EYE WAY OUT OF SKID ROW
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amMarch is supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb. Yet the Nets have played six games this month and are an ugly 1-5. What,...
RANGERS MAKE THEIR POINT - MCCARTHY LAST-MINUTE GOAL KNOCKS OFF HABS
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amRangers 2 - Canadiens 1 Playing hard for 60 minutes, staying out of the penalty box, driving to the net and shooting pucks all night long. What a concept. Indeed,...
COOPERSTOWN, COMING TO A MUSEUM NEAR YOU
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amYou've never seen anything like this. Never. Baseball season opens today in New York when at least 30 Hall of Famers show up at the American Museum of Natural History...
RANGERS STILL TALKING TRADE: SATHER PURSUING P. BURE, POTI
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amAs the Rangers prepared for last night's Garden showdown with Montreal without knowing whether Eric Lindros or Vladimir Malakhov would be healthy enough to play, Glen Sather continued discussions with...
RUBEN IN POSSIBLE THEFT FLAP
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - A missing glove from Derek Jeter's locker was the reason Ruben Rivera was marched into Joe Torre's office Saturday to meet with the manager, GM Brian...
HITCHCOCK THRILLER: STERLING'S BATTLE FOR ROTATION SPOT NEARS FINAL SCENE
March 12, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA -Joe Torre's Three-For-Two-Spots pitching derby continued last night when Orlando Hernandez faced the Phillies at Legends Field. And while Torre insists it's far too early to start formulating opinions...