September 15, 1999
COSI BREAKS BREAD - BREWS UP $40M DEAL WITH XANDO
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amXando Coffee and Bar is getting cozy with Cosi Sandwich Bar. Two of the Big Apple's popular eateries and coffee bars agreed to merge in a $40 million deal that...
CNBC BUYS A PIECE OF ARCHIPELAGO ECN
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amCNBC expanded its cable network operations into the stock trading business yesterday, acquiring a 12.4 percent stake in the Archipelago trading network. The business-news network, owned by General Electric, staked...
JUDGE TOLD MERRILL DISCRIMINATION SETTLEMENT IS BULL
September 15, 1999 | 4:00am"I know dozens of women, including myself, who have not had their claims negotiated in good faith by Merrill Lynch." A former Merrill Lynch employee A group of outraged female...
SAFRA'S DOWN $320M BUT NOT OUT OF BID
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amRepublic Bank of New York's billionaire founder Edmond Safra has seen his personal fortune drop over $320 million, as the bank's stock tumbles amid concern that a $10.3 billion takeover...
MARTHA'S CFO TRIES ON BIKINI
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amMartha Stewart is losing her chief financial officer to the beach - the virtual beach, that is. Barry Pincus is leaving Stewart's domestic juggernaut to become the CFO at Silicon...
FORTUNE ICES STARMEDIA'S CHEN FOR CANADIANS
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amSilicon Alley bigwig Jack Chen is probably ripping up his Fortune subscription. The president of Internet startup StarMedia Network was peeved not to make the magazine's list of "40 Wealthiest...
HE'S A SHOOTING STAR
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amTORONTO - The real star of the 24th annual Toronto Film Festival isn't an actor or a director but a Chinese cinematographer - a man named Zhao Fei, who may...
STILL NON-'STOP' FUN AFTER 15 YEARS
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN it was first released in 1984, Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads performance documentary "Stop Making Sense" was widely hailed as the greatest concert film ever made. With the possible exception...
THOSE FICKLE TEEN GIRLS SWING BACK TO SOAPS WITH A 'PASSION'
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amFEMALE teens are flocking to NBC's new soap, "Passions" in record numbers. Continuing a trend that started in prime time - with shows like "Dawson's Creek," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"...
TV TICKER
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amJudgment day "Judge Judy" got off to a strong start Monday on its new home, Ch.4. "Judy" - which moved over from Ch.2 - notched an 8.1 rating (552,000 households)...
THIS 'MAME' IS LAME
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHE sets are lavish, the costumes gaudy, the performers game. Why, then, is "Mame," now being revived at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J., so lame? The problem is...
SIMPLY SEXY, SIMPLY FAB
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amA BRISK fall wind provided most of the soundtrack for John Bartlett's show, inspiring his A-list models to whisk themselves down the runway so quickly it was hard to see...
SOCIALITES DRESS UP DE LA RENTA SHOW
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amFORGET celebrities: Oscar de la Renta's show provided Fashion Week's best socialite eye candy so far, including Nan Kempner, Brooke Astor, Blaine Trump, C.Z. and Cornelia Guest and junior members...
WASHED AND WEARABLE
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amYEOHLEE's spring 2000 collection is pretty and practical - and hey, she even test-washed her fabrics in Woolite. At times, the separates bordered on dowdiness. (Something labeled "Puritan navy Teflon...
CHEAP EATS: UGUALE
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amUguale 369 West St. (212) 229-0606 WHEN a restaurant sets up shop in an out-of-the-way location, they have to go that extra mile to get customers to go the distance....
BOCHCO IN 'BLUE' MOOD
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHE new fall season has spawned cop-show creator Steven Bochco's latest project: "NYPD Sue" Bocho has slapped 20th Century Fox - which owns the show's distribution rights - with a...
WORTH THE RISQUE - 'ACTION' TAKES IT %#@*!!! LIMIT
September 15, 1999 | 4:00am"Action" Tomorrow 9:30 p.m. on WNYW/Ch. 5 THE funniest new comedy of the season is also going to be the biggest lightning rod. "Action" is not going to waste its...
FBI AGAIN LETS INS TAP ITS DATABASE
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Immigration inspectors at JFK and Newark airports will again be able weed out foreign criminals by using FBI computers - after the FBI backed down from a six-month...
AFTER THE FALN, WHY NOT POLLARD? - WASHINGTON SHOULD PROVE HE DID AS MUCH DAMAGE AS IT CLAIMS
September 15, 1999 | 4:00am'There is strong evidence that the Justice Department violated its plea-bargain agreement with Pollard. After the FALN, Why Not Pollard?' NOW that Bill Clinton has significantly lowered the bar on...
READERS PLEAD: KEEP HER OUR IDEAL!
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amPlease don't change, Miss America! That's the overwhelming sentiment of Post readers who flooded us with faxes and e-mails yesterday. Ninety percent of the readers were against allowing contestants who...
BUDDY OF BIN LADEN TIED TO MOSCOW BLASTS
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amA one-eyed Chechen warlord with long-standing ties to terrorist financier Osama bin Laden is suspected of masterminding the bloody apartment bombings in Moscow. Russian law-enforcement officials and U.S. counterterrorism experts...
NASA'S SHUTTLE FLEET AT MOTHER NATURE'S MERCY
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A skeleton NASA crew - left behind at Cape Canaveral to tough out Hurricane Floyd - is hoping Mother Nature won't demolish America's $9 billion space-shuttle...
LIZA EYES BIG B'WAY COMEBACK; POST EXCLUSIVE
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amIt will likely open Dec. 1 at the Palace Theatre, where Judy Garland staged a famous comeback concert in 1967. Liza Minnelli is planning to make a comeback with a...
WALL ST. HOTHEAD QUIZZED IN SLAY OF RUSSIAN MODEL
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amA onetime rising star at a prominent investment banking firm - fired for having a torrid affair with a female staffer - was grilled by cops last week after the...
NEW SMOKING LAWS MAY BE A REAL PAIN IN THE ASH
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amIt could be a lot tougher to grab a smoke in New York City, under sweeping new proposals that would ban smoking just about everywhere - including bars and private...
TIMES SQ. PAVES WAY FOR Y2K
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amTimes Square's beat-up streets are getting a face lift for the new millennium. The city Department of Transportation has begun repaving the streets in Times Square late at night and...
NEWT SWEETIE MAY FACE TAPED GRILLING ON THEIR AFFAIR
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amQuestions could recall queries asked of President Clinton about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. WASHINGTON - Ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich's girlfriend still faces sworn questions - likely on video -...
INDONESIA LEAVING TIMOR IN RUINS: ACTIVIST
September 15, 1999 | 4:00am"This is like World War II in the wake of wherever Nazi Germany went through." JOSE RAMOS-HORTA Indonesia troops are laying waste to East Timor in the days before international...
SHE SWEARS THERE'S NOTHING SHADY ABOUT HER HOME LOAN
September 15, 1999 | 4:00am"Everything that we've done has been passed on by the Office of Government Ethics." HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday defended herself against charges the financing for...
TEAM RUDY READY IF FLOYD POURS IT ON HERE
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amCity officials yesterday began dusting off emergency plans for Hurricane Floyd, which could sweep across New York's shorefront as early as tomorrow night. "It's unclear now whether it will come...
UNION TO GOV: HEALTH $$ WILL WIN SUPPORT; EXCLUSIVE
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe head of the powerful state health-care workers union yesterday urged Gov. Pataki to back more funding for the medically uninsured, saying he wants to "establish a better working relationship"...
ECOLOGY GROUP TWEAKS GORE BY BACKING BRADLEY
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Al Gore - who bills himself as Mr. Environment - got a big slap yesterday from a top advocacy group, Friends of the Earth, which backed...
TOURISTS WATCH THEIR PLANS FOR TRAVEL UNRAVEL
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amFloyd, the howling hurricane that scared even mighty Mickey and forced the House of the Mouse to close, has thrown tourists into a tizzy. Wannabe vacationers dreaming of Florida, the...
COMPANY HAS HISTORY OF NOT MAKING THE GRADE
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amThis is not the first time that CTB/McGraw-Hill's errors have sent school systems reeling. Similar snafus hit schools in Indiana and Tennessee. In the fall of 1998, officials at CTB/McGraw-Hill...
SPRAY KILLED 90% OF MOSQUITOES: RUDY
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani claimed yesterday the city has destroyed about 90 percent of the local mosquito population in its war against the deadly St. Louis encephalitis virus. The first round of...
DUFF'S LEGAL EAGLES HAVE CLAWED AT EACH OTHER
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amPatricia Duff apparently believes the enemy of her lawyer should be her lawyer. In a surprise move, the multimillionaire mom revealed yesterday that she's hired two more lawyers - including...
SENATE DAMNS BILL, 95-2, FOR FALN OFFER
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Senate yesterday voted 95-2 to condemn President Clinton's clemency to 16 Puerto Rican militants - as the White House stonewalled questions on how the decision was made. Sen. Charles...
SCHOOLKIDS SUFFER AS FIRM BOTCHES TEST SCORES
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amThousands of city kids may have been sent to summer school or denied promotion unfairly because a test publisher goofed in scoring exams, the Board of Education said yesterday. The...
PARENTS STUNG BY BLUNDER
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amParents were shocked and angry yesterday to learn about the scoring slip-up on citywide reading and math tests. "How could they have messed up like this? Aren't they doing their...
HOUSE TARGETS LOW-COST 'AIR HILLARY' - WANTS HER TO PAY FULL FARE ON GOV'T JETS
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The House yesterday voted decisively - as part of a campaign-finance reform bill - to make Hillary Rodham Clinton pay the full cost when she uses Uncle Sam's...
MILLIONS FLEEING STORM'S WRATH - RESIDENTS, TOURISTS IN MAD DASH
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amFrom central Florida to the Carolinas, furious Floyd yesterday sent nearly 2 million coastal residents and late-summer tourists packing in the calm before the storm. Highways were bumper-to-bumper, hotels were...
BABY BORN AT S.I. TOLL PLAZA
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amIt was anything but anE-ZPass yesterday for a 24-year-old woman who gave birth at the Outerbridge Crossing yesterday with the aid of two Port Authority cops. Maribel Adames, 24, went...
SONGBIRD SHERYL FLIES HIGH WITH HER FRIENDS
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amMOST summer nights, there's no place like Central Park to see stars. But sometimes, like last night, it's superstars that shine brilliantly there. Sheryl Crow, who became a citizen of...
'DIVORCED' MISS AMERICA PLAN FACES ANNULMENT
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amMiss America pageant officials made a dramatic flip-flop yesterday - saying they might quash new rules that would allow women who've been divorced or who've had abortions to compete. The...
CROW TENDS A HAPPY FLOCK IN CENTRAL PK.
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amFrenzied fans of Sheryl Crow flocked to rock at Central Park last night for the sexy songstress' free concert - saying all they wanna do is have some fun. They...
HUGE 'CANE STORMS SOUTHWEST COAST - 140-MPH WINDS RAVAGE BAHAMAS
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amHere comes ferocious Floyd. The monstrous, 600-mile storm is gearing up to rake the coasts of Florida and Georgia late this morning with fierce winds as it heads for landfall,...
RIDERS TELL TA WORKERS LOUD & CLEAR: SPEAK UP!
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amStraphangers are delivering a loud message to train conductors and bus drivers: "Speak up! We can't hear you!" Train announcements can't be heard in 39 percent of subway cars, a...
PA COPS HELP MOM IN LABOR AS BIRTH TAKES TOLL
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amIt was anything but an E-ZPass yesterday for a 24-year-old woman who gave birth - with the help of two Port Authority cops - at the Staten Island toll plaza...
FISHERMEN ANGLING TO KEEP MORE BLUES
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amDESPITE an abundance of bluefish along the Atlantic Coast, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council are refusing to hear motions to increase from 10...
PEDERSON MAY KEEP WINGIN' IT
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amIt wasn't the answer Denis Pederson wants. The Devils' 1993 first-rounder was pressed into regular right wing duty last season. He doesn't want it to happen again. "I'm a centerman....
DEFENSE MUST SAVE JETS NOW; GANG GREEN NEEDS DEFENSE TO LEAD THE WAY
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHIS is a call to the Jets' defense to hit an immediate stride, beginning with a calculated, dominating, nasty statement Sunday night in Buffalo. Practically every corner of the free...
TOO SOON TO BEAT UP ON BIG BLUE OFFENSE
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amA VICTORY is supposed to fuel the fire and quiet the critics, but it did not work that way for the Giants. They did what few believed they could or...
RAIN, BIG WEEKEND ON TAP
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amWith the Nov. 6 Breeders' Cup at Gulfstream Park just 7 weeks away, some of the biggest races of the year are on tap at Belmont Park this weekend as...
ESA PICKS FIGHT WITH BLUESHIRTS
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amEsa Tikkanen has filed a grievance with the NHLPA against the Rangers that will be heard by an arbitrator, The Post has learned. The winger, currently in Edmonton's training camp...
EX-RANGERS LOVING IT WITH ISLES
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amUnable to make it with the King-of-the-Hill Rangers, Eric Cairns and Chris Ferraro want to make a brand new start of it, Long Island, Long Island. The former Broadway Blues...
SURGERY DELAYS JAYSON - NETS SIGN FORWARD CAGE FOR INSURANCE
September 15, 1999 | 4:00am"It's likely Jayson's not going to be able to play at the beginning of the season." JOHN NASH Just like with the center on the other side of the Hudson...
TRINIDAD AT CROSSROADS
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - There is a great story somewhere inside Felix Trinidad, but good luck trying to get him to tell it. Not this week at least, and unless he...
OSCAR-FELIX: WAR FOR AGES - DE LA HOYA-TRINIDAD SHOWDOWN SHAPES UP AS ALL-TIME CLASSIC
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS -Welcome to the brave new world of cyberboxing. What used to be in-your-face is now interfaced. And Felix Trinidad has gotten into Oscar De La Hoya's in a...
FREE AGENT SCHAYES EYEING KNICKS
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amWith Patrick Ewing's frightening admission that he's unsure when he'll be able to run again because of recurring tendinitis and Chris Dudley (knee sprain) out until at least the second...
BROSIUS LEAVES EARLY TO BE WITH FAMILY
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - When Joe Torre arrived at his SkyDome office yesterday afternoon he was greeted by Scott Brosius, who informed Torre that he needed to go home to...
COULD BE FIRST FIGHT IN A SERIES
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - As a mariachi band played, Oscar De La Hoya made his grand arrival last night at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino for Saturday's titanic bout with...
FEELIN' JUST GRAND - SLAMS BY BERNIE, O'NEILL PUMP LIFE BACK INTO YANKS
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amTORONTO - The biggest win of the Yankees' season was fueled by Bernie Williams and Paul O'Neill, a pair of frigid hitters, coming through with dramatic, late-game grand slams. However,...
BOMBERS GET BOOST FROM DEPTH CHARGE
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amTORONTO - Did Bernie Williams go deep? Only to the depths of his soul. The Yankees were so low, even Jules Verne couldn't have found them. They were with the...
BOMBERS NEED CONE TO BE STOPPER AGAIN
September 15, 1999 | 4:00amTORONTO - There is barely enough room left to the Yankees' American League East lead to swing a cat, which makes it the perfect venue for David Cone to scratch...