November 20, 2000
ING TAPS GOLDMAN TO SHOP ITS U.S. UNIT
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amThe fallout from the Nick Leeson debacle keeps coming. ING Groep NV is considering axing or selling off the U.S. unit of its investment bank, ING Barings. The giant Dutch...
I-BONDS OFFER TAX-FREE INFLATION INSURANCE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amLadies and gentlemen, place your bonds. Long the investment vehicle of choice for more cautious savers, bonds are now for betting folk. The reason, ironically, is inflation-index bonds, which seem...
SEC HAS FUNDS IN SIGHTS AGAIN
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amFlush from his success in making the mutual fund firms write prospectuses in plain English instead of legalese, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt is doing battle with the...
EIGHT TIPS FOR REDUCING TAXES ON FUND DISTRIBUTIONS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amSo you just got hit with a wallop of a capital gains distribution from your mutual fund, and you're wondering what to do now. Rest assured, you're not alone. The...
MERRILL'S HOLDRS TO THE RESCUE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amIt's been a tough year in the markets, and brokers feel your pain. They understand you may have to pay through the nose in taxes. So, naturally, they're coming up...
HE SUITS US FINE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amAsk most clothiers whether it's the suit makes the man, or the man who makes the suit and we find most are as divided as Bush-Gore voters. But Peter Elliott...
NRA PREZ HESTON'S SHOOT-'EM UP GIFTS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amCharleton Heston, NRA board member and spokesperson, will probably be ordering his holiday gifts in bulk from venerable retailer Holland & Holland. On the top of his list? The silver-and...
DOT-COM DOCTOR RESUCITATES COS. TO SURVIVE ON THEIR OWN
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amSILICON Alley firms drop dead daily, so it's fitting that a cardiologist is rescuing ailing dot-coms and keeping them on life support. It's not a 911 humanitarian effort, or just...
AMERICANS FRENCH DISS MESSIER'S MEMOIRS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amVIVENDI Chairman Jean-Marie Messier may be buying up one of the largest entertainment companies in America - but no one in the States wants to read about it. The French...
CSBF: "DON'T ABANDON SHIP! . . . PLEASE . . ."
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amIT is a tough time for Credit Suisse First Boston's management. In many ways, their plight is akin to the crew of the ship that sunk in the hit movie...
THIS ANALYST IS NUTS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amMICHAEL Lever likes to live dangerously. This London-based HSBC banking analyst, who covers, among other things, HSBC, has downgraded his own bank twice over the last two months. Sir John...
THESTREET.COM GETS ITS COMEUPPANCE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amI CALLED Goldman Sachs the other day, and its research library still has books - it isn't a bowling alley. That may be why James J. Cramer's TheStreet.com had to...
NET LOSS FORCES ZIPLINK CLOSING
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amThe cursed state of Massachusetts has lost another dot-com. ZipLink, an Internet access wholesale based in Lowell, said Friday it is going out of business and may sell its assets...
BACKSTREET'S BACK ; 'BLACK & BLUE' UPS ANTE IN BATTLE OF THE BOY BANDS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amBACKSTREET BOYS "Black & Blue" Jive RecordsThe Backstreet Boys are in the battle of their career. The vocal quintet - featuring Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A.J. Morgan and...
BACKSTREET BOYS WANT TO BEAT *NSYNC'S MARK
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S the battle of the boy bands, part two.The Backstreet Boys will rev up the hormone-crazed teenage world when their new album, "Black & Blue," hits record stores at midnight...
2 PLAYS FROM 1916 = 1 HIT AND 1 MISS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amFAREWELL TO THE THEATRE and THE FLATTERING WORDMint Theatre, 311 W. 43rd St. Through Dec. 17, (212) 315-0231. THE theater musing on the theater is generally an engaging spectacle, and...
PALL IN THE FAMILY
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amDOWN THE GARDEN PATHSMinetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane. Through Jan. 28, (212) 307-4100. IT'S a family affair, this production. Lovable and skilled married veterans Anne Jackson (looking marvelous) and...
DELIGHTFUL 'END OF THE WORLD'
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amEND OF THE WORLD PARTY47th Street Theater, 304 W. 47th St. (212) 265-1086. THE summer comedy is one of the standard forms of gay theater.A wide spectrum of types assembles...
FAIR HEARING ; 'CURTIS COURT' WINS BY LISTENING
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amVETERANS of press kits hyping TV shows usually ignore the blather about "new," "unique" or "trailblazing." But when ex-California prosecutor James Curtis says in the press material for "Curtis Court"...
ROSIE'S 'NO MAS' CERTAINLY SOUNDS LIKE PLAIN ENGLISH
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amROSIE O'Donnell's publicist insists no decision has been made, but Rosie herself sure sounded as though she'd made up her mind when she told Katie Couric she'll quit her daytime...
THE STARR REPORT
November 20, 2000 | 5:00am'Sopranos' guys take dangerous ride "Sopranos" co-stars Michael Imperioli (Christopher) and Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts) narrowly escaped tragedy last week. Imperioli and Sirico were returning from signing autographs and posing...
WHEN GOOD FELLOWS GO BAD
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amLIKE food left in the refrigerator for a long time, men can also go bad.The concept of what makes a man good or bad is central to the movie "Unbreakable,"...
BEATLE'S SON RECALLS NIGHT OF TERROR
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amThe son of George Harrison has broken his silence about the night his dad was brutally stabbed - revealing how he held the blood-soaked Beatle and begged him not to...
MCCALL'S PENSION POWER LINKED TO FUND-RAISE PLEA
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amOFFICIALS of a major company in which Comptroller Carl McCall invests pension funds are raising cash for his expected run for governor, The Post has learned. Executives of Global Crossing...
PUNCH LINE: NAOMI'S A BOXER
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amMove over, Iron Mike - Naomi Campbell has temporarily left the catwalk and entered the ring. The feisty supermodel has taken up boxing as part of her struggle to control...
SOCK SECRET FINALLY COMES OUT IN THE WASH
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amA BRONX detective believes he has cracked a case that has baffled mankind for decades. He thinks he has figured out where all the socks go. This is no small...
AGING RINGO STAND-IN: YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amCan't buy me love - but I wouldn't mind a royalty check! That's the cry of the drummer who subbed for Ringo Starr on the Beatles' smash hit "Love Me...
MIRACLE PILL COULD BE MEMORABLE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amScientists say a "memory pill" - to combat the absentminded and forgetful ways of old age - could be available in 10 years. "Things are easily forgotten and the information...
NEWLYWED ZETA-JONES WANTS 2ND BABY SOON
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amNewlywed Catherine Zeta-Jones isn't wasting any time - she hopes to have a honeymoon baby with hubby Michael Douglas. The glam couple, who married in a $2 million ceremony at...
DEMS SEE RED & COLOR THE HEARTLAND EVIL
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amWHILE the media's coverage of the titanic Florida struggle has been confined chiefly to legal and political tactics, the culture war has been escalating unnoticed since Election Day. There are...
POLL: TV'S EARLY CALL FOR GORE FRIED BUSH; IN FLA. PANHANDLE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amThe TV networks may have cost George W. Bush thousands of votes in Florida's conservative Panhandle region by wrongly calling the state early for Al Gore, a new poll by...
GRISLY GRAVES UNEARTHED - B'KLYN MALL DIG FINDS 2 BODIES
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amThe construction of a shopping mall in East New York, designed to bring upscale shopping to the beleaguered neighborhood, has turned up two grim reminders of the area's violent past....
6 NABBED BY YEMEN IN PLOT TO BOMB COLE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amAuthorities in Yemen investigating the suicide bombing of the USS Cole have arrested six men believed to be key accomplices - including one described as a main plotter - sources...
STAT EXPERTS SAY ODDS ARE STILL AGAINST AL
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amAl Gore is facing long odds - statistically speaking - to make up the 930-vote gap between him and George W. Bush in the Florida hand recount on which he...
GOING LIKE GANG-BUSTERS: PROPOSED LAW GIVES POLICE MORE POWER
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amFlanked by the family of a Flushing man slain in a suspected gang attack, a Queens councilman yesterday proposed a new law aimed at clearing gangs from the streets. The...
VOTE-COUNT FLIP-FLOP HAS GOP IN FUROR - FLA. COUNTY ALTERS RULES TO OK BALLOTS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amPLANTATION, Fla. - The Broward County canvassing board dropped a bombshell yesterday, changing its rules to include "dimpled" ballots in its recount - a switch that ignited swift fury from...
BODY MAY BE TEEN SUSPECT'S MOM
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amA body pulled from the East River yesterday is believed to be that of a woman allegedly killed by her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend because she objected to their...
LONELY GUY STERN IS ALL TALK AND NO ACTION: MAG
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amRadio bad-boy Howard Stern - infamous for his raunchy on-air sex chats with buxom bombshells - is actually leading the life of just another lonely, confused New York bachelor, a...
HOW DOES OUR CREEP VEEP SLEEP AT NIGHT?
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amWEST PALM BEACH, Fla.AL GORE was certainly a man of his word when he said: "I'll do anything to win." The remarkable comment, reported in Newsweek, brought predictable Bronx cheers...
BOY CAN SUE DOCS FOR NOT ABORTING HIM
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amA severely disabled French boy has won a landmark case giving him the right to sue doctors for allowing him to be born rather than aborted. Nicolas Perruche was born...
'RUNAWAY' PERU PREZ RESIGNS AMID SCANDAL
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amPeru's authoritarian president, Alberto Fujimori - whose government has been crippled by a burgeoning corruption scandal - announced yesterday in Tokyo that he plans to end his 10-year rule and...
A PRESCRIPTION FOR DANGER ; DRUG-SELLING SCAMS PUT PATIENTS AT RISK
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amUseless - and sometimes toxic - cancer and AIDS prescription drugs are being sold to legitimate pharmacies throughout the city by a burgeoning network of greedy black marketeers, The Post...
VICTIMS ARE DYING FOR THE MONEY
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amFor three years, Michael S., an HIV-positive former parking attendant, has been selling his Medicaid-subsidized AIDS drugs outside a methadone clinic to black-market dealers who traffic in prescription drugs. "Anything...
QUEEN CHOKED BIRD WITHOUT MALICE: PALACE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amDon't label Queen Elizabeth a bird-brained killer just because she strangled a pheasant. That was the plea last night from Buckingham Palace, which dismissed charges that the queen committed an...
ISRAEL WON'T RETALIATE FOR SOLDIER'S DEATH
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, fighting to keep hopes for peace talks alive, yesterday pledged not to retaliate against the Palestinians for the death of an Israeli soldier killed over...
Q & A ON THE FLORIDA FIASCO'S LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amQ: What is the Florida Supreme Court's role at today's hearing? A: To decide whether Secretary of State Katherine Harris, a Republican, can call the Florida election without including hand...
TALKING TURKEY: IT'LL COST MORE TO GOBBLE A GOBBLER
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amIt'll take a little more bread to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner this year - and we're not talking stuffing. The average price of the holiday dinner's ingredients crept up by...
VILLAGE LEFTY'S VOTES MIGHT DOOM GORE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amWill an old leftist from Manhattan's East Village dash Al Gore's presidential chances? "If in fact we cost them the election, I would be amused," said David McReynolds, this year's...
A 'JUST' ANGER ; DEMS REALLY THINK THEY'RE FIGHTING INJUSTICE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amTHE charge that Democrats are trying to steal the 2000 election is now considered a given in conservative and Republican circles. But the term "steal" isn't quite right, because Democrats...
PREZ SEES CLOSER TIES WITH VIETNAM
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amPresident Clinton wrapped up his historic visit Vietnam yesterday with predictions for improved relations between the former enemies. "The years of animosity are past," Clinton said in Ho Chi Minh...
$10M LAWSUIT OVER CANCER PATIENT'S LOST LYMPH NODES
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center lost Laurie Kastrup's lymph nodes, it took away her shot at beating cancer, she says. "They took away my chance, my opportunity, to be treated according...
FOES BRING OUT 'HEAVY' ARTILLERY - FLA. COURT BURIED IN LEGAL PAPERS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Recount rules were changed, accusations were hurled and legal briefs were filed as the presidential election showdown headed for the Florida Supreme Court today. Lawyers for Texas...
DEMS WERE SET TO CONCEDE LAST WEEK, MAG SAYS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amAl Gore's campaign was on the brink of throwing in the towel last week if he'd lost the chance to have controversial hand recounts that he hopes will find him...
TEAM AL DEFENDS MILITARY-BALLOT CHALLENGE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amAl Gore's team took a hard line on Florida military overseas ballots yesterday and refused to withdraw Democratic challenges that got the votes of hundreds of U.S. troops tossed out...
CON ARTIST & THE 'SOPRANOS' STAR - DID ACTOR HELP HAMPTONS GRIFTER FLEE?
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amA "SOPRANOS" actor may have aided an international con man who is accused of stealing $1 million from wealthy victims in the Hamptons by passing himself off as a Rockefeller...
TOUGH-TALKIN' NETS TAKE CONFIDENCE WEST
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amNets-Clippers. And you thought that those World Series tickets were hot. But in case you didn't know - and judging by the attendance, you haven't - the Nets head out...
BACK IN 'D' HUNT: JETS SHUT DOWN FISH, PULL WITHIN ONE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amJets 20 Dolphins 3 MIAMI - The Jets lost their star running back, Curtis Martin, early in the second half to a strained back. The Dolphins lost their starting quarterback,...
DON'T INVITE JETS & FISH TO SAME PARTY
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES MIAMI - Make no mistake about it. There is no love lost between the Dolphins and Jets. A chippy first half yesterday was highlighted by several shoving matches...
LEFT FOOT KEEPS CAMBY ON BENCH
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy uttered a familiar word when discussing Marcus Camby's status last night. "Out," Van Gundy said prior to the Knicks-Warriors game at the Garden. Camby, who injured his...
SPREWELL BATTLING THROUGH BACK PROBLEMS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Latrell Sprewell could only hope that Friday's post-game cross-country flight to New York would not cause too much stiffness in his back. After all, he wanted to be...
WAIT IS OVER! NIEDERMAYER, ARNOTT BACK WITH DEVS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amThe Devils lost six, Lou bent, and so the Devils won. The Stanley Cup champs are at full strength today. Scott Niedermayer and Jason Arnott return to the team this...
BOO-YAH STUART DESERVES A SLAM
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amIt's basketball season, a time when adult play-by-play men, color analysts and sports anchors, like 11-year-old boys at Adam Sandler movies, shriek with delight at the sight of an excessively...
TODAY'S GAME IS JUST BRUTAL
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amA SIMILAR question is asked every NFL Sunday afternoon. Lions free safety Kurt Schulz was flagged for a vicious third quarter helmet-to-helmet hit against Giants WR Ike Hilliard yesterday. On...
FRANCO DECISION DUE SOON
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amOver the next 72 hours, John Franco likely will decide if he is going to remain a Met - and it is going to be an excruciating decision. His agent,...
RANGERS HAVE ISSUES TO FACE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amImmediate issues confronting the Rangers, who come home (10-9) for tomorrow night's Garden match against the Maple Leafs after winning two of three on their swing west that concluded with...
ASTRAPI CAPTURES VALLEY STREAM
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amDespite the lack of racing experience, MiaLee Farms' Astrapi looked like a seasoned pro as she rated off the pace and drew off in the stretch to win the $80,950...
AS UGLY AS IT GETS ; BIG BLUE RED-FACED AFTER HUMILIATING LOSS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amLions 31 Giants 21 The dull ache of embarrassment hung heavy in the air, much like one of the Brad Maynard punts that, unfortunately for the Giants, had to obey...
PHILLIPS SHOULD GET BACK IN THE A-ROD RACE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amIT TAKES a big person to admit he was wrong. If GM Steve Phillips wants to join the ranks he can do so by returning to the A-Rod Sweepstakes. Even...
GIANT SECONDARY RUNNING FOR COVER
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amFor the second straight week, the Giants had a chance to prove themselves against a playoff contender; and for the second straight week they proved themselves playoff pretenders. A leaky...
LOMAS PLEADS FOR HELP ; VET LT SAYS HE CAN'T LEAD JINTS ALONE
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amLomas Brown knows he was brought in for these situations. The team is reeling, doubts are rising and critics are everywhere. In addition to signing him to play left tackle,...
CATCHING UP'S SIMPLY OUT OF THE QUESTION
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES What is growing increasingly obvious is that the Giants are not built to come from behind. They can compete when they stay close and their running game is...
LIONS GET A BATCH OF GREAT QB PLAY
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amMaybe it was using the shotgun for the first time in over a month that broke Detroit QB Charlie Batch out of his slump. Or maybe it was his fire...
GIANTS FIGHTING SPECIAL DISASTER
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amMILK, sour as the look on a Giant defensive starter's face as he trots out to his own 20-yard line, spilled all over Giants Stadium yesterday as, far too late,...
WAIT IS OVER! NEIDERMAYER, ARNOTT BACK WITH DEVS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amHis turning point, Scott Niedermayer told The Post exclusively last night, was a previously secret visit by Devils GM Lou Lamoriello to his home in British Columbia. "When Lou came...
CURTIS TAKES SEAT
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES MIAMI - On his first carry of the second half, Curtis Martin got hit in the lower back by a helmet or knee. He stayed in for one...
JET DEFENSE FRIES FISH
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amMIAMI - The Jet defense got trampled by the Dolphins in their first meeting this season. So their top priority was to stop the run yesterday. The Jets did that...
CHRIS NOT MULLIN' THE END; BROOKLYN'S OWN STILL HAS MUCH TO GIVE BACK
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amCHRIS Mullin isn't ready to say he's officially done after this his 16th season in the NBA. "I really haven't thought about it," he insisted last night. "I don't know....
HELLO LARRY! LJ'S 16 BOARDS LEAD CAMBY-LESS KNICKS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amKnicks 88 Warriors 71 When Larry Johnson learned that the Knicks would be without the injured Marcus Camby last night, his 'antenna' went up. "You got to get on the...
MARCUS, KNICKS AWAIT WORD ON MRI RESULTS
November 20, 2000 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy uttered a familiar word when discussing Marcus Camby's status last night. "Out," Van Gundy said prior to the Knicks' 88-71 win against the Warriors at the Garden....