April 2, 2000
DIMON GETS TOUGH LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amCALL him Mr. Dimon, please.Jamie Dimon, the former Citigroup president who lost his job in a power play in 1998, finally landed a new position, in Chicago, and got his...
HE COULDA BEEN A CONTENDA, BUT THE ION RATIO WAS WRONG
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amWHO wants to be a trillionaire? Not Guy Cramer. The Vancouver native claims he could have become the world's richest man in the last six months because of what he...
IT'S ALAN GREENSPAN, REALLY, IT IS, I SWEAR
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN Alan Greenspan talks, investors listen. After all, the chairman of the Federal Reserve has the proven ability to move markets. And an enterprising broker at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter...
.COMS ARE GOING 'PUBLIC' TO SAVE YOU A HEADACHE
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amJUMPING from the 19th century straight into the 21st, the Brits have decided to put everything online. Prime Minister Tony Blair this week brought forward the deadline for accessing government...
WSJ'S IDEA OF THANKS
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amFACED with a huge brain drain at its flagship Wall Street Journal, parent Dow Jones has come up with some great new ideas on how to retain employees and boost...
MIRAMAX TO ADAPT MOBSTER TALE
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amJAMES "Whitey" Bulger may still be on the run -- but South Boston's most famous mobster is one step closer to the big screen. "Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The...
TIME TO LOOK OUTSIDE U.S. FOR HOT STOCK OPPORTUNITIES
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amEVEN as top Wall Street gurus like Goldman, Sachs' Abby Joseph Cohen are forecasting U.S. stock growth in the low single digits this year, global strategists say there will be...
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS EMMY-NOMINATED CHEF BOBBY FLAY TURNS UP HEAT WITH NEW VENTURES
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amTHE lunch-time rush has finally quieted down at Mesa Grill. At a corner table, chef-owner Bobby Flay is taking a break from supervising the kitchen at his bustling Flatiron restaurant....
BROAD DEFEAT FOR BROADWAY
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amIt comes with the territory, of course. Out-of-touch relatives suddenly call up and want to know what I can recommend in the way of Broadway musicals. The answer is: not...
DEFINING A DIVA
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amWHAT elevates a star to diva status? Diana Ross would know. The superstar practically embodies the word. Ross, this year's subject of VH1's highly rated annual "Divas" series, will be...
THE LAZY LIFE
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amMeet Sandrine Bonnaire, the accidental actress.At the age of 33, the elegant French beauty has appeared in some 20 films, many of them by the most prestigious Gallic directors. She's...
WHAT I WATCH
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amGREG NORMAN GOLFER AND SPOKESMAN FOR MAMMOTH GOLF.COM I almost always have the "Today" show on when I'm getting ready in the morning. LOTHAR MATTHAUS SOCCER PLAYER METROSTARS "I love...
4 QEUSTIONS FOR JOHN ROLAND
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amSomeday, I'll go back to teaching John Roland has just passed his 30th year as anchorman on Ch. 5's "10 O'clock News." Nobody keeps records on this type of thing...
FROM MARKET VENDOR TO FLEAS-Y STREET: MOM-AND-POP DESIGNERS PARLAY THE 26TH STREET MARKET INTO FAST CASH
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amThose hunting for hot new fashion talent could do worse than prowl the stalls at the 26th Street Flea Market. Tucked into corners of the enormous flea's six bustling weekend...
PUTTING ON THE SPRITZ FOR A BRONZED BOD
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amA body bronzing treatment at the newly expanded Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salon at Saks Fifth Avenue takes about an hour and a half of your day and puts you...
HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS REVEAL WHAT 'IT' TAKES
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amFor every Tom Cruise or Harrison Ford, there are thousands of handsome hunk wannabes who never achieve star status. So what does an actor need to become an "It" guy?...
'GREEN BIRD' TAKES FLIGHT: A SNEAK PEEK AT THE CAST OF CHARACTERS FROM JULIE TAYMOR'S NEW BROADWAY PLAY
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amJulie Taymor, the acclaimed Tony-winning director of "The Lion King" and a creative force known for her spirited costumes, is at it again. Her new play "The Green Bird" went...
IT AIN'T CHOPPED LIVER! CREAMY FOIE GRAS IS SUDDENLY SPREADING
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amConsider liver, the bane of our tearful childhood. What baby boomer would ever have imagined plunking down $100 per pound for something our mothers once forced us to eat? Now...
MEALS & DEALS
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amOld San Juan 765 Ninth Ave. (between 51st and 52nd streets) (212) 262-6761 If April showers are putting a damper on your spring, consider a quick trip to the Caribbean,...
THE BOOK REPORT
April 2, 2000 | 5:00am"Le Mariage" by Diane Johnson, Dutton, 322 pages, $24.95 The Old World clashes with the new again in Diane Johnson's latest comedy of manners, "Le Mariage," a sparkling sequel to...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: BARBARA EDEN
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Nearly four decades after she popped out of a lamp, Barbara Eden's still making magic - mostly as a Web celeb. The 65-year-old actress recently launched an Internet communications...
SCANDAL CLOUDS AREN'T RAINING ON DEMS -- YET
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Call them the front-runners in the scandal sweepstakes. First Lady Hillary Clinton and Al Gore are running slightly ahead or even in their two campaigns -- Clinton for...
VULTURES AGAIN HAWK A CANCER 'SNAKE OIL' CURE
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amThe phony cancer "cure" that sent dying patients like actor Steve McQueen to treatment centers in Mexico 20 years ago is just a click away today. With several Internet marketers...
UPSTATE KID MAYOR GROWING INTO A POLITICAL POWERHOUSE
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amA year after he caught the attention of Letterman and Leno when he became the youngest mayor in the United States, 20-year-old Jason Nastke's star is rising fast in New...
HILLARY RIPS RUDY AND CITIZENSHIP FOR RAFT BOY
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amSYRACUSE - Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday came out against federal legislation that would make Elian Gonzalez a U.S. citizen and lashed out at Mayor Giuliani for turning the boy into...
CLASSMATE WANTS HIS AMIGO TO COME HOME
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amCARDENAS, Cuba.SIX-YEAR-OLD Jonny Fernandez sticks his chest out proudly when asked about his mission - one assigned to him by Comandante Fidel Castro. Jonny is one of the 12 first-graders...
PAIR WENT DOWN WRONG PATH: KIN
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amRelatives of the two teens killed by cops in Bushwick say they had been asking for trouble by "messing with the wrong crowd." Tasheem Bourne's uncle, Darryl Saunders, said yesterday...
HOW SUITE IT ; IS! LIVIN' LARGE FOR A MERE 15G A NIGHT
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amIf you just cashed in on that hot dot-com IPO, or won a mega-lottery, you might want to celebrate your good fortune by living like royalty with a night in...
O'CONNOR'S WORRISOME MESSAGE: PRAY FOR ME
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amA retirement party for the head of the FBI's New York office turned somber when a letter from John Cardinal O'Connor was read, asking partygoers to "please pray for me!"...
STRAY BULLET KILLS BX. MAN
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amA 44-year-old Bronx man was struck and killed by a stray bullet during a fight over a girl, police said yesterday. A second innocent bystander, a 42-year-old woman in a...
RECENT PAST PUTS AN INTENSE LIGHT ON NEW DEATHS
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amTIMING is everything. The killing of two thugs by undercover cops in Brooklyn is getting extraordinary public scrutiny in today's tinderbox atmosphere. In a less volatile time, things might be...
BEATLES TO RELEASE THE 'WRITE' ALBUM
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amThe three remaining Beatles reportedly have come together to pen the story of world's greatest rock 'n' roll band -- but the aging icons are no paperback writers. The 360-page...
PAL SAYS MOURNING MIA MAY MAKE UP WITH SOON-YI
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amMia Farrow, grieving over the death of her adopted daughter, could be considering a reconciliation with her estranged daughter Soon-Yi Previn, a family acquaintance said. Farrow has been in mourning...
ABUSIVE TEACHERS WRIGGLING OFF HOOK
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amIn secret deals, the Board of Education drops disciplinary charges against some abusive teachers -- and promises them confidentiality -- if they agree to quit or retire. In several recent...
GRANNY SURVIVES STINGING SWARM
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS -- A 77-year-old woman cheated death by surviving 500 stings from a swarm of killer bees -- the second such attack in seven weeks. Still bearing the gruesome...
COP: WE THOUGHT WE WERE GONERS NOW NARCS FEAR FOR THEIR FUTURE ON FORCE
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amTwo undercover narcotics cops say they feared first for their lives before killing a pair of would-be robbers in Bushwick -- but yesterday feared more that their lives would be...
DRUG-GANG HIT MAN FACES DEATH PENALTY IN BROOKLYN KILLINGS
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amA bloodthirsty enforcer for a Jamaican drug gang was convicted of first-degree murder yesterday -- setting the stage for a possible death sentence. A Brooklyn jury found Jerry Bonton guilty...
BILL SLAMS HIZZONER'S 'RIGHT-WING VENOM MACHINE'
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amPresident Clinton accused Mayor Giuliani yesterday of enlisting a "right-wing venom machine" in his Senate battle against Hillary Rodham Clinton. "The only way they can win is to convince people...
MICROSOFT TALKS WITH FEDS END IN A CRASH
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amTalks to settle the landmark Microsoft antitrust case collapsed last night, dashing hopes for a quick end of the case. Federal Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner pulled the plug on...
COPS PLUCK FAMILY FROM BLAZE
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amThree hero cops ran up 15 flights of stairs and broke down the door of a burning Brooklyn apartment yesterday to save a mother and her 5 children trapped inside....
DOC WHO ID'D SKEETER VIRUS READY TO BATTLE BUG AGAIN
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amNo one is better prepared to do battle with the West Nile virus than Dr. Deborah Asnis. The 43-year-old Flushing Hospital doctor was the first to make medical contact with...
DAPPER DON'S SON HAS A COW OVER 'SAMMY BULL'
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amStuck in a federal lockup upstate, mob scion John A. "Junior" Gotti is spending his time stewing -- about the mob rat who sent his dad to prison for life,...
WHERE EVEN THE DOGS ARE SCARED OF THE GUNMEN
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amAS Al Sharpton and Hillary Clinton succeed in castrating the NYPD's Street Crime Unit, there are so many illegal guns in The Bronx that even dogs are afraid of them....
IT HURT LIKE A 'STUN-OF-A-PITCH' SHOCKING ADS LAND STRAPHANGER IN HOSP
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amKenneth Cole's racy "Reaction" shoe ads got a shocked straphanger to react -- sending him to the hospital with heart trouble after he started ripping down the body-and-sole posters in...
HEAD BISHOP SAYS PRINCE MUST TAKE BRIDAL PATH
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amThe head of the Anglican Church desperately wants Prince Charles to wed longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles to make sure the next king of England isn't living in sin, a...
JAPAN IN TENSE WAITING GAME AS VOLCANO RUMBLES
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amThe prospect of a major volcanic eruption of Mount Usu kept 50,000 people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on edge for a fifth day. The frightened inhabitants remained...
TEEN SLAY SUSPECT GETS SELF NABBED
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amA 15-year-old boy was busted by police for allegedly gunning down a store clerk who caught him and a friend shoplifting - but only after cops say the boy lied...
WRITE OF PASSAGE FOR 2 B'KLYN PROSECUTORS
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amLook out, Linda Fairstein - you've got competition across the river. Fairstein, a Manhattan prosecutor, made a name in the book world as an author of crime thrillers. But two...
HEY, STEPHANE, THERE'S THE DOOR
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amAU REVOIR, which, loosely translated, means, allow me to help you pack your things. Or, what kind of preposterous game is Stephane Quintal playing here, anyway? At least 10 times...
SHAQ DOMINATES ALWAYS, FOREVER
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- Breeze into the Laker locker room at the cavernous Staples Center and this is what you see: a long corridor with action shots of past Laker greats,...
GUARANTEED TO HAPPEN HERE'S WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE NEW SEASON
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO -- I predict that I will forget these predictions. Unless, of course, they come true. In which case, I will be writing a self-congratulatory column in October. And...
MATURITY BRINGS OUT KOBE'S BEST
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- It's a wonderful basketball life for Kobe Bryant now that his youth is no longer wasted on the young. Under Phil Jackson's tutelage, Bryant, who is all...
RAFALSKI RETURN GIVES DEVS LIFT
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- The Devils desperately need reasons to hope, sparks to rekindle the fire that has gone out. Brian Rafalski is one. As they visit the lame-duck Lightning here tonight...
NO QUIT IN ACHIN' STEPHON
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amHe should rest but he won't. He should accept the reality but he can't. So the Nets' Stephon Marbury intends on dragging his aching left knee through the remainder of...
PAY ME OR TRADE ME UNHAPPY HENDERSON PLANS TO TALK MONEY WITH PHILLIPS
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amRickey just wants to be happy. "I'm gonna play because I love baseball," Rickey Henderson said yesterday after the Mets worked out at Shea. "I try to make it my...
SPENCER MUST PRODUCE EARLY HEAT'S ON DH IN LAST CHANCE
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO -- It's difficult to put an exact number to the amount of chances Shane Spencer has had to prove to the Yankees that he belongs in the heart...
LONG DRUG BANS ANGER HORSEMEN
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amWho should make the call in horse racing when it comes to drug violations? The stewards, who are at the track every day and have spent their whole lives in...
IT'S TIME TO REVAMP THE ALL-SNORE GAME
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amNOTHING torments the symmetry of a team more each season, nor is more detrimental to the NBA, I submit, than the disturbing siren of the All-Star Game. You name an...
BIG A'S CICADA TO FINDER'S FEE
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amThrough most of yesterday afternoon at the Big A, jockey Jerry Bailey's homecoming from winter quarters in Florida wasn't going well at all. In the third race he finished sixth...
ANDARIESE ABSENCE A MYSTERY
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amA blanket of secrecy yesterday remained over Madison Square Garden and MSG Network following Friday's brief announcement that affable Knick radio and TV analyst John (Johnny Hoops) Andariese had been...
STERN'S MARKETING PLAN ON TARGET
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amThe problem with pro basketball fans and certain media types is that they keep thinking of the NBA as a sports league. The NBA, the television ratings and attendance-challenged organization,...
SHOWTIME FOR KNICKS EWING: IT'S PAYBACK TIME TONIGHT VS. LAKERS
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- A summer contract extension is the farthest thing from Patrick Ewing's mind today. He's got a much more mountainous goal ahead of him now -- a 315-pound...
HE'S STILL AN ACE LEITER REMAINS KEY AMAZIN' WEAPON
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amHE GOES it alone, no matter how many prized arms they import, no matter how often outsiders ruminate about the burden being lifted, as if some Baseball Sage this summer...
RED BULLET WORKS LIKE A CHAMP
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amStronach Stable's Red Bullet, recent winner of the Grade 3 Gotham and undefeated in three starts, came out of his four-furlong workout Friday morning in good order, according to trainer...
METS NOT DIS-ORIENTED BY JET LAG
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amDerek Bell said he felt "too strong," and Rickey Henderson joked that he ran out of money. Those were virtually the only semi-bad things anyone could say about the Mets'...
VOLUNTEER ARMY TRULY HAS FOUR-STAR GENERAL
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA -- The coach is tough as nails on players stereotyped to have their days ruined when they break them. In all it's implied sexism, this is what makes Pat...
BLUESHIRTS ARE TIE-DIED RANGERS ELIMINATED AFTER SUSPENDING QUINTAL
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amRangers2 Bruins2 BOSTON -- Deciding to put Stephane Quintal out of his Ranger misery, Garden president Dave Checketts has suspended the disgruntled defenseman without pay for the final four games...
SPARTANS GO FOURTH :INSPIRED PETERSON GIVES MSU SWEEP OF BADGERS
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- A game like this needed divine intervention. Michigan State and Wisconsin were locked in an ugly national championship semifinal game last night in the RCA Dome. The Big...
BATTLING COTA FEELIN' SAD BUT PROUD
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- North Carolina point guard Ed Cota can accept losing. What was hard for the Brooklyn native to handle was not being able to play his game for most...
WISCONSIN CAN'T FIND OFFENSE IN SEMIFINAL
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- The Wisconsin Badgers got beat at their own game last night. They came up against a team that played better defense. Michigan State ended the Badgers' season with...
GATORS STAY FRESH AT END
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- Two weeks ago, Florida had been just two seconds away from a humiliating first-round exit in the NCAA Tournament. Now, after last night's convincing 71-59 Final Four win...
FLORIDA HEAT TOO MUCH FOR TAR HEELS
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- Florida could tell when it started to happen. Gators smell blood, and these Gators had seen this scene enough before to know what was coming. With about 10...
BENNETT'S STATUS UNCERTAIN
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- Wisconsin coach Dick Bennett said he will take some time before deciding on whether to return for a sixth season. He originally signed a five-year deal and has...
BOMBERS LIKELY TO ADD LANCE TO ARSENAL
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO -- GM Brian Cashman, Joe Torre and his coaches planned to meet during the Yankees' charter flight to Anaheim last night and discuss what the two-time defending World...
BOAT SHOW DROPS ANCHOR IN AC
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amBIG BOATS, small boats and everything in between will be on hand for the Atlantic City Boat and Yacht Show to be held at The Convention Center from Thursday through...
NBC MAKES DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amEARLY last week, as NBC Sports President Dick Ebersol was putting the final touches to NBC's partnership with his mirror-image, Vince McMahon, parents and guardians of students at Brooklyn's P.S....
BOMBERS EYE ASTROS' BAKO AS A BACKUP
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - The Yankees have looked into a way to return Jim Leyritz to the roles he was signed for: part-time DH and backup first baseman. When...
HAYWOOD'S LED THE HEELS' RISE - BIG CENTER SHINES IN NCAAS
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - All throughout North Carolina's often-disappointing, always-confounding regular-season, Brendan Haywood was the center of attention. The 7-foot, 264-pound junior wasn't just the Tar Heels' biggest player, but their biggest...
CALL IT SEMI TOUGH - BADGERS BRACED FOR STIFF TEST VS. MICH. ST.
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The Wisconsin Badgers admitted there was a seed of doubt. We're thinking it was a Guinness Book of Records-size seed. How could the Badgers go into last night's...
TRUMPED! THE DONALD SHOWS THE POST THE ART OF THE GOLF WIN
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amWEST PALM BEACH -- Donald Trump arrived Friday afternoon to his latest pride-and-joy project -- Trump International Golf Club -- fresh off flying down from New York in his private...
NEW YORK POST ALL CHSAA BASKETBALL TEAM
April 2, 2000 | 5:00amCHSAA BOYS FIRST TEAM Player of the Year: Peter Mulligan, 6-4, Sr., F, St. Raymond's Before last summer, St. Raymond's head coach Gary DeCesare and Peter Mulligan had a little...