July 16, 2002
9/11 SUITS INCLUDE DEUTSCHE, CON ED
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amDeutsche Bank and insurers for Con Edison have joined the growing horde of companies and individuals looking for some $8.6 billion because of their losses related to 9/11. The high-profile...
FOREIGN INVESTORS MAY BE SAYING ADIOS TO U.S. MARTS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amNOW for the really bad news: If the stock market continues to misbehave, it could lead to big difficulties for the already-fragile U.S. economy. You already know the obvious way...
NERVOUS MORT'S DARK TOWER
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amTHE editorial page of the New York Daily News, like that of the New York Post, calls for an unyielding stand against terrorism. Since Sept. 11, the Daily News has...
TWIN STARS LAUNCH NEW CLOTHES LINE
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amMary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are moving for total domination at Wal-Mart. Having already taken on Kmart's diva of discount dishware, Martha Stewart, the Olsen twins are expanding into categories Stewart...
NEW CAPTAIN AT 2 SAILING MAGS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amMiller Publishing Group's sailing titles, Cruising World and Sailing World, are steaming under a new owner's flag - but they'll still operate out of their Newport, R.I., home port. The...
PFIZER MAY BE FIRST OF MANY DRUG DEALS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe builder of the world's newest pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is a quiet scientist from Stanford who plots takeovers like a chess game. Hank McKinnell, a 30-year veteran of Pfizer, startled...
KOBE'S NEXT GIG AS ENDORSER TO BE A SLAM DUNK
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amOne of the most valuable properties in basketball is up for grabs. The L.A. Lakers' Kobe Bryant has parted ways with Adidas "amicably," ending his six-year endorsement deal with the...
SMOKING E-GUNS - WORLDCOM E-MAILS SUGGEST A 3-YEAR COVERUP
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A pack of executives running WorldCom behaved like "common thieves" by covering up cooked books for more than three years, a lawmaker charged yesterday. Waving smoking-gun e-mails and...
GERMAN INVESTORS IN M'HATTAN REAL ESTATE BIDS-KRIEG
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe Germans are taking over Manhattan. The German Paramount Group is about a week away from signing a contract to buy Americas Tower at 1166 Avenue of the Americas from...
M&A BOSS QUITS AT LEHMAN
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amPaul Zoidis, head of the global telecommunications and media group and co-head of mergers and acquisitions at Lehman Brothers, has relinquished his management roles at the investment bank. In an...
DOW SLIDE ONE FOR THE BOOKS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amThere's a lot of pain on Wall Street. Stocks have been in an eight-week swoon. Blue chips have plunged more than 700 points in six trading sessions - the biggest...
MARKET PROS: IT AIN'T OVER
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amStocks staged a dramatic rally yesterday, rising from fresh lows, but still couldn't pull blue chips above water. An eight-week slide has put the Standard & Poor's 500 and tech-rich...
NO SWANSONG FOR SWANSON
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amDENNIS Swanson is joining CBS - three days after announcing his retirement from NBC. Swanson, who said Friday he's leaving NBC-owned Ch. 4 after six years, has been hired by...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amHey mon! Jamaica is hot. Montego Bay hosts the 10th annual Reggae Sumfest July 21-27; festivities include beach parties, dancing and performers such as Ashanti, Burning Spear and Damian Marley....
BETTER OFF 'BUSTED'
July 16, 2002 | 4:00am* The Dave Matthews Band "Busted Stuff" [] RCA If the Dave Matthews Band can be believed, anything broken can be fixed with care and time. And if the band's...
CURTAINS FOR 'TOPDOG'
July 16, 2002 | 4:00am"Topdog/Underdog" - which netted its playwright both the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony nod on the same day - will close Aug. 11. Suzan-Lori Parks' darkly comic fable stars Jeffrey...
LUCINDA'S ON THE LOOSE WITH SOLOMON & A PROPHET
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amLUCINDA Williams, a ruby of the alt-country singer/songwriter world, recently left Nashville behind for L.A. She's come a long way to perform her unpolished gems at Central Park's SummerStage tomorrow...
SWITCH HITTERS - HIP-HOP HAPPENS FOR POWER 105 IN RADIO SHOCKER; 'SUCCESS THIS QUICK FRIGHTENS ME. NOW REAL WORK BEGINS' - POWER 105.1 PROGRAM DIRECTOR MICHAEL SAUNDERS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amPOWER 105.1 hip-hopped to the top tier of New York's radio market - moving from 13th to 3rd place in the quarterly Arbitron ratings report. And K-Rock's Howard Stern has...
PERFECT PITCH - NO FEAR OF SELLOUT LABEL, MUSICIANS TIE TUNES TO ADS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amMADONNA did it. Moby did it. Now even Elvis Presley and Kid Rock are doing it, too. Musicians used to balk at licensing their songs for commercials - for fear...
REBORN DONAHUE IS DYNAMITE!
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amWANT to see how it's done? Then watch Donahue. The guy's a living, breathing textbook on how to do talk television. What they teach you in talk-show-host school, Donahue does....
SPIELBERG CALLS IT A KNIGHT WITH HBO
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amHBO and Steven Spielberg are planning to build the next Camelot. The movie maker is teaming with the cable giant to create an eight-part, big-budget miniseries based on the life...
WHAT'S 'WIN' IN SPANISH?
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amUNIVISION'S Spanish-language station, Ch. 41, has set a new record - beating a major New York VHF English-language station in every key weekday news time period for an entire week....
STARR REPORT
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amMacy's salesman opens 'Door' to TNT #s TNT's "Door to Door" turned out to be a ratings winner Sunday night. The movie, starring Bill Macy in the true-life story of...
MOTHER'S LOVE FOR IVERSON
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe defiant mom of embattled NBA star Allen Iverson spoke out yesterday for the first time since his brush with the law - and defended her son as a good...
OCT. SURPRISE, PLEASE
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amGO on, Mr. President: Wag the dog. It would be good for the world, it would be good for America and it would be good politics as well. You've made...
PLANNING FOR WAR - SORRY, TIMESMEN: THAT'S WHAT THE PENTAGON DOES
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amTHE New York Times is unquestionably one of the world's great newspapers. But every time it marches into military affairs, the editors stumble like Gomer Pyle. Apart from the fact...
BOAT-CRASH TEEN WAS LEGALLY SOBER: COPS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amA teen accused of drunken boating in a crash that killed two people last week in Little Neck Bay in Queens was not legally intoxicated, police sources revealed yesterday. Robert...
SOTHEBY'S CROOK RATS OUT 'REAL FIXER' IN FREEDOM BID
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amConvicted Sotheby's price-fixer Alfred Taubman is pointing the finger at another board member for conspiring with a rival auction house in a last-ditch bid to avoid going to prison in...
DIESEL SPILL IN N.Y. HARBOR
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amAt least 500 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into New York Harbor off Brooklyn as a barge transferred the liquid to another tanker. The Coast Guard said the diesel was...
'TERROR' ROBBER FEAR - BURGLAR SWIPES ID, UNIFORM FROM FLIGHT ATTENDANTS IN QNS.
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amAuthorities are trying to determine if two flight attendants who were robbed of an airline uniform and identification were targeted by terrorists. NYPD investigators and FBI officials said yesterday that...
COPS' 'AIR' BLITZ - ASK 'MOST WANTED' TO PROFILE B'KLYN SIS-SLAY FUGITIVE
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amAs mourners bid farewell yesterday to a Brooklyn woman allegedly slain by her brother, authorities said they're asking "America's Most Wanted" to profile the fugitive. Police said Andre Neverson, 38,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amA new dating service in Seattle has a very strict requirement for men - they have to be millionaires to join up. Christine Stelmack says her MultiMillionaire MatchMaking Club aims...
FOUR YEARS FOR KILLER-DOG CON
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - A remorseless dog owner refused a final chance to apologize yesterday, after a judge sentenced her to four years for the mauling death of a Long Island...
KIN SEEK THAW IN FIGHT FOR TED BODY
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amLawyers for the son and eldest daughter of Ted Williams stepped up to the plate yesterday to try to reach a compromise over the fate of the Hall of Famer's...
STATE ANTHRAX LABS FACE STEPPED-UP SCRUTINY
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - The state Health Department has enacted stricter standards for labs that test for anthrax and other bioterrorism agents, The Post has learned. Under the new rules, environmental labs...
RYDER'S DA-BOOT BID IS REJECTED
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A judge in Beverly Hills shot down actress Winona Ryder's effort to boot the Los Angeles County district attorney from her shoplifting prosecution. The actress' lawyer, Mark...
LANDFILL CREW ENDS GRIM SEARCH ON 'HALLOWED GROUND'
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amEarth-moving equipment stood silent as bagpipers played somber melodies during a ceremony yesterday marking the end of the search for human remains at the Fresh Kills landfill. Hundreds of people...
PARENTS 'LEFT' DOOR OPEN FOR OTHER LOONIES
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amSOMEWHERE, Osama bin Laden is laughing his beard off. Taliban Johnny's dad was on the radio yesterday. And the California loony who bred a true American turncoat was comparing his...
MEGA-PERV TAG FOR KATIE FIEND
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amSal Inghilleri, who served seven years in jail for a child-abuse crime that shocked the nation, will be tracked after his upcoming release as the worst type of sex offender...
CITY COUNCIL FEUD TURNS INTO A #@!*%-FEST
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe City Council's top staffer unleashed a furious obscenity-filled tirade at a council member, the member charged yesterday. Allan Jennings (D-Queens), in a letter to Council Speaker Gifford Miller, accused...
'STARVE DAD' GOES NUTS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe Manhattan murder trial of a former Marine accused of letting his 4-year-old daughter starve to death was halted briefly yesterday when the defendant lost control of himself and started...
SUBWAY BABY ARRIVES IN RAIL WORLD
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amIt was an express delivery on the N local. A 21-year-old Bronx woman gave birth to a healthy girl on a subway stairwell yesterday morning with the help of a...
CITY KIDS GET BOO$T FOR TUTORS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amPrivate education firms are jockeying to get millions of new federal dollars to provide tutoring and after-school services to students stuck in low-performing city schools. President Bush's "No Child Left...
MIKE SPANN'S DAD ANGRY OVER PLEA
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amALEXANDRIA, Va. - The father of slain CIA Agent Johnny "Mike" Spann reacted angrily yesterday to the plea deal for John Walker Lindh - and charged that it's a blow...
SLO-MO SCHWARZ JURY STILL OUT IN 'TORTURE' CASE
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amJurors plowed their way through a fifth day of deliberations in the retrial of Charles Schwarz, giving no indication of when - or if - they will reach a verdict....
SECONDHAND SMOKE MAKES HEALTHY-HEART NO-NO LIST
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amIt's official - popping a daily dose of aspirin and dodging secondhand smoke are two sure-fire ways to help avoid heart attacks, top docs say. The American Heart Association -...
PARENTS THREATEN SUIT OVER HARLEM'S FAILING SCHOOLS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amA group of Harlem parents has accused the Board of Education of leaving their children behind in failing schools - in violation of federal and state laws. In an 11-page...
WILD RUN - PANIC ON STREET AS DOW SWINGS 400 PTS.
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amInvestors suffered through a stomach-churning bungee jump on Wall Street yesterday as the Dow plummeted 439 points, then bounced back and closed down only 45. The rally came in the...
CRANE SMASHES QNS. COURTHOUSE
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amA 170-ton crane being used to renovate a Queens courthouse toppled over yesterday, striking the building and injuring two people, authorities said. The State Supreme Court building in Jamaica was...
BOAT-CRASH TEEN WAS LEGALLY SOBER, TEST SHOWS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amA teen accused of drunken boating in a crash that killed two people last week in Little Neck Bay in Queens was not legally intoxicated, police sources revealed yesterday. Robert...
PATAKI'S WAR CHEST BURSTING WITH $23M
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amGov. Pataki has amassed a staggering $23 million to spend on his campaign - almost twice the size of the combined war chests of his two Democratic rivals, records released...
'I PROVIDED MY SERVICES AS A SOLDIER TO THE TALIBAN...DURING THE COURSE OF DOING SO, I CARRIED A RIFLE AND TWO GRENADES'
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amALEXANDRIA, Va. - American Taliban John Walker Lindh faces 20 years in jail after striking a surprise plea deal, approved by President Bush, in which he admitted yesterday taking up...
FATHER OF BLACK-HISTORY STAMPS IS 'LIVING JEWEL'
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amClarence Irving has always believed, "If I can think it, I can do it," and that's how, 25 years ago, the Queens dad became the "father" of the Postal Service's...
PRISONER SET FREE IN BUNGLE
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amA correction officer erroneously released a prisoner yesterday who was set to be taken to an upstate psychiatric hospital. She was the latest in serious of prisoners who went free...
SUBWAY DEATH FOR MAN IN MOURNING
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amA Manhattan man, distraught over the recent death of his father, was struck and killed by a subway train yesterday while walking in a tunnel, cops and neighbors said. John...
DEAL COULD SOON PUT THAW IN BATTLE OVER TED'S BODY
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amLawyers for the son and eldest daughter of Ted Williams stepped up to the plate yesterday to try to reach a compromise over the fate of the Hall of Famer's...
SOBER KID HIT 'DRUG' BOAT, COPS NOW CLAIM
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amIn a bizarre twist to last week's Queens speedboat crash, the teenager charged with drunken boating was found to have been legally sober at the time of the wreck -...
JAILER NABBED IN SEX ATTACK
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amA correction officer was arrested yesterday in a sex attack on a 15-year-old girl - just hours after his twin brother was collared for the same crime, police said. The...
WTC SKYSCRAPER PLAN
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amA towering skyscraper, a "memorial pavilion" over the spot where one of the Twin Towers once stood, and a museum atop a covered-over West Street are among the elements in...
JUDGE ORDERS KATIE FIEND BE CLASSIFIED AS BIG-TIME PERV
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amSal Inghilleri, who served seven years in jail for a child-abuse case that shocked the country, will be tracked after his upcoming release as the worst type of sex offender...
IVERSON 'BLOOD' A FALSE ALARM
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe suspicious stains found in the car of NBA star and rampage suspect Allen Iverson have turned out not to be blood after all, cops said yesterday. "His kids ride...
COPS TO CUFF IVERSON TODAY
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amNBA superstar Allen Iverson is set to face the music today when he surrenders to police on charges he terrorized two men during an armed hunt for his wife. Associates...
WTC PLANS BARED TODAY
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amA towering skyscraper, a "memorial pavilion" over where one of the Twin Towers once stood, and a museum on a buried West Street are among the elements in the Ground...
DUQUE A 'HIT' IN LOSS - DRILLS DELGADO AS PAYBACK BUT BLUE JAYS TOP BOMBERS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - The fire that burned so strongly in Orlando Hernandez' belly is back. And he has newfound respect from his teammates to go with it. Even though El Duque...
HUNGRY FOR HISTORY - FIELD: TIGER WON'T TIRE OF WINNING MAJORS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amMUIRFIELD - Excitement and curiosity are building at a fever pitch with regard to Tiger Woods' pursuit of the fabled golfing Grand Slam here on the shores of the Firth...
'CAPPERS IN PHOTO FINISH
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amA mere $80 in "funny money" meant a difference of $10,000 in real greenbacks last weekend at the two-day Connecticut OTB handicapping contest, held at the Bradley Teletheater near Hartford,...
UP TO A POINT, SONICS SAY THEY'LL MATCH FOR JAMES
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES BOSTON - Less than emphatically, SuperSonics coach Nate McMillan said yesterday his club will match an offer sheet to Sonics 7-1 center Jerome James. However, when pressed, McMillan...
MO WON'T GO CHANGING
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - Those of you who think Mariano Rivera needs to change the way he pitches in the aftermath of Sunday's meltdown have a better chance of seeing peace in...
FOR BERNIE, LONG TIME BETWEEN LONG BALLS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - He has hit only one homer since May 27, but that's the only bullet missing from Bernie Williams' arsenal these days. Williams, who has homered once in the...
RAUL BACK IN LINEUP FOR YANKS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Joe Torre waited until Raul Mondesi took batting practice and made a few throws from the outfield before batting him fifth in the Yankee lineup last...
WATCH YOUR BACK, WARD & EISLEY
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - If Don Chaney and Knicks brass are trying to light a fire under point-guard incumbents Charlie Ward and Howard Eisley, they are doing a good job with their...
HOW THE METS CAN LAND A-ROD
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Mets passed on Alex Rodriguez once and it is possible to trace 1 ½ years of misery since to that decision. So it behooves this reeling organization to do...
RANGERS EYE DAHLEN
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe Post has learned that Rangers have a fair amount of interest in 35-year-old free agent left wing Ulf Dahlen, who scored 23 goals for the Capitals last season even...
DEVILS RE-SIGN ELIAS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amIt's a new era in New Jersey, all right. Call it the Age of Enlightenment. For instead of conducting a negotiating battle against Patrik Elias that might have created an...
SINCE DEALS, IT'S GLOOM OVER MIAMI
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amPreston Wilson walked around the Marlin clubhouse at Shea last night wearing a T-shirt that said, "Mediocrity is not an option." Looks like Wilson needs a new shirt. After Florida...
NETS' SLAY KEEPS COMING UP SHORT
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - Figure if Tamar Slay makes the Nets roster, by opening night he'll be on a height par with Eddie Gaedell. The Nets' second round draft pick,...
A BEANTOWN BUST - PHILLIPS: NOTHING DOING ON MO-TO-BOSOX FRONT
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amMo Vaughn, who has a blanket no-trade clause for this season, said talk of the Red Sox acquiring him has been "flattering." Vaughn is making sounds that a reunion with...
PIAZZA IS 'BACK' ON THE BENCH
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mike Piazza was scratched from last night's starting lineup with recurring lower back soreness and stiffness, but the injury wasn't serious enough for the Mets to order an...
L.A.'S GEORGE WANTS TO PLAY KIDD GAMES
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Jason Kidd's value to the Nets is undeniable in every way as a passer, scorer, rebounder, leader. And as a magnet for free agents. Devean George, the Lakers'...
KNICKS' ODDS OF LANDING JAMES SLIP-SLIDIN' AWAY
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES BOSTON - The Knicks' chances of landing Jerome James appears to be slipping. Less than emphatically, Seattle coach Nate McMillan said yesterday his club will match an offer...
NETS' SLAY MAKES SUDDEN IMPACT
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - Tamar Slay had just come off the Nets bench late in the first quarter and was wide open in the corner. He hurried the shot. "Brick"...
RAUL BACK IN LINEUP VS. JAYS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Joe Torre waited until Raul Mondesi took batting practice and made a few throws from the outfield before batting him fifth in the Yankees' 8-5 loss...
WILLIAMS' GAME OPENING EYES
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - In the dying seconds of the first half last night, Knicks rookie point guard Frank Williams grabbed the rebound of a missed alley-oop by Sam Dalembert and took...
MARIANO: I WON'T GO CHANGING
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - Those of you who think Mariano Rivera will change the way he pitches in the aftermath of Sunday's meltdown in Cleveland have a better chance of seeing peace...
JEROMY RELAXED AND REVIVED
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amEdgardo Alfonzo didn't say much to Jeromy Burnitz during the outfielder's prolonged slump over the first half of the season. And he didn't give Burnitz a lot of advice when...
METS MULL COST OF ESTES TO REDS
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amOne issue the Mets are trying to work through as they approach the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline is how much money, if any, they should eat from a contract...
PIAZZA IS 'BACK' ON BENCH
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mike Piazza was scratched from last night's starting lineup with recurring lower back soreness and stiffness. The Mets do not believe Piazza's injury is serious enough to warrant...
BASH TO THE FUTURE - METS, BACSIK FILET FISH IN CLASSIC '86 FASHION
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amMets 8 - Marlins 3 Last night, Mike Bacsik turned Shawn Estes and Jeff D'Amico into trade-talk fodder. Mo Vaughn turned on a 92-mph fastball. And the Mets turned back...