February 13, 2000
UNIVERSAL DREAMS FOR PAUL ALLEN?
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amRUMORS, rumors, rumors. Wall Street and the media have always thrived on them, but there seem to be more than usual in the post-AOL-Time-Warner world. And with Seagram's Universal Studios...
NO MORE BODYGUARDS FOR BARAD
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amOUSTED toy queen Jill Barad has lost a perk from Mattel that probably meant as much to her as money -- her bodyguards. "She always lived in fear for her...
AVIS NEEDS PRIMER ON U.S. GEOGRAPHY
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amAVIS Rent-A-Car needs to try harder -- in the geography department. The company seems to be under the impression that New York City is not an actual city, and that...
SECURITIES ASSOCIATION TURNS PSYCHIC
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amEVER wish you had a crystal ball to tell you which way the market is heading? Of course you have. But if someone told you they had that crystal ball,...
SI'S LIKELY SUCCESSOR NEW MEDIA HEAD STEVEN NEWHOUSE IS TOP CONTENDER FOR ADVANCE CROWN
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amTWO weeks ago, S.I. Newhouse Jr., chairman of Advance Publications, tossed a party at Patroon, an East Side watering hole for the publishing elite. The occasion was the 20-year anniversary...
BROWSER ASSISTANTS ARE THE LATEST CRAZE
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE'S a new battle brewing in the browser wars. This one is over browser assistants, a new way for a company to get to the minds and desktops of Web...
THE NEW YORKER GOES TO THE DOGS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHE New Yorker turns 75 years old this week and is using its first-ever photo on the cover -- but with a unique twist. A cartoon of the body of...
HACKER ATTACKS POSE THREAT TO 'NET STOCKS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amAs FBI agents probe the hacker attacks on popular Internet sites over the past week, Wall Street already has its theory. It's the short sellers, they jokingly say. "The whole...
ONLINE BOND TRADING IS THE NEW NEW THING
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amIn its search for a new frontier to pan for gold, Wall Street has turned its attention to online bond trading. Buoyed by the success of online equity trading, some...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: JAMIE LUNER
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amFormer "Melrose Place" star Jamie Luner has turned to crime - or, at least, to investigating it - in the NBC suspense series, "Profiler." A Los Angeles native, the 28-year-old...
FINDING LOVE ONLINE
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amNo longer do you have to hit the bars, cruise the mall or place a personal ad in the paper to meet someone special. In fact, you don't even need...
MEALS & DEALS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amRuby Foo's Dim Sum & Sushi Palace 1626 Broadway (at 49th Street) (212) 489-5600 Still don't have reservations for Valentine's Day tomorrow. Well, what are you waiting for? At this...
GOING DUTCH AT THE MOVIES
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amJapanese director Takashi Miike, 29, turns out four or five movies a year, in just about every genre imaginable, but outside of Asia he is all but unknown. This should...
THE POST PREDICTS OSCAR '99 NODS: AND THE NOMINEES ARE...
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amHere's an easy Oscar prediction: There will definitely be several stunned looks when the nominations are announced Tuesday. Every year, there are a few surprises, and the nominations for 1999...
LAST-MINUTE LOVE: YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE, BUT YOU CAN FIND A LOVELY GIFT IN A HURRY
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amCupid's clock is ticking louder and louder - and now, with less than 24 hours to go, you find yourself without so much as a posy or even a plan....
WHAT I WATCH
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amTOMIKO FRASER Ford Model/Actress Comedies are my favorite. I love all the antics on "Ally McBeal," "Frasier" and "Friends." KATARINA WITT Olympic Figure Skating Champ "VIP" with Pamela Anderson Lee...
NO PLAIN 'JANE'
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amHere it is Valentine's Day (well, almost), that bringer of cards, e-mail, flowers, candies and the occasional diamond -- and first harbinger of spring, where every young man's fancy turns...
IS SMART MONEY ON YANKEES? YOU BET!
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe Yankees haven't even laced up their cleats for spring training -- which starts Thursday -- but already they're the favorites among Las Vegas bookies to "threepeat" as World Series...
DRAWING TO A CLOSE ; POST MASTER PAUL RIGBY RETIRES AFTER 48 YEARS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amPaul Rigby's career is drawing to an end. The award-winning Post cartoonist, who has been poking fun at everyone from politicians to actors with his pen-and-ink creations, is hanging up...
WILL JURY BELIEVE VOLPE TESTIMONY ON ACCOMPLICE?
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amAll eyes this week will be on the second Abner Louima trial,when the defense starts presenting its case -- with confessed sex-torturer Justin Volpe as the likely leadoff witness. It...
PROTESTANT LEADER SAYS IRISH FUTURE IN IRA HANDS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe Irish Republican Army holds the key to the revival of Northern Ireland's powerless new administration, an official said yesterday. Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble, the senior Protestant in...
'FEN-PHEN' VICTIM GETS FAT PAYOUT
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amA Texas woman who needed two heart-valve replacements after taking the diet drug "fen-phen" won an $8 million to $9 million settlement from the fat fighter's maker. The pretrial settlement...
ISRAEL ON HIGH ALERT AMID LEBANON FIGHTING
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minster Ehud Barak celebrated his 58th birthday with a small group of relatives yesterday as a high security alert was imposed in Jerusalem and fighting in...
QNS. WOMAN HOME AFTER BEIJING BUST
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amA Chinese-American woman from Queens is back home today, a week after she was swept up in the mass arrest in Beijing of protesters from the banned Falun Gong meditation...
RUDY STEAMED AT BILL'S HEAT-OIL SNUB
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani turned up the heat yesterday when he blasted President Clinton for rejecting a proposal to sell some of the nation's oil reserve to help stem skyrocketing heating costs....
POST-JESSE 'REFORMERS' IN WILD BOUT OF WRESTLING
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- A nasty "catfight" at a Reform Party powwow in Tennessee yesterday underscored the organization's chaos as Donald Trump seemed poised to follow Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in bolting...
WAR AND PEACE IN IRA'S HANDS: PROTESTANTS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe Irish Republican Army holds the key to the revival of Northern Ireland's powerless new administration, a Protestant official said yesterday. Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble, the senior Protestant...
HILL: I JUMPED GUN ON DIALLO 'MURDER'
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amSenate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton now says she "misspoke" when she used the term "murder" in January to describe the shooting death of Amadou Diallo. "That was just a misstatement...
'ZORRO' MOM: IT'S OVER: $1.75M SETTLEMENT ENDS VICTIM'S TORMENT
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe victim of the notorious "Dr. Zorro" -- who carved his initials into the new mother's belly -- said her motivation to cut a deal was not the reported $1.75...
BRONX BIDS TEARFUL FAREWELL TO BIG-HEARTED BIG PUN
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amStar rapper Christopher "Big Pun" Rios was eulogized at a memorial service yesterday as a local hero with a "heart of gold" who never forgot his Bronx roots. In a...
BRADLEY CAN RUIN A PARTY: AL ; VEEP SAYS RIVAL TAKES HIS CUES FROM GOP
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amSAN JOSE, Calif. -- Vice President Al Gore stormed into a state Democratic convention yesterday, viciously swinging for a knockout blow against rival Bill Bradley, questioning whether he's "a real...
SCRAMBLED EGGS, BUSTED HOPES ; PARENTS FIGHT TO NIX BIRTH MOM'S VISITS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe parents of a switched-before-birth baby are desperately fighting court-ordered visits with the woman who bore their son -- insisting the sessions make it impossible to become "a normal family."...
WHO WANTS TO BE ARRESTED?
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amBart Simpson would be appalled. A 17-year-old telephone prankster, who masqueraded as "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" host Regis Philbin, was nabbed by cops when his phone number showed...
ZIMBABWE VOTING ON CONTROVERSIAL CONSTITUTION
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amVoting got under way yesterday in Zimbabwe on a draft constitution that would give the country's longtime president sweeping powers, including the power to seize white-owned farms to resettle blacks....
HOPEFUL SURVEY FOR HOPELESS ROMANTICS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amA majority of Americans believe in love at first sight, are "very happy" with their love life and consider St. Valentine's Day important - not a trumped-up, commercial holiday, a...
'ZORRO' VICTIM: WE WANT TO PUT IT BEHIND US
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe victim of the notorious "Dr. Zorro" - who carved his initials into the new mother's belly - said her motivation to cut a deal was not a hefty cash...
HEART PATIENT TRIMS $8M FROM 'FEN-PHEN' FIRM
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amA Texas woman who needed two heart-valve replacements after taking the diet drug "fen-phen" won an $8 million to $9 million settlement from the fat fighter's maker. The pre-trial settlement...
DOMINICAN DIVORCE ENDS DIANA'S DUET
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amLady is singing the blues. Diana Ross - whose greatest hits include "Where Did Our Love Go?" and "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" - and her husband of 14...
PRINCE MAY CHUCK 'CHARLES' AND BECOME KING GEORGE
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amAshamed of his name, Prince Charles has "George" on his mind. The heir to the English throne wants be called King George when he becomes monarch, The Sunday Times of...
GERMAN PROGRAMMER UNLEASHED CYBERBUG
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe FBI's hunt for computer hackers who disabled several huge Internet Web sites last week has led to a German software programmer known only as "Mixter." Mixter allegedly wrote a...
PREZ WOULD BEEF UP IRS TO CHASE DOWN TAX CHEATS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe Clinton administration wants to pump more money into the IRS to hire more auditors to chase down wealthy tax cheats. The administration is seeking an additional $729 million for...
LOU REED SCRAPS GIG IN AUSTRIA
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amRenegade rocker Lou Reed has nixed an Austrian date on his upcoming Ecstasy Tour -- in protest of far-right Freedom Party leader Joerg Haider. Reed, 57, conceded to an Austrian...
CYANIDE FLOOD 'KILLS' EUROPEAN RIVERS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amIn what may be the worst ecological disaster since the Chernobyl meltdown, cyanide is spreading through a network of European rivers at 2½ miles an hour -- killing everything in...
DID BRAZEN WALL ST. BOMBER RETURN TO SCENE?
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe Wall Street bomber may have returned to the scene less than an hour after the explosion to watch police investigate the crime, The Post has learned. Sources said a...
COPS REVIEW REX REED: HE'S A THIEF!
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amFlamboyant film critic Rex Reed landed a new role yesterday -- as an alleged shoplifter. Cops nabbed the famed hometown movie critic at Tower Records at West 66th Street and...
HOSTS RSVP'D-OFF THAT GATES NEVER COMES TO PARTY
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amA former computer nerd who shies away from the limelight has been named the most sought-after party guest in America. Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, were given the No....
BRADLEY'S FIZZ-ICAL ILLS DON'T SINK SODA
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amTake heart, Bill Bradley -- your cruel refusal to drink another drop of A&W diet cream soda hasn't flattened sales of the vanilla-bean beverage one bit. "Fortunately, A&W is doing...
TOUGH DEAL FOR BABIES ; DOCS RIP COST OF 3G-A-DAY LUNG CURE
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amPediatricians are hailing a new treatment for newborns with lung failure -- an infusion of nitric oxide from a special machine. But there's one vital snag: The company with the...
THE CRIME OF THE SCENE ; DIALLO-COPS' DEFENSE PUTS BRONX ON TRIAL
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- The four cops charged with murdering unarmed immigrant Amadou Diallo seem to have an unusual fifth defendant: The Bronx itself. As testimony stretches into its third week, the...
BRONX POL HAS EAR OF VOTERS WITH CITY-PAID PHONE CARDS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amA Bronx legislator has provided his constituents with 35,000 minutes of free phone calls -- compliments of city taxpayers, The Post has learned. Records show that City Councilman Pedro Espada...
PROBERS WEAK IN MANPOWER
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amGoing after U.S. black-market drug buyers often isn't worth the manpower. Customs inspectors last fall tipped off city cops that they had seized a package shipped from a supplier in...
FOREIGN STEROIDS FLOOD JFK ; CYBER-CROOKS SHIP CRUSHING VOLUME PAST FEDS AT AIRPORT
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amCustoms officials are scrambling to keep pace with the explosion in black-market steroids and other prescription drugs being shipped to the U.S. by shadowy overseas cyber-smugglers who advertise on the...
CASE MAY TURN ON SPIN -- LITERALLY
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- It all comes down to spin. Bronx prosecutors say Amadou Diallo was strafed by most of the bullets in a fatal, 41-shot fusillade while he was already falling...
'OUTSIDER' BUSH? DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHE new line from the besieged and panicky desperadoes holed up in Fort Bush: Our man, not John McCain, is the true outsider in the race. Right. If you buy...
PROPOSED BUYOUT OF LONGLINERS JUST A SHAM
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHE proposed buyout of longliners is not sitting well with most recreational fishing groups as well as conservation groups and the general public as word is quickly spreading that the...
PACER WITH A PURPOSE ; DALE DAVIS' STELLAR CREDENTIALS SHOULD NOT GO UNNOTICED
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amOAKLAND -- Immediately following last summer's Wheelchair Classic at the Garden, I encountered leather-bound Dale Davis in the locker room and wondered what brought him to New York. "What do...
ROYAL ANTHEM MAKES NOISE
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amRoyal Anthem, making his first start since finishing second in the Breeders' Cup Turf, took command nearing the stretch and drew off to an impressive victory in the 15th running...
GET MESS, IT PAYS ; RANGERS MUST ACT NOW TO BRING BACK CAPTAIN
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amIT IS NOW inescapable. At some point soon, and very soon, Mark Messier and the Rangers are going to have to look within their hearts and give final, serious consideration...
CORPORATE SHARK? HEY, JEFF'S JUST A COACH
February 13, 2000 | 5:00am"When you're in coaching, you understand what matters is the result because that's how you're going to be judged. People are going to be critical day to day on how...
FEDS MAY HAVE CASE THAT'S FIT FOR A KING
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHE FBI has until March 13, 2004 to find what it really should be looking for. That is when the statute of limitations runs out on the boxing crime of...
YOUTH WILL BE SERVED ; NEW STARS GRAB SPOTLIGHT
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amOAKLAND -- Grant Hill was envisioning playing in his first NBA All-Star Game without Michael Jordan when a smile crossed his face. "I'm excited now," Hill said. "I can shoot...
HAPPY HOMECOMING FOR KIDD, PAYTON
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amALL-STAR NOTES OAKLAND - For Phoenix star Jason Kidd and Seattle point guard Gary Payton, it will be a special All-Star Game. The two NBA stars grew up on the...
COUNTRY ONLY ROLLS AT BIG A
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe late-blooming colt Country Only crowned himself king of the inner dirt track and emerged a dangerous force in the coming Kentucky Derby preps with a dominating, 51/2-length romp in...
GENERATION NEXT MUST PROVE ITSELF
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amOAKLAND -- The general theme surrounding tonight's 49th NBA All-Star Game at The Arena here is the passing of the torch, not just from one player to another, but from...
HOW TO BE A GM -- & HAVE FUN DOIN' IT
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amRICH Gaglie from Westchester says the Braves' Gerald Williams was his acquisition of the year last season. New Yorker Junior Walters likes his pickup of the Cavs' Bob Sura so...
BARKLEY ON HIS BAN: I DID NOTHING WRONG
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amErick Barkley yesterday told a harrowing tale of how the NCAA had him come to Alumni Hall for an interview last Wednesday without ever informing him of why they were...
ERICK NOT LOOKING TO BOLT FOR PROS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amDespite his recent run-in with the NCAA, St. John's point guard Erick Barkley is sounding more like a player who wants to stay in school. Friends close to Barkley told...
BARK BITES BACK ; AT 'NOVA ; SHINES IN RETURN FROM ; TWO-GAME BAN
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amSt. John's78Villanova75 When the public-address announcer in The Garden called his named, Erick Barkley popped off the St. John's bench, took one hop, and as if taken by a gust...
ISLES SEEM TO ENJOY ATTENTION
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amIsles5Penguins1 And on the ice ... the Islanders last night thoroughly trashed the Penguins, 5-1, in one of their best showings of the season. Before 11,229 intense Coliseum fans, including...
HALL READY TO PULL RANK ; AFTER ROUT OF BC
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall77Boston Coll.66 No matter what sport or what level, there are some things that all good teams do: They find ways, not excuses. They beat teams they should beat....
FANS PROTEST LACK OF A SALE ; SAY SMG POSITION IS KILLING FRANCHISE ; ISLES FANS PROTEST SMG'S ; REFUSAL TO ALLOW SALE
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe fans have spoken. Incensed that the Islanders' potential sale is being detained by SMG, the company that manages the Coliseum, about 250 fans demonstrated their fury during an organized...
EX-COWBOY COACH LANDRY DEAD AT 75: MARA HAILS MAN OF DIGNITY, DESIRE
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amWhen he thinks back on his good friend, what Wellington Mara recalls most of all about Tom Landry is the way his placid, calm exterior belied a burning desire to...
CARTER DAZZLES WITH DIZZYING DISPLAY OF DUNKS
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amOAKLAND -- Vince Carter was the favorite to win the first Slam Dunk contest in two years. His reputation as a gravity-defying dunker has been well established during his first...
WHAT THE 'X' GOING ON HERE? ; SI'S SERIOUS TREATMENT OF MCMAHON'S XFL SILLY
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S true, you know. Sometimes you really do have to laugh to keep from crying. Consider Sports Illustrated, which, aside from its annual money-rules swimsuit edition, tries hard to land...
EX-COWBOY COACH LANDRY DEAD AT 75 ; LEUKEMIA CLAIMS LIFE OF LEGEND
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amIt's Sunday mourning in the NFL. Tom Landry, who wore a stone face, business suit and felt hat on the Cowboys sideline for 29 years, winning two Super Bowls and...
PAT'S TRIP TO HELL AND BACK HIS HEAD CLEAR, LAFONTAINE SAVORS NEW LIFE
February 13, 2000 | 5:00amGREENWICH, Conn. -- When Dr. Jim Kelly looked Pat LaFontaine in the eye, not only was somebody blessedly still home, but deep down, prepared to be there for good. Yet,...