April 2, 2001
ON THE NEWSSTAND
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amTHE economy's DOA, so it's time for the business mags to shake off the boom-time rust and show their stuff, while Rosie O'Donnell's picked a less-than-rosy time to take on...
KATHARINE GIBBS CAMPUS ON 40TH ST. GROWS
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amThe Katharine Gibbs School is in negotiations to expand on West 40th Street to yet another office building opposite Bryant Park, creating its own mini-campus, The Post has learned. Next...
CLAEYS IS LOOKING AT EMAP BID
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amBAHRENBURG to the rescue?D. Claeys Bahrenburg, a former top executive at the magazine company now known as Emap USA - which includes Motor Trend, Hot Rod, Teen, Guns & Ammo,...
GM HITS THE BRAKES - STARTS MASSIVE CUTBACKS OF ITS MAGAZINE ADS
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amGeneral Motors, which spent $473.4 million on magazine ads last year, is delivering a crushing blow to the embattled publishing industry this year as it dramatically curtails print spending. In...
THE GREATEST SHOW GETS EVEN GREATER
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amRINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUSMadison Square Garden, 32nd Street at Seventh Avenue. (212) 307-7171. Season runs through April 15. ----------- COME to the circus . . . and...
KEEPING UP WITH JONES
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amSTONES IN HIS POCKETS ( 1/2)The Golden Theater, 252 W. 45th St. (212) 239-6200. --------- MARIE Jones' Dublin and London superhit, "Stones in His Pockets," which opened last night at...
MAGAZINE ARTS FEST THE TALK OF THE TOWN
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amYOU'LL want to clone yourself to truly take advantage of the New Yorker Festival's lineup of talent this year. Organizers of the second annual festival, from May 18 to 20,...
THE STRINGS GO FOR BAROQUE
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amTHE members of the Chamber Strings used to play separately, in a bunch of Chicago bands, and never got anywhere. Then, the strings joined forces in 1999 to create some...
CBS IS LOOKING FOR 'LOVE' IN THE VILLAGE
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amCBS is looking for real-life love stories to spin into a new reality/relationship show, The Post has learned. The new show, tentatively called "Love Stories" is still in development, but...
BLOW' CHIC - COSTUME DESIGNER RECAPTURES THE COCKY FLAMBOYANCE OF THE '60S
April 2, 2001 | 4:00am'Blow" is not just one of spring's most buzzed-about movies - it's the talk of the fashion world, thanks to the authentic work of costume designer Mark Bridges. He came...
STORMY LOVE AFFAIR CLOUDS SLAY CASE IN TORTOLA
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amTHE trial of four Americans for the murder of a beautiful and flamboyant Connecticut artist opens today on the Caribbean paradise island of Tortola. And, as prosecutors prepare to present...
HANDS OFF! BAN ON CAR PHONES A LOCK
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amNEW YORK drivers can say goodbye to their hand-held cell phones, as the last bastion of resistance to a statewide ban is about to fall, The Post has learned. Sources...
SCHUMER WARNS OF $2 GAS PAINS FOR SUMMER
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amNew York's summer gasoline prices could soar above $2 a gallon again unless Democrats and Republicans work together to increase oil supplies and reduce demand, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said...
DEM MAYORAL HOPEFULS THROW OUT FIRST PITCHES
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amOvercast and chilly weather be damned, four Democratic mayoral candidates took the field yesterday in what seemed like Opening Day for the campaign season. Leading off was Comptroller Alan Hevesi,...
MCCAIN IS CONFIDENT OF REFORM WIN TONIGHT
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain says his campaign-finance bill will easily survive tonight's vote, but vowed to remain "vigilant" to prevent opponents from killing it in the House. "I expect...
FANS DREAM EARLY OF A SUBWAY SERIES - YANKEES TO LAUNCH TITLE DEFENSE TODAY
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amThe season is barely open, but Yankee fans are already looking at its end and saying: Bring on the Mets - again! That's the vision of some fans as the...
BRITNEY AND EMINEM GET PUMMELED IN POLL
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amEminem and Britney Spears are the most overrated stars in showbiz and have the worst records ever on the pop charts. That's the stinging verdict of Jane magazine, which asked...
POLS BLEW SHOT TO REIN IN CAR IN$URANCE
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - As the city's auto-insurance rates have soared in recent years, the state Legislature has put the brakes on legislation that could have slashed premiums. But with New York...
LIBERAL DOSE OF NONSENSE ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amI MIGHT have to get a food taster to guard against my old nemeses, the loony liberals, but it has to be said. History will show that 23 years ago,...
CAPTURED SLOBBO SHOULD BE SENT TO U.N. COURT: BUSH
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday praised the capture of Slobodan Milosevic but insisted the Serbian strongman should face a United Nations war-crimes trial - not just local corruption charges. "Milosevic's arrest should...
'GOODFELLA' HILL A CYBER-GANGSTER
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amReal-life wiseguy Henry Hill is taking a whack at cyberspace. The former Lucchese family gangster turned government stoolie, whose life was chronicled in the movie "GoodFellas," has launched his own...
DARRYL'S DISAPPEARANCE 'SCARIER' BY THE SECOND
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amThe thin shadow of Darryl Strawberry hangs over baseball today as the Yankees open their season - with the troubled slugger still missing days after lamming out on a court-ordered...
JOGGER BADLY HURT BY QNS. BLVD. BUS
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amA jogger became Queens Boulevard's latest casualty yesterday when he was left clinging to life after being hit by the side-view mirror of a bus, police said. Nicholas Sczesnik, 21,...
SURVEY BARES CHILLING STATS ON SCHOOLKIDS AND WEAPONS
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amOne out of five high-school boys admitted smuggling a weapon onto campus in the last year, and more than half said they could get their hands on a gun if...
HOPE FOR AIDS VACCINE - TRIAL DRUG USES GENE THERAPY TO PROTECT MONKEYS
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amAn experimental AIDS vaccine has shown promising results in monkeys - it doesn't prevent infection by the deadly virus, but it cripples the disease's progress. Three rhesus monkeys that received...
CHINA HOLDING U.S. FLIERS IN 'SPY' CRASH
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amAmerican diplomats were on their way to Hainan Island early today to negotiate for the return of a U.S. Navy spy plane that collided with a Chinese fighter - triggering...
S.I. GEEZER RAN SPORTS GAMBLING RING: D.A.
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amA golden-ager who ran a $26-million-a-year sports-betting ring was busted inside a high-tech gambling headquarters, authorities said yesterday. Staten Island residents Irving Kaff, 74, and Richard DiLorenzo, 51, were arrested...
BABS BASHES DEMS FOR NOT BASHING GOP
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amDemocratic darling Barbra Streisand has written a tough-love song for her political allies. The liberal warbler fired off a memo to top Capitol Hill Democrats - blasting President Bush as...
WHY IS THIS DAY DIFFERENT?
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amTHE players are overpaid, the games are too long, $10 doesn't get you a seat in either New York ballpark and you can't get even a beer in the Yankee...
KEPT-IN-DARK DAD WINS NEW CHANCE AT CUSTODY
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amA state appeals court has breathed new life into a Manhattan man's battle for custody of his son, whose existence he learned of only after the tot had been adopted....
NEW YORK POST: FROM APRIL 2, 1932
April 2, 2001 | 4:00am"The once-expensive sedan that more than once carried the late Jack 'Legs' Diamond to the spot where his enemies found him, carried his ex-bodyguard to a similar spot in a...
BRING ON SWEATERED BOYS OF SUMMER
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE'S something great about Opening Day: the field perfectly manicured, the air warmed with the first hint of spring, the players looking ready in their spotless white sweaters. Sweaters? Yes,...
EX-COP SOLD PHONY JAIL RELEASES - HE'LL JOIN 2 BROTHERS IN PRISON
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amA former Brooklyn cop has been convicted of fraud for selling bogus sentence reductions to inmates serving time with his brother in a Pennsylvania prison. A federal jury found former...
HALL OF FAME TOWN NOT GAME FOR CAMPS
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amCOOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - The Cooperstown vicinity, the legendary birthplace of baseball, is now choking on the game, some residents complain. Traffic, noise and lights from hundreds of visiting baseball teams...
CHINA: U.S. SPY PLANE CAUSED MIDAIR CRASH
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amTensions between world powers were rising after a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet bumped in midair yesterday over the South China Sea - with China insisting the...
A PIECE OF HISTORY AWAITS QUAD SQUAD
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amCAN they be the Quad Squad? Yesterday, while cold rain pelted the Stadium, the Yankees took their last be-four picture. Today, weather permitting, they begin the journey to go where...
MEL FEELS BLESSED TO TAKE PART IN OPENER
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amThis will be Mel Stottlemyre's most precious Opening Day. He will feel blessed to simply be present and working as the Yankee pitching coach a year after publicly revealing he...
CHUCK LEARNS IN THE CORNER
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amChuck Knoblauch will not be the only new item in left field at Yankee Stadium this season. As a result of a settlement with a group representing the disabled, the...
JETER WISHES HE COULD BE IN BRONX
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amTAMPA - He has done almost everything there is to do in baseball across a blessed five-year career and when it comes to winning World Series rings, Derek Jeter is...
TODDLER CAPTURES KINGS POINT
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amToddler, despite hauling highweight of 122 pounds and giving five to even-money favorite John Paul Too, came on gamely through the stretch to beat John Paul Too by a neck...
METS MOURN LOSS OF PHENOM - COLE'S DEATH STUNS MATES
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - When Mets GM Steve Phillips and his assistants discussed Brian Cole's potential they glowed, thinking about how Cole might steal 50 bases one day and how he could...
ROAD TO A FOUR-PEAT BEGINS IN THE BRONX - CHAMPION BOMBERS READY TO GET SERIOUS
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amThey are the two finest words in sports: Opening Day. It is the time when all baseball men, no matter how old or how proud, become little boys again, even...
COACHES LAY IT ON THICK
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amFINAL FOUR NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - After playing national semifinal games Saturday night, and then switching to Daylight Savings Time, the Duke and Arizona players weren't exactly bright eyed and bushy...
BLABBERIN' CBS TURNS SPOILER
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amFASCINATING, Saturday evening, was CBS's frequent screen-shrinking disturbances during Michigan St.-Arizona in order to tell the nation that Duke-Maryland was next, the men's final from the Ericsson Open would be...
ROGER SET TO PASS BIG TRAIN
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The Rocket is set to blow past the Big Train. Roger Clemens can break Walter Johnson's American League strikeout record with five K's today against the Royals. Clemens...
WS HIT MADE SOJO HOMETOWN HERO
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amFame comes at a price. Luis Sojo said he now knows what it feels like to be Derek Jeter-ized. Only worse. It turns out that after his World Series heroics...
DERBY: IT'S TIME TO GET SERIOUS
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amThere's no change in this week's Derby Dozen. All was quiet on the Western front over the weekend, and in the East, South and Midwest, too, with no major Kentucky...
LITTLE MAN WAS BIG PART OF MET PLANS
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - The Mets had big plans for Brian Cole. He was bound to make a lot of money playing baseball and he had big dreams, too - plans to...
DEVILS GO FOR CONFERENCE'S TOP PERCH
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amWith a victory tonight against the visiting Blackhawks, the Devils would move back into sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference, one point ahead of the Senators, with...
EAST FINALLY MEETS WEST - FROM COAST TO COAST, TITLE GAME PITS NATION'S TOP TEAMS
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - They were marked men two years ago. The Duke titans of 1999. Unbeatable. Invincible. Only two teams were ranked No. 1 during that regular season, Duke and Connecticut,...
ROSE WAITING TO LEARN FATE
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amMets 3 - Pirates 2MET NOTES PITTSBURGH - Pitcher Brian Rose is just waiting. The right-hander is on the Mets' 25-man roster right now, but all indications are that backup...
ISLES CAN CLINCH WORST MARK
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amThe Islanders can clinch the league's worst record tonight by losing or tying to the Penguins at the Coliseum. The loss or tie would guarantee that the Isles grab no...
RANGERS LOSE KLOUCEK, TOO
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amRangers 4 - Thrashers 2 They created their longest winning streak of the season, the Rangers did by taking out the Thrashers 4-2 yesterday afternoon in Atlanta for their fourth...
BEATING LAKERS MAKES WIN EXTRA SPECIAL FOR RICE
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES LOS ANGELES - While the Knicks needed yesterday's win over the defending champions desperately to keep them from breaking apart, Glen Rice needed it in another way -...
KNICKS RISE FROM ASHES TO STUN L.A.
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Nothing like a giant win over the Lakers at the Staples Center to jar a fractured club out of turmoil. When Derek Fisher missed an 18-footer from...
CHECKETTS NOT HAPPY ABOUT TRIP
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The Knicks' victory over the Kobe-less Lakers yesterday did not absolve the club from an otherwise disappointing West Coast swing in Garden prez Dave Checketts' eyes. "Certainly...
NETS SHAKE ROCKETS, BUT DREAM'S NOT OVER
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amNets 101 - Rockets 98 It was just a few weeks ago that the obituaries were being written for Hakeem Olajuwon's career. The Dream had made his last shake, nailed...
RILEY RALLIES IRISH TO WILD TITLE WIN
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - A championship can't be won any more poignantly than the way Notre Dame won its first national basketball title of any kind last night. Ruth Riley, the...
PURDUE'S A TEAM OF WINNERS ON AND OFF BASKETBALL COURT
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - If it was any consolation to the women of Purdue, heartbreaking two-point losers last night to Notre Dame in their bid for a second national championship in...
HOUSTON WANTS A KINDER, GENTLER FORM OF TALK
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES LOS ANGELES - Don't get Allan Houston wrong. He's all for talking. Just not the kind of trash-talking Latrell Sprewell promotes. As the Knicks concluded their five-game West...
NO SECRET PURDUE'S AMONG NCAA'S BEST
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Jackie Stiles, the all-time leading scorer in women's basketball, couldn't stop Purdue, making the Boilermakers that much stronger. To the surprise of everyone - except themselves apparently...
NEWCOMER GILL WON'T PLAY SHY WITH NETS
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amHis NBA career had endured for all of five first half minutes - long enough to fee, then lose, initial jitters - so Eddie Gill felt it was time to...
ARIZONA VS. DUKE
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amLine: Duke by 3 1/2 Point guard: Arizona's Jason Gardner vs Duke's Chris Duhon - Gardner was simply terrific in Arizona's 80-61 win over Michigan State, scoring a game-high 21...
NEW YORK POST - ALL-PSAL BASKETBALL TEAM
April 2, 2001 | 4:00amPlayer of the Year: Daryll Hill, Cardozo, 6-0, Sr, G He calls himself "Showtime." You've got to be pretty good to go by that nickname and not have people laugh...