December 24, 2000
FINANCIER HEADED TO COURTROOM
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amInternational financier George Soros has been ordered to stand trial in Paris on insider-trading charges that he pocketed $2.2 million in connection with a hostile bid to take over a...
CYBER SANTA? HO, HO, NO!; HE'S STILL IN BUSINESS 'CAUSE HE SHIED AWAY FROM INTERNET SILLINESS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00am"WHADDA I hear for the next lot, a group of nine reindeer, including one with a shiny crimson honker?" barked the bankruptcy auctioneer. Standing off to the side, a mix...
STARS KNOCKING AT GRAMERCY'S GATES
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amGRAMERCY Park isn't for everyone. Then again, it doesn't want to be. The neighborhood has Manhattan's only private park, which most of its residents aren't allowed to enter. If you...
HILL GETS EDITOR, IS SEEKING GHOST
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amNOW that Hillary Rodham Clinton has chosen Simon & Schuster as the publisher, the next guessing game is who will actually work on the book with her as the editor,...
THERE'S A WHOLE LOTTA SWAPPING GOING ON AT VNU
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amCALL it mix and match. One subsidiary of publishing powerhouse VNU successfully swapped leases - and now VNU is hoping another subsidiary can pull the same stunt. Nielsen Media Research,...
LIVELY LIEV BRANCHES OUT: STAR OF 'BETRAYAL' LIKES TO PUT HIS TALENTS TO THE TEST
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amIn the new film "Spring Forward," Liev Schreiber plays an ex-con recently paroled from jail, having been imprisoned for holding up a Dunkin' Donuts in a state of financial desperation....
TWO THEATER SHOOTS THRIVE OFF BROADWAY'S MAIN STEM
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amNot so far in the past, off-Broadway theater seemed an almost exotic animal. The idea of it being a valid alternative to Broadway would have seemed ridiculous. Today, it may...
LOCATION, LOCATION
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amHas anyone told you where to go lately? With the Vindigo personal navigation system, you'll never be lacking for suggestions about where to eat, shop or play and how to...
MINI MIGHT
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amA sleek, slim new MP3 player from Digisette -- which looks like a cassette tape and is about the same size -- makes a versatile choice when taking in tunes...
PULL OF THE CORD
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amRare was the '70s girls who didn't have at least one pair of bell-bottomed corduroys in her closet. Maybe that's why women of a certain age (late 20s to early...
HOLIDAY CHEERS: GET INTO THE MIX WITH THESE YUMMY YULETIDE PICKS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00am'Tis the season to be . . . whipping up drinks. With parties abounding and temperatures dipping, tasty potent potables will have Mommy kissing Santa Claus and Jack Frost sneaking...
WHAT I WATCH
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amBOB PAPA RADIO VOICE OF NY GIANTS AND NJ NETS THURSDAY NIGHT IS FAMILY NIGHT. MY FAVORITES ARE "FRIENDS" BECAUSE IT REMINDS ME OF WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND CRAZY,...
OHMIGOD! IT'S THE FAB FOUR!
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN it comes to British imports, at one extreme is The Beatles and at the other is the ill-fated Mr. Blobby. The BBC believes that a new show for pre-schoolers,...
THE SAVVY SHOPPER
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amAPPARELStacia New York 267 Smith St., at Degraw Street, inBrooklyn (718) 237-0078 Sale: Today Open: 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Designer Stacy Johnson crafts sweet, elegant dresses and separates made from luxuriant...
MOVIES WITH BITE
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amQUICK! Get the wooden stake! With "Shadow of the Vampire" opening on Friday, this is a good time to look back at some of the screen's most interesting neckbiters. *...
BOOK REVIEW
December 24, 2000 | 5:00am"THE CONSTANT GARDENER" BY JOHN LE CARRE SCRIBNER 492 PAGES, $28 Poor John le Carre. No matter how many years go by, people still wonder what the premier spy novelist...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: MONICA BELLUCCI
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amMonica Bellucci says that acting in the movie "Malena," in which she plays a war widow who awakens the sexual desire of Sicilian boys, was a bit awkward. "I had...
PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CLINICS DELIVER OPTIONS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amTHEY say children in the house bring the magic back to Christmas. True. But having a baby of your own also makes you feel the human poignancy of the Nativity...
BIN LADEN TERROR PLOT NEAR MISS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe United States' counter-terrorism chief says Osama bin Laden's army of militants came "very close" to pulling off an orchestrated, three-country wave of bombings last January. "What if January of...
ART OF THE STEAL: PIRATES FLEE WITH $30M OLD MASTERS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amIn a brazen Hollywood-style heist, three thieves snatched two Renoir paintings and a Rembrandt from a Swedish museum and sped off into the night in a motorboat. Cops believe -...
FALLEN HERO: MCCAIN HURT AT SEA
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amSen. John McCain was recovering yesterday after a fall from a charter boat while vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands Friday. The Arizona Republican was treated for a cut on...
PUFFY VOWS TO FIGHT GUN RAP IN COURT
December 24, 2000 | 5:00am"Sean "Puffy" Combs has broken his silence to insist he's innocent of a gun-possession rap and ready to fight for his freedom in a Manhattan courtroom next month. "I'm an...
BARAK OKS CONCESSIONS ;WOULD GIVE TEMPLE MT.
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON, D.C. - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is willing to make a last-ditch concession of most of eastern Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Temple Mount to the Palestinians,...
SPIRITED POST READERS TURN TOT'S TEARS TO JOY
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amGenerous Post readers played Santa this week, turning a single mother's misfortune into a Christmas dream come true for her daughter. "Christmas is going to be a whole lot better...
IT LOOKS LIKE COMPTROLLER CARL'S BANKING ON RUN AT GOV
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amHe's beginning to look a lot like a gubernatorial candidate. With a nearly $3 million war chest amassed already and plans for a $1 million fund-raiser on Feb. 1, state...
BUSHED W. KICKS BACK AFTER A TWO-WEEK RUSH
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President-elect George W. Bush took time off from a busy two weeks of Cabinet-building and began a mini-vacation with his family yesterday. He went to his ranch in...
CHRISTMAS TREE TRAGEDY :CANDLE LED TO DEATHS OF 2 KIDS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amA candle that tumbled under a dried-out Christmas tree sparked the Manhattan inferno that killed two children and left their parents clinging to life, officials said yesterday. And a padlocked...
BILL'S NEXT DESTINATION: THE $PEAKERS CIRCUIT?
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Clintons are spending their last Christmas and New Year's holidays at the White House, but it's anyone's guess where they go from there. White House aides acknowledge...
FINANCIER TRIAL-BOUND IN BANK SCHEME
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amInternational financier George Soros has been ordered to stand trial in Paris on insider-trading charges that he pocketed $2.2 million in connection with a hostile bid to takeover a French...
'TREATED LIKE DOGS' BY QUEEN OF FASHION: KARAN'S LABORERS CLAIM SWEATSHOP CONDITIONS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amDONNA KARAN'S hand-knit sweaters and trendy street clothes are considered chic enough to attract a bid from the luxury combine Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton. But behind the fashion diva's high-priced...
POP STAR GAVE HER LIFE TO SAVE SON
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amMoments before she was killed, British pop singer Kirsty MacColl pushed her 17-year old son out of the path of the boat propeller that killed her Tuesday in a reef...
MADONNA SLEEPLESS, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amMadonna and her Guy didn't sleep a wink on their wedding night, but it wasn't romance that kept them awake - it was cry-baby Rocco. The infant's all-night bawling was...
VICTOR BORGE, CLASSICAL'S CLOWN PRINCE, DEAD AT 91
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amCrowd-pleasing pianist Victor Borge, known as the "clown prince" of classical music, died in his sleep at his home in Connecticut yesterday. He was 91. Borge had just returned to...
DEFECTOR: IRAQIS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amAn Iraqi defector yesterday reportedly warned that Saddam Hussein has resumed an atom-bomb project, furthering suspicions the dictator is building weapons of mass destruction. "Saddam is very proud of his...
PA'S SHROUD OF SECRECY KEEPS SPENDING HIDDEN
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe Port Authority wants to jack up Hudson River bridge and tunnel tolls by as much as 75 percent, but finding out how the bi-state agency spends that money is...
BABIES EVACUATED IN B'KLYN HOSP FIRE
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amA smokey fire last night at The Brooklyn Hospital Center forced the evacuation of babies in the nursery and neonatal intensive care unit, officials said. There were no injuries and...
THE 'LATE-BREAKING' NEWS ON LAST-MINUTE BUYING
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amYou've done it again, haven't you? You've waited until the last minute to do your Christmas shopping. Well, don't panic. You're in good company. Studies say as many as 20...
VICKI'S STILL DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL :GOTTI'S DAUGHTER BARES HER SOUL IN PRISON LETTER
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amVICTORIA GOTTI has never shared her true feelings about her famous father, John Gotti, with anyone - until now. In a deeply personal letter written in the dark hours of...
GABBY CABBIES DEFY CITY'S BAN ON CELL PHONES
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amCity cabbies are hacking while they're yakking on their cell phones - in violation of city law. As the city debates whether to ban the use of hand-held phones for...
LIVING WITH THE SINS OF HER FATHER
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amTHURSDAY night - Baldoria with Victoria Gotti. She doesn't wear her heart on her sleeve (that's a heart monitor, bub), despite being in the middle of a divorce. Radiant despite...
FIGHTING TO CARRY ON WITH LIFE : SUBWAY-SHOVE VICTIM MOVES PAST TRAGEDY
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amEdgar Rivera is outside a Brooklyn building smoking a cigarette when a traffic agent politely tells him he has to move his van. It doesn't matter that there is a...
SCROOGE RUNS THESE WORKSHOPS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amGifts in your stockings may have been made by women and children working under conditions Santa's elves would never tolerate: starvation wages, brutal punishments, fear of arrest, deportation and even...
LITTLE ITALY'S NEW MOB WOES : BIZMAN'S DRUG BUST IMPERILS STREET MALL
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amRudy Giuliani made his reputation as a hard-driving U.S. attorney by rounding up wiseguys in Little Italy. But after seven years as an equally hard-driving mayor, he hasn't had as...
HUNT OF A LIFETIME FULFILLING KIDS' WISHES
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Make-A-Wish Foundation has granted thousands of requests from children with life-threatening illnesses, sending youngsters to Walt Disney World or introducing them to their favorite pop stars. But there are...
BROOKLYNITE RECALLS ROOMING WITH ALI
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amBrooklyn's Nick Spanakos wants to share some memories of auld lang syne with his friend Muhammad Ali when the boxing great comes to New York to help ring in the...
JETS USING LAST LIFELINE :PROBABLY FINISHED IF THEY DON'T PREVAIL IN BALTIMORE TODAY
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amBALTIMORE - What more needs to be said about today's regular-season finale against the Ravens at PSINet Stadium or the Jets' staggering run at a playoff berth? "If we win...
INJURED COX WILL BE JETS' BRY IN THE SKY
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amBALTIMORE - Bryan Cox will be in Baltimore at PSINet Stadium today to support his Jet teammates. He won't be in uniform and he won't even be on the sideline,...
OFFICIALLY, IT STINKS ON ICE
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amJUST HATE to step out of character and play the role of Grinch, but then again, what else are we here for? Which is to say it is now time...
BLUESHIRTS MISS THE POINT: BLOW LATE LEAD, FALL ON OT PENALTY SHOT
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amOVERTIME Predators3 Rangers2 And so the Rangers go into the two-day Christmas break with a loser's point, which, given the way they've played over the last two weeks is entirely...
CHRISTMAS MIRACLE AS JOCKEY SURVIVES SPILL
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amChristmas came two days early for jockey Shaun Bridgmohan yesterday at Aqueduct when he survived one of the most terrifying spills of the year. The 21-year-old reinsman, currently third in...
CHANEY: IT'S THE TRADE TALK
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amDon Chaney, Jeff Van Gundy's top assistant, believes it's mental. Chaney said the Knicks' rollercoaster season partly stems from some key players being "distracted" by the constant cloud of perception...
KNIGHT'S HAPPIER IN APPLE
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amTravis Knight obviously wishes he had more of a role with the Knicks but trust us, he's got his ring and is happy to be out of L.A. Asked if...
THE GOLDEN CHILD: NOTRE DAME QB MATT LOVECCHIO HAS NEVER PLAYED A GAME HE COULDN'T WIN
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe first time Larry LoVecchio knew something special was happening came 12 years ago on a soccer field in picture-perfect Franklin Lakes, NJ. His six-year-old son Matt was playing in...
BELEAGUERED BUTCH GETS BOOST FROM ARBOUR
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amWhen he thought that his dream job could be taken away earlier this month, Butch Goring felt he was losing one of his greatest strengths: his spirit. "However close it...
ARNOTT AVOIDS BAN ON CROSS-CHECK
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA - Sounds familiar. The high court stayed, if not overturned, the decision of the lower body in Florida, and matters remained as they were. Jason Arnott was expected to...
JINTS 'D' ANSWERS BELL, LANDS KO BLOW TO JAGS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants heading into yesterday's game were quite concerned with two playmakers on the Jaguars offense. They knew they had to contain Fred Taylor on the ground and...
'SANDY' WINS GRAVESEND AGAIN
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amSay Florida Sandy took the lead at the top of the stretch and drew off to win the Grade 3 $85,750 Gravesend Handicap by 13/4 lengths. Liberty Gold closed well...
A COMPLETE RETURN : SEHORN COMES FULL CIRCLE WITH ONSIDE TD
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amT HIS is the way Jason Sehorn used to envision himself returning kickoffs: The ball floating lazily into his arms and in front of him, nothing but green grass and...
MAKE UP UNDER THE ISSEL-TOE
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amSOMEONE might want to point out to Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke his team has now won four straight (including back-to-back road victories in San Antonio and Houston) after losing the...
ROAD TO TAMPA GOES THROUGH JERSEY : BIG FOURTH KEEPS GIANTS HOME FOR PLAYOFFS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe celebration was actually muted, if you can believe that. There was the water bucket dumped on the coach and the hugs and the shouting, but the sense of accomplishment...
TOOMER COMES UP BIG AGAIN
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe Giants were clinging to a four-point lead late in the fourth quarter yesterday, with a win meaning homefield advantage throughout the NFC playoffs. It was the sort of situation...
FRED STANDS BY HIS QUOTES
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amAnybody who believes players don't pay any attention to an opponent's trash-talk, anyone who thinks locker room bulletin-board fodder is a myth, need only watch the Giants' 28-25 win over...
STRAHAN DELIVERS HITS, NOT TIDINGS: RIPS TAYLOR, QUESTIONS RB'S HEART
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amMichael Strahan was wondering. Where did Fred Taylor go? The chatty Jaguars running back, who, shall we say, had some interesting words this past week concerning the Giants defense, was...
JINTS HAVE MARA JUST WELLING WITH PRIDE
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amHis Giants had beaten the Jaguars 28-25 and secured home-field throughout the NFC playoffs, and Wellington Mara was asked what he thinks of his team. "It's the best team we've...
HALL-OF-FAMER JERKENS RUSHED TO HOSPITAL
December 24, 2000 | 5:00am. Hall-of-Fame trainer Allen Jerkens was hospitalized yesterday afternoon after collapsing at his residence in Hallandale, Fla., while awaiting the start of the upcoming Gulfstream Park meeting. "Allen was complaining...
MORE REASON TO CELEBRATE: TIKI'S INJURY IS NOT SERIOUS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amA hush came over the building, which was not easy to do when there were thousands of fans ready to celebrate. Tiki Barber was down near the sideline in front...
RAMS LOSE ROBIN FOR 2-4 WEEKS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amBevon Robin, Fordham's starting point guard and best player, will miss 2-4 weeks after injuring the arch of his right foot in yesterday's 107-91 loss at Siena. Seven minutes into...
VAN HORN 'NOT FAR' FROM RETURN TO COURT
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amOn Wednesday, the Nets might see what they've been missing. Keith Van Horn is targeted to start practicing again that day, coach Byron Scott announced yesterday. More importantly, Van Horn...
TORRID ALMO KEEPS DEVILS ROLLING
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amDevils5 Lightning1 TAMPA - With Alexander Mogilny, streak scoring isn't just the regularity of his goals. It's their velocity, too. AlMo's firing live ammo now. Devils don't often gun like...
NO SURPRISES: ICE-COLD NETS CAN'T TAKE HEAT
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amHeat86 Nets80 You're the Nets, so bad shooting is a given. Like last night when you poured in 37 percent of your shots. Now if you're going to do that...
IN A SEASON OF LOWS, HERE'S ROCK BOTTOM ; ISLES EMBARRASSED IN LOSS TO JACKETS
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amBlue Jackets7 Islanders5 Exactly which was the expansion team last night? Even Butch Goring wasn't quite sure. In a season of low points, the Islanders found a new world of...
'POINT' TAKEN AS HALLOWS BOPS LINCOLN
December 24, 2000 | 5:00amAll Hallows73 Lincoln48 Marvin McCullough knew he had a challenge. "Everyone has been talking about how Sebastian Telfair is the next great point guard from New York City," McCullough said...