March 30, 2000

TISCH TAKES RAISE AS LOEWS' STOCK FALLS

After a truly rotten year for himself and his company, Larry Tisch rewarded himself with a raise. Tisch, the 77-year-old co-chairman of Loews Corp., got a pay package worth $1.13...

BILL WOULD MAKE STOCK OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO ALL

If politicians in D.C. get their way, you will no longer have to be a CEO or work for a .com to get stock options. A group of senators from...

TECHS ROCK NASDAQ FOR A THIRD DAY

Technology stocks tanked for a third consecutive day as investors realized the current high prices cannot be sustained no matter how good this quarter's profit reports are. The Nasdaq composite...

DETAILS TAPS PERES AS ITS NEW EDITOR

Fairchild quickly designated 28-year-old Daniel Peres as the new editor-in-chief of Details only one week after outgoing head man Mark Golin was given the ax. The struggling 541,000-circulation men's magazine...

TIGER IN THE TANK - ROBERTSON BLAMES 'MAD' HIGH-TECH FEVER

Legendary stock picker Julian Robertson is ready to throw in the towel on stocks, because Wall Street "is irrational and gone mad" over Internet high-flyers. The 67-year-old billionaire has reigned...

AUDITOR: CDNOTNOW - TUMBLING SHARES SIGNAL CO.'S DEMISE

It may be "CULater" for CDNow. The music e-tailer's shares plummeted yesterday -- the day after CDNow's auditor expressed "substantial doubt" about the company's ability to stay in business. The...

PINK GREENLIGHTS 6TH AVE. STORE - TOP SHIRT RETAILER MAKES US PUSH

Swanky British retailer Thomas Pink is readying a U.S. invasion. The LVMH-owned company will hawk its pricey, colorful shirts at a second Manhattan location and is setting up U.S. headquarters...

MARKETWATCH GETS $86M BOOST

The $86 million infusion into CBS MarketWatch by CBS and the Financial Times/Data Broadcasting Corp. yesterday has re-filled the company's cash-burning furnace. "We always said we could get the cash...

THIS MINT REVIVAL'S NOT A GREAT BETT

MISS LULU BETT Mint Theater, 311 W. 43 St., (212) 315-0231. THEATERS devoted to finding and staging forgotten works from the past deserve a particular respect. The Mint Theater is...

'THE GREEN VILE'

'THE Green Mile" didn't win anything on Oscar night, but that hasn't stopped the distributor, Warner Bros., from proclaiming in newspaper ads on Tuesday that the movie was "winner" for...

MAHER GETS AWEEK IN CLINK

IT doesn't get more politically incorrect than this: "Politically Incorrect" is planning a week of shows from inside the nation's most controversial jail. In a series of five shows to...

SAWYER ANSWERS THE VITAL QUESTION

ABC yesterday reversed itself and aired an interview with 6-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez in which he says he doesn't want to return to Cuba. But the video clip --...

AFTERTHE SHOW ; WHERE B'WAY STARS GO TO FUEL UPAND WIND DOWN

WHEN a Broadway show ends, most theatergoers head for their cars or trains, eager to get back home to the suburbs before they turn into pumpkins. But for the folks...

NO TIME OFF FORNEWEST 'IT' GIRL

THE world knows 17-year-old Leelee Sobieski as one of Hollywood's newly minted "It" girls. But those who've seen the statuesque, ethereal beauty from "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Here on Earth"...

LIVE FROM NBC... IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL

NBC is making an $80 million bet that the golden touch of the WWF's Vince McMahon extends to football. The network said it will air the games of the World...

WRITER WRONG? WOMAN DENIES SHE'S MODEL FOR 'GEISHA'

THE Japanese woman who was the model for the fictional heroine in the mega-seller "Memoirs of a Geisha" said she's white with fury at the novelist for telling the world...

ELIAN LEFT TO SINK OR SWIM AGAIN

KIDS say the darndest things. Art Linkletter figured that out 45,000 years ago. Bill Cosby figured it out, too, and proves it every Friday night on his show. And now,...

'TOON TOWN SCANDAL: KIDDIE 'ROAD' FLICK AWASHIN EROTIC UNDERTONES?

COULD "The Road to El Dorado" be the "Spartacus" for the kiddie set? While comparisons to that 1960 film -- famous for its homoerotic undertones -- might be pushing it,...

KATE PARTIES HEARTY JUST DAYS AFTER HOSP RELEASE

Kate is gathering no Moss -- the ailing supermodel was back out on the town, just two days after being released from the hospital. The reed-thin beauty, struck down by...

HOLY LAND MEMORIES INSPIRE POPE

A reflective Pope John Paul II spoke yesterday about his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, recalling the sympathy he felt for Jews when he visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial....

MCCAIN BIDS TO BAR BETS ON COLLEGE ATHLETICS

WASHINGTON -- Ex-presidential wannabe John McCain wants to outlaw betting on college sports -- but Las Vegas bookies say his bill is a "misguided" effort that won't curb gambling. At...

CANARIES SET TO RAT OUT 'BULL'

Mob turncoat Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano could get a taste of his own medicine -- suspects in his drug-trafficking case are lining up to sing for prosecutors, The Post has...

JUSTICES UPHOLD STRIPPER-NUDITY BAN

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that no nudes is good nudes -- and stripped erotic dancers of their right to get naked. In a 6-3 ruling that could...

SLICK WILLIE'S OFFENSES ARE CRIMINAL

WHENEVER there is yet another outrage committed by Bill Clinton, I find myself turning philosophical. As in: What was so bad about Al Capone anyway? Many crooks, some of them...

PRIVATE-BUS RIDERS 'FARE' POORLY WITH DIESEL HIKE$

Skyrocketing fuel prices have taken a toll on the region's private bus companies -- and they're passing on their added costs to riders. National lines such as Greyhound, and regional,...

PUTIN WINS FIGHT WITH POLS TO KEEP 'SHIELD' ON YELTSIN

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday won his first showdown with Communist legislators over their efforts to strip Boris Yeltsin of immunity from prosecution. Putin issued the immunity shield within hours...

SHARPTON ANGLING FOR JUSTICE PROBE OF DORISMOND'S RAP-SHEET RELEASE

Al Sharpton yesterday urged New York's Democratic members of Congress to ask the Justice Department to probe Mayor Giuliani's release of Patrick Dorismond's sealed juvenile record. The lawmakers will send...

FINGERS TIP OFF HOMOSEXUALITY - SIZE DOES MATTER IN CALIFORNIA DOCS' HANDY NEW THEORY

Researchers say they've put their finger on how to tell if someone might be gay. A stunning new study, published in today's issue of the journal Nature, found that gay...

IT'S HOUSE ARREST FOR MADONNA'S BAILED PAL

After four months of legal wrangling, Madonna chum and alleged mob associate Chris Paciello walked out of a federal lockup on a $15 million bail package that puts him under...

SCHOOL-CHASE COP OFF STREETS - HE RAN THROUGH PLAYGROUND WITH UNHOLSTERED GUN

An undercover cop who chased a drug suspect through a crowded playground with his gun drawn showed "poor judgment" and was pulled from the street, Police Commissioner Howard Safir said...

'MONEY HONEY': LET ME BE NEW KATHIE LEE - CNBC REPORTER IN THE MARKET TO BE REGIS' NEW MORNING SIDEKICK

CNBC "Money Honey" Maria Bartiromo wouldn't mind being the next Kathie Lee Gifford -- presumably without the cloying personality and cheating husband. The stock-market reporter says there's only one reason...

CURB-JUMP VICTIM LOSES LEGS

Doctors yesterday amputated both legs of the pedestrian sent flying through a Midtown restaurant window when the driver of a livery cab lost control of his car and plowed onto...

'ENVIOUS' CLINTON WOULD LOVE TO BE FIRST FATHER AGAIN

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton, battling those baby blues, said yesterday he envies dad-to-be British Prime Minister Tony Blair -- and cooed that if it were him, he'd "spend a lot...

TIGHT-LIPPED GORE KEEPS PRESS AT BAY

JUST call him Stonewall Gore. Al Gore has found it pays to stiff the press. Depending on how you count, he's had just two (maybe three) news conferences since Jan....

'N SYNC SMASHES BOYS' OLD RECORD

"Bye Bye Bye," Backstreet Boys. 'N Sync's new album, "No Strings Attached," has skyrocketed to the top of the charts, selling 2.42 million copies its first week out, a new...

COPS: BLOODS FORCED TEEN TO TURN TRICKS

An 18-year-old Manhattan girl seeking refuge at Covenant House was forced to become a hooker by three Bloods gang members -- one of them a young woman also staying at...

POLICE RETHINK WAYS TO CALL FOR BACKUP

Undercover cops who find themselves in trouble on the street will have to use a new means of signaling for help from backup teams under a new policy being considered...

NYPD'S TRUANT POLICY A CRASS ACT: CRITICS

Students who arrive late to school are being herded into vans and detained under an aggressive NYPD "truancy sweep" program, leaders of a black-officers group and other critics charged yesterday....

JUDGE: BILL BROKE 'LETTER' OF THE LAW IN WILLEY CASE - SAYS BARING NOTES VIOLATED 'GROPED' WOMAN'S PRIVACY

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge yesterday ruled President Clinton "committed a criminal violation of the Privacy Act" by releasing Kathleen Willey's letters to try to discredit her allegation that he...

RABBIS: GAY 'MARRIAGES' ARE KOSHER

It's official: Reform rabbis can preside at gay "commitment" ceremonies. A controversial resolution allowing the move was passed overwhelmingly yesterday at the annual Central Conference of American Rabbis -- making...

'ARMY' ZEAL RALLIES STRONG OPPOSITION

MIAMI.MORE than 40 years ago, a band of revolutionaries fed up with policies in Havana struck out for the mountains to fight under their leader, Fidel Castro. In Miami today,...

RUDY: DORISMOND CASE A MINOR FACTOR IN POLLS

Mayor Giuliani yesterday insisted the Patrick Dorismond shooting isn't having a major impact on the Senate race -- despite a second poll that shows his support slipping. "If you're asking...

PRO-CHOICE CHRISTIE COULD BE JUST THE TICKET: W.

Republican George W. Bush yesterday left the door open to tapping New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman as his running mate, saying they can be "on the same team," despite...

BACK TO N.Y.'S FUTURE ; LET'S NOT FORGET JUST WHO TRANSFORMED THIS CITY: REAL OFFICERS, MAKING REAL JUDGMENTS, EVERY NIGHT

I was profiled the other evening. It wasn't pleasant. The sun had just set as I turned from Central Park West toward Columbus Avenue. Like many in the 20th Precinct,...

CASTRO: ELIAN'S DAD SET TO CLAIM HIS SON IN MIAMI

Elian Gonzalez's father is ready to fly to the United States "immediately" and take custody of his son while the court battle over where the boy should live goes on,...

BULIMIA: ALL IN THE FAMILY ; CHILDREN PICK UP EATING DISORDERS THROUGH IMITATION

ANDREA was horrified when she caught her 2-year-old daughter in the bathroom with her fingers stuffed halfway down her throat. "When I asked her what she was doing, she said,...

COP 'CHARGED' IN CREDIT-CARD SCAM

A Brooklyn cop has been busted for buying groceries with a credit card that was being held as evidence in a case, authorities said yesterday. Sgt. John Kopec, an 18-year...

WEB SITE TO LIST N.Y. SEX OFFENDERS

ALBANY - New Yorkers wanting to know if a "high-risk" sex offender lives next door will soon have to look no further than the Web. The state is developing an...

MIAMI POLS: WE WON'T HELP FEDS TAKE ELIAN AWAY: KIN STILL WILL NOT PLEDGE TO ABIDE BY COURT RULING

Miami officials say local police won't lift a finger to help if federal marshals try to take Elian Gonzalez from his Florida relatives - something that could happen as early...

CONE & CLEMENS FACING AGE-OLD QUESTION:OTHER PITCHING GREATS HAVETHRIVED AFTER 37 -- CAN THEY?

For pitchers, age isn't just a state of mind, but of arm. In David Cone's biceps, the odometer has reached 2,590 major-league innings. During spring training, the Yankee pitcher was...

STRAW STAYING IN REHAB

TAMPA -- At the urging of counselors and friends, Darryl Strawberry has decided to remain at the Hazledon Clinic in West Palm Beach, The Post has learned. Last weekend, Strawberry...

HAMPTON ALMOST TRANSFORMS INTO HOUDINI

TOKYO -- Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako were kind enough not to ask Mike Hampton about his Opening Day control problems when he was among the group who...

SOSA LIKES THE ROYAL RECEPTION

TOKYO -- Baseball crowds in Japan are noted for the restraint they show in the area of booing. The fans couldn't contain themselves when denied the opportunity to see Sammy...

VALENTINE CRITICIZED FOR PROTEST

TOKYO -- One day into this baseball century, Bobby Valentine is at odds with another National League manager. This time, it's Don Baylor of the Cubs. Baylor accused Valentine of...

BOGUS BAYLOR 'RIDICULOUS' ; PHILLIPS BACKS UP BOBBY V'S PROTEST

TOKYO -- United they stand. GM Steve Phillips has Bobby Valentine's back on this one. According to Phillips, Cubs manager Don Baylor is totally wrong in the international incident that...

A WILD RIDE ON ORIENT DISTRESS ; HAMPTON WALKS NINE AS METS LOSE OPENER TO CUBS

Cubs 5 Mets 3 TOKYO -- The Mets probably won't be that interesting this year. To start things off on Opening Day, a 5-3 loss to Cubs, all that happened...

DISSIN' SOME BAD DIRT

MET NOTES TOKYO -- Robin Ventura fell twice. Darryl Hamilton fell once. The pitchers didn't get good footing. The conditions at the Tokyo Dome were below major-league standards. "It's so...

FOR TURK, TOO QUIET ON FAR EASTERN FRONT

TOKYO -- It felt more like an "intrasquad game" than Opening Day to Turk Wendell. "You could hear the umpire," said Wendell, who threw two-thirds of an inning in the...

DEVILS AWAIT CLAUDE BURST

His slump largely coincides with their slump, and the Devils are praying that their one Conn Smythe Trophy winner ends his before theirs ends them. Both droughts have reached major...

SHANE WANTS GROOVE BACK

YANKEE NOTES TAMPA -- Two days after saying he was hoping Shane Spencer could provide 25 to 30 homers as his DH, Joe Torre was a bit concerned about the...

MIGLIORE SURVIVES CLOSE CALL

Jockey Richard Migliore, who resumed riding in late January for the first time since being badly injured in a horrific spill last July, had a close call yesterday at Aqueduct...

ANDERS DESERVES A SHOT ; EXPERIENCED HEDBERG WOULD MAKE FINE GM

CLEARLY, Dave Checketts has to wait to see what Lou is going to do. The prime requisite of the GM's job is talent evaluation and nobody has a better track...

YANKS SOUR ON HITCHCOCK:BOMBERSARMED TOTHE TEETH

TAMPA -- After you sift through the questions facing the Yankees, the biggest reason to believe they will cop their third consecutive AL East title is their starting pitching. Ricky...

PRADO DECIDES TO HIRE NEW AGENT

Bob Frieze, who handled the riding assignments for Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey for 15 years, has been hired as agent for Edgar Prado. "Believe me, this is a...

JEKYLL-HYDE NETS AT LOSS TO EXPLAIN SEASON'S BLIPS

They blew out Portland. They lost to the Clippers. They beat Miami twice. They lost to Boston three times. They defeated Indiana, the No. 1 team in the East. They...

NEW REGIME FACES MASSIVE REBUILDING

YOU SEE, this is where I differ from the overwhelming majority opinion. I don't believe the Rangers are necessarily better or more talented than the teams that have passed them...

FLEURY ACCEPTS BLAME FOR THE PURGE

You might expect Theo Fleury to have mixed reactions about Tuesday's firings of John Muckler and Neil Smith. After all, he had been benched by the coach, and made wealthy...

YANKS SOUR ON HITCHCOCK:WON'T PAY PODS' PRICEAND INCLUDE MENDOZA

TAMPA -- The Yankees have gone back and forth in recent days over how hard to pursue Sterling Hitchcock and, following another big executive get-together yesterday, they were now leaning...

ND STAR EYES NETS JERSEY

Notre Dame star Troy Murphy actually dreams about playing for the Nets. Maybe even next season. Murphy, the Big East's Player of the Year, grew up a Nets fan in...

TORTORELLA STEPS INTO RANGER MUCK

Quick, meet John Tortorella. In his first season as a Ranger assistant coach, the 41-year old Tortorella was tabbed as the interim head coach yesterday, a day after John Muckler...

RICHTER KNEEDS SURGERY

The left knee sprain isn't quite that. Fact is, Mike Richter has for weeks been playing with a partially torn ACL in the knee he injured during the Feb. 5...

FORTE TALKS THE TALK ; TAR HEELS FROSH HAS GOT GAME, TOO

You wouldn't know it from the way he glides across the court, a silent-but-deadly shooting assassin, but Joseph Forte has some trash in his game. Trash, as in talk, which...

JETER MADE IT THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY

Look at Derek Jeter and it's easy to see why so many believe it's his world and we are only living in it. Who wouldn't want to be Jeter? He's...

MIKE BRINGS MAGIC TO AMAZIN' LINEUP

In the 1980s, the Lakers were the best NBA team of the decade because they had one guy who could do things that no one else at his position could...

IT'S SIMPLY AMAZIN': BOBBY'S A MARTYR

You ask Bobby Valentine a question in his office and he leans back in his chair behind his desk and puts his hands on the back of his head. His...

LITTLE MIKE HOLDS THE BIG KEY

A man exposed to greatness at such a young age is not an easy man to impress. Joe Buccheri was a batboy at the age of 11 for St. Francis...

NOBODY DOES IT BETTER ; NEED THREE OUTS? RIVERA'S THE MAN

It might be the ninth inning of Opening Day. Or the next night. But very quickly there is going to come a time when Joe Torre will call for Mariano...

ON FIELD & OFF, TORRE RULES

Joe Torre was telling the story about when he first managed the Mets in the late 1970s and learned that team rules don't have to be broken to be ineffective....

CITY POINT GUARDS BASK IN ALL-STAR LIGHT

McDONALD'S ALL-STARS West 146 East 120 BOSTON -- If you looked at the top of the East's roster for last night's McDonald's All American game, you would think it was...

MILES SHOWS NBA STUFF

BOSTON -- In his own way, Darius Miles "announced" that he was going to the NBA last night. No, the spectacular 6-foot-8 guard out of East St. Louis, Ill., didn't...

CAMBY GOES BOOM ; MARCUS HEROICS POWER VAN'S GANG

SEATTLE -- He looked as calm as the blue waters of the Puget Sound, but there was a quiet storm raging inside Marcus Camby before the Knicks took on the...

HOW PAYTON PLACE NEARLY BECAME BROADWAY

KNICK NOTES SEATTLE -- Aaron Goodwin, Gary Payton's agent, said in a Seattle newspaper yesterday the Knicks made another bid for his client at the Feb. 24 trading deadline and...

KNICKS HAVE SONIC BLAST: CAMBY STANDOUT WITH 19 BOARDS IN MONSTER WIN

Knicks 110 Sonics 95 SEATTLE -- The Knicks have made a gigantic statement here in the Pacific Northwest these past few days. Showing the heart of a lion by coming...

HOUSTON BACKS OFF: ALLAN LESS AGGRESSIVE WITH EWING BACK

SEATTLE - The calm blue waters of the Puget Sound belie the storms that surround the Knicks as they continue their sojourn through the West. While the Knicks alternate between...

KNICKS LET THEIR SLIP SHOW: KINGS EXPOSED FLAWS IN VAN GUNDY'S 'D'

SEATTLE - They are still revered as perhaps the stingiest defense there is in the NBA. The stats bear that out - they've led the league most of the season...

KNICKS HAVE SONIC BLAST: CAMBY SHINES IN MONSTER WIN

Knicks 110 Sonics 95 SEATTLE - The Knicks have made a gigantic statement here in the Pacific Northwest these past few days. Showing the heart of a lion by coming...

BIG APPLE GUARDS POINT THE WAY AT MCDONALD'S

BOSTON - If you look at the top of the East's roster for the McDonald's All American game, you would think it consisted of only New York City players. Actually,...

THE FLUSHING ZOO - THE YANKEES MAY BE THE BETTER TEAM, BUT THE METS, WITH CHARACTERS LIKE REY ORDONEZ, BOBBY VALENTINE AND TURK WENDELL, ARE THE MUCH BETTER STORY

Here is my fearless prediction for the first baseball season of the 21st Century: The New York Mets will make history. In fact, it is more than a prediction. It...

METS 2000 - IT'S ALL OR NOTHING

There is only one certainty about this year for the tenants at Shea. They will own the most intriguing plot this side of the Sopranos. The owner expects the team...

YANKEES 2000 - BRINGING OUT THEIR 'A' GAMES

After winning two straight World Series and three of four, the Yankees are faced with the daunting task of attempting to become the first team since the 1972-74 A's to...

AL PREVIEW

In the AL this offseason there were two trends, the lefties and the left outs. A few of the stronger competitors determined that one way to counteract the Yankees was...

NL PREVIEW

Ken Griffey Jr., a man as good at holding a grudge as a bat, still smarts from Yankees manager Billy Martin running him from the halls of the Stadium when...

BASEBALL'S BEST & WORST

FIVE BEST ALL-AROUND PLAYERS 1. Ken Griffey, Reds -- Home and happy, he should be awesome. 2. Alex Rodriguez, Mariners -- Has double pressure of having this be his team...