January 16, 2000
CITIGROUP'S LEVY IS POST-ED
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amCITIGROUP compliance chief Harold Levy is wisely not commenting on his appointment as interim schools chancellor until the political battles have been resolved and he definitely has the job. But...
IS DOBBS' APPEARANCE ON CNBC PROBLEM FOR CNN?
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amLOU Dobbs thumbed his nose at his former employer, CNN, when he decided to appear as a guest on CNBC last Monday night. The topic? The acquisition of CNN's owner,...
IT'S STOCKS, NOT LOVE, ON HIGH SEAS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S the first cold, dreary month of the year, and financial advisers are naturally thinking about ... No, not the January effect or the flood of 401(k) investments -- but...
KLEINFELD MART SAYS 'I DO' TO NEW MAKEOVER
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amTrapper John, aka Wayne Rogers, got most of the attention when he and a group of investors bought Kleinfeld last July and gave it a $3 million cash infusion. But...
FORTUNE STEALS STAFFERS FOR E-MAG
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amFORTUNE Editor John Huey is finding that Time Inc.'s newest magazine project, a Fortune spinoff to be known as eCompanyNow, is tough to staff. And the pending merger of AOL...
WEBSITES FOR MINORITIES ATTACK INTERNET GAP
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amA slew of companies are attempting to close the so-called digital divide, the new catch phrase used to sum up the findings of a Commerce Department report that says African-Americans...
GOLDMAN IS KING OF THE HEAP IN SPORTS M&A
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amTHE usually loud whooping and hollering heard on Wall Street last week most likely was coming from the sports mergers-and-acquisition folks over at Goldman, Sachs. Probably part of their end-zone...
TECH IT OUT
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amSometimes it's hard to decide whether to splurge a few hundred on a state-of-the-art cordless phone or buy one of those $5 jobs on the street. At $149.95, Sony High...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: JILL EIKENBERRY
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amFormer "L.A. Law" star Jill Eikenberry has gone from courtroom to chat room with her husband (and former co-star) Michael Tucker, leading discussions on www.GenerationA.com, a site aimed at Americans...
CHILLI RESPONSE:TLC IS STICKING TOGETHER
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amThere may be a lack of T.L.C. within the group TLC, performing Friday at Madison Square Garden, but trio member Rozanda "Chilli" Thomas believes spats go hand-in-hand with love. "We...
FILM FICTION: WHEN REAL LIFE AND REEL LIFE COLLIDE
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amIn her old nightclub act, Bette Midler used to boast that "mud will be flung tonight." But not much mud is flung in the Divine Miss M's new flick, "Isn't...
NECKING AT THE MOVIES
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amBram Stoker had no idea what he was starting when, back in 1897, he wrote the novel "Dracula" (original title: "The Un-Dead"). The tale was loosely based on a real-life,...
4 QUESTIONS FOR DOMINIC CHIANESE
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amHBO's "The Sopranos," which kicks off its second season tonight at 9 p.m., has more than it's fair share of colorful characters. But Dominic Chianese, who plays Tony Soprano's (James...
BOOK REPORT: IN REVIEW
January 16, 2000 | 5:00am"Afterburn," by Colin Harrison, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 438 pages, $25. Too many promising thrillers get bogged down in complex plot twists that leave you dazed and confused a hundred...
GUY-GERCOUNTER
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amMARK CHEMTOB NAME: Mark Chemtob AGE: 23 SPOTTED: 48th Street and Sixth Avenue HOMETOWN: Brooklyn, NY RESIDENCE: Manhattan HEIGHT: 6'3'' WEIGTH: 175 lbs. OCCUPATION: Financial adviser PERSONAL CLOTHING STYLE: I...
MEALS & DEALS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amMaroons244 W. 16th St. (between Seventh and Eighth avenues) (212) 206-8640 With the observance of Martin Luther King Day tomorrow, it's only right to highlight a restaurant that embodies both...
WHAT I WATCH
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amLUCILLE ROBERTS FOUNDER LUCILLE ROBERTS HEALTH & FITNESS CLUBS"The Practice." It makes lawyers seem human and decent.JOHN CARPENTER $1M WINNER ON "WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE""Seinfeld." Because it relies...
PRAISING 'THE DEAD'
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amSomething odd is happening to the Broadway musical. Quietly, almost stealthily, it seems to be changing ... everything. It is enough to make Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Rodgers & Hammerstein...
HILLARY JUMPS INTO THE SPOTLIGHT AFTER MONTHS OF HIDING
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amAfter a lengthy tug-of-war inside her campaign -- and inside her own head, according to some associates -- the first lady is starting to shed her icy image as Hillary...
MOON AND EARTH TO STAR IN SHADOW DANCE
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amAmericans will see red when they look up at the sky later this week -- thanks to a rare lunar eclipse. The full moon is expected to turn brick red...
BODY DUMPED AND TORCHED IN QUEENS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amA man in his 20s was shot dead, dumped in Fort Tilden Park in Rockaway, Queens, and set on fire yesterday morning, police said. It appears the victim, who had...
PREZ HONORS KING WITH BID TO BOOST HATE LAWS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amSpeaking on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, President Clinton yesterday said he'll ask Congress to expand federal hate-crime laws, as a series of nationwide celebrations honoring the slain civil-rights leader...
BRONX COUPLE BEAT BABY: COPS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amA Bronx mother and father have been charged with badly beating their 10-month-old daughter, police said yesterday. Eva Garcia, who is 31 and five months pregnant, took the girl to...
A BENIGN TOP 10 LIST
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amFrom The Post's home office on Sixth Avenue,here are the Top 10 reasons David Lettermancan't wait to get out of the hospital: 10. Nurses are playing Stupid Hospital Tricks with...
FANATICS MIGHT BE ATTACKING 'IDOLATRY'
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amThe latest attack on a Catholic religious figure appears to be the work of a group that believes statues are an "insult to God," the pastor of one of the...
SYRIAN PREZ REJECTING FACE-TO-FACE WITH BARAK
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amSyrian leader Hafez al-Assad yesterday spurned President Clinton's efforts to arrange a face-to-face meeting with Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. There was "no need" for Assad to meet Barak in...
MCCAIN AND BUSH HAMMER EACH OTHER'S TAX-CUT PLAN
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amJOHNSTON, Iowa -- John McCain claimed George W. Bush's tax plan is "all hat and no taxes" as they battled yesterday over who's the real tax-cutter in the last GOP...
LETTERMAN'S LAMENT: HOW TO KICK STOGIES
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amNow that David Letterman's on the road to recovery, the big question is whether the Cohiba-chomping comic can kick his cigar habit, as some doctors are urging. Letterman can choose...
JUDGE TRIES OUR PATIENCE AS HE RETRIES HERO COP
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amFEDERAL Court Judge Alfred Lechner must have nightmares of cops lurking under his bed as he slumbers. Now, if you want to know where your federal tax dollars go, have...
HBO'S MOB HIT BACK TONIGHT
January 16, 2000 | 5:00am"The Sopranos," the edgy mob drama that has charmed countless viewers as well as critics, returns to HBO at 9 tonight with the highly hyped premiere of its second season....
HOLY-STATUE VANDALS BEDEVIL COPS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amCops and Roman Catholic clergymen want to know who's been desecrating religious statues in Brooklyn. Six religious carvings have been defaced -- their heads or hands hacked off -- in...
UPBEAT DAVE'S ON HIS WAY TO QUIP RECOVERY
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amDavid Letterman says he's doing just great after emergency heart surgery -- and he fired off one of his patented, off-the-wall jokes to prove it. "I feel fantastic," an alert...
CHARLOTTE CHURCH'S DAD IS IN DIRE STRAITS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amBiological dad did time for debt.While pint-sized singing sensation Charlotte Church is earning millions, her father reportedly is bankrupt and living in a housing project. Although computer engineer Stephen Reed...
RAGE FUELS PROTEST IN HAVANA FOR LITTLE ELIAN
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amIn the middle.Tens of thousands of angry protesters rallied at a historic Havana street corner yesterday to demand the return of little Elian Gonzalez. "How long? How long do we...
MOYNIHAN HAMS IT UP FOR BRADLEY IN IOWA AD
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amDES MOINES -- Democratic 2000 contender Bill Bradley yesterday unveiled the secret weapon in his final push to win Iowa's Jan. 24 caucuses, and it's a real surprise: New York's...
FAR TOO MANY GIRLS RUIN MICK'S 'KNIGHT'
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amNo sir -- Mick Jagger won't be a knight. The wrinkly rocker can't get no satisfaction from knighthood because of his randy ways, it was reported today. British Prime Minister...
TA WORK CREW GOT PUSHED OFF TRACK ON PRIVATE JOBS: PROBE
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amA top Transit Authority supervisor has been suspended after being caught using TA workers -- on overtime -- to do work for a private contracting company, The Post has learned....
O'CONNOR REACHES 'GOLDEN' AGE ; FLOCK RAISES $5.2M AT HIS BIRTHDAY BASH
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amA roaring crowd of 1,500 helped boost John Cardinal O'Connor's spirits last night at his 80th-birthday bash -- and raise a whopping $5.2 million for Catholic causes. The ailing cardinal...
APPLE-CHI FLIGHT IS NATION'S 'MOST DELAYED'
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amIt's just a two-hour flight from New York to Chicago, but waiting for takeoff is another story -- just ask Tony Pecora, who has spent more time than that sitting...
SERB KILLER SLAIN IN HOTEL AMBUSH
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amMasked gunmen burst into a Yugoslavian hotel yesterday and shot dead a ruthless paramilitary leader allied with Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic. Zeljko Raznatovic, 47, better known as Arkan, was gunned...
POST READERS 'FESS UP TO EDIFICE COMPLEX
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amYou hate them -- you really hate them! The Post received an overwhelming response from readers in last week's survey of the city's ugliest buildings. And the "winner" from the...
TRUMP TOWER IS TOP STY IN APPLE'S EYE
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amPost readers had a slew of theirown nominations for the city'sugliest building but TrumpTower was the runaway winner-- chosen by nearly one out ofevery 10 write-in voters.Here are the five...
GOODFELLAS WHO MIGHT BE ROLE MODELS ; GOODFELLAS MIGHT BE ROLE MODELS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amProducers of "The Sopranos" insist the guys in the show's Jersey mob crew are totally fictitious. But lawmen and longtime observers of the New Jersey mob scene say each of...
BARAK BIDS TO LINK BIBI ; TO PEACE PUSH
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM.R ONALD LAUDER'S name has been used repeatedly lately by the office of Prime Minister Ehud Barak as a way of persuading the Israeli public to approve Barak's plan to...
CITY COUNTING ON YOU FOR ; DOLLARS & CENSUS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00am"The census counts affect power, money, group interests, civil rights . . . in short, who gets how much of what."CENSUS DIRECTOR KENNETH PREWITTWASHINGTON -- It looks like junk mail,...
DOSAGE SYSTEM TABS '00 DERBY HOPEFULS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amThoroughbred racing's Experimental Free Handicap, ranking the top 2-year-old runners of 1999 by weight, was released Friday, giving us the dosage "dual-qualifiers" for the 2000 Kentucky Derby on May 6....
CALM BEFORE THE STORM : JOHNNIES BELIEVE THEY CONN DO IT
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amSTORRS, Conn. -- There was a warm air of confidence in the St. John's locker room Wednesday. No need to bundle up and hide from the college basketball world. Tonight...
RAMS, VIKINGS FIGURE TO PUT ON TWA AERIAL SHOW
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- The last time he prepared a team for a playoff game was 19 years ago, which sounds like a long time ago and probably feels even longer...
MANNING HAS CAPTURED HOOSIERS' HEARTS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- This game could be billed as the Flat-leavers Bowl. The Colts left Baltimore flat in 1984 in the middle of the night and just a few years ago...
ISLES WIN BATTLE; RANGERS, WAR: NEDVED FUMES FOLLOWING BLUESHIRT ROUT ON ISLAND
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amRangers 5 - Islanders 2 One of our New York teams is treading water while the other is submerged at the deepest end of the NHL pool. Still, Rangers-Islanders can...
YES, PHILLS WAS GREAT GUY ... BUT HE'S TO BLAME FOR HIS OWN DEMISE
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amI F THE NBA's shelves were stocked entirely with gentlemen like Bobby Phills, my column would've folded long ago. In a league whose characters supply this space with scandalous behavior...
HAL'S HOPE CAPTURES HOLY BULL
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amHal's Hope, sent off at 40-1 after coming off an allowance victory at Calder and a bullet four furlong work, took control at the start and drew off in the...
RICE PRESS WEARS OUT ST. PATRICK
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amDown by 15 points in the third quarter, the outlook wasn't good for Rice. Already having lost twice this year -- something the Raiders don't often do -- Rice seemed...
METS' REED GETS $4.375M
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amThe Mets and Rick Reed avoided salary arbitration when they agreed yesterday to a one-year, $4.375 million contract for the veteran right-hander. "I've never been in the game for the...
BLUESHIRT 'PLANS' DON'T INCLUDE CUPS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amTHREE weeks ago the Rangers were trying to trade Petr Nedved to Carolina for Keith Primeau. Now skating between Czechmates Jan Hlavac and Radek Dvorak, Nedved is the linchpin of...
25G REWARD FOR BUCK-NAPPER
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amACOUPLE in Pennsylvania could have retired on the stud fees from a 28-point buck that was like the Bold Ruler of the growing deer breeding business. About two months ago,...
DAN, DOLFS GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT: JAGS SCORE 41 IN 1ST HALF, COAST INTO TITLE GAME
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - If this was, indeed, the end for Dan Marino, it was perhaps the most unceremonious and pitiful sendoff in the history of professional sports for a Hall of...
A TIME TO GRIEVE, A TIME TO PLAY ON
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amELDEN CAMPBELL was too soon to a scene that will haunt him the rest of his life. "Myself and Baron [Davis] pulled up, it couldn't have been more than a...
NO HIDING THE TEARS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amIF it took only two minutes, not two long hours, to cut Bobby Phills out of his crumpled Porsche, that image from the worst day of most of the Hornets'...
POLICE: WESLEY HAD SUSPENDED LICENSE
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amIt is unclear if Hornets guard David Wesley was aware he was driving with a suspended license Wednesday when he was supposedly drag-racing Porsches with teammate Bobby Phills. Phills lost...
THE GAME MUST GO ON: EMOTIONAL SCARS MAY TAKE TOLL ON KNICKS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amWhen last night's Hornets-Knicks game at the Garden ended, the Knicks were ready to leave the distractions of the last four days from Bobby Phills' death behind and get on...
POINT COUNTERPOINT
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amThe training camp practice gym was set up inside a massive hotel ballroom in Atlantic City. Court here. Stationary bikes and weights equipment there. Racks of balls were in place....
DEVILS HOPE WHITE'S RIGHT
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - While they were getting some money back on one prospect, the Devils have been opening the package on another. With the Devils, it's rarely certain if a new...
CASEY'S SITTING IN GILL'S CORNER
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amDon Casey would like to be back next season as Nets coach, of course. He also thinks Kendall Gill should be re-signed by New Jersey. "If they (ownership) asked for...
KUSHNER PLAN HAS A RING TO IT
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amIN MOST areas of New York City, the overall reduction in violence has been a boost to the quality of life and a most welcome change. Except, of course, if...
TAMPA BUCS THE ODDS: RALLY, ROOKIE QB SHOCK THE 'SKINS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- They were down 13-0. Their offense was going nowhere and time was running out. The Bucs looked as if they were in trouble, big trouble. But that was...
NFL DECISION ON JETS WON'T BE TOMORROW
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE -- The decision regarding the validity of Bill Belichick's contract won't be rendered until after Tuesday, NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue indicated yesterday. Tagliabue, who sat in on the first...
IN THE END, KING SAVORS CROWNING GLORY
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Shaun King offered this analysis of his performance in the Bucs' 14-13 win over the Redskins yesterday at Raymond James Stadium: "I didn't play great, but I didn't...
DEVILS GIVE TOP EFFORT
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 4 Flyers 1 PHILADELPHIA -- They aspire again to greatness, and this was a step in the right direction. An upward step. Like great teams, these league-leading Devils kicked...
CELTICS' WALKER FILLS UP THE NETS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amCeltics 99 Nets 96 Truly, this was a game the Nets had no business winning. And guess what? They didn't. With a chance to leap-frog not one but two teams...
ROCKER NOT ALONE IN DUMB DEPT.: HE TAKES HEAT -- WHILE OTHERS GET A FREE PASS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amODD, but two years ago Barry Bonds made an ugly crack about Jews, apologized the next day, a la John Rocker, and, whoosh, the story went away. In fact, I'll...
CONCUSSIONKOS ERIC
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA -- The Lindros Concussion Curse has reared its head again. Flyer captain Eric Lindros sat out with his third career concussion last night against the Devils. Although it was...
HORNETS HONOR PHILLS ON COURT
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amSome of the Hornets admitted before last night's 91-79 loss to the Knicks that they weren't quite ready to return to the court so soon after the death of teammate...
WESLEY'S LICENSE WAS SUSPENDED
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES It is unclear if Hornets guard David Wesley was aware he was driving with a suspended license Wednesday when he supposedly was drag racing Porsches with teammate Bobby...
KNICKS STOP RALLY BID BY SAD HORNETS
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amAfter the awkward, toned-down Garden evening was over, during which the Hornets sleepwalked through the first half en route to a 91-79 loss, Patrick Ewing declared the game should never...
SPREWELL: GOD SMILED ON ME
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amLast week, before Bobby Phills wrecked his Porsche supposedly in a drag race with teammate David Wesley, Marcus Camby asked teammates Latrell Sprewell and John Wallace a serious question: "Why...
ONE NIGHTMARE HARD TO FORGET
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amELDEN CAMPBELL was too soon to the scene that will haunt him the rest of his life. "Myself and Baron [Davis] pulled up, it couldn't have been more than a...
JONES WINS RADIO CITY MISMATCH
January 16, 2000 | 5:00amAbout an hour before last night's light-heavyweight title bout between Roy Jones Jr. and David Telesco at Radio City Music Hall, a curtain was lowered to provide a backdrop for...