March 15, 2001
GIVENCHY NAMES MACDONALD WOMEN'S DESIGN CHIEF
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amBritish designer Julien Macdonald has been named artistic director for women at Givenchy, a division of luxury king Bernard Arnault's LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Macdonald replaces fellow Brit Alexander...
HEY AMERICA, GET REAL; THIS MARKET IS VERY BAD
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amGO down to your local Charles Schwab office and you'll notice something. Or, rather, you'll notice nothing - no panic. You are probably already aware that Americans are obsessed with...
RE-ENTRY FOR SPACEMAN DOBBS AT 'MONEYLINE'?
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amCNN anchor-turned-spaceman Lou Dobbs may be returning to his old desk at "Moneyline." The former host of CNN's evening financial newscast told one source at Tina Brown's Talk magazine mogul...
NFL'ER GETS ABOARD - STAUBACH IN LEAD TO BUILD PENN STATION
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amIt's "All aboard!" for the monumental new Penn Station, which will replace the wretched existing Amtrak station with a skylighted terminal evocative of the heartbreakingly demolished original. In a long-awaited...
DON HEWITT'S MODEST PROPOSAL WILL SHAKE UP BIG TV NETWORKS
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amSANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Veteran TV newsman Don Hewitt suprised the assembled moguls and stars by calling on CBS, NBC and ABC to end their rivalry on the evening news...
MARKET PAIN REACHES BOARD ROOMS AS EXECS' OPTIONS LOSE VALUE
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amIn a damaging domino effect, corporate suites are bracing for an exodus of executives who've lost all their stock options and want to start again. The market slump has wiped...
CHARITY WILL BEGIN AT HOME FOR AXED WEB SITE STAFFERS
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amIn the end they couldn't give it away. Charitableway.com is gone away. A note on the Web site noted, "The market has proven to be smaller than we expected and...
DAVID VS. DAVID FOR MAG GOLIATH - REMNICK'S & GRANGER'S TITLES VIE FOR TOP HONORS
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThe nominations are out - and The New Yorker and Esquire are in. The American Society of Magazine Editors announced the nominations for the National Magazine Awards yesterday - pitting...
FLOOR TRADERS SAY 'IT MAKES YOU SCARED' - EVEN PROS WORRY AS DOW, NASDAQ LOSE MORE GROUND
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amYesterday's market mayhem wreaked havoc on everyone - even steely traders. As helpless as anyone else, traders did everything they could to save their money, and that of their clients....
CHARITY TO BEGIN AT HOME FOR AXED WEB SITE STAFF
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amIn the end they couldn't give it away. Charitableway.com is gone away. A note on the Web site noted, "The market has proven to be smaller than we expected and...
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amTODAY'S vehicles are a marvel of engineering, technology, design and comfort. Manufacturers spend billions researching and developing wondrous things, like self-dimming, rearview mirrors, ABS and side-curtain airbags. With so much...
CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY'RE SAYING THAT WORD ON TV?
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN did it become OK to say t - - - on TV? Can't decipher the word? Sorry, but I can't write it without those annoying dashes because if I...
'THE DEVIL' MADE THEM REDO IT
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amTHE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER ------ THEY'RE beginning to get it right at Voices, the series of American plays staged in concert at City Center. There have been three plays...
GIVE REGIS AN EMMY ALREADY
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amREGIS Philbin could be in danger of becoming the 21st century's answer to Susan Lucci. The TV personality received two Daytime Emmy nominations yesterday - in an unprecedented two categories,...
SILLY BILLY'S OSCAR ADVICE
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amBILLY CRYSTAL has given Steve Martin some advice about hosting the Oscars - there's no business like shoe business. "Your feet have to feel right. I swear," said Crystal, who...
THE STARR REPORT
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amNothing fishy in Ch. 4 asthma PSAs Ch. 4 had a fish wrangler on the set while filming its Asthma Awareness PSA campaign, launching this Monday to bring awareness to...
O'REILLY'S REALLY BUSY
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amFOX News Channel all-star Bill O'Reilly has inked a big-bucks deal that will keep him on the 24-hour news network through 2007. The host of the network's most popular primetime...
LOOK, MA! NO HANDS! - SO FAR, THERE'S NO INCOMING, BUT TELESPREE WILL REACT TO JUST YOUR VOICE
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amLET the wacky cell phone wars begin.Just weeks after a New Jersey inventor revealed plans to market her talk-and-toss paper phone comes a cellular with only one button: the on-off...
WHAT RUINS A VACATION MOST?
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amJUST because every vacation I take turns into a total disaster, that doesn't mean I'm not looking forward to spending the next eight days in Mexico.I'm almost assuredly going to...
NOW SHE'S ALICIA CASTAWAY
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amTOUGH-AS-NAILS personal trainer Alicia Calaway got the surprise boot on last night's "Survivor," despite being considered by many the odds-on favorite to win the reality series set in the Australian...
'CROUCHING' CELLIST A STAND-UP GUY
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amYO-Yo Ma's dramatic cello solos in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are part of a score that's up for an Oscar - but the famed cellist was 6,800 miles away from...
ROSIE'S LEATHER UNDIES?
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amARE you looking for one-of-a-kind black leather underwear signed - if not actually worn - by Rosie O'Donnell? Somebody is. The matched-set of leather unmentionables have drawn a top bid...
IN DUBLIN'S FAIR CITY
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThis time of year may not seem an ideal one to visit Ireland but, by observing a couple of simple rules, the season has more advantages that are immediately obvious....
ONE OF THE FINEST HUMAN BEINGS YOU'LL EVER MEET
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThe theme of the 2001 St. Patrick's Day Parade is the Irish American contribution to the labor movement -- and that makes the choice of Edward J. Malloy as the...
BADGE OF HONOR: FORMER GRAND MARSHAL THOMAS MANTON RECEIVES THE ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE GOLD MEDAL
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amLong-time Queen's Democratic Party leader Thomas J. Manton will be inducted into an exclusive club at this year's Saint Patrick's Day Parade -one that includes the late John Cardinal O'Connor....
DOC: NEW 'RING' IS SAFER THAN THE PILL
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amA new "contraceptive ring," due to go on sale in the United States this year, is as effective as The Pill - and even safer, a researcher says. The flexible...
JEALOUS STALKER IS SUSPECTED IN WOMAN'S MURDER
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amA woman fatally shot outside her car in Queens yesterday was in a love triangle with two men, one of whom may have been stalking her, The Post has learned....
KUWAIT BOMB INJURED AIRMAN WHO OK'D IT
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThe Air Force staff sergeant who cleared a Navy pilot to release bombs that killed six people in Kuwait was seriously injured in the disaster, Pentagon officials said yesterday. They...
CARL, HAROLD & THE HAYSEEDS
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amSTATE Comptroller H. Carl McCall went on all-news television last month to say that if New York City is to get more state aid for public education, some upstate and...
EX-OTB BOSS PLEADS GUILTY
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThe former head of the city's Off-Track Betting Corp. pleaded guilty yesterday to charges he used agency money for personal expenses. William Carnevale, 55, told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Raymond...
LEAN TIMES DON'T AFFECT POLS' TA$TE FOR 'PORK'
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Vidalia onion, shrimp and ornamental fish research, plus money for a Dr. Seuss memorial, top this year's list of the ugliest "pork" spending in the federal budget. Taxpayers,...
UNFORGETTABLE DINNER WITH ANDY
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amONE month ago tonight, I had dinner planned with my old friend Andy Capasso at Baldoria. We ended up eating a Baldoria-catered dinner in his room at New York Hospital...
JUVENILE-DETENTION COUNSELOR NABBED AS PIMP
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amA Bronx juvenile justice counselor has been busted on charges of running a prostitution ring of teenage girls, officials said yesterday. Everton Duncan, 35, who works for the city Department...
FORMER CITY ENGINEER IS MURDERED AT SANIT. GARAGE
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amA retired city engineer was found fatally shot yesterday at a Sanitation Department garage where he was supervising a project for a company doing millions of dollars worth of city...
COPS SCOUR EAST SIDE HS AFTER E-MAIL THREAT
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amStudents at a prestigious Upper East Side Catholic high school will be greeted today by cops searching for the author of threatening e-mails - including one that promised to "get...
UNSAFE FOOD IS NO LAUGHING MATTER
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amONE OF life's great pleasures is to heave slabs of delicious beef from Court Street's Staubitz Market onto a sizzling charcoal grill, kick back with a cold one and pass...
SCARE MAY KILL TOURISM, TOO
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThe outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease could force many Americans to scrub plans to vacation in Europe this summer, travel agents warn. So far, there have been few cancellations - but...
THERE GOES THE KIDS' COLLEGE FUND: 'SCARED' AVERAGE FOLKS SEE SAVINGS GO SOUTH
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThe stock-market plunge is leaving many victims in its wake, but no one is being harder hit than the Average Joe, who is seeing his savings, retirement fund and kids'...
CANCER KILLS 'BESS MESS' BIG CAPASSO AT AGE 55
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amMillionaire tax cheat Carl "Andy" Capasso, the ex-lover of former Miss America Bess Myerson and a key player in one of the most lurid scandals of the Koch era, died...
FED MUST HALT $4 TRILLION 'POVERTY EFFECT'
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amA WHOPPING $4 trillion has disappeared from the valuations of publicly traded stocks since the market topped out a year ago - and the loss is taking its toll on...
FUROR AS CITY PACKS HIV PATIENTS OFF TO L.I.
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThe city shipped a dozen homeless people afflicted with HIV and AIDS off to a motel on Long Island - even though rooms were available nearby, advocates charged yesterday. On...
DESPERATE DEMS HELPLESS TO STOP HIGH-FLYING W.
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amBRAIN DEAD seems a pretty good diagnosis for the Democratic Party right now. Bill Clinton's party has nothing to say - and no one to say it. Dems seem reduced...
DAD'S LAMENT: SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD
March 15, 2001 | 5:00am'I SHOULD have been the one who saw my son's first steps," the sad, proud father was telling me. "I should have been the one who heard his first words....
HEAT'S ON CHRISTIE IN GLOBAL-WARM SPLIT WITH W.
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amEnvironmental Protection Administration boss Christie Whitman laid low yesterday after getting dissed by President Bush over global warming. The ex-New Jersey governor holed up in her Washington office and declined...
EXPERTS SAY MOST FOLKS ARE RIDING OUT STORM
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amPeople are biting their nails, but most are leaving their money where it is for now, experts say. A lot of people yanked their money out of riskier mutual funds...
CATHOLICS RIP DUBYA OVER INVITATION TO ULSTER BIGOT
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Catholic League yesterday denounced President Bush's decision to invite anti-Catholic bigot Ian Paisley to a White House event on the eve of St. Patrick's Day. "There is...
DROPOUTS OUTNUMBER GRADS HERE
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amCall them the high schools of horrors. More students dropped out than graduated at 43 city high schools and alternative high-school programs last year, figures released yesterday by the Board...
U.S. IS MAKING DOGGED EFFORT TO PROTECT LIVESTOCK
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amBeagle Brigades - dogs sniffing for muddy boots - greeted travelers arriving from Europe yesterday as the United States tightened its defenses against foot-and-mouth disease. Nations from Latvia to Australia,...
BUSH HAILS TORRICELLI IN TAX-PLAN WAR
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amEAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. - President Bush yesterday touted his tax cut in New Jersey and went out of his way to praise Sen. Bob Torricelli (D-N.J.) for "a lot of...
COP BUSTED IN DRUG BRIBERY
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amA Harlem cop has been arrested on charges he took bribes for tipping off drug gangs about narcotics operations. Officer Marco Vargas, 24, of the 30th Precinct, was picked up...
WALL STREET IS A BLOODY MESS - HEMORRHAGING CONTINUES AS MARKETS SEEK SAVIOR
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amHere's the question on everybody's lips: Who can stop the slide? The markets took another beating yesterday - with no end to the bloodletting in sight. Investors watched traditional safe...
COPS: MOM KILLED 'DOG' BABY
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThe teenage mother of a baby whose body was mauled by a dog outside a Brooklyn building has been arrested after the medical examiner determined the infant had been smothered....
MATT'S REAL MOTHER: I JUST WANT TO SEE HIM
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThe mom at the center of a heartbreaking tug-of-love said yesterday she never stopped loving the boy taken from her the day he was born and abducted by his adoptive...
CITY'S KIDS FLUNK THE BASIC
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThe city's schools flunked again. The overwhelming majority of them failed to meet basic English and math standards last year, new state school report cards released yesterday show. The city's...
BX. DRIVE-BY KILLER CONVICTED
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amA man was convicted of second-degree murder in a drive-by shooting on a crowded Bronx street corner that killed a 3-year-old girl. John Lopez, 29, also wounded a bystander in...
PARDON PROBER MIGHT STAY ON
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, who's leading the federal Pardongate investigation, could hang onto her job for another year, a Justice Department official said yesterday. White, a...
ALTERNATE JUROR: I'D LET 'PUFFY' BEAT RAP
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amOdds are that Sean "Puffy" Combs will walk out of court a free man, an alternate juror discharged in the guns-and-bribery case declared last night. "If I had to guess,...
HEVESI WINS NOD FROM GAY DEMS
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amAn influential gay Democratic club, thrown into the spotlight after straight backers of two mayoral hopefuls flooded its roster, voted last night to endorse City Comptroller Alan Hevesi. Hevesi got...
BROOKLYN TEEN RAPED
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amA 17-year-old girl was raped in her Brooklyn home yesterday by a man who appeared to be a gas-company employee, police said. The man, wearing a utility-company uniform, forced his...
GAY DEMS TURN OUT FOR MAYOR PICK
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amAn influential gay Democratic club, thrown into the spotlight after straight backers of two mayoral hopefuls flooded its roster, voted last night on which candidate to endorse. Supporters of both...
PARDON PROBER WHITE TIPPED TO STAY ON
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, who's leading the federal Pardongate investigation, could hang onto her job for another year, a Justice Department official said yesterday. White, a...
SEARCHING HIGH & J.LO FOR PRINCE CHARMING
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amIt looks as if Sean "Puffy" Combs is just a distant memory to Jennifer Lopez. The Latina lovely - who dated the embattled rap czar for two years - sees...
EMINEM MEETS BUBBLE GUM
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amIn one of the most bizarre matches in showbiz, Eminem may use part of a Partridge Family song on his next album. The foul-mouthed rapper is said to be head-over-heels...
CITY'S KIDS FLUNK THE BASICS
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThe overwhelming majority of them failed to meet basic English and math standards last year, new state school report cards released yesterday show. The city's middle schools fared worst, with...
PRINCETON BACK IN GIANT-KILLER ROLE
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amSOUTH PRINCETON - If Princeton's 15th-seeded chances against North Carolina tomorrow night in New Orleans seem way beyond the arc upon which the Tigers rely, keep in mind they are...
SANKES HAS CROSS TO BEAR
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amEAST He believed all the love of basketball had been drained from his 7-foot body. This was following the 1998 season at Rutgers, when seldom-used sophomore center named Josh Sankes...
TEXAS' IVEY WOULDN'T SETTLE FOR LESS THAN THE BIG TIME
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amSOUTH A former New York City high school player is getting loads of playing time as a freshman for a team in the NCAA tournament. Doesn't sound like too big...
TUBBY: PITINO'S NOT DONE
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amHead coaching rumors and Kentucky roots dominated the talk yesterday at the East Regional first round at Nassau Coliseum. Two of the coaches here, Holy Cross's Ralph Willard and Kentucky's...
NCAA DEEP SIXING CINDERELLA
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - Look closely and you will see that the days of Cinderella being invited to the NCAA's Big Dance are coming to an end. It is nearly midnight....
TITO'S THE JEWEL OF GARDEN TOURNEY
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amYesterday at Madison Square Garden, Felix Trinidad was the smallest guy in the theater - and the biggest star in the house. Not that there weren't others trying to get...
LEYRITZ TALKING TALL
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amLAKE BUENA VISTA - Jim Leyritz is still the King of Confidence. He speaks with a glow and the smile of a man who's attained World Series immortality. Leyritz Unplugged...
JEFF'S NOT WORRIED ABOUT CHILDS' PLAY
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amFollowing their game with the Raptors in Toronto 11 days ago, Jeff Van Gundy and the Knicks came away with steam venting from their collars, smoke rising from their nostrils...
JINTS RELEASE CEDRIC JONES
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amWhat was all but a done deal for nearly a week became official yesterday when the Giants released Cedric Jones, ending a disappointing five-year stay for the soft-spoken, defensive end...
FOR GAELS' SENIORS, THIS TIME IT'S HIT OR OLE MISS
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amMIDWEST KANSAS CITY - Practice began promptly at 8:30 yesterday morning inside Iona's gym in New Rochelle. It was conducted with a purpose. Kansas City and the NCAA Tournament awaited....
SKINNER'S A WINNER - TEAM CONCEPT MADE BOSTON COLLEGE A CONTENDER
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amEAST Troy Bell is the closest thing Boston College has to a superstar. But he didn't get the superstar treatment while being recruited by Al Skinner. "The first time we...
ANOTHER DIVISION COLLISION
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amMET NOTES EIGHT INNINGS: Mets 0 - Braves 0 LAKE BUENA VISTA - Let the rivalry begin! It sure didn't look like an exhibition game with one out in the...
RAINBOWS USE COLORFUL MIX
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amMIDWEST DAYTON - Hawaii is known for many things - idyllic weather, beautiful beaches and shirts as colorful as the sunsets. Now you can add an NCAA Tourney-bound basketball team,...
LJ'S MEDS NOT TURNING STOMACH
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amLarry Johnson can take medication for his back and not worry about turning his stomach lining into Swiss cheese. For that, he's very grateful. That was the word Johnson received...
SCORPION PRIMED FOR GOTHAM
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amMike Marlow, assistant to Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, said Robert Baker's Scorpion arrived from Florida in good shape Tuesday. The son of 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle...
EAGLES ONLY HOPE FOR BIG EAST
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amIMAGINE if by the end of the first flurry of games and action in the NCAA Tournament each and every Big East team has been expunged from the brackets. Imagine...
NYRA WANTS CABLEVISION IN ON OTB BID
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amThe not-for-profit New York Racing Association should know within 10 days whether or not it has lined up a powerful partner to close its purchase of New York's Off-Track Betting...
CARDINAL IS SOARING - STANFORD HITS STRIDE
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amWEST SAN DIEGO - This tournament has always been about dreams - big and small. Stanford, the No. 1 seed out West, is a team that appears destined to be...
CARDENAL DENIES COMMENTS
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Ex-Yankee coach Jose Cardenal yesterday denied making disparaging remarks about Mike Stanton and other members of the Yankees' Bible study groups in The Duke Of Havana, a book...
OKLAHOMA ST. TURNING TRAGEDY INTO TRIUMPH
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amEAST The plane, one of three carrying the Oklahoma State basketball team, went down in a heavy Colorado snowstorm on the night of Jan. 27, killing all 10 on board,...
ST. RAY'S RULES CHSAA AGAIN
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amDOUBLE OT: St. Ray's 60 - Molloy 56 The season had to end this way for St. Raymond's. Amid losses, inconsistency and doubts, the Ravens kept saying that everything was...
DUQUE'S ARM BETTER, BUT ...
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez' right forearm has progressed to the point where he plans to test it in the bullpen Saturday. However, the discomfort that forced...
DEREK & A-ROD MAKE SHORT WORK OF FLAP
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amYankees 6 - Rangers 5 TAMPA - As usual, Alex Rodriguez had more to say than Derek Jeter. This time it was at Legends Field, where the superstar shortstops played...
KLOU CAN DO, EVEN IF RANGERS CAN'T
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amSabres 6 - Rangers 3 BUFFALO - He is the player everyone but everyone wanted. He is the player the Rangers simply refused to deal Tuesday, no matter how badly...
A DEVIL OF A DEBUT - BEEZER HELPS SET CLUB MARK
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amDevils 3 - Coyotes 2 PHOENIX - It was smart strategy, especially after the emotional trade of popular Chris Terreri. John Vanbiesbrouck became part of the team last night when...
EL DUQUE'S AILING ARM FEELING OK
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez' right forearm has progressed to the point where he will test it in the bullpen Saturday. However, the discomfort that forced El...
RANGERS' KLOU CAN DO
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amBUFFALO - He is the player everyone but everyone wanted. He is the player the Rangers simply refused to deal Tuesday, no matter how badly Glen Sather wanted to make...
VBK AIMS FOR HISTORY IN DEVILS' DEBUT
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amPHOENIX - Hoping that what they saw in December is what they acquired Monday, the Devils tried to make John Vanbiesbrouck part of the team quickly by sending him after...
WHO SAYS RANGERS HAVEN'T GOT A KLOU?
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amBUFFALO - He is the player everyone but everyone wanted. He is the player the Rangers simply refused to deal on Tuesday, no matter how badly Glen Sather wanted to...
BEEZER RELIEF SPELLS DEVS' 9TH IN ROW
March 15, 2001 | 5:00amDevils 3 - Coyotes 2 PHOENIX - It was smart strategy, especially after the emotional trade of popular Chris Terreri. The Devils made John Vanbiesbrouck a quick part of the...