October 23, 2000
GE BUYING HONEYWELL FOR $45B
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amGeneral Electric's Jack Welch got his way over the weekend, snatching up Honeywell International for $45 billion plus assumed debt. Welch also surprised industry watchers by revealing he will stay...
IT'S A BUYER'S MARKET
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN market sentiment turns bearish, the best long-term investment strategy is to buy. That's right, buy -- not sell. Call it the contrarian market sentiment indicator: When more people are...
QUEEN OF THE INTERNET DETHRONED
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Midas touch was a myth. But, for the last few years, you certainly couldn't blame Mary Meeker for thinking otherwise. Every tech stock this star Morgan Stanley analyst touched...
NEW SEC RULE UNNERVES MARKET
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amWondering why so many companies pre-announced earnings in recent weeks -- before their actual profit reports came out? One reason may be that a new Securities and Exchange Commission rule...
CITIGROUP PROTESTORS NEVER SLEEP
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amBIGGER is better -- especially for protesters who are choosing their targets. Take, for example, Citigroup, which has come under attack from a number of groups like the Rainforest Action...
QUACK, QUACK
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amIF you call the toll-free number for National Discount Brokers, you can place a trade order, open a new account, speak to a customer-service representative -- or hear a duck...
LORD TENNYSON'S CHECKS? SURE -- IF YOU HAVE A CREDIT CARD
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amMOST people with checking accounts take the cheap, plain checks supplied for a small fee by the bank. Others opt to buy checks with background photos of kittens or puppies...
HOW TO PROFIT FROM A CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
October 23, 2000 | 4:00am'Tis almost the season for giving -- and non-profits have a gift idea for mid-to high-income Americans looking for a tax break. It's called a Charitable Remainder Trust -- or...
TAXES MADE SIMPLE
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHE good news is that capital gains taxes are going down. The bad news is that the tax cut only applies to some taxpayers. Oh, and it only applies to...
PUTTING YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amWHETHER you're looking to match your shoes with a charcoal pin-striped suit or studded lime-green leather jeans, Warren Edwards will customize footwear to fit any fashion scheme -- even if...
BAD FUNDS CAN BE SKELETON IN CLOSET OF GOOD FUNDS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHE fund industry is busily burying its dead. As I wrote in this space last week, the mutual fund business is undergoing a major shakeout, with many underperforming funds being...
THE SHAREHOLDERS ARE GONNA GRILL THE CEO OF DRUGSTORE.COM -- WITH REASON
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amDRUGSTORE.COM CEO Peter Neupert could be a little hoarse by the end of the week. After all, he's got a lot of explaining to do. The company will post its...
WILL ICAHN MAKE A MOVE ON PARK PLACE ENTERTAINMENT?
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amCAN Park Place Entertainment stay as big as it is after the death of its chief executive? Arthur Goldberg, who was recently described by Fortune as the king of casinos,...
MERCEDES MAY ROLL IN BRYANT PARK FASHION TENTSDMI: MARION CURTIS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amGeneral Motors may be roaring out of the fashion tents, but Mercedes Benz is ready to roll in. GM is officially dropping its sponsorship of the 7th on Sixth fashion...
THE STARR REPORT
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amBabs, Geddie gassed for Vanzant vehicle Barbara Walters has beaten Oprah Winfrey to the punch, inking best-selling motivational/relationship author Iyanla Vanzant to host a syndicated, one-hour talk show for Buena...
'ALLY' GETS A RISE OUT OF DOWNEY
October 23, 2000 | 4:00am"Ally McBeal" Tonight at 9 on Fox/Ch. 5 Scenes with Robert Downey Jr. ROBERT Downey Jr. contributes so much charisma to his scenes in "Ally McBeal" that it seems as...
FEAST OF RICHES FOR EAR AND EYE
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHE LEGEND OF TAMARCity Center, 55th Street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues; (212) 581-1212. Through Oct. 22. GORGEOUS women gliding across the stage in stately majesty, wild-eyed warriors clashing swords...
TEACHER'S PET: DAVID E. KELLLEY COMES UP WITH A NEW CLASS OF HIGH SCHOOL SHOW - IT'S ABOUT THE GROWN UPS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00am"Boston Public" Tonight at 8 on Fox One teacher fires a gun in the classroom, a principal slams a kid's head into a locker over and over again, a male...
READ BETWEEN THE TINES
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amTO learn from the new 2001 Survey of New York City Restaurants, get past the obvious: We're all spending more, and enjoying it more, on an ever-more colorful array of...
'POTATO' IS HALF-BAKED
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amBIG POTATODuke Theatre, 229 W. 42nd St. Telecharge: (212) 239-6200. Or the Jewish Repertory Theatre box office at the Duke. THE phone rang at noon, and it was announced that...
POWER BABES ARE GO - IT'S OFFICIAL
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amI LOVE women who are strong - not Bulgarian weightlifter strong, but women who are independent and assertive.These strong, not-so-silent types, don't feel they need to rely on me, which...
ZAGAT 2001: A TASTE ODYSSEY
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHE people have spoken. And it's not Al, Dubya, Rick or Hillary they've elected - they've voted Union Square Cafe their favorite eatery in the new Zagat 2001 New York...
PATAKI PUSHED OUT LABOR COMMISH
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amSTATE Labor Commissioner James McGowan was told to resign or be fired Friday after a bitter behind-the-scenes battle with aides to Gov. Pataki, The Post has learned. McGowan's "resignation" was...
THE SIGNS OF A GORE MELTDOWN ; SINKING POLLS AND POINTING FINGERS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S beginning to sound like 1992 all over again - only this time those expressing desperate hope in the face of increasingly bad news are the Democrats backing Al Gore,...
CAN VEEP AFFORD TO BE 'HIS OWN MAN'?
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amAL GORE finds himself between a Little Rock and a hard place. As he finds difficulty climbing those slippery polls, does he go it alone in the next 15 days?...
SEAMEN IN S.I. TRIBUTE TO SLAIN COLE HEROES
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amOfficers and sailors of the USS Monterey joined a ceremony at Staten Island's Home Port yesterday to mourn the 17 sailors killed and 39 wounded in the terror attack on...
GOP GOVS UNITE FOR BUSH PUSH
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe nation's Republican governors came to Texas to kick off a novel blitz for George W. Bush yesterday - a "Barnstorm for Reform" tour of the nation for what Bush...
METRO-NORTH FIRE SLOWS DOWN 'SUBWAY' COMMUTE
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amA fire in a Metro-North tunnel shut down the railroad for several hours yesterday, creating chaos for baseball fans looking to go to the Subway Series. Nobody was injured in...
MANHATTAN PROTEST RIPS COPS OVER ABUSE
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amAmid chalk outlines symbolic of bodies, hundreds of protesters rallied in Manhattan against police brutality yesterday as part of a nationwide demonstration against law-enforcement abuse. Led by Saikou Diallo, whose...
'GREAT GUY' BX. FATHER IS KILLED IN HIT-RUN: COPS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amA Bronx father of two was killed yesterday by a driver who fled the scene of the tragedy - then had a change of heart and turned himself in, police...
BATTLE OF NEW YORK HEATS UP: FANS: SERIES IS HUGE FOR BOTH METS, YANKS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe city was as charged as a third rail yesterday with Big Apple baseball fans juiced with Subway Series electricity. "It's more important than the other World Series. It's such...
DID ANNA NICOLE SNUB BUTTAFUOCO?
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amBlond bombshell Anna Nicole Smith claimed she was too good to appear in a movie with Joey Buttafuoco, the film's jilted producer claims. Producer Vince Offer says the former Playboy...
HOW GORE, BUSH DIFFER ON RESCUING SCHOOLS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amDay 2: Education Second in a weeklong series that looks in depth at the presidential candidates' stand on critical issues. In their own ways, Democrat Al Gore and Republican George...
BUSH HAS A BETTER PLAN ON VOUCHERS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amDay 2 - Education DURING the other night's presidential debate, according to The New York Times, George W. Bush "was most passionate when he discussed education." Which is entirely appropriate....
MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHE WEEK AHEAD: Republican George W. Bush seems to be solidifying his lead nationally and gaining in key states, so the question is whether Democrat Al Gore can find a...
MILLENNIUM JACKPOT HITS $110M
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amNew York's Millennium Millions lottery jackpot just made history - rising to a state record $110 million. There were no winners after Saturday night's drawing for the lottery's $90 million...
LIZA GRAVELY ILL WITH BRAIN DISEASE
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amLiza Minnelli, who was rushed back to the hospital after being briefly released last week, is suffering from encephalitis, a deadly disease of the brain, The Post has learned. Minnelli's...
AL RESISTS PRESSURE TO PLAY CLINTON CARD - AS BILL HINTS GORE LET W. OFF THE HOOK IN DEBATE BATTLES
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amPressure mounted yesterday on Al Gore to bring in Bill to bail him out - but even as the Gore camp said no, President Clinton forced his way in again....
AD ACTORS' STRIKE OVER
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe longest actors strike in history is apparently over. A rep for the unions yesterday said the groups had reached a tentative pact with advertisers over what actors would be...
HILL & RICK HEALTH-'CLUBBED' - TRADE BLOWS OVER HER FAILED '94 PLAN
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amA health-care battle broke out on the Senate campaign trail yesterday, as Hillary Rodham Clinton traded barbs with GOP rival Rick Lazio over the first lady's doomed 1994 reform initiative....
STEWARDESS-SLAY PUZZLE - IDAHO COPS EYEING SERIAL KILLER IN TRAGIC L.I. WOMAN'S CASE
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amMURDERED Long Island flight attendant Lynn Henneman's tragic journey came to an end under a slate-gray Montana sky. At a memorial service in her adopted hometown of Bozeman, Mont. -...
ISBISTER'S GOT GOAL FEVER AGAIN
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Putting aside his bitterness about the Islanders' embarrassingly cheap take-it-or-see-you-next-year contract offer, Brad Isbister has suddenly re-emerged as a goal-scoring force. After meekly going scoreless in the first...
RICE GETS GOOD NEWS ON MRI ; SORE KNEE HAS KNICK DAY-TO-DAY
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amFirst, the bad news: Glen Rice, hobbled with a bruised left knee, sat out of Knicks' practice again yesterday at Purchase. Now, the good news: The Knicks announced that an...
JOHNSON'S VOLPONI EXPRESSBUMPS OFF BAPTIZE
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amVolponi, in Italian, means "wise old fox," and yesterday - getaway day of the fall championship meet at Belmont Park - a wise old fox of a trainer, 75-year-old Hall...
METS, YANKS GET PUMPED SWINGIN' TO FAVORITE HITS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amIf Derek Jeter has a spring in his step as he strolls up to the plate these days, it may be more than the glory of the Subway Series that...
BULLPENS HOLD KEY TO SERIES SUCCESS - SOLID RELIEF CORPS MAKE BOMBERS TOUGH TO BEAT
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Yankees win the late innings, so they win post-season games. Close and October has favored them for five years now. Paint the seventh inning and on in pinstripes. "Obviously...
'MRS. OCTOBER' FINDS CAPE'S JUST THE TICKET
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amIf Dracula were a baseball fan he would surely find Jessie Foyla's cape to be a work of art. Foyla, an 85-year-old retired secretary from Philadelphia, has made it her...
TIGER HELPS U.S. BRING HOME CUP
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amGAINSVILLE, Va. - It's doesn't take much to get Tiger Woods' competitive juices flowing, but when he arrived at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club for the final day of...
FANS LATE TO BED, EARLY TO RISE
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amStaying up late to watch the Subway Series is fine - as New Yorkers, it's expected - but you better make it to work on time. That's what bosses around...
GROH & GANG GREEN LOOK AT BIG PICTURE ; JETS KNOW LEAD ONLY MATTERS AT END
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amAl Groh likes to look at the big picture and he likes his players to think big with him. He doesn't believe in his players falling into a state of...
VAN SAYS EFFORT'S COMING UP SHORT
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES They say it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but rather the size of the fight in the dog. "We play as if we have...
GROH & GANG GREEN LOOK AT BIG PICTURE: BAXTER COULDA HAD 200G - AND BEEN PART OF SERIES
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES There's one player in tonight's Jets-Dolphins game at Giants Stadium who's had a particular eye on the Subway Series. Jets tight end Fred Baxter was a seventh-round draft...
TORRE'S WIFE A YANKS STRESS MANAGER
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amAli Torre began this World Series week with an 8 a.m. phone call on Saturday from a relative asking about hotel arrangements. Ali and husband Joe, the Yankee skipper, attended...
SEARCHING FOR CASUALTIES IN NEW YORK'S CIVIL WAR
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amJIM Rome's L.A.-based "Last Word" take on the Subway Series, last week, while visceral, was hysterical: "Contrary to what many think, this is going to play outside of New York....
VICK MAKES ALL THE RIGHT MOVES ; TECH QB KNOWS HE'S NOT READY FOR PROS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amIN THE last two weeks Virginia Tech quarterback Michael Vick made two decisions, one unofficial, the other official, that were the wisest choices he could have made. First, Vick took...
THEY WROTE THE SONGS: LOU STALLMAN AND RUTH ROBERTS HAVE MADE THE WHOLE CITY SING FOR YEARS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amJust call it chin music.Diehard Mets fan Ruth Roberts, who penned the Amazin's popular theme song "Meet the Mets," and her Yankee counterpart, Lou Stallman, are battling over whose team...
LOOKING MORE LIKE CONE FOR GAME 4
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amJoe Torre was going to wait until the end of last night's Game 2 to name his Game 4 starter, but more and more it looked like Torre was leaning...
ABBOTT DOESN'T LIKE CALL
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amKurt Abbott wanted to make it clear that he wasn't ripping home plate ump Charlie Reliford. The Mets' reserve infielder just said the last call Reliford made last night -...
TIMO TRIES TO LEAVE BLUNDER BEHIND
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe irony was thick and clear, that the young outfielder who become a fan favorite at Shea Stadium because of his daring postseason baserunning was taking heat for dogging it...
ROGER PLAYS HEAD GAMES: PUTS INSIDE HEAT ON METS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHE inside story on Roger Clemens and the Mets is that he claims to have friends inside those closed doors. "I've got four or five buddies on that team," he...
THE BIG HITS KEEP COMIN' FOR BENNY
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amBenny Agbayani is putting his money where his mouth wasn't. Agbayani went into Subway Series Game 2, trying to extend his postseason hitting streak to 12 games. The World Series...
ZEILE ADMITS METS GAVE AWAY GAME 1
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe boxscore said first baseman Todd Zeile and his Mets played crisp, errorless baseball in Saturday's Subway Series opener. They know better. Zeile went 2-for-4, and the Amazin's weren't charged...
METS LEARN TO COPE WITH BENITEZ-PHOBIA
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHE World Series is no time to learn that it is best to run all-out, all the time with two outs, unless the umpire signals the play dead. The umpire...
RUSCH COULD HAVE BEEN AMAZIN' HERO
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amGlendon Rusch didn't have time to be nervous in his World Series debut. Rusch was running in from the left-field bullpen before he knew what to think. In the 10th...
THE SNORE OF THE CROWD: FAT CATS ARE PRICING OUT REAL BASEBALL FANS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 1 of the World Series, the first stop in a seven-stop subway ride to a championship, had just about everything a baseball game could offer. It had quantity -...
STANTON: NO BIG DEAL SHAKING OFF THE RUST
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amIt's not like you have to pitch in the ALCS to have a good World Series performance. Mike Stanton proved that in the Yankees 4-3 victory early yesterday morning in...
CLEMENS SIMPLY JUST LOST IT
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amYOU have to be a Rocket Scientist to know what Roger Clemens possibly could have been thinking. He sawed off Mike Piazza with a 1-2 fastball on the inside corner...
BEANBALL SUB-PLOT DOMINATES GAME 2 OF SUBWAY SERIES
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amLess than two dozen hours after the pulsating end to Game 1 of the Subway Series, the Yankees and Mets played each other in Game 2 last night at Yankee...
PLAYERS' BIG HUSTLE: RUNNING HARD NOW OPTIONAL
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amPERHAPS the most startling facet of Game 1 of the 2000 World Series is that it can be shown as a "Things You Don't Do" basic training film to every...
TORRE'S MAGIC TOUCH TURNS TEAMS GOLDEN
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amIS IT it luck? Is it divine intervention? Is it knowing more than the next guy, in this case Bobby Valentine? Last year it was Bobby Cox. The year before...
YANKS CAN'T OUTFOX 'EM
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amABSTRACT: The Yankees tried to exert their influence yesterday to get Fox from using Roger Clemens' regular-season beaning of Mike Piazza as part of the promos for Game 2. However,...
PRADO, MOTT KINGS OF BELMONT
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amJockey Edgar Prado and trainer Bill Mott finished as the big winners as the Belmont Fall Championship Meet concluded yesterday. Prado held off Jerry Bailey, 38-36, in victories, for his...
REVVED-UP FRIARS SCALE THE MOUNT
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amSt. Anthony's 40 Mount 17 After two possessions yesterday, St. Anthony's had run two plays. Both went for touchdowns. The Friars' third drive went three-and-out and was followed by a...
LIFE LESSONS AND BASEBALL ; NEW GUIDE FOR SERIES WATCHERS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amAFEW years ago, a journeyman philosopher named Robert Fulghum wrote a surprise bestseller called "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things." In...
RICHTER'S NOT THE ANSWER ; RANGERS' INCOMPLETE EFFORT DOOMS GOALIE'S DEBUT
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amLightning 4 Rangers 2 How do you really assess a game in which the teams skate five-on-five for only 24:31 of the first 51:56 and play through 18 power plays...
HOT PIAZZA TURNS ROCKET INTO BATMAN - THERE'S NO ROOM IN GAME FOR THIS MADMAN'S ACTIONS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amIT IS not the Mets' jobs to ask why that emotionally disturbed teenager, Roger Clemens, a ball of unbridled rage, did what he did last night. It is the Mets'...
MET FANS: WE STILL BELIEVE - FAITHFUL COUNTING ON HOME COOKING
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amThey started out the night crying foul. They ended it crying in their beer. Game 2 was an exercise in fury and frustration for Met fans as they watched Roger...
HARRIS: I'LL PUNCH ROGER IN THE MOUTH
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amLenny Harris said if he sees Roger Clemens he wants to punch him in the mouth. John Franco called Clemens an "idiot." Basically the little respect the Mets had for...
BOMBER BATS WORTH THEIR WAIT IN COLD - PATIENCE PAYS OFF FOR YANKS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amPIECE by impressive piece, the Yankees have been reborn during the course of these playoffs. The Yankees lost 15 of 18 and seven in a row to end the season,...
YANKEE PEN CLOSES THE DOOR SLOWLY
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yankees win the late innings, so they win postseason games. Close and October has favored them for five years now. "Obviously our bullpen is great," Andy Pettitte said in...
CLEMENS SIMPLY LOST IT
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amROGER Clemens sawed off Mike Piazza with a 1-2 fastball on the inside corner that shattered the bat and all of the Yankee pitcher's composure. You didn't have to be...
HAMPTON WAS TOO WILD TO GET UGLY
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amOn the positive side, at least Mike Hampton didn't throw a bat at anyone, but Hampton does think enough is enough soon or later. "There comes a point," said Hampton,...
COOL TEMPS CHILL FANS IN GAME 2
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amIN THE stands, thousands of people looked brain dead. The young kids seemed loaded with Ritalin. There were rumors that 17 people had succumbed to frostbite. This was the way...
ROCKET'S TWO MUCH FOR METS - FLIPS BAT AT PIAZZA, BLANKS AT AMAZIN'S AS YANKS HANG ON
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 2: Yankees 6 - Mets 5 Lunatic on a weekend pass from Wards Island? An athlete so locked in during a high-anxiety setting he didn't know what that stick...
ALL THE RIGHT MOVES - TORRE'S MAGIC TOUCH TURNS TEAMS GOLDEN
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amIS IT luck? Is it divine intervention? Is it knowing more than the next guy, in this case Bobby Valentine? Last year it was Bobby Cox. The year before that,...
SERIES BRINGS OUT BEST IN BROSIUS : SNAPS OUT OF FUNK WITH HR OFF HAMPTON
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amJose Vizcaino gets four hits one night, Scott Brosius blasts a home run the following evening. What's next, an Orlando Hernandez grand slam tomorrow night at Shea Stadium? Brosius, who...
EMOTIONS WERE HOT, BOSS SAYS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner stood in an empty Yankees' clubhouse and waited until the last straggler asked The Question for the final time. "This game is highly emotional, we are an emotional...
ZEILE, METS COME UP SHORT ONCE AGAIN
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amTodd Zeile has to be wondering what he has to do to hit a ball out of Yankee Stadium. And his Mets have to be wondering what they have to...
PRESSURE WON'T ICE US: METS
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mets' comeback came up short, now they will try for a mammoth comeback. They are down 0-2 to the World Championship Yankees. The Mets will try to regroup today....
JOE LOSES HIS COOL WITH MEDIA
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amJoe Torre showed anger toward the media last night, trying to explain away Roger Clemens' terrible fit of anger when the pitcher fired the barrel of a broken bat in...
POLONIA HOLDS ON TIGHT TO 'METS 3000' BALLOON
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe television cameras caught Luis Polonia with a big smile on his face in the Yankee dugout. With the Yanks on the verge of a 6-5 victory, Polonia was holding...
PAYTON MAKES PRESENCE KNOWN
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amJay Payton made a statement last night and made it loud and clear. Payton, hitting well under .200 for the postseason, crushed a three-run home run to power a five-run...
ROCKET'S JUST DUCKY
October 23, 2000 | 4:00amWe'll never know if Roger Clemens would have to duck if he carried a bat to the plate against the Mets in the World Series. This much we do know:...