April 1, 2000
BULLS LIFT NASDAQ OUT OF ITS SLUMP
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amAfter driving the Nasdaq into a correction, technology investors had a change of heart yesterday and turned bullish once again. The result was a big rally in the Nasdaq composite...
KAPLAN ON THE ROPES: CNN VIEWERS TUNING OFF ON HIS WATCH
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amCNN is abuzz with talk that its president Rick Kaplan will be booted for letting the once mighty news channel lose nearly a third of its viewers in a year....
BARGAIN-HUNTERS JAM H&M OPENING
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe New York debut of Swedish retailer Hennes & Mauritz looked a lot like the glory days of Studio 54. A line of would-be entrants stretched around the block at...
MONEY HONEY GETS HER CLOSE UP
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amMaria "Money Honey" Bartiromo's debut as anchor of a new CNBC program last night gave her adoring fans plenty to keep them happy. But if her performance on the new...
OLD PIZZA HEAD'S STORY IS SO-O-O-O CHEESY ; SHOOT THIS SHOW!
April 1, 2000 | 5:00am"Noriega: God's Favorite" Sunday, 8:00, Showtime EVERY time I swear to you that there can never be anything more mind-numbing than the last TV mess that made it to the...
THE GREAT BRIGHT WAY POWER SURGE DISRUPTS PLAYS
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amA Con Ed power surge momentarily disrupted several Broadway shows Thursday night. At the Walter Kerr Theater, all the house and stage lights went on, ruining the tender, final moments...
GREAT SCOT! A PARADE! TARTAN DAY TAKES MANHATTAN
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amTHEY'RE plaid and they're mad -- about Scotland.With pipers piping, schoolkids marching and terriers prancing -- not to mention several hundred brawny men in kilts -- the Scots will take...
METS PULL EARLY RISERS
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amDESPITE the 5 a.m. starts, the Mets' season openers -- played in Japan against the Chicago Cubs -- drew viewers in more than 120,000 homes in the New York area...
TYKES ON BIKES: GREAT PATHS TO PEDAL
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe rough winds of March are just about behind us -- and the sweaty days of summer are coming up fast. So now's the time to get on your bike...
POLL: GOV STILL LEADS 2002 RACE
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Gov. Pataki holds wide leads over two potential Democratic rivals in the 2002 gubernatorial race, even though his approval rating is down 10 points from a year ago,...
BRASS-HARASS SEX ALLEGATION STIRS THE PENTAGON
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amDefense Secretary William Cohen said sexual harassment was unacceptable "at any level" in the U.S. military and vowed that a complaint by the highest-ranking female Army general would be investigated....
'FOULMOUTHED' FURBYS PULLED OFF THE SHELVES
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amFoulmouthed" Furbys have customers at one discount store fuming. The cuddly, talking doll that was on every kid's wish list last Christmas prompted angry shoppers at a Wal-Mart store in...
DEMS 'COUNT' GEORGE AS A MALCONTENT HE BLASTS CENSUS AS 'INTRUSIVE'
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amDemocratic lawmakers blasted GOP presidential hopeful George W. Bush yesterday for saying that he's "not so sure" he will fill out his census form when it arrives at the governor's...
ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER BLOWN BUDGET DEADLINE
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- New York begins its new fiscal year today without a new budget -- for the 16th straight year. But unlike last year, when the budget wasn't adopted until...
CITY SUIT DIDN'T NIX RUDY'S GENEROUS PAL
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amA LANDLORD whose family is being sued by the city for the illegal conversion of an SRO hotel was among the 130 selected guests at Mayor Giuliani's first "soft money"...
STATE'S TOP BOXING REGULATOR DOWN FOR COUNT
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe state Athletic Commission is apparently making moves to replace its executive director following a controversial fight weigh-in and a Post probe of incompetence at the agency, it has been...
KING'S HORROR: HE'S 'HACKED' UP E-THIEVES SWIPE HIS NEW BOOK
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe hackers who distributed Stephen King's new e-novella on the Internet for free aren't sending shivers down the spines of publishers. "People have figured out how to bootleg videotapes, and...
HUNK EYES JFK'S PAD ED BURNS & PAL HEATHER BUYING LOFT
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amHollywood Hunk Ed Burns is buying one of the hottest pieces of Manhattan to hit the real-estate market in years: John F. Kennedy Jr.'s TriBeCa co-op, The Post has learned....
QUICK DRAW BETTORS ARE THE WORST: NEW STUDY
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- The state's controversial Quick Draw game produces greater numbers of problem gamblers than any other lottery game, a new state study shows. The report, commissioned by the state...
JUDGE GIVES CON MAN AN ULTIMATUM
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe mastermind of the world's biggest pyramid scheme has a month to hand over the rest of his ill-gotten gains or have another 10 years added to his prison sentence,...
JUDGE: STIFFED WORKERS SHOULD SUE VACCO FOR $1.4M
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amFormer state Attorney General Dennis Vacco's office wrongly withheld more than $1.4 million in settlement cash that a mob-linked company owed fired union workers, a Brooklyn federal judge found. In...
CLINIC'S PLEA TO PARTY-GAL KATE: GET BACK IN REHAB
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amFearful she's fallen off the wagon, drug and booze experts at one of Europe's top rehab clinics are urging superwaif Kate Moss to return for more treatment. The appeal comes...
RUDY USING BOY TO KEEP HEAT ON HILL
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani urged yesterday that Elian Gonzalez be made a U.S. citizen in a statement designed to put Hillary Rodham Clinton on the hot seat. "Elian should receive United States...
MAGS $CORED BIG WITH FED CZAR FOR ANTI-DRUG STORIES
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amFederal drug czar Barry McCaffrey gave six national magazines sizable financial rewards for publishing stories with an anti-drug message. The magazines, including U.S. News & World Report, received $4.9 million...
'PUFFY' AIMS TO FACE MUSIC AS SOLO ACT AT GUN-RAP TRIAL
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amRap mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs and two of his closest side men -- charged together in a Midtown hip-hop club shoot-'em-up -- want to go their separate ways in court....
EXPERTS SLAM RUDY OVER DORISMOND RECORD
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amLegal experts told a state Assembly hearing yesterday that Mayor Giuliani was rismond's sealed juvenile wrong to release police shooting victim Patrick Docriminal records. "The statute says the record is...
DICAPRIO GIVES BILL A BIG THRILL IN WHITE HOUSE SITDOWN
April 1, 2000 | 5:00am"Titanic" star Leonardo DiCaprio interviewed President Clinton yesterday for an upcoming ABC News special about saving the environment. DiCaprio spent a short, unspecified amount of time with Clinton to talk...
RUDY AND TEACHERS STILL WAGING 'CLASS' WARFARE
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe Board of Education's ambitious summer-school program is headed for a grade of "Incomplete" because of a standoff between Mayor Giuliani and the teachers union over merit pay. Left in...
GORE FACES DEM MUTINY OVER ELIAN POLS RIP AL FOR MAKING POLITICAL HAY OF KID
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amAnger grew on both sides of the Florida Straits yesterday, as more Democrats blasted Al Gore's call for legal U.S. residence for Elian Gonzalez and his family -- and the...
AMERICAN DAD'S HAVANA BABY IS ALSO IN LIMBO
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amHAVANA.LARRY Hestand arrived here yesterday on a mission to bring his 6-month-old Cuban daughter to the United States. Hestand, 55, of Jackson Hole, Wyo., is breaking the law and a...
17 HURT ON BUS TO ATLANTIC CITY
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amA 70-year-old New Yorker and a 60-year-old Long Island man were in critical condition -- and 15 other people were injured -- when their Atlantic City-bound bus rear-ended a truck...
BUSHWICK CRIME DOWN --BUT TENSION UP
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amCrime is down in the Bushwick neighborhood where police killed two robbery suspects last night -- but relations between cops and the community are hurting. Compared to the same period...
NARCS KILL 2 BROOKLYN MUGGERS; UNDERCOVER DUO 'FEARED FOR LIVES'
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amTwo young men died last night in a hail of police gunfire on a darkened Brooklyn street, authorities said -- the latest in a series of fatal shootings by New...
LATEST IN A LONG AND BLOODY TRAIL
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amLast night's fatal shooting by Brooklyn cops is the latest in a series of dramatic police shootings that has riveted the city's attention and triggered angry protests. Statistics show New...
REV. AL TELLS B'KLYN KIDS TO TRUST COPS
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton told Brooklyn school kids yesterday they should trust police despite the poor judgment of the cop who ran through their playground with his gun out. Sharpton...
PAL OF TEEN IN SCHOOL CHASE HAD GUN: COPS
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe cop who chased a drug suspect through a Brooklyn schoolyard with his gun drawn was part of a team that had just taken a pistol from the suspect's alleged...
DEATH CULT'S WICKED WAYS: FOLLOWERS WORKED LIKE SLAVES AND ENDURED FREQUENT BEATINGS
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amMembers of the Ugandan doomsday cult led a brutal life of obedience, abstinence and silence - spending hours each day praying and doing backbreaking work without pay, police said last...
BARAK LETTER IRKS PALESTINIANS
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak angered Palestinians and members of his governing coalition yesterday by expressing strong support for the tiny Jewish enclave in Hebron. In a letter...
GIANTS MULL MOVING CAMP TO FDU
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amThere is only so much they can do. They have already upgraded their facilities, installed brand-new air conditioners, installed new grass fields, turned their state-of-the-art basketball arena into a locker...
CICADA STAKES ON TAP AT BIG A
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amStorm Cat, a grandson of all-time greats Northern Dancer and Secretariat, is one of racing's most potent sires, commanding a stud fee in the 250G range per mare. His offspring,...
MUCKLER WANTS TO WORK EX-COACH: I'M TOO YOUNG TO RETIRE
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Muckler may be leaving the Rangers, but that doesn't mean he's planning to leave the game he loves and in which he's made his living for nearly 50 years....
MATEEN MEANS BUSINESS RUNS MSU WITH FIRM HAND
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- Firm and unshakable. That is what the Muslim name Mateen translates into. Firm and unshakable. Did Mateen Cleaves' parents, Herb and Frances, know this when naming him on...
METS TIP CAPS TO JAPANESE
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amTOKYO -- Met first baseman Todd Zeile cleaned out his locker at Tokyo Dome, packed his fatigue in his bag, and expected everyone else on the team to do the...
CLOCK TICKING ON TRIPLE CROWN ENTRIES
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amToday is the final day for late nominations to the Visa Triple Crown. Owners must send in nominations along with a $6,000 late nomination fee to get their 3-year-old eligible...
KELLEY NEEDS TO BADGER CLEAVES
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- One of the personal highlights of Wisconsin point guard Mike Kelley's season came in the Big Ten Tournament, when Purdue's Jaraan Cornell threatened to break Kelley's nose. "Whenever...
GIVE BOBBY HIS DUE
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amTOKYO -- My body clock never did catch all the way up, so I'm staying up all night to try to get back on New York time. I head out...
IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT FBI WARNS NCAA REFS ON GAMBLING
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe biggest weekend in college hoops kicks off tonight at 5:42 and the game officials, in addition to their usual mental and physical pre-game routines, will sit down together and...
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME AMAZIN'S ARE EXCITED ABOUT SHEA OPENER ; AMAZIN'S ARE GLAD TO BE BACK
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amUpon further review, commissioner Bud Selig still thinks his words before the Japan series were the correct ones. "It's the right thing to do," Selig said. "There is no question...
FLASHY FROSH A FINE POINT FOR FLORIDA
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- While reporters swirled around his better-known Florida teammates, Justin Hamilton sat alone in a corner of the Gators' RCA Dome locker room, reading a pamphlet. One writer sidled...
TRAVEL-HARDENED METS TAKE LONG TRIP ALL IN STRIDE
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe first few Mets had barely gotten through the doors into the waiting area of JFK Airport yesterday, when one young fan yelled, "Next stop, World Series!" Not so fast,...
WEAKS HAS STRONG URGE TO BEAT N.C.
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- All throughout the NCAA Tournament, Florida's Kenyan Weaks has downplayed his roots as a North Carolinian, denying that last week's upset of Duke, or tonight's Final Four matchup...
LANG'S LIKELY TO PLAY IN SEMI
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- North Carolina sophomore forward Kris Lang, questionable with a sprained right ankle, practiced yesterday and seems likely to play tonight against Florida. The 6-foot-11, 243-pounder has had a...
NO MYSTERY WHY INDIANS WANT TO LAND HICTHCOCK
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amGHOUSTON -- Since they always win the AL Central, the Indians are pointing toward October. Smartly, the Tribe understand that the road to the World Series runs through the Yankees....
LOU MUM ON RANGER JOB
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amGiven the opportunity yesterday to refute speculation that he might be a candidate for the Ranger GM job this summer, Lou Lamoriello declined comment. "I'm not speaking about anything personal....
LANCE GETTING CHANCE TO JOIN YANKEE BENCH
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amHOUSTON -- Add Lance Johnson's name to the Who Is The Yankees 25th Man derby. Signed to a minor league contract Thursday, the veteran outfielder participated in a Triple-A exhibition...
LEDEE'S SPRING MAKING BELIEVERS
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amHOUSTON -- Allen Watson predicts Ricky Ledee will hit 30 homers this season. David Cone calls Ledee's swing the quickest on the Yankees. Tino Martinez cites Ledee as the most...
DEVILS PICK ON ANOTHER LOSER
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amThey've fattened on bottom-feeders all season and starved against the elite. That formula might win the Devils regular season titles, but it's dangerous in the playoffs, when the bad teams...
NETS ZERO IN ON LOTTERY TIX
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amMagic103 Nets97 ORLANDO -- So how does that ping-pong ball stuff in the lottery go again? The Nets went into their "biggest game of the year" full of hope and...
WHO SAYS WE CAN'T ? CHECKETTS: KNICKS CAN CONQUER LA FOR CROWN
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amVANCOUVER -- To the rest of the NBA world, the Lakers are an unconquerable force. Garden prez Dave Checketts sees it differently. During a 30-minute, wide-ranging state-of-the-Knicks address yesterday in...
ANDARIESE SENT HOME BY MSG NET
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Andariese, longtime Knick TV and radio analyst, yesterday was placed on administrative leave by MSG Network for the remainder of the season. MSG would not provide a reason, and...
HOUSTON ROUGHS UP RAGGED CONE
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amHOUSTON -- Ignore the numbers. That's the message David Cone delivered in regard to his final spring training outing last night at Enron Field. "That was the best stuff I...
THE LEGEND OF BIRD CONTINUES TO SOAR FOR UCONN
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA -- One game away from feathering his nest with a second NCAA title in six years, Geno Auriemma says it is absolutely cuckoo how the greatest basketball Bird since...
PLAYOFF CLINCH HARDLY A CINCH ROAD-HOT KNICKS TOP GRIZZLIES
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amKnicks89 Grizzlies83 VANCOUVER -- It was much tougher than it should have been and the Knicks had better get their energy back by tomorrow in LA unless they want to...
VAN GUNDY BACKS HOLLINS' DEMAND FOR SALARY BUMP
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amVANCOUVER -- Jeff Van Gundy lashed out at Vancouver ownership yesterday for not giving a raise to interim head coach Lionel Hollins when he got promoted and allowing Van Gundy's...
CONNECTICUT DEPTH OVERWHELMS PENN STATE
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amSEMIFINALS Connecticut 89 Penn State 67 PHILADELPHIA - Women's college basketball has its dream matchup for its championship game tomorrow night. UConn, getting 19 points from Christ the King's Sue...
START LINING UP FOR LOTTERY TIX
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amMagic 103 Nets 97 ORLANDO - So how does that ping-pong ball stuff in the lottery go again? The Nets went into their "biggest game of the year" full of...
UCONN HAS DEPTH NEEDED TO BRING HOME TITLE
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Going into last night's national semifinal game against Penn State, the UConn women had won their four NCAA Tournament games by an average of 36.5 points. Over 35...
NETS' PROBLEM IS TAKING FLIGHT
April 1, 2000 | 5:00amORLANDO - It wasn't quite the way the Nets envisioned preparing for what they labeled their "biggest game of the year," their last-playoff-gasp run against the Magic here last night...