May 4, 2000

BEARS IN CHARGE:AT&T MELTDOWN SETS TONE FOR MARKETS

Shareholders are sending a clear message to corporate management: Miss your profits, and we will kill you. AT&T plummeted again yesterday, after crashing 14 percent on Tuesday, when it said...

NASDAQ'S BIG DEAL LOOKING LIKE A EURO-YAWN

Frank Zarb's much-hyped European venture started out with a bang but ended yesterday with a whimper. The chairman of the Nasdaq set out several months ago to change the way...

LOTTA NEW PRADA: BEAUTY LINE IS SET FOR FALL LAUNCH

Fashionistas, be forewarned. Italian fashion powerhouse Prada is set to launch a new line of cosmetics and perfume by the fall. At a press conference at its Amsterdam headquarters, Prada...

BIG-DEAL E-TAILER BOO IS THRU ...

Say bye-bye to Boo.com - at least in its current incarnation. The six month-old fashion and sportwear site is up for sale and could be shut down if there is...

THE NEW YORKER'S BACK ON TOP

The National Magazine Awards seemed to mimic the stock market of late, as they shunned many of the new, upstart, independent titles that dominated last year's show and showered awards...

METALLICA RATS OUT DOWNLOAD SCHEMERS

Heavy-metal band Metallica named names yesterday - giving the online music service Napster a 60,000-page list of cyberfans who have been trading pirated tunes over the Internet. Drummer Lars Ulrich...

AWARDS WITH TAKE-OUT FOR CARTER AND FLORIO

Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter worried that he was having a bad hair day as he accepted two National Magazine Awards - but he was not going to have a...

... AND IT'S HELPING TO SINK DANENBERG, TOO

Downtown designer Rebecca Danenberg is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy - and Boo.com is partially to blame. "Everything's been turned over to the lawyers. I can't go any further," President...

LIBERAL BIGS CROSS PICKETS FOR GABFEST

Workers of the world unite and show your solidarity - or don't, if it's inconvenient. Some of the best-known liberals in New York crossed picket lines at the Museum of...

CDNOW SEES A PARTNER AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

Embattled 'Net music seller CDNow is close to finding a life-saving partner. CDNow, whose shares have fallen 90 percent from their high of $39.25, said yesterday that it expects to...

MEDIA SUMMIT SHOWS WHICH SIDE THEY'RE ON

Some of the best-known liberals in New York crossed picket lines at the Museum of Modern Art yesterday to address New Media types gathered for the Media Summit conference. Speakers...

KEEPING KIDS SAFE ON THE ROAD

EVERY year, more than 1,800 children under the age of 14 die in automobile accidents in the United States and another 280,000 are injured. One-third of those deaths and injuries...

FEEL FREE TO KISS OFF 'SPIN THE BOTTLE'

SPIN THE BOTTLEA nerd-turned-hunk (Holter Graham) invites former childhood pals for a weekend reunion in Vermont in this micro-budgeted variation on "The Big Chill."Running time: 86 minutes. Not rated. At...

MIGHTY GOOD FUN

MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONESLIKE Blackbeard raising the Jolly Roger as his pirate's calling card, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones unfurled their spiked-collar Bulldog banner as their concert's backdrop at Irving Plaza Tuesday...

THE STARR REPORT

Radio daze at 11 Ch. 11's "The Radio Divas" series is setting off a barrage of on-air politicking from the profilees - and nearly clogging the station's website. Ch. 11's...

'DOOR' WON'T OPEN

'THUNDER Knocking on the Door" - a new off-Broadway musical scheduled to begin previews next week - was scrapped yesterday because of a furious row between the show's producers and...

KISS STIRS 'BUFFY' FANS

FANS of the hit teen show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" were buzzing yesterday about a lesbian relationship between two popular characters. After several weeks of hinting at it, Buffy's best...

IMAGINE YOU ARELIVING IN 1900; TV WAS NEVER LIKE THIS IN QUEEN VICTORIA'S DAY

PBS is climbing on the hidden-camera bandwagon with an imported miniseries featuring a house-bound family caught in a time warp. The Victorian Era adventures of the Bowler family of Taunton,...

KATHIE LEE'S PAIN WAS A 'COMPLIMENT'

KATHIE Lee Gifford says she wanted to kill hubby Frank Gifford after his tryst with an airline stewardess - but that he should take that as a "compliment." "The deeper...

IT'S A MAN'S WORLD FOR ACTRESS NIELSEN

CONNIE Nielsen didn't mind being the only female with a major role on the virtually all-male set of "Gladiator." "I felt very comfortable with it," she says of filming with...

ROMAN EYES & ROVIN' HANDS ; ANCIENT EMPIRE'S DIRTY SECRETS

BEHEADINGS, immolations and impalings aside, "Gladiator" serves up a pretty sanitized view of the decadent days of the Roman Empire, circa 180 A.D. In fact, if the history books are...

SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE D.; DOCUMENTARY REVEALS A FLAWED HERO BEHIND THE PINSTRIPE WALL OF SILENCE

"The American ExperienceJoe DiMaggio: TheHero's Life" Monday at 9 p.m. on WNET/Ch. 13 JOE DiMaggio is a guy thing. I once went to a black-tie baseball writers dinner where every...

MOVIES ON THE 'NET: MY 56K MODEMBOMBS OUT

Is it worth watching movies over the Internet? Here, New York Pulse cyber-columnist Mary Huhn and film critic Lou Lumenick give decidedly different answers. I WAS considering inviting the girls...

MOVIES ON THE 'NET: WEB FILMS GET THUMBS UP FROM POST FILM CRITIC

Is it worth watching movies over the Internet? Here, New York Pulse cyber-columnist Mary Huhn and film critic Lou Lumenick give decidedly different answers. WATCHING movies on the web will...

ZIMBABWE PREZ: WHITES SHOULD LEAVE

Zimbabwe's president said he wants to seize half the country's white-owned farmland - and told whites they were free to leave. Robert Mugabe brushed aside international criticism of his handling...

FILIPINO MUSLIM REBELS KILL 4 HOSTAGES

A Filipino priest and three teachers were shot to death execution-style and five other hostages were wounded yesterday when Philippine troops surprised Muslim rebels who had been holding the captives...

COLD WAR SPY PILOT HONORED

America's most famous spy has finally received posthumous military honors - 40 years after he was unmasked by the Russians in a Cold War shocker. pilot Francis Gary Powers was...

MA$TER OF HIS DOMAIN - SEINFELD TO SPEND $7M REMAKING L.I. LOVE NEST

THE Hamptons' newest land baron, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and his pregnant wife, Jessica Sklar, are getting ready to renovate their cute little $30 million love nest on tony Further Lane....

$17 BILLION OK'D FOR ROADWORK

Albany lawmakers yesterday unveiled a $17.1 billion plan to improve roads and highways, including a $40 million high-tech project to speed traffic on the city's busiest expressways. The five-year plan...

JUDGE MADE RACIAL DEAL ON CROWN HEIGHTS JURY

A Brooklyn judge made a secret deal with lawyers to add a black and a Jew to the jury deciding a racially explosive slay trial involving the Crown Heights riots,...

HEVESI: DOUBLING DEBT CAP NOT THE ANSWER

ALBANY - City Comptroller Alan Hevesi said yesterday a Giuliani-administration plan to deal with pending debt problems could hurt the city's financial future. Hevesi agrees with the administration that the...

HIS WEALTH COULDN'T BUY HIM INVINCIBILITY - BANK SCION'S DEATH AN APPARENT OD AFTER WILD NIGHT OF PARTYING

AT 23, Raphael de Rothschild - scion of one of the world's richest families - thought he was invincible. But fate proved him wrong on a chilly Saturday afternoon two...

DORISMOND KIN SET $100M SUIT VS. CITY

The family of Patrick Dorismond filed notice yesterday of a $100 million lawsuit against the city, the mayor, the NYPD, and the officer who killed the unarmed man. "This is...

NEW DELAY IN GORE FUNNY-$ PROBE

WASHINGTON - The White House now says it won't finish searching its missing e-mails until after the November election, a delay that could help Veep Al Gore escape funny-money woes....

HOW SPORTS-NUT KID FOUND HIGHER CALLING

John Cardinal O'Connor washed the hair and emptied the bedpans of AIDS patients too sick to know who he was. But he also barred gay Catholics from a Chelsea church...

RUDY: QUIT SHUTTERBUGGIN' MY 'VERY GOOD FRIEND'

A protective Mayor Giuliani tried to shield his "very good friend" Judith Nathan yesterday, insisting the attractive brunette should be left alone. "You would like to have a lot more...

HOSPITALIZED LIZA BATTLES DOUBLE PNEUMONIA

Liza Minnelli is hospitalized and battling pneumonia, The Post has learned. The Oscar-winning star - who abruptly canceled her national tour of "Minnelli on Minnelli" - is in serious but...

GOP NEWT-ERS DEMS IN FIGHT FOR THE HOUSE

COME back, Newt, please, pretty please. Democrats miss you. They need you. They're desperately seeking a new villain - but they just can't find another Darth Vader in Republican-land. Last...

WORKER KILLED IN BX. ROOF COLLAPSE

A worker was killed and another narrowly escaped death yesterday when the roof of a one-story Bronx garage collapsed, burying them in rubble. The Department of Buildings was investigating whether...

LEVY PLANS TO FLUNK DECEPTIVE TESTING

Interim Schools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday he's looking to scrap a method of testing that he blasted for masking how well students perform. Levy said he's a critic of...

HILL'S PITCH: 'MORE THAN A FIRST LADY' - LAUNCHING HER INITIAL STATEWIDE TV AD BLITZ

Senate cand idate Hillary Rodham Clinton today is launching her first statewide television ad - which promotes her as "more than a first lady." The 30-second spot, produced by the...

NEW DETAILS ON LAURA'S CRASH

A newly released accident report says Laura Bush, the wife of Texas Gov. George W. Bush, ran a stop sign in the 1963 car crash that killed her high-school sweetheart....

DREAMERS BLAZE PATH TO JERSEY FOR $200M BIG GAME

Big Game lottery fever is running high in the Big Apple as droves of New Yorkers cross the Hudson to buy into a $200 million dream in New Jersey. Teddy...

'HE'S GONE, BUT I KNOW HE'S IN HEAVEN'

A day of prayers gave way to a night of mourning as New Yorkers learned of John Cardinal O'Connor's death. Manhattan resident Danielle Dehart came by St. Patrick's Cathedral and...

LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU AGAIN SOME DAY, DEAR FRIEND

WE WILL just have to postpone that meeting for a little while because his appointment is with a higher authority. Now, as the Almighty ushers him into His house, it...

3 RECALL THEIR SPECIAL FRIEND - A BARBER, A NUN & A WOUNDED COP

Catholic New Yorkers today are remembering how John Cardinal O'Connor touched their lives. Here are the stories of a man who will cherish the memories of his monthly meetings with...

WHO'LL NEXT LEAD ARCHDIOCESE?

The head of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn. - once a right-hand man to John Cardinal O'Connor - is a leading candidate to succeed his ex-boss as leader of the...

HE EMBRACED THEM, IF NOT THEIR POLITICS

While some churchmen are recalled as political kingmakers, John Cardinal O'Connor is remembered more as a peacemaker by public officials of widely differing views. "He and I didn't agree on...

CARDINAL O'CONNOR GOES 'HOME TO GOD' - NEW YORK'S BELOVED CARDINAL DEAD AT 80

John Cardinal O'Connor died peacefully at home last night, surrounded by loved ones, after a grueling nine-month battle with cancer. "The cardinal has completed his earthly journey and gone home...

SURVIVORS RELIVE KENT ST. HORROR 30 YEARS LATER

When the smoke finally lifted shortly after noon 30 years ago today, four students at Kent State University lay dead and nine others were wounded. Americans were no longer shooting...

KENDRA'S KILLER TO PLEAD FOR MERCY

Schizophrenic subway pusher Andrew Goldstein is expected to plead for leniency at his Manhattan murder sentencing today. He'll be outnumbered. Three family members of his victim - beautiful aspiring screenwriter...

ROOF COLLAPSE KILLS BX. WORKER

One worker was killed and another narrowly escaped death yesterday when the roof of a one-story Bronx garage collapsed, burying them in rubble. The Department of Buildings was investigating whether...

UH, OWE! ANOTHER NEW WOE FOR PUFFY

Companies and crew members who worked on Sean "Puffy" Combs' European tour are still waiting to get paid - a month after the final show, The Post has learned. A...

KNICKERS IN A KNOT OVER 'PANTY' VIDEO GAME

A soon-to-be-released video game - in which the player's goal is to strip supermodels down to their underwear - is under fire from women's groups. "Panty Raider: From Here to...

HIS BARBER REMEMBERS HIM AS A CUT ABOVE

Not every New Yorker had New York's archbishop visit him once a month to sip espresso, joke in Italian - and pay him for his time. But Antonio Cartolano of...

ANXIOUS FAMILIES HERE VIEW TRIAL ON TV

For 50 somber New York-area residents, the most riveting TV show in town yesterday wasn't "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" or the season finale of "Party of Five." It...

VICTIMS' KIN IN TEARS AT SIGHT OF PAN AM 103 DEFENDANTS

CAMP VAN ZEISTE, Netherlands - Anguished families of the victims of the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie bombing wept yesterday as they came face to face for the first time with...

SPECIAL-ED TEACHER SUSPECTED OF BEING HEROIN ADDICT

School officials are trying to find out if they have an elementary school teacher in Brooklyn who's a junkie with a seven-bag-a-day heroin habit and gets high during lunch periods....

DOC: PUBLICITY WILL FRIGHTEN AWAY JUNKIES

A hospital's bid to release the medical records of an allegedly heroin-addicted teacher may have a "chilling effect" on others seeking treatment, some experts say. The teacher is called "Jane...

NEW YORK POLS PRESSURE PREZ OVER VIEQUES

New York political leaders stepped up pressure on President Clinton yesterday to find a peaceful solution to the standoff on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, where protesters have shut...

VALLONE SAYS CABLE GIANT OWES VIEWERS - BIG TIME

The president of Time Warner Cable tried without success yesterday to convince the City Council to delay a hearing into its 39-hour blackout of ABC. After meeting with cable chief...

FCC WALLOPS 'WARNER' FOR 'SWEEPING' OUT ABC

The federal government yesterday said Time Warner was the bad guy in this week's ABC blackout in New York, Los Angeles and five other cities. In a terse ruling, the...

DONALD: NEW GUGGENHEIM IS 'JUNKYARD' ART

ABSTRACT: Donald Trump has come out swinging against the Guggenheim Museum's plan to build a new branch in the Financial District. The billionaire developer said the museum's idea for a...

NEWS BRINGS OUTPOURING OF PRAYERS AND PRAISE

ABSTRACT: The mood was grim at St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday as parishioners - New Yorkers and tourists alike - prayed for John Cardinal O'Connor.

STOPPER SPREWELL SETS SIGHTS ON MASH

He has been called so many things during an often turbulent career, but here is a label he relishes and embraces. Latrell Sprewell is Latrell Stopper. "I love it," he...

N.Y. RALLIES 'ROUND FALLEN RIDER

A foundation to aid exercise rider Mariana Makarova during her recovery from injury has been established by her friends in the thoroughbred racing industry, including those at the New York...

APTITUDE POURS IT ON

LOUISVILLE - Trainer Bobby Frankel's Aptitude has won a single race in his short career, but the long-winded son of A.P. Indy was already the "wise guy" horse for Saturday's...

NO LOBO YET, BUT LIBERTY HIT CAMP CONFIDENTLY

Like their fellow Garden tenants, the Liberty have gotten used to long stretches without their star post player. Rebecca Lobo injured her knee one minute into last season and they...

VG'S KNICKSHARDLY LIKEPAT'S KNICKS

KNICK NOTES Although it seems as if the same old Knicks have been chasing the same elusive title, there has nearly been a complete overhaul since the days when Pat...

HARDAWAY SWEATS IT OUT

BOCA RATON - The latest updates yesterday on the health of Heat guard Tim Hardaway sounded like something from an "I Love Lucy" sketch. Hardaway, remember, is the guy whom...

MASH HEALTHY & HAPPY

BOCA RATON - This time, Jamal Mashburn vows, will be different. Yeah, right. Haven't we heard this before? Two years ago, Mashburn waded into the Knicks' playoff defense with a...

JETS SACK LEWIS WITH 1-YEAR DEAL

The Jets yesterday signed linebacker Mo Lewis with hopes that he'll return to working out with the team in the offseason conditioning program and attend the veteran minicamp May 23-25....

TWO BOMBS WITH A SHOT

LOUISVILLE - One of the great financial gurus of the 20th century, George Soros, once advised, "If you want to make money, discount the obvious and bet the unexpected." My...

STRAW DIDN'T VIOLATE PAROLE

CLEVELAND - Darryl Strawberry checking back into a drug and alcohol treatment center Monday wasn't done because the former Yankee slugger had violated terms of his parole and was in...

VAN GUNDY: TIME IS NOW -SAYS THIS IS KNICKS' 'BEST CHANCE' FOR TITLE

The climb is ongoing, but how long can it last? As close as they've come in reaching for but not attaining a championship, the Knicks must confront a certain reality:...

RILEY SEES TITLE FOR THE TAKING

HEAT PLAYOFF NOTEBOOK BOCA RATON - The king is dead. And now just about anyone can ascend to the throne. That's Pat Riley's take on the hunt for the NBA...

DIPLOMATIC ZO TAKES HIGH ROAD

BOCA RATON - The gauntlet was thrown down by Patrick Ewing to Heat counterpart Alonzo Mourning. "I'm better than you. I'm the man. You're garbage." OK, so it wasn't quite...

ROWE WALKS OFF INTO NETS' SUNSET

BOCA RATON - Michael Rowe "resigned" his position as Nets team president and will accept a position running the team's proposed facility in Newark, the YankeeNets group announced yesterday. Right,...

BIG FAVORITE IS 'OUTSIDER'

LOUISVILLE - Fusaichi Pegasus was made the heavy 9-5 morning-line favorite when the maximum field of 20 horses selected post positions last evening for Saturday's Kentucky Derby, despite landing way...

YA GOTTA LOVE LATRELL ; CHANGE OF HEART FOR A KNICK HERO

OF course, Latrell Sprewell was misunderstood. New York never completely understood just how good a player he really is. It wasn't until the first few times he went through a...

TRAP'S A BLAST FROM THE PAST

They finally have uttered that four-letter word, the hated trademark of the Devils. And they are proud to have worked The Trap to their best playoff since they won the...

XAVERIAN'S RENNA STEPS UP BIG TIME

Xaverian 7 St. Francis 4 When Xaverian won the city championship last year, almost all of the credit went to its stud pitcher, Ruddy Lugo, who was then taken in...

GIANTS SIGN 2

The Giants yesterday signed two more first-year players, fullback Dawud Rasheed and receiver/kick returner Kevin Prentiss. Rasheed (5-10, 226) played at Duke and Prentiss (5-7, 160) was the leading receiver...

CHAMPS ARE RELENTESS

CLEVELAND - The Yankees stink. OK, that is extreme. But we keep talking about all the weaknesses they have. Yet, they have an AL-best 18-8 record anyway. What does that...

DEVILS BLOW IT AND THEY KNOW IT ; KICK SELVES AFTER LEAFS EVEN SERIES

GAME 4 Maple Leafs 3 Devils 2 Squandering prosperity relentlessly, the Devils threw away everything last night, especially ownership of this series. There is rubble to clear, left and right,...

CUJO VU! DRYDEN SEES ANOTHER STEAL

WHEN the game ended in his team's favor despite it having been outplayed by a decisive margin over the final two periods, the old goaltender who is now president of...

CLAUDE BREAKS DROUGHT:TYING GOAL SPARKS HOPE

This was classic Claude Lemieux, right out of the 1995 playoffs. A dramatic game-tying goal late in the third period, sure to give the Devils the necessary momentum to take...

RIVERA CAN'T GET TO FIRST ON PACT EXTENSION

YANK NOTES CLEVELAND - Not having much conversation with the Yankees' front office about a contract extension since losing at the arbitration table in spring training, Mariano Rivera decided to...

JAKE, RATTLE & ROLL: BOMBERS FIGHT BACK FOR SWEEP OF TRIBE

Yankees 6 Indians 5 CLEVELAND - The lucky horseshoe that has played a huge part in the Yankees' quick getaway from the AL East gate worked its magic again last...

HAMPTON + TURK = DISASTER

11 Innings Giants 8 Mets 5 SAN FRANCISCO - After yesterday's 8-5 11-inning loss to the Giants, Bobby Valentine and first baseman Todd Zeile thought that the umpires had made...

RICKEY TO GM: CAN WE TALK?

MET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Rickey Henderson requested a meeting with GM Steve Phillips before last night's game with the Giants. The request came a day after Henderson was taken...

ACES UP FOR YANKS

CLEVELAND - The Yankee signature does not begin in left field or with the DH. It does not begin with the depth of the bench or the brilliance of a...

IN TODD THEY TRUST: PRATT'S EARNED RESPECT FROM PIAZZA AND METS

SAN FRANCISCO - The other day Mike Piazza had a brainstorm. Piazza owns a pretty good sense of humor, so he came up with a plan. You see Todd Pratt...

TAKIN' IT FROM THE TOP: YANKS HOPE LEADOFF WILL BE RX FOR LEDEE

CLEVELAND - Thick fastballs thrown early, middle and late in the count. Ask any hitter what he thinks about seeing heaters and the smile is hard to conceal. Now, with...

QUINN RALLIES TROOPS: LEAFS DIG DEEP AFTER MEETING

Worried about the prospect of joining Vince Carter and the Raptors for an early summer vacation in Toronto, crusty Maple Leafs coach Pat Quinn held a motivational team meeting Tuesday...

TRAP A BLAST FROM PAST FOR DEVILS: MIX STRONG FORECHECK WITH LEMAIRE'S CUP STRATEGY

They finally have uttered that four-letter word, the hated trademark of the Devils. And they are proud to have worked The Trap to their best playoff since they won the...

DEVILS HAVE BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE

SOMETIMES, playoff series have a feel to them. And this one here being contested between the Devils and Maple Leafs in the Eastern semis, feels a lot like the one...