January 29, 2000
IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE - AMAZON FIRING 150
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amLet's get ready to rumble! The restructuring continues in .com-ville as Amazon.com, the world's largest e-tailer, announced yesterday it's laying off 150 employees, or 2 percent of its staff. The...
FOREIGN FILMS FOR SMALL-FRIES
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe New York International Children's Film Festival isn't just for kids. "It's aimed at a wide range of people," says Eric Beckman of the film and video festival he founded,...
THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON ROARS IN
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amJust when we thought the holidays were over, it's time to ring in the New Year - the Chinese New Year, that is. Though it's celebrated as the Spring Festival...
SHOWTIME'S GAY PARADE OF 'HOMER'-SEXUAL STORIES BOYS'TOWN
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amSHOWTIME, whose last name is "No Limits," proves it with tonight's movie, "Common Ground" written by gay playwrights Paula Vogel, Terrance McNally and Harvey Fierstein. It's about living gay in...
LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE GIRLS THEY'RE FEST'S BEST
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah -- She wiz! With just one day left, Sundance is more than delivering on its girl-power promise, thanks to an avalanche of exciting female talent on both...
ABDUCTED TEEN FOUND AFTER 9 YRS.
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amA 19-year-old Japanese woman who turned up yesterday after vanishing nine years ago says she had been held prisoner in a house since then, police said. She claimed she was...
DIRTY LITTLE SECRET OF 'CLEAN FUEL' BUSES
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amEveryone wants pollution-free buses on the streets, but the head of the Transit Authority yesterday said natural gas is not the answer. "I don't think CNG [compressed natural gas] is...
JUDGE KOS OPPONENT'S LAWSUIT VS. IRON MIKE
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge yesterday saved Mike Tyson from having his purse snatched. Boxer Orlin Norris, who claims Tyson stiffed him out of a $2 million rematch, had sought to withhold...
RUSSIA BRACING FOR NEW TERROR ATTACKS ON ALERT FOR CHECHNYA RETALIATION
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe Kremlin yesterday warned of Chechen terrorist attacks across Russia, and denounced Western criticism of the four-month military campaign to eradicate Muslim rebels. The Federal Security Service told regional and...
O'CONNOR 'FEELING GREAT' ON HIS FEET
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor attended a Midtown luncheon yesterday without a wheelchair -- proving his point that he's on the mend. "I'm feeling great," the cardinal told The Post outside the...
HILL TO JEWS: LET'S BAN HATEFUL HAIDER ; SPLITS WITH FEDS OVER AUSTRIA POL
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton jumped into foreign policy yesterday, breaking with the White House by calling for right-wing Austrian politician Joerg Haider to be frozen out of power. It's...
IF ONLY GIPPER WERE HERE TO MAKE GOP RIVALS BEHAVE ; GIPPER COULD MAKE GOP RIVALS BEHAVE
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H. IF THE great communicator, Ronald Reagan, were fit and well today, he would take his fellow Republicans to the woodshed. The first thwacks on the bottom would be...
RUDY ROOTER, REV. AL PAL LINKED BY TELEPHONY CALL
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amA FUNNY thing happened to Liberal Party leader Ray Harding this week. He got a call Tuesday from a man identifying himself as the Rev. Charles Norris and said he...
GOV'T OFFICES FAIL DISABLED VISITORS
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amDisabled people who need to use the bathroom at the Department of Health building in lower Manhattan should bring their own paper towels: The dispensers are too high for people...
EHUD CANCELS ON BILL & YASSER, SHIFTING FOCUS OF MIDEAST PEACE PUSH
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday canceled a meeting with President Clinton and Yasser Arafat and set up visits to Egypt and Jordan and "marathon" negotiations with the...
WALL ST. STOCK $HOCK DOW PLUNGES 289, NASDAQ DOWN 152
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe roller-coaster stock market took another harrowing plunge yesterday on fears of inflation and higher interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 289 points yesterday, and is down 512...
A SNEAKY NEW TOLL THRU & THRU
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- The New York Thruway Authority plans a massive, "hidden" toll hike that will cost motorists hundreds of millions of dollars a year, it was learned yesterday. The authority's...
400,000 KIDS MIGHT SPEND SUMMER AT THEIR DESKS
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amA child-advocacy group says the Board of Ed's massive, mandatory summer-school program may be getting out of hand -- warning that nearly 40 percent of kids could be required to...
'CHEAP' SHOT BY IMUS GAGSTERS HAS
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amPranksters from the Don Imus radio show were threatened with arrest outside CBS's "Early Show" yesterday after they tried to collect money to help support co-host Bryant Gumbel's estranged wife...
NUN HOPES AND PRAYS ELIAN STAYS IN U.S.
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amTurning words into action, the Florida nun chosen as a neutral party in the tug of war over Elian Gonzalez yesterday backed legislation to grant the boy U.S. citizenship. Sister...
'SUPER' STORM ON THE WAY ; MAY 'BOWL' US OVER AFTER SACKING ATLANTA
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amA powerful storm that threatens to blitz the Super Bowl with snow and freezing rain may be headed our way. "We have a system coming our way late in the...
CITY CUTS OFF PSYCHICS AFTER UNFORESEEN FLAP
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amRed-faced city officials gazed into a crystal ball yesterday and saw a quick death for an effort that steered welfare recipients to jobs at a psychic hot line. The ESP-ecially...
SUBWAY-PUPPY LOVE FOR POST READERS
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amPooch-crazy Post readers have opened up their hearts to the puppies born to Gretchen, the pregnant stray rescued on the subway in November by transit cops. Gretchen, a purebred German...
SHARPTON IS BRINGING BUSLOADS TO DIALLO TRIAL
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton will meet tomorrow with the mayor of Albany to discuss the busloads of activists he expects to bring to the trial of the cops in the...
RUDY SOARS IN AIR WAR FOR JFK & LA GUARDIA
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amLook out, Port Authority. Four of the world's largest private-aviation firms yesterday accepted Mayor Giuliani's offer to bid on the job of running New York's airports. BAA of Britain, Schiphol...
CITY'S KEEPING CAR OF CLEARED DWI SUSPECT
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amA day after Mayor Giuliani's new reckless-driving crackdown netted its first bust, the charges against a Staten Island man nabbed a year ago in Hizzoner's first DWI car-seizure sweep were...
TRANSIT CHAPLAIN COGROVE, 83, DIES
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amTransit Authority chaplain the Rev. Francis J. Cosgrove -- who counseled transit employees for four decades and once was a qualified train operator -- died Thursday at age 83. Cosgrove,...
BROKERAGE CLERK RAN COKE: FEDS
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amA Merrill Lynch clerk has been busted on charges of helping run a cocaine ring for the powerful Cali drug cartel and paying hit men to rub out a ring...
CHRISTIE'S CUT SECRET DEAL TO FIX FEES: PAPER
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amArt-auction powerhouse Christie's has given probers evidence that it fixed commission fees with archrival Sotheby's -- effectively admitting collusion in the big-bucks international art world, it was reported today. Christie's...
BRADLEY RIPS AL ON ABORT SWITCH NEW HEART WOES DON'T STOP ATTACK
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amKEENE, N.H. -- Newly aggressive Democrat Bill Bradley got tripped up by his problematic ticker -- but it didn't stop him from unleashing a tough new ad last night questioning...
MCCAIN MAKING A 'MASS.' OF THINGS
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amEXETER, N.H. -- In the blur of racing toward the nation's first presidential primary, John McCain stood in this historic New Hampshire town and vowed he'd never forget the great...
PENTAGON OUT TO RECRUIT AN ARMY OF STARS
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amMilitary brass are looking for a few good celebrities -- including Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts -- to help them fill the dwindling ranks aboard aircraft carriers, in Marine platoons...
JITTERY SETON HALL STUDENTS CALL NEW THREAT 'A SICK PRANK'
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall students, still mourning the fire deaths of three classmates, said yesterday that an e-mail threatening another tragedy was a vicious prank. State police seized a student's personal computer...
286 PASS 'SECOND CHANCE' CUNY ENTRANCE EXAM
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amHundreds of frantic high-school grads breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after clearing a new CUNY hurdle that threatened to send them to a community college. CUNY's new policy --...
BOMB DOGS COLLAR SUSPECT AT BORDER
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amA possible associate of terror suspect Ahmed Ressam reportedly was seized yesterday, trying to drive into Washington state from Canada in a car that contained nitroglycerin. Youssef Karroum was stopped...
GOMEZ HITS FIRST SPEED BUMP AFTER ROARING START FOR DEVILS
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amRALEIGH - There have been tons of firsts for the rookie this season - his first NHL assist, goal, hat trick, All-Star selection. Last night, Scott Gomez was trying to...
IT'S NOT SO 'MERRIE' AFTER ALL ; TABLOIDS HAVE FIELD DAY WITH TYSON'S BRITISH TRIP
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, England -- So Mike Tyson wants to live in England, eh wot? So the former heavyweight chomp-ion thinks he will get better treatment on the far side of the...
FALKENBURG EYES BIG A'S PAUMONOK
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amTrainer Joe Orseno seemed to be holding the hot hand for today's Grade 3, $75,000 Paumonok Handicap in Cowboy Cop, winner of the recent Gravesend Handicap, whose ultimate aim is...
STORM BRACE FOR MURPHY
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amSOUTH BEND -- It's the sucker's game plan. An opposing team has a player of such great credentials that it becomes so tempting to get caught up in stopping that...
MORE THAN READY FOR HUTCHESON
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amWhen Kentucky Derby hopeful More Than Ready, who makes his first start as a 3-year-old in today's Grade 2, $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream Park, won the Sanford Stakes last...
JETS PROMOTE CARTHON TO ASSISTANT HEAD COACH
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- The Jets yesterday officially announced the elevation of Maurice Carthon to assistant head coach in charge of running backs, which pretty much rounds out Al Groh's offensive staff....
EX-GIANT MATSKO NOT FEELIN' BLUE
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- He is the only coach in three years that Jim Fassel fired off his Giants staff, so it is difficult not to view John Matsko as a bit...
NETS GET BREAK FROM THE MISERY
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amMARINA DEL REY -- As the Nets were boarding their plane for the flight to California from Vancouver, Stephon Marbury offered a suggestion. "He said we should all go and...
5-9 BISHOP COMES UP BIG IN SECONDARY
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Pound for pound, Titans safety Blaine Bishop may be the hardest hitter on the team. It figures that the 5-9, 200-pound Bishop has one of the smallest dogs...
NOTRE DAME WOOING COUGHLIN?
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Could Tom Coughlin have coached his last game with the Jaguars? Could the 33-14 loss to the Titans last Sunday be his NFL swan song? Coughlin is the...
INJURED HUSBANDS HEADING HOME
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amPatrick Husbands, who has struggled since switching his tack at Aqueduct from Woodbine, will return home after suffering an injury when he slipped on ice. There are conflicting reports on...
SIMMS SENSES IT COULD BE A TITAN-IC UPSET
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Phil Simms has just come from a taping of Charlie Rose's show. He has finally finished his whirlwind talk radio tour. He is having a bowl of minestrone...
TITAN TACKLES SEEKING SOME RESPECT
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Last month, Neil O'Donnell was in the middle of congratulating teammate Frank Wycheck for being voted into the Pro Bowl when he asked Wycheck who else from the...
RAMS: NASHVILLE TAUGHT US LESSON
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- In losing, they won. With failure came delayed success. Believe it or not. The Rams choose to believe. They think back on their 24-21 loss to the Titans...
CONFIDENCE ABOUNDS AS GAMETIME NEARS ; FISHER, VERMEIL SURE THEY'LL BE SUPER-IOR
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- The wind whipped and the temperature cowered in the 30s. This faceless city of concrete structures was one giant refrigerator with a suffocating ice storm walloping the area...
TITANS COUNTING ON AUTOMATIC AL
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Quietly, which is his way, Al Del Greco booted four crucial field goals in the Titans' 19-16 AFC divisional playoff win over the Colts in Indianapolis. After that...
JUDGE KOS SUIT VS. TYSON
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge yesterday saved Mike Tyson from having his purse snatched. Boxer Orlin Norris, who claims Tyson stiffed him out of a $2 million rematch, had sought to withhold...
MENDOZA, YANKS AGREE
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe Yankees came to terms yesterday with Ramiro Mendoza on a one-year, $1.4 million contract, thereby avoiding arbitration. Mendoza, the versatile 27-year-old reliever, will start the year in the bullpen...
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, BONILLA'S A BRAVE
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amNo two people were booed more vociferously at Shea Stadium last year than Bobby Bonilla and John Rocker, and no team was more hated and vilified than the Braves. Well...
OMAR'S ALL ROYALS NEED TO OVERTAKE MOLLOY
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amCTK84Molloy78 During the third quarter of last night's game, the Archbishop Molloy crowd chanted "one-man team" at Christ the King's Omar Cook. The point guard listened and played like five...
METS LOOKIN' TO UNLOAD RICKEY, COOK, OROSCO
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe Mets have let teams know that Rickey Henderson, Dennis Cook and Jesse Orosco are available in trades, and it's all due to money. According to people inside and outside...
VAN GUNDY SHOOTING FOR STARS
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Pat Riley has already said he'd prefer not to be coaching the Eastern Conference during All-Star Weekend in Oakland. He said he'd prefer the extra few days to...
OVERTIME LOSS TO HURRICANESHAS DEVILS RUNNING FOR COVER
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amRALEIGH -- The Mighty Devils hid. Falling for only the second time in 16 games, this team that can't take the heat in postseason won't even deal with a little...
THAT'S AL SHE WROTE - HOUSTON'S BIG MISS FROM FREE-THROW LINE FINISHES OFF KNICKS
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- It's Super Bowl week here in Atlanta and tomorrow's football game should only have the type of wacky drama of the Hawks' 98-96 overtime victory over the Knicks...
DISASTER ON BOARDS HAS JEFF STEAMING
January 29, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA - Incensed by the Knicks' inability to block out underneath all season, Jeff Van Gundy made a harsh reference in calling his club "unathletic" following last night's 98-96 OT...