January 17, 2001
SUN MAY HAVE NASTY SURPRISE
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amTHIS is all you need to know: Apple Computer and IBM report their corporate results today, with Sun Microsystems and Microsoft following with profit reports tomorrow. These announcements go beyond...
DE BEERS, LVMH RING IN DIAMOND BRANDING-DEAL
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amLook out, Tiffany's; De Beers-branded diamond jewelry is just around the corner. Looking to develop the brand potential of the De Beers name, Bernard Arnault's LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton...
AILING DRKOOP.COM AMPUTATES 45, MOVES HQ TO CALIF.
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amDrkoop.com's latest transplant: the entire headquarters - from Austin, Texas, to Santa Monica, Calif. The troubled health content site announced yesterday that it would shed 45 employees, put its oxygen...
MILSTEINS WIN THE LOT - HOWARD & PAUL'S BID DRAWN FROM KABBALAH
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amSeven and 11 added up to a winning bid for Howard Milstein yesterday, in the auction of a Times Square development site his own squabbling family had to sell by...
AOL BRINGS IN CONROY TO RUN MUSIC DIVISION
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amAOL is expected to name Kevin Conroy, former BMG Internet topper, to the newly created post of head of AOL music, The Post has learned. Conroy, the former chief marketing...
CALVIN ENDS 2 LICENSES WITH WARNACO
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe fight is getting dirty. Calvin Klein Inc. has terminated its jeanswear license and its store license agreement with Linda Wachner's Warnaco. Using the breach of a financial covenant in...
WILL TIGER JOIN OPRAH & ROSIE?
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amPUBLISHING sources were buzzing yesterday that golfing great Tiger Woods is in talks with Hearst Magazines about doing a golf magazine that would bear his name. The buzz grew throughout...
CNN'S COFFEY TO GO - ANCHORS AWAY AT AILING ATLANTA NETWORK
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe massive shake-up at CNN is underway. Shelby Coffey III, top dog at the network's spinoff finanical news channel, CNNfn, quit yesterday, fueling speculation the fledgling network is in trouble....
ANCHORS AWAY AT FLOUNDERING CNN
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe massive shake-up at CNN continues. "Showbiz Today," CNN's entertainment and celebrity gossip show, has been eased off the network, say sources close to CNN. And CNNfn, the network's financial...
DUCASSE COOKING UP DEAL FOR 2ND EATERY
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amSOON we can call him deux-casse. Chef Alain Ducasse is in talks to open a second restaurant in Manhattan with Ian Schrager in the Royalton Hotel, at 44 W. 44th...
RUSTIC ROMANTICISM ON MADISON AVENUE
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amELEVEN MADISON PARK 11 MADISON AVE. AT 24TH ST. (212) 889-0905 FOR great food that's truly different, go to Eleven Madison Park. You've waited for a gushy, promotional opening sentence...
FEAR OF FIRST-RATE FIRST- DATE DISASTER
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amFIRST dates are like first steps - you need to take them, though they usually result with you landing on your face.Breaking the ice is one of the more difficult...
KEEP THESE CHEFS HOME ON THE RANGE ; DINERS BURNED BY KITCHEN-HOPPING COOKS
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amBRING on the recession. I'm sick of fortune-hunting chefs kitchen hopping like spastic bunnies. Chain the cooks to their stoves. Enslave them like ballplayers before free agency. Prosperity is great...
THE STARR REPORT
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amCosby kids reunite in '30 Years' time Call it "Six Degrees of Bill Cosby." Cosby-linked actors Erika Alexander, Kadeem Hardison, Paula Jai Parker and Allen Payne will be featured in...
SUPER-DUPER AD RUN ENDS COMMERCIALS FLAT AT $2.1M - TRADE MAG
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amHAS the Super Bowl gone soft? A weak advertising market, dead dot-coms and the fear of a recession may have forced CBS to charge less money for Super Bowl ads...
HBO'S HOTTEST BABE HAS AN EVEN STEAMIER LOVE LIFE AT HOME. . . SEX AND KIM
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amKIM Cattrall says her real sex life is just as wild as the one she has on "Sex and the City" - thanks to Viagra. Cattrall, who plays the slutty...
'FRIENDLY' FIGHT GETS SERIOUS
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amNBC will battle CBS's "Survivor II" onslaught by stretching each "Friends" episode an extra 10 minutes - and adding a fresh, 20-minute "Saturday Night Live" segment directly thereafter during February...
'BRADY' STAR FINED: ACTORS EQUITY'S 50G SLAP ISN'T 'MUSIC' TO HIS EARS
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amHERE'S the story, of a scab named Brady.That's the line coming out of Actors Equity about former "Brady Bunch" star Barry Williams, who yesterday was fined $50,000 by the union...
'BEFORE NIGHT FALLS' MAKES A RELUCTANT STAR OF THIS . . . SWAIN FROM SPAIN
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amWITH Oscar buzz roaring in his ears, Spanish stud Javier Bardem is growing increasingly nervous - and he doesn't like the feeling."Maybe I feel nervous because it's something that I...
MAMMOGRAM CRISI$ FORCES CLINIC CLOSURE
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amJust days after The Post reported that New York mammography facilities are cash-strapped and slashing services, a prominent Manhattan radiology center says it is closing its doors. East River Imaging...
NEW YORK POST JAN. 17, 1997
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amNew York Post January 17, 1997 "Police today are quizzing a fur-clad mystery woman who may be the only witness to the senseless freeway slaying of the son of beloved...
RACIAL SURPRISE IN V.A. HOSP STUDY
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amAfrican-American patients at Veterans Affairs hospitals have significantly lower death rates than whites, a surprising new study found. The findings of the survey of 147 VA hospitals contrasts sharply with...
BRAVEST HERO FAN GETS TIX TO THE BIG GAME
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe off-duty fireman who helped revive a heart-attack victim in the stands during the Giant-Viking playoff game was thanked yesterday - with two coveted Super Bowl tickets. Firefighter James Slevin...
KERIK PULLS COPS FROM 'SAFIR' POLICE MUSEUM
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Bernard Kerik stripped five cops from the NYPD's heavily manned Police Museum and transferred them to the expanding warrants squad to hunt criminals, The Post has learned. Kerik's...
RUDY URGES PARDON FOR MILKEN
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday said he's written President Clinton a letter, urging him to pardon Michael Milken, the ex-junk-bond king whom the mayor prosecuted as a U.S. attorney. "I wrote to...
TWIN BOYS WHO GUIDED THAI MILITANTS GIVE UP
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe two teenage leaders of a mystical Asian guerrilla group surrendered yesterday on the Thai border with Mynamar, authorities said. Luther and Johnny Htoo and 14 other hungry and exhausted...
BILLY VS. 'SURVIVOR' DOC - JOEL SINGING L.I. LOVE-TRIANGLE BLUES
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amPIANO Man Billy Joel, a "Survivor" hunk and a sexy Long Island news reporter are locked in a bitter love triangle, The Post has learned. Joel, who will be 52...
DETAILS OF THE $83B PROPOSAL
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amHere are the highlights of Gov. Pataki's proposed new $83.6 billion state budget: * Seeks $14.1 billion in state aid for local school districts, $382 million of which would be...
'BULL'S' EYE IS ON TURNING CANARY YET AGAIN
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amInfamous mob canary Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano was apparently back in New York less than a week before deciding it was time to start singing again. Gravano's lawyer, Lynne Stewart,...
CIG FIRMS CLEARED IN B'KLYN CANCER DEATH
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amBig Tobacco won a victory yesterday when a state jury found that Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds and other cigarette manufacturers are not liable for the 1996 lung-cancer death of a...
GOV BUDGET-BASHES CITY - RUDY VOWS TO FIGHT $114M CHOP
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki proposed a record $83.6 billion state budget yesterday, raising school aid, cutting taxes - and unexpectedly costing New York City $114 million. The city's surprise loss...
DOCS: BILL IN NO DANGER DESPITE CANCER
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe skin lesion removed from President Clinton's back was cancerous, although it's a type that never spreads to another organ and he'll need no further treatment, experts say. During Clinton's...
RU-486 SUBWAY ADS A BITTER PILL FOR CATHOLICS
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe Catholic League is up in arms over a new subway ad campaign promoting the use of the controversial abortion pill RU-486. Planned Parenthood has spent $50,000 on a campaign...
THE SCHOOL-FUNDING FIGHT - PATAKI LEADS THE WAY
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amGOV. Pataki yesterday proposed putting New York state's money where Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy's mouth is - which is as good a start to a long-overdue debate on public-education...
CITY PLANS AID TO SALVADOR
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amNew York City will send relief missions to earthquake-ravaged El Salvador to help survivors left hungry and homeless by massive mudslides that have claimed hundreds of lives. "We're trying to...
SUIT SAYS CINDY'S NO MODEL AS A NEIGHBOR
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amLiving with Cindy Crawford isn't the dream you might think. It's a nightmare, a downstairs neighbor charges. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Marina French says the supermodel is...
MISSOURI MOM ALLEGEDLY DOUBLES HER MONEY IN TWICE-SOLD TALE OF TWINS
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amA California couple's adopted 6-month-old twins were reportedly snatched back by their birth mother and an Internet broker - and then resold for twice as much to a British couple....
REAGAN'S RAPID RECOVERY STUNS DOCS
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amSANTA MONICA, Calif. - Doctors, surprised by former President Ronald Reagan's swift recovery from hip surgery, may speed up his rehabilitation program, his aides say. "He looks stronger each day...
12G REWARD TO NAB 'NINJA' GAY-SLASHER
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe NYPD released a sketch yesterday of a black-clad "Ninja slasher" who preys on gay men in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, and the city announced a $12,000 reward for information leading...
DEMS TEAR INTO ASHCROFT - BUSH PICK FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL IS LABELED A 'ZEALOT' AS HEARINGS START
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Democrats yesterday ripped Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft as a conservative zealot resistant to school desegregation, gun control and a woman's right to chose on abortion. Ashcroft, defending...
DEMOCRATS STILL 'BORKING' UP THE WRONG TREE
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amJUDGE Robert Bork woke up one day to find that his surname had become a verb - as in "borked." "I suppose it's a form of immortality. Frankly, I think...
MISSUS: HE STOOD WITH ME AFTER MY ATTACK NIGHTMARE
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The wife of Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft yesterday revealed that she was once attacked by a rapist and said her hubby reacted "exactly the way any woman would...
FBI STORMS L.I. HOME IN HUNT FOR ECO-TERRORISTS
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe FBI has raided a Long Island house - seizing computer files and piles of other material - in its hunt for a band of eco-terrorists who have declared war...
COP QUIZZED IN SHOOTING DEATH OF HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amCops were questioning a police sergeant last night in connection with the murder of his ex-girlfriend - the mother of his two children, officials said. Sgt. Martin Peters was brought...
BAD-TEACHER WOES EVEN WORSE THAN POST SAYS: LEVY
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday he was "terribly troubled" by a report showing most teachers flunked their certification exams - even after taking the Board of Education's paid prep...
AXED HOOKER-SEX COP SUES TO GET JOB BACK
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amA cop who was fired for having sexual relations with a prostitute in a district attorney's office bathroom says the NYPD should stop making him pay for it and give...
GOV WILL APPEAL RULING TO BALANCE STATE SCHOOL AID
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amGov. Pataki announced yesterday he will appeal a landmark court ruling ordering the state to fix a school-aid formula that a judge said has cheated city students for decades. Pataki...
D.C. IS BECOMING BUSHVILLE
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The nation's capital starts turning into Bush Country today. President-elect George W. Bush is due to arrive in town at 5:45 p.m. today aboard a C-32 military jet,...
HUBBY SEEKING VERTICAL COMMUTE
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON. BILL CLINTON got used to living near his office over the last eight years, and he's finding it hard to give up the easy commute. So after the soon-to-be-former...
CONGO PREZ ASSASSINATED IN COUP BID
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe president of Democratic Congo was shot dead in a coup attempt yesterday, reports from the region said. Stories varied about the death of Laurent Kabila, a former Marxist guerrilla...
LOPEZ MAY HAVE HAD A 'HAND' IN PUFFY GUN CASE, SAYS EYEWITNESS
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amA witness in the Sean "Puffy" Combs shooting case has told investigators that a woman tossed the gun from the rapper's fleeing SUV, three sources familiar with the case said...
OUR CHILDREN DESERVE A LOT BETTER THAN THIS
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amTHE letter from the state Education Department to the Borough of Queens starts off nice - Dear John-like - then it gets nasty. "I wish to take this opportunity to...
GIRL, 14, RAPED AT B'KLYN HS
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amA 14-year-old girl was attacked in her Brooklyn high school yesterday by two fellow students who raped and sexually abused her, police said. The violence took place at 2:30 p.m....
'SUICIDE' TRUCKER IN FIERY CRASH INTO CALIF. CAPITOL
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amA tractor-trailer truck burst into flames as it smashed into the California state Capitol in Sacramento last night in what authorities were investigating as a deliberate attack. FBI and Bureau...
REVOLT MAY HAVE KILLED CONGO PREZ
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe president of Democratic Congo was shot - and may be dead - in a coup attempt yesterday, reports from the region said. Laurent Kabila's fate was unclear following the...
DUBYA'S ENTOURAGE POISED TO TURN D.C. INTO BUSH COUNTRY
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The nation's capital starts turning into Bush Country today. President-elect George W. Bush is due to arrive in town at 5:45 p.m. today aboard a C-32 military jet,...
RUDY AIDE RIPS PA BID TO HIKE HUDSON TOLLS
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe Giuliani administration yesterday attacked the Port Authority's plan to hike bridge and tunnel tolls across the Hudson as a "thinly veiled" attempt to fatten the agency's coffers. Deputy Mayor...
$TRINGER LEADS FOR PUBLIC ADVOCATE
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amManhattan Assemblyman Scott Stringer is leading the fund-raising race in the battle for public advocate - with the help of the wife of Mayor Giuliani's chief political operative, according to...
BELLEAYRE KEEPS GETTING BETTER
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amJOHN P. Cahill, Commissioner of New York's Dept. of Environmental Conservation was among the honored guests last week for the official dedication of Belleayre Ski Center's new Dot Nebel Ski...
HOW TO SPOT BAD CHALK
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe first question you should ask when handicapping any race is, can I beat the favorite? Over the years, at all racetracks, favorites win about a third of all races....
MR. MAY MAKES IT ; WINFIELD JOINS KIRBY IN GETTING HALL CALL
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amAs a round-bodied, slap-hitting rookie, Kirby Puckett kept his eyes open and his mouth shut. "The unwritten rule was for a rookie it was better to be seen and not...
IF MIKE MUST GO, ISLES NEED NEIL
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN the Islander owners likely decide they've had it with Mike Milbury after the season, they should give the utmost consideration to hiring Neil Smith as president and general manager....
CAMBY'S KING-SIZED DONATION
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amMarcus Camby, embarrassed at the violence he perpetrated on Martin Luther King Day, said yesterday he is donating $20,000 to the MLK Foundation in Atlanta to make amends. The foundation...
CAMBY SAYS HE'S SORRY FOR BLOW-UP
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amMarcus Camby admitted yesterday his Martin Luther King Day attack on Danny Ferry was "uncalled for," adding he was "truly in the wrong." Sporting a bloodshot right eye and cuts...
DON ACCEPTS SNUB GRACEFULLY
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amDon Mattingly was in the middle of working on a project at his horse farm in Indiana yesterday when he learned from agent Ray Schulte that he had not made...
NO BUTTS ABOUT IT: JEFF LIKED MARCUS' DEFENSE
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Marcus Camby wasn't sure what to expect when he met with Jeff Van Gundy yesterday. After all, their relationship has never been rock-solid since Camby's arrival in 1999...
JET COACH SEARCH A REAL CAPER
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThough no final decision has been made, it very much looks as if the Jets will announce the hiring of a new head coach by the end of this week...
GIANT SCRUB AWAITS SUPER PAYDAY
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amNO Giant is more pumped for a Super Bowl victory than Damon Washington, the practice-squad running back whose promotion to the special teams helped revive that unit. Washington made the...
NFL: 'CHEATING' REPORT IS BIG BULL
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amSuper Bowl week hasn't even arrived and already the nonsense has begun, as the Giants have been accused of cheating. A report in the Toronto Globe & Mail stated that...
HILLCREST IS HAPPY, HUNGRY
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amOVERTIME Hillcrest 87 Bryant 86 In his final year as head coach at Hillcrest, Ken Gershon wanted to do one thing: win a fourth division title. "I just hoped to...
GIANTS WON'T BE SACKED BY MEDIA
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amTHE goal is not to be defeated before the game ever starts, not to be distracted and so bent out of shape that the week leading up to the Super...
YANKS REACH DEALS WITH JORGE, RAMIRO
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe Yankees got further house-cleaning out of the way last night, all of which clears space on the negotiating table to get down to serious business on the Derek Jeter...
FLEURY FREAKS OUT FLYERS ; TWO GOALS KEY RANGERS' OT WIN
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amOVERTIME Rangers 4 Flyers 3 It was, without question and without exception, the most stunning night of this anything but stunning Ranger season. And while it won't be known for...
DEVILS CAUGHT NAPPING IN FINAL TWO MINUTES ; BRUINS' LATE GOALS END UNBEATEN STREAK
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amBruins 5 Devils 4 Any killer instinct the Devils had was the self-inflicted sort. They can rationalize all they want, that they are better off without their mirage of invincibility,...
LOW KEEPS 'EM GUESSING: COACH HOLDS OFF DECISION ON DEFENSE UNTIL WARMUPS
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amSeven hours before last night's Garden faceoff against the Flyers, Ron Low still hadn't decided whether he was going to stay with the six-man defense corps that had included big...
STEVENS, BRODEUR WILL BE STAR-STRUCK AGAIN
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe contingency plans sound great, but they would have been disappointing consolation prizes. Instead of a weekend in Manhattan, or a trip to Disney World, Scott Stevens and Martin Brodeur...
BOMBERS CLOSE IN ON H-ROD
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe Yankees were hammering out the final details last night on a one-year contract agreement with left-handed-hitting slugger Henry Rodriguez, who last played with the Marlins. The deal is contingent...