March 14, 2000
LIC IS PLACE TO BE FOR TECH FIRMS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amINNOVATIVE developer Irwin Cohen, who turned a derelict block on lower Ninth Avenue into booming Chelsea Market, aims to bring his magic to an unlikely new frontier: industrial Long Island...
CALVIN WOULD BE A TURKEY FOR TOMMY
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amGIVE Tommy Hilfiger some credit. After seeing his stock lose two-thirds of its value in 10 months, the man is valiantly trying to turn it around. It was a good...
DOW, NASDAQ TAKE INVESTORS ON WILD RIDE TO CLOSING BELL
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amThe stock market went crazy yesterday, as investors struggled to figure out if equities can sustain their rally. After rising as much as 87 points and falling as much as...
ROTHSCHILD'S BOTTOM FISHER ROSS LEAVING
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amWilbur Ross, the multimillionaire "bankruptcy king," is casting off ties to Rothschild Inc. in hopes of building an empire of his own. After 24 years at Rothschild, Ross is starting...
TIMES-MIRROR KIN CRACKS; SHEDS SHEETS - CHANDLER GETS SIBLING TO SELL OUT
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amOtis Chandler has won the day at Times Mirror. The former chairman of the newspaper giant has not only gotten rid of the management he loathed -- he has gotten...
CONDE STEALS IVILLAGE LEASE
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amA women's Internet company says it has been scorned after a handshake deal with landlords fell through. iVillage.com has lost out to publishing giant Conde Nast for prime office space...
'CEREAL KILLER' WILLES KNOCKED OUT OF THE BOX
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amThe "cereal killer" has been crunched. Perhaps no executive was more surprised by the pending sale of Times Mirror Co. to the Tribune Co. than Mark Willes, Times Mirrors' CEO...
NEWSDAY LIKELY TO STAY OUT OF BIG APPLE
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amTribune Company is about to come full circle in New York. The media company that sold off the Daily News nearly 10 years ago after months of strikes crippled the...
MUSIC MERGER IS OFF - COLUMBIA HOUSE, CDNOW CANCEL PLANNED DUET
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amE-tailer CDNow and Columbia House have called off their wedding. The deal, announced in July, was supposed to be closed in early 2000, but when that date was pushed back...
ALL-'AMERICAN' OSCAR NIGHT?
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amIT LOOKS increasingly like every thing will be coming up roses for "American Beauty" on Oscar night. With surprising wins in all three top categories of the Screen Actors Guild...
HOUSTON BALLET OFFERS A 'CLEOPATRA' FIT FOR A QUEEN
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amTheater Review CLEOPATRA HOUSTON -- Such cinematic divas as Elizabeth Taylor, Claudette Colbert and Vivien Leigh can move over, at least slightly, as the Houston Ballet unveils its own "Cleopatra,"...
IRISH AYES FOR ST. PADDY'S DAY
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amST. PADDY's Day CD releases are as common as three leaf clover, but occasionally you get lucky and find a little gold, like "Faire Celts: A Woman's Voice" and Altan's...
ACROBAT ACTOR ; MEET THE GYMNASTIC GENIUS OF 'KATE'
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amIF Michael Berresse doesn't win a Tony Award for his acting in "Kiss Me, Kate," then he should at least get a gold medal for his gymnastics. Berresse regularly stops...
WHAT THE LUCKY GIVERS WILL BE GETTING
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amYOU don't have to win an Oscar to go home happy on the big night -- award presenters get baskets with thousands of dollars worth of treats and treasures. While...
THE STARR REPORT
March 14, 2000 | 5:00am'Who' hosts unite Chris Tarrant, host of the original "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" in England, will pay a visit to his American counterpart, Regis Philbin. Tarrant, who's also...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amHow sweet it is For two decades, a renowned collection of modern and French Impressionist art graced the offices of the Sara Lee Corporation. Now, before the pieces are donated...
WHO'LL WATCH HER? 'JUDGING BY WHAT FOLKS HAVE BEEN EAGER TO LAP UP THESE LAST FEW YEARS, A A NAGGING PRUDE LIKE DR. LAURA DOESN'T HAVE A CHANCE' BD+]]WHO'LL WATCH HER?
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amLOWER the volume for a moment on the noisy protests over Laura Schlessinger's distaste for gay people and you may detect something else about her that will prove to be...
ELTON SCORES
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amELTON JOHN "Elton John's Road to El Dorado" DreamWorks Musical conquistador Elton John and his "Aida"/"Lion King" pal Tim Rice are back in the saddle again for the upcoming animated...
KEY WARLORD IS CAPTURED IN CHECHNYA
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amRussian security forces yesterday captured one of Chechnya's most notorious warlords in a lightning raid that handed Moscow a major propaganda coup in its bloody battle to reclaim the republic....
STUDY BARES L.I. CANCER-DRUG RIP-OFF
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amUninsured breast-cancer patients on Long Island may pay 3½ times more for some of the drugs they need, a new congressional study shows. "The results of this study [are] a...
THE VEEP'S 'MISTAKES': FLAGRANTLY BREAKING THE LAW
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amAL Gore has just made clear how high the stakes are in what might otherwise be a relatively unimportant presidential election -- unimportant only in the sense that there are...
FUNNY-MONEY SCANDAL RETURNS TO HAUNT GORE
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amWE'RE only one week past what we sore-headed McCainiacs refer to as Black Tuesday, but already, Al Gore is making it pathetically easy to embrace George W. Bush. Events of...
ARK. GOV: DON'T BLAME HILL FOR BILL
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee doesn't think Hillary Rodham Clinton should be blamed for her hubby's scandals. "None of us can answer for someone else's behavior completely. We have...
CREATED IN BOB'S IMAGE - BIBLE SCHOOL HAS KIDS QUESTIONING IDENTITY
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amGREENVILLE, S.C.-- Rochelle doesn't know what she is. The half-Hispanic, half-Guamanian freshman is not alone in her confusion at Bob Jones University, which recognizes only three races: white, black and...
NOW PATAKI WANTS TO SIMPLIFY GOP BALLOT
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Gov. Pataki bowed to massive criticism yesterday and backed efforts to open New York's Republican presidential primary to all candidates. Pataki's four-point ballot reform plan would place all...
THERE IS NO WAY TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE HOLOCAUST
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amTHANKS. But no thanks. Few Jews around the world doubt that Pope John Paul II abhors anti-Semitism, and that he wants sincerely to make amends for crimes committed in the...
COHEN PRESSES HANOI FOR MIA REMAINS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amIn his historic trip to Hanoi, Defense Secretary William Cohen yesterday vowed to do everything possible to bring home the remains of 2,000 U.S. servicemen still missing from the Vietnam...
CYBILL'S STAR ROLLS - BIO BARES HER TRYSTS AND TURNS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amCybill Shepherd has bared her most intimate sex secrets -- confessing to steamy flings with Elvis Presley and Don Johnson and even a threesome with two hunky stuntmen. But the...
BOLD NEW TYPE SUITS RUNAWAY BEST SELLER - SALMAN LEAVES WIFE FOR APPLE LOVE NEST
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amSALMAN RUSHDIE spent 10 years dodging death at the hands of Islamic extremists, but the celebrated author is risking his life over an illicit love for one of the world's...
LOOKS LIKE FIRST LADY WILL GET A PASS FROM FILEGATE PROBER
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Independent counsel Robert Ray plans to release his Filegate report this week, but the contents aren't expected to rock the White House -- or Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate...
CHELSEA PLAYING WORLD TRAVELER AS MOM STUMPS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- First Daughter Chelsea Clinton is going abroad once again, joining her dad in Asia so her mom can focus on her New York Senate campaign. Chelsea will accompany...
BUS SERVICE STILL STINKS, WATCHDOG REPORT SAYS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amFour out of 10 city buses run late -- or arrive in bunches when they do show up -- despite the Transit Authority's promise last year to improve service, a...
FORMER GOV. MALCOLM WILSON DEAD AT 86
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Former Gov. Malcolm Wilson -- best remembered as the longtime, loyal lieutenant of Nelson Rockefeller -- died yesterday at age 86. Wilson, whose health had been failing in...
GORE: BUSH IS FIRING BLANKS ON GUN CONTROL
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Vice President Al Gore yesterday took aim at George W. Bush for failing to embrace gun control. Gore went to Miami to speak about health care, but is...
RAMSEYS: LIE DETECTOR WILL PROVE US INNOCENT
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amThe parents of JonBenet Ramsey are insisting that a pedophile intruder murdered the 6-year-old beauty queen -- and they volunteered to take lie-detector tests to prove their innocence. John and...
FURIOUS CLINTON RETURNS FIRE - RIPS NRA FOR ATTACK ADS ON HIM
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- President Clinton fired back at the National Rifle Association for trying to "smear" him in a "slash-and-burn" ambush to stop new gun laws. "I'm not trying to pick...
QUEENS DA SET TO GIVE CONTROL OF AGNELLO'S CASE TO FEDS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amQueens prosecutors are set to drop state charges against John Gotti's son-in-law and leave his case to the feds, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. District Attorney Richard Brown will withdraw corruption,...
QUEENS KIDS FACE BUMPS AND CURVES ON WAY TO SCHOOL
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amDesperate to relieve classroom overcrowding, the Board of Education plans to build a new 1,000-seat public school on Queens Boulevard -- down the block from a go-go bar. The School...
COPS JOIN CLERGY IN CRUSADE VS. VANDALS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amBroken-hearted parish priests joined baffled cops yesterday to implore New Yorkers to help nab vandals who've bashed religious statues in a dozen incidents at Brooklyn churches in the past six...
ST. PAT'S DAY HONOR FOR CARDINAL
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amThe St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee will honor ailing John Cardinal O'Connor with its first-ever gold medal -- and is praying he's strong enough to accept it on Friday. But...
BILLS STALLED IN CONGRESS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- A bill designed to crack down on violent youth crime passed both the House and the Senate last summer -- but has stalled over requiring a waiting period...
RUDY: STATE, CITIES SHOULD SLAM BRAKES ON GAS TAX
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amWith gas hitting $2.23 a gallon at one local filling station, state leaders and Mayor Giuliani yesterday called for a repeal of the sales tax on gasoline. The dramatic proposals...
PROTESTERS TO GREET 'BEASTLY' CIRCUS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amTen elephants, four zebras, 26 horses, two camels -- and a gaggle of controversy -- will stop traffic at the stroke of midnight tonight, when Ringling Bros. and Barnum &...
FBI CHARGES TEACHER IN B'KLYN SEX SCANDAL - 'I FEEL SO RELIEVED,' ALLEGED VICTIM SAYS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn teacher was charged yesterday in federal court with taking a 16-year-old student to Atlantic City to have sex. Paul Kerner, a special-ed teacher at Sheepshead Bay HS was...
TA AXED WORKERS WHO CHARGED RACISM: UNION
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amThe Transit Authority has fired eight subway-car cleaners and suspended 10 others in retaliation for discrimination charges the crew filed against their foreman, union leaders charged yesterday. The 18 workers,...
HEVESI WORKFARE NIX RILES RUDY
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amCity Comptroller Alan Hevesi yesterday refused to approve 17 welfare-to-work contracts totaling $469 million, saying they were tainted by "an appearance of corruption, favoritism and cronyism." Hevesi warned that he...
MOB SUSPECT'S BUST FOR THE BIRDS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amAn alleged member of the Genovese crime family was arrested yesterday on charges of menacing and criminal weapons possession -- for shooting at birds from the roof of his Queens...
JUDGE: AXED EX CAN'T SUE HER 'CAD' BOSS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amA Manhattan executive who fired a young woman after his wife found out about their affair is a "cad" -- but he can't be sued for sex discrimination, a judge...
WILSON ACCEPTS FARM FATE
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- The day he knew was coming this spring had arrived. So Paul Wilson packed two Met duffelbags and quietly went from one clubhouse to another. The...
JUGGER-NETS IN RUSH TO GET BACK ON COURT
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amWhen a team gets through more than three-fourths of an NBA season, players and coaches usually lumber along looking for any kind of break. Having had their fill of four...
JESSE PART OF '86 OFFICE PARTY
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- The way Jesse Orosco remembers Game 6 of the 1986 World Series is a tad different than the one featuring Keith Hernandez drinking a beer alone....
HALL IN N.Y. STATE OF MIND: AMAKER & PIRATES SHUFFLING HAPPILY OFF TO BUFFALO SITE
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amBuffalo can be a cold place in March, usually not the most popular of spring break destinations. But the Seton Hall Pirates couldn't be happier to be heading to upstate...
OREGON'S NOT FEELIN' TOO DUCKY
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amOne might expect an Oregon team in the midst of its best season in 50 years to be excited about the upcoming NCAA Tournament. You might think the Ducks, after...
JESSE KNOWS HE COULD BE HISTORY SOON
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amMets 6 Cardinals 2 PORT ST. LUCIE -- At 42 years old, Jesse Orosco's been where John Franco is. So he gives Franco advice on how to handle the move...
MORA USES HIS HEAD, AVOIDS FASTBALL TO FACE
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE -- The ball moved rapidly toward Melvin Mora's head. It was a scary moment in the bottom of the fourth as Cardinals pitcher Gene Stechschulte...
GAELS RUE ONE THAT GOT AWAY: CAN'T FORGET NCAA LOSS TO 'CUSE
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amOf course they remember, because how could they forget? They were 1.2 seconds away from officially adding to the madness, 1.2 agonizing seconds away from trumpeting the name Iona College,...
DONN RESIGNS AT GULFSTREAM
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla. -- Doug Donn, president of Gulfstream Park since 1978, whose family has run this racetrack since 1944, yesterday stepped down from his day-to-day responsibilities, effective Friday. David Romanik,...
CAMBY ITCHIN' TO PLAY ; MARCUS WAITS FOR DOC TO APPROVE HIS RETURN
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amFollowing his first practice in two weeks, Marcus Camby accepted a one-on-one challenge from John Wallace yesterday. Granted, Wallace will never be considered for the NBA's all defensive team, but...
PETTITTE'S CHANGE IS FOR THE BETTER
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG -- If form holds true, Andy Pettitte is in for a monster season. Two years ago in the latter part of spring training, Pettitte stood in Florida Power...
THE FINAL FLAWS ; FOUR REASONS ST. JOHN'S COULD FALL SHORT OF INDY
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amST. John's is rolling West, sweeping across the plains, soaring over the Rockies and kicking up dust as it storms into Tucson for Thursday's first-round game in the NCAA Tournament...
RELIEF FOR WATSON
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amDevil Rays 8 Yankees 6 ST. PETERSBURG -- Allen Watson expected the worst and got the best news a pitcher can hear after undergoing an arthrogram yesterday. "No tear, what...
JASON BECOMING PAIN IN THE PASS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amWITHIN the space of a couple months, Jason Williams has gone from the league's most appealing playmaker to its most appalling play breaker. Kings coach Rick Adelman must reprimand and...
DICK MCGUIRE: NCAA BLEW BARKLEY CASE
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amHE IS a basketball legend in New York and one of the finest people the game has ever produced. He has loved the City Game from both sides now and...
OLDIES CAN BE GOODIES
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amLONDON -- It used to be that once a pro soccer player got to the wrong side of 30, it was all downhill from there. At 33, 34 maybe, a...
EWING VS. OLAJUWON GETS OLD
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES It was the best center matchup since Chamberlain-Russell in the '60s, and Abdul-Jabbar vs. Walton in the '70s. Beginning with their initial meeting in the 1984 NCAA finals,...
RED STORM OPPONENT LIVES IN DIFFERENT WORLD
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amThe Northern Arizona Lumberjacks had just won the Big Sky Tournament in Missoula, Mont., and the team bus was making its way back to Flagstaff when coach Mike Adras had...
MATHIS WINS ONE FOR DAD
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amWhen the father began coaching at John F. Kennedy H.S. in the Bronx 12 years ago, no one cared much about basketball. After all, Kennedy was a football powerhouse, while...
NCAA GETTING OUT OF WAY?
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amSt. John's coach Mike Jarvis has said that his team is at its best when things are at their worst. And since the NCAA began investigating the basketball program, the...
DEVILS STILL HUNT FOR MOOSE, DUCKS
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 3 Penguins 2 PITTSBURGH -- The drama will deepen until today's 3 p.m. deadline, to see if Mark Messier comes to the Meadowlands, winds up in Washington or remains...
RANGERS WON'T FIND SAVIOR ; FALL TO STARS; LATE PUSH FOR MESSIER REBUFFED
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amStars 4 Rangers 3 This isn't going to be a trade-deadline day like 1994, that's for sure. This isn't going to be a day like it was back then, when...
NEW CHARGES AGAINST MASON
March 14, 2000 | 5:00amTwo victims from a Harlem bar brawl filed new assault allegations against ex-Knick Anthony Mason yesterday -- fingering him for additional injuries from the Feb. 27 melee. But the multi-millionaire...