March 5, 2001
MUTUAL FUNDS: UNDERSTANDING THE 'NET MAKES KINETICS A GOOD BET
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amAMID all the gloom and doom that's characterized the stock market lately, there's also been one surprising spot of light. The Internet funds are attempting a comeback. You remember the...
HOW LOW CAN IT GO? - STOCKS KEEP SINKING, BUT THERE ARE STILL WAYS TO PLAY THIS MARKET
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amJUST when investors thought the financial markets couldn't get any worse - they did. Almost a full year after the technology-packed Nasdaq composite index began its free fall, the S&P...
BULL'S EYE: ANGELL FOOD FOR THOUGHT
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amWAYNE Angell was surely an angel to the markets two weeks ago when he suggested that the Fed would enact a surprise rate cut in a matter of days. Investors,...
BULL'S EYE: BOILER-ROOM TACTICS AT MORGAN STANLEY
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amTHE big full-service brokerages always say they have their clients' best interests at heart when they recommend particular products. Baloney. Bull's Eye obtained a copy of an internal Morgan Stanley...
THE CASE FOR DOW 12,500
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amEVEN as most Wall Street strategists have turned bearish for the short-term future, a few remain unabashed bulls. These optimistic stalwarts base their confidence on two important factors: a strong...
TISHMAN IN TALKS TO SELL 3/4 OF CHRYSLER BLDG.
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amAtlanta-based TMW Real Estate Group is negotiating to buy a 75 percent interest in the landmark Chrysler Building for $300 million from Tishman Speyer. If the deal - reported in...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amHERE'S the quick way to get in the proper Oscarmania mood before Saturday night - a fresh batch of celeb-celebrating movie mags both thorough and thin. The first issue of...
TRADE IF YOU MUST, BUT YOU'RE WARNED
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amTRADERS may now want to dabble in the stock market. All others should stay away. Let's set the current investment scene before I get to why some people might want...
TIME STANDS STILL - HIRING FREEZE IS DANGER SIGN FOR INDUSTRY
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amIn another sign of the worsening ad environment, Time Inc., the nation's biggest magazine company, is in the midst of a virtual hiring freeze, according to insiders. Time Inc. spokesman...
DEBUT ISSUE IS THOUGHT FOR FOOD
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amLove it or hate it, you surely can't ignore it. That's just the reaction editor Darra Goldstein hoped the cover of the premiere issue of Gastronomica would bring. The image,...
BULL'S EYE: SEC FOLLOWS CBS AND WE ALL CRINGE.
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amURGENT memo to President Bush: Appoint a new permanent chairman for the Securities and Exchange Commission ASAP. Or at least fire whoever is responsible of the ridiculous gimmick that accompanied...
CHEMISTRY SET - REUNITED BLAKE BABIES STILL HAVE THAT SPECIAL SOMETHING
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amTHE Blake Babies, who broke up in 1991 after Juliana Hatfield left and became a big star, secretly reunited and recorded their new "God Bless the Blake Babies" in ten...
APARTMENT FOR SALE? WITH A FEW CHEAP FIXES YOU CAN . . . EARN EXTRA CASH!
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amIF you're selling your apartment, you could make $25,000 more by cleaning out your cat's litter box.Okay, maybe not quite that much - but small, inexpensive improvements, some free ones...
'SURVIVOR2' IS A KILLER - AGAINST THE ODDS, NEW EDITION BIGGER THAN THE ORIGINAL
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amTHE sky-high ratings for "Survivor: Australian Outback" have picked up right where "Survivor" left off - and are expected to get even better. Since its debut in January after the...
'JEOPARDY!' UPDATES GAME FORMAT TO MEET CHALLANGE OF REALITY TV SHOWS
March 5, 2001 | 5:00am'JEOPARDY!,' meet "Survivor." "Jeopardy!," the veteran quiz show hosted by Alex Trebek, is adding a new kind of video clue category that will feature a team of four correspondents called...
FRASIER ON THE COUCH - UNUSUALLY FRANK PROFILE OF KELSEY GRAMMER AND HIS FAMOUS DEMONS
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amKELSEY Grammer tells all! That's the headline on an astonishingly frank edition of the usually tame E! biography series "Celebrity Profile" premiering Wednesday night at 10. In interviews that are...
A STEP AHEAD - HARLEM TEEN FEELS LURE OF CLASSICAL DANCE - AND IT'S A GREAT WAY TO MEET GIRLS
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amWHILE his friends shoot hoops and video-game monsters, 13-year-old Travis Moore spends his afternoons in a roomful of girls, practicing plies and pirouettes.Meet Harlem's Billy Elliot.Like the title character in...
SEXUAL POLITICS & HOW TO AVOID MEN
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amTHERE are several ways to get rid of a guy, without having to run for Senate.In fact, women have been using all sorts of means to avoid men ever since...
SO LONG, LATIFAH?
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amQUEEN Latifah is ready to go the way of Roseanne. Another very successful TV comedienne has found it is nearly impossible these days to translate celebrity status into a successful...
THE STARR REPORT
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amGaspin for air: VH1 exec boltsJeff Gaspin, who co-created VH1's extremely popular "Behind the Music" series, is leaving the network after five years. "Jeff is leaving for another job and...
WALL ST. MAVEN BULLISH ON RACE FOR COMPTROLLER
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amAFTER raising huge amounts of cash for Democratic candidates over more than a decade, a prominent Wall Street insider has decided to seek election himself. William Mulrow, 45, a senior...
'SPACE CADET' PLANS PLUNGE FROM HEAVENS
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amAn Australian daredevil plans to jump from the edge of outer space and plunge 25 miles to Earth. It'll be the highest skydive ever attempted. Rodd Millner plans to make...
EACH CIGARETTE IS A SMOKE 'BOMB' - HEART ATTACK LURKS IN EVERY PUFF: DOCS
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amEvery cigarette a person smokes has the potential to trigger a fatal heart attack, researchers have discovered. It's been known for years that regular smoking increases the long-term risk of...
PROF. JACKO LECTURES ON KIDS TOMORROW AT OXFORD
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amPop prince Michael Jackson hopes to put his troubled past behind him tomorrow when he moonwalks into the hallowed halls of Oxford University to lecture about children and charity. The...
LATEST CHOLESTEROL STUDY FINDS NEW LEVEL OF HEALTH
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe long-held belief that elderly men must have low levels of blood cholesterol to remain healthy may be wrong, new research suggests. The study found that for men over the...
'BAD JUDGMENT' DAY
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amANY criminal lawyer worth his BMW will tell you that temporary insanity is a good defense even if you have Norman Bates as a client. But now, they have another...
BRAVEST SAVE FAMILY IN B'KLYN BLAZE
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amA mother and her five kids were grateful to be alive after firefighters rescued them from a two-alarm inferno in Brooklyn yesterday that had the family partially hanging out the...
DOGGED RESCUERS PULL POOCH FROM HUDSON
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amIt was touch-and-go for a while yesterday as Rainna the pit bull flailed about in the Hudson River. But the guys from Marine Fire Co. 1 came to the rescue,...
JEWISH 'NAZI' POSER WAS TEEN TERROR TO NEIGHBORS
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amWhen Michael Kneitel was growing up in Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach, people learned to be wary of him. Look out your window at night and the teenager might be peeping in,...
TOP DEM IN TV SHOCKER WITH 'WHITE' RACIAL SLUR
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amWest Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, Congress' resident historian and the Senate's senior Democrat, stunned a national TV audience with comments about "white niggers" in an interview aired yesterday. Byrd was...
EGAN PANS 'YO MAMA' FROM NEW BULLY PULPIT
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn Museum is a "silly little museum" that tries to gain public attention by exhibiting anti-Catholic pictures painted by minorities, Edward Cardinal Egan said yesterday in his harshest condemnation...
LOSS OF CLASSIC COFFEE CUPS A GREEK TRAGEDY
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amIT'S the beginning of the end for the Greek coffee cup. The ubiquitous blue-and-white, column-covered, goddess-garnished coffee cup - the one that always says, in one form or another, "It's...
BRIT COPS SUSPECT IRA DISSIDENTS IN BBC BLAST
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amIrish Republican Army dissidents were suspected to have bombed the BBC in London yesterday - sparking fears of a violent new campaign to destroy the peace process in Northern Ireland....
PROBER OFFERS TO GRILL BILL PRIVATELY
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A top Senate Republican says former President Bill Clinton is weighing an offer for a private, one-on-one grilling about his controversial 11th-hour pardon-fest. But a spokeswoman for Clinton,...
B'KLYN GUARD DIES AFTER RACIAL TUSSLE
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amA Brooklyn security guard hit on the head after allegedly using a racial epithet with a customer died Saturday in Bellevue Hospital, a hospital official said. Irwin Schwartz, 56, who...
THEY GOTCHA, CAMACHO - CHAMP-TO-CHUMP SOCKED BY COKE RAP IN E. HARLEM
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amHector "Macho" Camacho, the former super featherweight and lightweight boxing champ, was tagged by cops on cocaine charges early yesterday. The 38-year-old pugilist, who racked up his 74th professional win...
PROUD NANCY CHRISTENS NAVY'S 'RONALD REAGAN'
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amWith a bottle of bubbly, Nancy Reagan christened a $4 billion nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after her ex-president hubby yesterday. At a shipyard in Newport News, Va., the former first...
WE MAY GET 'ONLY' 16 INS.
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amMeteorologists worked overtime yesterday to track a massive winter storm and predict how loudly the March lion will roar here in the metro area. Original forecasts that had a behemoth...
CHILLING NEWS: KIDS HAVE NO CLASS
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amMore than 1 million city students prayed for the worst and landed the best news of all - no classes today! - while their parents were left to lament the...
HEROES OF KERIK'S POLICE 'POSSE'
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Bernard Kerik is backed by a handpicked "posse" of gritty, seasoned cops when he scours the city streets for criminals. Once or twice a week, the so-called "beat-cop...
JURORS LIKE 'PUFFY' . . . BUT DO THEY BELIEVE HIM?
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amThey laughed at his jokes. They scribbled avidly into their notebooks as he told them he is neither a gunman nor a witness briber. And lately, at least three of...
WE MAY GET 'ONLY' A FOOT
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amMeteorologists worked overtime yesterday to track a massive winter storm and predict how loudly the March lion will roar here in the metro area. Original forecasts that had a behemoth...
WILL SCHOOLS CATCH KIDS' DRIFT?
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe prospect of a day off from school had most of the city's 1.1 million students hoping for a blizzard, while their parents were praying for the storm to fizzle....
DAJUAN'S COACH LACKS DA-CORUM
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amRECORDS used to be made to be broken. Today, they're twisted until they break. Camden High School's Dajuan Wagner, last week, was celebrated from Cape May to the Palisades for...
BOMBERS TAKE IT SLOW WITH INJURIES
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES BRADENTON - Everybody knows George Steinbrenner's hatred of losing. And right next to The Boss' disdain for not winning is injured players. Steinbrenner has often questioned players for...
NO LONGER A SHOT IN THE DARK - JETER'S SHOULDER RESPONDING TO TREATMENT
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amBRADENTON - Derek Jeter's bothersome right shoulder avoided being invaded by a syringe loaded with cortisone yesterday. And while that's the initial morsel of good news in Jeter's week-long saga,...
KEEP HIM IN HIS PLACE - METS NEED TO THINK TWICE ABOUT DEALING PAYTON
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amVIERA, Fla. - The Mets traveled 75 minutes on a bus so they could wait three hours for their exhibition game against the Marlins to be rained out, so they...
PHILLIPS NOT PUT OFF BY GRUMPY GARY - YET
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - The consensus throughout baseball is that the more Gary Sheffield opens his roaring mouth, the less interest clubs have in trading for him. Steve...
STORM WARNING SHUTS BIG A
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amIn anticipation of severe weather, Aqueduct will be closed today, with no dark-day simulcasting at the track. The final Monday of dark-day simulcasting at Aqueduct will be next Monday. Plus,...
STORM ABOUT TO BLOW OVER; END NEAR FOR JOHNNIES
March 5, 2001 | 5:00am2 OT: Syracuse 93 - St. John's 91 Well St. John's, any last requests? Blindfold? Cigarette? Someone who can be counted on to make a free throw? The Red Storm's...
ISLES PULL THE PLUG ON BUTCH - GORING CANNED AFTER LIGHTNING HUMILIATION
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amIf general manager Mike Milbury hadn't yet reached his breaking point with coach Butch Goring, the Islanders' 6-0 loss to the lowly Lightning Saturday night hurled him clear over the...
GRIFFIN DREAM COMES TRUE
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amBrooklyn's Allen Griffin said he has dreamed about the game he had against St. John's. But he didn't get to do much dreaming Saturday night. The former Robeson High star,...
COLE HAS THE TOOLS TO BE KING
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - New batting coach Dave Engle didn't want to look. He knows Al Leiter turns wood into sawdust with his cutter. So Engle told himself not to...
CHILDS: I'D LOVE TO GET KNICKS AGAIN IN PLAYOFFS
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amTORONTO - It would be a dream come true for Chris Childs if the Raptors and Knicks meet for the second straight year in the first round of the playoffs....
D. WAYNE COLT MAKES THE CUT
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amScorpion, a Seattle Slew colt trained by Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas, jumps into the Derby Dozen this week after winning his first start of the year, a seven-furlong...
CLINTON STUNS FDA IN OVERTIME
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amPSAL PLAYOFFS DeWitt Clinton is in the PSAL semifinals. "We always thought it was possible," said DaMarr McBean, who scored the winning basket with two seconds remaining in overtime to...
MILBURY'S THE REAL CAUSE OF THIS MESS
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amMIKE Milbury is absolutely correct, the Islanders have stopped playing. Anyone can see that. But maybe it isn't Butch Goring whom the players quit on. Maybe it's Milbury himself. Maybe...
POINT WELL TAKEN - CHILDS MAKES KNICKS CHOKE ON HIS WORDS
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amRaptors 98 - Knicks 88 TORONTO - Latrell Sprewell stood up in the locker room and addressed his teammates again yesterday after a pitiful 98-88 defeat at the hands of...
RICE HOT FOR JINTS
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe first cancellation caused by the early March blizzard was the scheduled visit defensive end Simeon Rice yesterday was supposed to make to the Giants. Rice, a pass-rushing demon who...
EASY WIN, O'DONNELL DEAL MAKE FOR ONE GREAT DAY
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amDevils 6 - Lightning 0 They moved atop their division, and removed their last question mark for the playoffs. The Devils yesterday set themselves up to run at another Stanley...
COLLINS' JAB IRKS MARCUS
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES TORONTO - After Marcus Camby missed his 14th game of the season yesterday, the Knicks ailing center was told about a cutting remark made by analyst Doug Collins...
ST. FRANCIS' 2ND-HALF SURGE FRIES RICE
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFS Rice couldn't lose to 9-16 St. Francis, right? Well if you answered no, have a seat, because your wrong. St. Francis, the Brooklyn/Queens No. 6 seed, did indeed,...
WELL . . . WE'RE WAITING - HOLYFIELD'S STILL GOT TYSON TO KICK AROUND
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - OK, so now we know that even with healthy eardrums, Evander Holyfield can't beat John Ruiz. We already knew he couldn't beat Lennox Lewis. And given his...
GAELS BENCH MARIST
March 5, 2001 | 5:00amIona 75 - Marist 71 BUFFALO - Iona couldn't buy a free throw, got just two first-half minutes from all-league center Nakiea Miller and played sloppy, turnover-prone offense in yesterday's...