March 13, 2001
THIS GUY CAN RESCUE GREENSPAN AND MARKETS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amTHE most important guy in the world right now is Peter Fisher. Peter who? Forget about Alan Greenspan. The Federal Reserve chairman had his chance to solve a stock market...
'NOT GUILTY' FRANKEL BEGS TO BE 'BOOKED'
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amAccused megaswindler Martin Frankel pleaded not guilty yesterday to bilking $200 million from insurance companies - but books rather than bucks were on the former fugitive financier's mind during his...
TOWER TUNING UP OWN RECORD LABEL: RECORD STORES USING STAFF AS ITS MUSIC TALENT SCOUTS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amTower Records doesn't just want to sell music - it now wants to make music. The music retailer said yesterday it will launch its own record label - 33rd Street...
EXPRESS.COM GOES DIRECTLY TO THE BASEMENT
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amIt's not often that things get better for Alley-based DVD e-tailer BigStar.com. But while the e-sector languished yesterday, BigStar celebrated as rival Express.com headed towards to dot-com Dumpster. A spokesman...
SOLOW BAGGED 380 MAD FOR $68M
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amSecretive developer Sheldon Solow took control of 380 Madison on March 7 for about $68 million sources said. Solow paid $65 million to the Howard Ronson's HRO International and Barclays...
TIME TO FOLD 'EM?
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amWith a burn rate estimated at $1 million a month and no sign of profitability on the horizon, Powerful Media is shopping for a buyer now - rather than a...
WIRED EDITOR HERON LEAVING JOB IN JUNE
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amKatrina Heron, the editor-in-chief of Wired who oversaw its absorption into Conde Nast, has said she is quitting in June after four years in the top spot. She said she...
MARCHFIRST MADNESS: TOP TWO EXECS GET THEIR WALKING PAPERS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amWoe is e-. Yet more trouble piled on the e-consultancy sector yesterday as MarchFIRST's top two execs resigned. Chairman and CEO Robert Bernard and his colleague, Thomas Metz, the president...
THERE ARE SOME WINNERS: A FEW STALWARTS POISED TO RACK UP GOOD GAINS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amEvery cloud has a silver lining. With the markets in freefall, some stocks are doing quite nicely, thank you very much. And analysts say there are other stocks that look...
SUBLET FEVER SPREADS TO NJ: SCHWAB ALREADY TRYING TO UNLOAD HALF OF ITS SPACE IN HARBORSIDE
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amStruggling Scient Corp. says it will go ahead with plans to take 165,000 square feet of space at Tishman Speyer's new tower, now rising at 222 E. 41st St.SUBLET fever,...
KEN YOU DIG IT?
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amHappy Birthday, Ken! Barbie's longtime doll companion turns 40 today, and The Post is marking the occasion with a look back at his many faces and fashions. The 12-inch, half-pound...
LESS ABOUT STEVE: WITH FEWER POUNDS, SHORTER HAIR AND A NEW FILM, CAN LOST ACTION HERO SEAGAL GET BACK IN THE GAME?
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amMoviegoers will see less of Steven Seagal when the action flick "Exit Wounds" opens Friday. Studio execs ordered the pudgy action hero to lose weight - and his oft-ridiculed trademark...
NEW ZAGAT GUIDE RATES APPLE NO. 1
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amMANHATTAN'S own Four Seasons is the top hotel in the country, according to a new Zagat guide. In its sixth edition of Top U.S. Hotels, Resorts & Spas, last published...
NOT A TON TO CLAP ABOUT IN ERIC'S 'REPTILE'
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amERIC CLAPTON"Reptile" ½ RepriseIt will never be remembered as one of Eric Clapton's greatest albums, but today's release of "Reptile" is one of the more revealing efforts in the guitarist's...
BEYOND ISTANBUL: OFF-SEASON AND FAR FROM THE BEATEN TOURIST TRAIL
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amI'M lying on my stomach and a naked Turkish man is brutalizing me.And I'm enjoying it. Being roughed up by a naked man in an authentic Turkish bath is a...
BUZZ
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amArtificial intelligence and the pantyliner Procter & Gamble recently filed patents for a whole new line of "smart pantyliners" - ones that can tell the wearer if she's ovulating, pregnant,...
SLEAZE UPSTAGES NOBILITY
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amDRAMATIC monologues are slippery things. Noble characters can make tedious theater; sleazy guys can produce involving evenings. Take "I Will Bear Witness" and "The Good Thief." The first, "I Will...
MY TERROR IN KILLER'S ARMS: COURT TV PRODUCER TELLS HER HOSTAGE STORY
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amTV PRODUCER Maria Zone set out to conduct an interview and wound up crouched in a corner for more than four hours with a convicted killer threatening to stab her...
BIG BUCKS A MAJOR O'REILLY FACTOR
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amFOX News Channel anchor Bill O'Reilly is close to signing a big-money deal to stay with the cable channel. O'Reilly, the white-hot host of the nightly "O'Reilly Factor" show, is...
'FRIENDS' COLOR BARRIER IS BROKEN
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amFRIENDS" is featuring its first African American in its cast. The wildly popular sitcom, which is regularly ripped for its lack of racial diversity, is adding gorgeous Garbrielle Union, one...
FRED GAUDELLI MOVES TO MONDAYS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amFRED Gaudelli, who for 11 years the produced ESPN's Sunday Night Football, yesterday was named producer of ABC's "Monday Night Football," replacing Don Ohlmeyer, who recently resigned that position after...
THE REAL ERIN
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amDESPITE the fact that the name Erin Brockovich has become, oddly enough, a household name, doesn't mean we really know the real story. Let's face it, who wouldn't look good...
THE STARR REPORT
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amTalky Tina odds-on 'Survivor' favoriteIf you're the betting sort - and a "Survivor" fan to boot - then Intertops.com is the cyberplace to be. Intertops is the only place to...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amMove over, Rover - If Junior has outgrown his training wheels and is itching to drive like the big boys, Gleneagles, in Scotland, might be the place to go. The...
IT'S NOT YOUR AVERAGE SEDAN: STRONG LIQUOR FLOWS FREELY AT BAWDY FRENCH MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amA Frenchman is set to strum olde tunes on his ude.Michele Lifshen-Reing A medieval fair in the United States and a medieval fair in France are two very different things....
TEENAGE WASTELAND: A MOTHER'S TALE OF A GOOD GIRL GONE BAD -- AND HER ROAD BACK FROM DRUGS, CRIME AND DESPAIR
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amBy the time Augusta was 14, she was dropping acid, stealing cars, selling drugs and running away for days at a time. Martha Tod Dudman could only wonder why her...
RIDING ON EIRE
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amTHE western coast of Ireland - some 350 miles of rugged, mountainous, cliff-lined land - is the perfect place to explore on foot or on horseback. It's chock-full of ancient...
SOHO: HISTORY, ART, CULTURE - AND PLENTY OF SHOPPING
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amSoHo: an acronym for South of Houston (Street). This former manufacturing district renowned for its historic brick and cast-iron facades is now a shoppers paradise filled with hundreds of retail...
THE TWO AMERICAS: IRONIC US, SIMPLE THEM
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS AT his show Sunday night here at the Mirage Hotel, impressionist Danny Gans did an unfriendly riff on Bill Clinton and Monica and Hillary and cigars - "I...
EX-HUBBY: 'MUM' NOT THE WORD FOR 'BABY WHISPERER'
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amTRACY HOGG, nanny-to-the-stars, has a hip nickname, a Rolodex full of celebrity clients, and a best-selling book based on her baby-care "secrets." But the British-born, self-styled Mary Poppins, who calls...
DEM MAYORAL PICK CAN 'COUNT' ON BILL
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Bill Clinton will climb back into the political ring this fall by raising money for whichever Democrat wins the New York mayoral primary, his spokesman said yesterday. He...
NAVY BOMB KILLS SIX BY FRIENDLY FIRE IN KUWAIT
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amA U.S. Navy jet on a training exercise mistakenly dropped a 500-pound bomb on military observers in the Kuwaiti desert yesterday, killing five Americans and a New Zealander, the Pentagon...
TV TALK HOST MORTON DOWNEY JR. DIES
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amThe mouth roars no more. Morton Downey Jr., the firebrand talk-show host who raised the decibel level of TV talk, died yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of...
WARRANT BARES TRIBOROUGH JUMP BID BY TEEN SKAKEL
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amKennedy cousin Michael Skakel - accused of killing teenager Martha Moxley - allegedly threatened to stab his chauffeur and then tried to jump off the Triborough Bridge during the height...
THIS SILENT CRISIS IS READY TO EXPLODE
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amThe NYPD crimefighting machine that has helped make the Big Apple the safest city in America is facing a crisis of manpower and talent - and no one wants to...
BUSH VISIT STIRS UP DEMS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - George W. Bush went to Florida yesterday for the first time as president since the election fiasco ended with the Supreme Court all but declaring him the victor,...
STANDOFF PITS LOFT LAW VS. LOTTERY
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - The soon-to-expire Loft Law, granting rent protections to thousands of Manhattan tenants, is being held hostage by Senate Republicans, The Post has learned. Senate insiders said the GOP-controlled...
IT MIGHT BECOME HARDER TO BOOT UNRULY STUDENTS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amA reluctant Schools Chancellor Harold Levy has submitted new rules that could make it harder to remove suspended students from their schools, The Post has learned. Levy said he had...
TRAGIC TALE DESTINED FOR SUNDAY AT THE MOVIES ; TRAGIC TALE DESTINED FOR SUNDAY MOVIE
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amTHE path through which a family tragedy transforms into a big-bucks entertainment property keeps growing shorter. Consider Matthew Propp. Stolen from his parents as a baby, the young man has...
GROPE VICTIM: COLE VET SAVED ME
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amA sailor who served on the USS Cole swung and punched his way through a crowd of more than 20 people to rescue a friend being sexually assaulted after last...
ARE THERE 8 MILLION IN THE NAKED CITY?
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amNot only did the Big Apple get bigger over the last 10 years, a city official said yesterday, we may be living in the biggest Apple ever. Joseph Rose, director...
HIZZONER HARRUMPHS AT TEACHERS' 'BRAIN-DRAIN' CLAIM
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani insisted yesterday there's no potential "brain drain" threatening the city schools - and charged that the teachers unions and others who say so are crying wolf. The mayor...
NYPD BLUE OVER BLOWING $55M DUE TO HIRING WOES
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amCaught in a tight vise of decreased hires and increased retirements, top police brass conceded at a City Council hearing that the NYPD won't reach the 41,440 head count needed...
GRID KID: I'LL WALK AGAIN: WOUNDED ST. JOHN'S STAR'S VOW AS SUSPECT IS NABBED
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amA St. John's University football star who took a bullet in the back vowed to walk again - as cops yesterday arrested a Long Island youth on charges he fired...
STOCK SHOCK ROCKS INVESTORS, BUT . . .
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amBoth big-time stock traders and small-time investors yesterday admitted they were shaken and rattled by the market's rumble, but most vowed to roll with its punches - for now. They...
'GRIZZLY' CARNAGE AS BEARS RAMPAGE
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amIt was Bloody Monday on Wall Street yesterday as plummeting tech stocks pushed the Nasdaq below 2,000 for the first time since 1998 and the Dow plunged more than 400...
SO. UTAH: TEAM FROM NOWHERE: T-BIRDS FACE BC THURSDAY
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amA friend called, reading off a list of 12 teams that many believe could possibly manufacture an upset in the upcoming NCAA Tournament. Bill Evans, the coach of Southern Utah,...
MARKET'S MOMENTUM ALL DOWNHILL: WALL ST. EXPERTS FEAR GRIM MOOD WILL TAKE A TOLL ON DOW, NASDAQ
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amHow low can it go? After yesterday's bloodbath on Wall Street, investors want to know if they're going to see more of their savings and pension funds wiped out. The...
B'KLYN JUSTICE-FOR-SALE PROBE: FEDS EYE SINS OF 'THE PRIEST'
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amThe federal probe of alleged bribe-taking by as many as six Brooklyn prosecutors centers around a mysterious figure known as "The Priest" in underworld circles, The Post has learned. Witnesses...
'NONPARTISAN' JESSE TRIPS BOOSTED GORE: COMPLAINT
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amA WASHINGTON activist group will file a complaint today with the Federal Election Commission, charging numerous violations of campaign-finance laws by Jesse Jackson's organizations last fall, The Post has learned....
PUFF LAWYER SCORES JURY POINTS WITH LAST RAP-UP
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amSean "Puffy" Combs' lawyer took a verbal chain saw to the prosecution case yesterday, in a dramatic closing statement that led several jurors to smile and nod their heads in...
HIGH CIGARETTE TAX BURNS STATE VENDORS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Cigarette sales in New York dropped dramatically since the state doubled its excise tax last year - but it isn't clear how many people have actually quit smoking....
TREASURY CHIEF TRADED WITH RICH AS ALCOA'S BOSS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Alcoa bought an aluminum refinery from fugitive billionaire Marc Rich while the company was headed by Paul O'Neill, now treasury secretary. In a separate deal, Alcoa, on O'Neill's...
GADZOOKS! IT'S GORGE-OUS GWYNETH
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amFat is where it's at these days for Gwyneth Paltrow. For her next movie, the rail-thin star is donning a specially constructed "fat suit" to portray an obese woman searching...
ALL PARDONS FACE PROBE: MARY JO CAN WIDEN INQUIRY
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amManhattan federal prosecutors have the green light to vastly broaden their probe of last-minute pardons and commutations issued by former President Bill Clinton, a published report says. U.S. Attorney Mary...
MIRACLE MAN SURVIVES MIDTOWN MANHOLE BLAST
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amAn unlucky pedestrian - catapulted into the air in Midtown yesterday after a manhole cover blew up as he stepped on it - says he's thankful to be alive. "I...
'KIDNAP' SON FLYING HOME WITH 'DAD'
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amThe accused kidnapper in the Queens adoption-abduction saga is free to fly home to New Mexico today with the "son" who swears the man who swiped him as a tot...
$14M FOR VICTIM OF SERIAL DRUNK DRIVER
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amAn 11-year-old boy who was nearly killed by a drunk truck driver got a $14 million settlement before trial yesterday from the driver's employer. Keith Crosby, who had two prior...
'PUFF' LAWYER SCORES JURY POINTS IN FINAL RAP-UP
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amSean "Puffy" Combs' lawyer took a verbal chain saw to the prosecution case yesterday, in a dramatic closing statement that led several jurors to smile and nod their heads in...
KITTLES BEGINS DRILLS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amWith a list of manpower games lost to injury, illness and virtually everything just short of bubonic plague this season, the Nets only can wonder, "what if?" Yesterday, they probably...
LJ HAS BACK TO THE FUTURE: JEFF WANTS INJURED LARRY TO PUT HIS HEALTH BEFORE TEAM
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amHere's some real man-bites-dog stuff: Jeff Van Gundy wants Larry Johnson to be selfish and think about himself, not the team. With Johnson's future hinging on a creaky back that...
HARRINGTON'S HAPPY ABOUT EXTRA MINUTES
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amThere were times not so long ago when Othella Harrington simply took stock of his surroundings and asked himself a simple question. "Just what the heck was it that the...
KNIGHT LIKES STANFORD IN NCAAS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amFormer Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight's heart might soon be deep in the heart of Texas Tech, but his head tells him that Stanford will walk home with the NCAA...
HOFSTRA LINEUP'S THE PRIDE OF NYC HOOPS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amTHEY have either seen the worst there is to see on the mean streets of this city, or they have played against the best basketball players to come out of...
'E' TWO, KNOBLAUCH?
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amFT. MYERS - E-4, throwing. By no means did the Yankees truly believe they wouldn't have to hear those three words this spring. No matter how hard Chuck Knoblauch worked...
RETURN'S UNCERTAIN FOR DUQUE
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amTwins8Yankees7 FT. MYERS - Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez won't start tomorrow night against the Rangers at Legends Field. And Joe Torre doesn't know when we will see El Duque next....
DEVILS DEAL FOR BEEZER
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amDENVER - There may be one more rabbit in Lou Lamoriello's hat, although the Devil GM's arm should be wearying from pulling crucial help from what amounts to thin air....
MILBURY'S DONE SHOPPING
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amAfter doing John Vanbiesbrouck a big favor by sending him to the Devils yesterday, Islanders GM Mike Milbury said that no other deal is imminent before today's 3 p.m. deadline....
HAYES, FERGUSON STAYING WITH JETS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amThe Jets yesterday announced the re-signing of free safety and special-teams maven Chris Hayes and an agreement to terms with nose tackle Jason Ferguson. After it became evident that Buccaneers...
RULAND SAYS GAELS READY FOR PRIME TIME
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amWith its NCAA Tournament opponent finally in focus, Iona yesterday began practicing for its dream date with Ole Miss on day in Kansas City. "We're excited," Gaels' coach Jeff Ruland...
HERE'S THE RX ON NCAA PICKS: INJURIES MAY SWAY TOURNEY
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amIN order to prepare myself for picking my office pool, I called my orthopedic surgeon. After reading my NCAA Tournament picks in tomorrow's Post, you may suggest my next call...
LAKERS PLAYING BICKERBALL
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amJUST when it appeared as if we might be capable of filling this space twice in succession without mentioning, much less delving into, any Kobe-Shaq nonsense, the Lakers "snatched defeat...
JAGR: MY IRON CITY DAYS ARE NUMBERED
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amWith his hefty salary and the Penguins' shaky financial situation, Jaromir Jagr told The Post that he anticipates being traded during the offseason. "I think there's a good possibility I'm...
AMAZIN'S BACKSTOPS CATCHING UP
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Although Mike Piazza is still inactive for games, he has been active. Yesterday, he played catch, took batting practice and rode a stationary bicycle. How is...
GARY SAYS HE'S SORRY MAKES PEACE WITH L.A. BOSS, BUT TRADE STILL POSSIBLE
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - With the doors of the clubhouse locked during last night's Met-Dodger exhibition game, three of the biggest power brokers in baseball - Los Angeles chairman Bob...
GRAVES MAY SING GARDEN SWAN SONG
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amOVERTIMERangers3Penguins3 It was the 506th game of Adam Graves' Ranger career, and when it was done, when the Blueshirts and Penguins had finished playing to an exciting 3-3 draw, the...
HOT TO SCOTT: AS SHEFF CANS AGENT AND HIRES BORAS, YANK DEAL HEATS UP
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amGary Sheffield's dream of playing for the Yankees took a colossal step forward yesterday when the Dodger slugger axed long-time representative Jim Neader and hired super-agent Scott Boras. According to...
GOALTENDING MYSTERY IS TOUGH TO SOLVE
March 13, 2001 | 5:00amTHE Rangers are paying only $250,000 of Guy Hebert's $3.6 million salary for the rest of this season. If they decide to keep him next year, the final one of...
RANGERS SEEK DEADLINE DEAL: TKACHUK, LINDROS STILL PRIME TARGETS
March 13, 2001 | 5:00am'Twas the night before the deadline and all through the Garden, many creatures were stirring, even Rich Pilon. Even as the Rangers played the Penguins last night, the focus of...