June 27, 2000
GUCCI MARKDOWN GETS SERIOUS
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amGucci shoppers looking for price cuts might want to take a look at the company's stock. Shares of Gucci fell $3.19 to $93.88 yesterday as the battle for control over...
BIG MO'S NABISCO DEAL LIFTS MARTS
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amPhilip Morris stock was smoking after the food and tobacco giant said it would pay $18.9 billion to acquire Nabisco Holdings. The deal, which still must be approved by shareholders...
MONEY STORE STRIKES OUT
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amHoly cow! The Money Store isn't going to make it. The home-equity loan company, best known for its ads starring Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto and fellow Hall of Famer Jim...
HACKER'S BIG BREAK: HIS OWN RADIO SHOW
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Hello, you're on the air with ... Kevin Mitnick? Once the world's most notorious hacker - and now barred from even touching a computer - Mitnick said...
COLUMBUS CENTRE - FINALLY
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amAT long last, it's happening. Columbus Centre, the city's most important new building in a couple of generations, has all the green lights it needs to go ahead. The endlessly...
GAME OVER FOR SPORT ; SNUFFED OUT AS PHILIP MORRIS PULLS ADS
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amFifty-four-year-old Sport magazine has gone down swinging. Emap Petersen, the American arm of British publishing giant Emap, said it is suspending publication of the monthly magazine that started in 1946...
PSEUDO.COM RESTRUCTURES TO TV FORMAT
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amFresh from announcing 58 firings Friday, Pseudo boss David Bohrman filled in staff on the streaming video company's new direction. Around a hundred staffers yesterday heard ex-CNNfn head Bohrman declare...
LINDA'S $1B BRAHAHA ; WACHNER SLAMS KLEIN RIGHT BACK
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amLinda Wachner launched her counterattack on Calvin Klein yesterday, accusing the designer in a suit of using offensive ads and lying about relations between the two companies. Wachner's Warnaco Group...
BETH ISRAEL'S DEBT RATING DOWNGRADED TO CRITICAL
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amBeth Israel Medical Center is performing some surgery on its budget after its debt rating was sharply knocked down to junk bond status yesterday. Standard & Poor's lowered the bond...
MCGRAW-HILL GETS TRIBUNE'S ED PUBLISHING
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe McGraw-Hill Company said it was snapping up Tribune Cos.' educational publishing division for $634.7 million. It is the first divestment of a non-core property by Tribune since its $8...
ANALYST FINALLY TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT DOT-COMS
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amI secretly enjoyed last Friday's meltdown in Amazon.com stock. I bear no ill will toward Jeff Bezos, his company or any of his shareholders. But it is a rare treat...
THIS MAN SAYS HE CAN ... READ YOUR MIND
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amJUST when you thought it was safe to think, "mentalist" Marc Salem is back in town - and no brain is sacred! The world-renowned master of mind games claims he...
SPACEHOG'S NOT HOGGING ANY IN NEW GIGS
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S summer in the city, where under-$10 music abounds, both in hot, sticky smaller clubs and the great outdoors. So put your wallets and Walkmans away and gear up for...
SOME ANGST, SOME ANGER AND A KAZOO
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN Catherine Porter whips out a kazoo toward the end of her signature song, "Crazy," you know she's no angst-ridden Gen-Xer. An idiosyncratic New Yorker who sings tongue-in-cheek confessional songs...
TALK TO US, ROSIE: DEMS
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amDAYTIME talk show queen Rosie O'Donnell could be a star of the Democratic National Convention. O'Donnell, the highly vocal supporter/pal of New York senate candidate Hillary Clinton, is being considered...
'K.I.M.' SHOULD DRIVE 'EM WILD
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amLIL' KIM "The Notorious K.I.M." Queen Bee/Atlantic Records Now that she's out of mourning for Notorious B.I.G., hip-hop diminutive diva Lil' Kim Jones finally follows up her 1996 "Hard Core"...
JUST A BAD DREAM ; THE MONKEES MOVIE IS NOTHING TO TORK ABOUT
June 27, 2000 | 4:00am"Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story" Tomorrow night at 9 on VH1 1/2 NO way am I going to recommend you waste two hours of your life watching "Daydream Believers: The...
THE STARR REPORT
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe Vegas idea Playboy. Wet. Wild. Got your attention? Playboy TV is serving up a live, one-hour TV and Web simulcast of "Playboy's Wet & Wild Live! Summer Fashion Show"...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amArt on the Hudson The Hudson River Museum has just put up an exhibition of 19th-century American drawings, including rarely seen works by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church and other members...
THEY'VE GOT DESIGNS ON YOU
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amBy now everyone has heard about the so-called "proliferation of devices" -- the billion or so digital thingies that'll be beeping, downloading and streaming in our pockets in the future....
TH-TH-TH-THAT'S NOT ALL, FOLKS!
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amSay goodbye to family snapshots with those static cardboard cut-outs from your favorite theme park. British start-up Kazoo.com is set to offer computer users technology that will make it look...
LET THE GAMES BEGIN
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amWondering what hot new games are coming your way this Fall? The Post spoke with Christian Svensson of Incite.com which publishes Incite PC Gaming and Incite Video Gaming and here...
IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY... SECURITY BODY-SCANNING DEVICES ARE NO LONGER THE REALM OF JAMES BOND. THEY'RE REALITY
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amWhile retinal scanning, palm print identification and a computer that recognizes your typing all seem like gimmicks from a sci-fi movie, they're already a reality. Once reserved for the highest...
SPEECH THERAPY: VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS COME INTO THEIR OWN
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amSo you think voice recognition software is still underdeveloped and irritating to use? Not for long. For years, computer experts have been claiming that appliances of all kinds, from ovens...
YOU'VE GOT MAIL: YOU MAY ALSO BE THE VICTIM OF VIRUS. SO HOW DO YOU AVOID INFECTION?
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amYou've got mail. Now what do you do? Remember the days when you only read about mail bombs or mysterious envelopes containing biological toxins? Well, welcome to the Electronic Age...
DEATH-PENALTY DOOZIES - THIS WAVE OF BUSH-BASHING IS ALREADY BACKFIRING
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amQUESTION: When was the last time a president of the United States had anything to say about an execution? Answer: In 1963, when a kidnapper named Victor Fegeur was hanged....
FORMER FOE BECOMES FRIEND OF HILL
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amONE of Hillary Rodham Clinton's biggest Democratic detractors has changed her tune. City Councilwoman Ronnie Eldridge of the West Side gave Clinton a "very special welcome" at the first lady's...
SONAR MAY MAR WHALES' MOOD FOR LOVE: STUDY
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe mating songs of the humpback whale - and hence the mating itself - may be affected by the sonar humans have been generating under the sea, marine scientists say....
GUN VICTIMS' KIN HAIL STATE SUIT
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amParents of children gunned down on New York streets hailed the state's landmark lawsuit against firearms manufacturers yesterday, accusing them of being a public nuisance. "My son Derek was shot...
WOULD-BE MAYOR GOETZ: BLAME MEAT, NOT GUNS
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amTHE name Bernhard Goetz is as intricately entwined with the word gun as the name Smith is to Wesson. As the name Bill is to Monica. Bernie knows guns the...
JUSTIN'S DAD: THEY'RE IMPRISONING INNOCENT MEN TODAY
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amROBERT VOLPE, father of Justin Volpe, convicted in the Abner Louima assault, said yesterday: "The boys who are going to be sentenced to prison today are not guilty. "Charles Schwarz...
HIGH COURT UPHOLDS MIRANDA WARNING
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the 34-year-old Miranda warning, which forces cops to tell suspects they have the right to remain silent. In a lopsided 7-2 ruling, the...
HEVESI SAYS JAIL UNION'S FUNDS NEAR BANKRUPTCY
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amFree-wheeling spending has nearly bankrupted two funds that pay for health, legal and other vital benefits for city correction officers, Comptroller Alan Hevesi charged in a stinging audit released yesterday....
BEWARE, LEST THIS BE HOW WE'LL ELIMINATE THE KINDS OF PEOPLE SOCIETY DEEMS UNFIT
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amTHE atomic bomb of the 21st century has just been detonated - for better and, most likely, for worse. The possibilities for using the human genome map knowledge for good...
AL PUSHED OIL PLAN THAT COULD BE GU$HER FOR HIM
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The sale of a government oil field in 1998 - a move endorsed by Vice President Al Gore - will eventually mean big bucks in his pockets. But...
BRASS: COP LET TEEN'S GAY GROPER SLIP AWAY
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amA veteran cop was suspended yesterday for brushing aside a Bronx teen's complaint that he was groped and threatened by a hulking man during festivities after the Gay Pride Parade,...
EGAN: BETTER SCREENING MAY CUT PRIEST SEX ABUSE
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amArchbishop Edward Egan said yesterday that better screening of priests might help eliminate the "damage" caused by sex-abuse cases. "No screening system is perfect," cautioned Egan, who for the first...
UNMENTIONABLE SECRETS - NEW BOOK BARES NO-PANTY SHARON'S 'BASIC INSTINCTS'
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amA new book on Hollywood during the Clinton years portrays Sharon Stone as a dope-smoking, power-obsessed star who used the casting couch to climb to the top. The blond actress...
POST'S SERIES SPURS STATE ACTION ON AUTO-INSURANCE FRAUD
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - State officials - outraged at the findings of a new Post exposé into rampant auto-insurance fraud - yesterday called for immediate action. "We have a lot to do,"...
SCHOOL DUO 'EXPELLED' IN SEX CASE
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe Board of Education removed the principal and dean from a Queens school where a 12-year-old girl was allegedly groped by a wolf pack of boys in violence reminiscent of...
BIO-PRENEUR WAS PROJECT'S DRIVING FORCE
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amA BEAMING President Clinton announced the successful mapping of the human genome yesterday - but all eyes were trained on the balding blue-eyed man who stood beside him. That's because...
CITY LAWYERS HINT DIALLO'S CONDUCT LED TO HIS DEATH
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amUnarmed police-shooting victim Amadou Diallo may have caused his own death, the city said in legal papers filed yesterday - outraging lawyers for the slain man's family. "Amadou Diallo's culpable...
9 COPS WOULD RIDE THE RAILS WITH ROCKER
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amNine NYPD officers would shadow John Rocker if he braves a ride on the No. 7 train - and an undercover Atlanta cop will be watching his every move at...
'THONG' PRINCIPAL REPRIMANDED
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amA Lower East Side principal was slapped on the wrist yesterday for inappropriately demanding to know whether a teacher wore thong underwear in school. District 1 Superintendent Helen Santiago ruled...
DOCS CRACK GENE CODE - DNA PROBERS FINISH 'MAP' THAT MAY WIPE OUT DISEASE
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amScientists have cracked the genetic code nature used to write the book on humans - a landmark leap that may help people cheat diseases like cancer. "Today we are learning...
ELIAN KIN APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amJust two days before Elian Gonzalez is free to go back to Cuba, his Miami relatives yesterday made a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court. Lawyers for the Florida family...
TOP COPS GRILLED OVER CENTRAL PARK WILDING
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amPolice internal affairs investigators are questioning NYPD brass over their handling of the Central Park groping attacks amid speculation that heads will roll, police sources told The Post. Twenty-seven officers...
ACTRESS TO BE BILLIONAIRE PERELMAN'S 4TH BRIDE
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amBillionaire Ron Perelman will march down the aisle for the fourth time tomorrow and marry actress Ellen Barkin, The Post has learned. The Revlon czar and the sexy blond film...
FINAL SECRET OF FATIMA REVEALED
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe Vatican yesterday released the "third secret of Fatima" - which turned out to be a message of hope for humanity, and not the doomsday prophecy many had speculated. The...
LEVY LETTER PROMOTES CONFUSION OVER WHICH KIDS FAILED
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy admitted yesterday he goofed by sending letters telling some students that they have to go to summer school - even though they were already promoted. "Clearly,...
CITY SET FOR MAJOR NAVAL GAZING
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe high tech combat ships of today will get up close and personal with their sailing ancestors next week when the International Naval Review meets the tall masts of OpSail...
METS: COMIC VILLAIN IS NOT (WINK, WINK) BRAVES CLOSER
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mets have commissioned a comic book featuring an out-of-town villain who hates New York and wants to blow up the No. 7 train. But the team insists any similarity...
BUSH: TIME TO SPLIT UP SCHIZO INS
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush said yesterday he wants Uncle Sam to stop having the same agency hunt and help immigrants - as he made a push to court Latinos and blacks....
CHELSEA GIVES HER MOM A BIG BOOST - JOINS HER AS LAZIO LAUNCHES GAS ATTACK
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amFirst Daughter Chelsea Clinton hit the Senate campaign trail for the first time yesterday, stealing the limelight from her mother and a dozen elected officials at a press conference on...
CHELSEA GIVES HER MOM A BIG BOOST: SHE'LL STUMP FOR HILL 'OFF AND ON'
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amFirst Daughter Chelsea Clinton hit the Senate campaign trail for the first time yesterday, stealing the limelight from her mother and a dozen elected officials at a press conference on...
LAZIO LAUNCHES GAS ATTACK ON CLINTON
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe Senate campaign trail ignited into a gas-price war yesterday as Rick Lazio scorched Hillary Rodham Clinton as a "limousine liberal" who doesn't realize New Yorkers are hurting from high...
SHOOTOUT-FREE EURO 2000 WORTHY GOAL
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - This is probably tempting providence, but it has been a mighty relief to have reached the semifinal stage of Euro 2000 without a single contest being decided via...
KNICKS HOPING GATORS' HARVEY IS THERE FOR THE TAKING AT 22
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amUniversity of Florida coach Billy Donovan said yesterday that the Knicks have "very strong interest" in Donnell Harvey and added he hopes his gritty freshman power forward lands with his...
MILES HAS NETS' ATTENTION
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amRod Thorn, the new Nets' president, is not an advocate of drafting high-schoolers. He feels guys should go to college to grow, mature both physically and emotionally. That is one...
TIGER SHARPENING CLAWS FOR BRIT OPEN
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amIt didn't take long after Tiger Woods annihilated the rest of the world's best golfers at the Pebble Beach U.S. Open for the planet's most dominant athlete to refocus his...
PEGASUS SALE SETS RECORD
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amKentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus has been sold to Coolmore Stud's North American division, Ashford Stud, for a sum rumored to be in the $60-80 million range. The colt, who...
SOSA'S SPOT IN LINEUP STILL TO BE DETERMINED
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES DETROIT - If Sammy Sosa joins the Yankees, the first two questions asked will be: "Where will he play and hit?" Sosa, 31, said last week that he...
NO-ADS MARBURY FIRES FALK
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amYou look at Stephon Marbury and see he has incredible talent, substantial wealth. What else could he want? Endorsements. Marbury doesn't have any. And because of that, he is firing...
BOMBERS BIDING TIME UNTIL BIG BAT ARRIVES
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amDETROIT - Despite a starting rotation that has been without Roger Clemens and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, and includes neophyte Ben Ford, a converted minor league set up man who...
NETS READY TO TURN REINS OVER TO SCOTT ; EX-LAKER STAR TO BE NAMED COACH
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amMagic Johnson saw it right away in Byron Scott. "He's a guy," Johnson said of Scott, a Laker teammate for eight seasons, "who played the game as if he were...
SLUGGER NOT PERFECT BUT A PERFECT FIT
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amTHE smearing of Sammy Sosa in Chicago these past couple of weeks brought to light these truths about the man who won the National League's Most Valuable Player Award in...
SAMMY'S NEARLY HERE: YANKS ON BRINK OF LANDING SOSA, VALDES
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amDETROIT - Welcome to the Summer of Sammy, with many more to come. Having danced a slow waltz with Juan Gonzalez that was nothing more than a big-league tease that...
JOHNSON'S RETURN LIKE A TROT IN THE PARK
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amMark Johnson seemed to forget his home run trot. But who could blame him? His last major league homer came in 1997. So when Johnson, who was recalled yesterday from...
LEITER'S PLACE STILL AS ACE: GUTSY AL SHOWS THERE'S ROOM FOR HAMPTON AND HIM
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amIT was steamier than some of Mike Piazza's fan mail. A half-hour rain delay cooled things off about as much as Fred Wilpon's mood the day the buyout check went...
BELL PROVES COOL, IN OR OUT OF GROOVE
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Derek Bell was tearing up Shea Stadium in April, it was easy for him to smile, hand foul balls to kids in the right-field stands, and entertain teammates with...
LEITER METS' ACE IN HOLE: HAMPTON ADDITION HELPS AL FIND HIS NICHE
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amBOBBY Valentine never has been a proponent of the theory that pitching staffs have leaders. Take Al Leiter, who took the hill in Cincinnati last Oct. 4 in one game...
YANKS TRY TO STAY CLOSE UNTIL BIG BAT ARRIVES
June 27, 2000 | 4:00amDETROIT - Despite a starting rotation that has been without Roger Clemens and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, and includes neophyte Ben Ford, a converted minor league set up man who...