September 16, 2000
INDEXES ARE HIT; ALL FALL DOWN
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amStocks are still losers for the year. Despite the first drop in August consumer prices in 14 years, Wall Street suffered its second straight losing week, rattled by soaring oil...
DOT-COMMERS GET DOT-GONE - TECH FIRMS AX HUNDREDS OF WORKERS
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amIt was Pink Slip Friday in the new economy yesterday, as layoffs affected dot-commers across the board. From the Alley to the Valley, khaki-clad clones were saying bye-bye to the...
ICAHN THROWS DICE ON CLARIDGE
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amLegendary casino boss Arthur Goldberg has cut back on his work but isn't too tired to battle Carl Icahn in a grudge fight for Atlantic City's smallest casino. Goldberg, who's...
THEY TRASH ASH
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amJesse. James. They may not be Bonnie and Clyde, but to Pokemon fans, Jesse and James - Team Rocket - are cosmic villains. Their battles with Ash, who strives to...
GETTING BEYOND PEANUT BUTTER
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amIt's barely three weeks into the school year - and already you're suffering from lunchbox meltdown. You're not alone. Even the experts sometimes come up short. One food writer we...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI GOES INTO TRAINING TO PLAY A JEWISH MOTHER WEIGHTY CULTURAL BAGGAGE
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amISABELLA Rossellini has done many things in many movies - but only in "Left Luggage," opening next week, does she cry out, "Meshuga!"And if it seems crazy hearing Yiddish in...
HERE'S A POLITICAL STORY OF 'O'
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amLET'S travel east of the Sun and west of "The West Wing" to the political-cartoon landscape. I caught the first episode of the Kids' WB new fall show "Generation O!,"...
WIFE'S JOB RAISES ETHICS WOE FOR B'KLYN BUILDINGS BIG
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amA TOP official at the beleaguered Buildings Department has violated an ethics ruling that allows his wife to run a business "expediting" paperwork through the agency. Tarek Zeid, Brooklyn borough...
BALLISTIC BILL WILL CALL RENO ON CARPET
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amPresident Clinton escalated his cold war with Attorney Janet Reno yesterday - calling for a one-on-one meeting to hash out her controversial prosecution and jailing of a Los Alamos nuclear...
DISARMING MACHINE: COP LOSES GUN IN MRI
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amGuns and MRIs don't mix. That's what an off-duty Rochester cop found out this week when he went to a clinic for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging test. The cop told...
SCHOOLS BOSS HAS LIEBERMAN DAUGHTER ON ED. BD. PAYROLL
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy won't have a problem reaching the White House if the Gore-Lieberman ticket wins the election. Levy recently hired Joseph Lieberman's daughter Rebecca, a lawyer, as a...
CUNY MAKING 'HISTORY' WITH NEW CURRICULUM
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The State Board of Regents yesterday approved a controversial plan that could lead to a core curriculum for CUNY undergraduates to learn American history and philosophy. The board,...
POLLARD'S WIFE TO LOBBY N.Y. SENATE BY ANDY SOLTIS
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amJonathan Pollard's wife denounced the way his case has become an issue in the New York Senate race - but said she wants to meet with Hillary Clinton or Rick...
AUSSIES RING IN DAZZLING GAMES
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Australia launched the first Olympiad of the 21st century with a surreal extravaganza that underscored Sydney's claim for recognition as one of the great cities of the world....
DARA OUT TO SWIM ONE FOR THE AGES
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amShe's been out of the water for seven years, but model, broadcast commentator and Tae Bo infomercial diva Dara Torres is back in her element - and swimming faster than...
A FAT 250G 'DONATION' TO GOP GOES A'BOUNCIN'
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amA 34-year-old Russian-American businessman's effort to join the ranks of big-league campaign donors ended in embarrassment when his record $250,000 check to the Republican Party bounced. Alexander Shustorovich, who is...
DEPUTIES IN AGREEMENT: THERE'S NO SUBSTITUTE
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani may be taking off a few days to recuperate from cancer treatment, but he'll still be making all the important decisions in city government. In announcing his status...
COMBO RX THE 'AGGRESSIVE' APPROACH
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amThe treatment chosen by Mayor Giuliani - five weeks of radiation after seed implantation - could mean he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer, experts said yesterday. "It's common...
PREZ: OIL 'SPIKE' WON'T FUEL A RECESSION
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amPresident Clinton assured the nation yesterday he sees no threat of a recession anytime soon because of soaring oil prices. The president pledged he would "do everything I can to...
DONNA PLAYING SUPPORTING ROLE IN FAMILY DRAMA
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's estranged wife Donna Hanover and their two kids head to Atlanta this weekend for a family wedding - while he recuperates at Gracie Mansion from yesterday's prostate-cancer procedure....
LEVY: SOME KIDS GOT FREE PASS ON SUMMER TESTS
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy admitted yesterday that some students who attended summer school were promoted without taking exams. Levy's bombshell comes just days after schools investigator Ed Stancik's office confirmed...
HEY, RICK, THE VOTING AGE IS 18
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amRiding high after a day of campaigning at Long Island schools, Rick Lazio flubbed the voting age - telling grade-schoolers he wished "all of you were 21 years old" so...
TEEN NABBED IN WILD WEST SIDE CRASH
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen driving with a suspended license barreled into scaffolding at the Port Authority Bus Terminal yesterday, injuring three people - and tried to bolt from the bloody scene,...
HILL GETS A LESSON ON SCHOOL REGS
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amTrying to capitalize on her first campaign stop with Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman, Hillary Rodham Clinton's ad crew apparently violated school regulations yesterday by filming in a junior...
RUDY 'FEELING GOOD' AFTER TREATMENT DOCTORS IMPLANT 90 RADIOACTIVE SEEDS INTO HIZZONER'S PROSTATE
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani got radioactive seeds implanted in his cancerous prostate gland yesterday, but he took it in stride - going for a stroll to rent some movies just hours after...
BOARD MAKES CREW WORK FOR HIS PENSION
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amFormer Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew said he's evaluating the performance of school district superintendents for the Board of Education in order to qualify for his city pension. "I'm in the...
BOARD OF ED STAFFERS GET LOW MARKS
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amSchool officials gave the Board of Education's personnel office an "F" for responsiveness in the first professional survey of its central operations. In all, more than 1,000 school administrators, principals,...
DEMS ASKED GORE TO PUT THE BITE ON EIGHT LAWYERS
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amAl Gore was asked to hit up at least eight fat-cat trial lawyers for donations during the 1996 presidential race - just before President Clinton vetoed two bills that would...
HEALTH DEPT. KEPT WATER FEARS BOTTLED FOR A WEEK
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amThe Big Apple was kept in the dark about the contaminated bottled-water crisis for a week because the Health Department failed to tell City Hall what it knew. The foul-up...
GREAT BP GETS DARRYL IN LINEUP
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - They must be trying to figure who is right. That's the only explanation. Bobby Valentine decided to change his mind, at least for last night, on...
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER - AMAZIN' RELIEVERS GET HOT AT RIGHT TIME
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amMONTREAL - They are getting ready for the Braves on Monday. Their bats appear to becoming around and the bullpen appears to be getting set up perfectly. "We had a...
U.S. CUP COACH, CAPTAIN BANNED
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amThe U.S. still has a pair of must-win games in this semifinal round of World Cup qualifying, but it will have to play them without its captain or its coach....
JUSTICE STILL BIG TRIBE FAN
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amYANK NOTES Everywhere you looked last night David Justice was talking with an Indian uniform. Justice may have been dealt to the Yankees by the Tribe on June 29, but...
YOUNG DBS EXPECT A WORKOUT
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The names of Emmanuel McDaniel, Reggie Stephens and perhaps even Omar Stoutmire figure to be heard early and often tomorrow afternoon, as that group of unheralded defensive backs...
BIG BLUE OFFENSE WINNING OVER 'D'
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amAs determined as he is to maintain perspective about all this, all it takes is a reminder of the past to get Keith Hamilton going. And going. As the longest-tenured...
UNBEATEN JETS NOT SO SPECIAL RETURN TEAMS STRUGGLING
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Al Groh broke into the NFL in 1987 as a special teams coach with the Falcons, he recalled being more nervous for that debut than he was for his...
HEAT EYE BRUNSON, MURDOCK
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amA current Knick or an ex-Net could prove to be the answer for Pat Riley as his third string point guard in Miami. As added insurance behind still unsigned and...
MURPHY'S DO-OVER CALL HITS THE FAN
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amOh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.Walter Scott, 1808 Bob Murphy, calling the Brewers-Mets game on WFAN Wednesday, botched the call of Jay Payton's...
MITCHELL HAS A SHOT YOUNG DEVIL WANTS JOB
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amWILKES-BARRE - The task of repairing the Stanley Cup champions' defense begins tonight, and the Devils hope to give rookie Willie Mitchell the thumbs up, as they give him double...
YAPPIN' GATORS, VOLS AT OBNOXIOUS BEST
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amKNOXVILLE, Tenn. - It's taken 11 years, but Steve Spurrier's program is so entrenched at Florida the head coach no longer has to run his mouth before a big game....
CHREBET INJURY ACCOUNT RAISES QUESTIONS
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES While casually recounting his comeback from the strained right leg that nearly kept him out of Monday night's game, Wayne Chrebet yesterday revealed that he spent time in...
BREEDERS' CUP CONTEST ON TAP
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amThe NTRA launched an internet-based contest promoting the Nov. 4 Breeders' Cup Championship at Churchill Downs. The sweepstakes offers fans the opportunity to win $1 million by correctly selecting the...
STRAW TEST SHOWS ONLY LEGAL DRUGS
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amDarryl Strawberry's insistence that illegal drug use wasn't the reason he was involved in an auto accident Monday were backed up yesterday. The Post has learned that drug tests done...
TOMMY'S UP DOWN UNDER
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Tommy Lasorda's enthusiasm has no borders. He has taken his road show international and lost none of the preacher/clown/salesman aspects of his spiel. The man who spent a...
NOT NBC BUT JTV SYDNEY GAMES WILL BE ALL JONES ALL THE TIME
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - These are being referred to as the Green Games since an attempt at environmental friendliness is part of the plan. These are the first Olympics of the new...
KNIGHTS ARE SIMPLY BETTER
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amH.S. FOOTBALLKennedy 14 Curtis 0 It took Jerry Horowitz awhile to figure it all out. Kennedy's head coach, who led the Knights to three PSAL titles in the 1990's, liked...
KNOBBY, TINO TAKE A BREAK
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amJoe Torre didn't think it was a big deal. Ditto GM Brian Cashman. And Chuck Knoblauch made it three voices saying the elbow problem that kept him out of last...
HAMILTON PASSES TEST ON SORE TOE
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Bobby Valentine and Darryl Hamilton were trying to figure who was right last night. It turns out they both were. Valentine decided to change his mind for a...
ANOTHER CONE MELTDOWN
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amDespite the latest piece of Internet rubbish that reported otherwise, Joe Torre's post-season pitching staff isn't set. Sure, you can guess Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte will pitch the first...
ACHING HIP BENCHES O'NEILL
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Paul O'Neill has had it with an aching hip that will get another cortisone shot today and will be rested for possibly a week by Joe Torre. "At...
A BILINGUAL BUMMER - TURK CAN'T PROTECT LEAD FOR LEITER IN MONTREAL
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Last night was about the wrong homer. The Mets knew it. They also knew they shouldn't have lost to the Expos, 4-3. They knew the story should've been...
AUSSIE SHARKS MIGHT HARBOUR A GRUDGE GOLD'S NOT ONLY THING ON TRIATHLETES' MINDS
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - I'm going to try to put this as delicately as I can: It's awfully tough to complete the three legs of a triathlon if you come out of...
STARS WORK OT TO TAKE OPENER
September 16, 2000 | 4:00amThe MetroStars have already accomplished much in this worst-to-first season, going from the worst mark in MLS history to their first Eastern Conference regular-season crown. But their dreams are of...