July 25, 2001
O'NEAL'S TRIUMPH - MERRILL'S CROWN PRINCE WORKED HIS WAY UP
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amE. Stanley O'Neal, who grew up in rural Alabama and worked as a foreman at a General Motors plant, was yesterday put in line to become the first African American...
TOP BEAR STRATEGIST QUITS FOR LAW SCHOOL
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amBear Stearns' chief investment strategist shocked her colleagues yesterday by announcing she's leaving Wall Street to go to law school. Elizabeth Mackay, who is also a senior managing director, has...
NO BOTTOM YET - DOW PLUNGES 183, NASDAQ DOWN 29
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amMarkets plummeted again yesterday, weighed down by disappointing earnings from Exxon Mobil Corp., AT&T Corp. and Lucent Technologies. "This is a time correction," said Frank Gannon, senior equity portfolio manager...
SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amHOISTING a two-foot long ceremonial set of keys to the World Trade Center, Larry Silverstein celebrated the signing of the deal of his lifetime on the plaza of the World...
SCHUMER WANTS XP TO PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amIn the War of Windows, New York could be the battlefield. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer yesterday called for the government to block the release of Windows XP until Microsoft...
SIRCAM REDDENS FACES
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amFrom SirCam - with love. A new virus is causing havoc and embarrassment in offices around the world - by sending out personal documents from people's PCs. The self-replicating worm...
CSFB BARS STOCK STAKE FOR ANALYSTS
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amCredit Suisse First Boston, going a step beyond rival firms, has barred equity and debt analysts from owning securities of the companies they cover. As a climate of suspicion and...
CNN RE-HIRES AN EXEC IT THREW OUT OF HQ
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amDavid Bohrman is proof old wounds do heal. Bohrman, the CNNfn exec who was booted and escorted out of the building after a nasty contract dispute, has returned to the...
WHY KOMANSKY HAD TO ACT FAST
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amMerrill Lynch boss David Komansky accelerated his decision to pick E. Stanley O'Neal as his successor yesterday to restore confidence in his leadership, after stumbling on the path to new...
300 TAKE THE $ & RUN AT TIME
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amTHE deadline has passed for buyouts at Time Inc. - and nearly 300 have stampeded for the exits. All in all, 535 people at least 50 years old and with...
HIRSCHORN'S GOING BEHIND THE MUSIC
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Hirschorn, editor-in-chief of Inside.com and the vice chairman of Brill Media Holdings, is bailing out to go to Viacom-owned VH-1. He will be the senior vice president of news...
FINALLY, RIESLING'S RISING HERE
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amFEW white wines go so well with so many foods as the fresh, zesty Rieslings from Germany. So why are they so hard to find on restaurant wine lists? Riesling...
CAFE SPICE HAS LIFE AT GRAND CENTRAL
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amCAFE SPICE EXPRESS [ 1/2] GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL DINING CONCOURSE (646) 227-1300 ----------- DAWAT begat Cafe Spice, which begat Cafe Spice Express. And the word was pretty good. The youngest...
SWINE AND DINE - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JACKETS? RESTAURANTS LOSING SLOPPY FIGHT
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amENOUGH chef-bashing. Today, we call out the folks who truly shame our dining rooms in these waning, Golden Days of Rudy: our fellow paying customers.We're talking slobs - people who...
MAMA'S BOY IN OUTLANDISH ICELANDIC
July 25, 2001 | 4:00am101 REYKJAVIK [] A cool comedy from Iceland. In English and Icelandic with English subtitles. Running time: 100 minutes. Not rated (sex, nudity, profanity). At Film Forum, Houston Street, between...
REUNITED ROXY MUSIC IS FERRY GOOD
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amLIKE Roxy Music's for-your-pleasure album covers of the '70s, which picture beautiful women dressed to thrill, the reunited legends of English art-rock flashed debonair, decadent sexiness at Madison Square Garden's...
THREE SITCOM STARS GO... TO ELLEN BACK - ADAM BUCKMAN TAKES A PEEK AT FALL SHOWS WITH BIG NAMES AND EVEN BIGGER HOPES
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amTHREE new sitcoms featuring big-name stars each illustrate the challenges involved in getting a new show in shape for the fall season. One of them - NBC's "Emeril," starring TV...
'ANNIE' GET YOUR GUNS OUT
July 25, 2001 | 4:00am'ANNIE Get Your Gun" is refusing to pack up its pistols and get out of town, which is causing big headaches for "Thoroughly Modern Millie." A new $10 million musical...
STARR REPORT
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amKid you not: 'Rugrats' shatters record No one has ever likened "Rugrats" to the Super Bowl, but it might be time to consider making such a comparison. Last Saturday's special...
A PLACE TO HANG HIS TOQUE
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amAFTER several failed attempts to open his own place, former Lespinasse chef Gray Kunz has begun hiring a staff for his new restaurant. Sources say Denis Costaz, a French native...
'WING' STARS CLOSE TO A DEAL
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amTHE "West Wing" four are thisclose to striking a big-bucks deals with Warner Bros. Lawyers for actors Bradley Whitford, Allison Janney, John Spencer and Richard Schiff are in advanced talks...
MIKE A BAD BRO 2 - CONTESTANT WAS JAILED FOR BUSTING INTO 'BATMAN' SET
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - "Big Brother 2" cast member Michael "Mike Boogie" Carri was arrested five years ago when he tried to break into a movie studio and take secret pictures,...
CBS ON CHANDRA: WE'RE RIGHT - EVERYONE ELSE IS WRONG
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - CBS News executives yesterday agressively defended their evening news show's deafening silence on the Chandra Levy story, and attacked journalists who have given nonstop coverage to the...
GORILLA TACTICS
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S no mean feat transforming delicate English rose Helena Bonham Carter into a loping, pawing, hair-sniffing ape. But, thanks to Hollywood makeup maestro Rick Baker and a crash course at...
LAZIO: DON'T COUNT ON A HOUSE RETURN
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Former U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio yesterday threw cold water on speculation that he may run for his old congressional seat on Long Island next year. "Never say never...
NEW YORK POST: FROM JULY 25, 1866
July 25, 2001 | 4:00am"WASHINGTON - The President has signed the bill to aid in the construction of telegraph lines and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military...
BROADWAY BOX OFFICE IS BOFFO
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amForget the heat. Forget the recession. Even forget the $99 tickets. Broadway is having a record summer. Led by the million-dollar-plus grosses of "The Producers" and "The Lion King," the...
FALLING FENCE INJURES MAN
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amA rooftop security fence fell onto an Upper West Side street last night, critically injuring a 40-year-old man walking by with his family. Michael Taratuta, 40, was taken to St....
HEVESI'S QUICK JERK TO THE EXTREME LEFT
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amWHY does Alan Hevesi think that the easiest route to City Hall is to morph into Ruth Messinger? Indeed, the comptroller's increasingly leftward lurch ever since he officially started running...
PIT BULL MAULS 3 KINDLY KIDS
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amThree Long Island kids were savagely attacked by a stray pit bull they tried to feed, police said. A neighbor had found the abandoned dog wandering in Wyandanch about a...
ABORT TWIST IN '82 VANISH
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amNew York real-estate scion Robert Durst - who long has stonewalled questions about his wife's mysterious disappearance in 1982 - forced her to get an abortion in the mid-1970s, her...
DE NIRO AND WIFE MUST SEE A SHRINK
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amAnalyze him! A Manhattan judge yesterday said she wants a shrink to evaluate actor Robert De Niro, his estranged wife and their 3-year-old son, Elliott, to help end their raging...
SHARPTON SHOCKED THAT PAL PICKED HIS FOE
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton - Abner Louima's longtime adviser - was said to be surprised by the police-torture victim's decision to back Alan Hevesi, sources told The Post. The garrulous...
RABBIS' GIFTS LAND STATE HEALTH BIG IN HOT WATER
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - The state Ethics Commission yesterday said a top Health Department official violated ethics rules by accepting gifts from two rabbis involved with nursing homes. The commission found "reasonable...
PEDALING PERP CHOSE POOR PLACE TO PILFER
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amA suspected rapist picked the wrong house to break into when he stole a bike from the home of one of the city's top prosecutors. Victor Arias, 33, a convicted...
HILL IN 'FOOD' FIGHT WITH W.
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON. SEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton is once again picking a fight with President Bush, threatening now to vote against his choice to run the Food and Drug Administration. A Post...
D.A. EYES DEATH IN CARJACK
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amBrooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes will seek the death penalty if it's proven that good Samaritan carjack victim Rupinder Singh pleaded for his life before he was shot in the...
FBI BIG DOESN'T 'SURVIVE' OWN GAME
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amAn FBI supervisor, forced to transfer someone out of his anti-drug squad, held a "Survivor"-like election in which his agents voted a colleague out, law-enforcement sources said. But the ousted...
PRIEST: I DID MY DUTY TO TROUBLED TEEN
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe Bronx priest who finally went public with an incredible secret he kept for a dozen years said he has fulfilled his duty to the troubled teen gangster who confessed...
'CONFESSION' FREES INMATE AFTER 12 YRS.
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amA Bronx man who spent the past 12 years in prison for murder shook with emotion yesterday as a federal judge ordered him freed because a priest's testimony convinced him...
CANDIDATES SPENDING MILLIONS FOR ADVICE
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amWith more than three months to go before Election Day, this campaign season has already been a huge boon to political consultants, who've raked in close to $10 million, The...
COURT OF APPEALS IS NEXT
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amAlthough José Morales and Ruben Montalvo have been declared innocent by a federal judge, they must still win a few more rounds of their decade-long legal fight to be truly...
'HE MOLESTED ME IN '79' - EX-SCOUT SAYS HIS WARNING ON TROOP LEADER WAS IGNORED
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe accused pedophile scoutmaster of Manhattan's Troop 666 was attacking boys more than 20 years ago - and the Boy Scouts did nothing to stop him, an adult ex-Scout charged...
ALAN'S UPS & DOWNS WITH BLACK VOTERS
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amYesterday's endorsement of Alan Hevesi by Abner Louima caught some observers by surprise because the city comptroller has had a rocky relationship with the black community: * Sept. 12, 1997....
RANDY REV. MARRIES HIS SECRETARY
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amA longtime Queens pastor has been booted for secretly marrying his secretary and continuing to perform priestly duties, officials and parishioners said yesterday. Rev. Timothy Pesak, 53 - who ran...
MR. CRUMP IS NO TRUMP - PROBED IN MOTTOLA HOUSE FIASCO
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amCops have arrested a fast-talking California man they say negotiated to buy Tommy Mottola's $20 million upstate mansion and a $1 million Manhattan restaurant - but never ponied up the...
THEY'VE MILKED THE MOST $$
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe five political consultants and pollsters who've charged the most money so far in the current election cycle in New York City. 1. Squier, Knapp & Dunn. $4.8 million. This...
SUBWAY SANDWICH - MOBBED F TRAIN BEARS BRUNT OF REROUTING PLAN
July 25, 2001 | 4:00am"F" is for furious, frazzled, and frustrated - and full up. The F subway line along Sixth Avenue has attracted huge numbers of new passengers in recent days - most...
THE HAITIAN CONNECTION - HEVESI SNARED LOUIMA'S NOD WITH COMMUNITY TIES
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amAlan Hevesi's years of courting New York City's Haitian community - along with the work of a key Haitian-American aide - helped the comptroller snare Abner Louima's support for his...
WORKER CHARGED IN UNHOLY SCAM
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amAn insurance employee used the Catholic Church to scam $1.2 million out of her own company, federal officials said yesterday. Fridda Corletto, a customer-service rep at Chubb, allegedly used more...
PREZ SALUTES TROOPS IN KOSOVO
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush flew home to face his domestic battles last night after telling U.S. peacekeeping troops in Kosovo he hopes to "hasten the day" when they can come...
LATEST LIZZIE LAWSUIT BOOSTS TOTAL TO $91M
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amAnother day, another lawsuit for Lizzie Grubman. Ad exec Harlan Goldberg backed into the motoring media maven with a $5 million suit yesterday, charging that her "carelessness and negligence" behind...
'RENOVATORS' CHARGED IN CAVE-IN
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe father-and-son owners of a collapsed East Village building were indicted yesterday on charges of endangering lives through shabby, illegal renovation work. Walter Blum, 76, and his son Evan, 47,...
COPS GRILL 'WATCH' GAL - EX-STAFFER GAVE CONDIT GIFT BOX HE TOSSED
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Police have questioned the mystery woman who gave Rep. Gary Condit the watch box he allegedly threw away just hours before his home was searched by cops, The...
TOWN CRIERS WAIL OVER LUCENT'S MASS LAYOFFS
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amFlailing phone-technology giant Lucent yesterday announced it was slashing up to 20,000 jobs, leaving the tiny New Jersey town where it's headquartered feverishly biting its nails - yet again. The...
MOURNERS BID FAREWELL TO 'THREE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN'
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amHundreds of Bangladeshi Muslims gathered at a New Jersey mosque last night to mourn the 13-year-old girl drowned in the Rockaways with two cousins - a loss their shattered family...
DIARIES BARE PAIN OF SUICIDE MODEL
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe 21-year-old plus-size model who stabbed herself to death in her Manhattan apartment was tormented by doubts about her looks and upset by what she saw as the shallowness of...
ROCKAWAY RESIDENTS DEMAND WARNINGS
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe city should post signs screaming about potentially killer currents along the stretch of Far Rockaway surf where three girls were swept away, community leaders said yesterday. "I asked the...
CARTER BLASTS BUSH OVER ISRAEL POLICY
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Ex-President Jimmy Carter has touched off a storm by blasting President Bush, saying Bush should get tougher on Israel. "I have been disappointed in almost everything [Bush] has...
METEOR TOASTS PA. CORNFIELD
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amA fireball streaking across the eastern U.S. has vanished - but folks in Pennsylvania say it left its mark in a cornfield. The people of Salladasburg, Pa., suspect the meteor,...
VIAGRA MAY TREAT LUNG PROBLEM
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amScientists are excited over a new use for the anti-impotence drug Viagra: treatment for a life-threatening heart and lung condition. Pulminary hypertension - or high blood pressure in the arteries...
SQUEEZE IS ON CHINA TO RELEASE U.S. 'SPIES'
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's team says it's leaning on China "at every level" to free the latest two U.S.-based China scholars convicted of spying - including a mom separated from...
KID PATRIOTS 'BUCK' SYSTEM WITH D.C. VISIT
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amA cross-country alliance of school kids presented their plan to a congressional subcommittee yesterday to print an abridged version of the U.S. Constitution on the back of dollar bills. Students...
RUDY URGES PROSTATE TEST
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani says men in America are ingrained with macho attitudes that leads them to ignore their health. "We aren't taught as well as we should to take care of...
CONEY SWIMMER SAVED
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amA quick-acting lifeguard yesterday rescued a 9-year-old girl who was pulled underwater by a wave off Coney Island, police said. Lifeguard Anthony Brito dove into the water at Bay 13...
MOMS ON DOUBLE DUTY
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amMoms spending the day yesterday at the Far Rockaway beach where three girls drowned kept eagle-eyed watch over their kids and made sure to stay close to the lifeguard station....
COPS GRILL 'WATCH' GAL - QUESTION EX-MISTRESS ABOUT GIFT TO CONDIT
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Police have questioned the mystery woman who gave Rep. Gary Condit the watch box he allegedly threw away just hours before his home was searched by cops, The...
WILPON UPBEAT OVER HIS FIELD OF DREAMS
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Co-owner Fred Wilpon thinks the fact that New York City is looking to appraise the environmental viability of the site where the Mets' new $500 million...
AMAZIN'S CAN'T FINISH OFF FISH
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI - Off the field is where the action is with the Mets these days. Who's going? Who's coming? Unfortunately, they have to play games, too. Last night was another...
JUSTICE ON THE HORIZON
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES As far as Joe Torre is concerned, David Justice's return from the DL will be as good as a trade. With the July 31 trade deadline coincidentally looming,...
ENCARNACION'S HR A SUPER BLAST
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amIn the end, it was a meaningless solo shot in a one-run loss in July. But, darn, did Tiger slugger Juan Encarnacion crush that ball. The Yankees won 6-5 last...
'E' ISN'T FOR EASY - ANDY OVERCOMES 4 YANK MISCUES TO TAME TIGERS
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amFrom the first ball hit to the last pitch thrown, the Yankees had trouble getting out of their own way. Andy Pettitte trudged through his defense's betrayal for seven-plus innings,...
NO ALLEN DEAL AS JINTS' CAMP NEARS
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amWith the clock ticking and reporting day for training camp at the University at Albany set for tomorrow afternoon, the Giants find themselves in a situation similar to many other...
WE'RE SEEING FEWER DUCKS - BREEDER NUMBERS DOWN SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amFOR the second straight year, breeding duck populations declined from the record high reached in 1999, as dry habitat conditions in parts of Canada and the U.S. contributed to a...
BROWNLIE COMING UP ACES
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amBobby Brownlie always thought he would become a good college player. He and his father had a plan. "I decided when I was young that the best way to get...
FLEURY GETS INVITATION TO OLYMPIC MINICAMP
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe comeback of Theo Fleury has begun. The Ranger winger yesterday was selected among an elite group of 34 to attend the Canadian Olympic team's minicamp in Calgary Sept. 4-7....
BASEBALL CARD COLLECTOR SLIPPED A MICKEY
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amA baseball card collector from way back, Roy Dulac had every Mickey Mantle card save one at one time or another over the years. A couple of months ago, Dulac,...
SARATOGA IS OPENING WITH BANG
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Historic Saratoga Race Course, the upstate place-to-be, throws open its gates today for a sizzling six-week stand, concluding Labor Day, Sept. 3. Live racing will be held...
LIBERIAN HERO MAY SOME DAY BE A METROSTAR
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amGeorge Weah, part-time Queens resident and 1995 FIFA Player of the Year, said he plans to settle in New York and would love to play for the MetroStars. Just not...
KNICKS STILL 'DREAMING'
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe Knicks approached the Rockets about a possible sign-and-trade for free agent Hakeem Olajuwon but have so far been rebuffed. They've been told by Houston that its No. 1 priority...
INCAVIGLIA IS BACK FOR MORE
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amAll the attention was on Danny Kanell last night when the Newark Bears played the Somerset Patriots at Commerce Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater, N.J., but there was another new player...
DIAMOND DREAMS DRIVES KANELL - EX-GIANT QB'S HOPE TO PLAY FOR YANKS
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amDANNY Kanell knows the old Irish saying that when one door closes in your life, a window opens somewhere else. This former Giants quarterback is climbing through that window now,...
FRED: AL'S A KEEPER - BUT OTHER DEALS NEAR
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI - Co-owner Fred Wilpon has entrusted GM Steve Phillips to turn around the Mets. Ultimately, Phillips will decide on what moves the team makes before next Tuesday's trade deadline....
S.I. YANKS RUN OVER CYCLONES
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amS.I. Yanks 6 - Cyclones 1 The cold-blooded message was delivered with machine-like efficiency. Nine days after being baffled by the vaunted Brooklyn pitching staff, the Staten Island Yankees let...
AS USUAL, MO'S ON CUTTING EDGE
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amTWO baseballs, one flying high, the other zipping low through the steambath that was the Stadium air last night, told the story of the Yankees' latest win. The baseballs simultaneously...
JETER SHOWS SIGNS OF SNAPPING OUT OF IT
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amWhatever mini-slump Derek Jeter may have been in, the shortstop seems to be breaking out of it. He went 3-for-4 with a walk, two runs scored and one great defensive...
NO REASON TO REPLACE TINO
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amHE replaced a Bronx legend and the way it all started, it seemed as if he never would hear the end of the comparisons. And then, after a month of...
MARK'S NUMBER IS UP - YANKS CAN'T WAIT MUCH LONGER FOR WOHLERS' RESURRECTION
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amMark Wohlers changed his number, but the Yankees would prefer he alter his numbers. As soon as he returned from a personally distasteful road trip last week, Wohlers retired No....
DIAMOND DREAM DRIVES KANELL - DESIRE TO PLAY FOR YANKEES NO PASSING FANCY
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amDANNY Kanell knows the old Irish saying that when one door closes in your life, a window opens somewhere else. The former Giants quarterback is climbing through that window now,...
'CLONES-YANKS WAR BIG APPLE'S BEST
July 25, 2001 | 4:00amFor all its handles - the Ferry Series, the Battle of the Boroughs - perhaps the Brooklyn Cyclone-Staten Island Yankee series simply should be called what it is: The best...