January 29, 2002
STUDY GREENSPEAK TO FIGURE ODDS OF RATE CUT
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amALANGreenspan has such a unique way with words that I decided to write in Greenspan-ese about the possibility of another interest-rate cut this week and in the months ahead.Pay close...
RACE TO BUILD AT GROUND ZERO
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amPOWERFUL developers Larry Silverstein and Edward J. Minskoff are racing head-to-head to find tenants for two giant office towers they plan at or near Ground Zero. But there's a big...
TOYS 'R' US AXES 1,900 IN LATEST RETAIL WOE
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amThe post-holiday retail fallout continues. In a move to restructure, Toys 'R' Us is closing 37 Kids 'R' Us apparel stores and 27 Toys 'R' Us stores. The closures will...
CONDE NAST MIXES IT UP
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amConde Nast shuffled the deck, sending Richard "Mad Dog" Beckman upstairs from Vogue to be executive vice president and chief marketing officer. Tom Florio, younger brother of Conde Nast CEO...
HDP MAY UNLOAD VALENTINO; LIKELY BUYER IS MARZOTTO
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amFamed fashion house Valentino may finally be sold. Holding di Partecipazioni Industriali (HdP), parent company of the Italian fashion company, may soon unload its white elephant, and the leading contender...
'CITIZEN' CAN
January 29, 2002 | 5:00am* CLARENCE >GREENWOOD "Citizen Cope" [ 1/2] Dreamworks Records Somewhere between rap and R&B lies the walking/talking song style of Clarence Greenwood's debut, "Citizen Cope." Although different from just about...
LOOK INTO MY EYES - PET PSYCHIC REALLY PEERS INTO THE ANIMAL MIND
January 29, 2002 | 5:00am"The Pet Psychic" [4 wagging puppies] Tonight at 8 on Animal Planet ---------- MOVE over John Edward, you've got some serious competition coming your way - Sonya the pet psychic....
UNPRECEDENTED: CH. 2 STATIONS REPORTER IN ISRAEL
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amTHE daily stream of war news from Israel and the Mideast has made it inevitable - a local New York TV station, Ch. 2, is stationing a reporter permanently in...
OSCAR, BRIT BY BRIT
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amIN what may be the most significant harbinger of the Oscars yet, the Tolkien epic "The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" and the musical spectacular "Moulin Rouge"...
SHOOTING FOR ACCURACY - EX-MARINE KEEPS EYE ON FILM FLAWS LIKE A 'HAWK'
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amMOVIEGOERS are flocking to "Black Hawk Down," but at least one military captain calls the film "a bit over the top." "I would have subdued it a little bit more....
007 GIVES THE FINGER TO AUSTIN POWERS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amTHE makers of the upcoming "Austin Powers in Goldmember" were forced to yank the movie's posters, Web site, trailers - and title - after a complaint on behalf of rival...
BIG CHEESE DIET
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amALWAYS dieting - still fat? Maybe there's not enough fat in your diet. That's the thinking behind "The Fat Fallacy," a book that contends you can have your brie and...
THE GROSSEST MAN IN TV
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amTHE man from Oddville now has one of the oddest jobs in television - rounding up live critters and locating gross-sounding foods for "Fear Factor." He's Rich Brown, 39, formerly...
STARR REPORT
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amCurtis courts new version of 'Shadows' Fans of the gothic '60s soap "Dark Shadows" shouldn't get too excited, but a "Dark Shadows" script has been turned in to Fox for...
CORNY IT'S NOT - IN THIS GLASS MUSEUM, WHAT YOU SEE RANGES FROM THE KITSCHY TO THE SUBLIME
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amIT may be cold and snowy in New York, but it's always 2,300 degrees in Corning. That, in Fahrenheit, is the temperature inside furnaces that burn here 'round the clock....
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amWorldly women The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington will feature an exhibit examining the thematic similarities of three of the world's best-known female artists: Emily Carr...
IS OSCAR A CHEAP DATE? FIRST IT WAS SUPER BOWL ADS. NOW IT'S ACADEMY AWARDS SPOTS THAT ARE BEING SLASHED
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amTHE Oscars appear to be coming down with case of Super Bowl-itus - an accute shortage of big-money advertisers. The Oscars are traditinally the second-most watched TV of the year...
A MAN WITH A MAJOR LEAGUE BODY: 'GILMORE' GUY HAS THE STOMACH FOR STAYING FIT
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amFormer New York Yankees minor leaguer Scott Patterson threw in his pitcher's mitt after five years and moved to Hollywood. These days, instead of throwing sliders and dreaming of joining...
THE CASE OF THE STOLEN PHARAOH
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amAn Upper East Side art dealer went on trial yesterday for allegedly smuggling a 2,400-year-old pharaoh's head out of Egypt. Prosecutors say Frederick Schultz, a renowned relic dealer, knowingly bought...
BREAKING BREAD WITH TRAGEDY
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM AT a dinner here with 11 adults and a bunch of children running about, there are as many differing political opinions as there are guests. It's just like the...
LAWYER WANTS AL QAEDA SUSPECT'S TRIAL MOVED
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amA top al Qaeda lieutenant will go on trial in April, a Manhattan judge ruled today - even as his lawyer said he will try to get the case moved...
PAKISTAN HUNTS FOR SCRIBE'S ABDUCTORS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amPakistani police said yesterday they were investigating militant Muslim groups suspected of kidnapping a Wall Street Journal bureau chief last week and holding him in "inhumane" conditions. But authorities in...
PI IS DURST-CASE HEAD HUNTER
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amGALVESTON, Texas - A private detective will lead a search Feb. 9 for the head of the man cops say was murdered by Robert Durst. The torso of Morris Black,...
GUN-RUN GANG BUSTED: COPS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amA gang of dope-peddling gun smugglers - headed by a notorious street-gang leader authorities called a "one-man crime spree" - was rounded up for running high-powered weapons up the East...
ASHCROFT DENIES ROLE IN 'COVER-UP'
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Justice Department recently bought drapes to hide two mostly nude statues seen in the background during press conferences - but Attorney General John Ashcroft is denying he...
GARAGES OPEN TO TERROR - PARKING NO PROBLEM FOR 'RIGGED' CARS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amSecurity at parking garages in Manhattan's office towers and hotels remains woefully lax, making them a potentially easy target for terrorists, a Post investigation has found. While security has been...
RED TAPE MAY STICK YOU WITH FARE HIKE
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amThe MTA says Albany is thwarting its plans to free up $4.6 billion in funds earmarked for subways and buses, among other projects. And if the Capital Program Review Board...
AIRBUS WOES WERE OPEN SECRET, SAYS ATTENDANT
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amAmerican Airlines has known for more than 10 years that its Airbus A300s have a tail problem that causes violent reactions to turbulence, says a former flight attendant, who was...
MIKE IS GYM DANDY - SWINGING MAYOR PUTS HIS BEST 'FACE' ON OLYMPIC AD
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amMeet the Big Apple's newest Olympic hopeful - Mayor Bloomberg. Well, not quite. It's a little bit of trick photography born on a City Hall computer. The original photo featured...
ALBANY BURNS US WITH SMOKING TAX
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amI COUGH and wheeze and splutter from the evil of tobacco. I wish to quit cigarettes. But you'll find no citizen of New York state more patriotic than I. As...
NASSAU RATED WOR$T COUNTY GOV'T IN U.S.
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amDebt-plagued Nassau County landed dead last on an annual government-management report yesterday that graded the nation's 40 largest counties. The financially hard-hit Long Island county averaged a D-minus and scored...
BEANBALL AT RUDY - CITY POLS PEN CONDEMNATION OF STADIUM DEALS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amIn an unprecedented move, several City Council members plan this week to introduce a resolution condemning former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his last-minute baseball-stadium deals, The Post has learned. It...
BLOOMBERG SAYS PATAKI'S BUDGET STIFFS CITY SCHOOLS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg charged yesterday that Gov. Pataki's budget proposal shortchanges city schools and ignores redevelopment. Testifying before a joint-legislative budget committee, Bloomberg also shot down Pataki's plan to...
WEDDING PLANNER - BUSH TO PUSH MARRIAGE FOR SINGLE MOMS IN SPEECH
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amPresident Bush will use tonight's State of the Union Address to ask Congress to pump up new spending - including for experimental programs aimed at encouraging single welfare mothers to...
TOASTY APPLE SHOULD MELT RECORD TODAY
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amMother Nature fell short of the high-temperature record by six degrees yesterday, but she'll go for it today, likely topping a mark set more than 25 years ago. "Looks like...
NYPD AND MASKED DEMONSTRATORS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amThe NYPD can force demonstrators to strip off their masks under a little-used section of the loitering law enacted to protect landlords from angry, masked tenant farmers. The law was...
FACE-OFF: COPS: 3 MASKS AND YOU'RE LOCKED UP
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amPolice promise to get in protesters' faces at this week's World Economic Forum - by enforcing an obscure, 1845 law that bars more than two demonstrators from wearing masks, the...
EMBATTLED EX-CEO'S WIFE SAYS THEY'RE ON BRINK OF BANKRUPTCY
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amThe wife of former Enron chief Kenneth Lay says she and her husband are struggling to stay afloat financially - despite the $300 million in compensation and stock her former...
STATE PANEL EYES KING HS ATTENDANCE
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amGov. Pataki's investigators ordered scandal-scarred Martin Luther King HS to turn over its attendance records as part of a probe of the school, sources said yesterday. The schools investigation panel...
3 HIGH-FINANCE FIRMS JOIN EXODUS TO 'BURBS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amMorgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and a Japanese bank are moving some of their high-paying Manhattan jobs into the suburbs, continuing a hemorrhaging trend that's escalated greatly since Sept. 11. As...
BUSH OFFERS AFGHANS HELP - BUT NO MEN
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday welcomed Afghan leader Hamid Karzai to the White House and promised to help build his country's army. But Bush rejected placing U.S. forces in Afghanistan...
SCALD GAL GETS BIG $TARBUCKS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amA woman who was severely injured by an exploding cappuccino machine in a Starbucks is entitled to a whole latte money, a Manhattan jury decided yesterday. The six-woman jury deliberated...
1-LEGGED BICYCLIST OUTRACES BIAS RAP
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amThe one-legged bike messenger walks. It took a Manhattan jury a half-hour last night to clear cyclist Dexter Benjamin, 39, of a bizarre hate-crime charge that could have landed him...
CITY MAY BLOCK BIZ WITH ANDERSEN
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amCity Comptroller William Thompson is considering blackballing Arthur Andersen, the Big Five accounting firm ensnared in the Enron scandal, The Post has learned. Sources said Thompson has summoned embattled Andersen...
SOUVENIR FIRM FIRED UP FOR TRADEMARK FIGHT
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amJust days after being caught hawking FDNY merchandise without a license, the city's biggest souvenir seller has filed suit, claiming it has a legal right to make money off the...
PROSECUTOR LINES UP LIZZIE - VOWS TO PROVE CASE THAT P.R. PRINCESS BIDS TO TOSS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amLizzie Grubman wants her criminal charges chucked, arguing that the evidence against the publicity princess, accused of mowing down 16 Hamptons nightclubbers last summer, won't stand up. But a new...
STRONG MEDICINE FOR TERRORISTS - GI RAID SLAYS 6 THUGS IN HOSPITAL
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - American commandos wearing Yankee caps and "I Love New York" buttons stormed a Kandahar hospital with tear gas, grenades and machine-gun fire yesterday in an assault that killed...
JANITOR RAPED JHS GIRL: COPS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amA janitor at a Bronx junior high had sex over a three-year period with a young girl attending the school, police said. Joseph Cremin, 35, a custodial assistant at JHS...
SAUDIS: 100 OF OUR CITIZENS ARE GITMO JAILBIRDS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amSaudi Arabia said yesterday that more than 100 of its citizens are in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, making Saudis by far the largest group of terrorist suspects detained. Saudi...
ISRAELI COPS KILL TERRORIST - PALESTINIAN WAS ON DRIVING RAMPAGE
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli police yesterday shot dead a Palestinian man who crashed his car through a roadblock, ran over a soldier, and hijacked a second car from an elderly couple,...
ISRAELI COPS KILL TERRORIST: SHOT DRIVER HIT SOLDIER AT ROADBLOCK
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian man yesterday who crashed through a West Bank roadblock, ran over a soldier, then hijacked a second car, authorities said. Officials listed...
MOB LAWYER PLEADS FIFTH WHEN ASKED ABOUT SNITCH
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amA mob lawyer took the Fifth yesterday in a former client's racketeering trial, after a Mafia turncoat said the attorney had warned him about a mobster's decision to cooperate with...
LIZZIE PROSECUTOR REVS UP: VOWS TO PROVE CASE AGAINST PUBLICITY PRINCESS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amA new pit-bull prosecutor out to convict Lizzie Grubman for running over Hamptons nightclubbers took her first crack at the case yesterday - and said she's confident she'll take the...
ISLES CAN'T AFFORD TO LOOK AHEAD
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amBefore tomorrow night's much-anticipated rematch against the Rangers at the Garden, the Islanders must first tussle with the Devils tonight at the Coliseum. "I think we're going to do everything...
THURMAN'S NEW BLIP ON YANK RADAR
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amLast spring, the Yankees offered Alfonso Soriano to the Mariners for Jose Paniagua and Brett Tomko because they thought Paniagua was a future closer. It proved fortunate for the Yankees...
SHAW'S KNEE A SORE POINT
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amSt. John's guard Willie Shaw said he will play tonight against Seton Hall, but how long he can stay on the court and how hard he can compete remains to...
EDWARDS: PATS CAN RIP RAMS
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amThe question was posed to Herman Edwards yesterday and his answer came as rapidly as a Kurt Warner touchdown pass. "Do the Patriots have a chance to beat the Rams...
DEVILS PULL PLUG ON LARRY - CONSTANTINE GETS ROBINSON'S JOB
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amThe GM failed his coach, so he fired him. And they say there's no accountability anymore. Failing to deal underachieving Devils to deliver the necessary shape-up message to the two-time...
13 RUNNERS CAN 'DUAL' FOR ROSES
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amEight 3-year-old colts and five fillies are "dual-qualifiers" under the dosage system for handicapping the 2002 Kentucky Derby, to be run at Churchill Downs on May 4. To be a...
MIKE FACING KAYO PUNCH FROM NEVADA LICENSE PANEL
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS -BeforeMike Tyson has any hope of dethroning Lennox Lewis, he first must disarm five bureaucrats in a cramped office building who, by all indications, aim to deal him...
DERBY HERO MONARCHOS IS RETIRED
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amMonarchos, the winner of the 2001 Kentucky Derby who was expected to be one of this year's top handicap horses, was retired yesterday because of a leg injury, trainer John...
STOTT: I'M GONE AFTER THIS SEASON
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amYankee pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre contemplated retiring after the World Series last season and reconsidered. He was concerned that the perception would be that he walked away due to lingering...
QB OR NOT QB IS THE QUESTION FOR PATS - IF BILL HAS A CLUE, HE WILL GIVE THE BALL TO DREW
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - When you go through life as a Randy Cross wannabe, it's easy to miss the obvious. Once again, my colleague Steve Serby is living up to his...
NEW BOSS IS HARD-LINE
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amThe red hair is Truth in Advertising. New coach Kevin Constantine replaced Larry Robinson to kick some Devils butt. Out of the NHL loop more than two years, building a...
BELICHICK DEFERS DECISION
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - Bill Belichick kept a shroud of secrecy and mystery over Super Bowl XXXVI last night when he deferred his Great Quarterback Decision - Tom Brady or Drew...
TWO RAMS FEEL RIGHT AT HOME
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - When Aeneas Williams was a teenager, he walked the aisles of the Superdome during Saints games, selling sodas, peanuts and popcorn. When the game was over, he...
FASSEL EYES WADE, TOBIN
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amLooking to fill the most important job on his staff - defensive coordinator - Giant coach Jim Fassel met with Wade Phillips at the Meadowlands yesterday, and plans to interview...
KURT MAKES HIS POINT - QUIETLY
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amCall it a resurrection. For Kurt Thomas, that is. While Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell have made the headlines during the Knicks' three-game revival, Thomas has quietly averaged 19 points...
RAM-PAGING NFC CHAMPS FEELING SUPER CONFIDENT
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - There will be none of those colorful Mardi Gras plastic bead necklaces around the necks of the Rams this week, but make no mistake, this is Party...
KURT SAYS HE'S OK
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - The only hurting Kurt Warner anticipated last night was the dent his offensive linemen figured to put into his wallet. Warner took his protectors out for dinner...
NO KIDD-ING: NETS COULD LOSE JASON
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amFOR some unknown reason, a copious amount of wishing-well fools seem to think Tim Duncan will abandon the Spurs when his escape clause kicks in following the 2002-03 season. Despite...
BLANKETY-BLANK! ERIC HURTS KNEE
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amLightning 1 - Rangers 0 Other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln? If the Rangers didn't suffer a mortal wound last night, they nevertheless bled all...
BARNABY A REAL STAND-UP GUY
January 29, 2002 | 5:00amMatthew Barnaby insists that it's merely coincidence, that there is no correlation between his bare-fisted victory over Jim Cummins early in last Wednesday's Coliseum match and the dramatically improved play...