May 30, 2000
SEIKO SPOON IS THE LATEST SALVO IN TIME WARS
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amSpoon is scooping its competition. The futuristic-looking watch made by Japanese watch conglomerate Seiko has developed a huge following since its introduction three years ago - and trend watchers say...
BOO.COM BOUGHT FOR A SONG
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amThe high-profile disaster Boo.com has reportedly found a buyer to snatch it away from liquidation - for a mere $372,500. The defunct e-tailer was sold by liquidators KPMG to well-known...
NRA, TOYS 'R' US TARGET SAME SPACE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amWORD is whizzing around Times Square faster than those electronic news zippers: Toy guns will blow away real ones in the "Crossroads of the World." Here's what's supposedly going on...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amSUMMER means good eats so it's time to turn our eye to the food magazines. At the end of Ruth Reichl's rookie year, Gourmet is looking good. While the mag...
BROKE DOT-COMS NOT MUCH OF A BARGAIN
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amBIG Dumb Companies are looking smarter and smarter next to the e-tailers. "Big Dumb Companies," for those with short memories, was a phrase invented by the wired set to describe...
CHASE BANKS ON JERSEY CITY'S NEWPORT CENTER
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amCall it Chase New Jersey. Chase Manhattan is set to take 1.3 million square feet of office space in a revitalized area of Jersey City, The Post has learned. The...
LVMH: WATCH THIS SPACE - COMING SOON: SUNGLASS, TIMEPIECE BOUTIQUE CHAINS
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amLVMH is hoping its new retail concepts will do for watches and sunglasses what Sephora did for cosmetics: bring in customers. The French luxury goods maker is set to launch...
NEW BOOK HELPS KIDS UNDERSTAND HEPATITIS C
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amTALK about niche markets: Coming to bookstores soon is "My Mom Has Hepatitis C."Can "Dad Has Diabetes" be far behind? Maybe not. "We're thinking of a whole series," says Kevin...
UNKINDEST CUT: TWO MILLIONS YOUNG GIRLS HAVE A SECRET -THEY CUT THEMSELVES BECAUSE IT CHASES AWAY THE INNER PAIN. THE FIRST TV MOVIE ON THIS HARROWING TREND AIRS TONIGHT
May 30, 2000 | 4:00am"Secret Cutting" Tonight at 9 p.m. on USA Network I invited six people over to watch "Secret Cutting," because, well, because what do I know about teenage girls who cut,...
HARLEM TROUPE JOINS FORCES WITH CITY BALLET
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amGEORGE Balanchine started only one enduring ballet company - New York City Ballet. Yet his influence penetrated far and wide - there are Balanchine-inspired companies from Seattle to Miami. And...
A BOY AND HIS HERRING - JONATHAN AMES WAS BORN TO BE HUMILIATED
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amTHOSE who've read Jonathan Ames' "City Slicker" columns in the New York Press might be surprised to learn that he's also a hilarious performer, and he's appearing Thursday in what...
HBO-MARIS MOVIE IS SET
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amPLAY ball! Billy Crystal has finally cast his highly-anticipated HBO baseball flick about the famed home-run race between Yankee greats Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. Barry Pepper, who appeared in...
RESTORING HAIR - AND SPIRITS- STYLIST'S WIGS HELP CANCER PATIENTS TO COPE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amTWO months ago, celebrity stylist John D'Orazio was trimming the locks of yet another famous client when an absolutely unforgettable woman walked into his tony Upper East Side salon. "Lorna...
THE MUSIC IS THE MESSAGE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amSOMETHIN' FOR THE PEOPLE "Issues" Warner Bros. The latest hip-hop team to chase the grail of creating the perfect blend of R&B and rap is the L.A. trio Somethin' for...
THE STARR REPORT
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amTichina lives! Tichina Arnold wants the world to know she's alive and well. Arnold, who starred as Pam opposite Martin Lawrence on Fox's "Martin," put out a statement responding to...
YO LA TENGO GOES INTIMATE AT IRVING
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amIF you're feeling disheartened because Noel Gallagher walked out on the Oasis tour, let Yo La Tengo renew your faith in humankind. After listening to the Hoboken indie band's latest...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amNature of N.J. For such a small state, New Jersey has a surprisingly varied topography and "Off the Beaten Path" (Globe Pequot, $12.95) by William and Kay Scheller is a...
U.N. HOSTAGES RELEASED IN SIERRA
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amSierra Leone's hostage crisis appeared over today, and leaders of its West African neighbors said rebel leader Foday Sankoh would be removed from the country until the peace process took...
OH, BABY! JODIE FOSTER IS PREGNANT WITH NO. 2
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amGet ready for another Foster child - Oscar-winner Jodie Foster is expecting her second baby. The star of "The Silence of the Lambs" has told friends she's 11 weeks pregnant,...
FORD 'DAMS' BELIZE FOR ELECTRICITY PROPOSAL
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amHARRISON FORD has joined the fight against a project he says would destroy one of the world's most precious rainforests. The Hollywood hunk has given a big thumbs-down to a...
IT'S A BETA, UH, BETTER TOMATO
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amScientists say they've come up with a souped-up tomato that lets you "catchup" on a key vitamin. They genetically engineered tomatoes so they are packed with three times as much...
IT'S STEW VS. STEW IN AIRLINE DRUG-RAPE TRIAL
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amThe case of a Delta Air Lines flight attendant who claims she was drugged and raped by a co-worker during an overnight stay in Rome goes on trial today. In...
KU-WAIT MAY BE OVER FOR WOMEN WHO WISH TO VOTE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amKuwaiti women won a skirmish yesterday in their 38-year battle for political equality when their nation's highest court agreed to hear their plea for the right to vote and run...
BALLOONIST ON TOP OF THE WORLD OVER ARCTIC
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amA British adventurer set two ballooning records as he headed for the North Pole yesterday. David Hempleman-Adams became the first person to fly a balloon solo across the Arctic Ocean....
HILLARY'S BIG MISTAKE - WHEN SHE JUMPED INTO THE RACE, SHE FAILED TO REALIZE THAT BILL'S IMPEACHMENT HAD TEMPORARILY BOOSTED HER POPULARITY
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S official. A solid majority of New Yorkers really, really doesn't like Hillary Rodham Clinton. Right now, the Easter Bunny could be competitive with Hillary Clinton if it were the...
OUT-RAGE AS ROME CANCELS GAY FEST
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amRome city leaders withdrew official support yesterday for a World Gay Pride 2000 festival, following intense pressure from the Vatican. Homosexuals are furious, and organizers of the controversial event -...
NIGHT FLIGHT CAPS OFF SHUTTLE MISSION
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amThe space shuttle Atlantis glided safely back home in a rare nighttime landing yesterday after a 10-day mission to repair an international space station. Atlantis, which suffered scratches and dents...
POL: STATE DISTORTS STUDENT PERFORMANCE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - An influential Democratic lawmaker has accused state education officials of painting a "highly misleading" picture of student performance, the Post has learned. Assembly Education Committee Chairman Steven Sanders...
THE DEATH PENALTY IS QUEENS DA'S ONLY OPTION
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Queens district attorney, Richard Brown, should right now be shopping for twin beds. Well, not really beds - gurneys on which you strap humanity's filth and jab them with...
CUBA DECIDES AGAINST SPECIAL SCHOOL FOR ELIAN
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amCuban officials now plan to let tug-of-war kid Elian Gonzalez go immediately to his hometown of Cardenas if he returns to Cuba - backing off a plan to send him...
OOPS! RICK TAKES A 'TRIP' - BLOODIED BUT UNBOWED AFTER PARADE TUMBLE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amRepublican Senate candidate Rick Lazio took a hard fall yesterday - not in the polls, but face-first at a Memorial Day parade in Babylon. Lazio slipped as he sprinted to...
RESTORED JOINT GOV'T TAKES REINS IN ULSTER
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amNorthern Ireland's coalition government of Protestants and Catholics returned to power yesterday. Britain agreed to revive home rule in the troubled province after the main Protestant party, the Ulster Unionists,...
U.S. PAYS SILENT TRIBUTE TO FALLEN HEROES
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amAmericans paused yesterday to honor all the men and women who have served in defense of their country - from Guadalcanal to Gettysburg, from Korea to Khe Sanh - on...
SERIES VICTORY HAS A NICE RING FOR YANKS AND ROCKET
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amKim Ng wore a smart business pants suit, while Roger Clemens donned Yankee pinstripes - and they both achieved career objectives yesterday. A dozen team employees gathered on the infield...
PREZ FACES UPHILL BATTLE IN MISSILE PARLEY WITH PUTIN
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton left last night for a week in Europe, where he's set to talk trade, pick up an award and try to hammer out a deal with...
MOM URGED SON TO SLASH HIS FOE: COPS
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amA Long Island mom encouraged her teenage son to slash another youth in a revenge razor attack - even driving him to the spot where the assault took place, cops...
LOTT: PUT SENATE ON 5-DAY WEEK - GOP LEADER WOULD END POLS' PERK
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate's top Republican would like to deep-six one of Congress' most famous perks - its three- and four-day workweeks. For years, lawmakers showed up on Monday night...
SCARED WORKERS QUIT IN WAKE OF WENDY'S KILLINGS
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amFrightened workers have been quitting or failing to show up at stores and restaurants along Flushing's fear-gripped Main Street in the wake of the Wendy's massacre and a second brazen...
WOUNDED KNICKS LAY BIG HURT ON INDY TO TIE IT UP
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amSure, they were walking wounded, but the Knicks showed fans they could still run circles around the Pacers, winning yesterday's game 91-89 and tying the NBA Eastern Conference final series...
WAKE TODAY FOR COP KILLED IN CRASH WITH POST DELIVERY TRUCK
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amRelatives will hold a wake today for the Brooklyn police officer killed Sunday in a horrific traffic accident with a New York Post delivery truck driver. Officer David Regan, 27,...
U.S. CRIES FOUL OVER PERU PREZ RE-ELECTION
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amThe United States yesterday blasted the re-election of Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori as fraudulent, saying his defiance of the international community poses a serious danger to democracy in the region....
CANCER HITS ROCK GUITARIST VAN HALEN
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amRock-guitar hero Eddie Van Halen is being treated for cancer, his band's official Web site reports. The site is carrying an ambiguous statement saying Van Halen is beginning "an outpatient...
POLICE WANT TO QUESTION S.I. TEEN IN BABY DEATH
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amCops were hoping to question a 13-year-old Staten Island girl last night, after her newborn boy was found wrapped in cloth inside a bucket in her bathroom at home, police...
'LOST' TEENS CLAIM COP BRUTALITY
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amTwo white New Jersey teens who got lost in a predominantly-minority neighborhood on their way home from the Yankee game Sunday night claim they were roughed up by undercover cops...
A SIZZLING SE-ORITA IN CRUZ CONTROL -H'WOOD FALLS FOR STUNNING LADY OF SPAIN
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amPENELOPE CRUZ hasn't been in Hollywood long - but it's been long enough to have them wondering how they ever survived without her. The Spanish actress burst into the mainstream...
OLD-FASHIONED LIBERAL WHO GOT 'LEFT' BEHIND
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amHARRY STEIN doesn't give his new Westchester County neighbor Hillary Clinton credit for much. But he can thank the first lady for the title of his splendid new book, "How...
AILING KNICKS STAGE HEAVY METTLE SHOW: TIE SERIES AS LARRY, CHARLIE ROCK INDY
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 4 Knicks 91 Pacers 89 Patrick Ewing (sprained right foot) again was in a designer suit on the bench offering cheers. Marcus Camby resurfaced with a sprained right knee...
BIRD KNEW KNICK WOES WOULDN'T SLOW THEM DOWN
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amLarry Bird wasn't buying all that banged-up Knicks stuff. "I've been on teams that were beat up and made it to the Finals," the Pacer coach cautioned before the Knicks...
DR. SCOTT OFFERS UP SOME HOPE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amIt was all-together fitting that on a night when none of the Knicks was especially talkative prior to Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals, the center of attention, the...
CARLISLE FINED FOR FOOT FAULT
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amAn apologetic Pacers' assistant coach Rick Carlisle admitted he had his size 15's in the wrong place at the wrong time. And so his wallet is $10,000 lighter because of...
HURTIN' CALL FOR KNICKS: NY HUSTLE A PAIN FOR LAX PACERS
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amNOW it can be told. These Knicks are like a diamond, which starts out as a big chunk of carbon and under intense pressure, becomes smaller and harder and more...
ACHING SPREE INFLICTS PAIN
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amThe news was encouraging, but also ominous. In the opinion of the Knicks medical staff, yes, he could play, although there was a slight risk of greater injury. What it...
IMPROVING EWING: I'LL BE BACK
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing suited up for pregame warm-ups, got through the layup line twice, executed a couple of spin moves against Kurt Thomas and his day was done. Ewing went off...
HUSTLING KNICKS TAKE HURTIN' CALL
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amNOW it can be told. These Knicks are not fragile as glass. In truth, they are more like a diamond, which starts out as a big chunk of carbon and...
KURT HAS ALL RIGHT ANSWERS
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amIt was tucked in between two enormous 3-pointers by Larry Johnson, but it was huge nonetheless. There was Kurt Thomas, looking Sam Perkins in the eye, 14 feet from the...
JITTERY JALEN JUMPS GUN
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amAs Latrell Sprewell cranked up for his second free throw with :04.1 left last night, Jalen Rose was thinking back to the end of Game 2. He remembered how Pacer...
KNICKS KEEP PEDAL TO METAL: REFUSE TO WILT IN 4TH LIKE THEY DID IN '97
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amWOUNDED, crippled and undermanned. That's how the Knicks stood - or limped - going into Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Pacers last night the Garden. It...
VAN WANTED TO MAKE SURE SPREE COULD HELP
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Jeff Van Gundy has never doubted Latrell Sprewell's desire or willingness to play with pain. Van Gundy remembers the start of last season, Sprewell's first as a Knick,...
CARLISLE IS FINED FOR HIS FOOT FAULT
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amAn apologetic Pacers' assistant coach Rick Carlisle admitted he had his size 15's in the wrong place at the wrong time. And so his wallet is $10,000 lighter. Carlisle was...
PACERS NEED A FASTER PACE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amPACER NOTES Jalen Rose wants the Pacers to get in a track meet. "I feel like we're playing too slow," said Rose, who delivered 15 of his 18 points in...
METS EXPECT MORA OUT OF MELVIN'S BAT
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - When the Mets return to Shea Friday against the Devils Rays, Melvin Mora is expected to be in uniform. Mora's lacerated right index finger has...
BOBBY TO BENCH: NO AB'S, NO EXCUSE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - It is the big leagues after all, manager Bobby Valentine said, so it is difficult to have much empathy as guys struggle on the bench. Entering yesterday...
DEVILS WILL GET IT DONE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amIt will take more than destiny to dethrone the Stars. The Devils will have to do this job themselves. To win the Stanley Cup, they will have to be better...
JARVIS' PORT WITH STORM
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amUnless the Nets come after Mike Jarvis with a significant offer and do so in a timely fashion, chances are Jarvis will remain at St. John's for another season, sources...
NETS' SEARCH DOWN TO FOUR
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amWAY back when, before Jerry Colangelo upgraded from the Suns' top executive to their owner, the Knicks, mediocre at the time, offered him the power to dominate their front office....
YANKS LOOK TO RING IN THEIR OWN TRIPLE PLAY
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amTHE only triple play rarer than the one Oakland pulled during yesterday's game is the one the Yankees hunt. In the sixth inning, Randy Velarde turned one line drive into...
NOW, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CUP
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amThey begin tonight, these Stars and Devils, one striving for half-dynasty, the other for full redemption. They are reaching for glory, for the seal of greatness that this playoff marathon...
BAILEY: FROM 'BULLET' TO CURULE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amJerry Bailey wasted no time securing a mount for the June 10 Belmont Stakes after Red Bullet's defection. Agent Ron Anderson confirmed yesterday that Bailey will ride Curule in the...
HULL-MODANO A DEVILISH PROBLEM
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amThey contained Pavel Bure, frustrated Mats Sundin and shut down John LeClair. In three consecutive playoff series, the Devils have proven that they can deal with one offensive star per...
STARS HUNGER FOR RESPECT
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN the Stanley Cup Finals ended last year I spent far more time writing about the winning goal than I did about the winning team. And I wasn't alone. Rarely,...
ANDY MAKES LIKE CHAMP ON RING DAY
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amYanks 4 A's 1 The Yankees left much of themselves on the field during Sunday's brilliant pitcher's duel between Roger Clemens and Pedro Martinez; but the Bombers avoided a letdown...
STARS KNOW IT ALL
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amABSOLUTELY, positively, Jason Arnott knows beyond a shadow of a doubt how much harder this is going to be. He thinks. "I think we have to take the same approach...
'VICTOR' CAPTURES MET MILE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amThrough most of his career leading up to yesterday's Grade 1, $750,000 Met Mile at Belmont Park, Yankee Victor was a very good horse, always knocking on the door in...
AILIN' KNICKS PUT HURT ON PACERS: TIE SERIES 2-2 AS LJ & WARD PROVIDE THE RX
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 4 Knicks 91 Pacers 89 Patrick Ewing (sprained right foot) again was in a designer suit on the bench. Marcus Camby resurfaced with a sprained right knee and played....
PACERS CAN'T WAIT TO GET HOME
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amWell, their weekend in New York was hardly an overwhelming success for the Pacers. About the only bright spot yesterday was that no one lifted their luggage out of the...
PACERS HAVE PROBLEMS WITH NO-PAT KNICKS
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amYeah, the Pacers know all about the record: they're 1-5 against the Knicks when Patrick Ewing plays the part of a spectator. Still, the Pacers, 91-89 losers yesterday, insist the...
WARD'S CHANTS WELL-DESERVED
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amTHE GARDEN crowd stood and chanted, "Charlie! Charlie!," something that is starting to become as common in these playoffs series as Charlie Ward knocking down a big 3-pointer when you...
REY OUT SIX WEEKS WITH BROKEN ARM
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - Kurt Abbott called the play unbelievable. Edgardo Alfonzo said only Rey Ordonez could have made it. Todd Zeile wished Ordonez hadn't tried it. As for...
HOBBLING CAMBY SUPPLIES SPARK
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amWhen his spindly body crumpled to the floor like a flimsy card table Saturday night, things looked bad for Marcus Camby. It looked even worse as Charlie Ward and Knicks'...
EWING ON BENCH SUITS KNICKS JUST FINE VS. PACERS
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTESThe record can't be ignored. The Knicks are 5-1 vs. the Pacers in the playoffs with Patrick Ewing in a designer suit. In the past two games, they have...
LEITER FLUID FINALLY RUNS EMPTY FOR METS
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amDodgers 4 Mets 1 LOS ANGELES - The Mets lost 4-1 to the Dodgers last night on 118 pitches - 115 by Chan Ho Park and three by Al Leiter....
HALFTIME LEAD ALMOST WASTED
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amThe halftime scoreboard looked as if there were a glitch somewhere in the Garden's electronic nerve center. It read: Knicks 57, Pacers 40. The Knicks were not only up by...
ROSE: WE GOTTA PICK UP PACE
May 30, 2000 | 4:00amJalen Rose wants the Pacers to get in a track meet. "I feel like we're playing too slow," said Rose, who delivered 15 of his 18 points in the second...