April 9, 2000
SPORTS STARS AIM TO AVOID TROUBLES OF SOSA'S CHARITY
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amFor superstar athletes, personal foundations have become -- alongside planes and vanity .coms -- the status symbol du jour. They give headlining jocks a way to make themselves appear larger...
'HOT AIR' COMPANY SEES LOTS OF ACTION
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amTULIP-mania is back! In just 12 hours last weekend, Dutch investors placed orders for $7 million worth of what was touted to be the next hot technology stock -- a...
WALL STREET GUY SEEKS .COM WITH BRAINS, BUCKS
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amHAS .com lust come to this? "Biz Opp: Wall St. Pro Seeks Start-Up. Experienced Wall Street professional (20 years) seeks to join an Alley start-up. I am particularly interested in...
BUSINESS JOURNALISTS GO GQ
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amAS the Microsoft verdict came in and the markets tumbled, some of the best-known business journalists on television were busy -- getting their pictures taken for a GQ fashion spread....
DEAL FOR FIRST ELIAN BOOK INKED
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amA deal for the first book in the Elian Gonzalez controversy has been inked. Ann Louise Bardach, a one-time Vanity Fair contributing writer, has just signed on to write "Troubled...
SMALL-CAP STOCKS ARE ENJOYING THEIR DAY IN THE SUN
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amLOOKING for an investment that's beating the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500? It's not too hard to find: The trick is searching through the small-cap fund offerings. After years of...
NORTHERN EXPOSURE
April 9, 2000 | 4:00am'Blame Canada" isn't just the controversial, Oscar-nominated song from "South Park." It's also the title of a new series sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Opening Friday and...
WHAT I WATCH
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amJORDAN ROTHTHEATRICAL PRODUCER,"THE DONKEY SHOW"Infomercials ... especially Judith Light's Pro-Active because it's totally riveting.LAUREN LAWRENCEAUTHOR, "DREAM KEYS FOR LOVE" AND "DREAM KEYS""Frasier." He's the one doing all the listening and...
CALL IT SQUEEZIN' ART
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amSpace-challenged apartment dwellers might be tempted to throw out their regular ovens once they get their hands on Cuisinart's new Convection Oven/Toaster-Broiler. Don't let the compact, digital device (which is...
'EXPECT' TO LIKE 'WHAT YOU GET'
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amIt is rather extraordinary, but the English-speaking theater is so obsessed with English that other languages are effectively drowned out. Given what gets produced, one might think that all plays...
BRUNCH WITH PUNCH RESTAURANTS ADD ZIP TO YOUR SUNDAY WITH MUSIC, FASHION, MOVIES AND OTHER FUN
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amImagine yourself in a rowboat on a glassy lake surrounded by lush greenery. Does paddling around make you hungry? Sounds like brunch at the Boat House in Central Park should...
HALTER EGO: THESE TOPS ARE TOPS
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amSkin is in this spring, and not just with all the thigh-revealing hot pants and décolletage-baring push-up bras. The season also welcomes the return of the halter top. Not for...
HIGH BROW: GROOMER TO THE STARS REVEALS ALL
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amHow important are well-groomed eyebrows? Brow guru to the stars Anastasia Soare claims she knows women who have been so impressed by a good plucking that they've postponed plastic surgery....
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: LISA LESLIE
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amWNBA star Lisa Leslie, who was fined $500 last year for shoving another player, is a fierce competitor on the court. But when the slender, 27-year-old beauty isn't dunking the...
CAT AND HOUSE: CREATING A PLAYSPACE FOR YOUR KITTY
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amPoor city kitties! They're cooped up day and night in tiny apartments and left to dream of chasing mice through open fields. One solution for your bored feline is to...
MEALS & DEALS
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amSud 210 W. 10th St. (between Bleecker and West Fourth streets) (212) 255-3805 It's easy to pass right by Sud, the tiny West Village restaurant, without noticing the place. Even...
RAISING A BUNDLE FOR THE JUNGLE: POP MUSIC'S BIGGEST STARS RALLY FOR THE RAIN FOREST
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amThe planet's dwindling rain forests may have some powerful enemies -- but they've also got friends in high places. Rock idol Sting and his wife Trudie Styler have been championing...
THE BOOK REPORT
April 9, 2000 | 4:00am"Blonde" by Joyce Carol Oates, The Ecco Press, 726 pages, $28.95 It seems that America's obsession with Marilyn Monroe, the epitome of the blonde bombshell, will never fade. So perhaps...
TECH IT OUT
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amFinally - a portable CD player for joggers. Cement pounders will delight in the new Sony Walkman D-EJ915 since its touted new "G-Force" technology prevents CDs from skipping. You can...
STAR PLAYERS: ATHLETES ARE MAKING THEIR MARK AS ACTORS
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amWhat do O.J. Simpson, Bob Uecker and Michael Jordan have in common? Besides being athletes, they've all made names for themselves as actors. Knicks shooting guard Allan Houston is the...
WISEGUY WANNABES TO SEE OUT SERIES IN STYLE
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amMark Grossman may be a Jewish button manufacturer, but in his mind, he's a wiseguy named "Chubby" and Tony Soprano's loyal soldier. When Grossman, 42, tunes in to the last...
SHAKESPEARE: A PAISAN?
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amTo be Italian or not to be Italian -- that is not the question for Shakespeare who, believe it or not, was actually born in Sicily, a top academic claims....
'SOPRANOS' FINALE A MOB SCENE ; POST PANEL PREDICTS WHO'LL WHACK WHOM
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amLegions of mobbed-up "Sopranos" fans are counting the minutes until the season finale tonight on HBO, trying to guess what will happen to the notorious New Jersey hoods. Viewers were...
'TITANIC' FUR SURFACING FOR AUCTION
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amA fur coat that saved a Titanic survivor from freezing to death is to be sold at auction next week. The imitation beaver fur, expected to fetch up to $10,000,...
RICHIE'S RISE: FROM THE BIG HOUSE TO THE SMALL SCREEN
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amHOW do you get a job on the hottest show on earth? Well, don't be cool. Richie Maldone, 37, right now is hotter than a firecracker on the Fourth of...
PREZ CALLS A SURPRISE SIT-DOWN WITH BARAK
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM -- President Clinton has called a hastily scheduled meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday in a bid to reinvigorate sluggish Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Palestinian leader Yasser...
BROOKLYN PRIEST HAS PATIENCE OF A SAINT
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amAn American priest is on the way to sainthood thanks to the dogged efforts of a Brooklyn priest who documented the soon-to-be saint's life and miracles. After 11 years of...
A SURVIVOR OF THE HOLOCAUST SEES OMINOUS PARALLEL
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amBETHESDA, Md.HOLOCAUST survivor Martin Strauss took several steps outside his house and saw what he calls "irrational hatred." The irrational hatred was hidden inside the army of police officers and...
LIVERY DRIVERS SITTING DUCKS FOR CRIMINALS
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amWhile crime in New York City has dipped to levels not seen in 30 years, livery drivers remain an easy target for armed robbers. According to a recent federal study,...
MIRACLE MOM LOSES 500 POUNDS STOMACH STAPLING'S A LIFE-SAVER BACK FROM DEATH'S DOOR ; BACK FROM DEATH'S DOOR
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN Linda Azzara weighed in at 700 pounds at Maimonides Medical Center the evening of Aug. 18, 1998, doctors were convinced she wouldn't last the night. The 41-year-old Brooklyn woman...
IT'S TRIAL TIME FOR PORN-AGAIN TRADERS
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amTwo reputed ex-boyfriends of a sultry porn star go on trial tomorrow in Manhattan federal court -- while the sexpot at the center of the insider-trading case stays in hiding,...
YANKEE BASEBRAWL WAR OF WORDS OVER JOLTIN' JOE'S ESTATE
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amDom DiMaggio is taking an angry new swing at the executor of the Yankee Clipper's estate, saying the lawyer is hurting Joe's legacy and trampling on a deathbed promise he...
ARE AMATEUR WATCHDOGS A PERIL TO PUGS?
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amBoxing whistleblower Tom Hoover says he had to hit the New York State Athletic Commission with a knockout punch because its members are a bunch of amateurs who might end...
PUFFY TOUR WRAPS WITH A NO-SHOW
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amEmbattled rap czar Sean "Puffy" Combs stunned fans and promoters yesterday by mysteriously canceling a sold-out London concert -- the last show of his whirlwind European tour. The rapper, who...
CONFIDENT HILL STUMPS IN UPSTATE GOP HOTBED
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amCORNING -- Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday went hunting for votes in the rural Southern Tier of upstate New York, saying she's confident she can win over many residents in the...
$100M FORCE IS WITH FOX IN VIDEO SALES
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amStar Wars fans rocketed to their video stores with fistfuls of cash and forked over an astounding $100 million in just two days for copies of "The Phantom Menace." Twentieth...
LEO-BILL TALK MIGHT GO WAY OF TITANIC
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amABC continued yesterday to distance itself from its controversial White House interview of President Clinton conducted by movie heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio. The network said yesterday it is not sure whether...
SINN FEIN WARNS BRITS TO REINSTATE SHARED RULE
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amSinn Fein leader Gerry Adams warned yesterday that Northern Ireland's fragile peace could be shattered with renewed violence if Britain doesn't reinstate the co-operative government there. The power-sharing political body...
ROBERTSON'S ABOUT-FACE ON 'UNFAIR' EXECUTIONS
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON -- Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson, usually a death-penalty advocate, called for a halt of executions because, he says, they're biased regarding blacks and the poor. "We must temper...
GOV. PATAKI, IT'S TIME TO KO STATE BOXING PANEL!
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amDEAR Gov. Pataki: It's time for you to get off your stool and take control of the mess that is the New York State Athletic Commission. Right now, your commission...
ACCUSED GENERAL SAYS IT WAS NOT A MAJOR HUG
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON -- A male two-star major general has admitted hugging a female general but denies her charge that it was sex harassment -- and now she's been hit by misconduct...
EX-JONBENET PROBER SAYS MOM WROTE RANSOM NOTE
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amAdd a former top investigator of the JonBenet Ramsey murder probe to those who believe the tiny beauty queen's mom wrote the ransom note. Steve Thomas, an ex-Boulder, Colo., police...
TEENAGER HAD FERTILITY FEARS BABY-NAP SUSPECT TOLD FRIENDS OF 'PREGNANCY'
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amThe teenager busted for stealing a newborn from a Brooklyn hospital told investigators she acted out of desperation after learning she might not be able to have children, sources said...
ELIAN'S RESCUERS TRY TO REEL IN HIS PAPA
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amThe fishermen who plucked Elian Gonzalez from the ocean arrived in the Washington suburbs yesterday to make a dramatic appeal to his father to meet with his Miami relatives and...
2 BUSTED IN B'KLYN CABBY'S MURDER
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amTwo brothers yesterday were arrested in the tragic slaying of an immigrant livery-cab driver and dad who was gunned down after only three days on the job. A tip led...
KIDS FEEL THE PAIN IN CYBER TRADING GAME
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amSADE McFADDENThis middle-school class in Crown Heights took a hit in last week's tech sell-off, but still ranks No. 16 out 126 schools citywide.N.Y. Post: Jim Alcorn Sade McFadden was...
VIGILANTE OATH NOT A 'VOICE' OF REASON OATH IS NOT THE 'VOICE' OF REASON
April 9, 2000 | 4:00am'A VOW born of rage and sorrow," is how the cover of the Village Voice solemnly characterized reporter Peter Noel's sacred oath. And what did Noel vow? Homicide. That's Noel's...
STAGE MOM FROM HELL TENNIS ACE'S 'ENEMY' NIGHTMARE MOM RUINS ANNA'S LOVE LIFE
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amWatch any professional women's tennis tournament and there's no doubt Anna Kournikova is the girl with the golden backhand. The 18-year-old dynamo rocketed to instant stardom a scant six years...
SLAY SUSPECT BIDS TO DUMP DAMNING DNA TESTS
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amArohn Kee was caught by a coffee cup. Cops finally linked the charming and muscular Harlem man to a heinous string of rape-murders after busting him last year on a...
IS LATEST WEB WEDDING ALL A HOAX? NAMESAKES MAKE A $$ CONNECTION
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amThings on the Internet aren't always what they appear to be. Consider the growing uproar over the weirdly mysterious collaboration between best-selling author Dave Eggers' online humor-literary magazine, McSweeney's, and...
FIRST LADY CAN'T SEEM TO DITCH CARPETBAG SHE CARRIES
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amIt's Hillary's Problem and it just won't go away. Nine months into her Senate campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton still hasn't outrun the "carpetbagger" label. A recent poll showed New York...
TRIAL DUE FOR PSYCHO SUSPECT IN GEORGE HARRISON STABBING
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amThe psycho charged with trying to hack to death George Harrison and his wife will stand trial for attempted murder next month. Michael Abram, 33, nodded in agreement in Magistrate's...
THIN'S NO LONGER IN FOR BRITISH MODELS
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amA war against waifish supermodels has been declared by the British government, which claims the fashionable ultra-thin look has turned healthy women into sickly basket cases. Britain's Women's Unit fired...
JACK CAN BE A RIPPER WORM CRACKS MAKE HALEY SEE RED
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amCONTRARY to what you might've been led to believe, Jack Haley is not doing TV basketball commentary for Fox Sports because of his close friendship with Dennis Rodman. How do...
LAKEN IS AT THE CENTER OF SOME EASY PICKIN'S
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amTHE parade of short-priced winners at Aqueduct recently has offered few betting opportunities for horseplayers who like to bet a little to win a lot. Faced with a race meet...
'I'VE NEVER DONE CRACK' STEVENS DENIES CHARGES STEVENS: I'M NO DRUGGIE
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amConfessing that he is an alcoholic, Kevin Stevens yesterday denied ever having used crack cocaine as, for the first time, he discussed the events that culminated in his Jan. 23...
IT'S WAR BY THE SHORE! : KNICKS SET TO BACK UP EWING GUARANTEE
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI -- Marcus Camby supports Patrick Ewing's Friday-night guarantee that the Knicks "ain't losing" today. The Knicks' season hangs in the balance at American Airlines Arena in today's mega-match in...
HEAT-ED WORDS FLY FROM FLA.
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amYIt was a seemingly innocuous, innocent statement. Patrick Ewing said that winning the Atlantic Division title was nice and all, but it surely was not chief among the items on...
ARNOTT PROVIDES RENEWED HOPE
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amOVERTIME Devils2 Panthers1 One season-ending victory doesn't end the slump, but it shined a ray of Florida sunshine into the Devils yesterday. The one decent team the Devils have beaten...
ALLAN'S OFFENSE IS AWOL
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI -- Jeff Van Gundy is taking great pains to praise Allan Houston's defense, perhaps to overshadow Houston's bizarre offensive disappearances in second halves recently. It is ironic that, in...
ISLES' OWNERS SHOULD HANG HEADS IN SHAME
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amMercifully concluding what will be the fourth worst non-strike season in the franchise's 27-year history, the Islanders (23-49-9-1) host the Panthers today at noon at the Coliseum. Considering their meager...
COUNTRY ONLY PREPS FOR WOOD
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amMoreton Binn's Country Only, winner of the Count Fleet and Whirlaway stakes here at Aqueduct during the winter, breezed five furlongs over the Belmont training track yesterday morning in a...
HOUNDED HENDERSON GIVES HIMSELF A HAND
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amIt was probably bound to happen. Someone finally clapped for Rickey Henderson. Henderson was booed by the Shea faithful when he was introduced yesterday and fortunately, his influence can't be...
PEN PALS WRITE OFF A MAHOMES 'W'
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amFour years seem to be enough rest between starts for Pat Mahomes. But despite his performance yesterday, don't expect Mahomes to demand a move into the starting rotation. It was...
YANKEE IS VICTOR AT BIG A
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amTaking advantage of a stiff wind whipping in off Jamaica Bay that was a boon to front-runners yesterday at Aqueduct, Herbie Castillo Jr. sent Yankee Victor right to the lead...
CATSKILLS NO ROCKIES, BUT FLY FISHIN'S GREAT
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amTHEY COME from all over the country to dip their lines in the holy waters of the Beaverkill and Willowemoc, where many say the art of casting a dry fly...
THE COUNTRY CLUB CLOSES RANGERS MUST STOP SIGNING AGING VETS
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amTHE ERA of Excess comes to an end today, and not a moment too soon. Maybe this summer some of the Rangers who disgraced the logo will have second thoughts...
YOU CAN'T FOOL MOTHER NATURE ; AUGUSTA CAN'T FOOL MOTHER NATURE
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- Masters Week 2000 began with a lot of talk about changes made to Augusta National to make it more challenging to the world's best golfers. The rough, added...
GOLDEN BEAR'S HOPES BLOWIN' IN THE WIND
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- The Jack Nicklaus Masters magic withered away yesterday in the unpredictable swirling winds at Augusta National. Nicklaus, whose rounds of 74 and 70 at the age of 60...
THINKING OF AUGUSTA MAKES LOVE HURT BAD
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- You listen to Davis Love III's reverence for the Masters and Augusta National and you can hear a little Greg Norman in him. Love positively craves this title....
ILL WIND TAKES TOLL ON DUVAL
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA--When play was suspended with David Duval scheduled to hit his third shot on the par-5 15th, tournament officials gave him the option of playing his shot or marking his...
HIT AND MISS FOR SORIANO
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE -- The plan for Alfonso Soriano is to stick around until Scott Brosius is healthy enough to return and then, Joe Torre says, go back to Triple-A to further...
CONFIDENT TIGER'S IN HUNT TO STING SINGH : VIJAY LEADS BUT WOODS CAN STILL TAKE JACKET
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- He was left for dead by many. The best golfer on the planet was viewed as a mere afterthought in the tournament many believe was made for his...
VIJAY SINGHS NEW TUNE ABOUT AUGUSTA GREENS
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- Vijay Singh has always, by his own admission, feared the greens at Augusta National. They've always been his enemy, his nemesis. For him, walking to an Augusta green...
O'NEILL GRILLS MESA AGAIN
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE -- Safeco Field's manicured grass between the plate and pitching mound wasn't the only thing covered by the late-afternoon shadows that were in play yesterday when Paul O'Neill stepped...
PETTITTE INSISTS EVERYTHING'S FINE WITH POSADA, SORE BACK
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE -- Under the Florida palms, Andy Pettitte and Jorge Posada worked together like a pitcher and catcher who had been with each other forever. Friday night at Safeco Field...
BIG BUCKS MIGHT'VE KEPT OLERUD A MET
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE -- The Met offense is struggling. The lineup is lacking balance from the left side. The infield is not as impenetrable as last year. And John Olerud is in...
THE POST'S PSAL ALL-CITY TEAM
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amPlayer of the Year: Eric King, 6-6, Sr., F, Lincoln It was a roller coaster type of year for King, who missed the first couple of games due to academic...
TIGER CUB: LONG ISLAND 3-YEAR-OLD COULD BE NEXT WOODS
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amJack Patrick Lindsay. Remember the name. Oh sure, he's only three years old right now, but don't underestimate what this potential "wunderkind" might accomplish based on his current, hard-to-explain uncanny...
SO FAR, SPENCER'S HITS ARE LONG AND FAR BETWEEN
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - Three hits in 15 at-bats doesn't usually cut it from a DH. However, when those three hits are homers, it takes the sting out of a...
RICKEY FINDS WAY TO CHEER HIMSELF UP
April 9, 2000 | 4:00amIt probably was bound to happen. Someone finally clapped for Rickey Henderson. Henderson was booed by the Shea faithful when he was introduced yesterday and fortunately, his influence can't be...