March 19, 2001
IT'S SMALL-CAP TIME - BUT CAREFUL VALUE SCREENING IS ESSENTIAL
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amTHINK small. Think smaller gains than you got in the late 1990s, and smaller stocks within your portfolio. Even as large-cap stocks continue to boast higher-than-average price/earnings ratios, their small-cap...
CAN GREENSPAN SAVE THE MARKETS? - WHAT HE'LL DO - AND WILL IT BE ENOUGH?
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amFEDERAL Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has long been considered the superhero of the financial markets - but he's facing the biggest test of his career now. The Fed's Open Market...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amTHE continuing nightmare on Wall Street was the natural call for the covers of the newsweeklies this week. Both Time and Newsweek take a look at last week's carnage and...
'MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE' NO LONGER
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amONLY three months ago, Arthur Sulzberger's New York Times dubbed wildly successful hedge fund manager Larry Bowman "a Master of the Universe." But unpredictable plunging stock markets are sinking most...
ONE MORE LEASE HITS THESTREET
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amWALL Street space for rent: 31,000 square feet at $45 per foot for five years. Formerly leased by market pundit Jim Cramer's TheStreet.com. One year after its ambitious move onto...
EVERY AMERICAN IN THE MARKET WILL BLAME GREENSPAN
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amAlan Greenspan should resign. It's really for his own good that I make this suggestion . . . Today's economy is unpredictable. And it is unpredictable because Greenspan permitted Americans...
SUPER-SPAN COMES TO THE RESCUE IN A NEW BLOODBATH COMPUTER GAME
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amTO ease the pain of the dot-com crash, Maxim Online has put together a little ghoulish computer game. Fans of Tetris will have a distinct advantage playing the game, available...
LOS SUPER SEVEN FEELING LUCKY AT BOWERY BALLROOM
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amTHE musicians from Los Super Seven initially discovered their magic when they gathered at an informal Tex-Mex acoustic showcase at a Mexican cafe during Austin's South by Southwest conference in...
LEGALIZED RAMBLING - 'FIRST YEARS' A SECOND-RATE DRAMEDY THAT GOES NOWHERE
March 19, 2001 | 5:00am"First Years" Tonight at 9 on WNBC/Ch. 4 () (And it ain't a bright one, either, but it's because they are all so good looking) ------------ WHAT can you call...
CARLY CUE: 'GH' TO RECAST ROLE?
March 19, 2001 | 5:00am'GENERAL Hospital" executive producer Jill Farren Phelps says the fate of fan favorite Carly Benson, played by the departing Sarah Brown, remains unclear. "We're leaving all our options open," says...
THE STARR REPORT
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amHGTV gets digitized on Time Warner Home & Garden Television is going full-time on Time Warner Cable's digital service, DTV (Ch. 131 in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island) beginning...
GAMBLER'S GUIDE TO OSCAR FASHIONS - WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE STARS WILL BE WEARING SUNDAY NIGHT? JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THEIR PREVIOUS AWARD-SHOW STYLE CHOICES
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amWINNING an Oscar goes a long way, but what will really matter on Sunday is winning the Grand Prix of Glitz. Designers vie to dress Oscar's dramatic damsels, wooing them...
DUBYA VS. MCCAIN REMATCH ON TODAY
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The sequel to last year's war between George Bush and John McCain opens today: a bare-knuckle fight over rewriting campaign-finance laws. At stake is big-bucks financing for congressional...
KIDS BOUND TO LOSE PRIVATIZATION BATTLE
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amTHE bullet-riddled path toward privatizing five city public schools has led into a New York-style western. There's the Good. The Bad. And the Ugly. The Good are the parents of...
KOCH AS KOCH CAN STILL BE A CHARMER
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amTHERE'S nothing quite like the sight of Ed Koch striding into a room full of senior citizens. The applause rises in waves as Koch - a little thinner of hair...
BRAD AND JENNIFER PREPARE FOR PARENTHOOD
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amOh, baby! Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are working on a major new project together - one that'll take about nine months to complete. The Hollywood hunk says he and...
HILLARY'S GOT THE LEASE WITH THE MO$T - 514G CITY OFFICE RENT TOPS AMONG SENATORS
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's new office in Manhattan costs more than any other U.S. senator's office in the country, a Post survey has found. Last month, the former first lady...
STATE SENATE'S @#$% LEADER GAGS FELLOW DEM
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amEMBATTLED Senate Minority Leader Martin Connor has ordered a fellow Democratic senator "muzzled," worried he's getting too much attention. The gag order was issued by Connor last week against Manhattan...
HEVESI RIPS PATAKI'S BID TO CUT NURSING-HOME $$ - SAYS GOV'S BUDGET WILL HURT SENIORS
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amGov. Pataki's proposed cuts in funding for nursing homes will turn back the clock on care for the elderly to the scandal-plagued early 1970s, Comptroller Alan Hevesi warned yesterday. Hevesi,...
PUT THE POLITICAL CASH COWS OUT TO PASTURE
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amSTART talking to a buddy in a pub about campaign-finance reform, and suddenly, he remembers he's late for a train. Start a conversation at a party about the same subject,...
MAMAS AND PAPAS FOUNDER DIES
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amVeteran folkie John Phillips - who founded The Mamas and The Papas and wrote their smash hits "Monday, Monday" and "California Dreamin'" - died of heart failure yesterday at the...
CITY STILL HASN'T COME TO ITS CENSUS
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amThe city that never sleeps never seems to stop growing, either. Just when you thought you might get a seat on the subway comes another story that says the five...
KIDNAPPERS PLANNED TO 'MAIM' ACTOR CROWE: COPS
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amHorrifying new details about the plot to abduct Russell Crowe emerged last night, as cops revealed that kidnappers planned to hack off his fingers one by one. "If the ransom...
PATIENTS LOSE SUITS; JUDGE LOSES PATIENCE
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amA state appeals court judge is warning that a pair of recent court decisions could wind up being bad medicine for sick New Yorkers. In harsh dissents in two cases,...
TRANSFER FOR S.I. COP IN 'LETTER' BUST
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amA veteran Staten Island detective has been transferred for his role in the controversial arrest of a man who wrote a harsh letter to Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari....
DADDY RAP HAS PUFF IN A HUFF
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amSean "Puffy" Combs is hip-hoppin' mad over his ex-girlfriend's decision to go public with her demand for child support the day after he beat the rap on gun and bribery...
EXPLOSIVE POWER STRUGGLE LOOMS
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amA SUDDEN departure by Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestinian Authority would trigger a chaotic and possibly violent succession battle between extremists and moderate pro-Western leaders, analysts say. During...
ECONOMY TO BE FOCUS OF SUMMIT WITH JAPAN
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amEconomic policy is expected to be the main topic of discussion when Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and President Bush hold their summit meeting later today in Washington. The monetary...
TRAIN-WRECK TRAGEDY - AMTRAK DERAIL KILLS HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amAn Amtrak train derailment that sent cars spilling down an embankment in Iowa yesterday injured 96 people and killed one - an elderly Holocaust survivor who was returning home with...
GOV .COM-MITTED TO RUN AGAIN?
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki took another step toward a possible bid for a third term yesterday by unveiling a new campaign Web site and hiring a top political guru. The...
DESPERATE ARAFAT MAY BE OUT OF MIRACLES
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amYASSER ARAFAT is once again living the life of a guerrilla leader on the run. He's back to carrying a submachine gun and sleeping in a different house every night....
ONE DEAD IN AMTRAK DISASTER
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amInvestigators could not immediately determine why an Amtrak train jumped the tracks and sent cars full of passengers spilling down an embankment in rural Iowa yesterday, killing one person and...
CLEAR PATH TO RECORD DEVILS GUNNING FOR 11TH
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amCALGARY - Feet of clay, heads of knuckle and hearts of champions. These Devils have taken another small step towards eternal greatness on that clumsy combination. They're in this record...
SMREK PROVIDES REASON TO SMILE
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amMaybe they're happy with the deal in St. Louis, where Alexei Gusarov, if you can believe it, chipped in with 28:20 of work in the Blues' 2-2 draw against Calgary...
IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY - TV CROSS-PROMOTERS OUT OF CONTROL
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amTHE state of television newscasting, the state of television sportscasting and the state of commercial television was superbly captured, last week, in one sentence. Wednesday night/Thursday morning, while anchoring ESPN's...
BAD OLD JAX SET TO MAKE HIS POINT
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amHe is back to being "Mark Jackson the Jerk" and that's exactly what Jeff Van Gundy wants from his new point guard. When Jackson first arrived for his second stint...
PIAZZA PASSES FIRST TEST
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amMets 4 - Expos 4 PORT ST. LUCIE - Far away from the 5,340 at Thomas J. White Stadium yesterday, the Mets' season was being determined. Manager Bobby Valentine was...
KANSAS FEELS MIGHTY SWEET
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amMIDWEST: Kansas 87 - Syracuse 58 DAYTON - Kansas had heard the rumbling growing ever louder. The proud Jayhawks had been knocked out of the NCAA Tourney in the second...
ALL THEY'RE ASKING FOR IS RESPECT
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amWEST SAN DIEGO - One theme is running through this NCAA Tournament - respect. No one, it seems, is getting any. And for the most part, those crying about lack...
FOR BC, IT'S NOT ALL BAD: BELL RETURNING
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amAs much as the sting of a truly demoralizing loss continued to burn inside the Boston College basketball team in the late hours of Saturday night, there was a comforting...
AL'S WELL FOR LEITER THIS SPRING
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Al Leiter has looked tremendous all spring. Yesterday, he was perfect. Leiter retired all 12 Expos he faced in his four innings, striking out...
GROUNDED EAGLES HAVE MORE TO PROVE
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amThe proving never stops. First Boston College had to prove it was to be taken seriously this season. By the time that happened, the Eagles had won the Big East...
JETER OUT OF ACTION UNTIL MIDDLE OF WEEK
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Since the Yankees want Derek Jeter right for the regular season, they are being cautious with Jeter's right quadriceps in order to be sure the injury...
EL DUQUE SUFFERS SETBACK
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amDodgers 4 - Yankees 3 TAMPA - A translator wasn't needed to know what the dejected look coming from his eyes meant. After a five-minute bullpen session in which he...
KNOBBY NOT OUT IN LEFT, YET
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - While the outfield is an option if Chuck Knoblauch's throwing problems continue, Joe Torre said he is a long way from moving Knoblauch out of the infield. "I...
FORBES LIFTS BANNEKER
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amBenjamin Banneker High's Gary Forbes couldn't hold back his tears yesterday. He also couldn't let go of the PSAL "B" championship trophy, which his team earned yesterday after defeating Thurgood...
BIG A TO OFFER BIG 3 WAGERING
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amFor the fifth consecutive year, Aqueduct, Keeneland and Oaklawn Park will offer the Big 3, a $1 national wager in which fans try to pick the winner of the three...
BAFFERT COLT MAKES POINT
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amWith Florida Derby winner Monarchos breathing down his neck, Point Given needed to win Saturday's Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita to maintain his top spot on The...
HODGE DOES WHATEVER IT TAKES
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amCHSAA 'A': St. Ray's 62 - St. Mary's 59 He might struggle on his way to the end, but if a game can be won, Julius Hodge will usually find...
ARIZONA'S 'D' BOTTLES UP BUTLER
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amMIDWEST: Arizona 73 - Butler 52 KANSAS CITY - This time, Butler didn't do it. Butler didn't do it because Butler couldn't do it. Not with national-championship-minded Arizona sending in...
PERFECT BERGTRAUM THREE-PEATS
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amPSAL 'A' GIRLS: Bergtraum 72 - Lewis 36 "Three" had very different meanings yesterday at the PSAL Girls "A" championship. On one bench, three was the number of years of...
ILLINI JUMP OUT FAST AND NEVER LOOK BACK
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amMIDWEST: Illinois 79 - Charlotte 61 DAYTON - The stage for failure was already set. Star guard Frank Williams was sick. They were facing a Charlotte team that was hungry...
LATOYA POWERS SOUTH SHORE
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amJeff Bieder wasn't overly confident going into overtime yesterday. "I'll admit that I was nervous," the South Shore coach said. "But they surprised me again." They surprised Bieder by dominating...
A LITTLE MAN HITS BIG SHOT - OLE MISS' 5-5 GUARD SLAYS IRISH
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amMIDWEST: Ole Miss 59 - Notre Dame 56 KANSAS CITY - Mississippi freshman guard Jason Harrison goes about 5-foot-5 - at least that's how he's listed on the team's roster....
GRADY FEELS SO GOODE ABOUT TITLE
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amPSAL 'A' BOYS: Grady 75 - Robeson 60 Tyquan Goode didn't feel very good yesterday. "When I woke up, I thought about losing," said the Grady point guard who had...
NO DERBY FOR GOTHAM WINNER
March 19, 2001 | 5:00amMost trainers who just watched their unbeaten 3-year-old colt win the Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct by 5 1/4 lengths would run to the phone, making hotel reservations in Louisville for...