January 9, 2002
'YOU'RE FIRED' SOFTWARE IS SIGN OF TIMES
Poof! You don't exist. The newest way to fire employees without a trace is with $500,000 software that does it all, except escort you off the premises, but that too,...
CNBC SCRAMBLES AS CNN'S DOBBS RULES AIR
CNBC has confirmed what it always dreaded - that Lou Dobbs has come back to haunt and win the ratings war, hands down. CNBC had been jubilant two years ago...
ISRAELI-BACKED FIRM BUYS U.N. PLAZA
ANEW York-based company backed by Israeli shekels is ready to make its first, Class A solo splash. Capital Real Estate is now in contract to buy the glamorous green glass...
MACK STEALS MORGAN STANLEY EXECUTIVE
In between swinging a mean layoff ax, CSFB chief exec John "Mack the knife" Mack is not above poaching from Morgan Stanley his old stomping ground to plump up the...
7TH ON SIXTH TENTS GO OUT OF FASHION
Designers are not at all happy with the plans for Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Feb. 8-15, which have now been announced. Instead of four venues being offered in the tents...
BONNIE IS FULLER HERSELF
BONNIE Fuller, the ex-editor of Glamour and Cosmopolitan, may well be on her way to becoming a brunette version of Martha Stewart, with a book deal sealed and magazine and...
AN OPEN RED CAN BE AN EYE OPENER FOR DAYS
A friend who drinks only white wine recently switched to red because she hopes it will be good for her heart. She asked for some ideas, but when I suggested...
STARR REPORT
Just your average Joe in Brioschi ad So why is Oscar-winning actor Joe Pesci doing commercials for Brioschi? Well . . . he isn't. It just looks like he is....
SOLD ON BID
BID [ 1/2] 1334 YORK AVE. (AT 71ST STREET) (212) 988-7730 --------- BID, the pricey new restaurant inside Sotheby's auction house, lights your fire on a cold winter night. Its...
HOT & NOT IN CULINARY NEW YEAR
ONE week into overdue '02, dining phenomena of the new year are already showing their shriveled little faces. Here's a none-too-scientific tally of what's in and what's out. Call it...
N.Y. PHIL'S IN THE BLACK
DECLARING itself in "good fiscal health" - despite the pall Sept. 11 cast over most of the city's cultural institutions - the New York Philharmonic yesterday unveiled its 161st season...
VCR THAT WON'T CURSE
LAS VEGAS - A new line of VCRs and DVD players that will block out up to 150 different dirty words and phrases is about to go on sale. Using...
NO CHEERS FOR YOU, MS. ROBINSON
GOODBYE! Anne Robinson has been dubbed fashion's weakest link, by acid-tongued critic Mr. Blackwell. "Looks like Harry Potter in drag. A Hogwarts horror!" Blackwell said of the school-marmish "Weakest Link"...
FIVE-STAR RIDE FOR ALAIN DUCASSE FROM MOBIL TRAVEL GUIDE
THE restaurant-review team at ExxonMobil has put a tiger in Alain Ducasse's tank, with a coveted five-star rating. Despite Ducasse's successes in Paris and Monte Carlo, the New York food...
WHERE'S CARSON? MYSTERIOUS DISPUTE HALTS DALY'S LEAP TO LATE-NIGHT
IN an embarrassing belly-flop, Carson Daly, the MTV star, was a no-show Monday night for the heavily promoted launch of his new late-night NBC show, "Last Call." The show was...
BERRY GOOD & TASTY TOO - THE LATEST HEALTH FOODS INCLUDE HERBS, CHOCOLATE
HAVE you had your oregano today? Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have discovered herbs to be a rich source of healthy antioxidants - with oregano leading the bunch....
JACKO & JANET AT AMAS
At tonight's American Music Awards, Lenny Kravitz faces off against Shaggy and R. Kelly for favorite male artist, while veteran pop star Janet Jackson goes up against Jennifer "J.Lo" Lopez...
THE B'WAY HORROR SHOW: 'ROCKY' & OTHERS LOSE MILLIONS ON BLOODY GREAT WHITE WAY
HOW do you make a small fortune on Broadway? Start with a large one. Of the seven commercial productions that closed last week or are playing their final performances this...
WHEN JUDGES PLAY GOD
IT is one of the many ironies in the ongoing Crown Heights saga that Lemrick Nelson's lawyers tried to get Brooklyn federal court Judge David Trager kicked off the case...
HIGH COURT DOES A JOB ON WORKERS' DISABILITY SUITS
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court yesterday allowed employers to set weaker protections for disabled workers. The court ruled that a Toyota assembly-line worker with carpal-tunnel syndrome isn't entitled to a...
YANKING GUILTY VERDICT IS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
THE prosecutor uttered a single - and unprintable - word. She'd just heard that two black men convicted in the lynching of a Jew in Crown Heights had their guilty...
TWO FLIERS NABBED IN AIR SCARES
An airline passenger was nabbed trying to smuggle four pocketknives, a boxcutter, two flares and a bottle of lighter fluid onto a Florida-bound plane, police said yesterday. And in a...
FAREWELL TO THE TRUE BURGER KING - WENDY'S CEO MOURNED AS A BIZMAN AND A STAR
DAVE THOMAS wasn't the first CEO to serve as TV-commercial spokesman for his own company, but he might have been the best. Thomas, the 69-year-old founder of Wendy's who died...
TRAGIC TOT SHOT IN BED - KILLED BY STRAY BULLET AS SHE WATCHED POOH
A 1-year-old Westchester girl, nestled in bed with her parents watching a Winnie the Pooh video, was killed by a stray bullet fired by a man in a nearby building...
GUILTY PLEA IN '87 B'KLYN CABBY SLAY
A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty yesterday to murdering a cabdriver, in exchange for a sentence of 15 years to life - at least one year longer than two innocent men...
STRIP-CLUB OWNER GETS 16 MONTHS
The owner of an Atlanta strip club where sports stars received sexual favors was sentenced yesterday to 16 months in prison and 400 hours of community service. Steve Kaplan, 42,...
POST READERS ON MIKE'S TEAM IN STADIUM FIGHT
Post readers overwhelmingly agree with Mayor Bloomberg that now isn't the time to build baseball stadiums. By a 4-1 margin, some 2,000 visitors to the Post's Web site say there...
BIG BLOW TO BIN LADEN - TWO MORE AIDES KILLED, TWO OTHERS CAPTURED
WASHINGTON - The war against Osama bin Laden's terror empire took a big step forward yesterday as the Pentagon reported that two senior al Qaeda leaders were captured and two...
QUEENS MAN
A Queens man was arrested yesterday and charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend in Queens. Rale Miller, 42, was also charged with weapons possession in connection...
RUDY AIDE WHEELIE LATE RETURNING CAR
City officials marched up to former Mayor Giuliani's new Midtown offices at Ernst & Young this week to take back a city car one of his top aides had not...
RIOT PAIR THRILLED BY COURT WIN
Lemrick Nelson Jr. was overwhelmed and Charles Price overjoyed to learn of the astounding legal victory that tossed out their convictions, but they will take some time to decide their...
MAYOR-SPEAKER HONEYMOON BEGINS
So just how well will 32-year-old Gifford Miller - expected to be elected City Council speaker today - work with Mayor Bloomberg, a political neophyte twice his age? Quite well,...
NEW TWIST IN CAPE COD WRITER-SLAY MYSTERY - DAD BIDS TO ADOPT LOVE CHILD FOUND WITH MURDERED MOM
The married father of a slain free-lance fashion writer's love child vowed yesterday to win custody of the traumatized tot - whose mother was found dead over the weekend in...
'PSYCHO' DRAMA IN TENANT-SLAY CASE
Was an elderly librarian crazy enough to drive her Upper East Side landlord to shoot her six times in the chest? Or did the landlord shoot the beloved old woman...
SO THIS IS HOW WE HONOR OUR HEROES - COUNTERFEIT NYPD & FDNY ITEMS SOLD AT GROUND ZERO
Money-grubbing street vendors are hawking counterfeit NYPD and FDNY merchandise at ground zero - sickening the families of the heroes who died there on Sept. 11 and even some of...
DONNA GRABS RUDY'S $TAR - JUDGE: SHE'S ENTITLED TO HIS CELEB BUCKS
Donna Hanover is entitled to a chunk of Rudy Giuliani's "celebrity status" - meaning the former mayor's international post-9/11 fame may translate into big bucks for the city's former first...
SUPREME COURT NEXT FOR APPEAL STUNNER?
Federal prosecutors who won two convictions in the race-riot killing of rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum - and then lost them when an appeals court ordered a new trial - now...
KIN-DO SPIRIT: POL EYES LAW FOR MIKE'S DAUGHTER AND SIS
Queens Republican leader Serphin Maltese said yesterday he is prepared to introduce legislation allowing Mayor Bloomberg's sister and daughter to serve in his new administration. "People should be allowed to...
HOW DARE THESE GHOULS SET UP THEIR UNHOLY SHOPS ON THIS HALLOWED SITE
JESUS CHRIST was not such a patsy, as we might have been told. Sure, he turned the other cheek plenty of times. But the good book also tells us he...
QNS. TEEN STABS HIMSELF TO DEATH
A bright but troubled Queens teen stabbed himself to death in his parents' home yesterday, police said. Police said Thomas Furman, 18, stabbed himself numerous times in the chest early...
STATE TO GET $500M FOR EDUCATION FIXES
The landmark education bill signed by President Bush yesterday will mean nearly $500 million in new funds for New York - and private tutors next fall for kids stuck in...
QNS. SHOOT PAIR HELD FOR 3 VA. SLAY RAPS
Two men nabbed yesterday in connection with a pair of Queens shootings - including the wounding of a diplomat's son - have been charged with three murders in Virginia, sources...
KELLY'S SQUEEGEE SQUEEZE
Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday unveiled "Operation Clean Sweep" - the NYPD's quality-of-life crackdown that aims at wiping out public urination, prostitution and squeegee men. Bloomberg also...
FREE TIX LET YOU VIEW THE HORROR SITE
The city will begin issuing tickets today for the viewing platform overlooking ground zero - a policy that officials said was rooted in common sense and not dollars and cents....
TROUBLED SCHOOL OFF FAILING LIST
A Harlem elementary school that rejected privatization last year has been removed from the state's list of low-performing schools after showing dramatic improvement. PS 161 was one of 19 city...
U.S. MAY RESUME NUKE TESTS
WASHINGTON - President Bush's team wants to make it easier to resume underground nuclear tests in case that's needed to ensure the shrinking nuclear arsenal stays reliable, officials said yesterday....
B'KLYN EATERIES ARE CLA$$ ACTS
Restaurants in brownstone Brooklyn have a deal for hungry customers with a heart: "Dine in or take out" on the first Tuesday of the month, and 15 percent of the...
WTC, ECONOMY TO DOMINATE PATAKI SPEECH
ALBANY - Gov. Pataki delivers what may be his most important State of the State Address today - focusing on the Sept. 11 terror attacks and New York's deteriorating economy....
AMMON'S WIDOW IS IN THE MONEY
The wealthy widow of slain financier Ted Ammon is cashing in following the death of her estranged husband. Generosa Ammon has just enriched herself by $8.5 million after selling her...
MD. COPS LET 9/11 HIJACKER GO
The kamikaze pilot whose hijacked jet crashed in rural Pennsylvania was pulled over for speeding in Maryland just two days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Ziad Samir Jarrah, 26,...
PRIVATE EYE TAILED JORDAN FOR 4 YEARS
A Chicago private eye tailed Michael Jordan for four years before his wife filed for divorce Friday, The Post has learned. The P.I. followed the hoopster from Chicago to Florida...
4 ISRAELI SOLDIERS KILLED - SLAIN GUNMEN WERE IN PALESTINIAN POLICE UNIFORM
JERUSALEM - Four Israeli soldiers were shot dead in gunfire with Palestinians near the Gaza Strip, sources said today. The soldiers were killed late last night or early today when...
ISRAELI POL RIPS U.S. ENVOY - LEGISLATOR'S 'JEW BOY' COMMENT DRAWS BACKLASH
JERUSALEM - An Israeli legislator touched off a furor yesterday when he called U.S. Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer a "little Jew boy" who was interfering in Israeli internal matters. Zvi Hendel,...
POL'S BANKER DAD SENTENCED
Four disgraced bankers - including the father of a Queens city councilman - will spend a combined nine months behind bars after a federal judge showed leniency in sentencing them...
GUILTY PLEA IN '87 B'KLYN CAB SLAY
A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty yesterday to murdering a cab driver in exchange for a sentence of 15 years to life, at least one year longer than two innocent men...
BIG 'D' SPARKS STORM SURGE
Three-of-30 shooting. Have you ever seen such a stat? Ponder it for a second: 3-of-30. It's mind-numbing. It's 10 percent. It's what St. John's did to Miami in the second...
IN END, JUAN TAKES THE SLEAZY WAY OUT
JUAN Gonzalez ought to be ashamed. He openly campaigned for the Mets to recruit him. They recruited him. He said he would be open to structuring his contract in such...
VAN GUNDY ALL SET FOR TV TIMEOUT
KNICK NOTES HOUSTON - As the Knicks teeter in Texas under embattled Don Chaney, Jeff Van Gundy embarks on a new challenge tonight. Van Gundy will serve as a guest...
SEEDY GONZALEZ DISSES THE METS ; RETURNS TO TEXAS FOR $24M
In the end, the Great Gonzalez Chase felt more like a hostage negotiation than a baseball deal. And Met general manager Steve Phillips was sized up for the Jimmy Carter...
A LITTLE SNOW ON SLOPES A LOT TO CROW ABOUT
IT took just a little cold weather and the season's first snowstorm to get the northeast ski areas back in the groove for the rest of the ski season. A...
ONE SAD SEMESTER - JINTS WILL PICK EITHER 14 OR 15
The lower the Giants dropped in the standings, the higher they moved up in the draft. They fell into third place in the NFC East with their season-ending loss to...
KINGS OF THE ROAD ; JETS HAVE NO FEAR OF 'BLACK HOLE'
Watch out, Raiders. The Jets are Road Warriors with an ornery us-against-the-universe attitude and the results to back it up. If you think they're fretting a second trip to Oakland...
HERM: 'I'VE BEEN SPOILED'
JET NOTES After the Jets are introduced again to the friendly confines of the Raiders' Black Hole Saturday in Oakland it'll mark the 22nd playoff game that Herman Edwards has...
LOW: TIME TO PUT UP OUR DUKES
There were no details, but Ron Low made it clear yesterday that the Rangers' failure to stand up for Eric Lindros in Pittsburgh on Saturday was only the visible tip...
DEVILS SET TO PULL OFF ARNOTT DEAL
This would break up the "A Line" forever. Sources have told The Post that Devils GM Lou Lamoriello may be on the verge of trading Jason Arnott to San Jose...
HOT RICE MOLLOY
Maurice Hicks still doesn't know what kind of team he has. "I'm trying to figure them out," Hicks said. "It hasn't been easy, but I think we're getting there." Hicks'...
BYRON LIKES TEAM'S TOUGH-GUY IMAGE
NET NOTES In the wake of Kenyon Martin's second suspension for a flagrant foul, the Nets are getting something of a reputation around the league. If it's a "don't back...
CONSUMED BY THE FLAMES
Flames 5 - Isles 2 Last night was all about crashing and burning. While the Flames' team bus crashed before the game, it was the Islanders who were burned in...
NETS BOUNCE HEAT WITH BALANCE
Nets 104 - Heat 95 Once again, forward Kenyon Martin, the Nets' emotional and defensive firebrand, was sitting at home working off his NBA-imposed suspension while his teammates went into...
THE KID GETS ROBBED BY 129 CLUELESS VOTERS
CALL them the Clueless 129. That's how many baseball writers left Gary Carter off their Hall of Fame ballot. If only 11 of them knew squat about the game and...
A DAGGER TO THE HEART
Rockets 88 Knicks 86 HOUSTON - Last night's Texas heartbreaker should leave Cablevision boss James Dolan queasier than all the Mexican food he's had on this trip. After it looked...
HEY, JUAN - C'MON! GONZO SAGA DRAGS ON AND ON
The Great Gonzalez Chase is starting to feel more like a hostage negotiation than a baseball deal. And nobody knows whether Met GM Steve Phillips is going to end up...
SOJO NEWS: LUIS GETS YANK INVITE
Luis Sojo can hold off on that rocking chair a little while longer. The Yankees announced yesterday that they have signed Sojo to a minor-league contract and invited him to...
CAIRNS SAVING ISLES' 'D'
It's all in Eric Cairns' mind - or fists. Playing his best hockey of the season, Cairns has been a huge part of holding the Islanders' defense together after the...
IT'S A NEW GAME FOR VAN HORN
In past seasons, Keith Van Horn usually entered games feeling he had to score 20 points for the Nets to even have a chance to survive. They probably needed 30...
HATTEN IGNITES STORM SURGE
St. John's 71 - Miami 60 It had been a tight, tough game throughout, and with 9:13 left St. John's held a 51-50 lead. Last season, this was collapse time....
CLARK'S SMOOTH TRANSITION HAS 'CANES COOKING
Two years ago, Leonard Hamilton did what few thought possible: He led Miami to a Big East title in basketball before Butch Davis did so in football. Then Hamilton committed...
THE KID GETS ROBBED : CLUELESS 129 DENY CARTER SPOT IN THE HALL
CALL them the Clueless 129. That's how many baseball writers left Gary Carter off their Hall of Fame ballot. If only 11 of them knew squat about the game and...
JEFF HAS SHOT TO MAKE WAVES
HOUSTON - As the Knicks teeter in Texas under embattled Don Chaney, Jeff Van Gundy embarks on a new challenge tonight. Van Gundy will work as third man at the...
CAMBY RIDES TO CHANEY'S RESCUE
KNICK NOTES HOUSTON - Marcus Camby has posted monster numbers the past three games, but his post-game message to his teammates was even stronger. Camby has said it before, but...