February 9, 2002
A SNEAK PEEK AT THE NEW MERRILL (AFTER KOMANSKY)
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amIn the latest move by President E. Stanley O'Neal to consolidate his power, Merrill Lynch has created an operating committee that doesn't include its top official. Merrill Lynch, after reporting...
BARNEYS CO-OP GOING TO SOHO
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amUptown Barneys New York is going Downtown. The retailer is opening a second outpost for its hip Co-op store, in SoHo at the end of next month. The new location,...
PAINFUL MEDICINE BRISTOL-MYERS' IMCLONE BET MAY COST CEO JOB
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amIt's going to be bitter medicine for all involved in the ImClone cancer cure scandal. Especially for Peter Nolan, the new CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb who's flopped miserably in his...
'CARNIVAL' OFFERS NICE RIDE
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amENCORES is starting up its musicals-in-concert season with "Carnival," a 1961 musical based on the 1953 movie "Lili," which made Leslie Caron a star. The sentimental tale of a shy...
TALKING FRANKLY WITH FRANKIE
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amYou'd think Frankie Muniz would be a tough guy to miss. Not only is the 16-year-old the star of "Malcolm in the Middle," but he's also done movies. To hear...
MIME OVER MATTER: THIS WEEKEND'S PRIME TIME FOR FUN
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amNow and then a weekend comes along with so many great things to do that you don't know where to start. This is one of those weekends. In a wild...
SNOW HONEYS: THESE FIVE OLYMPIANS ARE HOT - AND NOT JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE GREAT ATHLETES
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amWe know who most people will be watching closely at the Winter Olympics, which kicked off Friday: Michelle Kwan and Tara Lipinski, to begin with, because they're the United States'...
MLK HS KIDS PULLED A KNIFE ON BOY: COPS
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amTwo teenagers were arrested at violence-scarred Martin Luther King Jr. HS yesterday after they threatened another student with a knife they managed to slip past the metal detectors, police said....
POLL BACKS 'MIXED' WTC SITE: 75% OF CITY FAVORS OFFICES AND MEMORIAL
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amSeventy-five percent of New Yorkers favor a "mixed use" approach to developing Ground Zero - while just one out of five wants the entire site turned into a memorial, a...
SPECTACULAR OPENING - OUR FLAG FLIES HIGH ON EMOTIONAL NIGHT
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The competition begins today. But for one final night, athletes from around the world who are gathered here for the Winter Olympics stood with the United...
4 MORE DEAD IN ISRAEL: ARIEL AIDE IN STORM OVER 'HANG ARAFAT' REMARK
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amFour people were killed in Mideast violence yesterday despite President Bush's latest jab at Yasser Arafat to end the bloodshed. The spike in violence came as a top Israeli official...
COWBOY-IN-CHIEF LANDS $2,500 HAT
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Trent Johnson said he was "building other hats" in his Colorado shop when he got a call last week to stop what he was doing and start working...
ONE OF THE BEST JURISTS MONEY CAN BUY
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amIT was at a gala New Year's Eve party that my colleague Cindy Adams nudged me and said: "You're about to meet the best judges money can buy." That was...
JURY AWARDS $53M TO ASBESTOS-DEATH KIN
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA Manhattan jury yesterday awarded $53.5 million to the family of a man who died from asbestos exposure. Michael Roberts, the lawyer for Stephen Brown's family, said the state Supreme...
MIKE SHOWS 'INDEPENDENCE' IN BACKING SENATE CANDIDATE
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amIn a battle of high-powered surrogates in a tight race for a Manhattan state Senate seat, Mayor Bloomberg and the Independence Party yesterday squared off against Andrew Cuomo. Despite being...
L.I. PARENTS' AGONY, ANGER OVER BABY'S HOSP DEATH
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA grieving Long Island couple yesterday blasted the hospital where their 6-day-old son died from an overdose of intravenous medicine - and filed a notice of intent to sue the...
B'KLYN 'BRIBE' JUDGE GRIPES AND GROUSES
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA judge who risks being bounced from the bench after getting busted on a bribery charge apparently wasn't happy with a judge's life anyway, a transcript released yesterday shows. Judge...
MIKE'S PREDICTION: WAIT 4 YEARS FOR GOOD TIME$
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe city's tax revenues - which nose-dived after Sept. 11 - won't bounce back to boom-time levels for four years, Mayor Bloomberg predicted yesterday. "Our guess is that four years...
TRAITOR'S BEST DEFENSE : PLANS TO CHALLENGE 'CONFESSION' THAT WENT UNRECORDED
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Lawyers for American Taliban John Walker Lindh plan to attack the credibility of his admission to the FBI because it wasn't recorded, transcribed or signed by him. They...
GUILTY OF SLAY IN LOVE TRIANGLE
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA man accused of plotting with his old flame to kill her husband so they could get married was found guilty yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Jeffrey Richardson, 31, sat...
THOMSON IS BACK DOWNTOWN
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA former World Trade Center tenant has leased another 58,000 square-feet Downtown. The financial information company, Thomson Financial, leased this replacement space for its Baseline division at 395 Hudson Street,...
COPS, FIREMEN WIN PENSION PUSH AS BLOOMY OVERRIDES RUDY
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - After Mayor Bloomberg dropped the city's opposition at the last minute, Gov. Pataki yesterday signed into law a pension bill designed to keep veteran cops and firefighters on...
KENNY MAY LAY IT ON THE LINE: ENRON BIG JUST MIGHT UNZIP LIPS AT HEARING
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amFormer Enron chairman Kenneth Lay may testify before Congress after all. Lay was subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee after he backed out of appearing voluntarily before the...
9/11 AID OFFICE IS MOVING TO MIDTOWN SITE
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe city's family assistance center for relatives of World Trade Center victims is moving from lower Manhattan to Midtown - its second move in six weeks, officials said yesterday. The...
'STAR WARS' ROMANCE 'EPISODE II' PASSION OUT OF THIS WORLD
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amIt's a love story from a galaxy far, far away. Here's a sneak peek at the moment Queen Amidala, played by Natalie Portman, shares her first kiss with the dashing...
B'KLYN JURY SOCKS DOC FOR $26M
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA doctor who didn't move fast enough to perform an emergency Cesarean section must pay a whopping $26 million to the child who - at age 5 - can't talk...
CLOSE CALL AS COP DODGES CLEAVER IN MURDER BUST
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amIt was a hard night on the job for NYPD Lt. Lawrence Serras - a deranged murder suspect tossed a meat cleaver at his head and threatened to kill him...
TEEN BUSTED IN SCHOOL ATTACK
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amPolice yesterday arrested a troubled 16-year-old for assaulting students outside Lafayette HS in Brooklyn. Rasheen Baxter, of West 11th Street, Brooklyn, was tossed from Lafayette last November after numerous suspensions...
CROOK AIDED TERRORIST: FEDS
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA Boston aerobics instructor appeared in federal court in New York yesterday on charges he gave stolen credit cards to one of the men who later plotted a millennium terror...
CEREMONY MOVED BY SPIRIT OF 9/11
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - Tears flowed and 52,000 spectators fell silent when the torn and tattered World Trade Center flag was paraded at the Olympic opening ceremony last night as...
BIG HS ENROLLMENT DROP CHOPS 350 TEACHING JOBS
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amPlummeting student enrollment - triggered in part by the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks - has forced the Board of Education to eliminate 350 high-school teaching jobs, The Post has learned....
EVIL GRANDSON GETS 4 YEARS
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA Queens man pleaded guilty to attempted-burglary charges yesterday after waging a four-year "reign of terror" against his elderly, infirm grandparents. Neno Bland, 26, will serve three years in prison...
ALARM-ING TWIST FOR AMMON-SLAY WIDOW
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amAt the time of his brutal murder, millionaire Ted Ammon could not set the sophisticated burglar alarm of his ivy-covered Long Island mansion - because his wife Generosa had changed...
GAY-SLAY TYCOON FINALLY BUSTED: STABBER, 70, FOUND IN PANAMA AFTER 13 YRS. ON LAM
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA multimillionaire gay-bar impresario who killed his ex-boyfriend's new lover and then went on the lam 13 years ago was nabbed living the high life in Panama, police and prosecutors...
KENNY MAY LAY IT ON THE LINE: HE PUNTS HIS $TAKE IN TEXANS
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amHouston NFL fans have less reason to boo the team's owners - Kenneth Lay has sold his share of the Houston Texans. Majority owner Bob McNair said yesterday that he...
KOSHER NOSTRA: $32M SUIT: HASIDS STRONGARM MUSLIM RIVALS
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA group of Muslim shop owners in Brooklyn say their Jewish neighbors have made them an offer they can't refuse - and they're afraid their businesses will soon be sleeping...
SINGER IN 'MINOR' KEY: OLYMPIC OPENER R. KELLY IN 'TEENAGER SEX' VIDEO SHOCKER
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amGrammy-winning R&B star R. Kelly faces a police probe over whether he had sex with an underage girl - but that didn't stop him from belting out his hit song...
OUTRAGE OVER N.H. PAPER'S CARTOON OF 'KAMIKAZE' BUSH
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe White House, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and World Trade Center victims are outraged over a New Hampshire newspaper's editorial cartoon showing President Bush flying a plane into the Twin...
TALIBAN FOREIGN MINISTER TURNS HIMSELF IN
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Taliban's foreign minister was in U.S. custody last night, as a military team arrived near the remote site of a missile strike to determine if Osama bin...
DURST'S CONN. ACCUSER HAS 5 DRUG BUSTS: PRIVATE EYE
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA Connecticut woman who has led the fight to charge eccentric millionaire Robert Durst with killing his first wife spent at least four years behind bars on drug and cocaine...
SLAY TYCOON, 70, FINALLY BUSTED
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA fugitive multimillionaire convicted of stabbing his ex-boyfriend's new lover to death has been nabbed in Panama - 13 years after skipping out on $400,000 bail and fleeing the country,...
GUILTY IN LOVE-TRIANGLE SLAY
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amA man accused of plotting with his old flame to kill her husband so they could get married was found guilty yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Jeffrey Richardson, 31, sat...
AMERICANS FEAR TERROR STRIKE AT GAMES: POLL
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - Nearly 80 percent of Americans fear terrorists may strike at the Winter Olympics, according to a poll released before last night's opening ceremony. Only 5 percent...
RANGERS ROLL PAST ATLANTA
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amATLANTA - They went south of the Mason-Dixon, riding a three-game losing streak. And against the worst the NHL has to offer, the Blueshirts did precisely what they had to...
STORM DROPS WHAMMY ON GAMES
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - Mother Nature had the Winter Olympics going downhill even before last night's opening ceremonies. A powerful northern weather front, with gusts of wind topping out at...
TEXANS TAKE LOOK AT YOUNG
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amRyan Young, the Jets' dependable starting right tackle for the last two seasons, was in Houston yesterday to take a physical for the expansion Texans. Both Jets starting cornerbacks left...
THE WORLD WATCHES - FIVE-RING CIRCUS A BIT OVERBLOWN
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - I hate pageantry. Joe Torre ran some interesting long parades to the mound last year trying to get to Mariano Rivera, but otherwise they leave me...
STORM AIMING FOR NCAA PATH
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amMarcus Hatten has led St. John's in scoring 16 of its 22 games so there is no doubt he is a point man. His team brings a modest two-game winning...
NO KIDD-ING: JASON HAPPY WITH JERSEY
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Hey, Nets, want to keep Jason Kidd? Then make sure you keep Rod Thorn and Byron Scott and don't mess with the team. "If they draw out a...
HOU WON'T BE DANCING IN PHILLY
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amAllan Houston did his "All-Star Break Dance" after hitting the 3-pointer Thursday night with 2.1 seconds left that beat the Hawks. But the Knicks' $100-million shooting guard won't be dancing...
KWAN QUASHES ANY GOLD MEDAL REGRETS
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - Michelle Kwan has won four World Championships, two of them since being upset for the gold medal in Nagano by Tara Lipinski, leaving the 1998 silver...
MIKE IS METS' 1ST '02 BOBBLEHEAD
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amIt's not a Gold Glove or a diamond World Series ring, but a ceramic likeness is still pretty cool. For Met players Mike Piazza, Roberto Alomar and Al Leiter, the...
WILLIAMS LONG SHOT FOR KNICKS
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amBarring a miraculous surge after the All-Star break, the biggest date facing the Knicks is May 19. That's when Knicks GM Scott Layden will likely be sitting at the dais...
LIVINGSTON LEVELS FIELD
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe two-day New York Roadrunners Collegiate Invitational is one of the fastest college meets in the country, and yesterday a pair of runners with Brooklyn roots put on the biggest...
LOUGHLIN KOS CTK
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amLoughlin 64CTK 58 Another night in the CHSAA, another tight game. Curtis Sumpter is used to it. "I knew it would be tough, but it has been more intense than...
BUSH TELLS TEAM USA: 'LET'S ROLL!'
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The U.S. athletes have their rallying cry: "Let's Roll!" It was uttered by an average man who showed uncommon bravery on Sept. 11. It was repeated...
U.S. WOMEN FIGURE SKATERS EARN RAVE REVIEW
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amOLYMPIC NOTEBOOK SALT LAKE CITY - There is no lack of confidence on the women's figure skating team. Shasa Cohen's coach John Nicks sent a message to the rest of...
BARNABY'S STILL DOING DIRTY WORK
February 9, 2002 | 5:00amATLANTA -Matt Barnaby's teeth are framed on a wall in his house. During the 1996-97 season, Barnaby had his two front teeth custom made in the theme of his Sabres...