March 4, 2000
IT'S A MCCANN-DO FOR 3RD AVE. TOWER
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amIt was the deal they said couldn't be done -- and it got done. In a dramatic end to the city's longest-running real estate cliffhanger, ad agency McCann-Erickson Worldwide has...
BULLS LIFT DOW 202 JOBS REPORT SPARKS BROAD WALL ST. RALLY
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe Dow wowed and the Nasdaq led the pack in a broad-based rally that brought the bull back to life on Wall Street. The technology-packed Nasdaq composite index, which has...
MUSEUM SERIES HONORS STEVE MARTIN ; WILD AND CRAZY FILM
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amSTEVE Martin, the subject of a well-chosen, eight-film tribute beginning today at the American Museum of the Moving Image, is perhaps the ultimate post-modern comedian. His best work combines slapstick...
DETECTIVES STILL HARD AT WORK ON '96 DELI SLAYING
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amDogged cops still work daily to solve the murder of beloved Second Avenue Deli owner Abe Lebewohl - gunned down four years ago today - but are no closer to...
LATEST POLL SAYS W.'S LEAD IS GROWING
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amTexas Gov. George W. Bush's lead is widening among New York GOP voters planning to vote in Tuesday's presidential primary, the latest New York Post tracking poll shows. Bush led...
'BIGOT' U.: CATHOLICS AREN'T THAT BAD
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amBob Jones University went on the defensive yesterday with full-page newspaper ads insisting the conservative Christian school is not racist and doesn't hate Catholics. The issues arose after Republican presidential...
JUDGE BARS BX. SCHIZO FROM DIVA 'MOM'
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amA Bronx woman who believes Whitney Houston is her "reincarnated mother" has been barred from contacting the pop diva. Judge Kenneth MacKenzie of Morris County Superior Court in New Jersey...
QNS. MAN CHARGED IN ROSEDALE RAPES
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amA Queens man has been indicted for a string of rapes and sex attacks in the Rosedale area, authorities said yesterday. DNA evidence linked Rodolfo Beach to the September rape...
TALLULAH 'MINORED' IN SEX-ED WITH BRIT BOYS
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amSultry screen legend Tallulah Bankhead had a perverse craving for young schoolboys and seduced six students from a prestigious English prep school, the British secret service says. Bankhead, who once...
'FREED WILLY!' WHALE FINALLY SEES SEA
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe hard-luck star of "Free Willy" finally has been sprung from his inhumane pen and is happily splashing around in a large bay off Iceland. It's the first taste of...
KIDS LEARN GRIM LESSON FROM KAYLA
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amFLINT, Mich.-THE young sisters slowly approached Kayla Rolland's tiny white coffin. Inches from Kayla's embalmed body, the older sister turned and buried her face in the left shoulder of her...
LOYALISTS GIVE PINOCHET A HERO'S WELCOME
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amA frail but smiling Augusto Pinochet received a tumultuous hero's welcome when he arrived home in Chile yesterday. Cheering supporters and military music greeted the former dictator's plane when it...
COUNCIL GETTING PLATEFUL OF LITTLE ITALY EATERY WAR
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amONE of the most unlikely real-estate battles in the city -- pitting a group of longtime Little Italy residents against the Giuliani administration -- is headed for a showdown in...
GRANNY GRIFTER, WHAT A BIG DEED YOU HAVE!
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amAccused killer swindler Sante Kimes used a bedridden-granny disguise to trick a notary into approving a forged deed, testimony revealed yesterday. "A woman was sitting up in bed, wearing a...
IT'S JUST ANOTHER LOST WEEKEND FOR JUSTICE
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amIT was 4:55 p.m. on the sixth floor of the Brooklyn federal court building, and I never knew how quiet silence was. The jury trooped in and Judge Eugene Nickerson...
OH, BEBE'S DISSIN' RUDY! 'CHICAGO' STAR WON'T DANCE AT GALA INNER CIRCLE SHOW
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amIt was bullets on Broadway as the bitter war between Mayor Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton exploded onto the Great White Way. "Chicago" star Bebe Neuwirth shot down plans to...
AL SET TO POLISH OFF BRADLEY'S APPLE CRUMBLE
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amEmbattled Democrat Bill Bradley's chances of taking a bite out of Al Gore in the Big Apple looked grim yesterday -- while a confident Gore turned his fire on the...
STILL NO VERDICT IN LOUIMA TRIAL ; JURORS GO HOME AS COPS SIT AND WAIT
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amVisibly fatigued jurors in the Abner Louima conspiracy trial went home for the weekend yesterday -- without delivering a verdict after three days of deliberations. Several of the 12 jurors...
MCCAIN SINGS RUDY'S PRAISES ; LAUDS MAYOR'S COURAGE TAKING THE HIGH ROAD
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amGOP underdog John McCain sent Mayor Giuliani a glowing political love letter yesterday, thanking him for keeping "the tenor of the presidential campaign in New York on a positive plane."...
BISHOPS MARVEL AS SPIRIT MOVES 'AMAZING' O'CONNOR
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amWeakened but strong-willed, John Cardinal O'Connor spent 2½ hours meeting with New York bishops yesterday in what observers called a determined effort to keep up with archdiocese business. "He's amazing,"...
HIDEOUS CRIME HAS NEIGHBORS SCARED TO DEATH
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amDistraught and fearful residents in The Bronx's Eastchester section say yesterday's quintuple slaying is just the latest horror in a fearsome drug war that is ripping the neighborhood apart. At...
FLINT WASHES TINY CASKET IN A TORRENT OF TEARS
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amLittle Kayla Rolland's friends and relatives turned Flint, Mich., into a town of tears yesterday as they mourned the 6-year-old's gunshot death at the hands of a first-grade classmate. About...
'BIGOT' U. DUMPS BAN ON INTERRACIAL DATING
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amBob Jones University last night abruptly said it was dropping its controversial ban on interracial dating. "As of today, right now, we're dropping it," Bob Jones III said on CNN's...
MCCAIN SIS CALLS BUSH 'ABSURD' ON CANCER RAP
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amRepublican underdog John McCain's sister -- a breast-cancer survivor -- yesterday said it's "absurd" for George W. Bush to try to paint her brother as anti-breast-cancer research in a TV...
FIVE MURDERED IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES ; RELATIVES FOUND SHOT AND KNIFED IN 3 NEARBY HOMES
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amFive Bronx relatives were killed -- including a retarded 14-year-old boy -- in a "heinous" gun and knife massacre that left a trail of blood at three homes within blocks...
MAC'S SLIPPING IN NEW YORK POLL
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amSen. John McCain appears to be falling further behind with likely voters in Tuesday's New York GOP presidential primary, the latest New York Post tracking poll shows. Texas Gov. George...
TRINIDAD REFUSES TO TAKE SAFE ROAD
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Pay no attention to those people laying out by the pool. Don't be fooled by those itsy-bitsy bikinis or the thermometer that read 60 degrees a few...
ALL'S SWELL THAT ... SORE KNEE WORRIES CAMBY
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA - Marcus Camby wants to know if he's been "misdiagnosed" again. It is a word Camby has refrained from using ever since surgery on his right knee discovered he...
NEIL GUARDING FUTURE AS HE LOOKS FOR HELP
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amRumors abound with the trade deadline just 10 days away. Big names, some of the biggest in hockey, supposedly on the move. Much talk of the Red Wings, Blues, Stars,...
AT LEAST RILEY CAN'T GET HANDS ON JOHN
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES ATLANTA - If the Knicks really are so interested in John Starks, they can get after him this summer as a free agent. The NBA arbiter ruled Starks...
GEN. CHALLENGE SET FOR BATTLE
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amGeneral Challenge, a massive chestnut gelding whose sire, General Meeting, is a son of Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew, has been something special around the Bob Baffert barn from day...
TARQUINIUS EYES STYMIE
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe only time Tarquinius ran in a stakes race, he finished a dull sixth in the Queens County Handicap at Aqueduct in December. Today, the 4-year-old colt goes for black...
BO$$ BACKING ANY DEVIL DEAL ; ... BUT THEY BETTER WIN CUP
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amVANCOUVER -- The Devil Way is already bending to the George Steinbrenner Effect. Their Moose Hunt, or any other quest for a trophy forward, might as well be conducted in...
COUNTY HEARING ON ISLES' SITUATION SET FOR MARCH 23
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amIn an attempt to get answers about the mess regarding the Islanders' sale, the Coliseum's lease, the development of the Coliseum's 70-acre site and a new Coliseum, Nassau County Legislator...
ANGELS LEAN TOWARD BOMBERS' OFFER
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Despite Mariners GM Pat Gillick and Lou Piniella having a strong interest in Angels outfielder Jim Edmonds, Angels GM Bill Stoneman is leaning toward not trading Edmonds to...
HAMPTON DEBUT WITH METS NOT A DAY AT BEACH
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amJUPITER, Fla. -- If you just look at the numbers (two innings, four earned runs, five hits, two walks), then in terms of an exhibition, Mike Hampton's Met debut went...
COOK NO LONGER LOCK TO BE TRADED
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amJUPITER, Fla. -- Left-handed reliever Dennis Cook's name has been mentioned in many trade discussions this spring training. But the Mets, feeling he is the best man in camp at...
RIDER BOUNCES ST. PETER'S
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Rider pulled away from St. Peter's 73-58 in yesterday's MAAC quarterfinal at the Pepsi Arena. The Broncos used a 14-0 run to break a late tie and hand...
BIG A FANS EYE $1M SANTA ANITA POT
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amAfter live racing at Aqueduct today, patrons will be able to wager on the $1 million guaranteed Pick Six pool at Santa Anita. The Pick 6 will consist of Races...
ERICK BACK WITH STORM, BUT WAR'S NOT OVER
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amErick Barkley was reinstated by the NCAA but the battle still rages between the governing body of intercollegiate sports and St. John's. Barkley, the good soldier, returned to his post...
BACK PAIN FORCES EL DUQUE TO SIT
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- How much discomfort Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez's lower back problem is causing him isn't known because the Yankees' Opening Day pitcher isn't saying, and the club is downplaying...
GAELS AND JASPERS SET SIGHTS ON MAAC
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- The night session of the MAAC Tournament quarterfinals will have a distinct New York City flavor. Second-seeded Iona plays seventh-seeded Rider at 7 p.m., and sixth-seeded Manhattan will...
NETS STILL HAVE HIGH HOPES
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amHOUSTON -- So the Nets make a shot at the buzzer to win a game. A road game no less. A second straight road game in 24 hours. They are...
TERRIERS GET PAST MONMOUTH
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amRichy Dominguez scored 33 points and St. Francis of Brooklyn survived a Northeast Conference tournament-record 40 points by Rahsaan Johnson to take an 86-70 first-round victory over Monmouth in Trenton...
ARBITRATOR FOILS STARKS' CHANCE TO BE CONTENDER
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- If the Knicks really are so interested in John Starks, they can get after him this summer as a free agent. The NBA arbitrator ruled Starks can not...
SORE KNEE STILL A WORRY FOR CAMBY
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Marcus Camby wants to know if his knee injury has been "misdiagnosed" again. Camby has refrained from using that buzzword ever since surgery on his right knee discovered...
THIS IS GETTING OLD ; VAN RIPS AGING KNICKS AFTER LOSS
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amHawks83 Knicks70 ATLANTA -- The last time the Knicks were in Atlanta, during Super Bowl week, Jeff Van Gundy called his club "unathletic" after the Hawks outrebounded them by 13...
RANGERS' BIG EFFORT CAGES BURE, PANTHERS
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amRangers4 Panthers2 If it was not their best overall performance of the season, it was pretty darn close to it. And as a result, with every match becoming more important...
MUMFORD'S THE WORD FOR BISHOP LOUGHLIN
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFS Loughlin55 St. Francis47 In the teams' previous two meetings, Bishop Loughlin dominated St. Francis Prep. Last night, the Terriers hung tough, but still fell to Loughlin 55-47 in...
BIG BLUE ABOUT TO LOSE OBEN
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amFor weeks, the Giants felt confident they would eventually re-sign their left tackle, Roman Oben. They felt their offer was fair, and, more importantly, they knew there was little outside...
OL' PRO TRINIDAD SHOWS REID HOW
March 4, 2000 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS--U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist David Reid had his first professional fight last night. He lost. OK, so technically Reid had fought for pay 14 previous times since winning his...