February 4, 2001
TURNER'S TURNED TIMID SINCE AOL TIME WARNER CLOSED
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe Mouth from the South has finally shut up. Ted Turner, the loud-talking media mogul whose shoot-from-the-lip rantings made headlines around the world, has been silent since he was cut...
LUCKY PIERRE SUITE COULD BE ALL YOURS FOR $16.5M
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amIF it's hotel services you're looking for, the seven-room suite for sale in the Pierre Hotel may be an option - if you don't mind checking in for $16.5 million....
CRAMPED ZOMBA EXPANDS SPACE NEAR CHELSEA HQ
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amSTAR POWER:When Jive Records sensation Britney Spears is in town, she's sure to stop by the expanding offices of Zomba, which owns the label.ReutersZOMBA Group is bursting out all over....
HE'S BACK IN THE SADDLE GATEWAY FOUNDER TED WAITT IS SHAKING UP THE AILING PC MAKER
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amMEN hauling planks in a lumberyard. Home-baked cookie entrepreneurs. And a mysterious fellow sitting in the dark at his computer wearing camo fatigues. They're all characters in the new TV...
AMAZIN' AMAZON TALES FORMER EMPLOYEE PUTTING DOT-COM'S STORY ON STAGE
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amMike Daisey is a writer, performer and recovering Amazon.com employee. After quitting Earth's Biggest Bookstore in January 2000, Daisey took time out to smell the roses, liquidate his dwindling stock...
WHAT I WATCH
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amDARA TORRESOLYMPIC SWIMMING GOLD MEDALIST "SEINFELD" RERUNS. IT'S SO REALISTIC. IT MAKES YOU GO, " OH, MY GOD, THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME, TOO." RACE TAYLOR WPLJ-FM DEEJAY I LOVE...
A GREAT INVITATION TO PARTY ALL BY MYSELF
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amImagine you're invited to a glitzy party. You put on a sassy new outfit - a snug stretch top, boots and suede skirt. You arrive at the bash and stroll...
FACT AND FICTION FROM REAL-LIFE DRAMAS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amNever be the friend or lover of a fiction writer if you don't want your own life shoved into the mincing machine of art. Most fiction is fact recycled, with...
RELUCTANT RAMPLING BARES ALL
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE Rampling has been making movies for 35 years, several of which include nude scenes. But the regal actress, who exudes sex both on and off the screen, still finds...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: VANESSA WILLIAMS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amLooking slim, wide-eyed and stunning after having given birth nine months ago, Vanessa Williams makes you wonder how she's stayed so fit and stylish. And then she goes and says...
BOOK REVIEW
February 4, 2001 | 5:00am"DELETEYOURBROKER.COM" BY CHRISTOPHER BYRONSIMON & SCHUSTER 270 PAGES, $26 Journalist Christopher Byron is known for his spleen-venting column, Back of the Envelope, which appears in the New York Observer every...
4 QUESTIONS FOR MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amWho are your heroes? Jodie Foster, Al Pacino and my mom, Lana.Is there a book or movie that has changed your life? With each book I read I learn something...
AOL ON THE GO
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe Gateway Connected Touch Pad is AOL in a box. It connects to the Internet through America Online's subscriber service ($22 per month for unlimited dial-up access) using a 56K...
GETTING GRAPHIC : HOW DO-IT-YOURSELFERS CREATE GREAT SITES ON THE CHEAP
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amInstead of turning to a high-priced Web designer, many business owners who've set their sights on a site of their own take the do-it-yourself route. This involves not only mastering...
REAL-LIFE PROFILER: DON'T BE SEDUCED BY HANNIBALS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amA real-life FBI profiler whose work was used in creating "The Silence of the Lambs" says he understands the urge to romanticize characters like Dr. Lecter in "Hannibal," but he...
PRESENT TENTS: GET SET FOR A MILE OF STYLE AS FASHION WEEK KICKS OFF
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amPuffy's in the house! And so are Oscar, Donna, Calvin, Michael and Marc, as the New York Fashion Week Fall 2001 runway shows kick off this week at Bryant Park....
TREATMENT GIVES NEW MEANING TO THE TERM 'FAMILY JEWELS'
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amAnyone who's ever suffered through a bikini wax will tell you that it's no picnic. The pain, while brief, is excruciating. And for the modest among us, the embarrassment factor...
STELLAR CELLARS: CAVE-LIKE BASEMENTS ARE A SUNKEN TREASURE FOR SOME CITY RESTAURANTS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amFor New York restaurateurs, there"s nothing more precious than space. So it"s not surprising that, with rents up to $150 per square foot, some owners have excavated their cellars, tearing...
FOUR SEASONS' TOP TOQUE TAPS TWO POSSIBLE SUCCESSORS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amLike the U.S. presidency, most top restaurants make a smooth transfer of power in their kitchens, even when a top chef departs suddenly. Such was the case recently at Le...
LOTS OF CULOTTES
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amForget about skirt lengths. It's pant lengths that are now making women scratch their heads. Trouser cuts span the gamut this winter, from superlong (when the hem gets caught under...
CLINTON PAYBACK MAKES A JOKE OF JUSTICE
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amTHE first order of business for Attorney General John Ashcroft must be immediately to rewrite criminal law relating to robbery. For instance, from now on, a stick-up man caught robbing...
CLINTON FUND-RAISER PAL VOTED DEM PARTY BOSS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Bill Clinton's main money man, Terry McAuliffe, was voted chairman of the Democratic National Committee yesterday, assuring the ex-president of a behind-the-scenes role in the party. McAuliffe's only...
MAN STABS LOVE RIVAL AT NYU ROOM: COPS SUSPECT TWICE SLIPPED PAST GUARDS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amA 23-year-old man was stabbed and badly wounded early yesterday when he was attacked in a New York University dormitory by his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, police said. Sam Chernawsky underwent surgery...
BARAK-ARIK BATTLE HEATS UP ISRAEL TO PICK A LEADER TUESDAY
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Guns blazed on the West Bank yesterday as Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his hard-line rival, Ariel Sharon, stepped up their campaigning for the Israeli election on Tuesday....
SCHOOL'S STAFF IGNORED SEX MONSTERS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amTHE capture of a child-molesting school teacher has exposed a hideous dark secret that has existed at Adlai Stevenson HS for 20 years. The school was a veritable candy store...
HOW JESSE'S PUSH IS PULLING IN $$$
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amO.J. Simpson will find the real killer before anybody outside the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition who is not an IRS auditor finds out Jesse Jackson's real income. But an interesting tale is...
WOMANIZER NICHOLSON EMBRACING VIAGRA RX
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amJack Nicholson is reportedly turning to Bob Dole's little blue helper. The sex-loving sexagenerian star - who just two years ago said peanut butter and jelly sandwiches gave him all...
JAIL OFFICER KILLS BANDIT IN SHOOTOUT AT TAKEOUT
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amAn off-duty correction captain shot and killed an armed bandit in a dramatic confrontation in a Queens takeout restaurant, authorities said yesterday. Capt. Dana Shehee, a correction administrator known to...
DIALLO ANNIVERSARY MARKED BY COPS' PROTEST
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amAmadou Diallo will be memorialized today, two years after the unarmed African immigrant was gunned down by cops - and a day after minority cops blasted the feds for not...
SEX-SLAVE RING EYED IN RUNAWAY'S DEATH GIRLS WERE LURED FROM VERMONT TO BRONX DEN
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe mysterious death of a teenage girl in a Bronx brothel has sparked a federal probe into a teen prostitution ring allegedly run by a man who sweet-talked troubled girls...
TWINS CAUGHT IN MIDDLE BITTER CUSTODY BATTLE MOVES TO ARK. COURT
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe tug of war over the tiny twins adopted by two different couples over the Internet continues to rage in court and on television - all while the troubled tots...
BACKSTREET BOY BACK FROM HIS BOOZE FUNK
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amEven though A.J. McLean has a fortune of $160 million, the singer of the fabulously successful Backstreet Boys reveals he downed a bottle of whiskey a night while battling a...
RUDY: REPEAL OF TERM LIMITS WORTH 'STUDY'
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani said yesterday he's not sure he'd veto a repeal of term limits, a move now under way by City Council members facing an end to their jobs because...
TRANSPLANT MAN'S HANDOFF AMPUTATES LIMB 2 YRS. AFTER HISTORIC SURGERY
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe man who received the world's first hand transplant had it removed yesterday - because he failed to follow the right treatment and his body rejected it, a doctor said....
HEROIC K9 SAVES L.I. BOYS FROM 2 PIT BULLS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amA scrappy Long Island yellow Labrador retriever yesterday came to the rescue of two small boys, taking on two ferocious pit bulls who were making a bee-line for the kids....
COMPUTER CRIME CASTING WIDE NET OVER BIZ & GOV'T
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amCorporate America is struggling with a burgeoning problem - computer crime. A confidential FBI survey of 643 companies, including many of the nation's largest, revealed that 90 percent had fallen...
DI'S FLOATING 'COTTAGE' IS UP FOR SALE
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe luxury yacht on which Princess Diana vacationed just weeks before she died is up for sale, according to London's Sunday Express. The asking price - $1.1 million. The four-cabin...
LIBYANS' CUTTING-EDGE PROTEST
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amThree men knifed themselves yesterday during a massive protest against the conviction of a Libyan intelligence agent in the Lockerbie plane-bombing trial, officials said. Three of the more-than-5,000 people who...
DORMS AS DEATHTRAPS STUDENTS FLOUT FIRE-SAFETY RULES
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amDespite student fire deaths and tighter dorm safety regulations, college students in the city routinely risk disaster by using banned cooking equipment, candles and incense in their dorms, a Post...
RUDY VOWS TO FIGHT INFANT DEATH RATES
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amCalling the skyrocketing infant-mortality rates in Central Harlem an "aberration," Mayor Giuliani yesterday said his administration would do whatever has to be done to reverse the trend. Recently released figures...
BILL'S LIBRARY FOUNDATION TO UNSHELVE HIS AGENDA
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The foundation footing half the cost of Bill Clinton's fabulous Manhattan office was founded to build his Arkansas library - but now is pushing his post-presidency agenda. The...
FOOTBALL-STARVED FANS EAT UP XFL
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amLook's like New York's newest football team is a hit. Dozens of rabid pigskin fans packed into the WWF restaurant in Times Square last night to watch the New York-New...
IT'S CRIMINAL: PRISONS 'COUNT' ON MANHATTAN
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Manhattan has more residents per capita in state prison than any other county in the state, a Post study found. A whopping 105 out of every 10,000 Manhattan...
EXITING HEVESI DOLES OUT 300G COMPTROLLER REWARDS STAFF
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amOutgoing City Comptroller Alan Hevesi kicked off the new year by doling out nearly $300,000 in merit bonuses and salary hikes to 90 employees, including several senior staffers, records show....
BEAUTY AND HAIRDO PROS PILLORY HILLARY
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amWHAT'S a gal to do without her personal hairstylist, image consultant and make-up artist? If you're Sen. Hillary Clinton - who's been in style withdrawal since losing her first-lady perks...
HILLARY'S ETHICS ARE ACCEPT-ABLE SENATE RULES LET HER RECEIVE 'GIFTS'
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Now that Hillary Clinton is a member of the rules-bound Senate, the golf clubs, clothes, carpets, DVD players and other gifts will stop. Right? Wrong. Thanks to loosely...
HIS PRESIDENCY GAVE AMERICA HOPE THE GIPPER TURNS 90 THIS WEEK
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amWhile some former presidents disappear into the sunset, Ronald Reagan - who celebrates his 90th birthday on Tuesday - remains a larger-than-life figure. His legacy and influence endure. His plan...
MAD COW DISEASE WILL SPREAD IN U.S.: EXPERTS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amIt's only a matter of time before mad cow disease surfaces in this country, experts told The Post. Scientists monitoring the nation's cattle herds and medical experts who oversee our...
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FOR THE BUCKS BOOK LIFTS LID ON ESPIONAGE SECRETS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amIT'S the James Bond adventure Western intelligence agencies don't want you to read - a tell-all book that lifts the lid on the shadowy real-life spy world as never before....
EMBASSY-BOMBING TERRORISM TRIAL SET TO BEGIN TOMORROW
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe high-stakes, high-security trial of four men accused of plotting to blow up American embassies for Osama bin Laden begin tomorrow in Manhattan federal court. The four men are charged...
TOO DEADLY TO IGNORE RARE DISEASE CATCHES MANY MEN OFF GUARD
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amDAVID Kingsley was sweating away on his exercise bike when he noticed a lump in his left breast. Although he didn't think very much of it, his wife urged him...
LEAVE NO CHILD BEHIND (UNLESS HE'S BRIGHT)
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amPRESIDENT Bush last week repeated - yet again - his vow to "leave no child behind." He said it in a reference to education reform. And he said it, this...
WRONG STUFF IS THE WRITE STUFF
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amTHE only people who can't make a living as authors anymore are authors. The real way to make a buck in the book biz these days is to be a...
POLITICAL FAMILY BIZ
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amWHAT do you need to succeed in both show business and politics? First you need to be able to mouth other people's words like they were your own, and secondly...
BRITNEY: I'M NO LECHER CATCHER
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amOops ... I'm not a sex symbol! Teen pop diva Britney Spears said she is terrified at the thought that older men are salivating after her and can't believe anyone...
RUMSFELD IN BID TO CALM RUSSIAN FEAR
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amPresident Bush's new secretary of defense has made his first order of business the difficult task of selling the Russians and the European Union on the U.S. plan for a...
PUFF, FLUFF, TUFF & STUFF
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amREPORTER'S NOTEBOOK Just one week into the Sean "Puffy" Combs guns- and-bribes trial, the minds and souls of jurors are assumedly still up for grabs. But their funny bones may...
NEW TREMORS FRIGHTEN INDIA
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amNew tremors followed a Hindu astrologer's prediction that a second killer quake would strike India yesterday, sending thousands running into the streets. The tremors, measuring up to 5.0 on the...
BLUE SKIES - GIANTS HAVE RESPECT, MONEY TO MAKE ANOTHER RUN AT THE SUPER BOWL
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amONE year ago, the Giants had little to show for themselves on the field and little to offer at the negotiating table. It seemed to be a deadly combination. No...
VENISON ANYONE? DEER HUNTERS ON MARK IN 2000
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amBIG-GAME hunters in New York State enjoyed another successful season in 2000, as total deer take and buck take rose to record levels. Department of Environmental Conservation wildlife experts estimate...
A GOOD CALL BY OKLAHOMA STATE ANNOUNCERS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amFOR the remainder of the season, ESPN's Bob Carpenter, an Oklahoman, will replace Oklahoma State basketball's TV voice, Bill Teegins, one of 10 killed in that Jan. 27 plane crash....
HBO'S 'MIRACLE' DESERVES MEDAL PACKED WITH MEMORIES, INSIGHTS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amTHE TASTIEST layer within HBO's superb documentary about the 1980 U.S. ice hockey team (tomorrow, 10 p.m.) is found not in the re-living of the neat stuff you already knew...
MAD OVER MIAMI FIERY SPREWELL TO MATES: TURN UP THE HEAT
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - Latrell Sprewell is turning up the "Heat" in another Call-for-Arms declaration. In case they missed it the first time during his fiery locker-room speech Nov. 29 following the...
ALLAN HONORED BY HISTORY VOTE
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - Allan Houston earned his second All-Star berth last Tuesday. It was only the second-best achievement he accomplished during the week. Two days later, last Thursday, it was announced...
OTHELLA'S A FINE FIT KNICKS SWUNG SWEET DEAL FOR HARRINGTON
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amOBVIOUSLY, the Knicks pulled off an excellent trade for Othella Harrington, just the 6-9 size they need planted on the low docks to take the pressure off their outside shooters....
BCHS COACH DIDN'T HAVE ALL THE FACTS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amIf Beach Channel is disqualified from the PSAL playoffs, don't expect much of a protest from coach Jim Malone. "I certainly won't be outraged if we can't play," Malone said...
SORRY, MIKE, YOU GOTTA GO RANGERS MUST SEND RICHTER TO ST. LOO FOR PACKAGE OF YOUTH
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amLEGITIMATE Stanley Cup contenders have traditionally been so strong in nets they've rarely sought No. 1 goaltenders in trades down the stretch. Indeed, the 1996 Avalanche are the only team...
MILLER TIME FOR THE GAELS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amTHE NUMBER 43 adorns Nakiea Miller's jersey. He's Iona's center, and arguably the best big man in the MAAC conference. Flash back 21 years ago. Iona had a dominant big...
RICE DOESN'T HOLD GRUDGE AGAINST RILEY
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - Way before Phil Jackson sent Glen Rice packing, Pat Riley did the dirty deed. And at the time, when Rice was shipped out of Miami in 1995, it...
HEY STEPHON, SIXERS WERE TERRIBLE TOO
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amSIXERSatNETSTonight6:00 - FSN WOR (710 AM) Stephon Marbury need only look at the other side of the court tonight to see how it could be. The Philadelphia 76ers were bad,...
THIS TIME, MARIO ENJOYS THE SPORT
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amDENVER - As the players get bigger, stronger, more heavily armored and dangerous to themselves and others every year, there is new blood all the time in the NHL. Unfortunately,...
ROBESON HAS RIGHT BLEND FOR SUCCESS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amRobeson78Roosevelt65 Case closed. In a year that was void of any dominant team, Robeson all but clinched the top seed in the PSAL playoffs with a 78-65 win over Roosevelt...
ATLANTANS HAVE HUMAN HIGHLIGHT AMNESIA
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amDOMINIQUE Wilkins' jersey was recently retired by the Hawks. The fans displayed their adoration for a player who scored 26,668 points in 15 seasons by filling Phillips Arena to capacity,...
FICKLE FANNY CAPTURES CORRECTION
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amFickle Fanny, the longest shot at 22-1, took the lead soon after the start and then held off favored Slash Cottage to win the Correction Handicap at Aqueduct yesterday. Slash...
STAR POWER AT COURTSIDE STAR POWER LIGHTING UP COURTSIDE
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amPROVIDENCE - There are many ways to gauge the development of a program other than wins/losses and NCAA Tournament appearances. Connecticut Gov. John Rowland is an occasional guest at Connecticut...
LEETCH: I'D TRADE BERTH FOR SPOT IN THE PLAYOFFS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amDENVER - Another year, another All-Star Game appearance for Brian Leetch, another he would trade for a place in the playoffs. "I talked about this last year and now we're...
IMPERFECT STORM FRIED BY FRIARS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amPROVIDENCE - In the nut house known as the Providence Civic Center, St. John's cracked last night. Coach Mike Jarvis was the first to lose his cool and his players...
HIGH ANXIETY: STRIKE ZONE ENFORCEMENT WON'T BE A HIT WITH HITTERS
February 4, 2001 | 5:00am(Second of two parts) SINCE 1968 -- when Bob Gibson, Denny McLain and other pitchers dominated -- there has been a three-decade offensive that has helped the offense. Mounds were...
DON'T BET AGAINST MCMAHON CREATION
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe line of people looking to kick Vince McMahon in the butt is about to get longer. The Baron of Bluster's $100 million gamble on the XFL opens this weekend...
X MARKS THE SPOT: XFL CRASHES PARTY WITH ITS UNABASHED DISPLAY OF SEX & VIOLENCE ON THE GRIDIRON
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amWelcome to the XFL, where the hitting's hard and the games promise to be as tight as the outfits worn by the cheerleaders. "They have these crazy rules," Gene Upshaw,...
SHAREEF 'D' STOPS STORM FOES COLD
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amPROVIDENCE - After St. John's pulled away from Connecticut for a 60-55 win Tuesday night, coach Mike Jarvis was ribbing guard Shareef Fordham about his modest playing time. "If this...