June 26, 2000
TELEFONICA TEAM MAY BLITZ WARNER-EMI DEAL
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amTime Warner execs will discover today whether their bid for record giant EMI will be spoiled by a last-minute rival offer from a mysterious consortium led by Spain's Telefonica SA....
WILL HE OR WON'T HE? ONLY ALAN GREENSPAN KNOWS FOR SURE
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amAlan Greenspan may know what's going to happen Wednesday after the Open Market Committee's two-day meeting, but most Fed watchers are clueless. Unlike the other Fed meetings of the last...
47TH ST. MEETS THE WEB ; DIAMOND.COM SEEKS 'NET RICHES
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Beny Steinmetz walks down 47th Street, there's no high-fiving the dealers for him. Not even a nod hello. The chairman of Steinmetz Diamond Group - the diamond company that...
WHY THE FED HAS TO HIKE RATES
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE economic survey that the Fed trusts the most is showing inflation near an 11-year high - even if you believe the government's nonsensical price data for May - and...
PETER JENNINGS TAKES THE MYSTERY OUT OF BELIEVING; JESUS FOR DUMMIES
June 26, 2000 | 4:00am"The Search for Jesus" Tonight at 9 on Ch. 7 FIRST off, let me say that no, Peter Jennings did not find Jesus - neither metaphorically, nor metaphysically in this...
'BUBBLY BLACK GIRL' BEST WHEN IT TREADS LIGHTLY
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN Playwrights Horizon, 416 W. 42nd St., between Ninth and Tenth avenues, (212) 279-4200. Through July 9. 'THE Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her...
'I'M ON MY WAY' SAYS 'NYPD BLUE' TV NEWSWOMAN
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amNEWLY minted TV reporter Andrea Thompson had been on the job for about one week and had worked on just one story when she was invited on "Oprah" to talk...
COSBY'S LOVE-CHILD MOVIE IN TROUBLE
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amBILL Cosby's bizarre TV movie, in which he planned to play a character who fathers a love child, has been canned - at least for now. TV Guide reports in...
THE STARR REPORT
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amTavis a sure BET Tavis Smiley can finally relax - at least a little bit. Smiley has been commuting between Los Angeles and Washington every week for the last four...
THE FINE ART OF LIVING ; ARTISTS ARE PSYCHED FOR NEW GALLERY
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amCALL it anything you want, just don't call it therapy.For the artists whose work is being shown at the new Fountain Gallery, painting, sculpting and drawing are not merely ways...
WHEN SEXY DOESN'T WORK: EVEN IN TODAY'S BARE MARKET, SKIN ISN'T IN AT THE OFFICE
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE new trend to sexier dressing can be hazardous to your career. Dressed-down Fridays and the whole corporate casual craze have made bare arms and shoulders, fitted capri pants and...
BRAS IN -- TUBE TOPS OUT
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amHow sexy is too sexy at work? Lisa Benenson, editor-in-chief of Working Mother magazine, offers the following rules for office dressing: * DON'T go braless from 9 to 5 --...
3 BLOCKBUSTERS AND THE FOURTH
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amPATRIOTISM! Pyrotechnics! The threat of crummy weather! It wouldn't be a proper Fourth of July without 'em - and this year, Hollywood delivers all that in what showbiz insiders are...
MONICA LINK IN FIRST LADY'S LATEST FUND-RAISER
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton is set to attend a Senate campaign fund-raiser at the home of the wealthy New Yorker who boosted Monica Lewinsky for her internship at the White House,...
MCCALL NAMED AS KEY PLOTTER IN COUP VS. SILVER
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amKEY Democrats charge state Comptroller Carl McCall was directly involved in the failed effort to oust Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, despite McCall's repeated denials. The Democrats, well-known elected officials, provided...
TOP POL RIPS SCHOOL BIGS OVER ATTENDANCE FRAUD
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - An influential assemblyman ripped state education officials yesterday for failing to address school-attendance fraud two years after a Post exposé found the practice to be rampant. "It's disgraceful,"...
TRUTH EASY TO SWALLOW? FAT CHANCE!
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amWHY is the New England Journal of Medicine ignoring the most important medical discovery of the 21st century? For reasons that no doubt involve cronyism, illegal payoffs or simple prejudice,...
LOUIMA COP TO SON: 'I'VE GOT TO GO AWAY'
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amTODAY, Tommy Wiese was reeling from having to tell his 7-year-old son, Kevin, a lie for the first time in his life. "What do you tell a 7-year-old boy? 'Dad...
PHILIP MORRIS BUYS NABISCO WITH $18.9B IN COOKIE JAR
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amPhilip Morris agreed yesterday to buy Nabisco, the maker of Oreos and Lifesavers, for $18.9 billion in a blockbuster deal to create the world's second-largest food company. Big Mo, which...
DAD KILLS TODDLER IN QUEENS DRIVEWAY TRAGEDY
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amA Queens dad backing out of his driveway unknowingly ran into his two daughters yesterday - killing the 3-year-old and critically injuring the 7-year-old, police said. The heartbreaking accident unfolded...
JAGGER'S EX HAS SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amJerry Hall says she feels sorry for ex-hubby Mick Jagger - and insists the skirt-chasing rocker can't get no satisfaction bedding countless beautiful young women. "I wish he'd find happiness....
CRASH STAGER'S INSTRUCTIONS: GO AFTER THE MOST EXPENSIVE CARS
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe following are excerpts from a conversation secretly recorded by an undercover cop posing as a motorist seeking advice on how to stage an accident to collect on a phony...
CITY LOSES TO STREET GANG IN TURF WAR
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE street fight pitting the Bloods against Mayor Giuliani's gang of city lawyers was a slaughter. The battleground was a 14-square-block patch of streets in Queens controlled by the Bloods,...
BROOKLYN JUDGE IS NABBED AS WIFE-BEATER
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amA respected Brooklyn judge was hauled off in handcuffs yesterday after his wife told cops he beat her up. Supreme Court Justice M. Randolph Jackson, 56, was charged with third-degree...
NADER PREZ RUN MAY STEAL AL'S THUNDER
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Consumer advocate Ralph Nader jumped into the presidential race yesterday, a move that could mean headaches for Democrat Al Gore. "I'm taking ... more from the Democrats," Nader...
U.N. NABS SERB COMMANDER IN BOSNIAN PRISON MASSACRE
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amU.N. peacekeepers yesterday arrested a Serbian camp commander suspected of ordering the bloody massacre of thousands of Muslim and Croatian prisoners during the Bosnian war. A NATO statement said Dusko...
POWER TO THE PEOPLE! CON ED DEAL ZAPS STRIKE
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amAir-conditioners were on the job on a sweltering Sunday yesterday, and so were Con Ed workers after a pre-dawn contract agreement headed off a strike. No details were given. Con...
LAZIO SAYS HILLARY IS INVENTING SCANDALS
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amRep. Rick Lazio accused Hillary Clinton's campaign yesterday of trying to open a second scandal front against him, and he again insisted he's done nothing wrong. "The next thing I'm...
TROOPS WHO FOUGHT IN KOREA HELPED TO WIN COLD WAR: PREZ
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A tearful President Clinton heaped what he called overdue praise on Korean War veterans yesterday, calling them America's "best" and crediting them with helping win the Cold War....
SHOT COP'S HEROISM HELPS AVERT MASSACRE
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amAn off-duty cop - seriously injured in a blazing gunfight at his family's store in Brooklyn - was branded a hero last night for stopping a potential repeat of the...
TYSON EYES HIGHLAND FLING WITH LOVELY LASSIE
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amMike Tyson has his eyes on a new prize - a 24-year-old Scottish sweetie. Iron Mike - who clobbered Lou Savarese in just 38 seconds Saturday - has been swept...
RAUCOUS FUN FILLS 5TH AVE. AT GAY PARADE
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amThousands of men and women marched down Fifth Avenue yesterday in the annual Gay Pride Parade amid blaring whistles, pounding samba drums - and more bare buns than the first...
WARM WELCOME FOR MADE-OVER MAYOR
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amNow that he's out of the U.S. Senate race and back in the role of lame duck, it seems Mayor Giuliani has become a lot more likable. Just take the...
TOT DRAGGED IN SUBWAY HORROR
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amA toddler suffered minor injuries on a Brooklyn subway yesterday when the doors of a No. 2 train closed on his stroller, and the train dragged it 50 feet, police...
GIRL & MOM DROWN AT ROCKAWAY BEACH
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amA mom and her 6-year-old daughter drowned off Far Rockaway yesterday when they were pulled under water by a ferocious riptide current. Hours earlier, a 19-year-old Queens man drowned in...
'OMERTA' GIVES PUZO LAST WORD - DEATHBED NOVEL CAPS MAFIA TALE
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amIT WAS a death that the Godfather, Don Vito Corleone, might have chosen. Unlike so many of his Mafia characters, author Mario Puzo passed away peacefully at his home in...
'CZARINA' REIGNED OVER INSURE SCAMS - RIP-OFFS KEPT HER IN GEMS & YACHTS
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amThis is the second installment of an ongoing Post investigative series into suspected abuses of New York state's no-fault auto-insurance system. In yesterday's opening installment, a team of Post reporters...
PHONY CAR WRECK A DISASTER, SAYS INFORMANT
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amStaging accidents isn't always easy - just ask the Brooklyn man who admitted to authorities that he had participated in a phony fender-bender using a car that didn't work. The...
STAGED SMASHUP: IT'S NO ACCIDENT
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amOn a June morning a year ago, a 25-year-old livery driver picked up three men who had called his Bronx car service for a ride to Manhattan. But the three...
COPS SAVE BX. TEEN AS PAL DROWNS
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amA 16-year-old Bronx youth was rescued by police divers after a boating accident off Orchard Beach yesterday, but cops weren't able to save his buddy. Authorities said Jason Ross and...
MIFFED TORRE: RAMIRO'S FINE
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - One day after Ramiro Mendoza admitted to being "scared" about the stiffness in the back of his right shoulder, Joe Torre insisted there was nothing wrong...
LEDEE: I'M NOT GONE YET
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Every time his name has surfaced in trade rumors, Ricky Ledee talked about how he wanted to remain a Yankee. Now his name was in more than a...
NO JOY IN BOSSVILLE : SURGING SOX DEALFRUSTRATED YANKSANOTHER BRUTAL LOSS
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amWhite Sox 8 Yankees 7 CHICAGO - Forget Roger Clemens' tender groin and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez's sprained elbow. Ignore serious trade talks that have littered their landscape with major...
ISLANDERS LAND VBK FOR A PICK
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amCALGARY - Not ready to pin their hopes on an 18-year-old No. 1 draft pick, the Islanders acquired veteran goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck yesterday in a trade with the Flyers. Vanbiesbrouck,...
JAYSON PULLING THE PLUG
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amIt has been feared for a year. It has been whispered for months. It has been confirmed anonymously for weeks. And now it will be announced officially within days. Jayson...
'GOOD' LIBERTY EFFORT COMES UP SHORT AGAIN
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amSparks 72 Liberty 67 The words are starting to sound familiar. Good effort, good comeback, good performance ... and a loss. "It's very unfortunate," Becky Hammon said after the Liberty...
CHISOX SHOW YANKS WAY IT USED TO BE
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - This wasn't where the Yankees needed to come in the midst of their worst stretch of the five-year Joe Torre era. Miserable as they are these days, they...
NO HOLIDAY FOR ROMAN: HAMRLIK NOT HAPPY ABOUT BEING TRADED TO THE ISLES
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amCALGARY - As Mike Milbury fiddled with his roster, Roman burned. In getting his wish to be traded from Edmonton Saturday, defenseman Roman Hamrlik was nevertheless exasperated about joining the...
HAMPTON A SUMMER RENTAL? SMALL-TOWN LEFTY'S STILL NOT SOLD ON BIG CITY
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amUH, OH, Mike Hampton made another negative comment yesterday about New York traffic, which must mean the pitcher hates this place almost as much he does fouling off a bunt...
METS HOPE FOR MORA THE SAME AT SHORT
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe ball jumped off Melvin Mora's bat as if hit by a man far larger than 5-foot-10, 180-pounds. It left the park in a hurry, ending up several rows back...
JORDAN'S OUT AS CANDIDATE FOR NETS' HEAD COACHING JOB
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amEddie Jordan will not be the Nets' head coach. But he very possibly will remain as an assistant. And the primary question remains, an assistant to whom? Jordan is due...
SATHER: WE WANT LINDROS - GLEN CONFIRMS TALKS WITH PHILLY ABOUT ERIC
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amCALGARY - If Glen Sather wanted to make a splashing debut as the Rangers general manager, he pulled it off yesterday by affirming that he was pursuing a trade for...
OFFICE MISS CATCHES BRIDAL GLOW
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amOffice Miss closed well on the outside and caught Bridal Glow near the wire to win the Mount Vernon Handicap for New York-bred fillies and mares at a mile and...
SATHER: WE WANT LINDROS - MOVE WILL ONLY BRING HEADACHES
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amMAYBE there's something in the fine print that none of us knows about. Maybe there's something in the fine print of the contract an individual signs to become Ranger general...
CRIME STILL PAYING LOCH NESS MIKE-STER
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amGLASGOW - Ladies and gentlemen, I have seen the Loch Ness Monster. And his name is Mike. That's Mike Tyson, for those of you just tuning in. But this Nessie...
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME GOOFBALL? ; MNF'S MILLER PICK NO 'SHOCK'
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT'S all this fuss about Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football? Who were you expecting, Al DeRogatis? Haven't you been paying attention to what's going on out there? Miller's hiring...
MEX AGAIN IN CADILLAC
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amSeven years ago at age 53, Lee Trevino stood in the 18th fairway at the Upper Montclair Country Club with a two-shot lead over Raymond Floyd in the final round...
HALL'S CHARGE A FEW HOLES SHORT
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amNFL CLASSIC NOTES The way Walter Hall sees it, he merely ran out of holes yesterday. Hall made an impressive charge up the Cadillac/NFL Classic leaderboard yesterday, nearly stealing his...
MARTIN'S THE MAN, UNLESS... SWEET DEAL IS NEEDED TO PRY KENYON FROM NETS
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe Nets wanted to be certain about Kenyon Martin. And so their doctors probed, investigated, examined, tested, looked, poked, scrutinized and explored. And then in the next half hour... "They...
BOMBERS GET EXTENSION TO LAND GONZO ; YANKS GET MORE TIME TO TALK
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - The negotiating window the Yankees have with Juan Gonzalez remains open thanks to an extension granted to the Yankees by Major League Baseball and agreed to by the...
YANKS MAY GET EXTENSION TO LAND GONZO
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Major League Baseball can extend the 72-hour negotiating window the Yankees have with Juan Gonzalez if the Yankees request it. However, after three days of not being able...
THE FIZER WITHIN: MARCUS THINKS HIS HEART PUTS HIM AHEAD OF KENYON
June 26, 2000 | 4:00amIt won't be a mistake. That's the completely biased and honest advice Marcus Fizer offers, free of charge, to the Nets, owners of the first pick in Wednesday's NBA Draft....