January 24, 2002
NEXTWAVE IS THE MOST VALUABLE BANKRUPT COMPANY
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amWHAT'S the most valuable bankrupt company in America? It's definitely not Kmart or Enron - unless bad publicity is a currency. The "most-valuable" distinction goes to a little-known cellular-wanna-be firm...
WHOOPS! LVMH MISSES TARGET AFTER WARNINGS
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amThey warned and warned and warned, and then blew it. Luxury giant LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton made the unprecedented move of warning three times that it would miss earning...
GROUND ZERO PANEL GETS RECTOR SITE
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe city-state panel charged with redeveloping ground zero has finally secured office space in a building just blocks from the former World Trade Center site, sources told The Post yesterday....
OLD FORD ESTATE SOLD
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amIS there a Fordune in Brenda Earl's future? Sources say the 40-ish partner at Zweig-DiMenna has bought the legendary Southampton property created by Henry Ford II. The 44-acre oceanfront estate,...
FASHION BIBLE NOW WOMEN'S WEAR YESTERDAY
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amWomen's Wear Daily was snagged by production delays that kept the bible of fashion and retailing off newsstands yesterday morning - in one of the biggest news days in years....
'20/20': SAY HEY, WE PAY FOR DNA
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amIN an unusual collaboration, ABC News and the Baltimore Police Department agreed to split the cost of conducting DNA tests for a story that will be seen tomorrow night on...
'OCEAN' MAKES LITTLE SPLASH
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amBEYOND THE OCEAN [] From Russia, without love. Running time: 87 minutes. In English and Russian, with English subtitles. Not rated (sex, violence, profanity). At Anthology Film Archives, Second Avenue...
A FULL NELSON
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amWILLIE NELSONAt Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place,at 15th Street; (212)777-6800, tonight at 9. ----------- BESIDES having one of the truly distinctive voices in American music, war-horse troubadour Willie Nelson's attitude...
BOXED SEX - DIRECTOR ADDS HIS OWN BIG RED BLEEP
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amJUST as a disquieting sex scene between a scandalously skinny white student and her black creative-writing professor starts to get really explicit, a big red box pops up on screen,...
BYE-BYE BARBARA - CONNIE ADMITS: 'YEAH, WE WERE RIVALS. SO WHAT?'
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amCONNIE Chung acknowledges there was a fierce competition among the high-profile news women of ABC - Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters and her. But it's not new - or something she...
STARR REPORT
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amA case of coincidental timing, or what? ABC News staffers (covertly) watching NBC's "Dateline" were in for a surprise Tuesday night - when they saw "Dateline" covering the exact same...
21ST CENTURY ELVIS: MARKETERS LOOK TO TEENS TO REVIVE DEAD KING
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amHE'S been dead nearly 25 years - but marketing gurus are trying to bring Elvis back to life as a pop music hero for teenagers. Inspired by the wildly successful,...
ENRON BOSS QUITS - FIRM HIT WITH RICO LAWSUIT
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amEnron Chairman Kenneth Lay quit yesterday, saying investigations of the beleaguered company take so much of his time, the firm is better off with someone else in charge. "I want...
COPS KILL MAN WIELDING GUN IN WASH. HTS.
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amA man wielding a sawed-off shotgun was shot dead by police who chased him on foot through Washington Heights last night. Around 7:20 p.m., officers confronted Juan Mendez, 30, at...
MCCALL AND CUOMO EVEN IN NEW POLL
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls Carl McCall and Andrew Cuomo are locked in a dead heat while Gov. Pataki leads both men by over a 2-1 margin, a new poll...
MUSIC A HIT WITH HOSP PATIENTS
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amLive music can help to lower blood pressure and reduce depression and anxiety in hospital patients, new research suggests. Classical recitals, jazz and folk were played in the wards and...
'TRAPPED HUBBY' HOAXER GETS JAIL
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amAnguished cops broke down in tears as they told a grand jury how their hopes soared when a woman reported that 11 officers were alive in the Twin Towers rubble...
MAYOR MUTE ON GOV'S PLAN FOR BUDGET LOOT
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe silence roared from the mayor's office at City Hall yesterday. City Comptroller Bill Thompson said the impact of Gov. Pataki's new budget on the city "appears to be relatively...
SCORES SETTLES DOUBLE-HOMICIDE LAWSUIT
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amFamed East Side flesh emporium Scores yesterday settled a multimillion-dollar wrongful-death suit brought by the families of two employees slain by Albanian mobsters inside the club. Lawyers for the strip...
GUILTY PLEA IN CASE THAT SPARKED CLINTON PROBE
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amAn aging man whose infamous fraud case sparked a pardon probe of Hillary and Bill Clinton pleaded guilty yesterday to swindling the government out of millions of dollars. Chaim Berger,...
STATE RULING MAY BRING DOWN HOME-PHONE COSTS
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - The state yesterday approved a controversial pricing plan it says will increase competition for local phone service and could cut rates for customers of Verizon. The Public Service...
THOMPSON REFUNDS 'TAINTED' DONATION
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amCity Comptroller Bill Thompson has refunded a $1,000 campaign contribution from an executive of the troubled Enron corporation, The Post has learned. Thompson was the only political candidate in the...
MURDER SUSPECT'S DEFENSE: THE TALIBAN MADE ME DO IT
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amA Queens filmmaker beheaded and dismembered his Afghan-American partner because the victim was a Taliban sympathizer who praised the Sept. 11 attacks, the filmmaker's lawyer said yesterday. Nathan Powell, an...
FIRETRUCK BURIED ON 9/11 BACK IN ACTION
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amA symbol of hope has emerged from the rubble at Ground Zero. A ladder truck that was burned and battered in the Sept. 11 attacks went back into service yesterday...
NBC WILL SKATE RINGS FOR OLYMPIC RATINGS
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amSkating means ratings - and that's why figure skating will dominate TV coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics. NBC revealed its extensive broadcast schedule for the Winter Games yesterday, and...
ISRAEL ON RED ALERT - NEW TERROR BOMB FOUND
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel was on an extraordinary high alert today after a powerful bomb was discovered outside a wedding hall and Hamas terrorists pledged an "all-out war." Authorities said the...
4TH TRIAL STARTS IN '81 SLAY
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amIn 1981, a 31-year-old pediatrics doctor with $5 in his wallet was mugged and murdered walking to work at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Yesterday, prosecutors began their fourth attempt at convincing...
LUMBERING CITY TO REPAY AT LAST
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amSanitation workers carted off $10,000 worth of wood and tools from a Chinatown lumber yard to build makeshift stretchers on Sept. 11 - and then the city stiffed the store's...
BRIBE-CHARGE JUDGE HAD NO DOUGH WOES
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn judge accused of shaking down a lawyer for a six-figure payoff had no apparent money problems or extravagances beyond his sharp clothes, courthouse and political insiders said yesterday....
GREEN ON TV TEAM WITH OLD FOE D'AMATO
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amFormer Public Advocate Mark Green has buried the hatchet with longtime rival Al D'Amato, whom he twice tried to oust from the U.S. Senate, and will now "spar" with him...
KELLY NAMES RIGHT-HAND MAN
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday picked the NYPD's top lawyer to be his second in command despite protests from black, Hispanic and gay cops. George Grasso, the deputy commissioner for...
ONLY BLESSED IDIOTS COULD BE THIS STUPID
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amWHEN I talk to a Jewish friend of mine, Rick Sherman of Brooklyn, we always end, albeit over a few pints, with the finale, "God Bless." When I talk to...
EATERIES SUE OVER 'POISON' PROF'S SICK STUNT
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amA Columbia University professor who sent out bogus letters to 240 of the city's top restaurants, claiming they'd given him food poisoning, now has a real reason to feel sick...
SIMPSON: 'DEAD CAT' CASE SMELLS FISHY TO ME
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amO.J. Simpson yesterday insisted his ex-girlfriend hasn't "disappeared" and said he has no idea what happened to the dead cat cops found decomposing in her apartment. "It just bothers me,"...
TYSON'S SORRY EXCUSE FOR AN APOLOGY
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amMike Tyson yesterday flippantly tried to explain his brawl with Lennox Lewis by insisting, "I am not a role model or Mr. Politically Correct." The ear-biting, leg-chomping heavyweight's words came...
LEVY WANTS TALLY OF MLK 'PHANTOMS'
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy is investigating how many students at Martin Luther King HS and other schools are enrolled - but aren't taking classes. Levy said yesterday there have been...
DUBYA SEEKING $48B DEFENSE BOOST
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday called for the biggest boost in military spending in 20 years - a $48 billion jackpot for the Pentagon to modernize and to fight terror....
MYSTERY AUTHOR LOSES MILLION$
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amWhodunit diva Mary Higgins Clark wants to solve a tangled real-life stumper featuring a convicted swindler so she can try to recoup millions of dollars she loaned a New Jersey...
BUSH OKS TAX BREAK FOR WTC KIN
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday met with families who lost loved ones in the World Trade Center and signed a law that shields them from federal taxes for two years....
COPS TROTTED GLOBE TO PREP FOR ECON-SUMMIT PROTESTS
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe NYPD has sent cops to five cities to get tips on handling the hundreds of protesters expected to show up for the World Economic Forum in the Big Apple...
MAYOR WEIGHS 'LIGHT TOWERS' MEMORIAL PLAN
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amNew York could get soon get its first public memorial to World Trade Center victims if City Hall approves a revived plan to beam two lofty "Towers of Light" upward...
MILITARY PLANS MORE CELLS FOR TALIBAN-IMALS IN CUBA
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe United States is suspending the transfer of al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners to Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay until more cells are built, officials said yesterday. The construction of...
STUDY MAKES MARIO LOOK CON$ERVATIVE
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - So maybe Mario Cuomo wasn't such a big spender after all. A new study yesterday from the conservative-oriented Manhattan Institute concludes that Gov. Pataki - during his first...
RECOGNIZE HIM? HE'S THE RAT - LOOKS ALMOST HUMAN AS HE'S TAKEN TO U.S. CAGE
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amTaliban fighter John Walker returned to American soil last night - the once-scraggly-haired traitor now sporting a shaved head and chubby cheeks. A dramatic photo of a heavily guarded Walker...
'CHIN' A TOUGH 'NUT' TO CRACK - JAILED GIGANTE STILL RUNS MOB: FEDS
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe feds yesterday slapped Vincent "The Chin" Gigante with criminal charges for his notorious crazy act - claiming he's been secretly running the "most powerful mob family" in the city...
NO SIGN OF GOD NOW AT QNS. SCHOOL
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe Board of Education has banned the phrase "God bless you" in writing on school property, The Post has learned. The issue arose after Board of Ed lawyers ordered Beach...
BUSH BA$H FOR GOV AT CHATEAU BLOOMY
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - President Bush will join Mayor Bloomberg for a stellar, megabucks fund-raiser for Gov. Pataki at the mayor's posh Upper East Side townhouse on Feb. 6, officials said yesterday....
AMMON WIDOW HAS NEW HUBBY
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amJust three months after her filthy-rich husband was clubbed to death in his posh Hamptons mansion, Generosa Ammon is married again - to the bad-boy electrician who wired up the...
SICKLE-CELL KIDS GET GROWTH BOOST FROM ZINC, DOCS SAY
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amZinc boosts growth in kids affected by sickle-cell anemia, a new study shows. While children with the disease are normal-sized at birth, their growth is eventually stunted from chronic undernutrition,...
ENRON BOSS QUITS : FIRM HIT WITH RICO LAWSUIT
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amEnron Chairman Kenneth Lay quit yesterday, saying investigations of the beleaguered company take so much of his time, the firm is better off with someone else in charge. "I want...
MOGUL-SLAY WIDOW WITH NEW HUBBY IN ENGLAND
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amJust three months after her filthy-rich husband was clubbed to death in his posh Hamptons mansion, Generosa Ammon is married again - to the bad-boy electrician who wired up the...
RAT IS NOW IN U.S. CAGE: FEDS FLY WALKER HOME AMID TIGHT SECURITY
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe first glimpse of Taliban rat John Walker on American soil last night shows the once-scraggly-haired traitor with a shaved head and chubby cheeks. The dramatic photo of a heavily...
'DEAD CAT' CASE SMELLS FUNNY TO O.J.
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amO.J. Simpson yesterday insisted his ex-girlfriend hasn't "disappeared" and said he has no idea what happened to the dead cat cops found decomposing in her apartment. "It just bothers me,"...
LAYDEN: CHANEY'S OUR MAN (UNLESS ...)
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES TORONTO - While calling Monday's 43-point Garden drubbing at the hands of the Hornets "inexcusable," Knick GM Scott Layden yesterday said he still "believes" in coach Don Chaney....
CUFFE 'FRUSTRATED' ON JARVIS' BENCH
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amSTORRS - St. John's forward Kyle Cuffe told The Post that although he made an early mistake in last night's 75-70 loss at Connecticut, he was disappointed that St. John's...
EIGHT IS ENOUGH - SPREE'S 35 HELP KNICKS SNAP SLIDE
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amTORONTO - GM Scott Layden was not going to fire Don Chaney had the Knicks lost last night. But it didn't hurt Chaney's chances of surviving the season when his...
DON'T PASS UP GOOD VALUE
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amRepeat after me: Study the tote board with a few minutes to post before you make a bet in any race. No matter how many times we learn this lesson,...
RANGERS WARN OBSCENE THEO
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amTheo Fleury was called into the principal's office yesterday morning for a 40-minute meeting with Glen Sather and Ron Low in the aftermath of having made obscene gestures to the...
A PASSIN' FANCY - KIDD'S GAME COMES FROM WATCHING BEST
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amHOUSTON - Jason Kidd didn't just wake up one day as one of the greatest passers in the history of the game. For Kidd, artistry came after "watching point guards...
ISLES CAN'T STAND PROSPERITY
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amYou're only as good as your last game. And that's why there's good reason for concern in Islander country. The Isles blew a 4-1, first-period lead against the Rangers at...
SHANE BOUT RELEGATED TO SMALL STAGE
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amJose Sulaiman, knocked to the floor in the Mike Tyson-Lennox Lewis melee a day earlier, admitted yesterday he was "a little bruised here and there." Still, the World Boxing Council...
THE BUS VOWS HE WON'T STALL AGAIN
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amEvery weld is being pressed together for the Steelers. There's a new Steel Curtain defense, quarterback Kordell Stewart continues to morph into a fearsome weapon, Bill Cowher's jaw gets squarer...
FORE! TY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - For an appointment with a 17-year-old wonderkid, Kevin Smeltz boarded a 6 a.m. flight yesterday from Orlando to Phoenix, where he was whisked away to the driving...
FIGHT FIASCO'S FALLOUT - TYSON NOT ALONE IN BLAME DEPT.
January 24, 2002 | 5:00am"I THINK the people who should lose their licenses are the promoters." So says Luther Mack, chairman of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, the five-person board that next Tuesday will...
BOSS OFFERS CONE CHANCE TO RETURN
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amDavid Cone very well may pitch in New York next year. Yet, despite influential Met personnel pushing for it to be at Shea, Cone could end up a Yankee again,...
VINCENT'S HURTING, AND RAMS KNOW IT
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - He hears it first thing in the morning, which lately starts when he enters the trainer's room by 6 a.m. for treatment on his strained groin muscle. "Literally...
BIRDS PLAN TO DO MORE THAN JUST SHOW UP
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - He did it. He actually did it. Andy Reid yesterday talked to the Eagles about the Super Bowl. With so little time and without the customary two weeks...
VENTURA SEES AMAZIN' IMPROVEMENT
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amRobin Ventura's offseason has been like a trip to the bowling alley. Ventura was sized up for a nice-fitting pair of bowling shoes, only to see his buddies wearing brand-spanking-new...
THEO WARNED, FINED
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amTheo Fleury was called into the principal's office yesterday morning for a 40-minute meeting with Glen Sather and Ron Low in the aftermath of having made obscene gestures to the...
BLACKBURN LIKELY TO 'PACK FOR SHORT STAY IN MINORS
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amDan Blackburn is likely to spend the two weeks immediately preceding the Olympic recess in Hartford, The Post has learned. Low yesterday morning confirmed the organization's interest in sending the...
JINTS' GAME PLAN: KEEP COSTS DOWN
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amJessie Armstead spoke yesterday with Giants coach Jim Fassel and, according to his agent, the Pro Bowl linebacker is not feeling disrespected by his inclusion on the five-player unprotected list...
HAKEEM NIXED TRADE TO KNICKS
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amTORONTO - Raptors center Hakeem Olajuwon revealed yesterday he was closer than anyone realized to becoming a Knick last summer. Now Olajuwon is thrilled he nixed the Knicks. Olajuwon told...
TOMS TERRIFIC IN RANGER RAMPAGE
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amRangers 8 - Bruins 4 Why would the Rangers want to FLY when they can put out the best line YET? Yes, that's correct, in their second game together as...
DEVS DO 'D' RIGHT THING
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amDevils 3 - Panthers 1 SUNRISE, Fla. - The Devils finally heard their coach and threw him a lifeline just as the ice was starting to crack under him. A...
RED STORM NEARLY PULLS OFF SHOCKER
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amSTORRS, Conn. - For almost 32 minutes, the question gnawed at the back of the head of every St. John's fan like a termite gnashing on wood. What would St....
HAKEEM NIXED KNICKS - OLAJUWON SAW FALLOFF AT GARDEN, KOD DEAL
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amTORONTO - Raptors center Hakeem Olajuwon revealed yesterday he was closer than anyone realized to becoming a Knick last summer. Now Olajuwon is thrilled he made the decision to nix...
THE KID'S GOT TO PLAY - BLACKBURN MAY GET ICE IN HARTFORD
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amDan Blackburn is likely to spend the two weeks immediately preceding the Olympic recess in Hartford, The Post has learned. Ron Low yesterday morning confirmed the organization's interest in sending...
LARRY ON DEVILS' HOT SEAT
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - The watch is on, whether it be trade or firing. While the Devils are still hoping that Lou Lamoriello will finally pull a major deal to pull...
BUTLER'S DOING IT FOR HUSKIES
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amSTORRS - St. John's already has felt the pain that Caron Butler can dole out. It was Jan. 6 of last season when the Red Storm were three points up...
CHILDS: EX-MATES REALLY MISS JEFF
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES TORONTO - Ex-Knick point guard Chris Childs had his battles with Jeff Van Gundy but believes the club is still going through VG withdrawal. "Every relationship is not...
FRANCO CAN'T WAIT TO GET ROLLING
January 24, 2002 | 5:00amOn Monday, John Franco will be throwing for the first time since offseason surgery on his left elbow. Well, he'll be throwing a baseball for the first time, that is....