February 11, 2000
HOW SUMMERS ROCKED MARKET
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amA little trick that the Clinton administration played last week on the Federal Reserve and the bond market cost Wall Street billions of dollars. And the chaos that was started...
THIS COULD BE CALVIN KLEIN'S LAST HURRAH
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amToday will most likely be Calvin Klein's last bow as an independent designer. The veteran American designer presents his women's fall 2000 collection today at 6 p.m., and many fashion...
CHASE-ING A BARGAIN ; VENTURE CAPITAL ARM IS OVERLOOKED GEM
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amLooking for an Internet play but don't have the stomach for a start-up with a business model based on Super Bowl advertising and a CEO who doesn't shave yet? You...
BEARS WON'T BITE; BOND SALE BOMBS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amIt's a bear market out there -- in bonds. The bond market tanked yesterday in one of its worst days ever. The benchmark 30-year Treasury fell 15/8, or $16.25 per...
ARTISAN'S SMALL STEP ; INKS DEAL WITH BABY EINSTEIN CO. FOR KIDS' VIDEOS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amArtisan Entertainment is making deals faster than you can say "Blair Witch Project." The company that released the indie blockbuster smash last year took a minority stake yesterday in The...
E-COMMERCE INSURANCE NOW SIZZLES
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amSuddenly, everyone wants e-commerce insurance. Requests for information about insurance coverage surged in the last two days, after hackers attacked the sites of Yahoo!, eBay, E*trade, Amazon.com. Sales of e-business...
SCANDAL-PLAGUED 'NET OPERATION PULLS IPO PLANS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amA well-connected Hollywood Internet start-up whose chairman left after a pedophilia scandal has withdrawn its filing for an IPO and lost yet another chairman. And it got another $24 million...
GRAY'S ANATOMY ; SINGER MACY SHARES WHAT MAKES HER TICK
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amTHIS year's Grammy Cinderella story belongs to Macy Gray, a 29-year-old singer who's caused a quiet riot among critics, musicians and her legions of fans.The divorced mother of three, originally...
OSCAR WATCH
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amToday, in the last of a series, The Post offers predictions for Best Picture Oscar nominations, which will be announced on Tuesday. FOUR days from nomination time, the Oscar derby...
YOUNG DOGS' 'DAY'
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW PUPS Raw but effective reworking of "Dog Day Afternoon" with a pair of 13-year-olds. Cameron Van Hoy and Mischa Barton are memorable as teens who rob a bank...
ORGANIZED CHAOS AT THE JOYCE
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amDANCE REVIEW The dancers whirl across the stage in well-regimented yet spastic abandon.Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street, (212) 242-0800. Through Feb. 13. THE all-female Japanese dance company...
'ARMS' DESERVES A HAND
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW ARMS AND THE MANGramercy Theater, 127 E. 23rd St., (212) 307-4100. Through April 30. A bright, uppity major's daughter is being teased by a Swiss soldier."I find it...
IT'S 'SNOW' MUCH FUN
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW SNOW DAY "Groundhog Day" for the Nickelodeon set. Gentle but funny family comedy about a blizzard that affects the lives of an embattled Syracuse meteorologist (Chevy Chase), his...
'ERNEST' ACTOR DIES OF LUNG CANCER AT 50
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amGRINNING actor Jim Varney -- who shot to fame as the goofy handyman Ernest and was the voice of Slinky Dog in the "Toy Story" movies -- died yesterday. Varney,...
'SALLY' AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
February 11, 2000 | 5:00am"Sally Hemings: AnAmerican Scandal" Sunday and Wednesday at 9 p.m. on WCBS/Ch.2 1/2 SALLY Hemings: An American Scandal" is a story as old as Caesar and Cleopatra and as right-this-minute...
POST HOTEL PICK FOR V-DAY
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amSO much for conspicuous consumption on Valentine's Day.Two years ago, the landmark Waldorf-Astoria Hotel offered a "Fantasy Valentine" package -- including his-and-hers Bentley convertibles and Harry Winston jewels -- for...
'HOMICIDE' REUNION: BEST TV MOVIE OF YEAR
February 11, 2000 | 5:00am"Homicide" was much more than the darling of a couple of TV critics. People who grew to love it formed a special connection to the series. "Homicide: The Movie" Sunday...
DAVE'S NEW DUE DATE ; LETTERMAN COULD RETURN NEXT FRIDAY IF HE FEELS WELL ENOUGH
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amDAVID Letterman could be back next Friday, but don't get your hopes up yet, cautions Rob Burnett, executive producer of Letterman's "Late Show." Burnett says he's not making plans for...
'BEACH' HAS LOTS TO DIG
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW THE BEACHLeo is surprisingly masculine, charming and effective in this stylish, gorgeous, but clumsily structured Nintendo-generation update of "Lord of the Flies." Despite an excess of plot and...
BOMBS GET THE BOOT
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amTO ease the real-estate crunch on Broadway, theater owners are starting to get tough with producers who refuse to close struggling shows.The Shubert Organization -- New York's largest and most...
SHIELDS STALKER SUSPECT: I'M INNOCENT
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- The defense lawyer for the man accused of stalking Brooke Shield said yesterday that there is not enough evidence to prove he was either armed -- or...
BRYANT'S WIFE: 'I'M IN PAIN'; BATTLING GUMBELS SQUARE OFF IN COURT AS LONG-DELAYED DIVORCE GETS UNDERWAY
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amBRYANT Gumbel's wife June said she's been feeling the pain of her bitter divorce battle with the morning TV show heavyweight -- as the clashing couple showed up in court...
MORE JOB PRAISE FOR RUD - FROM RUDY
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amFor the third time this year, Mayor Giuliani yesterday painted his administration in glowing terms before an appreciative audience - this time with the release of the semiannual Mayor's Management...
SURVEY: SEX IS STILL THE SPICE OF LIFE FOR SENIORS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amJust what the heck is in those Geritol tablets? With Valentine's Day fast approaching, a new survey reveals that New York City's senior citizens are still having sex with remarkable...
BARTLETT DOES IT!
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Bartlett trumped Michael Kors' seemingly solid lead last night with his thoroughly original take on upper-crust American chic. With crystal chandeliers hanging overhead and tuxedoed male models at their...
YET ANOTHER PETA STRIKE
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amThe fashionistas were seeing red at the Randolph Duke show in the Bryant Park tents yesterday - after an anti-fur activist hurled scarlet paint at a runway model. The incident...
GROUNDSWELL MEETS MELTDOWN: WHY MCCAIN WILL SMASH BUSH
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amJOHN McCain will be the Republican nominee for president. Barring some really catastrophic error on his part, he is on an inexorable path to coronation at the GOP Convention in...
O'CONNOR SAYS HE'LL RETIRE IN A FEW WEEKS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor-- who met with the pope yesterday--expects to retire within a matter of weeks. In a Feb. 1 letter to New York bishops and priests, O'Connor, who is...
SHE HOPES TO CLICK WITH HER E-BOUTIQUE
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amCHECK out the latest in political fashion -- "Hillary Gear." Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking Senate-candidate merchandising to a new level with the opening of an Internet store (www.hillarystuff.com) that...
911 WORKER NABBED IN RAPE OF COLLEAGUE
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amA worker in the city's 911 system was raped by a colleague yesterday inside their MetroTech office in Brooklyn, police said. The 39-year-old victim went home after the attack and...
A JURY CAN BE TOUGHER THAN THE STREETS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY.HERO cop Sgt. Tom Kennedy has forgotten how many times he has been decorated for bravery. I haven't -- exactly 150 times over 18½ years. He has been involved in...
HEY, JENNIFER! YOU CAN ONLY WIN BY LOSING THE RAPPER
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amTHE scene was as visually jarring as Calista Flockhart in a plus-size lingerie show. It was two summers ago at the Bridgehampton Polo Grounds. The rapper known as "Puffy" made...
NEW FEARS FOR MAVERICK CHECHNYA WAR REPORTER
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amNew information surfaced last night that Russian war reporter Andrei Babitsky is still being held -- and possibly tortured -- by Chechen forces loyal to Moscow. Babitsky, the Radio Liberty...
CHINA ARRESTS QUEENS WOMAN CAUGHT IN FALUN GONG RAID
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amMercy visit goes awry.A mission of mercy to China turned into a political nightmare for a Queens mom and daughter who are followers of the banned group Falun Gong. Tracy...
$25M LOTTO TO MAKE SUPER MAN KING OF QUEENS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn building super who spent every penny on his wife's cancer treatments has won $25million in the New York lottery, and plans to buy his dream house -- in...
SAD FAREWELL TO KATHLEEN: SLAIN COLUMBIA STUDENT 'FOUND GOOD IN EVERYONE'
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amFriends and family members of slain Columbia lacrosse star Kathleen Roskot packed a Long Island church yesterday to say goodbye to a young woman who always "found the good in...
MISSOURI SUES BENETTON OVER DEATH-ROW AD
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amThe state of Missouri is suing Benetton, claiming the Italian clothing giant deceived officials in order to photograph death-row inmates for a $20 million ad campaign using murderers to sell...
MUCH ADO ABOUT 'NOTHIN': FEDS: VOLPE VOWED NOT TO FINGER SCHWARZ
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amJustin Volpe -- the cop who tortured Abner Louima -- told a lawyer for another accused cop he'd "say nothin'" about that officer's alleged role in the brutal attack when...
RUDY TELLS BOARD OF ED TO SMARTEN UP ON HQ SALE
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amHe wasn't joking -- Mayor Giuliani is pressing the Board of Ed to vote next week on putting a "For Sale" sign on its historic but rundown Brooklyn headquarters. Deputy...
D.A.: PUFFY OFFERED DRIVER A BRIBE
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amSean "Puffy" Combs offered his driver cash and a diamond ring he got from superstar Jennifer Lopez if he'd take the rap for gun charges in a Midtown nightclub shooting,...
HERO COP SAYS JUDGE BARRED HIM FROM COURT
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amHero cop Stephen McDonald yesterday accused the judge in the Amadou Diallo trial of barring him from the courtroom while allowing activists like The Rev. Al Sharpton to attend. Court...
INSURER: EA$Y DOES IT: WANTS OUT OF DEAL WITH 'MILLIONAIRE'
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amThink the questions on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" are too easy? So does the hit quiz show's insurance company. The London-based underwriting firm Goshawk Syndicate is suing Buena...
TEAM BUSH DRIFTS IN CHOPPY N.Y. WATERS: HE STILL HAS NO ONE AT THE HELM HERE
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amRepublican George W. Bush's presidential campaign -- facing a challenge from a surging John McCain -- is in chaos in New York, insiders say. Yesterday, a Quinnipiac College poll showed...
RAPPERS WEEP FOR BIG PUN AT WAKE
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amA sea of heartbroken rappers flooded The Bronx yesterday to say a tearful goodbye to hip-hop hero Big Pun. They sobbed and wailed as they jammed the Ortiz Funeral Home...
BRADLEY GETS 'AIR' SUPPORT IN DEM WAR
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amDoing TV ads for Bill.Embattled Democratic 2000 underdog Bill Bradley yesterday called in reinforcements from the bench and got the most valuable endorsement in sports -- a TV commercial starring...
POL SEEKS TAX RELIEF FOR OIL-$OCKED CONSUMERS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amA Queens legislator yesterday came up with a novel short-term solution for easing the crisis in the cost of home heating oil: eliminating the city sales tax on it for...
QUEENS SCHOOL BOARD OUSTED
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amMembers of a Queens school board who tried to fire the local school superintendent for failing to put their names on a letter to parents found themselves out of office...
GORY WEEKEND BOOSTS SLAY RATE 15% - EXCLUSIVE
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amA bloody weekend has sent the city's homicide rate jumping 15 percent, The Post has learned. Between Friday night and Monday morning, 11 people were killed in Brooklyn, Manhattan, The...
DIALLO WAS SHOT TWICE MORE AS HE FELL: EXPERT
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Prosecutors turned another defense witness to their advantage in the Amadou Diallo trial yesterday -- forcing an expert to admit Diallo was shot at least twice more as...
HILLARY: THOU SHALT NOT INJECT RELIGION INTO THIS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amThe Senate race yesterday exploded into a war over religion and Hillary Rodham Clinton's attempts to raise money from leftist organizations. Clinton strongly defended her religious faith during a campaign...
POLS IN LAST-DITCH BID TO SAVE N. IRELAND ACCORD
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amProtestant and Catholic politicians are desperately trying to win an IRA commitment to disarm -- and prevent the collapse of Northern Ireland's new power-sharing coalition. David Trimble, the Protestant leader...
3 DIE IN STATEN ISLAND FIRE
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amThree men died in a smoky blaze in Staten Island early today, fire officials said. Four residents of the burned building and five firefighters were injured in the fire, which...
GRAVES OFFERS THANKS AS HE RETURNS TO FRAY
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amA small semi-circle of friends with notebooks gathered solemnly in front of Adam Graves' locker at Rye yesterday as he unlaced his skates following practice. Graves looked up. "You can...
DEVILS KNOW THEY MUST END WAR WITH ZEBRAS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amFor once, the Devils plan to wise up before it's too late. "We have to stop yelling at the ref. Come the playoffs, they're going to screw us and want...
MEMO TO ORZA: ROCKER MISCONDUCTED HIMSELF
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amWHILE fully indulged by Mike Francesa and Chris Russo, MLBPA counsel Gene Orza had a weak take on the John Rocker appeal when interviewed last week on WFAN. Orza said...
COUNTRY ONLY HEADS WHIRLAWAY
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amTomorrow's 1 1/16-mile Whirlaway Stakes at the Big A, a pit stop on the Triple Crown trail, drew a field of nine 3-year-olds topped by Country Only, wire-to-wire winner of...
HOT STORY NOT SO HOT ; TV FAILED TO FOLLOW UP BIG RUTGERS 'SCANDAL'
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amIT was a big story, Nov. 30, on all the local TV news programs. Real big. Why not? It had the strong scent of deviant sex and scandalized public figures....
NETS' PREZ ROWE WANTS ANSWERS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amEnough is enough. So in a thinly veiled indictment of virtually everyone from GM John Nash to coach Don Casey to the players to team scouts, Nets president Michael Rowe...
RANGERS REASSEMBLE TROOPS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amWell, other than Rich Pilon, they're all expected to play for the Rangers tonight against the Bruins at the Garden, are Adam Graves and the previously wounded Mike Richter, Theo...
SORE ANKLE WON'T HOLD HOUSTON BACK
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amAs distributor of All-Star minutes, expect East coach Jeff Van Gundy to be conservative with hobbled Knick Allan Houston on Sunday. Houston will make his All-Star debut with a sprained...
SPREE'S LAMENT: WE CAN DO BETTER
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amAs he walked out of the locker room in Milwaukee's Bradley Center late Wednesday night, Latrell Sprewell stopped by Allan Houston's locker, shook his hand and said: "Al, have fun...
JAX, VG: NO LOVE LOST
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amPHIL JACKSON is one happy coaching dude, living the L.A. good life. He drives a Porsche convertible, has a house on the beach and scoots around by motorcycle and bicycle....
JUDGES SHOW NO MERCY FOR 'BOYS'
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amCardozo 75 Boys & Girls 56 If you listened to Ron Naclerio all year, you'd know that his Cardozo team doesn't have much of a chance of repeating as PSAL...
GIANTS CUT DOWN TO $IZE ; GRAHAM, WILLIAMS MAIN CAP CASUALTIES
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amIt's a cold, cruel world out there. Just ask Kent Graham and Brian Williams, two of the most popular players inside the Giants locker room, two players who yesterday were...
HEY, BUD, ROCKER'S FAR FROM BIGGEST ISSUE
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amIAM from the sticks-and-stones school. You have to do better than words to get me. Especially if the words come from a moron, whose only known positive trait is the...
GIANTS CUT DOWN TO $IZE: GM: I'LL FIND VET TO BACK UP COLLINS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amCost-cutting on a backup quarterback does not seem to be a smart way to navigate through the choppy salary cap waters. And it doesn't appear to be the way Giants...
ERICK HAD LEGAL HELP AT HEARING
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amSt. John's guard Erick Barkley didn't have to face the NCAA alone. The star point guard was represented by counsel yesterday when the Division I Student-Athlete Reinstatement Appeals Committee heard...
SOUTH'S FOUL MOUTH DEPARTS IN SILENCE
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amTen days after he was banished from baseball for a record-setting 73 days, Braves reliever John Rocker got his day in court. The hate-spewing mouth from the South testified yesterday...
CLINTON SPOILS SENIORS DAY AT GOMPERS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amDeWitt Clinton 75 Samuel Gompers 57 DeWitt Clinton and Samuel Gompers were battling for the third seed in the Bronx 1A Division yesterday as both teams had already secured berths...
GRIFFEY CHOSSES REDS OVER RICHES:THE CINCINNATI KID TURNS HIS BACK ON MEGA-BUCKS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amKen Griffey Jr. wasn't kidding when he insisted playing closer to home and his family was more important than being paid the most money. Baseball's premier performer proved that yesterday...
GRIFFEY CHOOSES REDS OVER RICHES:CINCY WAS IN RIGHT PLACE AT RIGHT TIME
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Reds are the champions of the offseason. Not only did they land arguably the best player in the sport yesterday with the finalizing of a deal for Ken Griffey,...
BULLS SET TO DEAL KUKOC
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amJERRY KRAUSE normally likes to keep trade talk regarding fringe players, much less significant others, exceptionally cryptic. His style is never to let opponents know exactly what's on his mind,...
BARKLEY BY DECISION: RED STORM STAR WINS APPEAL WITH NCAA, CAN PLAY TOMORROW
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amErick Barkley left St. John's yesterday after practice, driving his 1996 Jeep Cherokee, and headed home to Brooklyn to celebrate with his mother, Shirley. His week in purgatory was over....
JETER WAITING IN THE WING$
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amLike every other team in baseball, the Yankees followed yesterday's blockbuster deal that delivered Ken Griffey Jr. to the Reds from the Mariners. They were interested in what the trade...
BUILDING A COALITION ; GUTKOWSKI, SFX EYE LEASE BUYOUT
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amBob Gutkowski has met with SFX Entertainment to discuss the possibility of forming a joint venture to buy out the Islanders' hindering Nassau Coliseum lease from SMG, The Post has...
ISLES PREVIAL AFTER BUTCH GETS REAL ON PLAYOFFS
February 11, 2000 | 5:00amIslanders 5 Lightning 4 Butch Goring made a surprising concession yesterday after the team's morning skate. He said the Islanders were "probably not going to make the playoffs." While most...