December 18, 2000
COMCAST'S LOOKING TO ROPE AT&T CABLE
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amComcast is making a bid to become the largest cable company in the country. The No. 3 cable operator is in talks with Michael Armstrong's battered AT&T to buy Ma...
NOW THAT'S A PARTY
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amPINK slip parties are normally dire affairs -"ironically" networking through clenched teeth on the tab of recruiters is no way to spend a Wednesday evening. And the old "I can...
NEW YORKERS DON'T DOMINATE
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amGEORGE Washington must have been turning in his grave. Right in front of Federal Hall, the site on Wall Street where Washington was sworn in as our first president, a...
WALL STREET PLAYS A JOKER
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amIF Lily Tomlin is "Searching for Signs of Intelligent Life" in New York, she found them in the Wall Street stars among those who turned out in her honor last...
CITIGROUP CHAIR WEILL AXES THE AXMAN
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amLEAVE it to Sandy Weill to kill his hired executioner. Fully entrenched now as chairman of Citigroup, Weill has ousted the executive who dutifully carried out Weill's purge of so...
COLOR ME NASDAQ
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amALWAYS attempting to improve the reputation of the Nasdaq, Chairman Frank Zarb is focusing on improving the merchandise mix of the Nasdaq store. However, the announcement that fashion maven Nicole...
CONFUSED ABOUT GROWTH VS. VALUE?
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amCAN'T decide whether to go with a growth or a value strategy for 2001? Here's a suggestion: A fund that incorporates both strategies very successfully. The fund is the Touchstone...
ARMSTRONG COULD BE TRADING HEADACHES
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amIf AT&T were to sell its cable systems to Comcast, it could solve some of CEO Michael Armstrong's biggest problems - and make some of them worse. The biggest plus...
MADONNA HAS ALWAYS LOVED MEN WITH AN EDGE, SO BRIT DIRECTOR FIANCE IS CLEARLY . . . HER KIND OF GUY!
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amWHAT kind of man does it take to marry the world's most famous pop music diva?One who's cool, confident and quick with a movie camera - and a right hook.Guy...
RUSSIAN STARS BRING SPECIAL MAGIC TO 'NUTCRACKER'
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amTHE NUTCRACKERNew York City Ballet at the New York State Theater, 20 Lincoln Center. "The Nutcracker" runs through Dec. 31. Season runs through Feb. 27. IT was a kind of...
SHIFTING INTO BUY GEAR: CRAMMED AT THE COUNTERS OR WORKING THE WEB, NEW YORKERS KEEP PRESENTS IN MIND
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amEVERYBODY does it. But nobody does it quite same way. Some do their holiday shopping all year long, trolling Web sites, outlet malls and thrift shops, and checking names off...
FASHIONISTAS' GIVE AND TAKE
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amWHAT do the designers who define New York fashion most like to see wrapped under their trees? We asked some of the most powerful style makers to share the best,...
THE SOB STORY OF A GROWN MAN
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amYESTERDAY, I saw a man crying uncontrollably at my subway stop, and so I went up to him and said, "I'm sorry, but - hey, is that the N or...
THE STARR REPORT
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amErnie's Oscar? Could "McHale's Navy" legend Ernest Borgnine be in line for another Oscar - 45 years after winning the trophy for "Marty"? Ernie's manager, Lynda Bensky, reports that The...
ELECTION-NIGHT EXPLANATIONS; TV NEWS EXECS WILL TESTIFY AT JAN. HEARING
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amDON'T expect the network news presidents to show up with hoods over their faces when they're called to testify next month before a congressional committee to explain what went wrong...
IMPROVEMENTS TOO LITTLE TOO LATE FOR JHS 22
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe Post yesterday detailed the horrors at some of the city schools branded as failures last year by the state Education Department. Today, we focus on efforts to turn those...
ROY MIGHT KEEP SEAT - WITHOUT WINNING
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amSTATE Senate Republicans have a secret plan to keep embattled Sen. Roy Goodman in the Senate, even if he's still not declared the winner by Jan. 1, The Post has...
'PREZ RODHAM' RUMORS GOING DOWN-HILL
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY - Hillary Rodham Clinton, noting that other Democrats have a stronger claim to run for president, is renewing her pledge not to seek the top job in 2004. "She...
'TIGER' ROARS AT CRITICS' MOVIE AWARDS
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amTHIS year's wide-open Oscar race took another twist as the Los Angeles Film Critics Association chose the Chinese martial-arts epic "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" as its Best Picture of the...
PRIEST TO MARIO: LEAD ELECTORS ; NOT INTO TEMPTATION
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amMARIO CUOMO and the Roman Catholic Church are at it again. The former governor has been taken to task by his parish priest out of concern over Cuomo's recent public...
VENUS' NEW $40M DEAL IS OUT OF THIS WORLD
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amTennis has become a money-making racket for Venus Williams - who's set to ink an astounding $40 million endorsement deal this week. Venus, 20, will sign a five-year contract with...
PIG-TO-MAN BLOOD TRANSFUSION MAY BE JUST THE START
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amA heart doctor has given a patient a transfusion of pig's blood in an operation that may pave the way for animal-to-human organ transplants. Dr. Dhaniram Baruah, a London surgeon,...
RIVALS MAY PUT BUSH IN COMPROMISING POSITION
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amIN THE sunset of the year 2000, the word "bipartisanship" has more currency than the word Internet. And this clearly brings into dramatic focus the dilemma facing the Republican Party....
HOUSING AGENCY BIDS TO ATTRACT MANAGERS
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe Housing Authority, which raised managers' salaries last year, is trying even harder to woo them this year. "We want to attract, motivate, and maintain the managers that we do...
SCHU FITS N.Y. AGENDA INTO BUSH PRESIDENCY
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amSen. Charles Schumer urged President-elect Bush yesterday to support "sensible, moderate" initiatives that will benefit New York. Calling for a new spirit of bipartisan cooperation, Schumer said the proposals would...
LOST PAPERWORK & LOST TRUST ; POLITICAL ODOR IN CASE OF COP-REVIEW COMPLAINTS
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amFORMER investigator Carol Schlauch remembers the rapid-fire pace with which misconduct complaints against cops began piling up on her desk at the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board. The complaints, 165...
RUDY: 2 TEAMS TOO MUCH FOR STADIUM
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amTalk of building a West Side stadium for both the Yankees and the Mets doesn't appeal to Mayor Giuliani, who insisted yesterday that one playing field can't handle two baseball...
'TIME' FOR A NEW VICTORY: BUSH NAMED MAN OF YEAR
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amPresident-elect George W. Bush can add another title to his resume: Person of the Year. The Texas governor received Time Magazine's most coveted honor the same way he was awarded...
GOP WON'T 'GET INTO' HER BOOK DEAL
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - It sounds as if Republicans have closed the book on Hillary Clinton's whopping $8 million tell-all book deal. "I don't want to get into that," Senate GOP Leader...
BILL WINS 11TH-HOUR BID FOR MIDEAST PACT
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - The Clinton administration has scored a last-ditch chance to broker a Mideast peace deal after wooing negotiators from both sides to separate tables for talks beginning tomorrow. The...
DEMS & DUBYA ALREADY BUTTING HEADS ; ROUGH FIRST DAY IN D.C. FOR BUSH
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President-elect Bush's Washington debut got off to a rocky start yesterday, with Democrats warning him not to ram his ideas "down our throat." The Democrats started sparring with...
ELECTING TO PACK HEAT ; ARIZONA SHERIFF GUARDS HIS VOTE
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Republican elector Joe Arpaio of Arizona isn't taking any chances when he goes to vote for George W. Bush for president today - he's taking his gun. Arpaio,...
BALLOT CHALLENGES OUTRAGE GOODMAN CAMP
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amState Sen. Roy Goodman's campaign is crying foul over Liz Krueger's challenges to absentee ballots from, among others, a newspaper co-publisher, a blind federal judge and a cancer patient. Goodman...
U.S. HEAT AID LEAVE$ CITY OUT IN THE COLD
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amCity homeowners and tenants are shortchanged when it comes to federal heating assistance - getting far less than what's doled out to the suburbs and upstate, a mayoral task force...
KATE HUDSON'S WEDDING VOW: I WON'T MARRY
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amGoldie Hawn's sexy daughter Kate Hudson is not engaged and might never get married. The red-hot star of "Almost Famous" says she wants a family and all the other benefits...
MAG: SUPREME FUMED OVER AL'S EARLY FLA. 'WIN'
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amSupreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor reportedly became so upset when Florida was called for Al Gore on election night, she blurted out "This is terrible" to a room full...
UNION FINES 'SCAB' HURLEY 100G OVER AD
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe Screen Actors Guild has socked screen siren Elizabeth Hurley with a $100,000 fine for making a perfume commercial during its strike against advertisers. The "Austin Powers" beauty said she...
BIZMAN BACK IN U.S. AFTER RUSSIA ORDEAL
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amEdmund Pope - freed from a Russian prison last week - was headed for an emotional reunion with his elderly parents yesterday after finally touching down on American soil. "I...
2 SLAIN IN QNS. MART
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amTwo hard-working immigrants, toiling after-hours in a locked Queens supermarket, were stabbed to death during a struggle with an intruder early yesterday, police said. A passer-by called cops after noticing...
RIDERS GAG AS COKE FUMES FILL PLANE
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amA mishap on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York yesterday gave new meaning to the term "sky high." A foul odor that sickened passengers and crew on...
FASSEL WON'T LET JINTS RUB IT IN BOYS' FACES
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES IRVING - All the signs of something significant were present and accounted for in the Giants' visitors locker room last night, which was exactly where Jim Fassel wanted...
ASSIGNMENT: MAKE FAILURES SHAPE UP
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe New York City school system has a near monopoly on failing schools. There are 98 city schools on the state Education Department's list of low-performing schools - known as...
HOW FEDS MADE SANTA ; A LOST CLAUS
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amNO, Virginia, there is not a Santa Claus. But don't take it from a Scrooge like me. Take it from the United States government, which recently admitted - openly and...
'NET RESULT: IT'S A JOY TO BUY A TOY ON THE WEB
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Savvy Shopper polled her friends who have children, and the overwhelming response to the toy-shopping quandary was the Web. No need for a baby sitter - your purchases are...
SUCCESS STORY A WORK IN PROGRESS
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amPS 123 in Harlem is finally off the state's list of failing schools - but it took seven years, and the job is far from over. Principal Edith Bly Jenkins...
AS LONG AS HE CAN STILL PITCH . . .
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amLATE last week, Armando Benitez, the Mets' No. 1 closer, was hit with a temporary restraining order following allegations that he assaulted his fiancee. This wasn't a very big story...
NO WAY MESS CAN RUN TABLE
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amThere really is no way around it. No way to add 11, 39 and 18:27 and come up with 82. That's another way of saying that no matter how much...
HALL CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT PRESSURE KICK
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Hall has enjoyed his finest moments as an NFL kicker when faced with pressure situations. When he's had to make a game-winning or game-tying field goal late in games,...
BLUESBREAKER CAPTURES RUNYON
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amBluesbreaker took charge at the start and led every step of the way to win the $82,600 Damon Runyon Stakes for New York-bred two-year-olds at Aqueduct yesterday. Favored Personable Pete...
STOIC STEWART GRINDS IT OUT WITH GUTTY EFFORT
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amLong before Detroit pushed the Jets' playoff hopes to the brink and kept their own barely alive with yesterday's 10-7 win, long before the Lions had even taken the field...
MARTIN RUNS INTO ROADBLOCK
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amAs Curtis Martin stood in front of his locker yesterday, buttoning up his golden suit, he was surrounded by a sea of reporters. But it paled in comparison with the...
FOR STRAHAN, IT'S ALL ABOUT WINNING: SACKMASTER SHUNS INDIVIDUAL HONORS
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amIRVING - He has made sure the area surrounding his locker is no longer the place to be. By word and by deed, Michael Strahan has all but erected a...
FEW STARS IN BLUE HEAVEN
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amIRVING - With only two players named to the Pro Bowl in linebacker Jessie Armstead and offensive guard Ron Stone, the Giants have the fewest number of representatives of any...
SUPER ROAD COULD GO THROUGH JERSEY
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amIRVING - The road to Super Bowl XXXV goes through Giants Stadium. Resist the urge for excessive blinking. That statement could actually come true. The Giants took the field last...
OFT-CONCUSSED TROY HAS 'BOYS IN A BIND
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES IRVING - Troy Aikman did not play last night for the Cowboys after sustaining his 10th NFL concussion in last week's victory over the Redskins. Aikman almost definitely...
LATRELL HASN'T BEEN HIS SLASHING SELF: VG
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy goes out of his way to point out his team's defensive deficiencies. But before last night's home game vs. the Bucks, he spent a lot of time...
JEFF CAN'T TALK AWAY THIS STENCH
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amSOMETIMES, it's necessary to stink badly before you can clear the air. The only possible redeeming value from the Knicks' 89-58 loss to the jazz Friday night was that it...
BIG APPLE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR ERICK
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe last two games, Erick Strickland may have seen some striking similarities between the Knicks and his old Dallas Mavericks employers. Except for the fact that Strickland actually started in...
LJ OUT ANOTHER WEEK AT BEST
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Larry Johnson was re-examined by team doctor Norman Scott before last night's game vs. Milwaukee and it's becoming increasingly clear he'll be out at least a week. Johnson,...
ADELMAN PRAISES APT PUPIL SCOTT
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amWhen coach Rick Adelman hired Byron Scott to be one of his assistants in Sacramento, he figured that was one position that would be filled for a while. He figured...
JET LB COX KOD WITH BROKEN LEG
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES The Jets lost linebacker and team leader Bryan Cox for the season when he broke his right leg in the second quarter yesterday. Cox actually played a play...
STILL, ALL THEY NEED IS A WIN
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe playoffs formula for the Jets is cut and dried. The 9-6 Jets can clinch a wild-card berth with a win over the 11-4 Ravens Sunday in Baltimore. They, too,...
THUD YOU HEARD WAS JET HOPES
December 18, 2000 | 5:00am"I heard a thud," Jon Hall said. He thought maybe it was the sound of the football striking an object early in its flight from the tip of his toe...
EDDIE FINALLY D-LIVERS FOR BOYS & GIRLS
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amBoys & Girls 40 Manhattan Ctr. 32 Scoring points has never been a problem for Tommy Eddie. At a burly 6-foot-5, Eddie was strong enough to finish at will in...
PEYTON PUTS MIAMI IN ITS PLACE: MANNING, COLTS CRASH FINS' TITLE CELEBRATION
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amColts 20 Dolphins 13 MIAMI - Few things in this world reek as badly as dead fish. The reeling Dolphins aren't quite there yet, but they looked belly up during...
JET COLLAPSE HAS A FAMILIAR LOOK: GANG GREEN SQUANDERS ANOTHER CHANCE TO CLINCH SPOT
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amLions 10 Jets 7 Memo to tortured Jet fans everywhere: If you're unfamiliar with this route, let us refresh your tattered memories - the road goes by the name Heartbreak...
KNICKS KNOW STRICKLAND'S TRUSTWORTHY
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amErick Strickland won't be answering any questions this morning about why he's not playing as many minutes as he would like. Last night in the Knicks' stirring 100-97 OT win...
WEBBER TUCKS IN TIRED NETS; DROPS IN 33 AS N.J. SNOOZES THROUGH ROUT
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amKings 95 Nets 79 The Nets left Atlanta on a decidedly high note. But when they couldn't land in New Jersey in the wee hours yesterday morning, the Nets were...
BAD CALL BENCHES SPREE FOR OT
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Playing with five fouls late in the fourth quarter of last night's 100-97 overtime thriller, Latrell Sprewell drove down the lane and collided with Bucks guard Lindsay Hunter,...
GUTTY GIANTS WIN NFC EAST CROWN ; RALLY FROM 13 DOWN TO ROLL PAST COWBOYS
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amGiants 17 Cowboys 13 IRVING - The road to the Super Bowl runs through Giants Stadium. At the moment, that is a true and unbelievable claim that happens to be...
ERICK TO THE RESCUE ; STRICKLAND BAILS OUT KNICKS WITH CLUTCH '3'
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amOVERTIME Knicks 100 Bucks 97 It should never have come down to a frantic late, fourth-quarter comeback from 10 points down, or 3-point heroics from Erick Strickland, or the craziness...
AFTER TIKI TALKS THE TALK, GIANTS WALK THE WALK
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amIRVING - Tiki Barber never has been shy to speak. The Giants running back was the host for his own radio show during the offseason and was so smooth, he...
RALLY TO NIP COWBOYS, CLINCH NFC EAST CROWN
December 18, 2000 | 5:00amGiants 17 Cowboys 13 IRVING - The road to the Super Bowl runs through Giants Stadium. For those of you who cannot comprehend such a claim, take a look at...