October 14, 2000
EU OK IS MIXED BLESSING FOR SEAGRAM INVESTORS
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amVivendi's planned acquisition of Seagram was given the go-ahead by the European Commission yesterday - but the deal still has two big hurdles: Vivendi's lousy stock price and the sinking...
BIG RICOCHET RALLY LIFTS DOW, NASDAQ
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amIt was the luckiest Friday the 13th Wall Street's had in a long while. Stocks roared back from their worst slump in six months to stamp out signs of rising...
REID IT & WEEP: ARISTA LAYOFFS
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amArista Records Chairman L.A. Reid completed his clean sweep of the old Clive Davis regime yesterday, laying off 12 people from the label. Reid had previously laid off about 15...
VISIT THE 'HOOD
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSeems Mister Rogers has moved - to Staten Island! Or so it seems, now that "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - A Hands-on Exhibit" has come to the Staten Island Children's Museum....
A LOUSY TALE
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amImagine a swarm of creepy, crawly bugs scurrying along your scalp, laying their eggs and sucking your blood. In a few weeks, when their eggs hatch - out come hundreds...
OH, FUDGE! - JUDY BLUME'S STAR CHARACTER LEAPS FROM PAGE TO STAGE
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amHis name is Fudge. And though he's only 4, he's been known to drive people three times his age to distraction - particularly his big brother, Peter. Then again, Peter...
ROLE, NOT FASHION, MODELS THESE DOLLS ARE REAL SPORTS
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE'S a new doll in town, and she can kick Barbie's plastic little butt.Meet Nakia, queen of the hoops, and her Get Real Girl pals - Skylar the snowboarder, surfer...
USING HIS (MR.) NOODLE - ACTOR MICHAEL JETER IS TICKLED TO BE ELMO'S BUMBLING BEST FRIEND
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amIT may ruffle Big Bird's feathers, but Mr. Noodle is "Sesame Street's" fastest rising star. For the past two years, Mr. Noodle has been a featured player in "Elmo's World,"...
SHAQ MAKES GRAND SLAM BY SIGNING $88M DEAL
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amScore another slam dunk for Shaquille O'Neal. O'Neal, who led the Los Angeles Lakers to the NBA championship last spring, has agreed to a three-year contract extension worth the league...
IT'S $UBWAY $ERIOUS - HEVESI: HOME TEAMS COULD NET CITY $245M
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amA Subway Series could mean big bucks for the city - just another reason the Big Apple is the big winner if the Yankees and Mets face off for all...
ADWATCH
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amCANDIDATE: Hillary Rodham Clinton TITLE: "Issues" LENGTH: 30 seconds AIRING: Downstate PRODUCED BY: "Team Hillary" SCRIPT: Announcer: "In the end, it's about the issues. Hillary supports guaranteed prescription-drug coverage for...
S. KOREAN PREZ WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSouth Korean President Kim Dae-jung won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for easing one of the world's last Cold War conflicts. Gunnar Berge, the chairman of the five-member awards committee,...
ROOTING FOR METS A MATTER OF 'PRINCIPAL' AT BX. SCHOOL
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amHis students may adore him, but he doesn't make the grade with them when it comes to his New York baseball loyalties. Nelson Abreu, a diehard Mets fan and a...
CLINTONS RAISING DOUGH BONNIE-AND-CLYDE STYLE; CLINTONS RAISE $$ LIKE THIEVES
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSHOULD we be so surprised that the latest fund-raising scandal shows that Hillary Clinton is to politics what Don King is to boxing? It has now been revealed that Hillary...
MCCAIN BLASTS AL ON RUSSIAN ARMS SALES TO IRANIANS
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mideast kept haunting the presidential race yesterday as Sen. John McCain accused Democrat Al Gore of breaking the law and showing "indefensibly bad judgment" in letting Russia sell arms...
COPS: PERV JANITOR ABUSED SCHOOLGIRL
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amA janitor at a Queens public school twice abused an 8-year-old student in the girls bathroom - and gave her $1, authorities said yesterday. Stanley Ray, 33, was charged with...
EX-COP AWARDED $1.25M IN SEX-BIAS LAWSUIT
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amAn ex-cop won $1.25 million from the city yesterday after a Manhattan jury found the NYPD punished her for filing a sex-harassment claim against her boss. The verdict in Manhattan...
BIN LADEN MADE TAPE VOWING ATTACK
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amInvestigators probing the USS Cole bombing are studying a chilling videotape in which terror boss Osama bin Laden and his henchmen threaten to "move forward" against American forces in the...
COURT GIVES BRUSHOFF TO CITY LEAD-PAINT LAW
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge has overturned the city's controversial lead-paint law after finding the City Council had rammed the measure through without studying its environmental consequences. In a 19-page decision released...
PACIELLO FACES LIFE AFTER PLEA IN S.I. SLAYING
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amClub king Chris Paciello is facing life in prison after admitting yesterday he was the driver in a botched 1993 home invasion that left a Staten Island housewife shot dead....
ACADEMY COP IN APPARENT SUICIDE BID
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amA veteran cop shot himself in the neck in an apparent suicide attempt at the Police Academy yesterday - the gunfire loud enough for a stunned class of more than...
HILL'S GURU EMBROILED IN B'KLYN SCHOOL PROBE
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amTHE political fortunes of two school board members in Brooklyn's District 15 could be tied to an investigation of the embattled superintendent. Board President Mark Peters and member Bill de...
SLAIN HEROES' FINAL TRIP HOME - CLINTON TO BE AT RITES FOR 17 TERROR VICTIMS
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The flag-draped coffins of the first five victims of the Yemen suicide ship-bombing arrive in the United States today as families, friends and Navy officials come to grips...
REMEMBER THE COLE: 17 VALIANT SAILORS - NAVAL KIN STRICKEN BY ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSeveral were only 19 and just starting to live their lives and their dreams. Others were family men, with wives and young kids back home. Two were women. Three followed...
PROTESTERS AT U.N. RALLY AGAINST U.S. & ISRAEL
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amThousands of angry, chanting, placard-waving pro-Palestinian protesters marched to the United Nations yesterday to denounce Israel and U.S. policies on the Middle East. "Shame, shame, U.S.A.!" the throng shouted. One...
HILL'S NAUGHTY XMAS LIST $$-RAISING TACTIC IS CRIMINAL: LAZIO
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amGOP Senate candidate Rick Lazio yesterday accused rival Hillary Rodham Clinton of "committing a crime" by blending hundreds of names from a White House holiday party list into her fund-raising...
COPS: KID HIT AT SCHOOL
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn school monitor was charged yesterday with pummeling a 12-year-old student with a heart condition, who then collapsed and busted open his chin. "Thank God he's alive. I could...
BLOOMBERG JOINS GOP IN PARTY SWITCH
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amMedia mogul Michael Bloomberg has switched his party registration to Republican - which could make it easier for him to run for mayor. Bloomberg had to make the switch by...
HER SAILOR'S SAFE, BUT WHAT OF THE OTHERS?
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amNORFOLK, Va. NICOL PLATTS was looking for a place in the shadows, a place away from the crowd and the music and festivities of Fleet Week - a joyous celebration...
GETTIN' SUBWAY SERIOUS - YANKEES TOP SEATTLE TO GRAB SERIES LEAD
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amThe chances of a Subway Series keep getter better and better. By beating Seattle 8-2 last night, the Yankees took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven American League Championship Series...
HERO RESCUES KIDS FROM TRAGIC WRECK - FATHER DIES IN COLLISION IN E. HARLEM
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amAn off-duty postal worker rushed to the rescue of two Queens kids trapped in a mangled car after a crash last night that killed the children's father in East Harlem....
HISTORY? BOMBERS NOT DONE MAKING IT
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - The noise was a player over the final three games of the 1995 Division Series, just as much as Ken Griffey Jr. was. The Kingdome was an echoing...
CONE STAYS STOIC THROUGH CRUELEST OCTOBER
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - David Cone waits with conflicting desires. He is a Yankee and wants the team to win. So he hopes that Joe Torre has to use nothing but starters...
SEATTLE FANS STILL HAVE SERIES FEVER
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Apparently, Callysta May Coyne was born a Mariners fan. Because three weeks later, she showed up in line for World Series tickets outside Safeco Field wearing M's colors....
JOE SHOWIN' SIGNS OF SUBWAY FEVER - EVEN TORRE ADMITS N.Y.-N.Y. BATTLE WOULD BE ELECTRIC
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - His team still needed three wins to hold up its end of the deal, while the Mets have to get two more to make a Subway Series possible....
OLERUD TELLS A-ROD APPLE'S NOT ROTTEN
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - John Olerud obviously wants Alex Rodriguez to remain a Mariner. However, when the All-Star shortstop asked Olerud's opinion of playing in New York, Olerud didn't paint...
M'S CLOSE DOOR ON SHADOW QUESTIONS
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amMARINER NOTES SEATTLE - So much for shadows. The talk of the town on Thursday, at least inside Safeco Field, was how much the setting sun would affect hitters over...
SUTTON PLANS TO STICK THIS TIME
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amKANATA, Ontario - Unique in Devils history, Ken Sutton is the extreme example of how the team develops its players in the minors. The only player acquired three times by...
SRWB MULLS SUSPENDING SEREY
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amThe N.Y. State Racing and Wagering Board is looking into the possibility of suspending trainer Juan Serey, second in New York this year with 45 victories, over a Superior Court...
UNBEATEN UTES TEST WAGNER
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amALAN BALKAN is trying to keep his team level-headed before it plays Wagner tomorrow, but he knows that is much easier said than done. "We're treating this like any other...
MITCHELL PASSES TEST BUT NOT CATCHING ON
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amThe ball sailed through the air, cutting through the clear blue sky, traveling some 40 yards before landing directly into the black garbage can. Pete Mitchell thrust his arms upward...
GARRETT PLAYS EYE SPY ON OLD MATES
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES He laughed at the suggestion that he was serving as a spy this week, but Jason Garrett knows too much about the Cowboys to be ignored. Garrett yesterday...
VINNY WAITING FOR THE GROH AHEAD VINNY WAITING FOR GROH CALL
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amIn dealing with this delicate quarterback issue entering tomorrow's critical get-back-on-track versus spiral-off-course AFC East rematch with the Patriots in Foxboro, Al Groh has in his hands a lit bottle...
FONZIE HAS CARDS RIGHT IN HIS PALM
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Edgardo Alfonzo had an ace bandage wrapped around his left hand, but he doesn't expect the bruise on the bottom of the palm of his glove hand to...
CANADIAN ON SCREEN AT BELMONT
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amThere will be a live 10-race card at Belmont Park tomorrow, but there will also be a simulcast of the Grade 1 $1,500,000 Canadian International at a mile-and-a-half from Woodbine....
FANS CAN SMELL CARDS' BLOOD
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amNOT a cloud dotted the sky and the temperature stood at a perfect 68 degrees. No planes roared overhead. Only the distant rumbling of the seven-train and the sound of...
REED NEEDS A TRUMP CARD TODAY
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amIf the Cards can be optimistic about anything, it's that Rick Reed is pitching today at Shea. While most teams wouldn't have reason to feel that way, St. Louis has...
LA RUSSA STICKS BY USE OF MCGWIRE
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amIf the Cardinals wind up losing this NLCS, the lasting image could be that of Mark McGwire with a bat on his shoulders, unable to do anything with it. During...
CUP PREVIEW IS STAR-PACKED
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amThis afternoon's Breeders' Cup Preview at Belmont Park is the most star-packed day of racing in New York all year, with five major preps for the Nov. 4 Breeders' Cup...
BENNY, JAY TAKE LONG WAY TO TOP
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amBENNY AGBAYANI was a week away from giving up on his baseball career. This was 1996 when he was at Double-A Binghamton. Agbayani was hitting about .170 and thinking it...
VAN HORN SINGS BYRON'S PRAISES
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amForgive Keith Van Horn if he stops and looks at the front of his uniform jersey time and time again. See, this preseason just doesn't feel like the Nets. "I...
CAMBY CENTERS ON HIMSELF
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amMarcus Camby still likes to point out the challenge he faces as the Knicks' starting center: Staying mentally into a game despite Jeff Van Gundy not feeling comfortable enough to...
GOTTA GO FOR KILL METS CAN'T EASE UP
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amIT HAS been 14 long years since Bill Buckner. But Mookie Wilson can give these Amazin' Again Mets a history lesson about 1986. And that lesson goes like this: when...
EVEN YANKEE EYES ON METS
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amTHE troops have landed. No, not the Mets at Shea and their bloodthirsty fans, but the Yankees scouts. In the first two games of the NLCS in St. Louis, the...
DOIG'S NO LOCK TO STICK IN LINEUP
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - A year ago, it was pretty obvious that Jason Doig had no margin for error with a head coach who knew he needed to make the playoffs in...
ISLES' 'SAVIOR' IS ONE HAPPY FAN
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amWhen he takes his seat in the Coliseum tonight for the Islanders' home opener against the Flames, Bob Ceparano expects to feel a sense of satisfaction. As a long-time anguished...
OTTAWA SAILS PAST SLUGGISH DEVILS
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amKANATA, Ontario - The absences have now hurt. It didn't take long for Jason Arnott and Scott Niedermayer to be missed. In only their second game of the season, the...
CONE REMAINS STOIC
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - David Cone waits with conflicting desires. He is a Yankee and wants the team to win. So he hopes Joe Torre has to use nothing but starters and...
SELE CAN'T SHAKE CURSE OF YANKEES
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Aaron Sele's outing wasn't that much different than his other postseason starts against the Yankees. The bottom line, for the third straight season, was a loss. "That was...
ABBOTT'S JOURNEY NEARS END
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Paul Abbott and Roger Clemens have a couple of things in common. One, they're both major league right-handed pitchers. Two ... Wait a minute, there is no two....
MARINERS HAUNTED BY BULLPEN BLUES
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amMARINER NOTES SEATTLE - Reminiscent of years gone by, the Mariners' bullpen has been terrible. In the last two games, the Seattle pen has surrendered 11 of the 15 runs...
YANKS MAKE SAFECO A HALFWAY HOUSE - HOMERS, GUTTY PETTITTE LEAD TO GAME 3 ROUT
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - A pair of wins and the Yankees' seats on the Subway Series Express running between Queens and The Bronx will be reserved. Then it's up to the Mets...
ANTICIPATING ROGER ANDY PICKS UP YANKS
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Andy Pettitte didn't blink for eight innings against John Smoltz in 1996, winning a 1-0 duel that was one of the best-pitched games in World Series history. Twice...
MARIANO ECLIPSES WHITEY'S ZERO STREAK
October 14, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - Mariano Rivera's smile filled the Yankees' clubhouse at Safeco Field last night. Having just eclipsed Whitey Ford's postseason scoreless innings streak, Rivera was asked to explain...