January 20, 2001
BMG NAMES NEW MANAGEMENT, EMI BE DAMNED!
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amBMG's new chief isn't taking any chances should his company's planned merger with EMI fall through: He's named a new management team to lead the record label. Bob Jamieson, president...
SUIT CLOUDS RAINBOW SALE
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amCablevision's Rainbow Media may be up for grabs - but the buyer may be inheriting a $200 million lawsuit. The problem started when Rainbow changed the name of its Romance...
CRITICAL PATH IN GUARDED CONDITION
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amShares of messaging software company Critical Path got a hammering yesterday, dropping 55 percent on poor earnings news. Investors beat up on the stock, cutting it $11 from $20 to...
AQUEDUCT 'CAP ON TAP ... MAYBE : FIELD OF 9 HOPES STORM WON'T PUT RACE ON ICE
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amThe fate of racing today at Aqueduct as another winter storm bears down on New York will be decided at a meeting early this morning, and yesterday track superintendent Don...
HIP-HOP, HOORAY!!: WYCLEF AND HIS FRIENDS WOW THEM AT CARNEGIE
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amROLL over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news. The hip-hop barrier was broken last night at the venerable Carnegie Hall when Wyclef Jean became the first artist of the genre to...
IN INDIE HEAVEN: SUNDANCE GIRDS FOR FEEDING FRENZY AS H'WOOD LABOR WOES LOOM
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - Facing threatened strikes by actors and directors, Hollywood is anticipating the biggest buying spree in years at Sundance Film Festival. As the festival gets into full...
WHY THE FAT LADY SINGS
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amEverybody knows what rap sounds like -- and rock, pop and (if your parents are really cool) the blues. But opera? That's a void the Metropolitan Opera Guild hopes to...
THEY'RE TOAST: POE BACKS RAVENS NEVERMORE
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amFollowing a strange tradition, a black-clad man placed roses on Edgar Allan Poe's grave in Baltimore yesterday, the writer's 192nd birthday - but this year, he revealed he's a New...
HEVESI MAY GRAB ONTO TERM LIMITS VS. VALLONE
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amMAYORAL candidate Alan Hevesi might support a bill to overturn term limits in hopes of driving a wedge between City Council Speaker Peter Vallone and Vallone's term-limited supporters in the...
POPULAR GUARD CRITICAL AFTER BEING STRUCK BY SCHOOL VAN
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amA beloved 62-year-old crossing guard was critically injured yesterday when she was knocked down by a school van in Queens and struck her head on the pavement, police said. Betty...
HILLARY REMAINS MUM ON BILL'S SEXGATE PLEA BARGAIN
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton ducked questions yesterday about her husband's 11th-hour Sexgate deal with prosecutors, saying it was "up to the president" to explain himself. "Any comment whatsoever will...
SO LONG, BIG BILL, I MISS YA ALREADY!
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amAS Bubba would so often say: "I feel your pain." And with great respect, I address that to Barbra Streisand. I know why your beautiful brown eyes are turning blue....
EX-NFL STAR CARRUTH GUILTY IN MURDER PLOT
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amFormer NFL player Rae Carruth was convicted yesterday of conspiracy in the cold-blooded, drive-by slaying of his pregnant girlfriend - but cleared of first-degree murder. The 26-year-old ex-Carolina Panthers wide...
PATAKI TURNS TRUE BIG BLUE FOR LONG-AGO N.Y. DESERTERS
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki has come down with Giants fever - but it might be a late-game conversion. Pataki talked trash as he bet Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura over the...
TIPSTER TALE OF TEXAS CONS A CROCK
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amThe tipster who claimed a videotape showed three notorious Texas fugitives partying in New York City has changed his story, sources told The Post yesterday. Federal investigators who found the...
ARSON AT BROOKLYN HOME KILLS 2
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amFor the second consecutive day, a Brooklyn house fire killed two people, authorities said yesterday. But unlike Thursday morning's blaze, the fire that ripped through 130 India St., an illegal...
DEJA VU? MRS. BUSH IS PRO-CHOICE
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Activists on both sides yesterday predicted Laura Bush's surprise confession that she opposes a ban on abortion won't influence her hubby to change his mind. "President-elect Bush has...
DEPARTING FIRST FAMILY PUTS THE CAT OUT
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The cat's out of the bag - Socks won't be coming to New York. Hillary Rodham Clinton wasn't saying meow about it yesterday, but a White House source...
SUPER W. PICKS ...THE COWBOYS?
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President-to-be George W. Bush has a Giant-sized problem in figuring out who to root for in the Super Bowl. Bush "is cheering for the Dallas Cowboys," insisted spokesman...
DIST. 15 BOSS RAN UP 57G CAB TAB: PROBE
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amFormer Brooklyn District 15 Superintendent Frank DeStefano ran up more than $57,000 in livery taxi-service charges during his three-year tenure, Schools Investigator Ed Stancik charged yesterday. Stancik said the "excessive...
HIS IMMINENT EMINENCE EGAN
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amSpeculation is swirling that Archbishop Edward Egan will be elevated to cardinal by the Vatican tomorrow. It has been widely anticipated that Pope John Paul II will soon name Egan,...
BILL COULDN'T STALL ANY LONGER : HAD TO 'FESS UP WHILE STILL PREZ
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The timing was the thing. Special prosecutor Robert Ray was insistent that the no-indictment deal with President Clinton be done while Clinton was still president. Clinton wanted to...
IT'S A BRAND-SPANKIN' NEW ERA, ALL RIGHT
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - It was no Al and Tipper convention smooch, but President-elect George W. Bush knows how to show the world he loves his wife - give her a friendly...
THE WHITE STUFF: EXPECT 4 INCHES TODAY
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amJust in time for the presidential inauguration, the Big Apple will be festooned in white bunting today - snow. "It looks like rain or sleet in the morning, and snow...
RAINBOW'S PUSH TO KEEP REV. JESSE AT HELM
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amLeaders of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow-PUSH coalition gave him a unanimous vote of confidence yesterday, refusing to "accept any thought of resignation or pullback," despite the revelation that he fathered a...
BUBBA MAKES IT TO CARNEGIE HALL : SET TO GRAB OFFICE SUITE NEXT DOOR
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amIt looks like Bill Clinton is getting ready to hang up his saxophone next door to Carnegie Hall. Clinton is close to inking a deal to lease the entire 56th...
LONG, STRANGE TRIPP: LINDA AXED FROM JOB
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Hello, George W. Bush - goodbye, Linda Tripp. Tripp, who blew open the Sexgate scandal with secret tapes of a lovesick Monica Lewinsky, was booted from her Pentagon...
FINALLY ADMITS HE LIED UNDER OATH : DODGES CRIMINAL CHARGES WITH A LAST-MINUTE DEAL
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In an 11th-hour deal to avoid criminal charges over his sex-and-lies fling with Monica Lewinsky, President Clinton yesterday admitted "knowingly" lying under oath. The deal with Sexgate prosecutor...
CLINTON'S ERA ENDS WITH THIS WHIMPER: 'I'M GUILTY'
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON. WHAT a way to leave the White House - trailing clouds of scandal instead of glory. But then, scandal trailed Bill Clinton from the start of his presidency, so...
HILL DOESN'T MAKE CUT FOR G-MEN GUEST LIST
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton may rate star treatment in D.C. and the Big Apple, but she doesn't even show up on the football Giants' radar screen. Big Blue execs have...
REPRIEVED PREZ TO DO PARDONING OF HIS OWN
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton is poised today to deliver dozens of 11th-hour pardons and clemency orders - but he and his staff have been mum on whose crimes might be...
DA: NO DEATH FOR AMY SLAY SUSPECT
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amBrookyln District Attorney Charles Hynes decided yesterday he will not seek the death penalty for the man suspected of the brutal 1999 killing of social worker Amy Watkins. Hynes will...
THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER BUSH ERA : DUBYA TO BE SWORN AS 43RD PRESIDENT TODAY
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - George W. Bush was ready to take the oath of office today, declaring: "'Mr. President' - it's got a nice ring to it." Bush becomes the nation's 43rd...
PHILLIPPINE PREZ PUSHED OUT IN BRIBE AFFAIR
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amPhilippines President Joseph Estrada resigned last night as top government aides and military chiefs joined 500,000 protesters moving toward the presidential palace. The demonstrators cheered wildly and waved flags when...
SCANDAL SCORECARD
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amIn the beginning there was Whitewater. Whitewater begat Travelgate, which begat Filegate, which begat Charlie Trie and Paula Jones, and finally Monicagate. What a long strange trip it's been. Here...
FOES FINDING THAT THESE DEVILS ARE A FEISTY BUNCH
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amThe old dictum seems to have been reversed: Teams having trouble beating the Devils on the ice are trying the alley. The Devils' internal policemen have been busy lately, with...
NO BALONEY: HERM'S THE REAL DEAL
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amHERMAN Edwards can be a star in this town. The Jets' new head coach has yet to sign a free agent, cut a player, conduct a draft, choose a starting...
DID SNYDER'S IGNORANT GREED DOOM 'SKINS?
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amWhile an all-out Super Bowl media blitz surrounds the Giants and Ravens, let us take some time out to remember one of the less fortunate teams, the Washington Redskins, which...
NYRA: 48-HOUR SCRATCH TIME ON WAY
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amBeginning Wednesday, March 14, the opening day of Aqueduct's main track season, NYRA will provide a 48-hour scratch time. "In our latest opinion poll, our fans overwhelmingly favored having the...
LOW, RANGERS CAN'T LOOK AHEAD TO 'CANES
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amMONTREAL - Five games in eight nights are coming up for the Rangers, beginning with this evening's match here against the Canadiens. Five games in eight nights that include a...
BILLS WANT TO TALK TO FOX AFTER GAME
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amThe Jets either weren't interested or did not want to wait, but the Bills will be patient. It figured that the overwhelming success of the Giants' defense would get John...
RAVENS MADE SUPER RUN ON LEWIS' LEGS
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amOWINGS MILLS, Md. - When Jamal Lewis left college early with a surgically-repaired knee following a so-so junior season, he was the single biggest question mark in Baltimore. Now, after...
KERRY GIVES TIP OF HAT TO PATERNO
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amIt was the final practice of the long season at Giants Stadium and Kerry Collins yesterday was in a good mood. Why not? He is coming off a dream-like performance...
DAYNE GREAT ON SUPER PREDICTION
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amSay this for Ron Dayne, he is confident. Not only in himself but in his team. He was speaking to his girlfriend, Alia, before the season and flat-out told her,...
KEEPING KERRY IN ONE PIECE IS GIANT PRIORITY
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amThe threat is a safe distance away, up on a flickering screen, a snarling defense on the prowl, posing a fearsome and dangerous physical challenge. Nine days away from such...
LITTLE GIANT IS PROVING BIG CRITICS WRONG
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amLeave it to the Little Giant to lead the way. No one put the Giants' 41-0 rout over the Vikings behind them faster this week than cornerback Emmanuel McDaniel, who,...
JOHNNIES STORM INTO 'CAT-FIGHT
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amIf opposites attract, then today's Big East showdown at noon at The Garden between St. John's and Villanova should make for one good-looking, post season-like affair. Villanova has a legitimate...
CARTHON & MUIR RECEIVE INVITES TO STAY ABOARD
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amHerman Edwards has reached out to at least two members of Al Groh's staff - Bill Muir and Maurice Carthon - asking them to stay on board, according to sources....
BALTIMORE DBS PLAN TO PASS TEST
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amOWINGS MILLS, Md. - Baltimore's defense has few weaknesses, and even those are relative. With the top rushing defense in NFL history, conventional wisdom says attack their young secondary, passing...
DEREK DELAY MIGHT BE AMAZIN-LY DUMB
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amDEAR George: Did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe, Met ownership did not approve of throwing piles of money at Alex Rodriguez because they had something else...
VG: BLACK EYE'S WORTH IT
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - Maybe Jeff Van Gundy hasn't learned his lesson. Van Gundy, sporting a black left eye and 15 stitches on his 39th birthday last night, said his wounds...
STANNERS' RECOVERY JUST ABOUT COMPLETE
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amH.S. HOOPS Molloy69 Holy Cross50 Just call it the curse of preseason polls. Prior to this season, Archbishop Molloy was considered to be second only to St. Raymond's in the...
MARCUS SAYS HIS VISION'S BLURRED
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - Suspended Marcus Camby said his right eye - poked by Danny Ferry on Martin Luther King Day - has been "very blurry" since the incident. Camby is...
'SOFT' NETS FLOP AGAIN
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amSixers97 Nets86 PHILADELPHIA - You must give the Nets credit for some of their accomplishments this season. They've lost in ways that have defied logic. They have kept insurance companies...
RICE HAS RIGHT STUFF :PLAYS THROUGH PAIN TO KEY KNICK WIN; ALLAN POURS IN 34
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - Glen Rice's shockwave therapy didn't ease the pain in his left foot but it electrified his jump shot. Allan Houston, meanwhile, is clearly over his shock at...
AILIN' IVERSON TAKES A SEAT
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA The one thing the Nets were absolutely certain about going into last night was that Allen Iverson would play. "No way he'll sit," said Stephon Marbury. "Unless I don't...
RICE PAYS THE PRICE: SUITS UP EVEN AS FOOT PAIN PERSISTS
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - After three days of low-energy shockwave treatment in Toronto, Glen Rice's left foot hurt more than before he went to Canada. A pained Rice flew from Toronto...