April 29, 2001
SANDY, WATCH YOUR BACK
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTHE times, they are a-changin'. Used to be folks flocked to hear pearls of wisdom fall from the bejeweled lips of technology market gurus. Conferences sold out months in advance....
PUT THE PEDAL TO THE METAL
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amDON'T hit the brakes on auto suppliers quite yet. The sector's had a nice run-up this year, turning in a gain of 41.7 percent, while the overall S&P 500 index...
THE BIG EXECUTIVE RIP-OFF: WHILE CEOS GET BIG BUCKS SHAREHOLDERS' RETURNS SINK
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTOP dogs, indeed. Shareholders across America may be devastated by the year-long sell-off in the markets, but corporate chiefs across America are still raking in the big bucks. To make...
TARGET PRACTICE
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amHEY Calista Flockhart, discount retailing giant Target has a deal just for you. Teaming up with Eddie Bauer, Target is now carrying in its stores outdoor gear, including a special...
LIFE IMITATES ART
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amALFRED Hitchcock never made a movie about Wall Street, but that isn't a deterrent for market wonks seeking new and innovative ways to explain the recent behavior of stocks. The...
NO KIDDING
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Roller-coaster markets are shaking the brains of even the most-admired stock gurus. Take Ralph Acampora, the outspoken technical strategist for Prudential Securities. In a report to clients last week,...
FIRST CLASS WITH STYLE
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amFLYING first class still has its advantages, but the experience can often degenerate into economy class hell. Airports are still a crowded mess, cancellations abound, check-in times are too early...
LANNY THONDIKE'S TOUGH CRITERIA IS PAYING OFF AT CENTURY SMALL CAP
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amLANNY Thorndike manages a fund in which he likes to buy only companies that are growing faster than the market average, but are selling at a discount to the market...
MEG, NICOLE, A PARTY AND ME
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amI hate to admit it, but whenever I spot a celebrity, I always lose my cool.I wish I could be chic and blasé on the rare occasions when I rub...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: BRANDE RODERICK
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amBrande Roderick, who will be gracing the pages of Playboy magazine in a 12-page pictorial this June, never dreamed she'd become Playmate of the Year when she graduated high school....
THE WRITE WAY TO GO FOR THESE SCRIBES
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe American cultural consumer is a mean and ravenous beast - rather like the American cultural critic. And in the sour mouths of both critters, the artist is forever hearing...
ANGELS GET ANGRY, TOO
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTHE angels of "Touched By an Angel" aren't as angelic as they might seem. Behind the scenes, the show's messengers from heaven have the same earthbound concerns as the stars...
WHAT I WATCH
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amMARK MASON, Owner, Mason Tennis Mart "Law & Order." I love dramatic television and this show fits my love to a T, um,V. Always great scripts and acting. CATHERINE HICKLAND,...
ART ON MADISON
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe Met isn't the only crossroads of art and fashion. Kicking off tomorrow and running through May 12 is "Madison Avenue: Fashion Meets Art," a 29-block art show organized by...
CHANNELING JACKIE - DESIGNERS FIND INSPIRATION FROM FORMER FIRST LADY
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amFor fashion fans, "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years," opening Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the season's must-see exhibition, offering solid proof that First Lady Chic wasn't...
SHABU-SHABU AND A GOOD TIME AT JUJU
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amYakiniku Juju 157 E. 28th St. (between Lexington & Third avenues) (212) 684-7830 Just walking into Yakiniku Juju is special. The door to the second-floor restaurant is a few steps...
NOW THAT'S ITALIAN: TRENDY NEW EATERIES DISH UP PASTA WITH A KOSHER TWIST
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amMangia, it's kosher! Food lovers may not be used to hearing those words, but kosher Italian eateries are suddenly sprouting up all across the city. The restaurants -- which attract...
WORD FROM THE WEISZ: 'MUMMY' STAR IS WRAPPING UP HER CAREER
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amRachel Weisz was game for another clash with the bandaged undead in "The Mummy Returns," out Friday, but she swears that all the gold in Tutankhamen's tomb wouldn't lure her...
LOCAL DEEJAY CROSSES OVER TO THE CD SIDE WITH DEBUT DISC
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amAngie Martinez has been one of the best-known voices in hip-hop since the early '90s as the host of Hot 97's afternoon broadcast. Now, this radio diva is putting a...
SECOND HELPING: REMAKES AND SEQUELS DOMINATE CINEMA'S SUMMER SEASON
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amI'm looking forward to "Tomb Raider" and "Planet of the Apes" as much as the next guy (and I'm not too bothered that aging action stars like Mel Gibson, Harrison...
CHRISTIE LOSING FIGHT ON ENERGY
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - It's a battle of East vs. West for control of national energy policy, and it looks like Interior Secretary Gale Norton is besting EPA chief Christie Whitman. The...
TINY TOMMY GETS A BREAK IN HIS RED-TAPE FIGHT
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTINY light at the end of a mind-boggling bureaucratic tunnel is finally shining a ray of hope on little Tommy Navarro. Five-year-old Tommy has been clinging to life since August...
IT'S 'PLAY BALL' AGAIN IN B'KLYN
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amNo more waiting 'til next year. For diehard Brooklyn baseball fans, dispossessed by the loss of their beloved "Bums," the Dodgers, since 1957, this is the year baseball comes back...
EX-NEW YORKER'S $20M RIDE OUT OF THIS WORLD
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe world's first space tourist blasted off yesterday on a $20 million joyride to the International Space Station. Los Angeles millionaire Dennis Tito, who grew up in Queens, and two...
CITY HALL RACE TAKES A COMIC TURN
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amWhat is with Kenny Kramer's mayoral bid? While some people may think it's a joke, the quirky comic who inspired the oddball "Seinfeld" character was nominated as the Libertarian Party's...
TRAUMATIZED CAMBY WILL SIT FOR GAME 3 TODAY
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amKnicks star Marcus Camby has benched himself for today's crucial playoff game - choosing to try to decompress at home instead of flying with his team to Toronto. "It's a...
RANGEL'S WRONG VOTE WASN'T HIS FIRST
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Rep. Charles Rangel's "accidental" anti-abortion vote last week wasn't his first. The Harlem Democrat did the same thing in 1997 by voting for a ban on partial-birth abortion...
CELEBS BUSTED IN VIEQUES PROTEST
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amAnti-bombing protests on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques got a blast of star power yesterday as Robert Kennedy Jr., and actor Edward James Olmos were among dozens arrested. Kennedy,...
DIALLO COP RULING DRAWS HOSTILE FIRE
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amPuts cops on desk duty. Minority groups and mayoral hopefuls yesterday roundly criticized Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik's decision to retain the four cops who gunned down Amadou Diallo. On Friday,...
IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN HAS TO SHOW HE WON'T ABANDON RUDY POLICIES
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amThis is the third in a series of Post profiles of the mayoral candidates. It didn't take long for Public Advocate Mark Green to figure out where he stood with...
HUMAN GUINEA PIGS PUT TO THE TEST CLINICAL TRIALS CAN BRING MIRACLE CURES - OR KILL
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amSEVEN months ago, Long Island leukemia patient Bruce Kennedy enrolled in a clinical trial for an experimental new drug called STI-571. "I was frightened at the thought of being a...
HOW THE DAPPER DON WHACKED HIS MAFIA
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amJOHN Gotti is dying a slow, painful death from terminal cancer in a federal prison in Missouri. And the Mafia he once ruled in New York is decaying in its...
HILLARY MEETING WITH COP-UNION BOSS
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Clinton, who's lunching with Al D'Amato tomorrow, will meet beforehand with officials of the police union that endorsed her campaign rival. For the first time since her election,...
CON MAN CRIES 'UNCLE' ; 28-YEAR-OLD POSED AS ; SPIELBERG NEPHEW
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amHE was a 28-year-old nobody from Iran, but he managed to pull off an Oscar-caliber performance by posing as Steven Spielberg's 14-year-old nephew. For nearly two years, Anoushirvan Fakhran hoodwinked...
RUSSIAN TYCOON TAKES REFUGE IN TEL AVIV
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. MEDIA magnate Vladimir Gusinsky, hunted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, arrived in Israel last week knowing he won't be extradited because he is regarded as a political refugee. Concern...
DRIVE-BY TERROR AS GUNMEN KILL ISRAELI
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian gunmen shot dead an Israeli man and wounded his wife after stopping their car in northern Israel yesterday. The slaying capped a day of violence in which...
MURAL OF DIALLO IS PAINTING MAN INTO A CORNER
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amNICE-guy businessman Jay Borrero is caught between two powerful opposing forces that are squeezing him into madness. He's pancaked between the NYPD and a Bronx community that respectively hates and...
NEW YORK POST FROM APRIL 29, 1939:
April 29, 2001 | 4:00am"The Whitestone suspension bridge, connecting Old Ferry Point, The Bronx, with Whitestone, Queens, was opened to traffic today in a ceremony at The Bronx terminus in which Mayor LaGuardia, Park...
KERREY-RAID SURVIVOR RELIVES VIET HORROR
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amA Vietnamese woman says she watched helplessly - and her grandmother begged for mercy - as Bob Kerrey's commandos mowed down terrified women and children in her village in 1969....
AMERICA'S DRUG WAR MERCENARIES
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe murky but growing role of private U.S. military companies in South America's war on drugs is coming under increased scrutiny in the wake of the recent downing of a...
COPS BUST 3 TEENS IN SYNAGOGUE ARSON
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amThree teens were nabbed near a Washington Heights synagogue last night after they allegedly tried to burn down the building during a Sabbath-end service. Frightened worshippers ran into the street...
LAWYER: BANK FIRED ME OVER MY HIV
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amA former employee of CIBC has filed a $125 million lawsuit against the banking giant, claiming he was ridiculed and fired because he's HIV-positive. "It was an unusually cruel situation,"...
WITH A FRIEND LIKE SOPHIE . . .
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amSophie Guillemin, the hot young French actress currently on New York screens in the thriller "With a Friend Like Harry," breezed into town for about 24 hours the other week....
INSTRUCTORS WHO TRAIN ONLY THEIR COLLEAGUES MORE OF THEM HAVE LESS TO DO WITH KIDS
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amRoland Alvarez has been a teacher for 15 years - but he's not teaching kids. He trains and supervises teachers who also don't teach kids. His job is to prepare...
RICH DOESN'T MAKE YOU SMART
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amIF you really wanted to convince people that you never fooled around with the person everyone thinks you fooled around with, wouldn't you: A) Not pose seductively on a bed...
MUNICIPAL UNION BIG'S STAR PLUMMETS IN GRAFT CASE
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amLast week, Helen Greene was the top woman at DC-37, the largest municipal union in the country, with a sot at taking the helm of the $200 million-a-year operation. Now,...
OLD PROS PULLED FROM CLASS VETERAN TEACHERS' SKILLS GO TO WASTE
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe Board of Education, despite a massive shortage of qualified teachers, has moved more than 1,000 veteran instructors out of the classroom - enough to fill all the empty slots...
ELECTRIFYING IDEA FOR BLACKOUT-WARY BLDGS.
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amForget the flashlights and candles. If New York City is suddenly plunged into darkness this summer, Paul Guzman and his neighbors will be ready. Guzman lives in Queens in one...
CITY 'TEAMING' WITH STARTUPS
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amDon't look now, but professional sports may be New York's hottest growth industry. Where the Mets and Yanks used to have a monopoly on a New Yorker's summer sports entertainment...
FEED THE DUCKS BUT KEEP YOUR CHILDREN HUNGRY
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amIF you take your kids to the Cherry Blossom Festival today at Brooklyn's beautiful Botanic Garden - a great springtime family outing - bring some bread to feed the ducks....
RUDY CREW QUITS U. OF WASH. JOB
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amOusted New York City Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew is leaving his post at the University of Washington and taking a job with a private schools foundation. Crew, who was pushed...
KLAN SLAY SUSPECT'S BOMB BOAST
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amA former Ku Klux Klansman accused of one of the most heinous crimes of the civil-rights era boasted on an FBI tape that cops "ain't gonna catch me when I...
DOES 'PROOF' CLEAR KURT?
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amWas Kurt Waldheim - the ex-Austrian president long maligned as a Nazi war criminal - innocent after all? The Austrian government says newly released American intelligence documents exonerate Waldheim. "It...
YOU, TOO, CAN BE STAR IN STRIPED BASS TOURNEY
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amEVERY spring, the Hudson River plays host to millions of spawning striped bass, making it the second-largest spawning grounds on the East Coast. In May, as fish begin to migrate...
CHICAGO PRIZE FREEZE ANOTHER CASE OF NBA BULL
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amDURING the 1998-99 NBA lockout, David Stern took a populist's position, as if he were a consumer advocate. The cost of tickets, he volunteered, was becoming prohibitive. He was on...
SMALL 'WORLD' AFTER ALL ABC SHOW BROUGHT GLOBE INTO YOUR LIVING ROOM
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amWHILE history likely will unduly flatter Howard Cosell as the signature voice of ABC Sports during its formative years and beyond, the truth, for what it's worth, tells a different...
FASSEL HIGH ON TIGHT END OKLAHOMA ST.'S RIVERS MAY BE FREE-AGENT FIND
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amThis is a fun time, Jim Fassel says, because after the draft and the flurry of rookie-free-agent signings, all the new players get to put on Giants-issued workout gear and...
88 86'S RANGER OVERTURE ; LINDROS WANTS NO PART OF BLUESHIRTS
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amGLEN Sather remains steadfast in his desire to find a way to bring Eric Lindros to Broadway, but No. 88 remains just as steadfast in his refusal to communicate mutual...
CHILDS' PLAY ON HOLD
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Heat, ice, massage, electric stimulation. Heat, ice, massage, electric stimulation. That pretty much was Chris Childs' day yesterday. And last night, he had a little more heat, ice,...
VINTAGE VINNY HELPS JETS KICK OFF NEW REGIME
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amIt was just one pass, thrown during a minicamp on a sun-splashed April day on the grass field that runs parallel to Hempstead Turnpike. But it served as a reminder...
NOTHIN'S RAPT UP, YET ;TORONTO NOT FEELING OVERCONFIDENT
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - On paper, everything points toward Toronto in today's Game 3. The Raptors will be at home. They are coming off an emotionally charged, hard-working road victory that placed...
COACH PUTS KNICKS UNDER THE GUNDY JEFF TELLS TEAM: NO MORE TIME FOR CAMBY CHAOS
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amIn a desperate plea to save the season, a fiery Jeff Van Gundy begged his players yesterday to put the Marcus Camby hostage tragedy aside and focus on the Raptors....
CHAMP HASIM'S A DREAM COME TRUE; RAHMAN'S A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amHASIM Rahman would like to humbly thank everyone who made this day possible. That would include HBO, who believed in him enough to let him fight for the heavyweight title,...
RICE IS VG'S BEST SHOT
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - It's time to get the funk out. For the Knicks and Jeff Van Gundy. Overlooked in the Game 2 Garden wipeout of the Knicks by the Raptors was...
SPREE SAYS HE'LL ANSWER CALL
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - For all his defensive work on Vince Carter, the Knicks need Latrell Sprewell to explode today offensively. So far, he's been a dud - scoring just 19 points...
NO CAMBY CHANGES LITTLE FOR LJ
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amMarcus Camby's decision to leave the team indefinitely has no effect on Larry Johnson's ailing back. LJ said yesterday he probably won't be able to go today and make his...
MORE CHEERS FOR KNOBBY
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTHE wind slapped a spring chill into the faces of the 38,422 fans whose afternoon at the Stadium was warmed considerably yesterday by the hot-hitting leadoff man who has stopped...
MARCUS WON'T HURT MATES BLAMES SELF FOR GAME 2 CRASH, SOURCES SAY
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Aside from his unimaginable struggle to recover from the effect of post dramatic stress disorder (he can't stop replaying his family's hostage situation in his mind). Marcus Camby...
LILLY NO WALLFLOWER ON TOP YANK STAFF
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTed Lilly wears the number 61, which on most teams would be decidedly unhip. On the Yankees, it's somewhat historical, and yesterday Lilly picked up a milestone he'll always mark...
MANTLE'S MYSTIQUE STICKS WITH GIAMBI
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amJason Giambi is a lifelong Mickey Mantle fan who enjoys New York. But the potential free agent and reigning American League MVP stopped way short of saying he's headed to...
KNOBBY GETS JOE HIS 500TH WIN AS YANK
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amSeconds after Mariano Rivera had closed out the Yankees' 7-6 win over Oakland, moments after he'd saved Ted Lilly's first big league win and the Bombers lined up at the...
LEANER TINO HAS PUT MORE MUSCLE ON BAT
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amWhatever slump Tino Martinez had been suffering through, he's clearly broken out of it now. The Yankee first baseman notched his third straight multi-hit game yesterday, to help lead the...
HUNT RIDES TO FIRST LOCAL WIN
April 29, 2001 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Vindicator rated off pace, made wide move on turn to reach contention and then caught Machine To Tower in stretch for victory. It was first winner locally...
BEANED THERE, WON THAT METS RALLY AFTER CARDS GET DIRTY
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amMets6Cardinals5 Plate ump Ron Kulpa ejects Met manager Bobby Valentine in 11th inning yesterday after Valentine argued that St. Louis pitcher Mike James should have been ejected for hitting Todd...
IT WAS QUITE AN EVENING DEVILS KNOT SERIES ON MCKAY'S GOAL
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 2 / OVERTIMEDevils6Leafs5 They have survived by the narrowest of margins, in spite of and because of themselves. On an electric night of alternating currents, of records and the...
SUNDIN'S SOLO SPLENDID
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amToronto's Steve Thomas was properly impressed with the play of teammate Mats Sundin, but when asked about how well Sundin did, Thomas was honest. "He was great," Thomas said. "He...
FROM BOOS TO BOOST OUTPLAYED HOLIK GETS REDEMPTION IN OT
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTHE puck was momentarily on Bobby Holik's stick and then it wasn't, and then Steve Thomas had it, and then all of a sudden it was in the net behind...
DESPITE WIN, CHAMPS MAY NEED EMOTIONAL RESCUE
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Devils celebrated like Novocain-laced survivors of 3:20 in a dentist chair. "Numb," said Ken Daneyko. And relieved that it was over, until the next appointment Tuesday night. Just one...
TORRE: NO. 5 SPOT BELONGS TO LILLY
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amBefore Ted Lilly's start yesterday, Joe Torre was asked what the repercussions of a bad outing would be. "He's our fifth starter," Torre said, "so he'll be pitching five days...
FANS CAN'T KNOCK KNOBBY ANY MORE
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amLISTEN to the roar of the crowd to appreciate how far Chuck Knoblauch has progressed as a Yankee. The nervous silence that used to greet every ground ball hit his...
BENNY'S BLOOP DECKS CARDS - RUN-SCORING HIT IN 11TH PUTS END TO METS' SKID
April 29, 2001 | 4:00am11 INNINGS: Mets 6 - Cardinals 5 ST. LOUIS - The Mets ended their four-game losing streak in dramatic fashion yesterday, beating the Cardinals 6-5 on Benny Agbayani's RBI single...
ALFONZO JOINS AMAZIN'S WALKING WOUNDED
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES ST. LOUIS - Edgardo Alfonzo joined Robin Ventura on the Mets' bench at the start of yesterday's game with the Cardinals. The inner portion of Alfonzo's right elbow...
DEVS NEED 'A' GAME - NO. 1 LINE MUST GET OFFENSE JUMP-STARTED
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTEAMS with skill but without sufficient grit can't possibly win the Stanley Cup, can they, Ottawa? Teams with grit but without sufficient skill can't win, either, can they, Washington? Teams...
DEVILS' CHOICE: GET HUNGRIER, GET SHARPER OR GET FLATTENED
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amTHE easiest game to win of any Stanley Cup playoff series should be the first one, if only because the opposition is unlikely to realize the opportunity. There is always...
THERE'S NO EXCUSE LEFT - DEVILS PUT 'CANES BEHIND THEM
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe Leafs rested nearly a week. The Devils jumped right in after a near-wreck. While Larry Robinson was blasting his Devils for playing without hunger in their opening-game loss to...
SCHIANO ALREADY COMMERCIAL SUCCESS
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe most exciting thing to happen to the Rutgers football program in almost 20 years is the hiring of former Miami defensive coordinator Greg Schiano. The second most exciting thing...
STATE TROOPER - JERSEY GUY TRYING TO PUT RUTGERS ON FOOTBALL MAP
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amGreg Schiano, the new Rutgers football coach, and several players were hanging out in the atrium at Robert Wood Johnson hospital last Wednesday after visiting pediatric patients when a custodial...
IT'S OK TO PANIC - METS HAVE QUESTIONS WITH NO ANSWERS
April 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe do-little Mets of winter have given way to the do-little Mets of April. It's early, all right, but the problem is the Mets have gone ugly early. That's no...