January 8, 2001
GREENSPAN'S EFFORT TO WEAN US OFF THE MARKET BUBBLE
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amALAN Greenspan cannot live with the stock market bubble and he can't live without it. The Federal Reserve chairman proved that last week when he panicked and pushed interest rates...
THIS COULD BE WATCHING YOU
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - A wrist watch capable of beaming signals to satellites blasted off yesterday, carrying the dreams of a California businessman who wants Space-age technology to keep tabs on...
LOFTS-Y ANN TAYLOR SETS 2 MORE N.Y. STORES
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amAnn Taylor Lofts is on a roll. The women's retailer just inked deals for two more shops in the Big Apple, one in Midtown and the other in NoHo. At...
MEDIEVAL VILLAGE (SANS SERFS) AVAILABLE FOR RENTAL
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amNow you really can be king of the hill and top of the heap. And thanks to the strong U.S. dollar, you can do it relatively cheaply. For less than...
HOME ECONOMICS: WHEN TO REFINANCE
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amQUESTION: after the Fed's rate cut, is it time to refinance your home or not? Answer: maybe. There are several reasons why the timing's good if you're looking to refinance....
NAVIGATING THROUGH INTERNATIONAL WATERS
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amWITH the U.S. economy slowing, international markets are looking much more attractive. Despite Alan Greenspan's surprise rate cut last week, the U.S. economy simply doesn't have the legs to continue...
THEY WOULD SAY THAT....
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amTHIS just in: Students are leaping out of bed to download electronic textbooks. According to a recent survey, 62 percent of students said they would choose an electronic textbook over...
ON THE MENU: MARKET-SURPRISE
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amBYRON Wien was in the middle of hosting his annual New Year's lunch - at which he prognosticates 10 possible surprises for the coming year - when he was interrupted...
WHEN IN DOUBT, BLAME TV
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amBLAME it on Maria. And Ron. And Sue. One-third of the nation's financial advisors say it is more difficult to retain clients than it was five years ago. The reason?...
LEGAL TROUBLES
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amLAWYERS are supposed to know better than to make things up under pressure. Yet the National Association of Women Lawyers was in such a rush to laud one of its...
A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amTONY O'Reilly has obviously put "the Irish Troubles" behind him. Last week, the former chairman of H.J. Heinz turned newspaper magnate, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amTHE New Yorker, with an excerpt of Ken Auletta's new book on the antitrust suit against Microsoft should get lots of attention this week. Federal Judge Thomas P. Jackson, in...
DREARY CHARACTERS AREN'T MUCH TO 'WAX' ON ABOUT
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amTHE WAXPlaywrights Horizons' Anne G. Wilder Theater, 416 W. 42nd St. Through Jan. 21. ON one level, it's a sex farce. Seven friends interact in various ways in a hotel...
THE STARR REPORT
January 8, 2001 | 5:00am'View' gets 'Price'tag on women viewers Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie might be gearing up for their new talk show hosted by Iyanla Vanzant - but they've got plenty to...
CLINTON FROM A TO B ; NOT MUCH WE DON'T REMEMBER
January 8, 2001 | 5:00am"The Clinton Years" Every night this week on "Nightline," 11:35 p.m. on ABC/Ch. 7 and Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 9 p.m. on WNET/Ch. 13 FAR be it from me to...
NEW REALITY: TESTING FOR STDS
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amPASADENA - It was never like this on "Jeopardy!" The cast of Fox's new reality/game show "Temptation Island" had to agree to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases before joining...
'MOST WANTED' UPS REWARD
January 8, 2001 | 5:00am'A MERICA'S Most Wanted" has doubled the bounty to $200,000 for information leading to the capture of seven men who busted out of a maximum-security Texas prison and killed a...
WILL FIRST DAUGHTERS SHOW FLAIR FOR FASHION? IT'S UP TO BUSH'S 19-YEAR-OLD TWINS TO MAKE A STYLISH SPLASH AT DAD'S INAUGURATION
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amTHEY'RE usually "bright," and are often referred to as "reserved." Some have even been called "witty." But "fashionable" is a word rarely used to describe First Daughters. Chelsea Clinton didn't...
DOCTOR, IT HURTS WHEN I DO THIS . . .
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amTHE last time I had a full physical I was 16 months-old, which is why I felt it might be time for a follow-up - being that I just turned...
GOP DREAMIN' OF TEAMIN' PATAKI & RUDY
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amSTATE Republicans are considering an extraordinary "Dream Team" ticket next year featuring Gov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani running together, The Post has learned. Some GOP leaders, smarting from a two-year...
COP-OUT CHURCH PICKS CENTURY'S GANG OF 4
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amPOLITICAL correctness is now permanently set in stone. The villain this time is The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where a simple decision on naming the church's "Person of...
WILLS EXCHANGES STEAMY NOTES WITH BUSH NIECE
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amThe sexy niece of President-elect George W. Bush and Britain's hunky Prince William have been exchanging a stream of e-mails and letters, it was reported last night. Lauren Bush, 16,...
BACKSTREET BOYS ROLL PAST STONES AS TOP TOUR BAND
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amThe Backstreet Boys are about to get some real Satisfaction. The red-hot boy band is expected to earn more than $350 million from their world tour - and replace the...
M'SOFT JUDGE SAYS GATES IS LIKE A 'GANGLAND KILLER'
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amThe judge who ordered Microsoft split in two last year has compared its top execs to murderous gangsters - and likened the software giant's chief, Bill Gates, to Napoleon. Judge...
ABUSE AND INSULTS JUST PART OF THE JOB FOR THIS TRAFFIC COP
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amGEORGE the traffic agent didn't pay attention to the rant from the Brooklyn auto-body shop owner he had just ticketed for triple parking. "You f- - - - - -...
WHINING DEMS ARE WAY OFF BASE
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amAMONG John Ashcroft, Linda Chavez and Gale Norton, if you listen to the liberals, you would think President-elect Bush was forming the second coming of the Jesse James gang. The...
'FOWL' PLAY MADE PAIR THINK PLANE WENT DOWN
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amThe search for a small plane that two New Jersey women thought they saw crash into the Hudson River turned out yesterday to be a wild-goose chase. A U.S. Fish...
BANK-ROB SUSPECT'S 2 LIVES - B'KLYN FAMILY MAN SPENT LUNCH BREAKS PULLING HEISTS: COPS
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amSmithson Smith was the picture of normality - a quiet man who commuted daily from Brooklyn to work as a computer operations supervisor in Manhattan and returned to his family...
PARDON PREZ, FOE SAYS - SEN. HATCH: LET BILL 'FADE' OUT OF OFFICE
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amAUSTIN, Texas - Sen. Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said yesterday that George W. Bush should pardon President Clinton for Sexgate lies under oath "just to...
CANDIDATE VALLONE ISRAEL-BOUND
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amCity Council Speaker Peter Vallone is planning a trip to Israel in the next few weeks and will ask President Clinton in a letter today not to rush the peace...
MELANIE BARES TORMENT OVER PILL ADDICTION
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amMelanie Griffith says her crippling addiction to painkillers was so bad, she couldn't even pass a drugstore without wanting to march in and wolf down a handful of pills. "My...
BACKSTREET BOY$ ROLL OVER THE STONES ON TOUR
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amThe Backstreet Boys are about to get some real Satisfaction. The red-hot boy band is expected to earn more than $350 million from their world tour -and replace the Rolling...
LUCK FAILS BOOKIE RING IN B'KLYN RAIDS: DA
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amAn illegal gambling ring worth $30 million a year was sacked in a series of weekend raids, well before the bookies could cash in on Super Bowl betting, Brooklyn District...
CHAVEZ GETS RAVES FROM QNS. MOM OF 2
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amA Queens mom told yesterday how Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez helped her kids and paid for them to go to Catholic school, calling her a "very caring person." "If you...
RUDY TO ROLL OUT AFFORDABLE-HOUSING PLAN
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani will unveil a $1.2 billion plan to create or preserve 10,100 units of affordable housing when he delivers his final State of the City speech today, City Hall...
SUICIDE DOC'S SURVIVING KIDS ARE TOLD THE UNTHINKABLE
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amThe two Long Island girls who survived their doctor father's carbon-monoxide suicide, which accidentally claimed the lives their mother and sister, as well, were released from the hospital yesterday. Jacklyn...
JINT FANS: WE DISLIKE THE VIKES!
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amNew Yorkers cheered till they were blue in the face last night as the Giants clipped the Eagles' wings in a 20-10 playoff victory that puts them one game away...
BILL & HILL TAKE MANHATTAN - HE SEEKS MIDTOWN OFFICE
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amNew New Yorkers Bill and Hillary Clinton did what New Yorkers do best yesterday - partying and shopping - as she was hailed at a star-studded ceremony at the Garden...
5 ALIVE! JACKSONS REUNITING
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Jermaine Jackson dropped a musical bombshell yesterday, telling a start-up radio station that the Jackson 5 - with Michael Jackson - will record and tour again this...
BOY, 12, ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS SIS, 7: POLICE
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amA 7-year-old Harlem girl was in critical condition last night after her 12-year-old brother accidentally shot her in the stomach with an illegal gun he found in their apartment, police...
THAT'S WHY HE'S ONE IN A MEL-LION - GIBSON GRABS TWO TOP AWARDS
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amWhat women - and men and teens - wanted at last night's People's Choice Awards was all Mel, all the time, and they proved it by handing the ever-hunky Gibson...
WOMAN AT THE CENTER OF STORM BACKS CHAVEZ
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amAUSTIN - An illegal alien from Guatemala last night backed up Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez's story and said she was never her employee. Marta Mercado said Chavez gave her shelter...
LAME-DUCK BEEP SHULMAN HATCHES GOLDEN EGG FOR 18 TOP STAFFERS
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amOutgoing Queens Borough President Claire Shulman gave almost a quarter of her staff generous holiday presents: hefty raises to kick off her last year in office. Shulman handed out salary...
CITY WEB SITE'S 'DEADBEAT' LIST DRIVES FEW TO PAY OFF TICKETS
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amA city program that kicked off last year using cyberspace to collect more than $700,000 in unpaid parking tickets from the worst scofflaws has netted just $800, The Post has...
MELANIE: 'RAGING' RX ADDICTION 'WAS RUNNING MY LIFE'
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amMelanie Griffith says her crippling addiction to painkillers was so bad, she couldn't even pass a drugstore without wanting to march in and pick up some pills. "My disease was...
HOMELESS IN THE HAMPTONS - WEALTHY RESIDENTS RIP WELFARE MOTELS AS 'GHETTOS' FOR POOR
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amSOUTHAMPTON is home to some of the poshest residential enclaves on Long Island. But behind the million-dollar houses, haute-couture boutiques and fur-draped women is a growing homeless population living in...
ROBINSON IS SAVED FROM HOLIK DECISION
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amIronically, yesterday's parking postponement may have saved Larry Robinson more controversy. Had the Devils played the Coyotes as scheduled yesterday and the Devils won, Robinson would have become the head...
BRAWL GETS TWO PIRATES BANNED
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amSeton Hall is learning just how difficult being a nationally- ranked team can be. The Pirates (10-3) blew a big lead and lost in overtime at Illinois. They got dusted...
STRAHAN, 'D' FINALLY LET FASSEL JOIN THEIR CLUB
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amHAD the ending of yesterday's game between the Giants and the Eagles occurred in the final game of last season, Michael Strahan might have found himself facing attempted murder charges...
DEFENSE DRIVES JINTS CLOSER TO TAMPA - FLOGGING OF PHILLY SETS UP TITLE MATCH WITH FAVORED VIKES
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amGiants 20 - Eagles 10 They were waving white towels, but make no mistake whatsoever. This was no surrender. Far from it. Giants defenders were whipping themselves and their raucous...
BATTERED BARBER SHOWS TRUE GRIT
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES He was out there, broken arm notwithstanding, and while he did not light up the night, Tiki Barber gave the Giants everything he had, despite his multiple injuries....
DIXON'S TIMING THE BEST
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amTen days before the Giants opened their Super Bowl run with a 20-10- crunching of the Eagles, GM Ernie Accorsi stood on the sidelines watching practice and offering a prediction....
DONOVAN'S NO SUPERMAN - EAGLE QB MCNABBED BY JINTS 'D'
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amTHE Giants yesterday made the greatest solo act since Lucky Lindy a lonely island unto himself. They put the most fearless prisoner since Cool Hand Luke into solitary confinement. The...
VG SENDS WARD BACK INTO FIRE
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amCharlie Ward knew he'd be back in uniform tonight but he didn't expect to start, as he was trying to get into better game shape. But Jeff Van Gundy wasn't...
U.S. MEDIATOR TO MAKE PEACE TRIP TO MIDEAST
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - President Clinton yesterday ordered top peace envoy Dennis Ross to take one more shot at brokering a Mideast deal - as Israel fingered a Yasser Arafat operative in...
VAN HORN TO THE RESCUE; KEITH'S BRIGHT RETURN TAKES LOAD OFF ROOKS
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amCLEVELAND - It certainly was not the Nets' master plan to start two rookies at forward this season. One, yes. Two, never. But things such as plans and legs get...
RED-HOT XTRA HEAT IS JUST RUTHLESS
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amXtra Heat continued her amazing record as she took the lead on the far turn and went on to win the $80,575 Ruthless Stakes by three-quarters of a length over...
LINDROS COULD BE BROADWAY BOUND
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amThe Eric Lindros Saga is on the verge of taking a new twist, The Post has learned, and it's one that might well point No. 88 in the Rangers' direction....
ERECTING A MINNY MAUL ; HIGH-FLYING CULPEPPER AND CO. COULD BE A HANDFUL FOR GIANTS
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - This is the scary part for the Giants. Even if there is a swirling dervish of a cold wind next Sunday at Giants Stadium, Mara's Men will have...
BILLICK'S BOYS BACK UP BANTER
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amNASHVILLE - Before yesterday's AFC Divisional Playoff game, Tennessee played a video montage of Baltimore coach Brian Billick taking perceived sleights of and shots at Tennessee. The idea was to...
ST. RAYMOND REWINDS TO TOP CHRIST THE KING
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amSt. Ray's 83 CTK 58 Ask most high school kids what they like to do on Saturdays and the most popular answer would likely be "watching movies." So, it would...
WANNA GET ON TV? SHOWBOAT!
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amTHE very worst of what both sports and sports TV have become was in ample evidence during Fox's telecast of Saturday's Saints-Vikes game. And right from the very start. The...
AL'S NIGHTMARE A RAVENS DREAM ; DEL GRECO'S DEBACLE KO'S TITANS
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amNASHVILLE - Maybe Baltimore's special teams really are this dominant. Or maybe Tennessee kicker Al Del Greco just can't function against the Ravens. Either way, Del Greco's nightmares must be...
FORGET THE TITANS! RAVENS, LEWIS FLY TOWARD TITLE GAME
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amRavens 24 Titans 10 NASHVILLE - Long after Baltimore had humbled Tennessee 24-10 in yesterday's AFC Divisional Playoff, well after linebacker Ray Lewis had sealed the game by wrestling an...
BIG MO' SHINES EARLY ON BIG BLUE
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amWhen it was all said and done, the Giants needed only 17 seconds to win yesterday's divisional playoff bout against the Eagles at Giants Stadium. That's how long it took...
FOR DIXON, GUARANTEE IS ON TIME
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amThe last time a New York star athlete made good on a guarantee, he was wearing blue and red and skating for the Rangers. Now the Giants have a player...
BIRDS THINK JINTS ARE SUPER
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amLet the love affair between the Eagles and Giants begin. Next week when the Giants host the Vikings in the NFC Championship game at the Meadowlands, they will be in...
UNDERDOG JINTS PUMP UP VIKES
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amThe Giants are back where they belong. Or where they'd like you to think they belong. Go ahead and say it. They don't have a chance to beat the Vikings...
HAMILTON WON'T BE HAPPY TILL HE GETS RING
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amKeith Hamilton is happy, but he's not satisfied. He won't be satisfied if the Giants beat the Vikings next week to win the NFC Championship. Only if the Giants win...
GRIFFIN 'SPY' JOB DERAILS MCNABB
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amHis heart began beating just a little faster Wednesday, when the Giants told rookie defensive lineman Cornelius Griffin that he had a special assignment for yesterday's NFC Divisional playoff game...
EAGLES FAIL AT BREAKING TIKI'S FOCUS
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amAll week long, the Eagles were chirping about how they were going after Tiki Barber's fractured left arm and how they were going to swipe and rip at the ball...
FASSEL GETS ON 'D' BOARD ; STRAHAN, DEFENSE LET COACH IN CLUB
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amHAD the ending of yesterday's game between the Giants and the Eagles occurred in the final game of last season, Michael Strahan might have found himself facing attempted murder charges...
PHILLY'S ONE AND DONOVAN ; LONELY MCNABB CAN'T CARRY EAGLE LOAD BY HIMSELF
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amNOT since Cool Hand Luke has any prisoner of his own surroundings ever remained so defiant as Donovan McNabb. After supplying 75 per cent of his team's offense this season,...
A DISARMING INJURY
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES He was out there, broken arm notwithstanding, and while he did not light up the night, Tiki Barber gave the Giants everything he had, despite his multiple injuries....
ACCORSI LOVES BLUE MORE EACH WEEK
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amHe has been here before. Three times, in fact. He knows heartache. He knows agony. He knows how to get agonizingly close to the Super Bowl, only to be turned...
JUST LIKE OLD TIMES FOR JASON
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amFor three years now, since he went down and out for the 1998 season returning that ill-fated preseason kickoff against the Jets, Jason Sehorn stopped being Superman. Superman flew back...
KNICKS PLAY LIKE WIZARDS: TIE 46-YEAR-OLD MARK IN ROMP
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amKnicks 103 Wizards 87 Latrell Sprewell was asked the routine questions about not playing point guard for one night and about sliding back into his customary small forward position. Routine...
RETURN FROM LIMBO
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES There was nothing fancy about the way Charlie Ward made his return last night. And that was just fine with him. "I'm not going to be back 100...