February 10, 2001
TECHS SINK MARKET : MORE LAYOFFS SPUR PLUNGE, ERASE YEAR'S GAINS
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amA triple-whammy on the tech sector triggered a stock rout yesterday that helped wipe out all of Wall Street's gains since the start of the year. Motorola started the bad-news...
LECHTERS CLOSING 490 STORES, CUTTING JOBS
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amAfter three straight years of losses, housewares chain Lechters will close one-third of its 490 stores - including three in Manhattan. The chain said it's closing 166 stores across the...
MUSICALS DESERVING ENCORES
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WRITERS POINT PEN AT 'LAW & ORDER' BOSS
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Hollywood writers have indicted "Law & Order" and creator Dick Wolf for allegedly hiding evidence that could show whether producers are stockpiling scripts to beat a potential...
A BIG BEAK SPEAKS
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amImagine the gang from "Sesame Street" all grown up. In a new live stage show, Big Bird, Elmo, Bert, Ernie, Oscar and the rest of the fluffy bunch talk about...
IS IT AN OFFER VICTORIA CAN'T REFUSE?
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amLawyers for mob daughter Victoria Gotti and jailed hubby Carmine Agnello have reached a tentative settlement on how much support he'll pay her until their divorce is final, The Post...
CHAMP-TO-CHUMP BOWE DENIES L.I. WIFE-BEAT RAP
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe tough-guy former heavyweight champ who threw in the towel on the Marines after just 11 days in boot camp pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges he slugged his estranged...
RUDY TALKS UP PROSTATE 'TOMATO CURE'
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani revealed yesterday he's turned to Mother Nature to treat his prostate cancer. The mayor said that, on the advice of his doctor, he has been wolfing down loads...
PLASTIC SURGEON BUSTED IN GUN CASE
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amA plastic surgeon from Mount Sinai Hospital was busted yesterday for illegal gun possession, police said. Dr. Edmond Ritter, 41, was taken to New York Hospital Thursday night after police...
LYING COPS IN LOUIMA CASE AVOID PRISON
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amA pair of Brooklyn cops - the last two bricks in the "blue wall of silence" to fall in the Abner Louima torture case - escaped prison time at their...
CANADA 'DRY' POLICY WON'T BAR PREZ - DWI AND ALL
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe hangover from President Bush's long-ago driving-while-boozed conviction could keep him out of Canada this spring - if he weren't president. Bush is due to fly to Quebec City in...
HARLEM BOARD MEMBER AXED
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy yesterday booted an elected representative off the Harlem school board for badgering the superintendent to hire a friend - a violation of state law. Levy said...
CITY AGAIN TRYING TO PUT STERN DEEDS INTO WORDS
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amMAYORAL aides are drafting rules that will, for the first time, put a written price tag on permits for cutting down city trees, The Post has learned. It'll be the...
DUBYA TREADS GINGERLY ON RACE PROFILING
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday promised to "look" into ways of ending police racial profiling but dodged whether he'll ban it outright. "I'll look at all opportunities," Bush told reporters...
COURT CLASH AS DA REVEALS HIDDEN AREAS IN 'PUFFY' CAR
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amTestimony about secret gun-sized compartments in Sean "Puffy" Combs' getaway car sparked a battle in court yesterday - complete with calls for a mistrial and DA threats to reveal that...
STROM, 98, CUTS BACK ON SENATE WORKLOAD
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Ailing Strom Thurmond - the nation's oldest senator and crucial to Republicans keeping control of the 50-50 split Senate - is cutting back on his job. Aides to...
NUTTY PROFESSOR GORE HAS KIDS CRACKIN' UP
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amA day after Columbia's School of Journalism lifted its gag order on Al Gore's students, some of them praised their new professor's gags. Gore was a real stand-up guy, said...
RABBIS: WE LOOTED HOLOCAUST CHARITY
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amTwo Brooklyn rabbis - including an adviser to former Mayor Ed Koch - yesterday pleaded guilty to swindling the federal government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for...
PRINCETON CLUB STAFF HAD TO RUN DRUGS: SUIT
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amAn official at the prestigious Princeton Club in Midtown used her underlings as drug mules, sending them out to buy cocaine as part of their job duties, a former employee...
$6 BILLION PASTING FOR STATE'S PENSION FUND
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - After years of soaring returns, the state and city's pension funds have skidded in recent months, the Post has learned. The state pension fund - the second largest...
LEADS LEAGUE IN SACRIFICES BY SETTLING FOR PALTRY SUM
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amAND now, a round of applause for Derek Jeter, who in the interests of sportsmanship, teamsmanship and fair play, chose to play baseball for the next 10 years for only...
DOUBT CAST ON 'VICTIMS' IN L.I. STRIP-COP CASES
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amPolice on Long Island are taking a closer look at a woman who claims Suffolk County cop Frank Wright forced her to bare her breasts - because she once falsely...
ALL'S RIGHT WITH ALBRIGHT IN $1M BOOK DEAL
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amCapping a heated weeklong auction, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright opted to sign with Talk Miramax Books for just under $1 million for her memoirs. In landing the deal,...
TORRICELLI FIGHTS TO CORK FUNNY-MONEY LEAKS
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amLawyers for Sen. Robert Torricelli yesterday said they were taking legal action to demand that the Justice Department stop a "pattern of illegal leaks" that suggest a federal probe is...
PARDON PROBE: CLINTON LIBRARY BOOKS WILL BE CHECKED OUT
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - House investigators said yesterday they'll subpoena the Clinton library to find out how much money Denise Rich donated while she pushed Bill Clinton to pardon her ex-hubby, Marc...
BILL'S OFFICE PLAN FALLING TO GROUND
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amBill Clinton can forget about his lofty plan for high-floor offices at the swanky Carnegie Hall Tower, The Post has learned. At a meeting yesterday between the General Services Administration...
KILLER OF BILL COSBY SON SUDDENLY 'FESSES UP
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The ruthless punk who shot Bill Cosby's only son apologized for the cold-blooded slaying, and then pulled the plug on his remaining appeals yesterday. A state appellate...
HILLARY TALKS SCHOOL $$ WITH LEVY, WEINGARTEN
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who made education a key component of her campaign last year, met with Schools Chancellor Harold Levy yesterday at a Manhattan restaurant, The Post has learned....
EX-HOSTAGE IS DUE HOME IN BIG APPLE
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amA freed American aid worker headed home last night from Russia as the Kremlin insisted the Chechens who kidnapped him had talked about beheading him. Kenneth Gluck, a 39-year-old native...
MORE WHITE HOUSE GIFTS GO BACK
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amIn a new twist on the gift-grab saga, Bill and Hillary Clinton yesterday returned some more goodies they'd never acknowledged taking out of the White House in the first place....
'FAB 4' TAPES COULD MEAN SEA OF GREEN
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amA British woman is hoping she's found a pot of gold in a song called "Watching Rainbows." Elaine Bowden of Bury St. Edmunds, a town in southeast England, says the...
TEACH QUITS GIRLS SCHOOL AMID ONLINE SEX-PIX FLAP
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amA former music teacher at the exclusive Greenwich Academy girls school ran a Web site featuring sexy photos of Long Island cheerleaders, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Kevin Dern, who taught...
N.Y. STATE PONDERING PARKS FEE FOR DISABLED
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - The state's parks commissioner has quietly begun exploring a plan to charge the handicapped for use of state parks, camping sites and golf courses, The Post has learned....
JARVIS WANTS VETS TO STEP UP
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - St. John's coach Mike Jarvis delivered his call to arms before practice on Tuesday. "He reminded us that we still are the Big East Conference champions until someone...
WAGNER DOESN'T FRIGHTEN RAVENS
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amGary DeCesare says he has an interesting way of trying to contain Camden's DaJuan Wagner: He's not going to. "We're not even going to guard him," said DeCesare, head coach...
NIEDERMAYER TO MISS AT LEAST A WEEK
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Scott Niedermayer is recuperating from yesterday's knee arthroscopy and Comeback Kid Mario Lemieux is threatening to do some exposing of the champs' depleted defense today. And then there's...
CHOCOLATE THUNDER RETURNS TO 'DAWGS'
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amChocolate Thunder is back. Former Lovetron leader and NBA star Darryl Dawkins signed on again yesterday to coach the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs of the USBL. Dawkins had been coaching in Tampa...
HAMILTON READY TO LEAVE METS
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amIt's fine with Darryl Hamilton that the Mets are trying to get rid of him. "I'm very comfortable with that," Hamilton told The Post yesterday. GM Steve Phillips knows that...
APPEALING DANGER TO AQUILINO
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amWith the retirement of Tim D. Kelly from training to take a job as the Lasix coordinator for NYRA, owner Daniel Collins needed to find a new trainer for his...
RIVERA'S CLOSER TO NEW DEAL
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amWith Derek Jeter inked to the largest contract in Yankees history and Mariano Rivera no longer represented by the irrational Jim Bronner, the chances of the Bombers and the All-Star...
POST-DEAL BOSS NO FUN TO BE WITH
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amDEREK Jeter never played the leverage game with the Yankees. He wanted to protect his reputation by not looking like a money grubber ready to be seduced by the field....
STEPHON'S STAR SHINES THROUGH
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Stephon Marbury sat in a ballroom filled with perennial All-Stars - Chris Webber, Tim Duncan, Gary Payton, Jason Kidd, Karl Malone - players whose appearances at the NBA's...
JETER DEAL STUNS YANK OLD-TIMERS
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amHank Bauer is absolutely baffled. "Eighteen or nineteen million dollars to play ball?" the former Yankees manager and rightfielder asked, referring to the seasonal average for Derek Jeter's new deal....
YANKEES ON VERGE OF SIGNING MORALES
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amAccording to an industry source with strong ties to the Yankees, The Post has learned the Bombers are close to signing Cuba defector Andy Morales. Late last month agent Gus...
GROSEK SEES NO FUTURE AS RANGER
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - Baffled at having been placed on waivers - which he passed through yesterday - Michal Grosek last night told The Post that he believes his situation with...
YOU CAN'T LOSE 'EM ALL
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amRangers4 Panthers2 SUNRISE, Fla. - They live on the dark side now, so until further notice Ranger victories have to be appreciated for what they mean both optimistically and pessimistically....
CTK DODGES MOLLOY BULLET
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amOVERTIME CTK56 Molloy53 Christ the King is in first place. In most seasons, that would hardly be noteworthy, but this isn't most seasons. Last night's 56-53 overtime victory over Archbishop...
HOUSTON'S PRIMED FOR SHOOTOUT
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - It's not as if he needs the money, but Knick guard Allan Houston will try to earn an extra $25,000 by winning the Shootout tonight as part of...
WANG VOWS MILBURY TO RETURN NEXT YEAR
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amFlyers5 Isles2 Islanders co-owner Charles Wang knows it's a decision that will be questioned and even condemned by many of the team's long-suffering fans - and not necessarily just the...
JUST ALLEN HEADLINES WHIRLAWAY
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amLast year Country Only swept Aqueduct's two inner dirt track stakes for 3-year-olds, the Count Fleet and Whirlaway, with jockey Herbie Castillo Jr. in the boot. In today's $75,000 Whirlaway...