January 25, 2000
MORE BAD NEWS FROM THE FED
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amTHE most important news for the financial markets last week went totally unnoticed by Wall Street, although it did make headlines in the front sections of most newspapers. The Federal...
SCUDDER IS STILL KING OF THE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amAS international stocks -- and the funds that hold them -- come back into vogue, investors are searching for the best opportunities. One could look at last year's best performer...
MTV ONLINE SPREADS OUT
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amViacom's rapidly-expanding MTVi online division has taken on 144,000 more square feet of space at its downtown Internet headquarters. The entertainment giant signed for the space on the ninth and...
P&G DROPS 3-WAY DRUG MERGER
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amConsumer products giant Proctor & Gamble yesterday said it had ended discussions with American Home Products and Warner-Lambert about an unconventional three-way merger. At the same time, Warner-Lambert said it...
RAG SHOPS TO CYBER SPACES
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amON the eve of Fashion Week, the buzz of the District Formerly Known as the Garment Center was that Microsoft was coming. The rumor mill had them taking two floors...
SANDER PLANS TO JIL-T FIRM SHE FOUNDED
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amGerman designer Jil Sander shocked the fashion world yesterday by announcing she would leave the company she founded, amid rumors that she has been fighting bitterly with its new owner,...
PROFIT-TAKING HAMMERS DOW, NASDAQ
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amStocks had a very stormy Monday -- and Tuesday might be just as bad. The major indices all took big hits yesterday as investors decided it was time to take...
EMMIS 'WINS' DISNEY'S L.A. MAG FOR $30M
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amJeff Smulyan, the CEO of Emmis Communications Corp., has out-dueled Primedia's new chief Tom Rogers to grab Los Angeles Magazine from the Walt Disney Co. The price for the magazine...
NEW WARNER-EMI LABEL WILL BE PINK
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amLet the reign of terror begin. Executives at Warner and EMI Music were nibbling their nails yesterday as the chiefs of the new Warner EMI Music conglomerate warned at a...
NOVIX MEDIA GETS A $48M INFUSION
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amMichael Berman, best known as John F. Kennedy Jr.'s George magazine co-founder, and venture capitalist Doug Eger have secured $48 million in commitments for a new Web site for twenty-somethings....
TALK MAG MOCKERS GOING ONLINE FULL-TIME
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amMichael Colton and John Aboud, the duo behind the Web parody of Tina Brown's Talk, are taking their show on the cyber-road full time. Colton, who was a senior writer...
HERBS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amSEVERAL weeks ago, a controversy broke out when the Food and Drug Administration announced changes in the labeling of dietary supplements. Manufacturers can now claim their products treat natural life-stage...
AFTER 25 YEARS, CSNY 'CARRY ON' :CROSBY, STILLS, NASH AND YOUNG KICK OFF HARMONIOUS REUNION TOUR
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS, MI - Although they've been on-and-off-again partners for more than thirty years, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young were, and remain, four very different individuals,...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amVirginia for all On Feb. 1, the comprehensive Virginia Travel Guide for Persons with Disabilities goes online. The 304-page book contains more than 500 listings of attractions, hotels, restaurants and...
THE STARR REPORT
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amIn the pilot seatBo Derek, last seen in NBC's short-lived "Wind on Water," has been cast in "Sunstorm," a pilot being shot in Puerto Rico. Derek plays an unsavory sort...
KEEPING IT ALL IN THE FAMILY
January 25, 2000 | 5:00am'THE Sopranos" were hot at the Golden Globes -- and now also at Sundance, where Lions Gate yesterday bought "Two Family House," Raymond DeFelitta's 1950's family drama. The film stars...
OSCAR'S AD PRICES SACK SUPER BOWL
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amIT is now more expensive to advertise during the Oscars then during the Super Bowl. Traditionally, the ads that air during football's finale are the most-watched of the season and...
GISELLE LOOKS EAST
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amEX-"Access Hollywood" anchor Giselle Fernandez wants to relocate to the East Coast -- and could end up in New York. As The Post first reported yesterday, Fernandez has reportedly met...
'FRIENDS' MIGHT ALL SAY FOND FAREWELL
January 25, 2000 | 5:00am'FRIENDS" star Lisa Kudrow says the hit sitcom will only come back next season if all six stars stay on the show. "There will either be no more 'Friends' or...
'TAO' BEST OF FEST SO FAR
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah -- After the first crazed weekend of the Sundance festival, a number of films have emerged as the stars of the program. One that has both critics...
ZEVON IS DEAD ON WITH 'LIFE'LL KILL YA'
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amLIFE'LL KILL YA Warren Zevon Artemis Records Macho madness, intellectual insights and an acute sense of the macabre are the voodoo of Warren Zevon's music. On "Life'll Kill Ya," his...
EIGHT MORE SEEKING CHARTERS FROM BOARD OF ED
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amThree new charter schools have applied to the chancellor's office to open this fall - and five city schools have asked to convert to charters, Board of Education officials said...
CUNY STUDENTS GET HELP TO STAY IN FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amJust last semester, a professor told Brooklyn College student Stacy Aumoithe, 20, that she wasn't college material. "For a while I believed him. But look at me now," said the...
HIGH COURT KOS ELECTION BIAS ON L.I.: DECISION WILL RESHAPE TOWN BOARDS
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amThe Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for the election of Long Island town-board members by district - a long-awaited move designed to correct a decades-old system that discriminated against...
PLAINTIFFS: REDO 'BOOM BOOM' DEAL
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amThree of the women who brought the "Boom Boom Room" sexual-harassment suit against SmithBarney now say the settlement process is unfair, and they want to renegotiate. Cara Beth Walker, Teresa...
A 'RED EYE' RACE BACK TO N.H.
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H. - GOP and Democratic candidates, groggy after 2a.m. arrivals in New Hampshire, jump back onto the campaign bandwagon today with only a week to go until the nation's...
IS RUSSIA LOW-BALLING CHECHNYA DEATH TOLL?
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amRussian casualties in the bloody Chechen campaign are far higher than previously reported -- and may be at least 10 times worse than the official toll, news media in Moscow...
NAVY MAN MCCAIN STANDS HIS GROUND
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H.THE wind howled across the glistening snows of New Hampshire yesterday and Sen. John McCain celebrated youth as he stepped from a classroom of teenagers. "Those kids were damn...
RAFT BOY INSPIRES TV MINISERIES
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amCBS will air a ripped-from-the-headlines miniseries on Elian Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban boat boy who's been at the center of an international tug-of-war. The four-hour movie is still in development...
ECUADOR PREZ BUILDS CABINET
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amEcuador's new president prepared to form a new Cabinet today and continue the radical currency policy that helped topple his ousted predecessor. Gustavo Noboa, who had been vice president until...
GIULIANI'S L-WORD ATTACK SO 'RIGHT,' IT'S WRONG: HILLARY
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday accused Mayor Giuliani of getting down and dirty on the campaign trail -- and insisted she's no liberal. "A lot of these names and...
BUSH TRIES TO ROW & WADE AT ONCE
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amHE HARRUMPHED and pouted and dragged his big ol' Texas heels. But George W. Bush just couldn't escape without saying the magic words. For days, Son of Bush was locked...
TEARS FLOW FOR SETON HALL STUDENTS ; KIDS KILLED IN DORM FIRE ARE BURIED
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amScenes of heartbreaking grief were repeated yesterday in three New Jersey churches as hundreds mourned the victims of the Seton Hall dorm fire, crying for lives cut short -- but...
MARLA A MILLION AIR-ESS?
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amMarla Maples is in talks to host a new TV game show that's right up her alley -- it's called "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?" Star magazine says the...
'NSYNC 'NSANITY WILL SWEEP TIMES SQUARE
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amGirl-lock is expected in Times Square tomorrow as hundreds of panting teenyboppers mob the sidewalks outside MTV's street-front studio to catch a glimpse of the boys from 'Nsync. The popular,...
STUDY RAILS AT GRIME WAVE ON G, 6, Q TRAINS
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amThe G -- for grimy -- train is the filthiest subway line in the city, according to the annual Straphangers Campaign survey. The survey found that 68 percent of all...
JUST WHAT DO YOU ASK THE WIFE OF A SEX HOUND?
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amLAST week, a friend was leaving a lunch in Midtown when he got caught up in a hubbub on the street. Hillary Clinton was also departing from a lunch date,...
COUPLE FOUND DEAD AT 'HOT SHEETS' MOTEL
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amA maid at a hot-sheets motel in Queens stumbled across the bodies of a man and a woman when she went to clean their room yesterday -- just hours after...
WOMAN DIES BETWEEN SUBWAY CARS
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amA woman was crushed to death yesterday after falling between cars of a moving Manhattan-bound E train near Queens Plaza. Officials said the woman slipped onto the tracks around noon...
THOUSANDS SLAM 'ROE' AT D.C. RALLY
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor couldn't be there, but thousands of ardent pro-life demonstrators yesterday marked the 27th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion with a protest in Washington....
CRIME STATS FALL AS CHILL STILLS SKELS
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amLast week was the safest in the last seven years in the Big Apple, new crime statistics show. For the week of Jan. 17 through Sunday -- a period when...
FEDS TO WATCH DIALLO TRIAL
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- The feds will review the Albany trial of the four NYPD cops charged with killing Amadou Diallo -- to see if they should face federal charges, too, a...
TYSON SLUGGED WITH LAWSUIT
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amA boxer who was sucker-punched in the ring by Mike Tyson says the Brownsville brawler also suckered him out of a $2 million rematch. Orlin Norris filed suit against the...
BARES PROWL ROCK CENTER
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amDaring demonstrators put their clothes on ice to do The Streak at Rockefeller Center last night -- skating topless across the rink to protest people wearing fur. Melynda Duval and...
ROUND 2 BEGINS TODAY IN N.H.
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H. -- Presidential candidates rushed last night from the land of cornstalks back to the land of maple syrup, as the Iowa race ended and the New Hampshire campaign...
HERE'S WHY GEORGE W. IS SMILING THIS MORNING
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amGEORGE W. Bush won the Republican presidential nomination last night in Iowa -- not because he received over 40 percent of the votes there, but because John McCain received only...
FAMILY FEUD PREVENTS ELIAN'S REUNION WITH GRANDMOTHERS ; THEY LEAVE FLA. AFTER TALKS WITH MIAMI KIN FAIL
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amElian Gonzalez and his grandmothers were closer together yesterday than at anytime since the boy left Cuba -- but a clash with relatives over where to hold a Miami meeting...
GEORGE AND AL WIN BIG IN IOWA
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amDES MOINES, Iowa -- Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush confirmed their status as 2000 front-runners in last night's much-hyped Iowa caucuses, which did little to change the...
2 SURVIVE EMPIRE ST. ELEVATOR PLUNGE
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amA man and a woman plunged a heart-stopping 40 stories in an out-of-control Empire State Building elevator yesterday -- and walked away with only minor injuries. "I thought I was...
CAMPAIGN TO GET GRANITE TOUGH IN COMING WEEK
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amMcCain and Bradley have to prove something in New Hampshire, so they're getting ready for hardball.DES MOINES, Iowa -- It's going to get a lot rougher in New Hampshire. Iowa...
TINY TWINS BEHIND THAI SIEGE ; MYSTICAL BOYS LEAD CORPS OF BURMA REBELS
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amA Burmese guerrilla group led by chain-smoking 12-year-old twins -- who claim to have mystical powers that make them bulletproof -- was responsible for yesterday's bloody hostage drama at a...
MARBURY NEEDS A BREAK
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amPORTLAND - From the absence of Jayson Williams to the early knee woes of Kerry Kittles to the surgeries for Gheorghe Muresan and Sherman Douglas, the Nets already have encountered...
VAN GUNDY RETURNS FIRE :WALTON'S CRITICISM OF EWING IRKS JEFF
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amNBC commentator Bill Walton is on the Knicks' nerves again. Walton was highly critical of Patrick Ewing during the Knicks-Spurs game Saturday night, saying Ewing was disrupting the offensive flow...
WESTPHAL: FEISTY PAYTON IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amWith its somewhat robust financial situation, Cablevision usually gets what it wants. Like Billy Joel playing New Year's eve at the Garden. And Roy Jones fighting at Radio City Music...
SYRACUSE SHOWIN' WHOLE LOTTA HART
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amSYRACUSE - It's easy for a point guard to get lost in the backcourt-rich Big East. Khalid El-Amin led Connecticut to last year's NCAA title; and Seton Hall's Shaheen Holloway...
UNDER-GUN BELICHICK MAKING FEDERAL CASE
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amBill Belichick will not go quietly into the night. As promised, the lawyer for the former Jet head coach for a day filed a federal antitrust suit yesterday against the...
CUP STARS ARE HEROES AGAIN ; ZIDANE, BAGGIO, ROMARIO SHINE
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amL ONDON -- Three players to have made major contributions the last two World Cup finals only to encounter some rocky roads thereafter have all recently proved the old adage...
STORM'S LOST SWAGGER
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amFor the last season and a half, St. John's captured the college basketball fans of this city by walking the walk, more than talking the talk. But after Saturday's confidence-crushing...
HEY, COLLEGE COACHES -- LOOK HERE!
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amHe's averaging more than 30 points and seven rebounds a game. But Melvin Jaquez of George Washington High School has yet to receive a nibble from any Division I college...
VERMEIL CHANGES HIS TUNE: RAM COACH LEARNED FROM SUPE XV FIASCO
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- When you lose, you are ripe to be criticized, whether it be for what you did, how you did it, what you wore, what you said, the weather...
TENNESSEE AND ST. LOUIS LOVING LIFE AS THE STARS OF SURPRISE BOWL XXXIV
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- The site of falling snowflakes greeted the first arrivals for Super Bowl XXXIV yesterday. There wasn't enough snow on the ground to build a snowman, but it was...
VERMEIL CHANGES HIS TUNE:HOBBLED WILKINS A WORRY
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Jeff Wilkins remains the placekicker for the Rams and Dick Vermeil doesn't want to hear anything about the weakened, painful left knee that has made field goals a...
CURTIS, VINNY SAY FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amWhen Jet running back Curtis Martin saw Bill Parcells yesterday at Weeb Ewbank Hall he gave Parcells a big hug and thanked him. "I told him how much I appreciated...
AL'S GOOD TO GROH ; JET COACH HANDLES MEDIA BLITZ WELL
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amThe Jets' new head coach stood calmly and prepared before the masses yesterday at his introductory press conference and shined like a newly discovered star. The previously anonymous Al Groh...
HENNING TO DIRECT OFFENSE
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amAl Groh faces numerous challenges in building a staff and keeping as much continuity as possible. Groh yesterday said he preferred to announce his entire staff all at once and...
GUARD-HUNGRY RAPTORS ARE MOVIN' IN ON MOOKIE
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amWhen asked if the Raptors' collapse last week would serve as a wake-up call, Charles Oakley responded in typically blunt fashion. "Why, were we [bleepin'] asleep in the first place?"...
'CUSE: SWEET 16-0: BLOWS OUT UCONN TO REMAIN PERFECT
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amSyracuse 88 UConn 74 SYRACUSE -- This was the game for which the Orangemen had worked and sweated all summer; the reason they had run early every morning and worked...
NEDVED TRICK LIFTS BLUESHIRTS TO .500
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amRangers 6 Thrashers 3 ATLANTA --They strike quickly, they strike often, they strike off the rush, they strike off the forecheck. One of these days, if they keep going like...
FISHER, MCNAIR FEELING SUPER
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- For Titans' quarterback Steve McNair and coach Jeff Fisher, making it here to Super Bowl is a dream come true. Tennessee's amazing run represents something much more basic,...
PETTITTE GETS PHYSICAL
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amAndy Pettitte underwent a physical examination yesterday, clearing the way for a news conference today at the Stadium to announce his three-year $25.5 million contract extension with the Yankees. With...
STEVENS ISSUES PLEA OF NOT GUILTY
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- The Ranger organization and players yesterday expressed unwavering support for Kevin Stevens, who was charged yesterday with carrying several grams of crack and released on bail. Stevens, who...
KNICKS AVOID SONIC DOOM ; SURVIVE PAYTON SUB'S HEROICS
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amStatement victory over an elite team? Or a Garden night in which the Knicks dodged the humiliation of getting beat by a backup point guard who came into the game...
GARY GETS T'S, BUT NO SYMPATHY FROM REF
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amNow, now Gary. Given back-to-back technical fouls and an automatic ejection by referee Ted Bernhardt in the first quarter of last night's 112-106 Knick victory against the Sonics at the...
VAN GUNDY FAULTIN' WALTON FOR EWING BARBS
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amNBC's Bill Walton is on the Knicks' nerves again. Walton was highly critical of Patrick Ewing during the Knicks-Spurs game Saturday night, saying he was disrupting the offensive flow by...
TITANS' VET JABS JAGS
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amSUPER BOWL NOTEBOOK ATLANTA -- Titans guard Bruce Matthews is a player from another generation. The 17-year veteran has deep respect for the game, loves to compete and is an...
BLAZERS TORCH NETS
January 25, 2000 | 5:00amPORTLAND -- For a while last night, it looked like maybe the Nets were going to go against their history here. For a while, it looked like they were headed...