May 3, 2000
CARTER-WALLACE MUM - TRADING RAISES EYEBROWS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amIF you took a look at the activity in Carter-Wallace Inc.'s stock during the past few weeks, you'd be suspicious. But it's only after you try to talk with someone...
RETAILER H&M CALLS IN RESERVES FROM STOCKHOLM HQ
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amSwedish retailing juggernaut Hennes & Mauritz has shipped in temporary reinforcements of employees to deal with the crush of business at its new Fifth Avenue store which opened in March....
MA BELL TANKS - FORECAST GRIM; 6,200 JOBS TO GO
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amAT&T stock took its biggest hit since the crash of 1987 yesterday after CEO Michael Armstrong admitted that the company is not growing as fast as had been expected. The...
DOG DAY ON STREET AS NASDAQ FALLS 4 PERCENT
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe market went to the dogs yesterday, with rapidly falling stock prices after the Taco Bell Chihuahua rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The one-two punch...
CLIVE TAKES A DIVE - DAVIS GOES FOR NEW VENTURE AS REID GETS ARISTA
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amIt's official. After six months of intense back-door negotiations and highly public outcries of support and damnation, Clive Davis has been ousted from Arista Records. As The Post first reported...
NASD SLAPS 20G FINE ON E*TRADE FOR VIOLATIONS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amE*Trade, the online brokerage that loves thumbing its nose at Wall Street, has been fined $20,000 by the National Association of Securities Dealers for doing precisely that. In the first...
STARS & STRIPES 4 WEBBERS - SITE BUYS VETERAN PAPER TO ACCESS MILITARY MARKET
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe legendary Stars and Stripes newspaper is going to war again - this time on the Web. The military newspaper, launched in 1861 by four Union soldiers sacking a town...
MEN'S JOURNAL TAKES LITERARY BENT
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHE first refugee from the shutdown of Mirabella has landed quickly - Will Blythe will be joining Men's Journal as its first-ever literary editor. It's all part of Men's Journal...
MP3, RIAA SPINNING $100M SETTLEMENT
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amMP3.com is hoping to strike a deal with the world's largest record labels in an effort to keep on rockin.' Sources tell The Post the Recording Industry Association of America...
NAPSTER BOOTLEGGERS IDENTIFIED
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amMetallica is going to the mats. In the war on the music pirates, the heavy metal band has rooted out users who thought they were acting under the cloak of...
BEAR SIGHTING - PROFITS, TECHS DRAG DOW, NASDAQ LOWER
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe market went to the dogs yesterday, with rapidly falling stock prices after the Taco Bell Chihuahua rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The one-two punch...
HATS OFF TO INVITING, TASTY TOCQUEVILLE
May 3, 2000 | 4:00am'WE'VE reserved at Alain Ducasse," the woman in the tailored suit at the next table tells the waiter at Tocqueville. Then, as if it needed explaining, she adds: "We're going...
DIP INTO METSOVO & BASK IN ITS GLOW
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amON a recent drizzly night, Metsovo was just the place to be.From a flickering fireplace to candle-lit chandeliers to candles on the tables, the Upper West Side restaurant was gently...
STEIN & WONDERS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amIN 1933, at their modest house in rural France, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas passed an eerie, troubled summer. "That summer things happened," sings Stein in "Blood on the...
REGIS HAS SOLID DEAL FOR CLOTHES LINE
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amWHO wants to dress like the host of "Millionaire"? Even thousandaires can, now that Regis Philbin is coming out with a new line of solid-color dress shirts and coordinating silk...
BULLETS OVER B'WAY - SHUBERTS RIP STEWART'S 'MORGAN' ATTACK
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amIN what's turning out to be one of Broadway's greatest feuds, the powerful Shubert Organization yesterday declared war on Patrick Stewart, the outspoken star of Arthur Miller's "The Ride Down...
PIA, IT'S SO VERY GOOD TO SEE YA - A TV LEGEND SLIPS BACK ON THE SCREEN AFTER 4 YEARS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amFOUR years ago, Pia Lindstrom packed up and left home - or at least the one she'd lived in for 20 years - WNBC-TV. She did what very few women...
DR. LAURA CAN'T STOP TALKING
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amDR. Laura Schlessinger may be forced to talk about much more than just her new book on parenting as she embarks on a tour of TV talk shows today. The...
SIMS TAKES CHICK MARKET BY STORM
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Sims has gone where no other PC game has gone before - into the hearts and hard drives of women. Since The Sims came on the market in February,...
HED: THE PLANE TRUTH - AIRLINE MEALS CAN LAND YOU IN FAT CITY
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amFASTEN your seat belts: You're in for a fattening flight. And while no one expects much from airline food, it's astonishing just how much we do get - in terms...
LOW-CAL TIPS FOR HIGH FLYERS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amTO eat light on flights, see (MD+IT)www.efit.com/travel/ (MD-IT) for the special meals available at each airline, and consider the following tips: (-sbull-) If your flight is a short one --...
HIGH ANXIETY AT LOCKERBIE TRIAL - ARRIVING KIN FULL OF DREAD FOR OPENING
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amSOESTERBERG, The Netherlands - Susan Cohen said she was filled with "anxiety and dread" as she and other relatives of victims arrived here yesterday for the opening of the Pan...
HILLARY DOES RIGHT - RUDY SHOULD HAVE ZAPPED FULANI & BUCHANAN, TOO
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amIT was Hillary Clinton, and not Rudy Giuliani, who did the right thing at last weekend's Independence Party forum. It's hard to believe that Hillary's motive was anything other than...
HAIRBRAINED EMPLOYERS ARE BIASED VS. BALDIES
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amGet ready to flip your wigs, guys - two new studies say balding men have less chance of getting the jobs they want than those with a full head of...
FOR THE MILLIONAIRE ROAD WARRIOR - WOW 'EM AT TRUCK STOPS WITH A 250G LUXURY COACH
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amIt may not fit that precious parking space, and at 10 miles per gallon, it sets new standards for gas guzzling, but the Kingsley Camelot - all 10 wheels of...
MORE TEARS FOR 9TH SLAIN CABBY
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amFellow livery drivers yesterday said their final farewell to Saro Manuel Lopez, the ninth tragic victim in the city's rash of brutal cabby killings. During a solemn and tearful funeral...
END YOUR CAPTIVITY & RIP OUT THE CABLE
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amUNTIL they took away our Regis, we hadn't a clue how vulnerable we'd become. TV is something my generation doesn't really need, but simply cannot live without. Like caffeine, hair...
HILL'S PARENTING LESSON: YOU BE A FINE EXAMPLE
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton, sitting not far from where her hubby had his fling with Monica Lewinsky, yesterday chided parents who don't practice what they preach. "People think that...
APPOINTING LEVY WOULD BE A POETIC INJUSTICE
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amI AM seriously worried that Harold Levy, our front-runner to be the chancellor of the Board of Education, is playing pingpong with a bowling ball. In one fell swoop, he...
'BULL'S' BUST LETS SUSPECT OFF HOOK
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amFederal prosecutors yesterday dropped charges against a shadowy Serb accused of rigging John Gotti's 1987 trial - because mob turncoat Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano's legal woes left them without a...
BABA MAY SAY BYE-BYE TO SOME ABC SHOWS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amYou may see a lot less of network news diva Barbara Walters on TV next year. Walters, who has anchored "20/20" since 1984, reportedly may scale back her work at...
PIRRO'S HUBBY TO JOIN OWN DEFENSE
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe accused tax-cheat husband of Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro will act as a lawyer on his high-powered legal team, newly filed papers reveal. Albert Pirro, who is fighting charges...
RENO TELLS OPRAH: NO REGRETS ON ELIAN RAID
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amAttorney General Janet Reno said yesterday she has "no regrets" over the armed raid to snatch 6-year-old refugee Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives. "I've been over...
'THE PARTY'S' OVER IN B'KLYN COKE RAID
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amFeds smashed a drug-dealing ring believed to be the longest-running in the city - arresting 15 people and seizing 2,500 pounds of cocaine and $730,000 in cash, officials said yesterday....
CAP ON CITY BORROWING THREATENS PUBLIC WORKS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Billions of dollars in school, hospital and other construction projects are at risk unless the state acts to increase the city's debt limits, The Post has learned. "This...
RIKERS' 'HOUDINI' CON BUSTED - SLICK TALKER CHARGED IN 40G SCAM
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amA cunning con man with a knack for breaking out of prisons was busted again yesterday - this time charged with using a phone at Rikers Island to scam $40,000...
BUCHANAN HAILS HIS CRITIC RUDY
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amReform Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan yesterday shrugged off criticism from Mayor Giuliani, warmly praising him and indicating he wouldn't mind sharing the party's ticket with the mayor. "I admire...
CRIME SHOOTS UP TO '93 LEVEL IN BX. PRECINCT
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amCrime may be down again citywide, but overall statistics have inched up in one Bronx precinct, where the number of shootings is back up to 1993 levels. NYPD brass use...
SATELLITE FIRMS DISH OUT ; AN ALTERNATIVE
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amSatellite-TV and rival cable companies were licking their chops yesterday at the chance to signal disgruntled Time Warner customers that they could tune in to new options. Time Warner put...
WORKER PROPELLED TO HIS DEATH FROM MANHATTAN BR.
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amA 40-year-old painter was blown off the Manhattan Bridge yesterday by a high-powered blast of air from his paint gun, cops said. Antonio Pedro - a married father of two...
NEW TEST SCANDAL ROCKS SCHOOLS - 9 TEACHERS COACHED KIDS, PROBER SAYS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amTeachers have found new ways to help students cheat on high-stakes tests in the latest round of scandals to rock city schools, Schools Investigator Edward Stancik charged yesterday. Stancik's office...
STATE BUDGET GETS GREEN LIGHT
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - State lawmakers today are expected to begin passing a new $77.5 billion budget that will increase spending by three times the rate of inflation. Gov. Pataki and legislative...
8 IN RUNNING TO BE CITY CHANCELLOR
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amInterim Schools Chancellor Harold Levy, the front-runner, is facing competition for the job of permanent chancellor. The Board of Education is considering seven others who have applied for the job:...
TIGER EARNS HIS STRIPES WITH THE STRIKING MEMBERS OF AD-ACTOR UNION
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amHe's teed off - and now Tiger Woods just won't do it. Showing solidarity with striking commercial actors, the young golfing great balked yesterday at crossing the picket line to...
REV. FLAKE PICKS ED. BIZ OVER MAYOR BID
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe Rev. Floyd Flake will announce today that he will head a private firm that specializes in running public schools - and not run for mayor, sources said yesterday. Flake...
VIEQUES PROTESTERS BRACE FOR FED 'INVASION'
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amVIEQUES, Puerto Rico - Protesters blocking the Navy bombing range here dug their heels into the sand yesterday and said federal agents will have to arrest them before they'll leave....
RUDY'S MYSTERY BRUNCH PAL IS UPPER EAST SIDE DIVORCEE
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amHere's the first look at the mystery woman who's been spotted dining quietly with Mayor Giuliani. A Post photographer snapped Hizzoner and the woman coming out of Hanratty's on Madison...
WHY ARE THEY RUSHIN' FROM THE TEA ROOM? - STAFFERS ARE DEFECTING AS EATERY'S CHIEF CHEF IS PURGED
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S synonymous with celebrity: power lunches and deals over dinner, champagne, caviar and crimson leather excess - all elevated to a faux art form. But behind the scenes at the...
ETHICS PANEL OKS PATAKI'S HUNGARY TRIPS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Two trips Gov. Pataki took to Hungary at the expense of private groups raise "ethical concerns," but were not illegal, the state Ethics Commission ruled yesterday. The governor...
CRIME SHOOTS UP IN THE BRONX' 52ND PCT.
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amCrime may be down again citywide, but overall statistics have inched up in one Bronx precinct where the number of shootings is back up to 1993 levels. NYPD brass use...
RESEARCHERS HAIL NEW PROSTATE-CANCER DRUG
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amMen with advanced prostate cancer face the grim prospect of chemical or surgical castration to treat their disease - but a new option is equally effective, a new study shows....
LEHMAN ACE KEEPS PULLING PUNCH-OUTS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amKevin Anza has a considerable amount of talent in his right hand. The ability to throw a punch with it, however, is not his strong suit. Fortunately, he intends to...
SNUCK IN WILL WAIT - FAST WORKOUT POINTS COLT TO THE PREAKNESS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Two similar workouts over a wet-fast track produced very different results yesterday morning at Churchill Downs.Captain Steve put a smile on trainer Bob Baffert's face, sizzling five furlongs...
NAKATANI LOOKING TO JUMP?
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Jockey Corey Nakatani tried to get the mount on Aptitude for Saturday's Kentucky Derby even though he's named to ride Anees, Aptitude's trainer Bobby Frankel said yesterday. "He...
ROSE IS HOPING 'HAL' HAS ENOUGH
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The Kentucky Derby is the great romantic legend of the turf in part because so many humble men and women, aflame with the dream, embark on a storied...
LEAFS NEED TIE TO GET PLAYOFFS KNOTTED
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amThere are no ties in the playoffs, and to the Devils' delight, there has been very little Tie in this series. That may change when the Leafs try to square...
HALL CALLS KRONE, DRYSDALE
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Former jockey Julie Krone and trainer Neil Drysdale, who's running Fusaichi Pegasus and War Chant in Saturday's Kentucky Derby, were named yesterday as the next members of the...
PURLOIN A PRINT, TAG UNLIMITED FISH
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHE fisheries conservation organization FISH Unlimited is offering to the public a limited number of its 500-print edition, "For Tomorrow." This powerful work, painted by the noted Ducks Unlimited artist...
RANGERS COULD LEARN FROM HOW DEVILS DO IT
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amSTEPHANE Yelle, the very important Colorado checking center? Drafted in 1992 by the Devils. Todd Reirden, the big St. Louis defenseman? Drafted in 1990 by the Devils. Not to mention...
LEADERS GASPING, CHOKING TO THE END
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - The very moment when the reward for seven months worth of hard work appears to have been earned is typically when the choke takes its fatal hold. And...
XFL PLANNING TO SHOW 'EM - WATCH FOR END-ZONE DANCES, MEAN UNIFORMS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amFOOTBALL fans worrying that the debut of Vince McMahon's XFL pro gridiron league next February will bring with it a style of play so foreign to NFL fans that it...
GENO'S HUNCH: HUSKIES WILL BE CHAMPS AGAIN WINGED FOOT-WINNER.
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amConnecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma, who led the Husky women to the NCAA title this winter, was at the New York Athletic Club yesterday to receive the Winged Foot...
IN-CONTROL DEVILS STAYING FOCUSED
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amThey know a few things, these Devils. They know exactly where tonight could launch them, yet they also know they must not yet dream. All the prohibited visions are so...
TRIO ADDS UP TO ZERO
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe line's been crossed. Actually, erased. One of hockey's most dangerous offensive trios this season, Steve Thomas, Mats Sundin and Jonas Hoglund have been held without a point (a point!)...
EWING: I'M BETTER THAN ZO - PATRICK BOASTS THAT HE'S STILL BEST CENTER IN EAST
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amIt probably was Patrick Ewing's immense ego getting the best of him. Or maybe Ewing was tossing the first psychological dart during the preseries hype for Knicks-Heat IV. The 37-year-old...
SKEPTICAL KNICKS SET TO TAKE ON HARDAWAY
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe Knicks don't believe it. They don't believe Miami starting point guard Tim Hardaway won't be ready Sunday for the 12:30 p.m. second-round tipoff, although it's looking that way. Hardaway...
SAHADI CHASING HER-STORY - TRAINER MAY BE FIRST FEMALE TO WIN DERBY
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Where Julie Krone has been, Jenine Sahadi is hoping to go. Krone, whose election to the Racing Hall of Fame was announced at Churchill Downs yesterday, is the...
HARDAWAY HOPEFUL
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK PLAYOFF NOTES On Monday, Miami's Tim Hardaway walked away in a huff when asked about his playing status for Sunday's opener of the Knicks-Heat second-round playoff series. Yesterday, he...
HEAT ARE MERE BUMP IN ROAD
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHE way the Heat danced in celebration after their freakish regular-season win in their last meeting with the Knicks, you would have thought Miami had won the NBA championship. "We...
ULUTAS A LEADER FOR LAFAYETTE
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amLafayette 7 - FDR 2 Before yesterday's contest with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lafayette coach Wayne Matus lamented that his players occasionally forget how to play with one another as a...
STRAW CHECKS HIMSELF BACK INTO REHAB: SOURCE
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Troubled Yankee slugger Darryl Strawberry checked himself back into rehab on Monday - entering an undisclosed drug and alcohol treatment center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., according to a...
SUBS EASE CHUCK'S PAIN
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Hitting coach Chris Chambliss made so many changes to the Yankees' original lineup sheet yesterday that by the end it looked more like one of those inkblots a...
SORE HAND MAY LAND KNOBLAUCH ON DL
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEVELAND - Chuck Knoblauch was scratched by Joe Torre 90 minutes before the start of the Yankees' 4-2 win over the Indians at Jacobs Field last night and...
BOMBERS 'ROLE' ON - FILL-INS & ANDY TOPPLE INDIANS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amYankees4Indians2 CLEVELAND - George Steinbrenner is expected to be on hand tonight at Jacobs Field when the team he owns attempts to bury the club he grew up loving. When...
HAMILTON OPTS FOR TOE SURGERY; OUT 3-8 WEEKS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Darryl Hamilton - who has been on the disabled list with a sprained left foot since April 7 - said yesterday he will undergo surgery...
IT WASN'T RUSCH HOUR - GIANTS HAMMER GLENDON & METS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Glendon Rusch deserves a mulligan for last night's performance. He's earned one because he's thrown better than anyone could have reasonably expected this season. When Mets GM...
NO CHUCK A BIG LOSS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - More than any season, Chuck Knoblauch had looked forward to this one. He was so anxious to test drive a body he had refined during daily off-season workouts...
ANOTHER GREAT ESCAPE - RIVERA, YANKS DODGE A BULLET
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - If, as Branch Rickey once said, luck is the residue of design, the Yankees must be spending a lot of time at the drawing board. How else can...
HAMPTON PLAYS HEAD GAME - AMAZIN' LEFTY LOOKS INWARD TO FIGHT FUNK
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - GM Steve Phillips watched as the man he acquired to lead the Mets to the World Series attacked a water cooler last Friday in Colorado. Mike Hampton...
HAMILTON OPTS FOR SURGERY; OUT 4-8 WEEKS
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Darryl Hamilton has decided to have surgery on his ailing left big toe, and the Mets said yesterday that they expected the outfielder to miss...
NETS HIGH ON 'OTHER' JORDAN
May 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe Nets want a director of basketball operations in place before they name the successor to Don Casey. But the coach just may be in place already. The name of...