June 23, 2001
WANG-WYLY SHOOTOUT HEATS UP
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe Wang versus Wyly show continued yesterday with the controversial head of Long Island-based Computer Associates shooting back at the Texan trying to take over the company. A statement from...
STOCKS TUMBLE AHEAD OF FED'S RATE MEETING
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amDrugs took Wall Street on a bad trip yesterday and Alan Greenspan couldn't do a thing. Weak profits and regulatory snags at major drug makers pulled down blue chips, while...
SUN HAS SET ON NEWSWEEKLIES' HEYDAY
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe old world order seems to be turned on its head. Back in 1923, Henry Luce teamed up with Briton Hadden to launch Time, "a weekly news magazine aimed to...
CBS AD GAMBLE MAY COST FORTUNE
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amMel Karmazin may have seriously miscalculated the TV ad market this year - and that could cost Viacom's CBS a bundle. While the other major networks have caved in to...
UP WITH PEOPLE; FLAGSHIP TIME REPORTS TO CELEB MAG
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amHenry Luce, co-founder of Time magazine 78 years ago, must be spinning in his grave. A surprise restructuring inside the magazine wing of AOL Time Warner yesterday forces Time magazine...
ERIC'S ELECTRIC
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amERIC CLAPTONAt Madison Square Garden. Ends Tonight. IT may be hard to imagine the concrete cave of Madison Square Garden as an extension of anybody's living room, but seeing Eric...
HEY, IT'S GAY PARTY DAY
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amIF you think tomorrow's Gay Pride Parade is all about flamboyant marchers parading their near-naked stuff down Fifth Avenue, well, you're only half-right. The other half of it is the...
'SOIRÉE' BRINGS OUT CITY'S NEXT GENERATION
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amNEW YORK CITY BALLETNew York State Theater at Lincoln Center. (212) 870-5570. Through July 1. DANCE companies are evolving organizations, like ball clubs. People come, and people go, and eventually...
STEPPING OUT
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amHere's something different - the City Ballet not performing the choreography of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Peter Martins' troupe will depart from its usual steps later this summer at...
THIS BEE CAN BOP
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amNot every puppet show has live music - let alone music by some of the brightest names in jazz. That's what makes tonight's performance of "The Adventures of Maya the...
TEE OFF FOR FREE!
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amIf you'd like to learn how to make like Tiger Woods, here's your chance. For the second summer in a row, the JPMorgan Chase Junior Golf Camps offer free lessons...
SHE LOVES DOING 'DOLITTLE'
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amImagine co-starring with Eddie Murphy - and a monkey, chameleon and bear. Raven-Symone has done it twice. As Charisse Dolittle of "Dr. Dolittle" and now "Dr. Dolittle 2," she plays...
2ND RENT WATCHDOG TURNS ON HIS MASTER
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amANOTHER mayoral appointee to the Rent Guidelines Board has thumbed his nose at City Hall. Defying a directive from mayoral aides, Mort Starobin this week voted to repeal a $15...
HIDING PERVERTS WOULD BE A CARDINAL SIN
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amTHE allegations rocking St. Simon Stock parish present the first public challenge to Edward Cardinal Egan amid the gravest scandal facing the Catholic Church in America: priestly sexual misconduct. The...
LAWSUIT STUNNER: BX. PRIESTS USED TEEN AS SEX TOY
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amA Park Avenue lawyer stunned residents of the Tremont section of The Bronx by accusing four priests from the local Catholic parish of sexually abusing a teenager. Lawyer Laurence M....
U.S. ON URGENT ALERT FOR BIN LADEN TERROR
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe U.S. government went on terror alert yesterday, putting Mideast forces on full readiness, sending the region's Navy ships to sea and closing embassies after detecting an imminent threat from...
SUICIDE BOMB KILLS 2 ISRAELI SOLDIERS
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A Hamas suicide bomber dealt the fragile Mideast cease-fire a serious setback yesterday when he killed himself and two Israeli soldiers by blowing up his Jeep on a...
JEFFORDS MAKING 'WRITE' TURN
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Turncoat Sen. Jim Jeffords is cashing in on his defection from the GOP - first a tete-a-tete with actress Sharon Stone and now a two-book deal with a...
BUSH WARNS RUSSIA OVER DIRTY MONEY
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Bush administration yesterday warned Moscow to clean up money laundering or face sanctions - just days after President Bush tried to make friends with Russian President Vladimir...
MY TERROR AT HANDS OF ROAD-RAGE POL
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amA veteran Long Island state senator accused of a wild case of road rage is not fit for the state judgeship he wants, his frightened victim told The Post yesterday....
7-YEAR-OLD DOES HIS PART
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amSeven-year-old Luigi Toppi, who lives around the corner from the site of Sunday's devastating Astoria fire, sent in his allowance money to The Post's Heroes Fund. His $17 cash contribution...
BANK DEAL COULD BE HEAVEN 'CENT'
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amDime Bancorp, one of New York's biggest savings-and-loan banks, confirmed yesterday that it is in talks to sell to giant Washington Mutual - a deal that could make Big Apple...
JUSTICE DEPT. DEALS BLOW TO 'TORCH'
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Embattled Sen. Robert Torricelli yesterday lost his plea to have a special prosecutor appointed in his case - a major blow to the New Jersey Democrat's bid to...
10,000 SALUTE LAST OF THE ASTORIA HEROES
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amOne hero firefighter was remembered as "the best of the Bravest" yesterday while his critically injured comrade improved to the point where he can wiggle his fingers and toes. A...
COPS HUNT QNS. RAPIST
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amA predator who sneaks up on women and grabs them by the throat is responsible for seven attacks, including two rapes, in Queens since February.All of the attacks were on...
GIRL GROPED AT QNS. SCHOOL: COPS
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amA 12-year-old girl was sexually abused inside a bathroom at a Queens school yesterday, police said. The incident happened at 1:30 p.m. inside JHS 189. A 14-year-old boy, who also...
THE NEW YORK POSTFROM JUNE 23, 1938:
June 23, 2001 | 4:00am"A television camera, for the first time in the brief history of that form of communication, picked up today and transmitted to a screen the image of the body of...
KILLER MOM IN COURT :LAWYER WEIGHS INSANITY PLEA IN KID DROWNINGS
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amHer eyes were blank, her movements robotic. Like a sleepwalker lost in another world, the mom who shocked the nation shuffled into full public view. Andrea Pia Yates - the...
W. NIXES VIEQUES TALK WITH JACKSON
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday snubbed the Rev. Jesse Jackson after the civil-rights leader sought a White House meeting to protest the bombing on Vieques and the treatment of his jailed wife....
CONDIT COMING CLEAN: *MEETING WITH COPS *HIRES TOP LAWYER * TALKS TO HER MOM
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amBeleaguered Rep. Gary Condit yesterday hired top-gun criminal defense lawyer Abbe Lowell and said he'd called cops to finally set up an interview - a meeting he's avoided for a...
FACES OF DEPRAVITY : BRITS OUTRAGED AS TOT-KILLERS GO FREE
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amPublic outrage and veiled threats of vigilante justice greeted word that two British teens who were 10 when they tortured a toddler to death are being freed with new secret...
ARREST IN S.I. ROBBERY-SLAY
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amA 28-year old man was arrested yesterday for taking part in the robbery and murder of a Staten Island teen shot dead in front of his home, police said. Ehab...
L.I. COOKIE THIEF TOOK THE DOUGH: COPS
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amPolice on Long Island have bagged the "Cookie Monster" - the suspected store burglar with a hunger for cash and chocolate-chip cookies. James Pritt, 19, of Hauppauge yesterday told Suffolk...
MANY POST READERS OPEN THEIR HEARTS AND WALLETS
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amSeven-year-old Luigi Toppi, who lives around the corner from the site of Sunday's devastating Astoria fire, sent in his allowance money to The Post's Heroes Fund. His $17 cash contribution...
CUOMO CLAN MOVING TO HILLARY-VILLE
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Former federal Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo said yesterday he has bought a home in Westchester. Cuomo, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, and wife Kerry Kennedy...
MCCAIN: BUSH'S HEALTH BILL IS SICK
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Renegade Republican Sen. John McCain was at it again yesterday - this time ripping President Bush over a bill to give patients the right to sue their HMOs....
GREEN A GAY-WED GUEST
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amMayoral candidate Mark Green plans to make remarks at a symbolic same-sex wedding ceremony in front of The Plaza hotel before the gay pride parade begins tomorrow, officials said yesterday....
THOSE WERE THE DAYS! MEMORABLE TV MOMENTS WITH AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED BIGOT
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amFor 12 memorable years, Carroll O'Connor delighted, angered and amazed viewers as Queens-bred bigot Archie Bunker on "All in the Family." In tribute to O'Connor, who died Thursday at the...
SHOW ME THE MONEY: RUDY GOES AFTER BOARD OF ED OVER MISSING MILLIONS
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amGov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani yesterday declared war on the Board of Education over charges of staggering cost overruns on school-construction projects. City Hall and Albany launched separate probes to...
WILPON READY TO BE MR. MET SALE WILL MAKE HIM AMAZIN' BOSS
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amAFTER YEARS of being the other owner in town, Fred Wilpon is about to assume many of the characteristics of - believe it or not - the man who has...
BENNY WILL TAKE PATERNITY LEAVE
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets have lost outfielders at an unbelievable rate this season. Soon, they will lose another one for at least three games, but it's for a good reason....
PITCHING HELP NO. 1 ON BOSS AGENDA
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Yankee brass spent yesterday the same way they spent Thursday: In full-scale organizational meetings trying to find a way to improve their underachieving team that had the...
YANKS GET IT DONE: PLAY WELL ENOUGH TO BEAT WRETCHED RAYS
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 6 Devil Rays 3 ST. PETERSBURG - These are not your typical end-of-June days for the Yankees. No longer can they say it's early. They started last night four...
DOLAN PARANOIA GRIPS THE GARDEN
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amJAMES Dolan believes the Knicks would have won the NBA title if there had been a public-relations person with Charlie Ward during his notorious Bible study session with a magazine...
LOUDMOUTH LEFTY SPEECHLESS
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amHours after being traded from the Braves to the Indians, John Rocker rushed out of the Grand Hyatt Hotel last night in midtown, waving off the press as he and...
FAN FAILS TO SNAG TURK'S GLOVE
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amRocco Cundari couldn't believe what he was seeing. Seated in the orange seats in Section 213, Row F, in the top of the eighth inning, Cundari and his son, Rocco...
BRAVES WISH JOHN GOOD LUCK
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amThree hours before the Braves routed the Mets 10-1 last night at Shea, a bomb-sniffing dog nosed around the Atlanta clubhouse. Safe to say the Braves are lower on the...
BACK TO REALITY FOR METS
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amBraves 10 Mets 1 While John Rocker left Shea last night, the Braves' dominance of the Mets returned. In the 10-1 drilling, the Mets were embarrassed. Besides a Darryl Hamilton...
ZITO ZAPPED WITH 10-DAY BAN
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amTrainer Nick Zito, who never had a horse test positive in nearly 28 years, got blindsided Wednesday when the N.Y. State Racing and Wagering Board suspended him for 10 days...
BEAUTIFUL PLEASURE BACK
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amNew York racing gets a welcome respite from the post-Triple Crown doldrums today when champion racemare Beautiful Pleasure returns from an eight-month vacation in the Grade 1, $250,000 Hempstead Handicap...
TERRIFIC TIGER SHOWS A FEW FLAWS, TOO
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amMOST NEW Yorkers still were on their way to work, battling the bumper-to-bumper blues or catching a few more winks on the subway, when the greatest golfer in the world's...
VIJAY EAGLES NINTH TWICE IN SAME DAY
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amIf he becomes the all-time Buick Classic champion with his third title, Vijay Singh can point to the lightning that struck twice on the ninth hole at Westchester CC yesterday....
ERIC TO PLAY BROADWAY? RANGERS MAKE PITCH FOR LINDOS
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - One year into purgatory, Eric Lindros is yet to be convinced that coming to the Rangers, a team an eternity removed from its last playoff participation, will...
MILBURY LIKELY TO SWAP DRAFT PICK
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - Another lousy year, another grand stage for Mike Milbury to dangle another high pick in the NHL Entry Draft. As long reported, today's second-overall choice may well...
RAIN DELAY AIDS AILING ALLENBY
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amWhile the rest of the Buick Classic field was groaning over Thursday's rain, one Australian was simply groaning, hoping it would keep pouring. Foul fish prompted that wish. "I was...
DUVAL DROPS IN ON AZINGER'S ROUND
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amBUICK CLASSIC NOTES While Paul Azinger was standing over a tap-in par putt on the seventh hole late yesterday afternoon, a ball fell from the sky and landed on the...
TIGER SAVES THE DAY WITH 2ND-ROUND 66
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amYesterday morning, all looked lost for the Buick Classic. By late afternoon, though, all was right again. After a massive build-up that pumped up the event more than it's been...
TIFFENY HAT TRICK BOPS BREAKERS
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amPower3 Breakers1 It's taken awhile for Power forward Tiffeny Milbrett to make a name for herself. Now she's making up for lost time. "She's the best player we've seen this...
ANDY'S RETURN ON TRACK
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Based on what Andy Pettitte and David Justice have been doing since going on the DL at the same time on June 15 with similar...
VENOM WON'T BE THE SAME
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amIN a series already lacking in heroes, the villain has been removed. The Braves and Mets opened a three-game series last night that was missing its usual pizzazz, unless you...
ROCKER'S TRADED TO NEW TRIBE
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amAll the familiar precautions were brought to Shea Stadium for John Rocker - from extra police to bomb-sniffing dogs - and none of it was needed. In a stunning move...
RUSCH IGNORES THE TRADE TALK
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe rumors don't go away. They stay whether they are true or untrue. Glendon Rusch hears them, but, until he is traded, he claims he doesn't worry about them. "I...
BENNY TAKING A PATERNITY LEAVE
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets have lost outfielders at an unbelievable rate this season. They soon will lose another one for at least three games, but it's for a good cause....
DEROSA DRAINED BUT HAPPY
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amFormer Bergen Catholic star Mark DeRosa is a veteran of the major-league call-up. He's not yet a major-league veteran, however. The 26-year-old DeRosa is finally establishing himself as a key...
JOE: CAL A 'STAR'
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG Cal Ripken Jr.'s final season will include an All-Star appearance. "No matter how the voting goes, Ripken will be an All-Star," AL manager Joe Torre said last night....
POWER'S PEARCE GETS DEFENSIVE
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amFor some players, making the transition from forward to defender is difficult. For Christie Pearce, it wasn't much of a change at all. At Monmouth University, Pearce wasn't just the...