February 7, 2002
BANK'S $29 TRILLION DERIVATIVES BET IS VERY RISKY
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amIS J.P. Morgan Chase too big to bail? Last week I posed the more common question: Was the bank too big to fail, or allowed to fail by the government....
WHITE SHOE DOO-DOO : MISSTEPS PUT J.P. MORGAN BOSS' JOB ON LINE
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. CEO William Harrison is in the hot seat as shareholders - disappointed with the company's 19 percent stock drop so far this year - start...
'KASPER' THE GHOST? ANNE KLEIN OWNER FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amIn his first big move as Chairman and CEO of ASL Kasper, John Idol is taking the company into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company reported it has total assets of...
ASKJADE TESTING IF IPOS WILL BE PORN AGAIN
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amhe best way to buy shares being issued in the new porn site AskJade.com is probably in a plain brown wrapper. That way, no one will see how gullible you...
SHOPPERS SLAM DOOR IN FACE DO NOT ENTER:
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amBon voyage, Voyage? The tony London retailer, pronounced voy-aahge, went into liquidation earlier this month with more than $4.5 million in debt. And though owners Tiziano and Louise Mazzilli didn't...
OPRAH WILL LAY OFF 5% AT OXYGEN
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amOprah Winfrey's Oxygen Media is gasping for air. The cable channel and Internet provider targeted at women slashed 5 percent of its staff yesterday, just four months after lopping its...
DEVELOPER WANTS WTC STREETS BACK
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amLarry Silverstein wants to put the street grid back into Downtown. The developer says he'd like to see an end to the 16-acre super block that was the foundation of...
DEEPAK PAYING $9M FOR 2 PADS W/GREAT CPW VUS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amSPIRITUAL sage to the stars Deepak Chopra is getting closer to the heavens. As evidence, the self-improvement mogul is purchasing two apartments on high floors in two different buildings, both...
MANILOW A SECOND-SET WONDER AT RADIO CITY
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amBARRY MANILOWRadio City Music Hall, 50th Street and Sixth Avenue. Concerts nightly at 8. Through Saturday. IT was late in the Barry Manilow concert at Radio City Music Hall Tuesday,...
STARR REPORT
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amWhere there's a Will . . . now at BET Former Ch. 9 news director Will Wright has landed at Viacom-owned Black Entertainment Television. Wright, who had been at Ch....
BACK TO 'SURVIVOR' ISLAND
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amTWO New Yorkers are among the 16 castaways chosen for "Survivor 4." Limo-driver Robert DeCanio, 38, who lives in Queens, and Harlem-born schoolteacher Sean Rector will compete for a $1...
CABLE PLAYING GAMES
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amCABLEVISION customers may have to consider watching some of the Winter Olympics at a friend's house - in a different cable area. Residents in about 524,000 homes in the Bronx...
THEIR PLACE OR YOURS ; STAY IN AND COZY UP TO YOUR SWEETIE
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amFEW things are sexier than a candle-lit night at home - with no TV, chores or phone calls.To create a romantic do-it-yourself Valentine's Day next Thursday, "a few great touches...
OUT & ABOUT - AND A LITTLE WILD
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amGOT to get out on V-Day? Check out these quirky treats.ROMP THE NIGHT AWAYCafe Deville (103 Third Ave. at 13th Street) turns into a naughty nightclub at 11 p.m., filling...
SECRETS OF THE SLAVE TRADE THEY WOULDN'T TEACH YOU AT SCHOOL
February 7, 2002 | 5:00am"The Middle Passage" Saturday at 10:05 on HBO NOT much about "The Middle Passage," the HBO movie debuting Saturday night, will be familiar to you. In fact, I don't know...
DESTINATION: NEW YORK - AMERICAN DESIGNERS BRING CLASSIC STYLE - AND RENEWED HOPE - TO OUR CITY THIS FASHION WEEK
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThis Fashion Week, New York designers are thinking globally and acting locally. Oscar de la Renta's Fall 2002 line will pay a colorful homage to the great street markets of...
SEAT OF THEIR RANTS: IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD CROWD VYING FOR SPOTS AT FASHION WEEK
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amSeating a fashion show has been compared to seating a 600-guest wedding - except that instead of two families jockeying for position, there are 10 or more. Vying for the...
ANDY GRABS UNION NOD
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo won a round in the fight for labor support yesterday, picking up the endorsement of the Communications Workers of America. The CWA represents...
HILLARY'S HILARIOUS ; MOCKS HERSELF FOR LAUGHS AT D.C. DINNER
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amWHO knew that Hillary Clinton could - as she puts it - "do funny"? The new Funny Girl had everyone in stitches at a D.C. political dinner, lamenting the loss...
BILL COZIES UP TO SLOBBO IN SECRET TAPES
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amIn a major embarrassment for Bill Clinton, newly released tapes reveal the former president in a friendly chat with Slobodan Milosevic, treating the Butcher of Belgrade like a good ol'...
2 CLOWNS PLAYING PATRIOT GAMES
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amI HAVE this naughty fantasy. Take Norman Mailer, the America-hating writer who never saw a killer he didn't want to set free, and lock him in a room with that...
A TRAGIC REMINDER : WIFE STUNNED BY PIX OF 9/11 VICTIM'S CAR
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amYvette Pabon was "stunned" when she opened The Post yesterday and saw her dead husband's intact car amid the horrific rubble of the World Trade Center. The sight of the...
AMMON WIDOW'S HUBBY BACK ON L.I. OVER DWI RAP
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amDanny Pelosi, the bad-boy new husband of millionaire widow Generosa Ammon, appeared in court on Long Island yesterday for a hearing in one of two drunken-driving cases. Dressed in a...
KIDS THANK E. HARLEM'S BRAVEST
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amAround 250 students from the Holy Rosary School, wearing red plastic fire hats, marched to Battalion 12 headquarters in East Harlem yesterday morning to show support for their local heroes....
U.S. ADMITS GOOF, PAYS VICTIMS OF AFGHAN RAID
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. forces in Afghanistan released 27 people captured in a botched commando raid yesterday - and the CIA is paying cash to families of those killed in the...
FERGIE'S DOLL A 'SYMBOL OF HOPE'
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe red-haired rag doll recovered from the rubble of the World Trade Center should serve as "a symbol of hope," said Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, to whose children's...
BOOZED-UP TEENS IN DANGEROUS LIAISONS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amSo much for sex ed! At least 23 percent of sexually active teens and young adults in the United States have reckless, unprotected sex when they're under the influence of...
BAIL IS DENIED ; FOR TALI-YANK ; HAS 'EVERY INCENTIVE TO FLEE,' JUDGE SAYS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal judge yesterday denied bail for American Taliban John Walker Lindh, saying he has "every incentive to flee," while prosecutors released snippets of e-mails in which...
QNS. SCHOOL STILL BAFFLED BY RASH OF ITCHY STUDENTS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amKids suffering from a mysterious rash continued to scratch their faces yesterday as mystified school officials scratched their heads trying to come up with the cause. The mystery began Tuesday,...
SELFLESS 'ROBBER' REJECTS A PLEA
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe Manhattan man who fancies himself a modern-day, multimillion-dollar Robin Hood - and who allegedly admitted embezzling from his rich bosses so he could give to the poor - pleaded...
TEEN SUICIDE PILOT: SUPER BOWL WAS NEXT
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe teen terrorist wannabe who slammed a single-engine plane into a Florida office building last month claims he was acting on al Qaeda's behalf - and warned that Osama bin...
OLGA HAD 4G IN FUNNY MONEY: COPS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amLegendary Olympic gymnast Olga Korbut, who was busted on a shoplifting rap last week, is also being investigated for thousands in counterfeit cash seized at her Atlanta home, officials said...
PREZ HAILS $3B BOOST TO TIGHTEN BORDERS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amPresident Bush yesterday told a crowd of cheering cops and firefighters he's increasing the budget for homeland defense by $3.5 billion because "the enemy still wants to get us." But...
PLEA NETS KILLER DRIVER 6 MONTHS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amA 20-year-old man who blew past a Brooklyn stop light and plowed his car into a group of pedestrians - killing two sisters and injuring their mother and another teen...
BIZMEN SHOOT FOR 'NET GAINS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amToo many black families have yet to hit the information superhighway, a new study reveals - but top technology experts and black entrepreneurs are hoping to change that. Today, they...
RAPE RAP FOR HS GUARD IN AFFAIR WITH STUDENT
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn school-safety officer at Boys and Girls HS was charged with rape and sodomy for conducting a torrid three-month affair with a 15-year-old girl student, police said yesterday. Jayson...
DRAFT LAW FAILS TO REGISTER IN APPLE
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe Dodgers are back - the draft dodgers, that is. More than half the city's young men fail to register for the draft - as required by law - when...
8 FROM ENRON ON HOUSE HOT SEAT TODAY
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amEight current and former Enron honchos will face congressional investigators today - with half determined to give questioners the silent treatment. Chief among those expected to talk is former CEO...
MAN GUILTY IN 1981 MUG-SLAY OF DOCTOR
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amA dogged homicide cop finally saw justice after a 20-year wait last night - when a Manhattan jury convicted the murderer of a young doctor. "I feel terrific! I'm very...
TRADER EYED IN BANK'S $750M HIT
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe FBI is probing a Baltimore financial trader who may have scammed as much as $750 million from a major international bank, officials said yesterday. Ireland's largest bank, Allied Irish,...
DUBYA'S PLEDGE: 'WHEN I SAID $20 BILLION, I MEANT $20 BILLION'
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amPresident Bush came to New York yesterday and dramatically renewed his $20 billion pledge to the city, saying: "I'm here to tell you the federal help is coming." Bush's vow...
MOB BOSS CONVICTED IN SHAKEDOWN
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amFederal prosecutors scored a narrow victory yesterday when a jury convicted reputed Colombo underboss John "Jackie" DeRoss of extortion - but acquitted him on numerous racketeering charges. A mob turncoat...
LAY PASSES THE BUCK ; SAYS HE WAS 'BETRAYED' BY HIS CFO
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amEnron's ex-chairman Kenneth Lay told investigators he felt "betrayed" by Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, the mastermind behind the web of secret partnerships used to hide the energy-trading giant's massive...
HEROES' WIDOWS IN PLEA TO PATAKI
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amWidows of firefighters and police officers yesterday made an impassioned appeal to Gov. Pataki not to kill a bill broadening their rights to sue the city. The bill, which dies...
HS SHOOTER CHANGES STORY: COPS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe teen who opened fire at Martin Luther King HS on Martin Luther King's birthday, wounding two students, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder yesterday as authorities released his waffling...
BUSH RAKE$ IT IN FOR PATAKI ; ADDS $2M TO GOV'S WAR CHEST
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amPresident Bush yesterday helped haul in $2 million in campaign cash for Gov. Pataki, from a private big-bucks affair at Mayor Bloomberg's posh townhouse, and a lower-rent fund-raiser in Midtown....
FDNY'S 'BODY HUNT' FORCE CUT BY HALF
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe FDNY has ordered a 50 percent reduction in the number of firefighters searching the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island for the remains of those who perished in the...
BLOOMY MUFFLES THE VIP SIRENS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe Big Apple will be a little bit quieter under Mayor Bloomberg. The mayor's chief of staff warned city employees in a memo this week not to use the lights...
NEW OLYMPIC FLAG FLAP UNFURLS ; PA WANTED TO PUNISH BANNER COP FOR RIPPING IOC
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe uproar over the Ground Zero flag at the Olympics spawned more flip-flops than a champion snowboarder yesterday. First, the International Olympic Committee, facing public outrage, lifted its ban on...
AL QAEDA BIGS NAILED BY MISSILE
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amSeveral senior al Qaeda leaders who had gathered for a meeting in mountainous eastern Afghanistan were killed by a missile from a CIA drone plane, U.S. government sources said yesterday....
HE'S THE KIDNAPPER ; PAKISTAN COPS ON TRAIL OF THIS MAN IN PEARL CASE
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThis is the face of evil behind the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, authorities say. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-born Muslim militant also known as Sheikh...
PALESTINIAN GUNMEN KILL 4 ISRAELIS ON EVE OF SHARON'S TRIP TO U.S.
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amFour Israelis were killed in the West Bank yesterday, one day before Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's U.S. trip aimed at convincing President Bush to sever ties with Palestinian leader...
STUDIO IN 'DAMAGE' CONTROL ON FUND TIE-IN
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amWarner Bros. distanced itself from former Mayor Giuliani's Twin Towers Fund yesterday after the company was accused of using the charity to promote its new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. In a...
COPS: MAN DWI WITH KIDS IN CAR
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amAn uncle baby-sitting his young niece and nephew on Long Island took them out for ice cream - and, while bringing them home, was arrested for drunken driving, Suffolk police...
FAILING GROUND ZERO EATERY SERVES UP MEMORIES
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amNino's Restaurant - which has served thousands of free meals to ground zero workers since Sept. 11 - is closing next week, and wants to preserve the thousands of artifacts...
QUICK-THINKING DRIVER THWARTS SUICIDE BOMBER
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amFour Israelis were killed in the West Bank yesterday - on the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's U.S. trip aimed at convincing President Bush to sever ties with...
BARE PAIR ARE FREE TO STREAK AGAIN
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amTwo college coeds have vowed to take it all off again after a judge in Maine ruled it's perfectly legal for women to jog naked in the Pine Tree State....
VICTORIA'S SPLIT A 'DON' DEAL
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amMob daughter Victoria Gotti yesterday officially ended her 18-year marriage to jailed hubby Carmine Agnello - and sources say she rushed the wrap-up partly for her "Dapper Don" dad, who's...
GOLD-MEDAL DAY FOR WTC FLAG
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amU.S. athletes claimed their first Olympic victory yesterday - getting the Winter Games' organizers to retreat from their "insulting" ban on the torn and tattered flag recovered from the World...
TORCH TRUCKER BURNING MAD
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amOne of the advertising teams behind the Olympic Torch Relay works its employees illegally long hours, according to a truck driver who claims he was fired for complaining, and then...
AFGHAN BAN AT OLYMPICS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amAmerica's Ground Zero flag wasn't the only banner snubbed by the International Olympic Committee - it also put the kibosh on including Afghanistan in the opening ceremony. The nation hasn't...
'DAMAGE' CONTROL AT WARNER BROS.
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amEntertainment giant Warner Bros. distanced itself from former Mayor Giuliani's Twin Towers Fund yesterday after the company was accused of using the charity to promote its new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie....
HIZZONER RIDING HIGH IN NEW POLL
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amA healthy 65 percent of voters approve of the job Mayor Bloomberg is doing after his first month in office, according to a poll released yesterday. Only 6 percent of...
NO DISORDER AT OUR BORDER: PREZ HAILS $3B BOOST FOR QUICK RESPONSE
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amPresident Bush yesterday told a crowd of cheering cops and firefighters that he's increasing the budget for homeland defense by $3.5 billion because "the enemy still wants to get us."...
DEVILS LOOK TO REBOUND VS. ATLANTA
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThey're on the outside, looking in. So tonight when the Devils host the worst team in the conference, the Thrashers, they will try to remedy that, one point behind Montreal...
AIR BYRNES: FUN'S THE NAME OF THE GAME FOR GREENWICH SNOWBOARDER
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - Here's the thing that snowboarders know about their sport. You've got to see it to believe it. "Every time I've tried to describe it to someone,...
9-11 BAILED OUT IOC SCOUNDRELS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amTO the shameful list of those individuals and organizations who have profited off the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, feel free to add the most objectionable one of all: the...
LEZCANO WINS 5
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amRed-hot apprentice jockey Lorenzo Lezcano, who's been burning up the track all winter at the Big A, came within a few strides of riding into the record books yesterday, booting...
KNICKS FALL PREY TO CASUAL VEX ; ALLAN: TEAM LACKS PRIDE, INTENSITY
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amIt is not only the Knicks' record that stinks, but it is also their effort. Allan Houston thinks the Knicks aren't trying their hardest, lack pride and have a casual...
AILING HOU ON KNEE-D TO KNOW BASIS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES While Allan Houston did plenty of talking yesterday, he didn't do any practicing. Houston sat out with a sore left knee. He expects to be able to play...
MUSICAL GOALIES HAS ISLES IN TUNE
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe Islanders don't have a No.1 goalie. Just ask anyone on the team and they'll tell you. Coach Peter Laviolette will tell you the same thing, using the mentality that...
AGE, NOT EFFORT, THE PROBLEM FOR THIS GRAY-HAIRED GANG
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amTHE Knicks, Allan Houston maintained, were too "casual" in letting an 18-point, third-quarter lead against the Clippers turn into a 10-point deficit that resulted in a two-point loss. Houston says...
MILLER TIME OVER IN N.J.
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amMike Miller, the Devils' radio play-by-play man since 1993, will not return to the team following the NHL's Olympic break in order to become the GM of the Toledo Storm...
CANARSIE'S WHITE IS JUST OUTTA SIGHT
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amCanarsie 65Banneker 54 After Robert White poured in a team-high 24 points in Canarsie's win at Banneker, a Division III head coach was on the phone with an Ivy League...
JETS LOSING O-LINE AIDE TO TAMPA RAN SOLID UNIT
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amThe Jets' most dependable anchor - their rock-solid offensive line - is in jeopardy of becoming weakened considerably. Jet GM Terry Bradway told The Post yesterday that offensive-line coach Bill...
RAVENS' ALLAN HAS RAY OF HOPE
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amIt looks like the waiting is about to be over for Allan Ray. The St. Raymond's senior has missed the entire season with a broken foot that has taken longer...
JASON HAS MAGIC TOUCH, JOHNSON SAYS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES Growing up in Oakland, Jason Kidd idolized Magic Johnson. He watched him in person and tried to copy his style, his passing. Well, he must have watched real...
DALLAS DUNKS PAYBACK PLAN ; MAVERICKS SNAP NETS' WIN STREAK IN SWEEP
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amMavs 112Nets 100 This payback saw a switch for the Nets last night. All season, the Nets have avenged earlier defeats. The Pistons, Raptors, Bucks, Wizards, Magic, Kings. Last night...
FAIRFIELD TAKEN BY STORM : NOW JOHNNIES FACE REAL TESTS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amSt. John's 95Fairfield 56 There was very little St. John's could learn, or prove, in last night's out-of-conference mismatch with Fairfield. Red Storm coach Mike Jarvis just wanted his team...
RANGERS KNOW IT'S TIME TO 'FLY'
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amTheo Fleury knows about urgency. So when the Rangers' winger was asked if he felt the four games the team plays this week before the NHL breaks for the Olympics...
DON'T STOP US NOW! BREAK COMES AT BAD TIME FOR ROCKIN', ROLLIN' NETS
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amFor so many teams, this All-Star weekend break looks like an oasis in the rigors of the NBA schedule. An entire weekend and a day off. Rest, recuperate, do whatever...
MAVS' NASH IS CANADA'S TOP HOOPS EXPORT
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES For one night at least, Todd MacCulloch was not the most famous Canadian in the Meadowlands. That honor went to Dallas' Steve Nash. "He's a very interesting guy....
SJU: STAG-NATION COULD BE PROBLEM
February 7, 2002 | 5:00amIt only takes a cursory glance at St. John's schedule for last night's game against Fairfield to jump off the page. Sandwiched neatly - and insidiously - in the middle...