January 30, 2001
LARRY LUSTS FOR TWIN TOWERS ; SILVERSTEIN HAS AN EYE ON WTC'S ; UNTAPPED RETAIL POTENTIAL
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amLARRY Silverstein, shopping for control of the World Trade Center, has a buddy to browse with. He's quietly joined forces with mall development giant Westfield America in his quest to...
20-STORY TOWER TO HOUSE NEW H&M AND OFFICES ; SET TO RISE AT 34TH ST. & 7TH AVE.
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amThe corner of 34th and Seventh Avenue, opposite Penn Plaza, is about to get cheap chic - and a new office tower, The Post has learned. Wendy's has moved west,...
GATEWAY CEO IS GONE, MAKING WAY FOR WAITT
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amHoly cow! Gateway's CEO announced his retirement yesterday - at the age of 44. The big box-maker issued a statement saying Jeff Weitzen, on the job for just a year,...
BLOODY MONDAY AS LAYOFFS TAKE BIG TOLL: CHRYSLER SLASHES 26,000 OVER 3 YEARS; STOCK FALLS
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amChrysler sent the job market reeling yesterday by slashing 26,000 jobs and shuttering or reducing 13 factories - the biggest corporate cutback in a decade. The downsizing dug deeply into...
EISNER FLIP-FLOPS, WIPES OUT GO.COM, 400 JOBS
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amJust weeks after giving his company's Internet portal his full backing, Disney CEO Michael Eisner announced he was slamming the door on Go.com. Some 400 people will lose their jobs....
DELAYS AT LA GUARDIA LAND IN RECORD BOOK
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amLa Guardia Airport had the worst rate of flight delays in the nation last year - and in U.S. history - federal records show. Of the 392,047 landings and takeoffs...
EATING, PURGING & STARVING THEIR HEARTS OUT: ART EXHIBIT CASTS LIGHT ON WOMEN AND MEN WHO BATTLE DEADLY EATING DISORDERS - AND DON'T ALWAYS WIN
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amCINDY Cruz stopped eating when she was 11. She wanted to feel in control again after she was raped by a man who told her, "I like you because you're...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amPalm pilots Starting Feb. 3, Delta Express - Delta Air Lines' low-fare service - will offer two daily nonstop flights between Newark and West Palm Beach, with round-trip fares starting...
FOREIGNSERVICE: SEE EUROPE AS YOU SAIL WITH EUROPEANS ABOARD THE MISTRAL
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amBUON giorno, signore e signori, guten morgen, damen und herren, bonjour, mesdames et messieurs, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We're aboard the 1,200-passenger European cruise ship, M/S Mistral, sailing in...
DOLLY OFF BEATEN PATH
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amThere are few musical experiences as wonderful as hearing the right woman sing the right song for her. This week, four female artists - an icon, a newcomer, a local...
BUZZ
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amType 2 diabetes rising to epidemic proportionsAs Americans continue to supersize their meals - and sit on their butts - the number of diabetics continues to rise. Researchers at the...
'IF ATTILA HAD LOOKED LIKE THIS IN REAL LIFE, HE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO BOTHER RAPING AND PILLAGING'
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amAttila the hunkHi Hun, I'm home! So who knew the big brute was also a serial ladykiller? "Attila" Tonight and Wednesday at 9 on USA Network FOR reasons I had...
TUB TALE AWASH IN IGNORANCE
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amKRISITPrimary Stages, 354 W. 45th St. Through Feb. 18. (212)333-4052. ARE there impressionable teenagers on Mars who get old movies on TV? That might explain "Krisit," a lame, unfunny drama...
STILL SHEER DELIGHT
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amDIRTY BLONDEAt The Helen Hayes Theatre. 240 West 44th St. (212) 944-9450. WAS there life for Claudia Shear's "Dirty Blonde" after Claudia Shear (and, for that matter, one of her...
YOU CAN'T PIN A LABEL ON LUNA (THEY DON'T HAVE ONE)
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amLUNA'S lead singer and songwriter Dean Wareham hails from New Zealand, but he left home at age 14 and he doesn't get back too often."It's a small country. Trying to...
SHATNER'S NEW LINE IS ANOTHER BEAUTY
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amHERE he is - William Shatner? The "Star Trek" legend will host the "Miss USA 2001" beauty pageant - just weeks after dumping his Priceline.com pitchman duties. The pageant is...
JOE ISUZU IS BACK
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amJOE Isuzu, the smarmy, lying car pitchman of the '80s, is making a comeback. Actor David Leisure is returning as the fibbing Isuzu shill in a series of commercials for...
THE STARR REPORT
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amNews chiefs to be gored in D.C.? A date of Feb. 14 has been set for an unusual Congressional hearing on how TV blew the election calls last November. The...
'SURVIVOR' CONFESSES: BOOTED DEBB TALKS ABOUT LOVE LIFE AND X-RATED EXIT
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amDEBB Eaton, the controversial first castoff from "Survivor II" known for romancing her stepson, said on yesterday's "Early Show" that she has no regrets about that decision. "It's not immoral...
CBS WINS, DESPITE 'LOSING'
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amTHE bad news is the Giants lost Super Bowl XXXV. The good news: Nobody saw it. Well, that's if you consider about 130 million people to be "nobody.' The game...
PRODUCER HITS 'MONOLOGUES' SCRIBE WITH LAWSUIT
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amEVE ENSLER'S racy off-Broadway play, "The Vagina Monologues," is taking center stage in a new controversy - this time in the courts. Stephen Pevner, a literary agent and theater and...
CHRISTIAN ACTORS SAY THEY WANT A REVELATION ... PUTTING FEAR OF GOD IN FILM
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amBRING popcorn and leave the Bible at home.That's the message from the makers of "Left Behind," a $17 million film that could be the first Christian movie to achieve box-office...
THIS MAN'S CHILLING CONFESSION TO 50 HOSPITAL SLAYS HAD LOS ANGELES COPS STUMPED - TILL THEY TURNED TO NEW YORK
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amFOR three years, California cops were stumped by the case of the "Angel of Death" - a therapist who claimed he'd euthanized about 50 of his patients with a muscle-paralyzing...
NEW LOWS IN DIABOLICAL GREED
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amTHESE Clintons are just grifters. They remind me of Sante and Kenneth Kimes. You know they are guilty, even if you can't find the body. The record shows I never...
BUSH'S LEAP OF FAITH: WHY JOHN DIIULIO IS AN INSPIRED APPOINTMENT
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amGEORGE W. Bush pulled another surprise yesterday by naming one of the nation's foremost sociologists - and a Democrat, albeit a highly unconventional one - to run the centerpiece of...
WHAT IS IT ABOUT WOMEN THAT MAKES THEM WANNA GO OUT WITH 'BAD BOYS?' 'FIRST WIVES' AUTHOR IS KISSING OFF CADS
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amIT'S a "bad boys'" world. That's the gospel according to Olivia Goldsmith, 46, the sharp-tongued scribe who's made millions writing about how society uses and discards women. "Look at Jennifer...
THE TV RATINGS WERE AS BAD AS THE GIANTS
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amSuper Bowl XXXV was one of the two lowest-rated NFL championships since 1992, continuing a downward trend for what is traditionally the biggest TV event of the year. About 130...
FEDS: BILL FELL FOR RICH'S SCAM ; BASED PARDON ON MISLEADING INFO
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amBill Clinton based his much-attacked pardon of Marc Rich on a string of half-truths and an empty promise the fugitive billionaire wouldn't try to duck civil charges, a former prosecutor...
HILLARY: MY HANDS ARE CLEAN
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday denied any role in her husband's controversial last-day-in-office pardons - and said she's closed the book on her time in the White House. In her...
HILL COMES OUT AGAINST ASHCROFT
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday ripped the nomination of John Ashcroft for attorney general as a Senate panel readied to give him the nod to head President Bush's Justice Department....
NEW DIST. 15 SCHOOLS BOSS: I'LL CLEAN HOUSE
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amThe new interim superintendent of Brooklyn District 15 said she will replace top staffers and improve relations with parents and school staffers, following the stormy tenure of her predecessor. Carmen...
GOD HELP US, THEY'RE TURNING US INTO L.A.
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amFOR a moment yesterday, the coasts collided. The celebs turned about. The Earth spun backward. New York was L.A. On the seventh floor of the creaking Manhattan Supreme courthouse, wedged...
CALIFORNIA JUDGE BIDS TO LET ; DOWNEY CUT A DEAL
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amINDIO, Calif. - A judge yesterday urged prosecutors and defense lawyers cut a plea-bargain for troubled drug-using actor Robert Downey Jr. Downey, wearing a charcoal-gray sports coat, open-collar white tuxedo...
STATE HEALTH BILL HANGS ON TH CONTROL
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - A bid to expand health-care coverage for New York women could hinge on whether businesses and insurers are required to cover contraceptives. The Senate and Assembly agreed to...
BUSH WOULDN'T DO IT, BUT HE WON'T UNDO IT
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amPresident Bush said yesterday he wouldn't have pardoned Marc Rich and is "troubled" that predecessor Bill Clinton did. "I was troubled by [Clinton's] decision. I would not have made the...
WHAT NERVE! THIS PERV TO SERVE AS JESSE AIDE
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amIN the middle of his own sex scandal, Jesse Jackson has offered a job with his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to a notorious sex criminal with political connections. He has hired former...
CITY BIDS AGAIN FOR PARKING-TIX COMPUTERS
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amThe city is making another foray into hand-held computers for parking agents - nearly 15 years after a similar project erupted into a historic municipal corruption scandal, The Post has...
COPS: DRIVER, MATRON LEFT TODDLER, 3, IN SCHOOL BUS FOR 2 HOURS
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amA school-bus driver and a school matron left a 3-year-old boy alone in a locked bus for more than two hours yesterday after delivering kids to a Brooklyn preschool, police...
SUPER BOWL IN THE CITY? PART OF JETS' PLAN FOR $1B WEST SIDE DOME
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amHere's some news that'll make New Yorkers forget about eating crow: Super Bowl XLIV may be played right here in 2010. While the first-ever Big Apple Super Bowl is far...
BUSH 'FAITH'-HEALING PLAN HITS LEGAL FLAK
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amPresident Bush sparked immediate threats of lawsuits yesterday as he set up a new White House office to help religious groups seek billions from Uncle Sam to help fight drug...
CRIME RATE DECLINES ; BUT MURDER IN CITY UP 6 PERCENT FROM LAST YEAR'S NUMBERS
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amOverall crime continued to drop during the first four weeks of this year, although some categories of violent crime, such as rapes, were on the rise, police statistics show. The...
ANDY GETS A JUMP ON GOVERNOR RACE ; OFFICIAL WORD COMES EARLIER THAN EXPECTED
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amAndrew Cuomo unexpectedly declared his candidacy for governor last night, saying, "This is my home, and I want to be helpful." Cuomo, until 10 days ago federal housing secretary, made...
LAWYER: PUFF PULLED THE TRIGGER: PROSECUTOR CLAIMS RAPPER FIRED SHOTS IN NIGHTCLUB CEILING
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amMultiple witnesses will testify that Sean "Puffy" Combs not only pulled a gun, but fired it into the ceiling of the Club New York, the rap mogul's prosecutor promised yesterday....
DISNEY DISSES GAME'S SLAY-CASE MVP
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amGetting his murder charge reduced to a Mickey Mouse misdemeanor rap couldn't get Ravens star linebacker Ray Lewis a post-Super Bowl invite to Disney World. And being MVP in the...
IT'S SHOE-TIME AT BIZARRE GATHERING
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amMaybe it was something in the water at Manhattan Supreme Court. Or maybe it was the irresistible, attractive force that dozens of camera lights can exert on the formerly famous....
OFFICIAL: INDIA QUAKE TOLL MAY HIT 100,000
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amA tiny miracle was discovered in earthquake-ravaged India yesterday - an 8-month-old baby found alive after three days in the rubble of a collapsed building, sheltered in his dead mother's...
BIRTH CONTROL A POISON PILL FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH BILL?
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - A bid to expand health-care coverage for New York women could hinge on whether all businesses and insurers are required to cover contraceptives. The Senate and Assembly agreed...
RUDY ALLY HIRED AS HUNTER PREZ IN ANGRY VOTE
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amAn unusually divided City University Board of Trustees hired a Mayor Giuliani loyalist as president of Hunter College last night - over the objections of the CUNY chancellor, faculty and...
DARTMOUTH DORM RAIDED FOR PROF-SLAY CLUES
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amCops raided a student dormitory at Dartmouth College yesterday as they intensified their probe into the brutal slayings of two beloved professors. The New Hampshire Major Crimes Unit, including a...
BAD COP FINGERS PAIR OF OFFICERS AS CROOKS
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amAn ex-cop, who has already admitted trying to have a detective killed, accused two other cops of misconduct in his testimony yesterday -and told of also targeting a federal prosecutor...
SEAN WOOED JENNIFER WITH LOVEY-DOVEY STUNT
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amSean "Puffy" Combs made a dramatic bid to win back the heart of Jennifer Lopez - releasing 100 white doves into the air and proclaiming his undying love for her....
LAWYER: PUFF PULLED THE TRIGGER : PROSECUTOR CLAIMS RAPPER FIRED SHOTS IN NIGHTCLUB CEILING
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amMultiple witnesses will testify that Sean "Puffy" Combs not only pulled a gun, but fired it into the ceiling of the Club New York, the rap mogul's prosecutor promised yesterday....
HOU AND SPREE AWAIT WORD ; COULD LAND AS RESERVES ON ALL-STAR TEAM TODAY
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amIf lasting impressions count for anything, Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston will be teamed together on the Eastern Conference All-Star Team, Feb. 11th at Washington's MCI Center. They combined for...
HBO SUES TO STOP OSCAR BOUT
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amHBO has come out swinging against tarnished "Golden Boy" Oscar De La Hoya, suing him to try to stop a scheduled March bout against Arturo Gatti. De La Hoya, a...
GIANTS CRASH UPON IMPACT
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Kerry Collins had no chance. If he looked like a deer caught in the headlights, it was because the Giant quarterback was peering into a truck convoy with...
XFL'S HITMEN: PROS OR CONS?
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amWith Super Bowl hangovers and headaches still lingering, the New York-New Jersey Hitmen popped the cork on their first season of existence in the ultra-hyped XFL, amid showers of snickers...
ISLES' HALLER OUT FOR REST OF SEASON
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amIslanders defenseman Kevin Haller will miss the rest of the season with what is described as a sports hernia. He will undergo surgery next week. Haller, 30, has been out...
SOUFFRANT SET TO PLAY WITH PRIDE
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amWhen Woody Souffrant visited Hofstra this past weekend, he expected it to be just one of many trips to various schools. It proved to be his last one. "I didn't...
ACCORSI TURNS PAGE, GETS BACK TO WORK
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Ernie Accorsi has experienced this awful feeling before, the feeling of defeat in a championship game. It's not something you get used to no matter how many times...
SUCCESS WILL COST RAVENS
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - What a week for Brian Billick. He entered Super Bowl hype week with his six shooters drawn, chastising the media for its treatment of the Ray Lewis story,...
THIS MVP A MOST VILE PLAYER: LEWIS NOW A HERO -NEED MORE PROOF WORLD IS TWISTED?
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Maybe this is all as simple and innocent as it appears, that sometimes, good guys just have terrible days and bad guys have great ones and in the...
WOODSON'S WAIT IS WORTH IT
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amNOTEBOOK TAMPA - Ravens veteran safety Rod Woodson had been chasing a Super Bowl ring for 14 NFL seasons and he finally got one Sunday night. "It's been 14 years...
FASSEL'S NEW DEAL SHOULD BE SUPER EASY
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - At the start of the season, Jim Fassel was coaching for his job. Now that the season has ended - later than anyone dared dream the Giants would...
GIANTS GOTTA FIND WAY TO CLOSE GAP
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Having looked into the belly of the beast, the Giants, their fans - and, yes, even us writers - now understand. Some lessons only can be learned the...
JACOBS' ROAD BACK BEGINS AT MILLROSE
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amShe is an eight-time U.S. outdoor champion, a four-time Olympian and a two-time World silver medalist. So it's pretty clear why perhaps nobody has as much to prove at this...
TIKI URGES JINT FANS TO PUT LOSS IN PERSPECTIVE
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amThe Giants returned home from Tampa yesterday, a day after suffering a 34-7 Super Bowl blowout at the hands of Baltimore. But it will take far more than a day...
FUTURE'S BLUE FOR TIKI, JASON
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES TAMPA - Tiki Barber and Jason Sehorn - the Giants' two marquee unrestricted free agents - have had better nights than Super Bowl XXXV's disaster, but that won't...
SHAQ NOT PLAYING FOOTSIE ; HURTIN' HOOF HAS NOTHIN' TO DO WITH KOBE
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amIT'S asinine, er, character assassination to suggest Shaquille O'Neal loathes Kobe Bryant enough to fake the severity of a confirmed ankle injury in order to prove to a national TV...
FASSEL GUARANTEES BLUE WILL BE BACK: GIANT BOSS' PAIN EASED BY STANDING 'O'
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Party? Tonight? I don't think so. Jim Fassel was in no mood. Not late Sunday night as he sat in his hotel room, nearing midnight, barely two hours...
MCKAY SPLIT FROM HOLIK IN DEVS' LATEST LINE SHAKEUP
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amAnother loss, another bust-up. After cryptically complaining that his physical players weren't pushing their weight around, Larry Robinson is likely to separate his longest-standing forward partnership tonight when the Devils...
SATHER RIPS LACKLUSTER BLUESHIRTS
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amLess than a month after addressing his team in Phoenix Jan. 2, Glen Sather shut the Garden locker room door yesterday before the morning skate and once again explained the...
STORM BREWING FOR HUSKIES
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amFor the first time since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams, there will be an elimination game this season. Because of several recent conference realignments, 65 teams will be...
RANGERS' THRASHING LAUGHABLE
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amThrashers 7 Rangers 2 If you were going to assign a book title to the Rangers' effort last night, it would be this: "The Silence of the Lambs." For a...
MCKAY VICTIM OF LATEST LINE SHAKEUP
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amAnother loss, another bust-up. After cryptically complaining that his physical players weren't pushing their weight around, Larry Robinson is likely to separate his longest-standing forward partnership tonight when the Devils...