January 2, 2001
ON THE NEWSSTAND
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amAFTER 30 days of chocolate martinis, sweet potato pie, dead birds and lounging in front of the tube, it's time to get off your behind and get down to the...
GOOD NEWS FOR BUYERS: REAL ESTATE PRICES ARE DROPPING
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amThe 2000 residential market year could best be described as "in like a lion and out like a huffing, puffing lion trying to scale a sheer mountain cliff to the...
NEW YORKERS SOUND OFF
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amIt's official: the stock market had a lousy year. The Nasdaq - where the best-known technology stocks like Microsoft and Amazon.com trade - had its worst year in its history....
GOODBYE, 2000, AND GOOD RIDDANCE!
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amFor many investors, 2000 was the year of living dangerously. With the rout in the technology and Internet sectors, many saw their portfolios and 401(k) savings notch up drastic losses...
PRUNE THE LOSERS; KEEP THE WINNERS
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amIT'S time to ask the question made famous by Mayor Ed Koch: "How'm I doing?" The markets just came through a year that proved quite turbulent, and many, many investors...
WILL THE BEACH HAVE ITS DAY? - CITY TRIES ONCE MORE TO DEVELOP ROCKAWAY STRETCH
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amARVERNE is the land that time - and the boom - forgot. The barren stretch of the Rockaway peninsula, midway between Rockaway Beach and Far Rockaway, has resisted the city's...
MALONE VS. BRYAN - REPORT: MOGUL EYES LAWSUIT OVER ICG FIASCO
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amDisgraced Texas two-timer Shelby Bryan reportedly wants to square off in a legal fight with one-time backer John Malone over one of Wall Street's worst meltdowns of 2000. Malone and...
YOU DON'T KNOW FROM THESE... SO WHY NOT?
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amALTHOUGH the best of last year's music scene was highlighted by veteran performers such as Neil Young, U2, Eric Clapton and BB King - among others - New Year's week...
DO NEWS ANCHORS MATTER? - TESTING THE VALUE OF NEW-OLD FACES
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amTHE importance of local news anchors in the age of all-news cable and the Internet will be tested on three stations as soon as the New Year gets underway. At...
IMPLANT OFFERS HOPE IN TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amSCIENTISTS are testing a miracle implant that could be used to treat severe depression.Like a cardiac pacemaker that sends electric pulses to regulate the heart, the surgical implant uses them...
SWEET SALVATION: CHOCOLATE
January 2, 2001 | 5:00am'YOU see before you a lifetime of eating chocolate," Katharine Hepburn once claimed. New studies suggest she was definitely onto something.A study in this month's American Journal of Clinical Nutrition...
A SHOW FOR THE 'WEST' OF US
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amTHE White House is hot - but Kramer is not. That's the word from a new poll that names "The West Wing" the best show on TV last year and...
THE STARR REPORT
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amDetroit clergyman evs up ABC protest A Detroit reverend is planning to protest the way a local station run by ex-Ch. 2 news director Bill Carey allegedly tried to sting...
KICKING BUTT FOR THE NEW YEAR
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amIF YOUR New Year's resolution is to quit smoking, try hitting the Web.A six-week smoking cessation program called Ready, Set, Stop! Online claims a 28 percent success rate. That's 10...
A LITTLE HELP FOR YOUR PALS - BEREAVEMENT BOOK HAS ADVICE ON WHAT TO DO, WHAT NOT TO SAY
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amHER husband had just died, and the mourners lined up to express their sympathy. One man, obviously at a loss, groped for something - anything - to say."So," he managed...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amFab photos Like many celebs who die young, Linda McCartney (1941-1998) is still drawing attention. From Jan. 19 through March 18, the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington will present the...
GYM NOT SO DANDY FOR YOUR FISCAL FITNESS: CHAIN'S 'NASTY' TACTICS MAKE CUSTOMERS $WEAT
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amBRIAN RUSH is counting the days until his membership at Bally Total Fitness expires. "They told me I could cancel whenever I wanted, and gullible me took their word for...
RELIGIOUS LEADERS URGE MORE PEACE, LESS GREED
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amPope John Paul called for mutual respect among the world's peoples - and the Archbishop of Canterbury warned that wasteful greed was threatening the planet, as the religious leaders delivered...
PAKISTAN AND INDIA EXCHANGE NUKE LISTS
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amIndia and Pakistan exchanged lists of their nuclear-weapons sites yesterday, despite months of increasing tensions between the two longtime rivals, Radio Pakistan said yesterday. The exchange of lists was in...
747 MADMAN HAD THREAT DELUSION
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amThe deranged African man who nearly crashed a British Airways jumbo jet is suffering from acute paranoia and was terrified other passengers were out to kill him, his doctors claim....
HIZZONER HAILS MUNICIPAL WORKERS
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani honored some of the city's unsung heroes who were on the job yesterday, from the sanitation workers who cleared the snow in Times Square to correction officers at...
PATAKI AIMS TO SLASH PROPERTY TAXES $230M
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki is proposing a $230 million cut in local property taxes starting next year - when he's expected to seek re-election. Pataki's "Co-STAR" proposal, to be outlined...
GOP NOT READY TO TURN OFF THE POWERS: HE'S URGED TO KEEP RUNNING STATE PARTY - EXCLUSIVE
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Top Republicans are privately urging state GOP boss William Powers to stay in office for two more years and not resign as expected, The Post has learned. "Many...
THE MYSTERIOUS MR. ALEXANDER - COPS DON'T EVEN KNOW 'SCAMMER'S' REAL ID
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amLUIGI ALEXANDER's life, as he liked to describe it to friends before his arrest, was something anyone would envy. The Westchester County man claimed to be a medical doctor, a...
2ND BUST IN CARIBBEAN CHURCH HORROR
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amPolice in St. Lucia captured a second suspect yesterday in the brutal New Year's Eve attack on worshippers at a Catholic Mass that left two people dead and 13 injured....
ART THIEVES DEMAND TOP KRONA - RANSOM SET FOR 3 WORKS SWIPED IN SWEDEN HEIST
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amMasked thieves who stole $30 million in artwork from Sweden's National Museum are demanding a huge ransom, police said yesterday. "But we do not intend to pay a single krona,"...
RUDY BIDS TO CLOSE SEX-SHOP LOOPHOLE
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani said yesterday the city will try to beef up the zoning laws as part of Round Two in the administration's much-hyped sex-shop crackdown. The goal of changing the...
AT LEAST 9 DEAD IN DUTCH NEW YEAR'S PARTY INFERNO
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amRevelers at a packed New Year's Eve bash in Holland turned into human torches when an intense flash fire broke out - killing at least nine teens and injuring 200...
BABIES HAVE NEW YEAR BAWL
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amThe Times Square ball had barely reached the bottom of the pole when a pair of babies were already hollering their heads off - celebrating their own arrivals as New...
BUSH SET TO BUILD REST OF CABINET AND HOLD TAX TALK
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President-elect Bush is set this week to fill the three vacancies in his Cabinet and huddle with advisers about how to move his tax plan through Congress. Bush...
SHE'LL BE SEN. HILL TOMORROW
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton will be sworn in as New York's junior senator tomorrow, replacing legendary Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan after 25 years in office. Clinton will make history by...
CATHOLIC CHURCH CATCHES HOLY HELL FROM HEATHER
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amSexy "Austin Powers" star Heather Graham has come out swinging against the Catholic Church - ripping it as a group of close-minded men who believe a woman's sexuality is "evil."...
MAYBE THEY SHOULD CALL THEM THE POLAR BRRRRS
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amTwo of the city's coolest clubs - the Icebreakers and the Polar Bears - celebrated the New Year yesterday with a dip in the icy waters of Coney Island. "I...
WHAT SNOW? APPLE'S BACK TO NORMAL
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amWhat a difference a weekend makes. Three days after being socked by a foot of snow, it was business as usual for New Yorkers heading back to work after the...
EGAN IS ATTACKED IN CHURCH: SUSPECT TRIES TO CUFF HIM AT COMMUNION
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amA Vatican-hating mental patient attacked Archbishop Edward Egan yesterday during Communion in St. Patrick's Cathedral, trying to slap a pair of handcuffs on the religious leader, police said. "I have...
DAD TELLS OF 'POOR SOUL WHO NEEDS HELP'
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amChurch-rage suspect Timothy Byrne was a bright, caring New Jersey architect before mental illness reduced him to "a poor soul who needs some help," his worried father told The Post...
ARAFAT HEADS TO D.C. FOR PEACE TALKS WITH CLINTON AS ISRAEL BLAST HURTS 50
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - President Clinton summoned PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to Washington today in a "decisive" bid for a Mideast peace pact, despite another terrorist car bombing in Israel that left...
THREE SLAIN AS NEW YEAR BEGINS WITH VIOLENCE
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amIt was a bloody New Year for 12 people wounded - three of them fatally - in the first hours of 2001, police said. The worst incident came shortly after...
PARENTS PLANNING TO RAISE THE DEAD - CULT ATTEMPTS TO REGENERATE DECEASED GIRL
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amAN AMERICAN couple whose infant daughter died last year during a routine heart operation is trying to bring her back to life through cloning. In a move that makes skeptical...
L.I. COUPLE FEELS THE BURN OF MEMBERSHIP
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amAn impulsive visit to a Bally gym has come back to haunt a young Long Island couple and destroy their dream of owning a home, they say. Natasha Henderson and...
PITCHING HARDBALL: 5 UNDERCOVER TALES OF HEALTH CLUB'S SALES PRESSURE
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amFive Post reporters posing as customers visited Bally gyms to see firsthand how prospective members are treated. All five were steered toward the priciest plans, several were pressured into signing...
SET DATE, THEN FIND MATE - AUTHOR SAYS YOU CAN HURRY LOVE
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amYOUR New Year's resolution is to get married, but you haven't got a mate in sight. What to do? Start by setting your goal and selecting a date for your...
EDITOR WON'T GET HITCHED ON DEADLINE
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amI have one rule for men, and it goes the same for shopping: Don't buy it unless it's perfect. Maybe that's why I'm 29, single, British and living in New...
WEARY MIKE, NHL-WORST 'D' DOOM RANGERS
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amREGARDING the Rangers, incredibly already on the precipice of a season gone irretrievably wrong: * Mike Richter's game is shot, that much is apparent, the shell-shocked goaltender now operating without...
HEINSOHN TO JEFF: RUN IT UP
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN TOM Heinsohn talks regretfully about the death of fast-break basketball in the league, the Celtics legend/current broadcaster says he's not just pointing to Jeff Van Gundy's system with the...
DEVILS AIMING TO BE TOP SEED
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amThe issue is athletic honor, and while the Devils cringe a bit from past history, they do not shrink. They'll try again for the conference championship, no matter that being...
'URGENCY' KEY FOR SCOTT'S SKIDDING NETS
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amORLANDO - The coach has called for a sense of urgency. The players are calling for a sense of urgency. Observers who grow sick and tired would settle for the...
TUNA, WOODY WILL SORT OUT JET MESS
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amTHE latest version of the future of the Jets franchise will begin to take shape today when Woody Johnson, the team owner, and Bill Parcells, the team's . . ....
SEARCHING FOR A THIRD SCALP - BOWDEN HAS SOONERS, TITLE IN SIGHTS
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - Bobby Bowden wants, in his words, another scalp. The chief of the Seminole football nation already has two national championships on his belt and is looking for a...
FOR RAVENS, IT'S ALL ABOUT 'D'
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amBALTIMORE - In the afterglow of Baltimore's 21-3 AFC wild-card win over Denver, just after the Ravens had stepped over the vanquished Broncos and into Sunday's 12:30 p.m. playoff date...
THIS TIME AROUND WINNER TAKES ALL
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amIf this was a best-of-seven series, the Giants would own a commanding 2-0 lead on the Eagles. But Sunday's playoff game is winner take all, meaning the two convincing Giants...
BIG A MAKEUP DAY TOMORROW
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amAqueduct will be open for racing tomorrow to make up for one of the lost days of racing last weekend. There will be free general parking and free general admission....
GIANTS COME TO PRAISE EAGLES, NOT BURY THEM
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amIf the remainder of this week is anything like the first day back to work for the Giants, they may have convinced themselves that they stand no chance to score...
ROLLING THE DICE ON AGING ROMARIO
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amLONDON - There's no doubting Romario's fine record over the years as a striker, with his outstanding World Cup performances and 73 goals in 74 games with his current club...
NATIONAL TITLE SYSTEM A BUNCH OF BCS; NCAA STILL NEEDS FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - Florida State, No. 3 in practically every poll, plays Oklahoma, No. 1 in practically every poll, here tomorrow night for the national championship. With No. 2 Miami missing,...
BOUNTY ON BARBER MAY BACKFIRE
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amWhat Brian Mitchell may or may not realize is by declaring open season on Tiki Barber's fractured left arm, he has inadvertently placed a target squarely on his own back....
FASSEL WANTS BIG BLUE SEA IN STANDS
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Memo to those planning on attending Sunday's playoff game at Giants Stadium: If you wear green, Jim Fassel will view you as the enemy. It's early in the...
COYOTE LAKES NABS THE FOX
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amSaving ground every step of the way, and forced to check hard in traffic entering the far turn, 7-5 favorite Coyote Lakes finally found running room and rallied up the...
SOME RIMSHOTS, PLEASE ...
January 2, 2001 | 5:00amSUBJECT: Nets end 2000 with seventh straight loss. Not wanting to risk another last-second lobotomy a la Boston, the Nets made sure they were unprepared and uninspired nice and early...