January 11, 2000
ABOUT.COM SEWS UP NEW DIGS
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amInternet search engine About.com has ended its search for more office space. The company has signed a lease to take 165,000 square feet at 1440 Broadway (at 40th Street), The...
PURCHASE WAS IN THE CARDS FOR AMEX
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amAMERICAN Express is still better known for its cards than its mutual funds, but it could soon be the other way around if Gordon Fines has any say in the...
TIME WARNER COLUMBUS CENTRE PLANS MAY EVEN BE ENHANCED
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amWORD of AOL's $173 billion merger with Time Warner dropped a stunning plot twist into the city's longest-running real estate soap opera. Tongues were wagging yesterday over the $1.6 billion...
BIG RIPPLES IN THE BITSTREAM ; ALL PLAYERS ARE NOW FEELING A NEED FOR ALLIES
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amThe big question swirling around Wall Street and the media world yesterday is what big deals will come in the wake of AOL and Time-Warner's $173 billion January surprise. The...
DEAL IGNITES MARKETS; NASDAQ UP 167
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amMerger mania lit a fire under technology stocks, which proved their ability to get red-hot all over again. The Nasdaq composite index, where most of the hot Internet stocks trade,...
KUDOS FROM AOLERS, EMPLOYEES
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amYesterday's announcement of the deal between Time Warner and America Online generated a flood of excitement from Time Warner employees and AOL subscribers. With AOL users, the concept of high-speed...
AOL'S PITTMAN MAY TAKE OVER
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amThe merger of the millennium serves as a starting gun for a battle of succession at the new company. With the two top executives at Time Warner -- Chairman Gerald...
RUSSIAN GOOF GETS BIGGS A SUIT
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amWall street honcho Barton Biggs and his employer, Morgan Stanley, are being sued for persuading a client to invest in a hedge fund that blew a $25 million investment on...
THE NEXT CLARICE? - ANDERSON, BLANCHETT TOP FIELD IN SEARCH FOR 'HANNIBAL' CO-STAR
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amNOW that Anthony Hopkins has signed on to reprise his Hannibal the Cannibal role in the long-awaited sequel to (-sdq-)The Silence of the Lambs,(-edq-) who will be his co-star? Hollywood...
THE FLAVOR OF SOUTH BEACH
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amFrom Crocodiles to party animals, the last 100 years has seen South Beach's metamorphosis from an uninhabitable swamp to a forlorn ghetto, and finally, to America's Riviera. Long before Madonna,...
WHERE TO STAY IN SOUTH BEACH
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amSouth Beach's skyline has changed little since the 1940's. Fortunately, the artists got there before the developers and pushed for the protection of the architectural integrity by getting landmark status...
SOUTH BEACH: WINTER NIGHTLIFE CAPITAL
January 11, 2000 | 5:00am"It's, like, the reason why we come down here, dude," assures a multi- pierced fellow who's propped-up on a wall outside a Washington Ave. club and looking like he hasn't...
THE RESTAURANTS OF SOUTH BEACH
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amAs South Beach countinues to evolve, so does its cuisine. Ahead of its time, perhaps, is Nemo, which the 2000 Zagat Survey ranks as one of "America's Top Restaurants." When...
PURR-FECT LADIES
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amSPIT Kittie Artemis Records You may have read about Kittie, the thrash 'n' trash girl-rage band from the Great White North. In concert, they're the rock-ettes, who toy with and...
TRUE WEST
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amTHE critic Harold Clurman once memorably if inscrutably said of Mae West's play "Diamond Lil" that it "was 'The Iceman Cometh' turned to farce." Certainly Mae West, more on stage...
COMPOSER DOES IT ALL FOR THE CHILDREN
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amTHE children are our future: trite but true, according to composer Jim Papoulis. Five years ago, after the birth of his first child, Papoulis was spurred to act upon his...
THE STARR REPORT
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amExecutive decision Michael Horowitz, a senior producer at "Real TV," has been approached by Ch.11 about possibly becoming the executive producer of a new live morning show under discussion. Horowitz...
ELITE MODEL-SCANDAL FILM UP FOR GRABS
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amA controversial BBC documentary spiked by ABC might air after all on another network. A BBC spokeswoman said yesterday that "several other broadcasters" have expressed interest in showing the controversial...
SNEAKY ADS SUBTLE AS A 16-TON TRUCK
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amADVERTISING has crashed through the wall that once separated it from TV programming. Some of the commercial messages that have seeped into TV programs are insidious. Products are cited by...
JUDGE HAS BEEF WITH PATTY'S COURT TESTIMONY BEING AIRED
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- A judge yesterday barred television cameras from the courtroom in the case of Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive Kathleen Soliah, because broadcasting testimony of star witness Patricia Hearst...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amExchange place El Al passengers can now exchange currency in-flight for up to $500; they get the equivalent amount in the local currency of their destination. There are no commission...
GEORGE HAILS BRAVE DECISION TO HELP ROCKER
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amRepublican 2000 candidate George W. Bush - former managing partner of the Texas Rangers - last night said the Atlanta Braves are right to get a shrink for race-baiting pitcher...
CONSUMER TEAM: WEB CREDIT-CARD CROOKS ARE RARE
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amCyber-shoppers will be spooked by revelations that a hacker stole thousands of credit-card numbers from a Web-based music retailer - and gave them away when his blackmail plot went awry....
PARALYZED HERO PRAYS WITH JAILED LOUIMA COP
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amParalyzed hero cop Stephen McDonald visited embattled police officer Charles Schwarz yesterday in his prison cell - and prayed for the day when he would once again be free. "In...
JUDGE: ELIAN STAYS - TEMPORARILY BLOCKS INS ORDER TO SEND HIM HOME
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amA Florida judge yesterday sided with the Miami relatives of Cuban tug-of-war tot Elian Gonzalez and ruled he must remain for now in the United States - in defiance of...
THE TEST OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ; WHO'S SCREWING UP?
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amIT was finally Snowflake Test time in New Hampshire last week, as Al Gore and his campaign manager figured out bizarre new ways to insult the U.S. military and its...
IT'S A START, BUT THERE'S MORE POLS CAN DO
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amIN 1997, The Post published a four-part series exposing the patronage racket in the Brooklyn courts. We documented how a few party insiders nominated judges who went on to win...
QUEEN STOCKS UP ON INTERNET SHARES
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amThe queen of England has brought the mouse into her house -- sinking $160,000 into a hot new Internet firm, it was reported yesterday. Elizabeth II bought a 5percent stake...
U.S. MARINE SHOOTS MOSCOW EMBASSY THIEF
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amA Russian soldier, drunk and trying to steal a car, broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Moscow yesterday and was wounded by a Marine guard, officials said. Russian police...
VALLONE: BIZ BETTER AT BUILDING SCHOOLS
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amCity Council Speaker Peter Vallone today will propose using private companies to build schools, charging the School Construction Authority is "dysfunctional," The Post has learned. In his "State of the...
YOU DOUGH, GIRL! JANE'S IN THE MONEY, TOO
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amJane Fonda's substantial wealth rocketed to the moon and beyond yesterday -- thanks to a unique wedding gift her estranged hubby, Ted Turner, gave her when they wed eight years...
ONCE AGAIN, THE STUDENTS ARE PLAYED FOR FOOLS
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Board of Ed has spoken loud and clear to all the students of this city who can't read a comic book. It has broadcast its message, crisply and concisely,...
TOP JUDGE ORDERS PROBE OF B'KLYN PATRONAGE SCANDAL
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amChief Judge Judith Kaye announced yesterday she will name a special inspector general to investigate explosive allegations of judicial patronage in Brooklyn. The top state judge's unprecedented action was spurred...
HILLARY BACKS GAY 'UNIONS,' NOT MARRIAGE
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday marriage should be between only a man and a woman -- but she backed giving full domestic-partner benefits to homosexual couples. "Marriage has...
TED'S RIGHT: COUPLING IS A LOT LIKE UNSAFE SEX
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amTHE inimitable Ted Turner says he consummated the marriage of AOL and Time Warner "with as much or more excitement and enthusiasm as I did on that night when I...
WATCHDOG: WEB CREDIT CROOKS RARE
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amCyber-shoppers will be spooked by revelations that a hacker stole thousands of credit-card numbers from a Web-based music retailer -- and gave them away when his blackmail plot went awry....
40G VIOLIN LEFT IN CAB
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amA cab ride ended on a sad note for a distraught Juilliard student -- who accidentally left her $40,000 violin behind in the trunk. Meesun Hong, 22, of Washington Heights,...
SIGOURNEY'S REMARK DISS-TRESSES BLONDES
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amActress Sigourney Weaver says she got dumb and ditzy after becoming a blonde -- alien-ating some of the Big Apple's born and bottled Goldilocks. The dark-tressed "Alien" star said she...
SCHOOL PICK SPARKS WAR OF WORDS - MAYOR'S BLAST DRAWS BARRAGE FROM HIS FOES
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amChoosing a new chancellor is beginning to look a lot like a TV wrestling smackdown. One day after the Board of Ed voted banker Harold Levy interim chancellor, New York's...
KID KILLER JOEL BIDS FOR PAROLE
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amKid killer Joel Steinberg faces a parole panel today or tomorrow, in hopes of being freed four years early. But Steinberg -- convicted of manslaughter in 1986 for the battering...
CORPORATE COURTSHIP BEGAN IN PARIS
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amThey'll always have Paris. The blockbuster merger between the world's leading Internet service provider and the world's biggest media conglomerate began taking shape at a September conference in the fabled...
GORE'S AIDES WON'T REVEAL IF POWELL WOULD PASS 'GAY' TEST
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amVice President Gore's spokesman yesterday refused to say if Colin Powell -- who opposes letting gays serve openly in the military -- would qualify as the nation's top uniformed officer...
EXPECT BIG CHANGES IN WHAT WE WILL SURF, SEE & HEAR
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amHousing AOL, Time, CNN, Warner Bros. and Warner Music under one roof will help crumble the barriers between TV and the personal computer. Ultimately, consumers should be able to watch...
ED BOARD ASSERTS ITS OWN POWER WITH PICK
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amANALYSIS The political landscape turned topsy-turvy when the Board of Education rejected Mayor Giuliani's choice for interim schools chancellor. By handing the job to Citigroup executive Harold Levy, the board...
PARALYZED HERO VISITS SCHWARZ
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amParalyzed hero cop Stephen McDonald visited embattled police officer Charles Schwarz yesterday in his prison cell -- and prayed for the day when he would once again be free. "In...
24 RUSSIANS DEAD IN CHECHEN SNEAK ATTACKS
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amChechen rebels took advantage of an Orthodox Christmas lull in fighting yesterday to launch a stunning counter-offensive against Russian forces, handing Moscow its heaviest single-day death toll of the war....
FUND-RAISER TRIALS WENT TO JUDGES BILL PICKED
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Records show a top federal judge assigned only Clinton-appointed judges to hear cases against Democratic fund-raisers -- one of whom got leniency after presidential pal Vernon Jordan intervened....
19 MORE SCHOOLS FLUNK ; BUT 13 IMPROVE ENOUGH TO ESCAPE HALL OF SHAME
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amState Education Commissioner Richard Mills yesterday added 19 city schools to the state's list of the worst-performing -- but removed 13 from the Hall of Shame for making improvements. The...
E-NORMOUS PACT JOINS AOL AND TIME - SURPRISE $173B MERGER CREATES MEDIA COLOSSUS
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amIn a mega-marriage of earth and cyberspace, America Online -- the world's largest Internet company -- bought Time Warner -- the world's largest media company -- for $173billion. It was...
CURING 'AFFLUENZA': KIDS OF THE SUPER RICH GET LESSONS IN THE WORK ETHIC
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amTHE latest wacky investment-banking trend is getting shrinks to teach the children of the super rich that money doesn't grow on trees. Investment houses say they are recommending and providing...
TRUMP KNIXES KNAUSS - DONALD-DUMPED SUPERMODEL IS 'HEARTBROKEN'
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amDonald Trump has turned into Donald Dump -- giving his latest girlfriend, Melania Knauss, the ax. And the stunning fashion model is taking it real bad. "She's heartbroken," a source...
BANK LINKED TO G.W.'S KIN IS AT CENTER OF $TORM
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amPolitical appointees of Gov. George W. Bush steered $10million in University of Texas investment funds to a merchant bank with strong ties to the GOP presidential front-runner's family, a new...
JUDGE RULES ELIAN CAN STAY -- FOR NOW
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amA Florida judge yesterday sided with the Miami relatives of Cuban tug-of-war tyke Elian Gonzalez and ruled he must remain for now in the United States -- in defiance of...
BUSH, MCCAIN SWEAR OFF ALL ATTACK ADS IN DEBATE
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amTop Republican 2000 wannabes George Bush and John McCain last night shook hands on a novel pact to run no negative TV ads -- while also-ran Steve Forbes defended his...
WOODY'S STAYING BUT MADONNA'S STRAYING AGAIN
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amLondon real-estate brokers listen up: Woody Allen isn't moving to within earshot of Big Ben after all -- and Madonna is house-hunting again after putting her new Chelsea mansion on...
ALGERIAN TERRORISTS LINKED TO BIN LADEN
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE The Algerian terror group whose members were caught allegedly smuggling explosives into the United States joined forces with Osama bin Laden's network and planned to strike here on his...
CATHOLIC-BASH OUTRAGE - VANDALS STRIKE IN B'KLYN
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amCatholic-hating vandals smashed religious statues outside Brooklyn churches, a home and a Knights of Columbus hall -- cutting off the figures' heads and hands, and in at least one case...
EXECS EARN OPTION-AL $1.8B - DEAL LEADS TO RECORD PAYDAY
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amThe world's biggest merger is also creating some of the world's biggest one-day bonuses ever. Besides a $29 billion overnight windfall for all Time Warner's shareholders, the five top executives...
NETS STUCK IN NEUTRAL
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amORLANDO - The season has not even reached the 40-game level. Neither team was at .500. Neither team was in a playoff position. But both teams swore this was a...
COYOTES GET LOOK AT ISBISTER NOW
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amFrom the Valley of the Sun to the Valley of the NHL. Traded last March from Phoenix to the Islanders, Brad Isbister left a talent-stocked team for a club that...
POLANCO LEARNS TO LOVE CITY GAME
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amH.S. ATHLETE OF THE WEEK As a boy growing up in the Dominican Republic, John Polanco played baseball. And like almost every other kid from that baseball-crazy nation, he dreamed...
GOMEZ LOOKS LIKE ALL-STAR TO FTOREK
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- If Devils coach Robbie Ftorek had his way, Scott Gomez would be headed to the Feb. 6 All-Star Game in Toronto, along with nine other rookies. "I really...
PATRICK GOES FOURTH: PLANS TO SHOW VG HE'S STILL GOT IT
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amTim Floyd's Bulls don't exactly get Patrick Ewing's gander up anymore. But he'll have a lot of other motivation when Chicago visits the Knicks tonight, perhaps proving something to coach...
RANDOLPH: DON'T SUSPEND ROCKER
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amYankees third base coach Willie Randolph said he has no sympathy for beleaguered Braves reliever John Rocker, but Randolph isn't going to get flagged for piling on, either. "This is...
EWING: JORDAN COST ME MY RINGS
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amPatrick Ewing may have seen his minutes dwindle but not his confidence. Yesterday, Ewing proclaimed that Michael Jordan robbed him of two championship rings. It's amazing the two still remain...
HOUSTON'S NOT HIGH ON BIG LINEUP
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Publicly, Allan Houston embraced the experimental "Big Backcourt" of himself and Latrell Sprewell. Privately is another matter, according to Jeff Van Gundy. Van Gundy revealed yesterday Houston recently...
NEW JET BOSS MUST STOP THE BLEEDING
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amThe Jets last night seemed poised to select the relatively unknown Robert Wood Johnson IV as the new owner of Gang Green. The 52-year-old billionaire investor, used to flying below...
WIZ' TREE-FOR-ALL: HOWARD, ROLLINS SQUARE OFF AFTER BRUTAL LOSS
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amAFTER two straight mortifying losses to the (now 5-28) Bulls, the wonderful Wizards of ours all agreed it doesn't get any lower than that. Then the 11-23 team fell through...
MANCHESTER FINDS LIFE TOUGH DOWN SOUTH
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amLONDON -- While Manchester United, the current leading light of English and supposedly European soccer, too, was given a stark and humbling reminder that the South America style still offers...
GAVV HIM A BREAK! BASEBALL'S FORGOTTEN HOME-RUN CHAMPION BELONGS IN THE HALL
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Complaint Department opens immediately after today's Baseball Hall of Fame inductees are announced. Someone will be slighted and writers will be up in arms -- most likely in Boston,...
DEAL THEO FOR TKACHUK ; GO WEST, OL' FLEURY
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amTHE phone numbers can be found under the letters "B" and "S" in Neil Smith's rolodex. The phone numbers belong to Don Baizley, the agent for Theo Fleury, and to...
PATS DIDN'T GET MUCH FOR PARCELLS
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amIn 1997, when Bill Parcells extricated himself from New England and went to the Jets, the NFL ordered the Jets to give the Patriots four draft picks as compensation. The...
SURGING NETS BOSS MAGIC ; COMPLETE FLA. SWEEP WITH GEORGE IN HOUSE
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amORLANDO -- The Nets needed this win for so many reasons. They simply couldn't afford to continue the step-forward, fall-back syndrome that has plagued them throughout the season. They needed...
DOC WILL CUT SPREE SOME SLACK
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTESORLANDO -- Let bygones be bygones. Especially when it comes to All-Star teams. At least, that's how Doc Rivers views Latrell Sprewell. The Magic coach said when it comes...
A GOOD DEAL BETTER ; NEWCOMERS FUEL ISLES' TIE
January 11, 2000 | 5:00amIslanders 2 Coyotes 2 It has become one of Mike Milbury's niftiest trades. Ordered by team owners to trade goaltender Felix Potvin and his $2.7 million contract, the Isles' GM...