January 3, 2000
UN-GOLDIN BOND; EX-NYC POL ONCE BACKED BUSTED FUND MGR
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amDisgraced pension fund manager Alan Bond, who was charged last month with taking nearly $7 million in kickbacks to fund his lavish lifestyle, had some pretty powerful people providing him...
NERVE.COM FEELING OUT PRINT, RADIO AND TV
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amNerve (www.nerve.com), the highbrow webzine of literarysmut, is continuing its multimedia expansion on- and offline, moving into a print magazine, Internet radio and TV. Nerve.com also recently launched its premium...
WANTED: YOUNG BLOND ACTOR FOR 'STAR WARS'
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amWITH casting expected to begin this month on George Lucas' second "Star Wars" prequel, rumors are buzzing as to which young actor Lucas will tap as the new Anakin. "Star...
IT'S DUELING CHEFS IN HIT FROM JAPAN
January 3, 2000 | 5:00am"Iron Chef" Friday and Saturdays at 10 p.m. (repeats at 1 a.m.) on Food Network An eccentric millionaire with a frightening dye job, and what looks like the stolen wardrobes...
THE STARR REPORT
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amClueless in Seattle The folks at NBC took umbrage last fall when Seattle's KING-TV -- citing disappointing ratings -- bumped "Later Today" to a 10 a.m. time slot. But now...
Y2K DRESS MAKEOVER
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Scared you'll never wear your New Year's outfit again? Here's how you can... Manhattan File magazine editor Christina Greeven is one of New York's most stylish women. She's regularly...
RUDY TO CALL LONG DISTANCE IN BID TO WOO CONSERVATIVES
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amTHE most awaited call in New York politics -- Mayor Giuliani to Conservative Party leader Mike Long -- will be made "within the next week," The Post has learned. Republican...
RUDY EYES HARD LINE VS. SOFT MONEY
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amMAYOR GIULIANI is quietly considering a plan to unilaterally refuse all unrestricted "soft money" contributions to his Senate campaign. In an attempt to take the high road over Hillary Rodham...
IT'S AULD LANG SEIN! JERRY KEEPS ALL-GUY NEW YEAR TRADITION
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amJerry Seinfeld may be a happily married man -- but some of his old bachelor habits are dying hard. The newlywed comic continued his annual tradition of having a guys-only...
DOGGONE! SNOOPY AND CO. BID FAREWELL TODAY
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amSnoopy bids farewell to the world today from his famous perch atop his doghouse, in front of his typewriter, as cartoon legend Charles Schulz draws his way into retirement. The...
VIRAL OUTBREAK SLAMS FLU-BLUE NEW YORKERS
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amAt least one Y2K bug has bitten the Big Apple -- the influenza virus is running rampant through the five boroughs. New York City hospitals and pharmacists are reporting a...
THEY'RE NOT HAS-BEANIES AFTER ALL
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amHere's the news that kids around the world have been waiting to hear: Beanie Babies are alive and well and will live into the 21st century. That's the word from...
VILLAIN -- AND MAN -- OF THE CENTURY
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amTIME magazine just declared Albert Einstein the single person who had the greatest impact on us all in the 20th century. I don't think so: For sheer global impact, Adolf...
BORIS' $WISS MESS ; PROBE OF $15M STASH MAY HAVE LED HIM TO QUIT: MAG
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amBoris Yeltsin may be linked to Swiss bank accounts containing about $15million -- accounts which have been frozen by authorities investigating Russian money laundering, it was reported yesterday. The criminal...
PREZ HOPEFULS MOB IOWA, N.H. AS CAMPAIGN HITS HIGH GEAR
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Tiny hamlets in Iowa and New Hampshire will be crawling with candidates again today, as the presidential campaign resumes after a one-week holiday hiatus. Chief among the business...
U.S. EXTENDING WARY WELCOME TO EX-SPY PUTIN
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration yesterday praised acting Russian President Vladimir Putin -- but warned that his background with the KGB could be trouble. Putin "has 12 years in the...
WE FEARED WORST, GOT FIRSTS
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amThe new millennium has offered a one-in-a-million chance to be first at something -- from computer glitch to 21st-century prankster to just-plain Y2-crazy. Take the case of the Pentagon spy...
QNS. LIVERY DRIVER IS ROBBED & SHOT DEAD
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amA Queens livery cab driver who was saving money to return home to India and find a bride was murdered at the wheel of his car during a robbery, authorities...
DOT.COMMIE MENACE SCOURGE OF FUTURE
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amON SATURDAY in Dallas, Mitch Maddox, who now calls himself DotComGuy, walked into an empty house with a laptop computer and said he doesn't plan to leave until 2001. Troy...
VIETNAM-ERA NAVY CHIEF ZUMWALT DIES AFTER CANCER BOUT
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amRetired Adm. Elmo Zumwalt -- who commanded Navy operations at the height of the Vietnam War and brought sweeping reform -- died yesterday at the age of 79. Zumwalt died...
RUSSIANS DRIVE CHECHENS FROM VITAL STRONGHOLD
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amRussian soldiers made fresh inroads in their quest to capture the capital of Chechnya -- but encountered fierce resistance from rebel guerrillas, officials said yesterday. The troops took strategic heights...
GRATEFUL GEORGE HEALING AT HOME ; DOCS: HE'LL MAKE 'FULL RECOVERY'
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amGeorge Harrison was back home and resting comfortably last night -- four days after a drug-addicted psycho tried to hack him to death with a kitchen knife. And the guitarist...
STRONGER O'CONNOR IS HEADED BACK TO OFFICE
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor will return to work today for the first time since undergoing brain surgery, he announced yesterday at his first public Mass for the new millennium. The cardinal...
PREZ PLEDGES $10M FOR 'SMART GUNS'
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amThe White House is spending $10million on research into futuristic "smart-gun technology" that could keep firearms out of the hands of children. The National Institute of Justice will work with...
Y2K-BUG FIX REALLY GOES TO WORK TODAY ; BUT OFFICIALS EXPECT FEW PROBLEMS
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amAmericans trudge back to work en masse for the first time in the 21st century -- with business and government leaders predicting today's test of Y2K readiness will show the...
'CHICKEN LITTLE' HAS EGG ON HIS FACE
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amA red-faced Ed Yardeni probably doesn't want to show up for work today. The chief economist of Deutsche Bank Securities made a name for himself in the last millennium by...
'SLICE' GIRL SEEKS DIVORCE FROM HUBBY
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amScary Spice has reportedly split from her husband after the couple's Christmas tryst turned into a millennium melee. Melanie Brown -- who is now known as Mel G -- her...
U.S. SENDS HAITI REFUGEES BACK
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amThe Coast Guard began shipping back to Haiti some of the 411 boat people, most of them impoverished Haitians, whose overloaded freighter ran aground off the Florida coast, officials said...
BARAK LOOKS LIKELY TO GIVE GROUND ON GOLAN
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amSHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. -- As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak renews talks with longtime enemy Syria here today, there were new indications he'll agree to hand over the Golan Heights in...
ETHICS GO UNDERCOVER IN ; NEW HOUSE RULES
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- The House Ethics Committee, which polices Congress and its staffers, has decided the less the public knows about its business, the better. Under secretive new rules, the committee...
OLYMPIC VILLAGE COULD BE A SHORE THING FOR QUEENS
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amOrganizers of New York's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics want to build an Olympic Village on the Queens waterfront -- giving athletes a breathtaking view and easy access to...
SPACEY GIVES A STRAIGHT ANSWER TO GAY QUESTION
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amOscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has come racing out of the shadow of the closet once again - to announce he's not gay. And the "American Beauty" star also reveals he...
HEADLINES I'D LIKE TO SEE IN 2000
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amABSTRACT: A fanciful look at what might be. Now that we're done looking back, it's time to look forward at just what kind of year 2000 will be. Here are...
HOLIK'S BEING TARGETED
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amOTTAWA -- The three-time loser, the marked man, believes his tied hands have made him a helpless target. Bobby Holik, who scored more goals the past two-plus seasons than any...
NEW MILLENNIUM, SAME OLD STORY
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amFlyers 4 Islanders 1 If the Islanders made New Year's resolutions, you would have thought improved penalty-killing would have topped the list, while petitioning for a new arena and ownership...
JEFF PULLS KURT-AIN DOWN ON THOMAS' ACT: CALLS KNICK'S ACTIONS 'UNACCEPTABLE'
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy finally came down hard on Knick enforcer Kurt Thomas yesterday, branding the 6-foot-9 forward's recent trend of losing his temper as "unacceptable." As Van Gundy sees it,...
THE TUNA WATCH BEGINS: HE'S NOT SAYING, BUT COUNT ON COACH'S RETURN
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amTHE key moment of the Jets' 1999 season will come at around noon today, a good 20 hours after the last game ended. Lunch will be served, and there is...
STUPID STATISTICS ARE RULE OF THUMB
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amIF A bell rang every time a network sportscaster recited a stupid stat, we'd all have a constant ringing in our ears. Yesterday, after Seattle took a 3-0 lead against...
CURTIS RUSHES INTO RECORD BOOK
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amNFL parity can be a painful thing. Curtis Martin was talking about his red-hot Jets and the kind of damage they could inflict if they were in the playoffs when...
GRITTY GREER PUTS PITT ON HIS BACK
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amWhen Pittsburgh learned it would have to redshirt 6-foot-8 forward Issac Hawkins because of a broken tibia, junior forward Ricardo Greer of Manhattan decided he'd put the Panthers (8-3) on...
IT'S MIDNIGHT FOR CINDERELLA LUCAS
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amKid quarterback Ray Lucas is ready to take his next magnificent step. Lucas deeply respects Vinny Testaverde and knows he will be back to being a backup next summer when...
VAN PANS KNICKS' WEAK BOARD WORK
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTESJeff Van Gundy had a message for his players as they gathered for the Knicks' first practice of the 21st century at Purchase College yesterday. Don't be satisfied with...
'LORIE' MAKES RUTHLESS RUN
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amLorie Darlin rated off the pace, then took the lead in the stretch to win the 23rd running of the Ruthless Stakes for 3-year-old fillies yesterday at Aqueduct. Favored Rainbow...
NETS' ROAD TO REDEMPTION TURNS DANGEROUS
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amYou'd like to say that the Nets' rotten 2-10 road record is directly due to their terrible start. You'd also like to say you're holding a couple winning Millennium Millions...
HOKIES TOUGH READ
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS -- Chances like this, unless of course you happen to be Florida State, come along once in a lifetime for most college football programs. Which is why 11...
GULFSTREAM OPENS WITH FAMILIAR FACES
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amGulfstream Park, the unofficial winter headquarters of New York racing, opens its Millennium meet today with full-card simulcasts to Aqueduct and OTB six days a week (closed Tuesdays) through March...
BIG A WINTER RACING COURTING DISASTER
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amThe fifth race at Aqueduct last Friday was a scary thing to watch. Like many roughly run heats last week over the inner dirt track, it left you with the...
COLEMAN WOWS TUNA
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTESLong after the game was over, on his way out of the almost-empty locker room Bill Parcells stopped at Marcus Coleman's locker, shook his hand and said, "You had...
HAPPY 'HAWKS BACK IT IN
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Seahawks, who played the last game of the season like their bus's engine was running, dressed quickly and went out and climbed aboard. Running on fumes since their 8-2...
BIG BLUE BUNGLERS ; DON'T PUT UP FIGHT ; GIANTS BATTERED IN DISMAL FINALE
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amIRVING -- The season is over for the Giants, thank goodness. And not a moment too soon, judging from the way this crumbling team deteriorated, limping and fading to the...
PACK KILL JINTS' PLAYOFF DREAM
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amPackers 49 Cardinals 24 GREEN BAY -- It was a testament to the predicament the Giants had put themselves in yesterday that their playoff hopes relied on a road victory...
BIG BLUE BUNGLERS: GIANTS BATTERED IN DISMAL FINALE
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amCowboys 26 Giants 18 IRVING -- The feeling in his stomach, Jim Fassel explained, was an emptiness. Kerry Collins went even further, saying it "makes your gut wrench." Yes, this...
COLLINS: I'M JINT LEADER
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amIRVING -- He takes a back seat no longer. So says Kerry Collins, who experienced more lows than highs in his first taste of quarterbacking the Giants and, now that...
FRUSTRATED JESSIE: WE'RE FAR AWAY
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES IRVING -- The Giants last season won five of their last six games to finish at 8-8 and create an illusion that they were on the rise. There...
TROY: DON'T COUNT US OUT
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amIRVING -- Here's the problem for Troy Aikman: He doesn't get to play against the Giants anymore when the playoffs begin. But when you finally remember how to be Aikman,...
SAY IT AIN'T SO LONG: FANS SERENADE PARCELLS AFTER JETS FINISH 8-8
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amThe chants - stirring emotion from faithful Jets' fans who had the heart to show up at yesterday's season finale with no playoffs on the line - came cascading down...
DVORAK'S ARRIVAL MUDDLES MIDDLE
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amMONTREAL - So Radek Dvorak was in the middle for his Ranger debut here last night, which, as it turns out, is exactly where John Muckler hopes to use him...
RANGER DEADLOCK KNOT ACCEPTABLE
January 3, 2000 | 5:00amMONTREAL - The Rangers have played 37 games this year. They have won a total of eight in regulation time. Eight. It's a sum that ties the Blueshirts for dead...