December 6, 2000
CHASE MAY BE SET FOR RECOVERY
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amCHASE Manhattan's stock has done so badly in the past six months that it might actually be getting attractive - despite some awful news that could come out soon. I...
IBM'S THINKPADS FACE CUSTOMERS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amJust turning your face to the screen logs you into IBM's new laptops - and also gets you cash from North Fork Savings teller machines. A new in-your-face technology that...
CASE DISSES BILL BACK : SCOFFS AT M'SOFT POTSHOTS AT THE TIME-AOL MERGER
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amAmerica Online Chairman Steve Case shrugged off Microsoft's attempts to snag the AOL Time Warner merger and told a crowd of investors that "we are in the home stretch." Case,...
1STUP SAYS IT'S GOING DOWN FOR THE COUNT NEXT WEEK
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amAltaVista has had the plug pulled on its free Internet service - and the wire goes all the way back to David Wetherell. 1stUp - which like AltaVista is a...
RELIANCE GETS DELISTED, FIGHTS BANKRUPTCY
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amBroke and ailing, former corporate raider Saul Steinberg got the ultimate insult yesterday when his stock was kicked off the New York Stock Exchange for sinking to a piddling three...
OXYGEN PULLS PLUG ON WEB SITES, FIRES 44
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amFlush with cash and just in time for the holidays, Geraldine Laybourne is firing 10 percent of her staff and burying most of her Web sites. With $100 million in...
JAVITS EXPANSION PLANS ON HOLD: APPROVES 3-YEAR LEASES ON NEARBY YALE BUILDING
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amExpansion plans for the Javits Convention Center are unlikely to be formalized until after Mayor Rudolph Giuliani leaves office. The center has decided to lease a full-block warehouse it owns...
FAIRCHILD SCALES BACK DNR
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amFAIRCHILD CEO Mary Berner gathered all of the company's employees for a state of the union address last Wednesday at the Fashion Institute of Technology, followed by a mandatory office...
ZIFF DAVIS MEDIA DECIDES INTERNET INVESTING IS A GOOD IDEA
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amEveryone else is running away from Internet investments, but not Ziff Davis Media CEO James Dunning. He tells Media Ink he plans to pump $160 million to beef up the...
ON THE MEAN STREETS OF JOHANNESBURG
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amHILLBROW KIDS A disturbing look at street kids in Johannesburg, South Africa.Running time: 94 minutes. Not rated. (violence, crime). In English and Afrikaans, with English subtitles. At Film Forum, Houston...
'HELLO' AND OTHER USEFUL PICK-UP LINES
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amMY friend Elliott is the type of guy who would go to a funeral and say, "I thought you and I could get together sometime - now that you're single...
ENTREE-FREE PIPA KNOWS THE ABCS OF TAPAS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amPIPA 38 E. 19TH ST. (IN ABC CARPET & HOME) (212) 677-2233 PIPA cures the holiday-season cramps. When you've had it with tree-lock and tourists, tapas-heaven Pipa will beam you...
ALL YOU KNEAD IS LOAF ; SINCE MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, THIS GUY ALSO MAKES CAKE
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amRICK Curry is known for his breads. But he's no loafer.As founder and artistic director of National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped, the Jesuit brother runs the only school in...
DIRTY SOCKS; 2 PUPPET SHOWS FOR GROWN UPS HAVE BAD CASE OF POTTY MOUTH
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amFIRST came "The Simpsons." The groundbreaking show touched off legions of copycat cartoons for grown-ups - most of which failed. Now the new flavor of the month is hand puppets....
EL TEDDY IS DEAD-Y WITH LOFTS TO BE READY
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amOFF with El Teddy's head.The offbeat eatery in the oddball TriBeCa building - with life-size Lady Liberty crown atop its roof - may close now that its lease has expired....
INDIAN STREET FOOD SYMPHONY THE REAL STAR OF MIRCHI'S SHOW
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amMIRCHI 29 SEVENTH AVE. S. (BETWEEN BEDFORD & MORTON STREETS) (212) 414-0931 A guy sipping a cosmo sits at the little counter just outside the busy open kitchen at Mirchi,...
THE STARR REPORT
December 6, 2000 | 5:00am'View' for Vanzant could be TV Siberia Buena Vista's upcoming talk show hosted by motivational/inspirational author Iyanla Vanzant ("The StarrReport," Oct. 23) could have a tough time finding a daytime...
CAT'S CLAWS COME OUT CAST OF 'SEUSSICAL' TAKES JAB AT CRITICS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amBROADWAY critics and columnists have drawn plenty of blood from "Seussical, the Musical" in recent weeks.And so in fairness, it's time to turn the tables and let the poor little...
ALBEE'S 'TINY ALICE' OFFERS AUDIENCE LITTLE SUBSTANCE
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amTINY ALICESecond Stage Theatre, 307 W. 43rd St. Through Dec. 24. 'TINY Alice" is "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" for pseudo-intellectuals. Edward Albee's 1964 allegory, slightly tightened up for 2000,...
U2 RADIO DAZE
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amA PUBLICIST named Terri called The Post yesterday, apologizing to an answering machine and saying that all New York newspapers would be barred from last night's U2 concert at Irving...
AILING DUDLEY MOORE BASHES 'DEATHBED' REPORTS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amDudley Moore -suffering from a deadly brain disease that has crippled his body and mind -yesterday blasted reports that he's on his deathbed, saying doctors told him "things were much...
FEDS JOIN BIAS SUIT VS. LOCKHEED
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe federal government took aim at defense contractor Lockheed Martin yesterday, joining a race-discrimination lawsuit accusing the company of harassment of its black workers. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which...
HARRY & WILLS ASKED TO PLAN OWN FUNERALS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amHoping to avoid a repeat of the confusion surrounding Princess Diana's funeral, the British government has asked Princes William and Harry to design their own services. The government asked them...
Q & A ON THE FLORIDA FIASCO'S LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amQ: What's happening today? A: Two trials are slated to begin on Democratic bids to toss all 25,000 absentee ballots in Seminole and Martin Count9es on grounds Republican officials improperly...
JAPAN'S RAIL EXECS KNOW THE GROPES
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amA Japanese railway firm has started running "women-only" trains in a bid to stop male gropers during the holiday season. The Keio Electric Railway said hordes of drunken office workers,...
N.J. KIDSPATROL IN CYBERSPACE ; TEENANGELS HELP PARENTS, PEERS AVOID 'NET THREATS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amCALL these young techies the "Charlie's Angels" of cyberspace. Their mission: to teach parents, teens and kids how to avoid stalkers, pedophiles and pornography on the Internet. And they know...
PAPA BUSH DOING FINE AFTER HIP REPLACEMENT
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amFormer President Bush had his left hip replaced yesterday and is doing well, the Mayo Clinic said. Bush, 76, was expected to be hospitalized at the Rochester, Minn., clinic for...
ALLERGY RX A PEANUT REBUTTAL
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amA simple injection may be the key to controlling deadly peanut allergies, scientists say. In tests at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, doctors are giving monthly...
LOOK ON W.EB FOR JOBS WITH 'PREZ BUSH'
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amTexas Gov. George W. Bush, inching closer to the White House, has launched a transition Web site to take job applications online for a new administration. "The success of the...
'DYNO GYNO' FANS 'GAGGED' BY JUDGE ; POLS EYE LAW THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN HIS VINDICATION
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amTHE door to Room 110 in Manhattan's old federal courthouse carries a stern warning for anyone who wants to watch the trial of celebrity gynecologist Niels Lauersen. "Any outburst, public...
MARIO: LET A JUDGE EXAMINE BALLOTS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amHE IS undoubtedly one of my best of enemies - or, more properly put, my mortal friend. I'm speaking about former Gov. Mario Cuomo who, when it comes to politics,...
'RELUCTANT' MONICA TO RAT OUT BILL - AGAIN
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amMonica Lewinsky has reluctantly agreed to be grilled in the perjury and obstruction probe of President Clinton, a lawyer for the former White House intern said yesterday. Plato Cacheris, Lewinsky's...
NO JOKE: CRYSTAL'S OUT: COMEDIAN TOO BUSY TO HOST THE OSCARS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe wisecracking comic has turned down the chance to once again emcee the highly-rated Academy Awards show. "I can't do it, you have to understand," Crystal told Fox News. "If...
TIPS TO MAKE THE STORE LESS OF A CHORE
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe Post's Savvy Shopper offersconsumer tips throughout theholiday season. THE good news about big department stores during the holiday season is you can get the best deals with percent-off sale...
NO SMALL CHANGE! COUNCIL EYES ATM FEE BAN
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe banking industry and the City Council are headed for a showdown today when the council considers a bill to ban fees at bank ATMs. The Post has learned that...
FINAL SALUTE FOR TRAGIC COP LOVED BY ALL
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amA beloved Brooklyn detective who died last week in a tragic off-duty accident "will be forever a role model of what a police officer should be," Mayor Giuliani yesterday said...
BOSTON CABBY LINKED TO COLE TERROR BLAST: USED U.S. PASSPORT TO AID BIN LADEN: FEDS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amA former Boston-area cabby probably used his passport to circle the globe, helping terror master Osama bin Laden set up attacks on U.S. targets - including the USS Cole blast,...
GONORRHEA SOARS AGAIN AFTER DROP OVER 22 YRS.
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amCases of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea are beginning to skyrocket in the United States, new government figures show. "For the first time in two decades, we are seeing an...
CANCER MAPS SHOW GOOD NEWS FOR CITY
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY - Unprecedented zip-code maps of lung and colorectal cancer cases in New York City show generally good news for city residents, officials announced yesterday. The new state Health Department...
FIREMAN BUSTED IN 48G PENSION SCAM
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amA veteran firefighter who fractured a leg in his Staten Island home has been arrested for claiming a $48,338-a-year tax-free pension by listing the accident as a line-of-duty injury. Also...
RULING ON ABSENTEES BOOSTS ROY
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amAn appeals court yesterday issued a split decision about crucial absentee ballots in the tight East Side race between state Sen. Roy Goodman and Democratic challenger Liz Krueger. Goodman, who...
GOV BIDS TO CLOSE ESCAPE LOOPHOLE FOR KILLER DRIVERS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amGov. Pataki wants tougher penalties for drunken motorists who kill - but some safety activists wonder whether he and the state Legislature will get tough enough. Responding to a Post...
NUPTIALS JUST ANOTHER PERFORMANCE FOR STARS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amWHAT to make of the wedding of the decade? It was a Vegas revue, a schmaltzy, tacky, over-the-top extravaganza. An event overpopulated with surgically crafted fading starlets desperate for their...
U.S. WOMAN JAILED IN PERU WON'T GET CHRISTMAS PARDON
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amLori Berenson will not be pardoned Christmas Day - but will remain in her Peruvian jail cell pending her new trial, her heartbroken father said yesterday. "Traditionally, Christmas Day is...
GIRL SLAPS BIAS LAWSUIT ON HARLEM BOYS CHOIR
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe world-famous Harlem Boys Choir has been slapped with a lawsuit from an angry ex-student who claims the respected group's sexist teachers treat its girls like second-class citizens. "It's not...
ISRAELI ENVOY SHOT IN JORDAN DRIVE-BY
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - An Israeli diplomat was wounded in a drive-by shooting in Jordan last night, authorities said. Shlomi Ratzabi, an official with the Israeli embassy in Amman, was hit in...
'JAZZ' POSTER $INGS AGAIN
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amAl Jolson may be experiencing a comeback of late - his likeness sparked $26,000 worth of attention during an auction of entertainment memorabilia at Christie's East yesterday. A "half-sheet" movie...
GORE PINS HOPES ON FLA. HIGH COURT: BUT 2 'SLEEPER' CASES COULD KO BUSH LEAD
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - Al Gore's dimming presidential hopes rest with a final oral argument tomorrow before the Florida Supreme Court - and two "sleeper" trials today aiming to throw out thousands...
AUTOPSY ONLY DEEPENS MYSTERY OF TRAGIC JOCKEY'S DEATH
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The mystery of jockey Chris Antley's death deepened yesterday when officials announced an autopsy didn't find the exact cause of his death. "The examination at this point...
VEEP HOPEFULS VENTURE TO THE CAPITOL: BOTH TALK BEST-CASE SCENARIO
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - George W. Bush's No. 2 man yesterday asked Republicans to start thinking about owning the White House, while Al Gore's No. 2 urged Democrats not to abandon ship....
CAPITOL HILL GOES FOR HER FRESHMAN ORIENTATION
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Wearing her familiar black pant suit and a blinding pink shirt, incoming Sen. Hillary Clinton did her best yesterday to blend in after getting a look-see at her...
SCHOOL SEX SCANDAL CLOUDS UNION BATTLE
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amA principal running to become president of the union representing school administrators was removed from a Queens junior high after a sex scandal. Former JHS 180 principal Robert Spata faces...
MOM SEES TOT DIE IN SUBWAY HORROR: BOY, 3, TUMBLES OUT DOOR AT END OF CAR
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amA 3-year-old boy tumbled to his death from a moving subway car in Brooklyn yesterday as his helpless mother looked on in horror, police said. Little Austin Mei was riding...
SPONSOR PULLS PLUG ON SCHOOL COMPUTER DEAL
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amA company that gave 14 New York schools free computers and Internet access in exchange for the right to display ads now wants the schools to pay for the equipment...
WHEN VEEP RETRACTED, W. ACTED BY HANGING UP
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amAUSTIN, Texas - George W. Bush revealed yesterday he angrily slammed the phone down on rival Al Gore when the vice president called to retract his concession on election night....
DOWNEY WENT TO PSYCH WARD AFTER ARREST
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Problem-plagued actor Robert Downey Jr. spent last weekend in a hospital psychiatric ward for treatment of depression - just a week after cops busted him for allegedly...
AL INSISTS HE'S STILL 'OPTIMISITIC'
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -Al "Count-Every-Vote" Gore clung to his White House hopes yesterday - and is pinning some of them on two pro-Gore lawsuits aimed at throwing out thousands of Florida votes....
RAMS' ROBIN, HILL BURY THE HATCHET
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amIt came after an early-season game, and a nonconference one at that. After pulling out a win, Fordham point guard Bevon Robin and Rams coach Bob Hill hugged. It wasn't...
MARBURY HAS TO LISTEN TO HIS MOM
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - Stephon Marbury wound up taking his mother's advice before last night's 88-64 Nets' loss to the Pacers. See, Mrs. Marbury, being a mother first and a...
SKIDDING NETS JUGGLE LINEUP: WILLIAMS, HARRIS GET CHANCE
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - It was time for a change. So the Nets changed things up last night. Faced with a seven-game losing streak and an offense that was as potent as...
HEAD GAMES NOT FOR JASON: WARY OF CONCUSSION, DEVIL STAR PLAYS IT SAFE
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amHaving been there once, Jason Arnott didn't care to go back by returning too soon. Concussions are hockey's biggest headache, and Arnott didn't want another. The Devils' No. 1 center...
DRINKING AND SKIING DON'T MIX
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amTHE ski season started off with some major differences over the past few years, especially in the snow department. But this year skiing itself will also take on a different...
BE A WINNER ON THE INNER
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amIf the recent cold snap wasn't enough, then today there is a sure sign winter is upon us with the opening of Aqueduct's inner dirt track. The IDT meet, which...
ATTENTION, SHOPPERS . . . JINTS MADE BETTER BUYS THAN SKINS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amLET this be a lesson to those of you who, for the remainder of the month, expect to spend evenings and weekends at the mall, searching for holiday gifts: Value...
KNICKS IN SEARCH OF A ROSE IN TEXAS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amDALLAS - The Knicks have a chance to do something special these next two days. They are 12-7, a season-high five games over .500, second-best record in the mediocre East,...
GALLEY BACK AFTER FOUR-GAME R&R
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - Even while he struggled during November, Garry Galley never thought that age had finally caught up with him. Though 37, Galley was coming off a productive season...
YANKS ARE SET TO CUT CONE LOOSE
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amThere is a chance that by midnight tomorrow, the relationship between David Cone and the Yankees will be over. Outside of telling Cone the best they could do was a...
BENCH MAKING GROSEK GRUMPY
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amMichal Grosek isn't happy about being taken off the Rangers' fourth line, and isn't quite sure how it happened, either. "I don't know what my role is," said the left...
IT'S MIKE OR BUST ; METS' OFFER TO HAMPTON EXCEEDS MUSSINA'S DEAL
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amRealizing their alternatives are diminishing, the Mets already have made an offer to Mike Hampton for greater than the six years at $88.5 million the Yankees gave Mike Mussina, a...
HOUSTON HAS NO PROBLEMS WITH TRADE TALK
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Allan Houston appreciated Dave Checketts' vote of confidence in Australia during the Olympics, but put no stock in it. Houston, the subject of various trade reports across the...
BOMBERS, AGENT SLATE JETER TALKS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amDerek Jeter's agent, Casey Close, and the Yankee brass have talked face-to-face before. However, when Close chats later this week or early next week with GM Brian Cashman or president...
SHE HAS STAYING POWER: NYU FIXTURE QUINN JUST KEEPS WINNING
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amAngela Vicari looks off into the distance as if she can actually see the 1985 team picture that includes her coach, Janice Quinn, the first 1,000-point scorer in NYU women's...
HALL'S GRIFFIN: KNEE STRAIN
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall forward Eddie Griffin underwent an MRI at noon yesterday, the results of which showed a strained tendon in his right knee. There was no damage found to the...
NO-STEPH NETS PUT UP STINKER
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amPacers 88 Nets 64 INDIANAPOLIS - The losing streak, seemingly threatening Biblical proportions, demanded change. So that's what Nets coach Byron Scott tried. He rearranged, shuffled and sent out a...
GILL'S KNEE BECOMING PAIN IN NETS
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - It was, admittedly, a drastic measure. But Kendall Gill's slump has reached drastic depths. Playing in pain from a tendinitis-inflamed right knee and making only eight of 40...
RAMS RALLY TO WIN BATTLE FOR BRONX
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amFordham 83 Manhattan 78 Fordham coach Bob Hill talked before last night's come-from-behind 83-78 win at Manhattan about not getting too fired-up, about not letting the emotion from this cross-Bronx...
DEVS HAVE 'LANCHE FOR LUNCH: ELIAS HAT TRICK LEADS ROUT AT THE SWAMP
December 6, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 6 Avalanche 1 The showdown was strictly a Devils show. The Stanley Cup champs whomped on the league-leaders last night, serving notice again that last month's six-game losing streak...