July 12, 2001
INVESTORS JUMP OUT OF AIRLINE STOCKS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amAIRLINE stocks aren't flying high any more. Last week this column warned readers that the premature celebration of a slight drop in fuel costs was making investors speculate in the...
DOW JONES TRIMS 150 MORE STAFFERS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amDow Jones & Co. is digging deep to save money. The publisher of the Wall Street Journal will lay off another 150 employees today as part of an ongoing effort...
WILL VIACOM PLAY FOR NBA? KARMAZIN, STERN HUDDLE SPARKS TALK
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amVIACOM President and Chief Operating Officer Mel Karmazin was in deep discussions with NBA Commish David Stern at Herb Allen's annual media mogul bash, sparking talk that he's trying to...
BILL GATES BACKS DOWN: M'SOFT LETS PC MAKERS TOSS ICONS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amBill Gates tried to take the con out of icon yesterday. The Microsoft boss tossed the government a bone by allowing computer manufacturers to jigger the icons that come with...
TUCKER ON BLOCK ; WELLS FARGO, ROYAL BANK LIKELY BIDDERS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amTucker Anthony Sutro, one of the last remaining independent regional securities firms, is quietly shopping for a potential buyer, say people close to the situation. The Boston-based brokerage has hired...
FED COURT SIDES WITH AUTHORS ON E-BOOKS RIGHTS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amA rose is a rose is a rose, but an e-book is not a book, a federal judge ruled yesterday. The e-book business may have found a fairytale ending after...
TROUBLED YAHOO! POSTS TINY PROFIT
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amFormer Tinseltowner Terry Semel announced that Yahoo!, the one-time giant of the Internet, is still having serious problems - and they aren't ending anytime soon. The company reported a tiny...
ANALYSTS HAVE FEELINGS, TOO : STUNG BY CRITICISM & LAWSUITS, MANY DUCK FOR COVER
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amAnalysts are waking up from the tech wreck with a doozy of a hangover. From the darlings of the media and bleary-eyed day traders 18 months ago, stock analysts are...
AT&T: COMCAST NOT SOLE SUITOR
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amComcast Corp. wasn't the only suitor circling AT&T when it announced it was breaking up last October, according to AT&T Chairman C. Michael Armstrong. In a speech before the Boston...
MISS THE "TWILIGHT ZONE?' TRY 'NIGHT VISIONS.' IT'S... NOT JUST
July 12, 2001 | 4:00am"Night Visions" Tonight at 8 on Fox 1/2 IF the most important event in your social calendar is "The Twilight Zone" marathon on Sci Fi, you need a) to get...
STARR REPORT
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amCindy a Hsu-in for Dragon Boat team Ch. 2 anchor Cindy Hsu is involved in a row with 19 other women - but it's not what you think. Hsu is...
'BIG BRO' LIVES!
July 12, 2001 | 4:00am"BIG Brother 2" is back from the dead. The much ballyhooed reality show has bounced back in the ratings after its third episode and appears to be building an audience...
'CLOWNS' STILL CHARMS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amA THOUSAND CLOWNSAt the Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, (212) 239-6200. The whimsical, irascible, lovable and rigid non-conformist is as American as a coonskin...
TUNEFUL BOW TO BERNSTEIN
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amCONCERTS IN THE PARKS JOSHUA BELL AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONICVan Cortlandt Park, The Bronx, tomorrow; Cunningham Park, Queens, Friday; Westchester Community College, Valhalla, N.Y., Saturday. Show times are 8...
THERE'LL BE RAVIN' OVER THIS 'RAVEN'
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHE WHITE RAVENThe New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. Runs through Saturday. (212) 875-5200. THE orchestra lurches into a shimmer of Philip Glass' minimalism, the curtain rises on a painterly...
READY FOR A TALKING FRIDGE?
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amIS the future here? Not yet. But that hasn't kept Motorola from promoting its vision of what lies ahead. The company's new "Intelligence Everywhere" ad campaign features photos of everyday...
DON'T EVEN BOTHER LOOKING FOR THE 'MONEY'
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amWHERE'S MY MONEY?Center Stage, 48 W. 21 St. Through July 21. Call (212) 905-0593.ONCE AROUND THE CITYSecond Stage, 307 W. 43rd St. (212) 246-4422.BLUE WINDOW28th Street Theater, 120 W. 28th...
LORNE MAKES TALKIE
July 12, 2001 | 4:00am'SATURDAY Night Live" guru Lorne Michaels has inked a deal to develop a one-hour syndicated talk show. Michaels signed up with NBC Enterprises to create and develop the daily talk...
WHY AL'S LOOKING SO FUZZY
July 12, 2001 | 4:00am'TODAY" show weatherman Al Roker shocked TV pals Katie Couric and Matt Lauer this week when he returned from surgery sporting a full beard. Roker - who was knocked off...
WHO BUYS THIS STUFF?
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amIF the sidewalks of the Upper East Side seem deserted this week, blame it on couture. In Paris, the fall 2001 haute couture collections are being presented to an impossibly...
GUILTY PLEA FROM DRUG SMUGGLER WHO USED HASIDIC KIDS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe feds struck another blow against the international "ecstasy" market yesterday when a major smuggler pleaded guilty to duping Brooklyn Hasidic teens into sneaking more than a million pills of...
STATE OF THE UNION ENDORSEMENTS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amMajor unions and where they stand on the mayor's race: * The 210,000-member Health and Hospital workers Local 1199 is believed to be split between Fernando Ferrer and Mark Green,...
ASK CONDIT'S WIFE THESE QUESTIONS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amTERRY LENZNER, Washington's top private investigator, who worked for Presidents Nixon and Clinton, urged Washington cops yesterday to question Gary Condit's wife, Carolyn, more vigorously. "I find the confluence of...
OOH, LA LA! GEM OF A FIND IN FRANCE
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amA stunned French radiologist discovered 60 pieces of jewelry in the vagina of a teen thief suspect. The jewelry removed from inside the unidentified 16-year-old Yugoslavian girl included necklaces, bracelets...
KENNEDY KIN TO PAY JFK JR. IN-LAWS $15M
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amAfter two years of intense legal wrangling, the Kennedy clan will pay the family of Carolyn and Lauren Bessette $15 million for their deaths in the crash of the plane...
SMUGGLED CUBANS SAFE IN FLA.
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amMore than 60 Cubans landed in the Miami area this week after crossing the Straits of Florida aboard smugglers' boats, the Border Patrol said yesterday. Forty arrived at a marina...
GRAND-JURY PROBE IS DUE ANY DAY NOW
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amLIZZIE GRUBMAN, you can run - but you can't hide. That is the message the 30-year-old jet-set publicist, her lawyers and her powerful father, Allen, will be getting when they...
HOTEL HERO CATCHES THIEF & A LUCKY BREAK
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amKenneth Taylor knows how to try out for a job - be a hero. The 44-year-old Brooklyn man, who drives guests to and from the Essex House, was parked outside...
CITY COMING UP $HORT
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amFor the first time since 1995, the city's tax collections are expected to take a dive this year - the result of tax cuts combined with an economic slowdown, a...
'CONSCIENCE' BOTHERS BMW
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amBMW has backed out of a party planned for tomorrow night at the Conscience Point Inn - which was organized, in part, by Lizzie Grubman/Peggy Siegal PR. The nightclub where...
EX-MENUDO KID SUES GIZMO STORE
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amA former member of the Latin pop group Menudo claims a massage-chair mishap at a Sharper Image store had him seeing double. "Contrary to its name, defendant Sharper Image has...
MTA URGED NOT TO BOOT BOOTH AGENTS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amAdamant that the subway needs its token-booth workers, yesterday a stream of riders, including a woman whose rapist was caught thanks to a transit agent, spoke against a plan to...
SCHOOL-LEASE MESS ; ED. BOARD BIG AXED OVER 'UNSAFE' BUILDING
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe Board of Education has axed a top employee and disciplined another for letting nearly 150 students attend classes for a year in an old Brooklyn factory that did not...
'BROTHER' CUTS JERSEY KNIFE JOKER
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amTV's "Big Brother 2" producers booted a contestant when things got a little too real on the reality game show - one of the men in the house kissed a...
WATERSIDE DEAL KEEPS RENTS DOWN
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - One of the city's most desirable affordable housing complexes is heading toward rent deregulation, but current tenants will be protected, The Post has learned. Waterside Plaza - an...
HOUSE OKS BUYING DRUGS FROM ABROAD
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The House voted yesterday to let Americans buy medicine through the mail from overseas dealers - a potentially risky move to help people afford cheaper prescription drugs. The...
'INDIANA JONES' SAVES SCOUT FROM DOOM
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amSwashbuckling movie star Harrison Ford rescued a lost Boy Scout from the woods near Yellowstone National Park - in a repeat performance of his role as real-life hero. The "Indiana...
BILL WOULD FORCE INSURERS TO PICK UP DWI HOSP TABS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - The medical bills of drunken drivers injured in accidents would be covered by auto insurers under a bill quietly passed by the state Legislature. The little-noticed legislation has...
FINAL CALLS WERE 'GOD'S WAY' TO SAY GOODBYE
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amIT DIDN'T seem strange until much, much later - but at precisely 1:30 p.m. on Father's Day, phones rang simultaneously in three Long Island homes. Denise Ford picked up the...
ITALIAN MEN HAVE BOOB-PHOBIA
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amMamma mia! Most Italian men are spooked by big breasts, a new study claims. Psychologist Raffaele Morelli hit Italian beaches and discovered that 65 percent of men blushed or stuttered...
BUSH, CHENEY GIVE GOP A PEP TALK ; RALLY SUPPORT FOR SAGGING WHITE HOUSE AGENDA
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney made an unusual same-day visit to Congress yesterday, pleading with Republicans to salvage a limping White House agenda. Bush asked House...
'FOREVER JOINED' - HERO FIREFIGHTERS' WIDOWS TELL OF LIFE AFTER TRAGEDY
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe children of the three firemen who died in the Astoria blaze last month are still asking how their lives will go on without their dads. "Who will tighten our...
DC 37 BOARD IN SURPRISE BOOST TO LAGGING VALLONE
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe city's largest municipal union jolted the slumbering mayoral campaign yesterday by throwing its clout behind a surprise choice - City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, a Democrat running last in...
NEW YORK POST: FROM JULY 12, 1957
July 12, 2001 | 4:00am"Althea Gibson: Toast of New York," was the headline on a story that read: "The Negro girl who attained tennis fame by winning the Wimbledon singles championship knows today that...
EAST SIDE MOM & TOT ATTACKED
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amA mom pushing a baby stroller on the East Side was hospitalized yesterday after being whacked on the back of her head by a homeless man, police said. Elizabeth Garcia,...
MARLA & TIFFANY DO THE TOWN
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amMarla Maples was on her way to a Midtown lunch yesterday with 7-year-old Tiffany, the daughter she had with Donald Trump. "She looks a lot like daddy," photographer Lawrence Schwartzwald...
PROBERS: ED BIG HAD BIZ CONFLICT
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amSchool probers charge that Board of Education member Irving Hamer abused his office by trying to steer business to a firm where he served as a top executive. The probers...
BOUNCER CHOKED ME - PATRON
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe bouncer who says publicist Lizzie Grubman called him "white trash" before mowing him down allegedly choked a Hamptons nightclub patron into unconsciousness Memorial Day weekend. Stratis Morfogen says bouncer...
NEW SNAG SNARLS TALKS IN LOUIMA $ETTLEMENT
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amNegotiations bogged down yesterday over a deal to pay Abner Louima as much as $9 million for having been sodomized by a broomstick-wielding police officer. Nobody involved was talking last...
NEW SCHOOLS ARE $CRAPPED
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amBoard of Education officials admitted yesterday they will have to dramatically cut back construction of new schools because of ballooning capital costs. And they expect parents to go on the...
GORE'S BACK TO RAISE BUCKS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amAl Gore may be planning a comeback. The ex-veep is expected to go on the stump for Democratic candidates, and has hired two top-gun fund-raisers to help in his political...
SPOTS IN HIS APARTMENT COULD BE BLOOD
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amDetectives probing Chandra Levy's disappearance found massage oils, a long, brown hair - and two mysterious spots that could be blood - in Rep. Gary Condit's Washington apartment, police sources...
FREDDIE'S WAY
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amFREDDY Ferrer is one of two candidates for mayor of New York City in apparent possession of a coherent plan for actually winning, the other being Mark Green. Green is...
MALE CONTRACEPTIVE GETS UNDER THE SKIN
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amScientists are developing a male contraceptive "pill" that could be effective for up to three years. The "pill" is actually an implant that delivers a sperm-blocking hormone through tiny rods...
HEAVENS! 12 MORE MOONS FOR SATURN
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amAstronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Saturn, bringing the planet's tally to 30 - the largest satellite family in the solar system, the journal Nature reports today. French astronomer...
COFFEE STOPS WRINKLES: DOCS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amHere's some news that's sure to make great coffee talk: A new study shows a cup of java a day could help keep the wrinkles away. Researchers at the University...
TAKE HEART IN HEALTHY HOMES
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amIt's all about location, location, location - when it comes to heart health, researchers say. A study in today's New England Journal of Medicine shows blacks and whites living in...
CALIF. DEMS MAY REDISTRICT GARY INTO OBLIVION
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amREP. Gary Condit's political future now looks so precarious that fellow California Dems are considering carving his district out from under him through redistricting. "The question is whether his district...
IS IT CHANDRA'S HAIR? PROBERS AT CONDIT APT. FIND MASSAGE OIL, TOO
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amInvestigators probing intern Chandra Levy's disappearance removed massage oils and a long, brown hair from Rep. Gary Condit's Washington apartment early yesterday morning and sent recovered items to the FBI...
HIT BACK: LIZZIE GRUBMAN SLAPPED WITH $30M LAWSUIT
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amPublicity princess Lizzie Grubman and her celebrity-lawyer dad yesterday were slapped with a $30 million lawsuit by a victim she mowed down outside a trendy Hamptons nightclub. The suit, filed...
KIDD ALREADY LEADING NETS ; NEW POINT GUARD RECRUITING FREE AGENTS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amJason Kidd wants to deliver for the Nets. But not just assists as is his league-leading custom. He wants to bring free agents, a playoff spot and at least 40...
ROOKIE EVANS BATTLE-TESTED
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES George Evans has traded in his Desert Storm camouflage for a Knicks' gray summer-league jersey. The 30-year-old rookie is living a dream of trying to get an invite...
HAMILTON: MET BIZ IS ALL BAD
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amDarryl Hamilton thinks the Mets front office's "bad business" will make it more difficult for it to improve this bad baseball team. Hamilton points to himself as the latest example...
EWING, GRANT MAGIC MEN
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing is making good on his belief that he's got more life left in his withering, knee-padded wheels. The Post has learned Ewing will be joined by former foe...
TITLE MAY COME TO PASS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHE name on the building makes you laugh: Nets Champion Center. There have been no championships for these NBA Nets, only one disaster after another. The joke is always on...
WINFIELD IS CALLING ALL STARS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amDave Winfield has parlayed a Hall of Fame career into a "Call of Fame" business opportunity. He's hoping to have as much success with the latter as he did with...
KNICKS HOPE ZONA PICK IS MR. WRIGHT
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Wright has been around basketball greatness for many years. Forget about the fact he lived near Chicago's United Center when Michael Jordan ruled. When Wright was a freshman power...
BOSS FEELIN' GROOVY : SAYS DEREK IS POISED TO GO ON TEAR IN 2ND HALF
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amMost observers watched Derek Jeter take Jon Lieber deep in Tuesday night's All-Star Game and took it simply for what it was: A homer in a game that means nothing....
ACHING FONZIE WON'T SHUT IT DOWN
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amAs the Mets enter the second half tonight, Edgardo Alfonzo's back still isn't fully recovered and it won't be until he takes three months off. These were the findings of...
BOMBERSDOWNPLAYMO'S ACHYANKLE, BUT...
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amOne of the reasons Joe Torre feels confident at the start of the second half is that he has Jay Witasick and Mark Wohlers in places where, not long ago,...
THE BALL'S IN VAN HORN'S COURT NOW
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amIt just didn't work with Keith Van Horn and Stephon Marbury. And whatever caused the undeniable lack of game chemistry between the two is past. It means nothing because now...
NEW ZEALAND'S TIGER TAB ; WOODS' FEE RAISES TIX PRICES TENFOLD
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amTiger Woods will pocket a whopping $2.25 million just to show up and play golf in New Zealand in January, setting off a tidal wave of controversy there. Two of...
BORAS SAYS METS A-OK
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Agent Scott Boras and Steve Phillips have spoken to repair a relationship that could be vital to the Mets this offseason. Both Boras and Phillips said the Alex...
RANGERS CAP-SIZED ; SATHER STUNNED AS WASHINGTON NABS JAGR
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amApproximately three hours after learning that he had lost Jaromir Jagr to the Caps - Craig Patrick was telling the truth, all right, about Washington being in the hunt -...
CLOCK TICKING ON JOE & CASHMAN PACTS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTEBOOK George Steinbrenner isn't taking the expiring contracts of Brian Cashman and Joe Torre lightly. He knows what they have meant to the Yankee dynasty. However, The Boss has...
POSITIVELY 4TH STREET, COOK LOOKING TO NBA
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amOmar Cook says the hard work has just begun. Judging from his performance in last night's 24th Annual West 4th Street All Star Game, this wasn't part of his work...
BLUESHIRTS MUST TURN TO KIDS, NOT LINDROS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amIT SURE is tough being right all the time. While sprinkling a few heaping teaspoons of humility on the words I wrote for yesterday's editions and now am chewing -...
LIBERTY'S REVENGE IS VICTORY
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amLiberty 67 Storm 53 No teams have been very successful in figuring out how to beat the Liberty. One way to make sure you don't is to make them mad....
LIBERTY'S DALEY HAS BIG FUTURE
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amLittle by little, people are finding out what Vickie Johnson has known since the beginning of training camp. "Grace Daley is good," said Johnson, the Liberty guard who was named...
XAVERIAN STAR SEES FUTURE DOWN IN DIXIE
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amABCD CAMP Chris Taft has had enough of New York. "I don't like it here," said the 6-foot-9½ Taft, who will be a junior at Xaverian. "I'd rather be down...