January 30, 2000
DEUTSCHE PAYS RIVALS BACK WITH POACHING
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amSUN Tzu, the Chinese philosopher of war, said a wise general learns his enemy's tactics and then uses them to defeat his enemy. Deutsche Bank has taken that lesson to...
DLJ BRINGS ON SOCCER BABES
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amPERHAPS they should call it Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette, Hamm & Chastain. DLJ set a new standard in corporate outings recently when the stars of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team joined...
LASZLO BIRINYI MISSES HIS WARHOL MOMENT
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amLASZLO Birinyi Jr. thought his Warholian 15 minutes of fame had come. On the day The Post lauded Birinyi, chief strategist for Deutsche Bank, for his excellent market predictions last...
CONTENT, AND TIME WARNER, REIGN ON WEB
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amAFTER an overemphasis on e-commerce, it looks like content is king again. The latest sign of this resurgence came when Disney bowed out of the portal race to narrow the...
FOUR CRIMINALS GET KICKED OFF STREET
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amTHE stereotype of Wall Streeters as nothing but a bunch of thieves is off base -- but there certainly are some in their midst. The NYSE's monthly reporting of disciplinary...
PAYBACK TIME FOR MOBSTER'S KIDS
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amJUST call it "Goodfellas: The Next Generation." The two grown children of former mobster Henry Hill --who inspired the movie "Goodfellas" -- just left town with a book deal and...
THE BOOK REPORT
January 30, 2000 | 5:00am"Young Wives" by Olivia Goldsmith, HarperCollins, 512 pages, $25. Lying, cheating, rotten husbands. Upright, loyal wronged wives. Olivia Goldsmith struck gold with that formula the first time, in "The First...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: INES RIVERO
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amInes Rivero, who's graced the fashion pages of Vogue, Elle and Glamour, was so ungraceful as a youngster in Argentina that her mother sent her to a "ladies school" to...
CINE FILE : GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
January 30, 2000 | 5:00am'Flirting" is a delightful coming-of-age comedy set in a girls' school that just happens to be across the lake from a boys' prep school. Featuring Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton and...
COLOR BIND: AFRICAN-AMERICANS ARE STILL STRUGGLING FOR SCREEN TIME
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amWe've come a long way- but we've got a lot further to go. That's what members of the African-American entertainment world told The Post on the eve of Black History...
WHO'S ON TOP IN '00? ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amIMAGINE if today's Super Bowl pitted the Denver Broncos against the Green Bay Packers again -- and suppose they had met in the big game for each of the previous...
JOSH PECK STAR OF "SNOW DAY" ; CLIVE DAVIS PRESIDENT ARISTA RECORDS ; NOEL ASHMAN OWNER, VERUKA
January 30, 2000 | 5:00am"I watch the WWF's 'Smackdown' -- because if I don't win an Oscar, I want to be prepared for a career in politics." "I enjoy watching sharp minds like Mike...
ART OF THE STATE
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amApart from that legendary good 5-cent cigar, what this country needs, at least from the dramatic standpoint, is a National Theater. But how much do we lack a National Theater?...
FANS FREEZE TAILGATES OFF IN ICY ATLANTA
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amHotlanta became Icelanta -- but a day early. The city and legions of fans who descended upon it for the Super Bowl today breathed a huge a sigh of relief...
COPS FIND NO SCRAPS TO NAIL AGNELLO
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amCops armed with a search warrant looking for evidence of price fixing and tax evasion at Carmine Agnello's scrap yard left practically empty-handed, The Post has learned. Business file cabinets...
PRESSURE MOUNTING ON BARAK TO MAKE A DEAL
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM -- As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak prepares to meet Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a peace summit this week, he is under sharp attack from Syrians and Palestinians...
SUPER BOWL QB AND WIFE MAKE WINNING TEAM
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amFour years in the Marines and a stint as a cheerleader did nothing to prepare Brenda Warner for life as an NFL wife. "I know next to nothing about football,"...
AMAZIN' GARTH SWAPS STRUMMIN' FOR SLUGGIN'
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amCountry crooner Garth Brooks will trade his guitar for a baseball bat to spend spring training with the Mets, the team announced yesterday. Brooks will report to the Met camp...
APPLE FILMS POLISH OFF SUNDANCE COMPETITION
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah -- Two movies set in New York nabbed top Sundance Film Festival awards last night. Karyn Kusama's "Girlfight" and Kenneth Lonnergan's "You Can Count On Me" shared...
COPS HUNT SEX FIEND IN SENIOR'S SLAYING
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amAn elderly Queens woman apparently was sexually assaulted and killed in her home yesterday by a burglar who came through a storm door, police said. Mildred Bynoe, 72, was found...
YOKO TELLS HOW FEAR NEVER GOES AWAY
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amYoko Ono says she is living in fear for herself and her two sons now that authorities are considering parole for the deranged fan who assassinated her husband, John Lennon....
DRIVER: BUS KIDS HAD A GREAT TIME
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amThe unlicensed bus driver who took three autistic toddlers on a hellish eight-hour ride after getting lost on the way to their Queens school insisted yesterday the kids had a...
ARE PAYOUTS PAYBACKS?
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amDead 16 years, jazz great Count Basie is still spending money on lawyers with the help of Manhattan Surrogate's Court Judge Renee Roth. Just 13 months ago, Roth authorized another...
HILL LINES UP FOR KICKOFF
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amHillary Clinton is getting ready for her own Super Sunday next week, kicking off her Senate campaign on the campus of SUNY-Purchase in Westchester County, her aides revealed yesterday. As...
REBELS DENY RUSSIA'S 'NEAR VICTORY'
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amRussia yesterday boasted victory was at hand in Chechnya, after scores of Chechen rebels surrendered in the capital of Grozny. But rebel fighters called those claims "lies and propaganda." Although...
HIT-RUN DRIVER PUTS 9-YEAR-OLD IN HOSPITAL
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amA 9-year-old girl suffered serious head injuries when she and her mom were struck by a hit-and-run driver in their Brooklyn neighborhood early yesterday morning, police said. Tquaria Holey was...
TURK BEATS ROCKIES ON ICY MOUND MET STAR'S ORDEAL IN WILDERNESS
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amMets reliever Turk Wendell and his hunting guide miraculously survived a night stranded in the snowy foothills of the Rocky Mountains after staying out too late hunting a mountain lion....
FALKENBURG ROLLS AT BIG A
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amFalkenburg, pinch-hitting for his barn's star sprinter Cowboy Cop, made a bid for the Stronach Stable first string yesterday in the Grade 3, $75,000 Paumonok Handicap at Aqueduct. Off as...
BROOKE'S 15 YRS. OF PAIN ARRESTS DON'T STOP RELENTLESS STALKER
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- Behind Brooke Shields' smiling eyes, a black speck of terror has lurked for 15 years -- a stalker who has continually tortured her since her college days....
BUSH AND BILL GAIN IN LATEST N.H. POLLS
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amPORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- The 2000 presidential race seems to be getting closer on both sides -- Democrats and Republicans -- in the final rush to New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary on...
GORE NOW ADMITS ABORTION FLIP-FLOP WROTE 1987 PRO-LIFE LETTER BEFORE SWITCH
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amNASHUA, N.H. -- Veep Al Gore yesterday admitted for the first time "my position has changed" on abortion -- as Democratic 2000 rival Bill Bradley kept painting him as a...
SUBWAY 'LITTER' GETS PICKED UP BY PUPPY LOVERS
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amDog-gone it -- you really liked them! Thanks to generous Post readers, all of subway-stray Gretchen's pups now have homes. After The Post reported the birth of the litter of...
PLUM GIG FOR JUDGE'S SPECIAL PAL
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amSex and big money meet patronage in the courtroom of Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Jane Solomon. In 1995, Solomon appointed former deputy mayor and Court of Appeals Judge Fritz...
COPS RUIN BIG DAY FOR BOOKIES
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn DA's office raided a string of betting parlors on the eve of the Super Bowl -- busting a dozen bookies who hoped to cash in on football fever....
BILL CAME DUE FOR SINS OF 'SEVENTIES
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amWASN'T he great the other night? Bill Clinton, I mean. Behold the man, so proud and confident at his State of the Union address, trim and glowing and pulling off...
'DIRTY DOZEN' GRAB PATRONAGE $$$ A PATRONAGE 'DIRTY DOZEN'
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amPatronage, favoritism and nepotism are still a way of life for New York's judiciary. More than a century after Boss Tweed's corrupt political machine ground to a halt, some politically...
FIRM LIARS GIVE CHEATIN' SPOUSES PERFECT ALIBIS
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amIf you're cheating -- keep on reading. A pair of British companies that specialize in providing tailor-made alibis for straying spouses are planning to open U.S. franchises. The two services...
BATTLING LIARS WHO DENY THE HOLOCAUST
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM. HOW did you become a leading international crusader for education about the Holocaust, I asked Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson recently in Stockholm. "Back in 1997," he told me...
MOMENT OF TRUTH AS 4 COPS START DIALLO-SLAY TRIAL
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amNearly a year to the day since Amadou Diallo was gunned down in a darkened Bronx doorway, the four cops who killed him will file into a small upstate courtroom...
KHADAFY'S STIFFING CITY ON $25 MILLION BY TOM TOPOUSIS
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amLibyan strongman Moammar Khadafy, already branded a dictator and international terrorist supporter, can add another title to his bad-guy résumé -- New York City tax scofflaw. Since 1980, Khadafy has...
KNICKS HOT FOR ROD STRICKLAND STILL HIGH ON JEFF'S WISH LIST
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amEVEN prior to Friday's upsetting two-point OT loss to the Hawks, those wired into the Knicks claim Jeff Van Gundy was threatening to shake things up, apparently feeling a number...
HALFWAY TO NOWHERE AT MIDPOINT, KNICKS BARELY MAKING GRADE
January 30, 2000 | 5:00am"Unathletic." That's the latest characterization Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy branded on his team after watching another night of them getting killed on the boards Friday in Atlanta. Not the...
GREENWOOD LAKE GETS NEW RIDER
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amGreenwood Lake, the early winter book favorite for the 2000 Kentucky Derby until his disappointing sixth-place finish in the Holy Bull Stakes, will have a new jockey for his next...
'WHITE CHOCOLATE' COMING TO TOWN
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amKINGSatKNICKSTodayNoon - Ch. 4 WFAN (660 AM) When he's on the road and leaves his hotel, Jason Williams pulls a ski cap over his head and wears baggy jeans to...
MUD HITS THE FAN ATARMY CORPS HEARING
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amIF YOU have anything relevant to say about the proposed mud dumping in Lower New York Harbor, don't bother attending one of the hearings the Army Corps of Engineers is...
GARDEN TO WWF: CLEAN UP!
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amMadison Square Garden will never again play host to an N-rated (nudity) pro wrestling show, as it did last Sunday night when a packed house, including thousands of children, witnessed...
BENT, FOLDED AND MUTILATED - RED STORM COLLAPSE IN LOSS TO IRISH
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amSOUTH BEND -- Another late-game collapse and now St. John's season may very well hinge on the next 48 hours. One week after folding down the stretch against Ohio State...
MIKE'S KING OF AN ISLAND TYSON'S BEST IN BRITAIN AFTER TKO IN 2ND ROUND
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER -- Long live the King. Today, the sun sets on a British Empire that has crowned a new heavyweight champion. Michael Gerard Tyson, born in Brownsville but now a...
BIGGER WON'T BE BETTER ; ADDING TEAMS TO PLAYOFFS NO SOLUTION TO NHL WOES
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amOTTAWA -- Though the possibility that the NHL will expand its playoffs to include 20 rather than the current 16 qualifiers received some attention in the media this week, that's...
MAKE DOUGH WITH BAKER
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amLIKE most Canadian horsemen who shipped a string to New York for the winter, Woodbine-based Reade Baker got off to a slow start at Aqueduct. "They told us it was...
BLUESHIRTS ON THIN ICE: NO ROOM FOR ERROR IN PLAYOFF PUSH
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amOTTAWA - One loss after seven straight victories and the Rangers don't even have time to catch their collective breath. One loss for the Blueshirts on Thursday, but wins on...
TERRERI REFUSES TO HIDE: GOALIE TAKES HEAT AS MATES SCATTER
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amDETROIT - Chris Terreri may not be a stand-up goalie, but among the Devils, he's one of the dwindling number of stand-up guys. While his teammates were largely hiding in...
STEPHON JUST WANTS TO WIN: MARBURY PUTS NETS' RECORD AHEAD OF ALL-STAR DESIRES
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Stephon Marbury couldn't have compiled a better All-Star audition tape than his last performance before the starting unit was announced. Marbury will not be starting at the...
TERRIFIC -- FOR 59 MINUTES ; DISMAL COLLAPSE COSTS BLUESHIRTS 2ND STRAIGHT LOSS
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amSenators3Rangers2 OTTAWA -- It isn't simply that the Rangers lost another one last night, or even that they not only lost their second straight but their second straight within the...
DEVILS BLOODIED & BEATEN
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amRed Wings3Devils1 DETROIT -- There certainly was cause, with blood gushing from 84-stitches worth of gashes, but even before Robbie Ftorek turned irate bench-heaver, the Devils again had lost their...
RAIDERS CAN'T FIND THEIR WAY IN LOSS TO SETON HALL PREP
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amS.H. Prep66Rice58 When Seton Hall Prep's Marcus Toney-El fractured a bone in his right foot on Monday, it seemed that the Pirates would be seriously undermanned last night against Rice....
NETS ARE TOAST ON COAST
January 30, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- The Nets' season, begun in the horror of November and resurrected in the hope of December, may have hinged on this four-game road trip of January. And...