January 19, 2000
MAGELLAN MAKES A BIG MOVE INTO SMALL-CAP STOCKS
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amMagellan may still be the largest fund in the world, but portfolio manager Bob Stansky believes small is where it's at. Over the last four months, Fidelity Investments' flagship fund...
CITI ACQUIRES UK INVESTMENT BANK
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amCitigroup bumped up its European presence yesterday by buying the investment banking arm of London-based Schroders PLC. Shareholders didn't have to ask where Citi found the money to pull off...
THERE'S A FORD IN YSL'S FUTURE - HE'S GUCCI'S TOM FORD
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amGucci's Tom Ford will now be sipping cafe au laits along with his cappuccinos, as the top designer officially takes control of the ailing Yves Saint Laurent house. Two months...
GATES SLAMS JUDGE IN M'SOFT CASE
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amBill Gates fired back yesterday at the federal judge who slammed him and Microsoft in his recent antitrust case ruling. Microsoft "disagrees with the court's findings of facts and believes...
RESTYLING AT BERGDORF; CHANGE OF SUITS AT TOP OF LUXURY RETAILER
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe last vestige of Dawn Mello's legendary empire at Bergdorf Goodman is leaving -- and the new president, known for his smarts, aggressive style and merchandising savvy, is consolidating his...
REUTERS FIRES BACK AT 'SICK' WORKERS
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amR EUTERS management is warning New York staffers who staged a wildcat sick-out that they better come to work with a note from their doctor -- or they won't be...
SENSATIONAL AND 70! AGELESS WONDERS ALL THE STAGE RAGE
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amEARTHA Kitt's age was a mystery, even to her, until a group of university students unearthed her birth certificate last year. But it turns out that being in the dark...
AT 76, SHE'S STILL THE KITT'S MEOW
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amTHE lady is a vamp. Eartha Kitt's extraordinary career has spanned six decades and multiple genres, revolving around the persona of an avaricious femme fatale. She purred into stardom as...
RESTAURANT UPDATE 2000: TOP RESTAURATEURS TELL THE POST OF THEIR LATEST VENTURES
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amBELIEVE it or not, the first major new restaurant out of the millennial gate is Metrazur. That's surprising because, although Metrazur wins the first-baby award, the pregnancy and labor took...
EVERGREEN SHANGHAI CAPTIVATES E. SIDE
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amSTOP the presses. Call back the trucks. An improbably terrific Chinese restaurant has opened on the Upper East Side. Impossible, you say. Serious Chinese food in that wasteland of starchy...
SINK YOUR TEETH INTO WOLF'S FARE
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amWHO'S afraid of the big bad Wolf's combination sandwiches? Not the business luncher at the next table cavalierly digging into a monster of corned beef, pastrami and Swiss piled sky...
SMALL CROWD CATCHES INFECTIOUS ANTHRAX
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amROCK REVIEW LONG before Korn and Limp Bizkit made being a social outcast a virtue, Queens rockers Anthrax were gleefully splicing rock and rap into songs to delight the sociopath....
THE STARR REPORT
January 19, 2000 | 5:00am'Honor' to rollGerald E. Kelly's gritty cop novel, "Honor for Sale: The Darkest Chapter in the History of New York's Finest," could be turned into a TV movie starring Ray...
SEINFELDII ; JERRY SIDEKICK SIGNS FOR HBO COMEDY SERIES
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amBREAK out the puffy shirts -- "Seinfeld" mastermind Larry David is producing and starring in a new comedy series about nothing. The 10-episode series for HBO -- its first new...
KILLJOY CBS SNUBS STERN
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amCBS yesterday poured cold water on Howard Stern's offer to fill in while late-night funnyman David Letterman recuperates from heart surgery. The network insisted it would continue to offer "Late...
AUSTIN OUT OF SURGERY
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amTHE WWF's biggest star, Stone Cold Steve Austin, underwent neck surgery this week to relieve a career-threatening spinal injury. During the procedure, which took place Monday at a San Antonio,...
THE SPIRIT OF STUTTGART
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amHE appears sleekly and enthusiastically younger than his 50 years. Many former dancers do. But Canadian-born Reid Anderson, who leads the newly invigorated Stuttgart Ballet into an engagement at City...
MILLIONAIRE II; SECOND WINNER HELD LUCKY COIN
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amA 34-year-old ex-New Yorker stepped into game-show history last night when he became the second person to win the jackpot on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." "It'll be funny...
MUSICAL 'GUERRE' SHIFTS INTO STOP
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amBRITISH impresario Cameron Mackintosh yesterday canceled plans to bring "Martin Guerre" -- his latest big-budget musical -- to Broadway this season. Mackintosh -- whose hit shows include "Cats," "Les Miserables"...
AD SCANDAL PROBE 'LIKELY'; NETS FACE HEARINGS ON ANTI-DRUG PLUGS
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amCONGRESSIONAL officials now say hearings into the government's controversial anti-drug campaign on network TV are "likely." "We're still in the early stages of discussing the issue and whether or not...
CALL IT FEMALE INTUITION
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Sundance Film Festival often has an unconscious theme or trend.Examples: black filmmakers; films about cool people making independent films in the East Village; sub-Tarantino-esque black comedy. No one will...
HILL STIRS UP A STORM BY DITCHING HER NYPD ESCORT
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Secret Service have dropped the NYPD from her security detail - igniting an unprecedented flap between the White House and New York's Finest,...
COPS PULL THE PLUG ON L.I. POT FARMERS
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amLong Island cops have busted two men for allegedly running a high-tech pot factory to grow "designer" weed that sold for as much as $3 million a year. The secret...
I'LL NEVER DUMP BILL :HILL TRIES TO QUIET TALK OF SPLIT
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amBUFFALO - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday vowed never to leave her hubby. Trying to put doubts about their love life to rest, a defiant Hillary declared, "I certainly...
HIS CRIME SPREE SHOWS SUBWAYS ARE REALLY SAFE
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amSubway crime has plunged so low that one suspect's spree could be blamed for a 20 percent increase in robberies last month, police said yesterday. Transit cops said Salidiny Tromp...
'LIBERATION OF GROZNY' IS AT HAND, RUSSIA SAYS: CHECHEN CAPITAL ON THE BRINK
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amRussia said its troops smashed deep into the heart of Grozny yesterday, after being repeatedly repelled in weeks of ferocious fighting for the Chechen capital. "The decisive phase of the...
GRANDPARENTS GO TO WAR
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amShould grandparents be given visitation rights to their grandchildren, even when the parents of the children object? The Supreme Court is set to settle this question when it hears the...
LEAVE IT UP TO MOM AND DAD - NOT -TO ALL THESE LAWYERS AND BUREAUCRATS
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amA GLIMPSE into a planet where grandparents rule: A woman has two children out of wedlock. The father dies; she marries another guy. Enter the paternal grandparents. The mother, now...
DOUBLE STANDARDS ON RACISM: DEMOCRATS IGNORE RACIAL SKELETONS IN THEIR OWN CLOSETS
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amGEORGE Bush -- the former president, not the would-be one -- should be a happy man today, and not just because his son is still the front-running Republican contender for...
PRAYERS FOR COMA BEAU IN DRAG-RACE CATASTROPHE
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe family of a young woman killed in a Brooklyn drag-racing crash is praying her boyfriend snaps out of a coma -- so their 3-year-old daughter won't be orphaned. "I...
GERMANY'S KOHL QUITS PARTY POST UNDER FIRE
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amFormer German Chancellor Helmut Kohl offered a face-saving resignation as honorary chairman of the Christian Democrats yesterday after the party suspended him over a campaign-money scandal. Kohl admitted last month...
JAIL FOR HORSE SLUGGER? NEIGH!
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amThere'll be no punching license plates for a convicted horse puncher, a Manhattan judge has ruled. Electrician James Hornacek -- convicted of socking a police horse in the snout during...
FOUR VICTIMS ID 'SPIDER-MAN' IN MUGGINGS: COPS
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amFour Manhattan mugging victims picked "Spider-man" suspect Naftali Triplett out of lineups yesterday before he was hauled back to Brooklyn to face murder charges, police said. Triplett, 21, was held...
SLAY-SUSPECT GI SANG FOR CLINTON
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe U.S. peacekeeper accused of murdering an 11-year-old Albanian girl serenaded President Clinton during his Thanksgiving visit with troops, the soldier's family told The Post yesterday. "We are absolutely shocked...
LEGEND CLOSES DOOR ON LONG PLAZA CAREER
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amJoe Szorentini's heart just wasn't in the job anymore. After 53 years of opening doors for the biggest names in show business, The Plaza hotel's longest-serving doorman officially retired yesterday...
RUSSIA: 'LIBERATION OF GROZNY' NEAR
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amRussia said its troops smashed deep into the heart of Grozny yesterday, after being repeatedly repelled in weeks of ferocious fighting for the Chechen capital. "The decisive phase of the...
ANDY FACES PROBE OF POLICY ON HOMELE$$
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amA top Republican senator is turning the tables on Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo, announcing today he'll hold hearings on why HUD took away funds for the homeless from the city's...
MCCAIN QUICK TO REGRET GAY-BEHAVIOR COMMENT
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amWisecracking Sen. John McCain yesterday tried to backtrack after telling reporters he could spot gay people just by the way they act. "I think we know by behavior and attitudes,"...
DID 007 TRICK BACKFIRE ON FLEEING PUFFY?
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amAmid panicked screams, hip-hop star Sean "Puffy" Combs chucked a powerful gun from his speeding car because no one knew how to open a sophisticated James Bond-like hidden compartment, sources...
FOX TO QUIT 'SPIN CITY': NEEDS TIME FOR FAMILY & BATTLE VS. PARKINSON'S
January 19, 2000 | 5:00am"Spin City" star Michael J. Fox, who's battling Parkinson's disease, said yesterday he's leaving the ABC sitcom in May to deal with his illness. "After long and careful consideration, I...
LITTLE ELIAN'S EDUCATION IS BECOMING A TUG OF WAR, TOO
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amWhether he winds up going to school in America or in Cuba, little Elian Gonzalez is likely to attend classes with a political agenda. At the Lincoln-Marti School in Miami's...
STADIUM STRIKES OUT
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe Giuliani administration yesterday canceled its plans to temporarily place a minor-league Mets team in Brooklyn's Parade Grounds -- and is instead focusing on St. John's University in Queens. Michael...
DEFENSE MAY CLAIM LOUIMA INTERVIEW TAPE WAS DOCTORED
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amAn expert who worked on the Watergate tapes may be a witness in the second Abner Louima torture trial -- to testify that a recording of a police interview with...
DOCS ADVISE CARDINAL TO SKIP ANTI-ABORT RALLY
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amFor the first time in his 16-year tenure as archbishop of New York, an ailing John Cardinal O'Connor will skip the annual anti-abortion rally in Washington. Doctors have ordered O'Connor...
CHAPLAIN O'CONNOR'S AMMO WAS HIS HUMOR
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amJIMMY the Mac was talking about the day that Johnny O taught him a lesson as they flew through the bullet-filled skies of the Middle East -- a day God...
NARCS CRACK RING OF COCAINE DE-LIVERY DRIVERS
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amMore than 2,000 well-to-do New Yorkers are named as coke-snorting customers of a livery-cab drug delivery ring that made cocaine "as easy to order as a pizza," the feds said...
'CHIN' LOSES LAST CHANCE AT FREEDOM
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amConvicted mob boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante lost his final legal fight yesterday when the Supreme Court shot down an appeal of his racketeering conviction. "This pretty much closes the book"...
LEVY FACING STERN TEST ON FIRST DAY AS SCHOOLS BOSS
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amHarold Levy has a huge task waiting when he takes charge of city schools today -- carrying out a massive new program to end social promotion and send some 320,000...
DEPARTURE TIME FOR JETS: NEW OWNER WANTS OUT OF MEADOWLANDS
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amJust days after Mayor Giuliani again suggested building a sports stadium on the West Side of Manhattan, the new owner of the Jets said the team is looking for a...
REV. AL TO VEEP AL: IF YOU DISS ME NOW, YOU'LL MISS ME LATER
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday said it would be "strange" if Vice President Al Gore refuses to show "respect" and come to Harlem to meet him as rival Bill Bradley...
WHERE RIVALS STAND ON HOMOSEXUALITY
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amThis is the second in a series in which The Post looks at where the leading presidential contenders stand on various issues.DEMOCRATS:Al Gore: Says gays should be allowed to serve...
TYSON: MY LADY CRITICS REALLY 'WANT TO BE MEN'
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amBoxer and convicted rapist Mike Tyson earned the wrath of British feminists yesterday when he said protesters calling for him to be barred from the country were "women who want...
NEW FLAP AS SHE DITCHES NYPD ESCORT; EXCLUSIVE
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Secret Service have dropped the NYPD from her security detail -- igniting an unprecedented flap between the White House and New York's Finest,...
KENNEDY KIN MAY BE TARGET OF SLAY WARRANT
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amA Connecticut judge has signed an arrest warrant in the sensational Martha Moxley murder case, which has focused on Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel as the suspect, it was reported today....
HILL: I'LL 'SPEND REST OF MY LIFE' WITH BILL
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amBUFFALO -- First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday vowed never to leave her hubby. Trying to put doubts about their love life to rest, a defiant Hillary declared: "I certainly...
FIFTH TERROR-NET SUSPECT INDICTED
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amCharges were announced yesterday against a fifth suspect accused of aiding an Algerian terrorist network in the United States and Canada. Mokhtar Haouari, of Montreal, was indicted by a federal...
HERO BRAVES ICE TO PLUCK OUT PLUNGED POOCH
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amA Long Island firefighter braved yesterday's doggone cold and crawled along a frozen canal to rescue a duck-chasing pooch who fell through thin ice. Ruby, an Irish setter who went...
OPPOSITE POINTS :SHAHEEN & BARKLEY TAKE DIFFERENT PATHS
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amTHE line of Shaheen Holloway wannabes in Queens extended from Springfield Gardens to Flushing, and Erick Barkley was one of the kids taking a number. Holloway, the best point guard...
TOBACCO ROAD OF THE NORTH: AMAKER THINKS HALL-SJU COULD BE LIKE UNC-DUKE
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall coach Tommy Amaker knows a thing or two about rivalries. The former Duke star vividly recalls the Tobacco Road battles with North Carolina. When Amaker thinks about St....
JETER, YANKS MOVIN' IN ON RECORD DEAL
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amSigns the Yankees will lock up Derek Jeter to a long-term, record-breaking contract are better than ever. The latest came yesterday when it was revealed the Yankees filed a salary...
COLD WEATHER HEATS UP SNOW BUSINESS
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amSNOWMAKING operations are throwing a blanket on anything that is not covered as ski resorts try to make up for lost time with this late-arriving winter. Having lost almost half...
IS IT SPLITSVILLE? INSIDERS: MORT ZUCKERMAN IS EASING FRED DRASNER OUT
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amFred Drasner is taking a back seat in the publishing operation of his partner, Mort Zuckerman, and the two may be headed for splitsville. Drasner, CEO and co-publisher of the...
MCILVAINE'S IN, CAGE'S OUT
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES Jim McIlvaine is back in, Michael Cage back out of the starting lineup at center for the Nets. Against the Knicks at the Garden tonight, Don Casey wants...
BROWN KEEPS STORM ROLLIN'
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amH.S. ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Of all the point guards Taliek Brown has played against, his list is real short when it comes to those he thinks are better than...
STEPHON EXPECTS BOO-TIFUL RECEPTION
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amWhen he first came back to Madison Square Garden as a professional, wearing the uniform of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Stephon Marbury received a warm and long ovation. He kind of...
BENITEZ PUTS IN $4.9M REQUEST
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Franco injured his finger. Armando Benitez was promoted from setup man to closer. He dominated, his confidence soared, Franco's closing days ended. And everybody but Franco lived happily ever...
WOODY ADMITS HIS CRAVING FRO TUNA: NEW JET OWNER SAYS CONVINCING PARCELLS TO COACH IS NO. 1 HOPE
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amIt's not over yet, Jets fans. The idea of Bill Parcells on the sidelines for the year 2000 is not dead yet. Woody Johnson, the Jets' new owner, who was...
WARD HOPES PHILLS LESSON WON'T FADE
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe NBA announced yesterday the Knicks will make their next trip to Charlotte Feb. 7. Charlie Ward, the holiest Knick, hopes his teammates will not forget the serious lessons they...
QUIETLY, CHARLIE'S MAKING HIS POINT
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amCharlie Ward has never been viewed as the Knicks' "franchise player," like the point guard across the Hudson. Ward says he listens to all criticisms to see if he can...
ALLAN'S TOUCHY OVER LESSER ROLE
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy was baffled after yesterday's practice when he learned Allan Houston expressed "frustration" to reporters that he's getting fewer touches in the offense the past few games. Houston...
WOODY'S AIM: GANG GREENBACK
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amNew Jet owner Robert Wood Johnson, with a $635 million bet on the table, will have to set his sights at increasing revenues as soon as possible. For Jets' fans...
OTTAWA GM: NOBODY'S CALLING ABOUT YASHIN
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amRangers 3 Hurricanes 2 Ottawa GM Marshall Johnston last night refuted reports that he'd been receiving numerous inquiries -- including one from the Rangers -- regarding the availability through trade...
HALL SNUFFS OUT JOHNNIES ; STORM PAY NO HEED TO JARVIS' WARNING
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe last thing Mike Jarvis told his players before they took the Meadowlands Arena court last night was as simple as it gets. "He said it doesn't matter if we...
HO-HUM BLUESHIRTS CHALK UP ANOTHER 'W'
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amWell, the Rangers got away with one last night, beating the nondescript Hurricanes at the Garden despite a rather nondescript performance of their own. But the fact they were able...
BUTCH: REFS UNFAIR TO ISLES
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amSince the opening of training camp, Butch Goring has demanded emotion, energy and intensity from his players. He figured that this rush-hour aggressiveness was their only chance to compete in...
JETER NEARS $119M DEAL
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amNew York's most eligible bachelor is about to become baseball's highest-paid player. Signs that All-Star shortstop Derek Jeter and the Yankees are on the verge of agreeing on a record-breaking...
AHEAD OF THEIR TIME: FORGET NEXT YEAR, THE HALL'S HUGE NOW
January 19, 2000 | 5:00amALL right, so the coach, only 34 years old, hasn't been too many times around the block. And there is not yet any need for groups of oh, 8,000 or...