January 28, 2000
RELIGIOUS GROUPS CASTING THEIR 'NETS UPON THE WEB
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amReligious groups are finally seeing the light -- of Internet commerce. After watching secular purveyors of books, clothes, jewelry and furniture push their products over the Web, many religious organizations...
IBM MULLS BUYING PWC CONSULTING BIZ
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amInternational Business Machines is exploring buying, or allying itself with, PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting business, The Post has learned. PWC, the world's biggest accounting and consulting firm, is leaning toward separating its...
FED CLOSING OFF CASH FLOODGATES
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Federal Reserve is already getting tough. While everyone is waiting for next week's inevitable rate hike and worrying about Alan Greenspan's spiel to Congress on Wednesday, the Fed has...
FEDS PROBE LUETHKE FOR PERJURY IN CURRY CASE ANDY UZZLE
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amFederal authorities are looking into perjury charges against a key figure in Christian Curry's $1.78 billion racial discrimination suit against Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, The Post has learned. The U.S....
SCHWAB'S NEW RIFF:RINGO TO DRUM UP BOOMER BIZ IN NEW ADS
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amAs he turns 60, Beatles legend Ringo Starr seems an ideal millionaire to sell retirement nest eggs for online brokerage powerhouse Charles Schwab. Starr is becoming a pitchman for Schwab...
ARNAULT PLANS SEPHORA.COM IPO
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amLuxury goods kingpin Bernard Arnault is set to take his beauty Web site, Sephora.com, public within the year -- a signal of his intent to turn his high-end empire into...
STARMEDIA LURING LATIN AMERICA BIGS FROM AOL
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe Web war in Latin America is heating up. From his office on West 36th Street, entrepreneur Fernando Espuelas is directing his new attack against AOL in Brazil, Chile and...
'GREAT' FOR A FEW LAUGHS: FUN BIOPIC IS SUSANN STORY LITE
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW ISN'T SHE GREAT *** Overly discreet but entertaining biopic about trashy '60s novelist Jacqueline Susann, played to perfection by a bawdy Bette Midler. A well- cast Nathan Lane...
PRETTY, BUT DUMB
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW LONG on style but perilously short on logic and coherence, "Eye of the Beholder" is watchable even when what's going on makes no sense whatsoever. Stephan Elliott, the...
3-STAR 'RESTAURANT'
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW 'RESTAURANT" is the year's first low-budget sleeper, a wonderfully acted ensemble piece set in a busy Hoboken eatery. Adrien Brody, who's establishing himself as the most interesting young...
THE STARR REPORT
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amBuck stops at ABCValerie Harper is talking to ABC about producing and starring in a TV movie based on the life of acclaimed author Pearl S. Buck. Harper portrayed Buck...
'GRIZZLY' GOES FROM BAD TO URSA
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW THE first movie in ages that depicts someone dying of consumption, "Grizzly Falls" is a hapless family film that's too scary for little kids and too boring for...
'D&G' MYSTERY SOLVED; CREDITS 'FLASH' HIDDEN MESSAGES
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe secret of "Dharma & Greg" is out. For three seasons, in-the-know fans of "D&G" have been taping the show in order to see a hidden message flashed on the...
WYNTON JAZZES UP CITY BALLET
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amDANCE REVIEW THEY should go together like ham and eggs but, jazz and classic dance are rarely found on the same platter. Partly it's the vexed issue of improvisation. Jazz...
KISS EACH OTHER GIRLS, THE RATINGS ARE DOWN
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amIT was Howard Stern who said: "Lesbians equal ratings." Now two of TV's most popular teen shows are taking that idea to heart. On next Thursday's episode of "Popular," two...
THE DOCTOR IS IN: DR. JOHN'S NEXT CASE IS DUKE ELLINGTON
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amMALCOLM John Rebennack, known professionally as Dr. John, but just plain ol' Mac to his pals, has been a major part of the American music scene since the late 1950s....
CBS PLAYS PEEPING TOM
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amCBS is close to picking up a candid-camera game-show that peeks in on the lives of real people living in close quarters in the same house. The show would air...
BROOKE'S 'STALKER' FACING TRIAL ; COPS: HE'S DOGGED HER FOR 15 YEARS
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- A judge yesterday ordered the man accused of stalking actress Brooke Shields to stand trial for terrorizing the statuesque beauty and illegally possessing a firearm. "He's harassed...
'SUPERDRUG' CAN'T BEAT ASPIRIN AS HEART RX
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amA "super aspirin" that scientists hoped would be a powerful new weapon in preventing heart attacks has proved to be no better than regular aspirin. The first study comparing the...
CAMPUS SALUTES TRAGIC DORM TRIO
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amGrieving Seton Hall University students, struggling to return to normal after a fatal dorm fire killed three freshmen, yesterday shed more tears for the victims of the devastating blaze. The...
NOW YOU 'C' IT, TONIGHT YOU WON'T
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amRiders of the C train are in for some C-sick commutes - the Transit Authority is eliminating service for a month, starting tonight, to repair equipment at the World Trade...
PRINCIPAL CHARGED WITH TALKIN' DIRTY
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amAn assistant principal at a south Jersey public school allegedly made sexually suggestive remarks to two young boys, prosecutors said. Norman Lee Tomasello, an assistant principal at Winslow School No.5,...
BURMA REBEL TWINS HEAD FOR THE HILLS
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe twin 12-year-old boys who lead a Burmese guerrilla group were reported fleeing separately through a jungle yesterday after government troops seized their home camp. Thai military intelligence said 100...
AL AND BRADLEY GETTING DOWN AND 'DIRTY'
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amAn irked Veep Al Gore yesterday claimed Democratic 2000 underdog Bill Bradley is playing dirty with "phony" attacks on his truthfulness - but Bradley said it's Gore who's playing dirty....
PREZ TRIES TO BLAZE PATH TO GORE-Y : SEEKS TAX-CUT LEGACY WHILE BOOSTING VEEP
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amPresident Clinton, in his final State of the Union speech, last night offered a $350 billion tax cut and $100 billion corporate tax hike as a parting gift that was...
RUSSIANS WILL BOL$TER MILITARY
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amRussia will buy 50 percent more military weapons this year in a huge effort to restock its Soviet-era arsenals, acting President Vladimir Putin said yesterday. Boris Yeltsin, Putin's predecessor, promised...
BIG GAME IS ONE FOR THE BOOKIES
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe Super Bowl is the largest single gambling event in the United States -- with some $5 billion plunked down on the game.While most bettors are hoping for a modest...
THE GOOD SON GROWS UP: BUT GORE STILL STRUGGLES TO LEAVE HIS WOODEN MAN IMAGE BEHIND
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amTHE stunning resuscitation of Al Gore's once-floundering campaign proceeded apace Wednesday night, as the vice president proved yet again in his final New Hampshire debate with Bill Bradley that he...
HILLARY DISSES DEM WHO BACKED RUDY
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amA DEMOCRATIC state senator who crossed party lines two months ago to endorse Mayor Giuliani was blacklisted at the Capitol when First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigned in Albany. State...
JUDGE 'PARTS' FROM AGNELLO BAIL CASE
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amAgnello's customer. A Queens judge yesterday recused himself from a bail hearing for Dapper Don John Gotti's son-in-law, saying he'd bought auto parts from him -- and then another jurist...
EX-COUNCIL HOPEFUL FORCED TO RETURN 12G
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amA one-time candidate for City Council from Brooklyn has been ordered to repay $12,787 in taxpayer matching funds he couldn't prove were used for his campaign, The Post has learned....
SUBWAY LITTER FOR IRT POOCH
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe homeless subway superdog who stole the heart of a city cop is the proud new parent of eight frisky pups. Gretchen, the sweetheart stray of the No. 7, gave...
PEOPLE MIGHT ACTUALLY TUNE IN TO BRYANT'S MARITAL SOAP
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amBRYANT GUMBEL's lousy ratings on CBS may be a disgrace. But the viewer-deprived morning host seems headed for unwanted stardom in the nastiest celebrity divorce slugfest since ... well, the...
WELL-ARMED CONSERVATIVE TAKES AIM AT DEM AGENDA
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H.GARY BAUER might be running last in the GOP primary punch-up, but he was first to chuckle as Bill Clinton coronated himself as the Messiah of Prosperity last night....
GRAPPLIN' GRANNY NUDE AT GARDEN?
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amHas the World Wrestling Federation finally gone too far? Red-faced Madison Square Garden officials are investigating whether a burlesque strip performed at Sunday's Royal Rumble by 78-year-old wrestler Mae Young...
WIESEL TO GERMANY: ASK FORGIVENESS
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amAn impassioned Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel yesterday appealed to German lawmakers to seek forgiveness from Jews for Nazi atrocities committed "in Germany's name." "Do it, and the world will...
AN 'OFFENDED' RUDY SWINGS A SWIFTER TAX AX AT CRITICS
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani, declaring himself "very offended" by critics who say his new budget is designed to propel him into the Senate, yesterday recommended accelerating a massive tax cut he had...
DRUG COLONEL'S WIFE: 'HE NEVER KNEW'
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amAfter pleading guilty to shipping heroin to New York, the wife of a U.S. Army colonel in charge of anti-drug efforts in Colombia insisted yesterday she had hidden her smuggling...
SNOTTY, SNEAKY GERM SPREADS LIBERALS' HATE
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amDURING the Clinton impeachment battle, the online magazine Salon gratuitously revealed that leading House Republican Henry Hyde had an extramarital affair 30 years ago. Was that playing dirty? "Frankly, yes,"...
JERSEY 'SEPTUPLETS' ALL IN DANGER: DOCS
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amDoctors have warned the New Jersey woman expecting septuplets that she's at "tremendous" risk of losing one or all of the babies in the critical four weeks ahead. But mom-to-be...
LIBRARIES IN A BIND, AND YOU MIGHT PAY
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amComing soon to a city library near you: rental fees. Libraries should charge borrowers Blockbuster rates for movie videos and CDs -- or come up with other money-raising ideas --...
BROOKLYN WOMAN, 86, PERISHES IN SNOW
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amAn 86-year-old grandma who wandered outside her Brooklyn home on a frigid night was found frozen to death in the snow -- clutching the beloved teddy bear she always carried....
BRAVE KOSOVO TEEN STANDING TALL AND PROUD ON NEW LEGS
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe spunky Kosovo teen whose legs were blown off by a land mine took her first triumphant steps here yesterday on new hydraulic limbs. "It was like a victory when...
RULING WIPES MCCAIN FROM UPSTATE BALLOTS
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amJohn McCain's New York campaign suffered a serious blow yesterday after a judge threw the presidential hopeful off the Republican primary ballot in eight upstate congressional districts. McCain's lawyer had...
N.Y. POLS FOCUS ON LETTING CAMERAS BACK IN COURT
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amAn Albany judge's decision to allow cameras in the courtroom for the upcoming trial of four cops accused of murdering Amadou Diallo may soon mean a change in New York...
LOW-GRADE DEM RIVALS PASS THE 'SPIN' EXAM
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amNASHUA, N.H. -- A battle over brains broke out yesterday, with Democrat Bill Bradley acknowledging a low SAT score while Veep Al Gore refused to cough up the transcript from...
FDNY FUMES AS HS FAILS TO CALL IN FIRE
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe Fire Department wants to know why officials at a Brooklyn high school failed to report a fire -- apparently set by kids -- that sent black smoke through the...
PUSH TO DISBAR PREZ MOVES AHEAD IN ARK.
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- The Arkansas Supreme Court yesterday ordered a state panel to act on two disbarment complaints against President Clinton, including one referred by the federal judge in the Paula...
GRANNIES: ELIAN'S CHANGED -- AND WE MUST 'SAVE' HIM
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amA day after their emotional reunion, Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers yesterday said they were disturbed to find the boy "has changed completely" during his stay in the United States. But there...
COPS MAKE QUICK WORK OF 'SPEEDER': FIRST CAR SEIZED IN NEW CRACKDOWN
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amA drunken speed demon clocked at 117 mph on the Belt Parkway became the first driver to have his car seized under the city's new reckless-driving crackdown, cops said yesterday....
O'CONNOR: DON'T LET WHEELCHAIR FOOL YOU
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor attended a Midtown charity dinner in a wheelchair last night -- but insisted he's getting stronger every day. "It's only when I hit my feet that I...
DEM FOES GET DOWN & 'DIRTY': GORE, BRADLEY DUKE IT OUT OVER MUD ATTACKS
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amAn irked Vice President Al Gore yesterday claimed Democratic underdog Bill Bradley is playing dirty with "phony" attacks on his truthfulness -- but Bradley said it's Gore who's playing dirty...
GOP: HE SPENT $4B A MINUTE AS HE SPOKE
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Republicans scoffed last night at President Clinton's plan to spend billions of the federal surplus on new programs, claiming he spent $4 billion a minute in last night's...
QUICK ON THE DRAW: GUN-LICENSING PLAN BIGGEST SURPRISE IN STATE OF THE UNION
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- President Clinton, in his final State of the Union speech, last night demanded licenses for newly purchased handguns -- siding with Vice President Al Gore in his gun...
ATTRACTION IS FETAL FOR DOUGLAS & ZETA JONES
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amHollywood beauty Catherine Zeta Jones is pregnant with Michael Douglas's baby -- and the soon-to-be-wedded couple is "thrilled," it was reported today. Jones, 30, is three months' pregnant, and missed...
HOUSTON, L.A. FANS FEELING SUPER SAD
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - For sports fans in southern California and Houston, Sunday will almost be like any other NFL day of recent years - one with no local team. Of...
CHILDS OUT; KNICKS IN GUARDED CONDITION
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amAt least Chris Childs has other reasons for being in Atlanta tonight. Childs, suffering from a left Achilles strain that forced him out of Monday's game vs. Seattle, said he...
KEITH FUMES OVER BENCHING
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amVANCOUVER - Another day, another crisis. And this one could be of the major variety for the Nets. Keith Van Horn, one of the building blocks for the Nets' future,...
NHL DETAILS DRUG PROGRAM
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe NHL and NHLPA hosted a conference call yesterday to educate the media about their joint Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Program. As explained by Dr. Dave Lewis and Dr....
FISHER IS EVERYONE'S BUDDY ; COACH WORKED FAST TO REPAIR THE DIVIDE THAT RYAN INSTILLED
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- The Great Divide was everywhere. It wasn't too long ago that the Houston Oilers defense hated the offense. They all wore the same Luv Ya Blue uniforms, but...
FRANCIS CAN'T HIDE FROM TYSON PHOBIA
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amMcNeeley hit the deck seven seconds into his 1995 "fight" with Tyson, and there is a joke among the press that Francis could break that record. MANCHESTER, England -- He...
NOW EAR THIS: GO WITH RAMS
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amTHE other day, Dick Klayman of the Odd Couple walked by and asked who I was picking in Super Bowl XXXIV. Rams, I told him. "You might be the only...
GIANTS GIVE FASSEL JUST ONE MORE YEAR
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- No ultimatums, no warnings, no threats. None was needed. The Giants yesterday said all they needed to about their head coach when they made it official and extended...
ORANGE SUCCESS YEARS IN MAKING ; UNDEFEATED ORANGE NO OVERNIGHT SENSATION
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amSYRACUSE -- There are those who will try to convince you that Syracuse came of age with Monday's win over defending national champion Connecticut. They'll proclaim the undefeated Orangemen an...
DEVILS WAIT FOR INEVITABLE DEAL
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amRALEIGH -- The Alexei Yashin scare hit the Devils nearly two days before it was defused here yesterday. It left the players taking fresh stock of their place in the...
GOV MAKES GOOD BUYS UPSTATE
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amTHE state of New York is buying up land throughout the state to create new forest preserves and to protect and give access to some excellent trout streams. Close to...
WWF SMUT IN THE GARDEN ; KIDS, PORN DON'T BELONG INSIDE MSG
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amTHIS past Sunday night, for what would likely be the first time in the history of Madison Square Garden -- all four of them -- an event, by design and...
MICHAELS ADMITS TOO MUCH CLUTTER FOILS MNF
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amABC's Al Michaels, play-by-play man in Sunday's Super Bowl, is the first sportscaster, to our knowledge, to be quoted on the record stating what long ago became painfully obvious to...
GET YOUR SEATS FOR THE SPA
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amTime is running out for applications to be accepted for Saratoga Race Course's Reserved Seat drawing for its upcoming, 132nd season. All applications must be postmarked by Monday, Jan. 31,...
LUNDMARK PAYING HIS DUES ; RANGERS' FUTURE TAKING HIS LUMPS ON LOSING TEAM ; LUNDMARK BIDING TIME IN THE WESTERN LEAGUE
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amSecond of two partsMOOSE JAW, Saskatchewan -- Being projected as the third best Canadian prospect in the draft first stunned, then delighted, Jamie Lundmark. But it quickly produced a new...
GREEN WANTS SUPE RING TO CALL HIS OWN
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA--Trent Green was supposed to be the Super Bowl quarterback with the feel-good story that makes you warm inside and glad to be an American. He was to be the...
MULLIGAN KEEPS RAVENS ROLLING
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amIt's not quite the Michael Jordan story, but it's not too far off. As an eighth-grader, Peter Mulligan didn't make his school's basketball team. As a freshman at St. Raymond's,...
YANKS' JIMENEZ HURT IN CRASH
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe Yankees are in the process of assessing how they are going to make up for the loss of D'Angelo Jimenez, the infield prospect who fractured a bone in his...
COCKY RAM OFFENSE SEEKS OLD SWAGGER
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- They got theirs. That seems to be the desired aftermath for the growing legions who were sick and tired of watching the Rams play pinball with the scoreboard...
TITANS GET WIND OF HAKIM'S GUARANTEE
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- He was asked once, twice, three times. He was coaxed, kidded, cajoled. Finally, he relented. If it was a guarantee they wanted, it was a guarantee they would...
METS OFFER TURK $3.9M OVER TWO TO STAY AT SHEA
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amA day after Turk Wendell said he wanted a three-year deal, the Mets came back with an offer of two years at $3.9 million. It is believed Wendell and his...
PATS PAY JET PRICE TO LAND BELICHICK:GIVE NO. 1 PICK AS PARCELLS, KRAFT BURY THE HATCHET
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- The Cold War is over between the Jets and Patriots. Bill Belichick, mercifully released from his three-week house arrest, gets to coach the Patriots. And finally, life goes...
FATHER TIME IS FEELIN' FINE ; MATTHEWS FINALLY MAKES IT TO SHOW AFTER 17 SEASONS
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Jevon Kearse isn't the only "Freak" on the Tennessee Titans' roster. Meet Bruce Matthews, the Titans' veteran 6-5, 305-pound left guard, resident Oilers historian, perennial Pro Bowler and...
RAMS PREZ: VERMEIL CHANGED FOR BETTER
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amSUPER BOWL NOTEBOOK ATLANTA -- He was not in danger of getting fired, Rams president John Shaw says, but that doesn't mean things were just fine with Dick Vermeil after...
TITANS INSIST THEY'RE BEING DISSED
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- The Titans are turning up the heat on how they feel they've been treated with disrespect this frigid week. For what it's worth, disrespect can go a long...
PERSON SHOT CASE(Y) OF BRAINLOCK
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amLIKE one or two other viewers, I was reasonably perplexed as to why the Nets left Chuck Person alone with 1.7 seconds remaining on the game clock Wednesday night, which...
NHL PROVIDES DETAILS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAM
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe NHL and NHLPA hosted a conference call yesterday to educate the media about their joint Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Program. As explained by Dr. Dave Lewis and Dr....
JEFF CHALLENGES GUARDS ; VG POINTS 'D' FINGER AT HOUSTON & SPREE
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- The challenge has been issued. Jeff Van Gundy wants to see Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell step up their defense the rest of the season and tonight is...
GRAVES LEAVES EARLY IN FIRST GAME BACK
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amJust as his Ranger return was going so well last night, Adam Graves was nailed above his right eye by a loose puck late in the third period. As blood...
STICK COMES UP, STREAK ENDS
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amLeafs 4 Rangers 3 Seven will have to be enough for the Rangers, at least this time. Though they were not particularly sharp for a second consecutive game, the Blueshirts...
OH, NO... NOT AGAIN!
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amGrizzlies 108 Nets 106 VANCOUVER -- Almost unbelievably, the clock lasted fractions of a second too long for the Nets for a second straight night. And so much of what...
EVAN LEARNS HARD WAY
January 28, 2000 | 5:00amVANCOUVER -- Evan Eschmeyer admits he is learning every game, every practice. Among his lessons this week was the hard fact that he should not try to shoot over Jelani...