January 8, 2000
TRIPLE-DIGIT GAINS FOR DOW & NASDAQ
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amWho said correction? The markets staged a huge rally yesterday with the bulletproof Nasdaq composite index erasing nearly half its losses for the week with an eye-popping 4.17 percent gain....
SO, WAS LUCENT UP OR WAS IT DOWN?
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amLucent Technologies traded more shares in a single day than any other stock in U.S. history yesterday. But if you were trying to find out how much Lucent was up...
ICE ESCAPADES FOR KIDS
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amOne of the nicest things about winter is the ice. Not the stuff that slicks the sidewalks, but the ice you lace up your skates to glide on. Even indoor...
ZAMBIA TROOPS RUSH TO BLOCK ANGOLANS
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amZambia has massed troops along its border with Angola to prevent that country's soldiers from pursuing UNITA rebels into Zambian territory, South African national radio said yesterday It said Zambia...
NOW READ HIS LIPS! GEORGE W. IN TAX QUIZ
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amLike his father before him, Republican 2000 wannabe George W. Bush found himself peppered with questions yesterday on whether he'd keep a no-new-taxes pledge - this time with a vow...
BRICK-BASH SUSPECT'S STERN PLEA: 'NOT GUILTY!'
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amA Bronx career criminal brusquely pleaded innocent yesterday to bashing a woman's head with a brick -- as cops released statements in which he admits he's a crackhead who swindled...
GRAVE ACCUSATIONS IN 'PATRONAGE' WAR
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amTHE patronage war in Brooklyn is heating up. Ravi Batra, a lawyer linked to Brooklyn Democratic Party leader Clarence Norman, claims fellow lawyers and party stalwarts Arnold Ludwig and Thomas...
KING CONQUERS FEAR OF WRITING
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amAuthor Stephen King will sign a new three-book deal next week -- proving the "Bogeyman of Bangor" has overcome fears he'd never be able to write again after a horrifying...
TARNISHED BRASS: RUSSIA OUSTS PAIR OF GENERALS
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amThe Russian offensive to take Grozny has stalled in the face of fierce rebel resistance.The Russian military shuffled its top commanders in Chechnya yesterday after its drive to take the...
COOK BRINGS HOME BACON LUCKY BX. MAN CASHES IN ON $100M LOTTERY
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amAll it took was $100 and a dream. That's how Johnnie Ely of The Bronx bucked the 53-million-to-1 odds and ended up the sole winner of the New Year's Eve...
LEGLESS KOSOVO GIRL HOPES TO WALK AGAIN
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amThe teen-age Kosovo girl whose legs were blown off by a land mine met with hopeful doctors at a Manhattan hospital for the first time yesterday and expressed gratitude for...
CITY BURNS KIDDIE-CIG SUPPLIERS
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amThe city is turning up the heat on stores caught peddling cigarettes to minors -- imposing stiff new fines and yanking the license of two-time losers under a new measure...
GIULIANI GIVES PUNK ROCKER A FREUDIAN SLAP
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani mocked hothead hurler John Rocker yesterday by imagining a fictional meeting between the Braves slur-slinger and Sigmund Freud -- even imitating the master psychologist's German accent. The mayor...
'LIQUID' ASSETS OK? $15M BAIL SET FOR MADONNA PAL IN SLAYING
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amMadonna pal and "Liquid" nightclub impresario Chris Paciello has to fork over a $15 million bail package to get sprung from federal jail, where he's been held for a month...
G-MEN RENT POSH PAD TO KEEP EYE ON HILL
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amBill and Hillary Clinton aren't the only new residents in Chappaqua who work for the federal government -- the Secret Service also has started keeping house there. The service, which...
'GOD'S MIRACLE!' BEATEN BOY LEAVES HOSP
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amA Queens boy who was brutally beaten last month left the hospital yesterday after a miraculous recovery, but his parents fear two of his attackers are still at large. Arsalan...
'HOOKER' PANEL PUTS FIRST LADY ON THE SPOT
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- A powerful coalition of feminists is gearing up to fight an effort by members of Hillary Rodham Clinton's women's commission to weaken laws on international trafficking of prostitutes....
CONSERVATIVE BOSS FUMING AS HE AWAITS MAYOR'S CALL
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amConservative Party leader Mike Long lit into Mayor Giuliani yesterday, repeatedly accusing him of being "dishonest" and uninterested in receiving his party's nomination in the Senate race. "The mayor has...
'STUDIOUS' JUDGES STALL RUDY'S HOMELESS PLAN
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani's controversial plan for the homeless was put on hold yesterday after a trio of Manhattan judges said they wanted to find out more about it before deciding if...
DRIVER'S STORY COULD MAKE THE RAP STICK AGAINST PUFFY
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amThe chauffeur who raced Sean "Puffy" Combs and Jennifer Lopez from the scene of a Midtown hip-hop club shooting is cooperating with prosecutors, sources close to the investigation said yesterday....
'HURRICANE' SON PLEADS: GET ME OUT OF JAIL, DAD
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amRubin "Hurricane" Carter's son sits in the same jail where his dad awaited trial in a racially charged murder case three decades ago -- but the younger Carter gripes he's...
NO JAIL FOR LITTLE SQUIRT WHO GOT TEACHER IN A LATHER
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amA 10-year-old suburban Washington boy has escaped the threat of up to 20 years behind bars -- for putting soap in his teacher's drinking water. The boy, a fifth-grader at...
TRUMP: BUSH IS A DIM BULB AND HE RIPS REST OF GOP FIELD AS 'BUNCH OF STIFFS'
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS -- Donald Trump yesterday dismissed the GOP field of candidates as a "bunch of stiffs" and took a swing at the IQ of front-runner George W. Bush, saying he's...
DA ASKS TOP STATE COURT TO LOOK INTO 'CYBERSEX' RULING
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amThe Manhattan district attorney's office took the first legal step required to put accused cybersex attacker Oliver Jovanovic back in prison yesterday -- asking the state's highest court to consider...
GORE MAKES AMENDS WITH POWELL AFTER 'RACE' GAFFE
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amVeep Al Gore yesterday phoned Gen. Colin Powell to try to make amends after Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile painted the Gulf War hero as a GOP pawn. But Gore...
MCCAIN RIPPED FOR AIDING FAT-CAT PALS
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amRepublican 2000 wannabe John McCain's Cinderella campaign got hit with new conflict-of-interest questions last night as Republicans kept up their round of raucous debates. Newly released Senate files show McCain...
ENGLISH COPS EYE NEW BEATLE FANATIC
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amA third fanatic is suspected of stalking former Beatle George Harrison -- and of sending him a chilling note saying: "You're always on my mind." Because of the threat, security...
COPS LINK SPREE OF DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amPolice have linked a series of drive-by shootings along the Brooklyn-Queens border that left two young Latino men dead and another injured this week. Until yesterday, the deaths of Luis...
CONGRESS LASSOS ELIAN ISSUES SUBPOENA AS 'STALL' TACTIC
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amCongress jumped into the tug-of-war over refugee boy Elian Gonzalez yesterday when a House committee subpoenaed him to appear at a hearing -- a move designed to stall his return...
TEN-SION BUILDING IN SWAMP
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES The Nets a 10? That's what they were aiming for last night. As in 10 straight home victories. "Ten in a row? I totally forgotten about that. It...
RICHTER MERITS STAR TREATMENT
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amTORONTO -- All of the Rangers will be here tonight, and that includes Manny Malhotra, who will watch the game against the Maple Leafs from the stands now that he's...
DEVILS RAISE THE BAR HIGHER
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amCOYOTESatDEVILSTonight7:30 -- PAX WABC (770 AM) Midway through the road trip that was to become their voyage of discovery, Devils GM Lou Lamoriello saw what was happening. "It feels like...
FASSEL DEAL MAY COME NEXT WEEK
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amExpect a decision on the length and amount of Jim Fassel's contract extension to come next week. Fassel spent this past week in extensive meetings evaluating personnel and yesterday met...
FREROTTE PLANS TO USE HIS HEAD LION QB LAUGHS OFF GAFFE
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amLANDOVER -- He knows exactly where the spot is, and if he doesn't, he figures someone will be sure to remind him. "I'm sure they'll put a big 'X' right...
PLENTY OF ENERGY BUT NO POINTS
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amBOSTON -- Butch Goring made it known early in the season: This Islanders season would be nothing more than an extended training camp. To the chagrin of general manager Mike...
JARVIS WARY OF RED STORM'S TRIP TO WVU
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amST.JOHN'SatWVUTodayNoon - FSN WEVD (1050 AM) Today St. John's coach Mike Jarvis and his Red Storm will be in West Virginia, a place he's never won in and one of...
JOHNSON BID FOR THE JETS HAS THE EDGE
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amThe battle for Gang Green has entered its final weekend with Jet fans hoping the chaos surrounding the team will soon fade away. The NFL's finance committee meets Tuesday and...
BAD BLOOD BOILING AS BILLS EYE UPSET BILLS BATTLING TITANS, SELVES
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amNASHVILLE -- Dating back to Week 2 of this regular season, the sports radio callers in Buffalo were incensed, ripping into Bills' coach Wade Phillips for not running the ball...
SECRETARIAT TRIBUTE WINS ECLIPSE
January 8, 2000 | 5:00am"SportsCentury's 50 Greatest Athletes: Secretariat," which aired May 21, 1999, on ESPN, won the 1999 Eclipse Award for National Television-Features by unanimous vote. The 30-minute show was co-produced by Mark...
BUFFALO DEFENSE TOP OF THE HEAP
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amNASHVILLE -- Much of the hype surrounding today's wild-card game between the Bills and Titans has had to do with Buffalo's quarterback situation. The game, however, is more likely to...
NETS ARE NO PERFECT 10
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amBOX SCORE: P. 36Grizzlies101Nets91 The Nets were looking to be a 10 at home last night. Instead, they came away as nothing more than a big fat zero. Obliterated on...
COOK CONCOCTS WINNING RECIPE
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amCTK60St. Francis53 This is not like the Christ the King teams of old, the ones that had unlimited weapons and seemed unbeatable. But it is a CTK team that has...
JAYSON: ISHALL RETURN... SOONER NET NOTES
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amOnce again, Jayson Williams was being brutally optimistic. Once again, he might not have been even slightly realistic. Speaking publicly for the first time since the Nets announced his return...
O-SO-SWEET-VICTORY - KNICKS BUILD BIG LEAD THEN HOLD OFF MAGIC
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amORLANDO -- The "Let's Go Knicks" chant resounded loudly and powerfully across parts of the fourth quarter at the O-rena last night. What do you expect? It's Florida in the...
FLU, MAGIC CAN'T KEEP EWING DOWN
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amORLANDO -- The Knicks' fourth option seared Doc Rivers' club pretty good last night, even with the flu. Patrick Ewing, whom Rivers called the Knicks' "fourth option" on offense in...
ORLANDO'S GRIT MAKES VAN GUNDY A RIVERS FAN
January 8, 2000 | 5:00amORLANDO -- When they were together in the Knick organization in the early 1990s, Jeff Van Gundy didn't think Doc Rivers would pursue a career in coaching. Not that he...