March 24, 2000
LOWERING THE BOOM BOOM ; 30 WOMEN WIN RIGHT TO SUE FOR SEX HARASSMENT
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amCall it "Boom Boom Room, Part Two." After complaining of male colleagues who would drop their pants and demand oral sex, cover their office walls with nude pinups and call...
MICROSOFT CLOSE TO A NO-BREAKUP SETTLEMENT DEAL
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amA federal mediator has made significant progress in crafting the broad outlines of an out-of-court settlement between federal trustbusters and Microsoft Corp. that would crack down on the software giant's...
BROAD RALLY BOOSTS DOW PAST 11,000; NASDAQ UP 75
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amRally-ho! Stocks and bonds turned in a fantastic performance yesterday, as investors went on a shopping spree in the financial markets after economic statistics were released that suggest the economy...
SOUR SWEDE DEBUT; U.S. INVASION COSTS CLOBBER H&M'S PROFITS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe Swedish invasion may be over before it began. Hennes & Mauritz's big U.S. rollout is turning out to be very costly for the "Ikea of the clothing business." The...
MCCARTNEY SUES MP3.COM FOR INFRINGEMENT
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amPaul McCartney may sing about the "Band On The Run" -- but he's going to court to make sure his bands are safe at home. McCartney's publishing company, MPL Communications...
FAKE LUCENT WARNING PROBED
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a fake press release about Lucent Technologies that was posted on Yahoo!'s message boards Wednesday. The phony posting, made to look like a...
NEWS CORP. REBUTS GM BID RUMOR
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amNews Corporation denied a report yesterday that it has engaged in talks with General Motors or with investment bankers about making a bid for the automotive giant. GM shares spiked...
SON RISES AT SOTHEBY'S; HOPE IS TAUBMAN SCION SHOOS SCANDAL'S SHADOWS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amSotheby's is hoping it won't be a case of "like father, like son" fallout. Just a month after Sotheby's chairman, A. Alfred Taubman, stepped aside as a main target in...
WHY GREENSPAN SHOULD QUIT
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amALAN Greenspan should resign. It's really for his own good that I make this suggestion. Smart politicians leave office while they are on top. Sometimes even an athlete is lucky...
DAILY NEWS EDITOR KRENEK QUITS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amTurmoil reigns at the Daily News again as Editor-in-Chief Debby Krenek quit after days of intensive rumors that she was about to be fired by the paper's mercurial chairman, Mortimer...
ENRIQUE GIG'S NOT COPA-CETIC
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amROCK REVIEW ENRIQUE IGLESIAS BY his own admission, Enrique Iglesias is a singer who relies on passion, not technique, to supercharge a performance. Unfortunately, for most of a mini-concert at...
'DEAD' IS FULL OF LIFE
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEWWAKING THE DEADStructurally flawed, occasionally shlocky, but written with unusual intelligence and subtlety, this supernatural love story makes the most of the chemistry between Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly....
WALTZING THROUGH LIFE ; ANDRE RIEU JUST WANTS TO HAVE FUN
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amDUTCHMAN Andre Rieu is known as this century's "Waltz King," but worldwide album sales of nearly 75 million say he also rates as one of music's biggest superstars. It's been...
THIS TEAR-JERKER IS NEITHER 'HERE' NOR THERE
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW HERE ON EARTH 1/2 Hokey, inept tear-jerker. Chris Klein is in way over his head as a wealthy, valedictorian who's sentenced to rebuild the small-town diner he destroyed...
THE STARR REPORT
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amMy son, the comic Ch.11's Marvin Scott is the only local newscaster playing straight man to a comedian who doesn't sit behind an anchor desk. Marvin's son, Steven Scott, is...
HIGH-SCHOOL COMEDY'S GOT NO CLASS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW WHATEVER IT TAKES Running time: 98 minutes. Rated PG-13. At the Criterion, the Lincoln Square, the Kips Bay, others.'DOES he say anything clever or funny or even sincere?,"...
HOW MILLIONAIRE NO.3 IS GONNA SPEND IT
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amA 25-year-old computer rep became the third -- and youngest -- $1 million winner on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" last night. Joe Trela is also multi-ethnic, with ABC...
BALLET TECH LEAPS INTO SPRING
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amDANCE REVIEWBALLET TECH Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street; (212) 242-0800. Season runs through April 23.YES, spring has finally arrived in the dance world. Here it is heralded...
FASHION SLAVE
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEWAIDAThe costumes and scenery dazzle more than the music in Elton John and Tim Rice's pop tragedy based upon Giuseppe Verdi's famed opera. In a sad love triangle, Heather...
'JOURNEY' A REAL TRIP
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW SUCH A LONG JOURNEY A lovely, multilayered film, wonderfully acted and intelligently written, that tells a compelling story soaked in the sights and sounds of Bombay. Starring Rohan...
MUSICAL'S 'FAMILY' FEUD
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE was plenty of behind-the-scenes maneuvering this week to prevent "The Royal Family" -- the new musical by Tony award-winning composer William Finn and playwright Richard Greenberg -- from being...
I'M MAD ABOUT THE BOYS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00am"Making The Band" Tonight at 9 p.m. on WABC/Ch.7 1/2 WHAT do you get if you audition 1,000 really, really good looking guys from all over the country who could...
TV TESTS THE BIG BANG THEORY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amTHE planned demolition of Seattle's Kingdome in a hail of explosives this Sunday is shaping up as one of those unexpected TV events. Live TV coverage of the implosion of...
DRIVE FOR REVISED LAWS AIMS TO SAVE 'DUMPSTER BABIES'
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amTim Jaccard doesn't want to bury any more abandoned babies. "In 1998 you had Baby Angelica ... found in a toilet bowl in the Hempstead courthouse," the Nassau County police...
DRAMATIC WORDS REFLECT HIS ENTIRE PAPACY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM.THINK of it: the Vicar of Christ, leader of a billion Roman Catholics, stands in Jerusalem, capital of the reborn Jewish state, at the shrine commemorating 6 million Holocaust dead,...
DON SENT SENATE HIT MAN TO KO MCCAIN BOXING BILL
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amSEN. John McCain has had two crusades the past few years -- campaign finance reform and boxing reform. I see a link between these two campaigns -- a $50,000 "soft...
RUDY AND HIS ENEMIES ; IF HE HOLDS HIS TEMPER, THE MAYOR CAN CONQUER THOSE SEEKING TO EXPLOIT THE DORISMOND CASE
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amIN the course of a long and hard-fought campaign, every politician is going to screw up sometime -- and it's almost always the case that the winner is the politician...
BARUCH FAVORS REGAN AS PREXY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amFormer state Comptroller Edward (Ned) Regan is considered the front-runner to become the new president of Baruch College, The Post has learned. The City University Board of Trustees could tap...
PUTIN AS HEALTHY AS HIS ODDS OF VICTORY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amRussia's acting president headed toward Sunday's national election with a clean bill of health, good economic news and some fence-mending with Moscow's maverick mayor. "Vladimir Putin is a very healthy...
WIDOW MOURNS SUICIDE HUBBY AND SLAIN SON
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe widow of the Long Island man who blew himself away in a standoff with cops after implicating himself in his stepson's grisly murder spent yesterday mourning her "double tragedy."...
STRAPHANGERS RIDING MORE, ENJOYING IT LESS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amPeople are flocking to the city's subways and buses, but they're more likely to grumble about delays, crowding and sloppy conditions, a new poll by the Transit Authority found. On...
HANOI JANE'S HERO: A RUTHLESS SISTER IN ARMS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amJANE FONDA and Hillary Clinton. Hanoi Jane. Sticky-fingers Hill. Two women, separated by geography and bank balance, by breast augmentation and preferred shade of peroxide. However improbable, these far-flung phonies...
IS HIZZONER'S 'FREUDIAN' SLIP SHOWING?
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amIS Mayor Giuliani spending time on a therapist's couch? That's what insiders are wondering after his handling of the Patrick Dorismond shooting. Giuliani has been reeling off psychoanalysts' terms --...
AGING SEX KITTEN FONDA PURRS IN PRAISE OF 'INSPIRATIONAL' FIRST LADY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amFormer sex kitten Jane Fonda hailed Hillary Rodham Clinton as a "hero" yesterday, calling her an inspiration to women's rights. The Oscar-winning film star would not say whether she supported...
DA SHRINK BOOSTS 'PSYCHO KILLER'
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe schizophrenic Yale grad who wooed Hollywood with his tale -- before allegedly knifing his pregnant girlfriend to death -- has found an unlikely ally in a renowned prosecution psychiatrist....
STATE ADVISES NYERS TO GET THE BUGS OUT
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amHeaded into the first warm weekend of spring, New Yorkers were warned by health officials yesterday to begin cleaning up back yards to prevent a recurrence of the deadly West...
LABOR BIGS DUKE IT OUT AT UNION HQ
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe president of a court-officers union was sent to the hospital after getting into a bloody fistfight with two senior union officials over accusations of theft of union money, sources...
RUDY ATTACK 'SHAMES' DORISMOND'S MOTHER
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe mother of cop-shooting victim Patrick Dorismond is "ashamed" to leave her house because City Hall has portrayed her son as a violent criminal, she told an elected official. "The...
JESSE: GIULIANI IS A 'MENTAL' CASE - RILED REVEREND RIPS HIM ON DORISMOND
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe Rev. Jesse Jackson lobbed a hand grenade into the war of words over the Patrick Dorismond shooting yesterday -- saying Mayor Giuliani "sounds like a mentally disturbed person." The...
RUDY PANEL SAYS NYPD IS POLICING ITSELF WELL
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amA commission created by Mayor Giuliani to probe how effectively cops investigate themselves said yesterday the police are doing a pretty good job. But it added there is definitely room...
BAD WEEK FOR CRIME AT APPLE SCHOOLS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amViolence erupted at an elite Brooklyn high school, where a youngster was held up with a stun gun, and a Catholic elementary school, where nine kids were pelted with BB...
BILL TO VISIT PAKISTAN IN BIN LADEN'S SHADOW
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amPresident Clinton stalked Bengal tigers in India yesterday, but tomorrow, he leaps into the lion's den -- a quick trip to troubled Pakistan, right next door to terrorist Osama bin...
YOU PAID 80% OF JET-$ETTER HILL'S FARES FOR N.Y. TRIPS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Taxpayers picked up nearly 80 percent of the cost of flying Senate candidate Hillary Clinton to and around New York last year, White House records show. "It is...
CHAMP'S COURT NO-SHOW MAY COST CROWN
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amWorld heavyweight boxing champ Lennox Lewis might have lost his legal bout with Don King by not showing up to testify, a federal judge hinted yesterday. Manhattan federal Judge Lewis...
PROS DON'T SEE MAYOR SUFFERING IN NOVEMBER
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani's handling of the latest NYPD shooting is unlikely to have much overall impact on the Senate race, particularly outside the city, many experts say. Political officials in both...
FEDS LAUNCH WHITE HOUSE E-MAIL PROBE
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Attorney General Janet Reno's funny-money task force yesterday opened a criminal probe into lost-and-found White House e-mails, which could come back to haunt Al Gore. A key issue...
HOLY WAR OVER HOUSE CHAPLAIN
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- House Speaker Dennis Hastert yesterday named a Chicago priest as the first-ever Catholic chaplain in the House -- and accused Democrats of making "ugly" charges of anti-Catholic bias....
CUSTODY-JUDGE GRUDGE AGAINST TV'S JUDY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn Family Court judge says TV's Judge Judy was out of order when she set up a child-support arrangement for an estranged couple in her on-air courtroom. "The notion...
JUDGE FINALLY CAGES DEADLY CAREER HOOD
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man who remained free despite a lengthy history of felony-assault and weapons arrests was finally sentenced to jail yesterday -- by an angry judge in Manhattan. Supreme Court...
ASIAN ART FAIR BENEFIT EVENT RAISES 500G
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amA sneak preview of an international art fair garnered upwards of half a million dollars last night for the Asia Society. "It's a great New York celebration," said benefit chairman...
LEVY: MERIT-PAY FRAY MAY CURTAIL SUMMER SCHOOL
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amInterim Schools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday he may have to scale back the summer-school program for failing students because of the escalating battle over teacher merit pay. "If we...
CURTAIN FINALLY GOES UP ON 'AIDA'
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe Rocket Man joined a star-studded crowd for last night's glittering premiere of his latest Disney musical, "Aida," which traveled a hard road to Broadway. Naturally, Disney CEO Michael Eisner...
COPS FIND 800-POUND 'POT' OF GOLD
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amWhat started as a simple marijuana bust helped cops break up a major drug operation, police said yesterday. A man arrested Wednesday for allegedly smoking marijuana told police he could...
PALESTINIANS WIN STATEHOOD ON THE 'NET
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Clinton administration has given the nod for Palestine to have an Internet designation usually reserved for full-fledged, independent states - and some Jewish leaders are irked. The...
MORE THAN JUST A FLING, JAGGER MISTRESS SAYS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe Brazilian model who had Mick Jagger's love child says she had a 7-month affair with the randy rocker - not a boozy one-night stand, as is widely believed. The...
RAINES' FAREWELL A RUSH JOB
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Pee Wee Reese used to say that guys who rushed out of the clubhouse after ballgames were "rushing out of baseball." Tim Raines decided to retire on Tuesday,...
ACTION, WEATHER READY TO HEAT UP
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amTHANKS to some very cold and wintry weather, the opening of the saltwater fishing season last weekend was nothing to write home about, but the next few days look promising...
RICKEY GOING FOR HIGGINSON?
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amAstros 4 Mets 1MET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE -- The Mets are trying to trade for left-handed hitting outfielder Bobby Higginson, using Rickey Henderson as the bait, according to three...
LJ WEATHERS SHOOTING SLUMP
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amLarry Johnson says he's happy "to let Pat, Allan and Spree play well" on offense while he helps out in other ways. The forward remains in a shooting slump, though...
CASEY REGROUPS NETS FOR FINAL PLAYOFF PUSH
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amAfter playing four games in five nights, Don Casey decided to have mercy on the Nets yesterday. "They're a very resilient group," explained the Nets coach after putting his squad...
MINDLESS VIEWERS NEED NO APOLOGY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amYOU can't make this stuff up. Fox this week apologized for offending an audience that couldn't possibly be offended by anything, and wouldn't know if it was being offended, anyway....
RAMIRO NAILS DOWN FIFTH
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amYankees 2 Red Sox 0 TAMPA -- Since Ed Yarnall left the door wide open for the fifth spot in Joe Torre's rotation, Ramiro Mendoza didn't need a gem yesterday...
SHAKY KNEE KEEPS RICHTER ON BENCH
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amFacing enough of a fight merely to avoid outright disgrace, the Rangers last night opted not to fight the Battle of Wounded Knee. And so Mike Richter, who hasn't been...
BATTLE OF BRONX IN GLENS FALLS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amGLENS FALLS -- There's a score to settle in The Bronx. And where is it going to be settled? Where else? Glens Falls. CHSAA-champion St. Raymond's and PSAL-champion John F....
CTK GIRLS SHOOT FOR 11TH STRAIGHT TITLE
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amGLENS FALLS -- Despite having shown weaknesses all year long, Christ the King is just two wins away from another state Federation girls title. "It's been a struggle for us...
SEE YOU IN TOKYO ; METS GEAR FOR MARATHON JOURNEY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- The Mets departed West Palm Beach at 8:45 this morning. They will arrive in Tokyo at 4:20 p.m. tomorrow. This is the part of the trip...
SWEET TULSA STILL LOOKIN' FOR RESPECT
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amAUSTIN -- Not yet. You knew it was not going to come during the season, when 25 times they rolled over an opponent by at least 10 points. It wasn't...
COTA IS TAR HEELS' IRONMAN
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amAUSTIN -- The blank expression rarely, if ever, leaves his face, leaving critics to wonder if he cares enough. With each game possibly his last, Ed Cota is playing with...
WHEELAWAY PAYS TO JOIN THE FRAY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amWheelaway, the winner of the Tampa Bay Derby on Sunday, became the first late nominee to the VISA Triple Crown. The $6,000 late nomination fee was paid to make the...
BLAME LOU FOR THIS MESS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amFIRING the coach doesn't fix what's wrong with the Devils. For a month, Lou Lamoriello has danced all around the team's one major problem without dealing with it. It is...
PANICKY DEVILS FIRE FTOREK ; ROBINSON STEPS UP AS COACH
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amThis was not a feature of the Devils' well-laid plan for winning the Cup. Firing Robbie Ftorek yesterday, eight games before the playoffs, is pure panic, the panic of facing...
CASHMAN JUMPS AT DELGADO
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA -- Despite a strong spring, the Yankees weren't convinced much-traveled Juan Melo could be trusted with a utility job. So when the Giants put Wilson Delgado on...
FLEURY'S BECOME AN EMBARRASSMENT
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amPOSITIVELY, Theo Fleury says, that talk Dave Checketts gave the Rangers Wednesday came from a positive guy. Checketts positively signed off on the 3-year, $21 million, no-trade deal that brought...
DUKE WARY OF GATOR PRESS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amSYRACUSE -- When Florida tries to upset top-seeded Duke in tonight's 7:38 East Regional semifinal at the Carrier Dome, the Gators will have to deal with star forwards Shane Battier...
HAUNTED HILL HAS A HOLLOW FEELING: PIRATES ADMIT SHAHEEN NEEDS MIRACLE TO PLAY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amSYRACUSE -- The sight of Seton Hall's Shaheen Holloway limping onto the Carrier Dome court with a compression boot on his sprained left ankle told as much as the senior's...
OVERALL, BOBBY'S HAPPY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- After finishing the Grapefruit League season with a 14-12 record, manager Bobby Valentine yesterday gave his State of the Mets address. "I know Todd [Zeile] can...
JARVIS ADMITS BARKLEY MET WITH ATTORNEY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS -- If there ever was any doubt that Erick Barkley was going to turn pro, this should erase it. St. John's coach Mike Jarvis confirmed that in addition...
AILIN' RIMAS TO GIVE IT A GO
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amEAST NOTEBOOK SYRACUSE -- Even if Shaheen Holloway doesn't play, the rest of Seton Hall's walking wounded should be ready for tonight's 9:55 East Regional semifinal game against Oklahoma State....
VOLUNTEERS' RALLYING CRY IS REALLY OLD HAT
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amSOUTH NOTEBOOK AUSTIN -- This is a story that will be blown completely out of proportion should Tennessee advance to its first Final Four. The Volunteers have already achieved a...
BRUTAL RANGERS ARE BEYOND HOPE
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amCapitals 4 Rangers 1 Look, bad teams lose games, a lot of them, and they lose them in a variety of ways. That's what makes them bad teams. Thus, the...
PURDUE DRIVES THE ZAGS NUTS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amPurdue 75 Gonzaga 66 ALBUQUERQUE -- The Gonzaga Bulldogs didn't like their Cinderella label. You can call them something else today -- Gone-zaga. Running smack into a group of seniors...
KJ TO SUNS' RESCUE
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amFIRST the good news regarding Jason Kidd's ankle injury: Not only is Kevin Johnson available to replace him, but the 34-year-old (as of March 4) is eligible for the playoffs....
FLEURY HAS BECOME AN EMBARRASSMENT
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amDAVE Checketts, who spoke to the Rangers Wednesday, said yesterday he would speak about them only after the season, keeping up the pretense that there still is one. The assumption...
SYRACUSE COLLAPSES AFTER HALF
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amMichigan St. 75 Syracuse 58 AUBURN HILLS -- You've heard of Orange Crush? This was Orange Crushed. Leading by 14 early in the second half, Syracuse had Michigan State and...
DEFENSIVE BADGERS SMOTHER TIGERS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amWisconsin 61 LSU 48 ALBUQUERQUE -- This affair was about as attractive as a 300-pound cheesehead, plopped on a tattered sofa, inhaling a couple of brats and beers. But that's...
TINSLEY, CYCLONES BLOW AWAY BRUINS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amIowa St. 80 UCLA 56 AUBURN HILLS -- Marcus Fizer, the Big 12 Player of the Year, has gotten most of the attention for the Iowa State Cyclones this year....
FAMILY ILLNESS EATS AT MCQUAY
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amALBUQUERQUE - This should be the happiest time of his life, but Purdue forward Greg McQuay carried a heavy load into last night's Sweet 16 encounter against Gonzaga at the...
CYCLONES KNOCK WIND OUT OF BRUINS
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amMIDWEST Iowa St. 80 - UCLA 56 AUBURN HILLS - Form held. In an NCAA Tournament marked by upsets, the top two seeds in the Midwest Regional will play tomorrow...
YANKS PICK UP TINO'S OPTION
March 24, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA - If the Yankees picked up Tino Martinez' option for next season, the veteran first baseman didn't want to hamstring the club from trading him if that's what the...