April 24, 2000

ZAGAT GETS E-RATING SURVEY ALSO ADDS LEISURE-ACTIVITY GUIDES

Restaurant guide publisher Tim Zagat is branching out into guides on every sort of leisure activity, and he's taking his show online and into the wireless realm. Zagat Survey will...

MORE INFLATION WORRIES THIS WEEK

WHEN do investors have to start worrying again? Try this week. The impression on Wall Street is that everything will be hunky-dory until mid-May, when the Federal Reserve Board will...

FED REPORT SAYS NY MORE VULNERABLE TO CRASH

A stock-market crash would rip through New York City like a tornado and make the damage done by 1987's Black Monday look minor, according to New York Magazine. New York...

MONEY HONEY GETS FUNNY ... WITH JAY

SOME newswomen covering a serious subject like business would feel insulted to be known by the nickname "Money Honey," but CNBC's Maria Bartiromo thinks it's "endearing." Jay Leno asked her...

'THREE STOOGES' C'MON GET SLAPPY

"The Three Stooges" Tonight at 8 on WABC/Ch. 7 1/2 I FEEL like I've been waiting all my life for this night. And I know there are many other Three...

'LADY' SINGS BLUES

OUR LADY OF SLIGOIrish Repertory Theatre, 132 W. 22nd St. Until June 4. (212) 727-2737. A woman lies in a hospital bed. Only 53, she's terminally ill with cancer, and...

SIMPLE, MOVING FROM ANCIENT GREECE

THE ORESTEIAPearl Theatre, 80 St. Marks Place. Through May 28. (212) 598-9802. THE first great drama in the world is Aeschylus' "The Oresteia."Written in Athens in 458 B.C., it is...

CRUISER CONTROL HOT LITTLE CAR DRIVES FOLKS WILD

WE spent a night with the hottest model in town.The curves on this sexy little number make young men drool, women stare in envy and old folks remember when they...

THE STARR REPORT

Social significance It's been quite a year for "Judging Amy." Not only has the CBS freshman drama, starring Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly, threatened "NYPD Blue's" Tuesday-night dominance, but it's...

CLEAN CLOSETS MADE SIMPLE

SPRING turns a young man's fancy to love - and a young lady's to cleaning out the closet.Purging the woolly sweaters and making room for halter tops doesn't have to...

HOME, TREAT HOME: HOW YOUR PLACE CAN LOOK LIKE A MILLION FOR VERY LITTLE

WANT to create a haute-looking home on a beggar's budget? Help is on the way, thanks to Meg Braff and Robert K. Lindgren of Meg Braff Interiors. The Post accompanied...

RAPE SUSPECT NABBED

A Manhattan man on parole for the rest of his life for a drug offense was charged yesterday with attacking four women on the Upper East Side - two of...

'ABUSIVE' FEDS DRAW HEAT FROM EL DUQUE PITCHED IN YESTERDAY.

TORONTO - Yankee ace Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez - who fled Cuba by sea two years ago - yesterday called the U.S. government's abrupt return of Elian Gonzalez to his...

2 INCIDENTS THAT STILL HAUNT THE DEPARTMENT

These are the two most controversial NYPD "friendly fire" incidents: * In August 1994, black plainclothes Transit Officer Desmond Robinson was mistaken for a criminal and shot four times in...

NEW JORDAN KING MEETS WITH BARAK

EILAT, Israel - Jordan's new king paid his first state visit to Israel yesterday - and promptly urged a dual-capital solution for Jerusalem. "I believe on the political levels that...

'THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY' GRANNY PUTS IT IN PERSPECTIVE

MIAMI. IF THERE is anyone who reacted in horror at the frightened face of Elian Gonzalez during Friday morning's raid, it was his grandmother Mariela Quintana. "Of course, I didn't...

MORE ZIMBABWE FARMS INVADED

Black Zimbabweans, wielding guns and clubs, invaded another white-owned farm yesterday - the latest act of violence in a land dispute embroiling the African nation. Thousands of squatters have killed...

RENO WILL FACE LOTS OF QUESTIONS POLS WILL GRILL HER ON FLA. ELIAN RAID

WASHINGTON - Facing a blizzard of criticism, Attorney General Janet Reno will meet tomorrow with lawmakers who want more answers about the raid in which Elian Gonzalez was snatched from...

MIAMI MAYOR BLASTS FEDS AND HIS OWN POLICE CHIEF

The mayor of Miami said yesterday he had no advance warning of the feds' lighting raid to grab Elian Gonzalez - and blasted the city's police chief for keeping him...

WORLD WEIGHS IN ON MIAMI DRAMA

Across the world, newspapers seized on the shocking story - and photographs - of the weekend raid to seize Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives. The story, accompanied by the...

COUSINS: ELIAN'S DOPED, PIX ARE FAKE

The Miami family of Elian Gonzalez came to Washington with a bagful of fury and conspiracy theories - including allegations the boy is being drugged and that photos of him...

COMFORTING AGENT LAYS LOW AFTER RAID

WASHINGTON - The INS agent who carried Elian Gonzalez past demonstrators was in seclusion yesterday - for fear of retribution by groups who wanted him to remain with his Miami...

BILL AND JANET: THE DOUBLESPEAK TWINS

WHILE we all recognize that Janet Reno isn't the fastest ski on the slope, you have to hand it to her. She learns well from her master. The man who...

HEF'S DAUGHTER SEETHING OVER WIFE-BEATING 'JOKE'

Playboy was caught blushing after an April Fool's Day joke in one of its international editions backfired. Editors say an article titled "How to Beat Your Wife ... Without Leaving...

FIDEL BACK TO SAME OLD ANTI-U.S. RHETORIC

Cuba's one-day "truce" with the United States ended yesterday - Fidel Castro declared the reunion of Elian Gonzalez and his father changed nothing between the two countries. Asked what he...

HILL STILL WON'T PUT HER TWO CENTS IN BUT RUDY RIPS PREZ AS FIDEL COLLABORATOR

For the second day in a row, Hillary Rodham Clinton remained silent on the federal seizure of Elian Gonzalez - even as her Senate opponent Mayor Giuliani blasted the raid....

UNCOVERING SOLUTIONS TO A SPREADING PROBLEM

HANNES BOTHA is a menace to society. It was cold and rainy as usual the other day, and there was Botha prancing about - jacketless - underneath a Very Large...

'FRIENDLY FIRE' A BLACK-WHITE ISSUE WITH NYPD 'UNDERCOVERS'

On three frightening occasions during buy-and-bust operations, a white police supervisor pointed his gun at black Queens narcotics Detective Tim Wilson in the mistaken belief he was a dealer. The...

DAD, SON FROLIC IN THEIR SHELTER FROM THE STORM

Elian Gonzalez spent a quiet Easter with his father, feeding squirrels, scampering at a playground and watching cartoons - insulated from the debate still swirling outside. "Finally, they have some...

TOP CLERIC: POPE 'PRISONER OF HIS OWN BODY'

Pope John Paul II is suffering from a progressive paralysis that makes him "a prisoner of his own body," the archbishop of Paris said in an interview published yesterday. Cardinal...

JAILED SEX FIEND SUSPECTED OF SLAYING FOUR CHILDREN

Cops have uncovered evidence they hope will prove that a man behind bars for the 1987 slaying of a 12-year-old Staten Island girl is a serial killer who murdered at...

TWO HELD IN WAR-STATUE THEFT

Cops yesterday won a victory but lost the war - they arrested two suspects in the theft of a 1920s war-memorial statue worth $100,000, but after it was almost totally...

UNION WINS AS HOSP KOS AMBULANCE DEAL

MetroCare - the only for-profit ambulance company in the 911 system - has lost a lucrative 911 contract with Brookdale Hospital, The Post has learned. "The contract is canceled. We...

ON STREETS, THE FURY AND FRUSTRATION LINGER JUST BENEATH SURFACE

An uneasy calm returned to Miami's Little Havana neighborhood yesterday, the first full day in five months that Elian Gonzalez was not living with his relatives in the little house...

DONNA'S STAGE ROLE NO MODEL FOR A FIRST LADY

IT'S no secret that the mayor and his wife aren't close. So is Donna Hanover trying to embarrass Rudy by agreeing to appear in Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues?" Sure...

RANGEL'S $TAR ON THE RISE DEMS CASH IN ON HIS FUND-RAISING ABILITY

WASHINGTON - Rep. Charles Rangel, one of the first lawmakers to push Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate, is now angling to become the most powerful New Yorker - and African-American...

'CATWOMAN' HISSES AT 'LADY BIRD'

The 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...

IS ABSENTEE GOV ON THE WAY OUT?

GOV. PATAKI'S virtual abandonment of the state Capitol this year has produced a growing belief in state GOP circles that he won't seek re-election in 2002. GOP insiders say that...

LARRY WOULD BE IN LEAGUE OF HIS OWN

RECOGNIZING the risk of being extremely premature, the thought still does occur. If the Devils do win the Stanley Cup, Larry Robinson will become the greatest player ever to win...

NETS' CASEY STILL WAITING FOR AX TO FALL

The waiting game. If not today, then maybe tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then maybe Wednesday. And that's the situation in which Don Casey finds himself as he awaits the inevitable...

PIGGIE DOWNFALL COULD ROCK NCAA

FOR ALL the sustained but ineffectual lip service paid to cleansing Division I basketball, an extraordinary opportunity arose last week for the federal government, perhaps aided by truth-seekers in the...

YANKS LEFT SHORT WITH WATSON OUT

TORONTO - Allen Watson's injured right oblique muscle has the lefty reliever headed for the DL, which will clear a spot for Andy Pettitte's return from the shelf. Watson injured...

KNICKS ARE QUICK OUT OF THE BLOCKS

The playoffs are different. Over and over, that was the mantra used by the Knicks to discount the regular-season dominance by Toronto. It's a new day and all that. We...

LOOKS LIKE DERBY WON'T REACH LIMIT

Last week it looked as if a couple of dozen 3-year-olds would be entered for the Kentucky Derby and that the field would have to be scaled down to the...

CONE HASN'T BEEN DRIVEN TO DRINK YET

TORONTO - David Wells' remedy for what ails David Cone isn't something Cone will readily dismiss. However, the struggling righty made a mechanical adjustment yesterday in a rare bullpen session...

LJ'S SURGE IS SIGN OF THE TIMES

He has unfurled the "Big L" sign twice during the regular season, including two weeks ago when his illegitimate 3-pointer that Patrick Ewing illegally steered in beat the Pacers. Larry...

KNICKS PROVE RAPTORS ARE NOT IN-VINCE-IBLE : LJ'S TREY SAVES DAY AS CARTER IS A DUD

GAME 1 Knicks92 Raptors88 Vince Carter got the ball in the low right block early in the first quarter at the frenzied Garden, backing in on Latrell Sprewell. Carter flung...

MARCUS TO PLAINTIFF: YOU BLEEP!

This was Marcus Camby's version of an apology to Toronto's litigious coach Butch Carter. After Camby swooped down the lane for a driving layup early in the second period to...

BELL'S WELL WORTH THE TOLL TRADE RINGS TRUE FOR METS

EVER SINCE Bobby Valentine didn't talk about him at the Wharton School of Business, Derek Bell has dominated baseball games the way he did as a youth in Tampa, when...

HARD LESSON FOR YOUNG GUN

WELCOME to the real world, young Mr. Carter. The NBA you knew - the one of milk and honey and delicious dunks - disappeared yesterday at the Garden, replaced by...

7TH STRAIGHT IS NO CONTEST AMAZIN'S EXTEND STREAK WITH AN 18-HIT ASSAULT

Mets15 Cubs8 Finally, we are seeing the Mets that you thought could go to the World Series. Yesterday's 15-8 domination of the Cubs in front of a soggy 27,560 at...

SPREE VERY GOOD - AND THEN VERY LUCKY

He had done so much to point the way toward victory, done so much to make Vince Carter look like the playoff novice he is, done more than enough to...

PIAZZA FAST TO GET INTO SWING

Give him the award now. Don't even wait until the end of April because at this rate, Mike Piazza is going to own the month. He's already won Player of...

BOBBY V'S CALL UNANSWERED

The reason Bobby Valentine decided to take the lineup card to home plate Saturday to meet face-to-face with Cubs manager Don Baylor was because a more conventional way of communicating...

OAK SHOWS HE'S STILL A FORCE

You notice the hair, because that is all that has changed with Charles Oakley since he left the Knicks in 1998. With a do that's considerably longer and stringier than...

CHILDS HELPS JUST IN TIME

He had already hit his big shots, sticking it to a Raptors defense that dared him to fire away. He had done his part, but there was more to be...

RAPTORS BUOYED DESPITE LOSS

The Raptors can always expect a poor exchange rate coming to the U.S., but that doesn't usually include a 15-point first-quarter deficit. Nor does it usually include Vince Carter missing...

MCGRADY'S BIG 25 KEEP RAPTORS IN IT

The Knicks were not alone in being surprised by Tracy McGrady and his 25-point outburst yesterday. His coach couldn't believe it, either. "Tracy carried us through a bad spell [of...

YANKS FLIP POWER SWITCH : HISTORIC HRS FOR POSADA, WILLIAMS

TORONTO - The only thing missing was the keg of beer behind second base. Pick your reason why yesterday's Yankees-Blue Jays game at SkyDome had the look of a slow-pitch...

MAHOMES LIKELY TO SUB FOR REED

MET NOTES With Rick Reed still unable to catch a baseball because of his sprained left wrist and bruised hand, Pat Mahomes will oppose Darren Dreifort when the Mets and...