April 18, 2000
BLUE-CHIP STOCKS COME ROARING BACK
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amCall it the revenge of the Old Economy stocks. Blue-chip companies outside of technology propped up the troubled stock market yesterday, providing the catalyst for all major market averages to...
LAST-MINUTE IRA ACCOUNT CONTRIBUTIONS MAY LIFT DOW
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amIf history is any guide, the Dow should rise today while the Nasdaq falls. On the day after the last day Americans can fund their individual retirement accounts, the Dow...
RETURN OF THE HANDSHAKE?
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amEVEN if the stock market resumes its downward plunge, it won't lead to a real estate collapse like the one of a decade ago. But it might mean a comeback...
L'OREAL SWALLOWS UP FAMILY-OWNED KIEHL'S
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amKiehl's, the little 149-year-old beauty products company that built a cult following through word of mouth, was bought yesterday by industry titan L'Oreal. Under the agreement, the family-run Kiehl's will...
THE GOOD OL' TECHS ARE SHINING THROUGH - .COMS TAKE IT ON THE CHIN AGAIN
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amInvestors sent .com losers to penny-stock heaven yesterday, clinging to blue-chip tech stocks as they tried to ride out spring's stormy trading ride. Analysts said the race to quality in...
BIG DUMB COS. WIN BY WATCHING, WAITING
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amESTEE Lauder announced that it would buy the cosmetics e-tailer Gloss.com and launch its own Web site with eye-glazing corporate-speak like "comprehensive Internet strategy" and "maximize marketing opportunity." A more...
OPRAH SHOWS UP A LOT BETWEEN AD PAGES
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amOprah's new magazine landed on newsstands yesterday with a loud thud - it's so heavy with ads. The long-awaited debut issue of O, the Oprah Magazine produced by talk show...
QWEST SIGNS 10-YEAR LEASE AT AT&T BLDG.
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe AT&T building has added another communications tenant to its roster. Denver-based Qwest Communications International has taken nearly 160,000 square feet in the landmark structure at 32 Avenue of the...
OPRAH DEFENDS HER GAG ORDER RULE FOR STAFFERS
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amOprah Winfrey may be the feel-good queen of TV magazines, but if you work for her - or ever have - you're not allowed to say anything nasty about her....
ALL WET IN JAMAICA - RESORT IN OCHO RIOS OFFERS WATER SPORTS, A KIDS' CAMP & ESCAPE FROM CELL PHONES
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amIF you're looking for a Caribbean getaway, Ocho Rios is the place on Jamaica to really unplug. Perched some 70 miles from the island's major towns - Montego Bay on...
A SPLENDID 'THING'
April 18, 2000 | 4:00am'THE Real Thing" is the real thing - an exciting, hilarious and beautifully performed look at the terrain of art and heart. The Tom Stoppard play of 1984 received a...
'KATE' & 'MUSIC MAN' PLAY MUSICAL SHARES
April 18, 2000 | 4:00am'KISS Me, Kate" and "The Music Man" each snagged eight Outer Critics Circle nominations yesterday, setting the stage for what could be a fierce battle for awards between the two...
THE STARR REPORT
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amBlack tie, pot pie Mixing The Plaza Hotel and chicken pot pie was a recipe for disgruntlement at Sunday's New York Emmy Awards. Local newsies were mortified to learn they...
'SOUTH PARK' ENDING?
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amOH my god - now they really might kill Kenny! The creators of "South Park" - Comedy Central's raunchy and always controversial cartoon - are mulling the possibility of ending...
BANKRUPTCY HASN'T 'KILT' TRASH CAN SINATRAS
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Trash Can Sinatras, an early-'90s pop band from Scotland, were pushed into oblivion by the alt rock phenomenon just as they were on the cusp of Smiths-like stardom. Or...
KATHIE LEE COUNTDOWN: PICK A FRESH FACE OR A FAMILIAR ONE... DOES REGIS NEED A YOUNGER WOMAN?
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amWHO will be the new Kathie Lee Gifford on "Live with Regis & Kathie Lee"? It's a question of experience versus youth. Will Regis Philbin, 68, and ABC try to...
I SMELL A CBS RAT... - WHO NEEDS TO WATCH 'SURVIVORS' EAT THIS RODENT FOR LUNCH?
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amI DON'T know about you, but I don't plan on spending any of my evenings this summer watching some starving salesman from Arkansas eat a rat. Not that I believe...
SMITH'S LATEST IS A THROWBACK
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amELLIOTT SMITH "Figure 8" ½ DreamWorks Elliott Smith, the songwriter who grew in Brooklyn, has blossomed in L.A. On his latest, Smith displays a sense of social responsibility, a lust...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amLyon direct Delta Air Lines began daily, nonstop service from JFK to Lyon last Friday. Prior to this, direct flights stopped in Paris before continuing on to this city in...
TENORS FOR A TENNER - SCORING CHEAP SEATS AT THE MET
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE are cheap seats, and then there are the (MD+IT)really(MD-IT) cheap seats -- like the score desks at the Metropolitan Opera House. At $10 a pop, they cost less than...
LIFE: IT WILL KILL YOU! - A NEW BOOK DETAILS HUNDREDS OF RVERYDAY THREATS
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amNext time you brush your hair, stroke your cat or dive into a plate of alfalfa sprouts, think again. According to Melinda Muse, you're flirting with disaster. As a freelance...
BEARING DOWN ON GORE - MICROSOFT MELTDOWN: THE DEMS ARE WIDE OPEN
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHE danger posed to Al Gore by the stock-market decline is obvious: If Americans feel poorer in November than they have in several years, he will probably lose the election....
BIO BARES THE SECRET LIFE OF JOHN LENNON
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amJOHN LENNON, alone in his bedroom in the Dakota, knelt before the television as if it were an altar. His hand stretched, fingers spread, to touch the screen as a...
MARKET SPLATTER HASN'T STOPPED FOLKS FROM SPLURGING
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amTheir stocks have taken a savage beating, but investors aren't ready to skimp when it comes to taking vacations or buying cars, real estate or jewelry. "I'm still planning to...
ANARCHY REINED IN AS IMF EVENT COMES TO CLOSE
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund staggered to an end yesterday as police reclaimed the streets after two days of tense and often rowdy demonstrations....
ANTI-DRUG COLONEL COMES CLEAN ON WIFE'S LAUNDERING
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amA colonel who oversaw the U.S. Army's anti-drug campaign in Colombia pleaded guilty yesterday to not reporting a felony - but insisted he didn't know about his wife's cocaine and...
BIAS FLAP OVER NEW CITY CUSTODIAN TEST
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe city is lowering standards for hiring school custodians to settle a federal suit that says the current exam discriminates against minorities. But critics complain the proposed settlement is a...
MARISLEYSIS IS ONE HOT MAMA: CUBANS
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Elian's 21-year-old surrogate mom, Marisleysis Gonzalez - thrust into the spotlight while fighting to keep the boy in the United States - has earned adoration on both sides...
CITY WON'T TAKE SNEAK PEEK AT COP 'BIAS' PROBE
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amCity officials have rejected an offer by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to allow them to take a peek at the panel's controversial preliminary report on the NYPD, The...
DIALLO PARENTS' SUIT TO SEEK '$1 MILLION FOR EACH BULLET'
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe parents of Amadou Diallo plan to hit the city - and four police officers - with a $61 million suit today for gunning down their unarmed son, The Post...
NEEDLE NURSE ASKS FOR CITY'S PRAYERS
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe pregnant Bronx nurse whose doctor-lover allegedly stabbed her with a syringe filled with an abortion-inducing drug made a heartfelt appeal to New Yorkers yesterday: Pray for me and my...
HOW DRUG CAN AFFECT THE EMBRYO
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe savage syringe attack on a pregnant Bronx nurse spotlights the importance of a commonly available B vitamin in the development of a fetus. A married doctor allegedly injected Joy...
LITTLE GUYS ARE WILLING TO GRIN AND BEAR IT ALL
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amWorking stiffs pressing their noses to the glass at the Times Square Nasdaq display yesterday said they'll stick with their favorite tech stocks for the long haul. Lee Haberman has...
TRANSPLANT SURVIVOR CAMPAIGNS OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF HIS HEART
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amCouch potato Donald Arthur had a real change of heart - and now he's a marathon runner. His heart transplant nearly four years ago gave the former bookkeeper a second...
COLUMBIA '68: A CAMPUS IN CHAOS
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe Vietnam War ended in defeat for the U.S.-backed regime in Saigon 25 years ago this month, the end of a demoralizing conflict that left its mark on all aspects...
LAWYERS' GLITCH COULD MEAN DEATH TO REFUGEE
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amEVEN if the worst happens and Elian Gonzalez is sent back to Castro's Cuba, he will lose only his freedom, not his life. Dominic Nunu, who fled the Liberian regime...
COPS: THIS IS W. SIDE RAPE FIEND
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amPolice yesterday released a sketch of the suspect in the knifepoint rape of a woman who had just returned to her Upper West Side home after attending the opera at...
RUDY'S REVISION: TAX CUT WILL BE HALF AS BIG AS BOASTED
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday backed off a plan to cut taxes by another $2 billion, saying the city couldn't return so much money to taxpayers because projected long-term deficits were too...
'VOLATILE' RON UNFIT DAD: NANNY
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amAn ex-nanny hurled the latest volley of mud in the Ron Perelman-Patricia Duff custody war yesterday - testifying that the city's richest man is "volatile," and unfit to be a...
'MARRIAGE PENALTY' ANNULLED
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki and state lawmakers reached a five-year, $1.2 billion, tax-cut deal yesterday, even as they failed to agree on an overall new state budget. The accord would...
CITY WARNS CABBIES OF ILLEGAL PICKUPS
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amTo make a few extra bucks, most livery drivers thumb their noses at city rules barring them from picking up street hails - a move that has cost six drivers...
DEMS CAN'T BEAT BUSH FOR CHARITY
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush and wife Laura say they gave 16 percent of their income to charity last year - a higher figure than either the...
HILLARY TAPS NON-NYERS TO FINANCE SENATE RUN
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amVirtually all the unregulated "soft money" raised by Hillary Rodham Clinton this year came from out-of-state residents, according to financial records released yesterday. Of the $1.39 million she collected from...
KIN ENDANGER 'EXPLOITED' ELIAN: DOC - URGES RENO TO LET DAD HAVE SON NOW
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amElian Gonzalez is so endangered by his Miami relatives and the crowd outside their Little Havana home he needs to be returned immediately to his dad, says a Bronx doctor...
TEAM RUDY BRUSHES OFF NEWT'S DIRE PREDICTION
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Mayor Giuliani's campaign chief yesterday shrugged off ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich's claim that Hillary Rodham Clinton will beat Hizzoner for Senate - and could run for president in...
BULLS ROAR BACK ONTO STREET - NASDAQ AND DOW POST JUMBO GAINS
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amWhew! Stock investors got a wild ride yesterday, as the market careened all over the place and ended up a whole lot higher. The Dow Jones industrial average fell as...
OFF-DUTY COPS MAY SUB FOR DOORMEN
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amLuxury apartment buildings intend to hire off-duty cops to work as security guards if building workers walk off the job at midnight tomorrow. "An off-duty policeman will be stationed in...
PRISON TERMS FOR TRIO IN L.I. ADOPTION RING
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amTwo Long Island women and an Arizona lawyer were slapped with federal prison sentences yesterday in a phony adoption scheme that funneled babies from Mexican moms to would-be parents in...
TENSION GROWS AMONG ELIAN FACTIONS - SIDES ANXIOUSLY AWAIT COURT RULING
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amBoth sides played a waiting game in the Elian Gonzalez custody fight yesterday as a federal appeals court mulled a decision that could break the stalemate and trigger a father-and-son...
DIALLO KIN SUING CITY, FOUR COPS FOR $61M
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe parents of Amadou Diallo plan to hit the city - and four police officers - with a $61 million suit today for gunning down their unarmed son, The Post...
COLLEGE COACH SURE CHAD WILL BE GREAT
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amFirst things first: Bob Pruett had little to do with the decision Al Groh, one of his closest friends, made in selecting Chad Pennington with the Jets' 18th overall pick...
DON'T SELL THIS PICK SHORT - GIANTS' 4TH-ROUNDER LOOKS LIKE A BARGAIN
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amHe was the leading tackler, a co-captain, an unquestioned leader on the sturdy, star-studded Penn State defense. He had been a fixture for four years. He grew up in the...
BULLET DODGES THE DERBY
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amRare are the connections of a top 3-year-old who aren't stricken with an incurable case of Derby fever this time of year. But that's the case with owner Frank Stronach...
DUDLEY READY, WILLING AND ABLE
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Backup center Chris Dudley hasn't come off the Knicks' injured list, but he took a step in that direction by practicing with the team for the first time...
LEWIS: I'LL LAY DOWN LAW VS. GRANT
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amLennox Lewis says he will climb into the ring in the Garden on April 29 intent on proving he's the best fighter on the planet, and it has little to...
FINAL DAZE FOR CASEY
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe phrase for today, boys and girls, is "lame duck." With an inevitable firing awaiting him after two more games, Don Casey plods on during the final hours of his...
WILPON'S GOTTA DECIDE VALENTINE'S FATE NOW
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amSO let's get this straight. A college kid can nearly get Bobby Valentine fired, but GM Steve Phillips can't. After this weekend, a situation that was already difficult just got...
LLOYD COPES WITH SORROW - WIFE'S SUDDEN DEATH ROCKS GRAEME'S WORLD
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - When the towering, lanky frame of Graeme Lloyd would appear out of the Yankee Stadium bullpen in September of 1996, the Bomber faithful showered him with boos, taunts...
KNEE-MAN MARCUS HAS JEFF WORRIED
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amWith the Knicks limping to the finish of the NBA regular season and trying to right the ship before the playoffs start next weekend, they'll play their final two games...
METS' NEW GAME IS FAMILY FEUD - PHILLIPS' VENDETTA VERSUS V FOOLISH
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amMORE and more, Steve Phillips impresses me less and less. With each day that goes by, he reminds me less of a big-league GM than a Triple-A Dave Checketts, a...
MUSCLE STRAIN PUTS JONES ON 15-DAY DL
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Fresno Bobby Jones has been placed on the 15-day disabled list and is expected to miss two to four weeks with a strained right calf muscle. Taking Jones'...
ROGER: I HAVE RIGHT STUFF - CLEMENS IRRITATED BY HIS DETRACTORS
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amARLINGTON - Roger Clemens has heard the whispers and the Rocket isn't pleased about the manner in which some people have dissected the first three starts in his second season...
LEMIEUX GIVES YOUNG STARS SOMEONE THEY CAN LEAN ON
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - There is an old guard of Devils, there is a new generation of Devils, and then there is Claude Lemieux. There is Lemieux, wearing the uniform with...
MOUND MATES OFFER ADVICE TO HAMPTON
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amAmid all the controversy surrounding Whartongate, Mike Hampton, Al Leiter and John Franco went out to dinner Saturday night in Pittsburgh. The new Mets' lefty, who starts tonight at Shea...
PETTITTE'S FLAT-OUT CONCERNED
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ARLINGTON - Andy Pettitte isn't sure what's going to happen today when he attempts to throw on flat ground. After having to quit Sunday following 20 tosses, Pettitte...
DEVILS' NEXT GOAL: BURY BURE - GUNNING FOR THE SWEEP AS SERIES HEADS SOUTH
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - There's plenty left to prove for these Devils. Reputation repair is still in the hypothesis stage. Fresh from burying one bugaboo, they run into another tonight. This...
BOBBY A LIAR? GM WONDERED
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amOn the one hand, Steve Phillips wants to move beyond Whartongate. On the other, he just can't. In a new twist to his crumbling relationship with Bobby Valentine, the Met...
IMPEACHMENT, TRIPPI IN DERBY
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amDogwood Stable president Cot Campbell said yesterday that he will enter Impeachment and Trippi in the May 6 Kentucky Derby. "Impeachment's stretch run in the Arkansas Derby was impressive," Campbell...
STINK PANTHERS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amPanthers captain Scott Mellanby was asked if he could recall an opponent scoring with a two-man disadvantage. That is, before the Devils did it Sunday night in their Game 2...
CLEMENS IRRITATED BY CRITICS
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amARLINGTON - Roger Clemens has heard the whispers and the Rocket isn't pleased about the manner in which some people have dissected the first three starts in his second season...
YANKS OWE UMP BIG TIP
April 18, 2000 | 4:00amARLINGTON - A dozen games in and the Yankees' season has a freaky look to it. How else do you explain what happened last night at The Ballpark against the...